According to tradition, this church is built over the place where Stephen, the 1st martyr who followed Jesus, was buried.
I've been to a lot of churches in Israel, and I didn't expect this one to be so breathtakingly beautiful.
The light!
The colors!
Take a look for yourself at what is now one of my favorite churches in Israel:
Meaning “the House of the Camel”, but it’s also suggested to have something to do with Rabbi Gamaliel the Elder.
Nowadays, there’s a monastery here and some caves. In one of these is where tradition says that Nicodemus and Gamaliel buried the body of Stephen, the first Christian martyr in from Acts 7.
The murals tell the story. Can you see the man in blue holding garments at the stoning? That would be the man responsible for writing most of the New Testament: Saul of Tarsis, before he met Jesus.
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