The Dominus Flevit Inscriptions

Just outside of Jerusalem is located the Dominus Flevit Church. Built in 1955, it was constructed to commemorate the Lord's weeping of Jerusalem. During excavations for its foundation, catacombs were discovered which had been resting for nearly fifteen hundred years. Several of the ossuaries (bone boxes) bear inscriptions such as, "Jesus, have mercy," and "Jesus, remember me in the resurrection," inscriptions thought to date from the 40's or late 30's, and indicating the presence in Jerusalem from a fairly early date of a community that believed in resurrection and in the power of Jesus to see the believer safely through death and beyond.