The Catholic Church of Tears of the Lord English is commonly referred to that way, but in reality it's called even more dramatic – Dominus Flevit. In Latin it means "the Lord wept". The name refers to the episode, described by the Evangelist Luke, in which Jesus weeps for the fate of Jerusalem.

Luke says that it happened when Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey. Greeted him enthusiastically, under the hooves of the donkey threw clothes, the students were loudly praising God for all the miracles they had seen. But when we got closer to the city, Jesus, looking at him, he wept and cried: "Come on you days when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side, and will ruin you, and will beat your children in you, and will not leave in thee one stone upon another" (Luke 19: 43-44). About forty years later in 70 ad, and the Roman legions burned the Temple and razed the city to the ground.

Tradition holds that Jesus prophesied on the Western slope of the mount of olives. Here in 1955, was built a small Church of Dominus Flevit. Designed it Antonio Bellucci Italian a Franciscan friar who worked on many buildings in the Holy Land.

You can get here by a steep path from the top or bottom of the mount of olives, from the Basilica of the Agony. The road is difficult but the result is worth the effort.

The Church of Dominus Flevit, built in the shape of tears, looks unusual. She stands on the ruins of a Byzantine chapel of the V century, fragments of the ancient floor, you can see to the left of the entrance, including a very beautiful colorful mosaic depicting fruit and flowers. During the construction were also discovered burial caves of the Second Temple period, with dozens of stone coffins (usually visitors are allowed to explore the caves).

Mosaic on the altar at first glance it seems strange – it shows the chicken, who discovered the wings over the Chicks. This is an illustration of yet another episode from the gospel of Luke, Jesus ' words: "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen her Chicks under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left empty" (LK 13:34-35).

Behind the altar is a large window overlooking the Old town. You can imagine what I saw from this point Jesus, who weeps for Jerusalem: houses, palaces; in the foreground, of course, a huge magnificent Temple (where now the dome of the Rock shines). But, looking at the beautiful city, He began to see some pictures: dethroned towers, destroyed buildings remaining from the ashes of the Temple, thousands of dead and thousands of refugees scattered among other Nations. That's why, filled with sorrow, the Lord wept.