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Pater Noster Convent

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The focal point of this Carmelite convent is a grotto, traditionally identified as the place where Jesus taught his disciples the so-called Lord's Prayer: "Our Father [Pater Noster], Who art in Heaven…" (Matthew 6). The site was purchased by the Princesse de la Tour d'Auvergne of France in 1868 and the convent was built on the site of earlier Byzantine and Crusader structures. The ambitious basilica, begun in the 1920s, was designed to follow the lines of a 4th-century church, but was never completed: its aisles, open to the sky, are now lined with pine trees. The real attractions of the site, however, are the many ceramic plaques adorning the cloister walls and the small church, with the Lord's Prayer in over 100 different languages. (Look for the high wall and metal door on a bend 200 yards before the Seven Arches Hotel.)

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