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Click on areas on map with large red dots to view a virtual pilgrimage of the area. Church of Saint Peter in Gallicantu << Previous | Next Jerusalem Site >> The name given to this church records the episode in which Peter denied the Master three times after the crow of the rooster. The actual church, consecrated in 1931 and belonging to the Assumptionists of Catholic denornination, rises over the ruins of a preexistent Byzantine basilica. Someone has hypothesised that this was the site of the house of the High Priest Caiaphas, but it has not as of yet been confirmed. What has been brought to light meanwhile, is a beautiful street of steps called the Maccabean Stairs, which in the first century A. D. must have joined Mount Zion to the valley of the Kidron.
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