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Custos of the Holy Land Friar Francesco Patton (L) and Israeli archaeologists David Yeger (R) from the Israel Antiquities Authority show a 2000-year-old ritual bath unearthed at the site of a recently discovered church, believed to have been founded at the end of the Byzantine period (sixth century CE), at the Garden of Gethsemane, in east Jerusalem on December 21, 2020. (Photo by Atef SAFADI / POOL / AFP) (KEYSTONE/POOL/ATEF SAFADI)