Chapel of the Ascension, Jerusalem after the death and resurrection of Jesus, early Christians began gathering in secret to commemorate his Ascension at a small cave on the Mount of Olives. The issuance of the Edict of Milan by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in 313 made it possible for Christians to worship overtly without fear of government persecution. By the time of the pilgrim Egeria's travels to Jerusalem in 384, the spot of veneration had been moved to the present location, uphill from the cave, which had been integrated into the Constantinian Church of Eleona, dedicated by then just to Jesus' teachings about good
House of the Virgin Mary Cross and the resurrection, Jesus has shown his living body, both human with soul, and angelic-spiritual, the same of the Transfiguration of Jesus in the Mount Tabor "before" his Passion and the Crucifixion: has shown it in Emmaus, then to the Doubting Thomas, and during forty days to all the twelve Apostles. After Pentecost and the Ascension, they receive the Holy Spirit in order to fulfill the role of diffusing to all the human beings what they have seen and heard by themselves. By virtue of all this, it becomes reasonable to believe that the first apostolic church has progressively