Ascension of Jesus the possession of the Islamic Waqf of Jerusalem ever since. The Russian Orthodox Church also maintains a convent of the ascension on the top of the Mount of Olives. Ascension of Jesus The ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vulgate Latin section title: "Ascensio Iesu") is the departure of Christ from Earth into the presence of God. The biblical narrative in Chapter 1 of the Acts of the Apostles takes place 40 days after the resurrection: Jesus is taken up from the disciples in their sight, a cloud hides him from view, and two men in white appear to tell
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