The Church of the Pater Noster (Our Father) is a church located on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. It is part of a Carmelite monastery, also known as the Sanctuary of the Eleona, and stands right next to the ruins of the 4th-century Byzantine Church of Eleona. In 1874 the Princesse de la Tour d'Auvergne acquired the site, then abandoned and neglected, and founded a convent of Carmelite nuns. Here she was buried in 1957, long after her death. The chapel commemorates Christ's teaching of the Lord's Prayer (Luke 11,2-4). The original church was reconstructed various times as late as 1926 when a cloister was restored to display plaques that bear the Lord’s Prayer in a total of well over 100 different languages and dialects. Among the languages there is one in Maltese, (shown above) actually in what we call the old Maltese phonetics. The present Maltese version would be this: Missierna li inti fis-smewwiet, jitqaddes Ismek, tiġi saltnatek, ikun li trid Int, kif fis-sema hekkda fl’art. Ħobżna ta’ kuljum, agħtina llum, aħfrilna dnubietna, bħalma aħna naħfru lil min hu ħati għalina, la ddaħħalniex fit-tiġrib, izda eħlisna mid-deni. Amen.
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