They were unlikely leaders. As the Bible tells it, most knew more about mending nets than winning converts when Jesus said he would make them “fishers of men.” Yet 2,000 years later, all over the world, the Apostles are still drawing people in.
Photograph by Lynn Johnson
ITALY
Gracing the wall of the Santa Maria delle Grazie convent in Milan since 1498, Leonardo da Vinci’s mural of the Last Supper invites viewers to contemplate how the Twelve Apostles felt in the moment after Christ predicted that one of them would prove a traitor.
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Photograph by Lynn Johnson
ISRAEL
Franciscan priest Fergus Clarke gazes at the Tomb of Christ in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The tomb’s emptiness echoes the Apostles’ message: Jesus rose from the dead.
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Photograph by Lynn Johnson
ISRAEL
The Western Wall is all that remains of Jerusalem’s Second Temple, destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70. Jews consider the site sacred, as do many Christians. Pilgrims often leave handwritten prayers stuffed into the chinks.
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