Facade of Church

View looking east at the gable of the Church of Saint Catherine in Bethlehem.  The figure hovering over the entrance is the Blessed Virgin Mary and the man with a codex in his hand and his foot on a skull is Saint Jerome, who translated the Bible from Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek into Latin the Vulgate).  I believe that the skull is there to remind him, and us, of our mortality.

The grey stones in the upper right is an apse of the Basilica of the Nativity.