The church was built on the ruins of a place where hunkered down Holy Family (Mary, the Christ Child, and St. Joseph the carpenter) during the three years they spent in Egypt to escape Herod governor of Palestine who had ordered the killing of children for fear of prophecy apostasy. And some see it as a place to frying pan (a place of solitude) was in, the monks live a women in one of the rock-hewn cellars in place.