Christian pilgrims gathered at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for the annual Holy Fire ceremony, where a flame taken from Jesus' tomb lights the candles of Christian Orthodox believers. The ceremony, observed for over a millennium, is considered a miracle by the devout and shrouded in mystery.
The Holy Fire (Greek: Ἃγιον Φῶς, "Holy Light") is a ceremony that occurs every year at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Great Saturday, the day before Orthodox Easter. During the ceremony, a prayer is performed after which a fire is lit inside the aediculae where the Tomb of Jesus is located. According to the belief, the fire emerges miraculously and is lit by the Holy Spirit.The ceremony of the Holy Fire is led by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem and is usually attended by priests and believers of different Christian denominations. After the fire is lit, it is distributed to various national churches and transported to their seats (Athens, Belgrade, Moscow etc.).
Christian and Roman Catholic worshippers participate in the Palm Sunday procession at sites like the Mount of Olives and Church of the Holy Sepulchre in east Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is believed to be the location of Jesus Christ's crucifixion and burial.
During this Eastertide, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, housing the Crucifixion and Resurrection sites, sees a significant decrease in visitors, with only a handful of pilgrims and shopkeepers lamenting the lack of tourists. The absence of the usual 4,000-5,000 daily visitors is noted by Brother Samir, a Coptic monk, expressing sadness and longing for peace among all nations. The significance of Jerusalem to Muslims, Christians, and Jews is highlighted, with a Muslim visitor reflecting on the solemnity of Holy Week and the differing beliefs regarding Jesus.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is considered to be the holiest site for Christians in the world, as it has been the most important pilgrimage site for Christianity since the fourth century.According to the Gospels dating back to 100 BC , it contains two sites considered holy in Christianity: the site where Jesus was crucified, at a place known as Calvary or Golgotha, and Jesus's empty tomb, which is where he was buried and resurrected. In earlier times, the site was used as a Jewish burial ground, upon which a pagan temple was built. The church and rotunda, built under Constantine in the 4th century and destroyed by al-Hakim in 1009, were later reconstructed with modifications by Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos and the Crusaders, resulting in a significant departure from the original structure. The tomb itself is enclosed by a 19th-century shrine called the Aedicule.Within the church proper are the last four stations of the Cross of the Via Dolorosa, representing the final episodes of the Passion of Jesus. The church has been a major Christian pilgrimage destination since its creation in the fourth century, as the traditional site of the resurrection of Christ, thus its original Greek name, Church of the Anastasis ('Resurrection').The Status Quo, an understanding between religious communities dating to 1757, applies to the site. Control of the church itself is shared among several Christian denominations and secular entities in complicated arrangements essentially unchanged for over 160 years, and some for much longer. The main denominations sharing property over parts of the church are the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic, and to a lesser degree the Coptic, Syriac, and Ethiopian Orthodox churches.
The Miracle of the Holy Fire (1892–1899) is an oil painting on canvas by the English artist William Holman Hunt which depicts the Greek Orthodox rite of the Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem. Hunt believed the fire to be a pious fraud which brought Christianity into disrepute. He intended the painting to be a satire in the manner of William Hogarth. Hunt published an elaborate keyplate explaining the identity of the various characters depicted.It is now in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, believed to be the site of Jesus Christ's empty tomb.Holy Sepulchre, Saint Sepulchre, or variants, may also refer to:
Despite the raging conflict in the war-torn region, about 100 Palestinian Christians attended Easter services at the Holy Family Church in Gaza City and a small group gathered at the Holy Sepulchre Church in Jerusalem. This year's services were significantly smaller due to the ongoing battles between Hamas and Israeli forces. In Gaza City, the Holy Family Church is near the site of recent fighting between Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces. The dwindling Christian community in Gaza faces challenges including holding Easter services without electricity due to Israel's siege of the enclave.
Holy Fire is a 1996 science fiction novel by American writer Bruce Sterling. It was nominated for the British Science Fiction Award in 1996, and for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1997.Holy Fire is the story of an old woman who has gained a second youth—in a world in which radical life extension is available through highly intrusive technological means—and who has an ontological transformation as a result.
The Holy Fire is an indie rock band from Detroit, Michigan.
The Holy Fire was a wildfire that burned in the Cleveland National Forest in Orange and Riverside Counties, California. The wildfire started on August 6, 2018 at around 1:15 PM PDT, in the vicinity of Trabuco Canyon. A suspected arsonist was booked into the Orange County jail in Santa Ana, California but found not guilty in 2023. The blaze burned 23,136 acres (94 km2) and destroyed 18 buildings, before it was fully contained on September 13, 2018. While the fire was actively spreading in early and mid-August, residents of the nearby cities of Corona, Temescal Valley, and Lake Elsinore were placed under evacuation orders.
The Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, or Holy Community of the All-Holy Sepulchre, is an Eastern Orthodox monastic fraternity guarding the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and other Christian holy places in the Holy Land. It was founded in its present form during the British Mandate in Palestine (1920-1948). Headed by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, the brotherhood also administers the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, such as metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, archimandrites, hieromonks, hierodeacons, and monks.The brotherhood's symbol is the taphos, a monogram of the Greek letters tau (Τ) and phi (Φ), for the word taphos (τάφος, meaning "sepulchre, grave"). It can be seen on most Greek Orthodox buildings in Jerusalem.The brotherhood is seated in the Central Monastery of Saints Constantine and Helen, Jerusalem, northeast of Megali Panagia Nunnery.
The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Latin: Ordo Equestris Sancti Sepulcri Hierosolymitani, OESSH), also called Order of the Holy Sepulchre or Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, is a Catholic order of knighthood under the protection of the Holy See. The Pope is the sovereign of the order. The order creates canons as well as knights, with the primary mission to “support the Christian presence in the Holy Land.” It is an internationally recognised order of chivalry. The order today is estimated to have some 30,000 knights and dames in 60 lieutenancies around the world. The Cardinal Grand Master has been Fernando Filoni since 2019, and the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem is ex officio the Order's Grand Prior. Its headquarters are situated at the Palazzo Della Rovere and its official church in Sant'Onofrio al Gianicolo, both in Rome, close to Vatican City.
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