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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is also known as the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre [9] and the Holy Sepulchre. Eastern Christians also call it the Church of the Resurrection and the Church of the Anastasis , Anastasis being Greek for Resurrection.
Santo Stefano, Bologna Layout of the Basilica 1-3. Church of the Crucifix 2. Crypt 4. Church of the Holy Sepulchre 5. Church of Saints Vitale and Agricola 6. Pilate's courtyard 7. Church of the Trinity or the Martyrium, also called "Santa Croce", containing the ancient Nativity 8. Cloister 9-10-11-12. Chapel of the Bandage ("Cappella della ...
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre Witness statements of income of the monastery before the papal nuncio in 1349. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Polish: Bazylika Grobu Bożego) in Miechów, Poland, is a 14th-century Gothic basilica, with a nave and two aisles, incorporating some 13th-century Romanesque stonework.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Italian: Basilica del Santo Sepolcro) is a Catholic place of worship located in the territory of the Italian municipality of Barletta, in the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani in Apulia.
During 1973–1978 restoration works and excavations were made in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. To the east of the Chapel of St. Helena, the excavators discovered a void containing a 2nd-century drawing of a Roman ship, [3] [better source needed] two low walls which supported the platform of Hadrian's 2nd-century temple, and a higher 4th century wall built to support Constantine's basilica ...
In scenes very different from last year, Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre opened to the public on Palm Sunday, allowing Christians to attend mass at the start of Holy Week on the site ...
The Order of the Holy Sepulchre traces its roots to circa 1099 under the Frankish knight Godfrey of Bouillon (1060–1100), "advocate of the Holy Sepulchre" (Latin: Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri), leader of the First Crusade and first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Fresco by Giacomo Jaquerio in Saluzzo, northern Italy (circa 1420).
Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, in 1869, on his way to the opening of the Suez Canal, visited the Holy Land. He conferred numerous benefactions on Saint Saviour's, and induced the Ottoman Empire to remove the stable which obstructed the light and air of the little monastery of the Holy Sepulchre. He also convinced the Turks to permit the ...