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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.
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 some believe the Tomb of Jesus may have been located.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the feast of the death and Resurrection of Jesus, called Pascha (Easter), is the greatest of all holy days and as such it is called the "feast of feasts". Immediately below it in importance, there is a group of Twelve Great Feasts (Greek: Δωδεκάορτον). Together with Pascha, these are the most ...
The event hall at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church is not a restaurant, but every fall for the past 61 years, it basically becomes one. Three days a week — Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday ...
Resurrection Catholic Church, in Dubuque, Iowa; United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, Leawood, Kansas; Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church (Berlin, New Hampshire), an Eastern Orthodox Church; Church of the Resurrection (Wheaton, Illinois), a former Episcopal church now serving as the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of the Upper Midwest
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The Wilmington Greek Festival returns to an in-person celebration this year. ... The grounds of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church will be the go-to place for all things Greek. There will be a ...
Easter, [nb 1] also called Pascha [nb 2] (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, [nb 3] is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD.