The Amazing Story of the Miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem

A miracle has occurred every year in Jerusalem for centuries. That is the miracle of the Holy Fire, which occurs at the tomb of Jesus in the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem.

The tomb of Jesus is searched and sealed, formerly by the Muslim Turks, but now by the Israeli police. The ritual begins when the the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (or another Orthodox archbishop) is similarly searched. Wearing a simple white robe and carrying two bunches of unlit candles, he enters the tomb and prays while the congregation chants “Lord have mercy.” Later in this post we have added the description of what happens by someone who actually performed the ceremony.

What is the Holy Fire?
The Holy Fire originates as a divine light which manifests on the marble slab covering the stone bed upon which Jesus’ body was placed for burial, though there are various experiences by different people at various times in history. It then changes to a fire that that does not behave as normal fire, though it can be transferred from candle to candle, but for a time will not burn/damage what it touches. (In videos you can see people washing their faces, beards, and clothes with the flames from the Holy Fire in the first fifteen to thirty minutes after the initial appearance of the Fire.)

Other phenomena which have been witnessed before the manifestation of the Holy Fire include lightning-like flashes above the shrine of the tomb of Christ and swiftly moving balls of light.