{"id":3038,"date":"2026-06-11T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:34:35","slug":"holy-edicule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=3038","title":{"rendered":"The Holy Edicule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/Edicule-of-Jesus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Holy Edicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is the &#8220;little&#8221; shrine that protects and covers the sepulchre or tomb of Jesus<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/premium\/article\/jesus-christ-tomb-burial-church-holy-sepulchre\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">restoration<\/span><\/a> was planned for 1959, but it took the 3 groups responsible for the edifice, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Franciscan order of the Catholic Church, and the Armenian Patriarchate, until 2016 to agree on it, when in 2015, the Israeli authorities closed the Edicule, deeming it unsafe. The restorers had only 9 months to perform the work.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/Edicule-restauration.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The restorers found the original walls of the cave that surrounds the tomb still intact. Samples of the mortar between the original limestone surface of the tomb and the marble slab that covers it were taken for dating.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S2352409X17307149\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">research<\/span><\/a> dated the mortar to around 345 A.D, which was the time Emperor Constantine, the 1st Christian emperor, sent representatives to Jerusalem to locate Jesus\u2019 tomb.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The site they were directed to and where they built a shrine was originally outside the town limits, but currently lies within it and also inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/tomb-opened.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"140\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; 6px;\">A new moisture barrier protects the holy bed and holy rock, which are now basically preserved for the next 2,000 years. Frescoes got uncovered that had been completely invisible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The restorers of the edicule and tomb found no dichotomy between modern Science, such as ground-penetrating radar, laser-mapping with cm by cm precision, and thermographic cameras, and Faith, but they experienced the process as an excellent example of how both can coexist perfectly.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/Edicule-outside.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The re-opening was on 26\/2\/2017<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/edicule-entrance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; 6px;\">To enter the tomb&#8217;s chamber you have to bend, and will then realize that everything is different than you had imagined. The architecture, chanting, and scents take you back in time:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/Jesus-tomb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The message of the Resurrection unites all of humanity. Therefore people of all religions and ethnicities should kneel at the tomb of Jesus the Christ:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/Edicule%20inside.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/pi-glasses.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=3045\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Holy Edicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is the &#8220;little&#8221; shrine that protects and covers the sepulchre or tomb of Jesus. 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