"And I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the powers of hell shall not prevail against it. To you I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven: whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." With these words Jesus gives Peter authority over the Church, making the apostle the first among the Twelve. In Tiberias, […]
After the destruction of the Constantinian buildings ordered by the caliph al-Hakim (1009),restoration was undertaken at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem of the parts that were still standing by the emperor Constantine Monomachos. This restoration was completed in 1048. After this massive work of renovation, the Anastasis –i.e. the circular area which surrounds the empty tomb of Christ– remained essentially what it had been before, with its peripheral walls and with almost all the colonnade. Until today, a circular gallery has […]
