The third Wednesday of Lenten peregrinations opens at the Church of the Flagellation, on the Via Dolorosa, to end, on the following days, with the traditional votive peregrinations to Bethany, to the Chapel of the Ascension and the Church of Pater Noster. Packed for the event, the small Church of the Flagellation was at the centre of the celebration on Wednesday 3rd April. The Church, which stands on the site of the Antonia Fortress, has its origins in the one […]
Entering the world of Status Quo, the rigid system of unwritten rules that since 1852 regulates property, space and time for the Christian communities in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, also means coming across the many objects that are part of the church. Some cannot be moved an inch, others ... move. This is the case with this particular aluminium staircase, which is placed behind the anointing stone the day after Ash Wednesday and it is taken […]
