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	Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Helena had been directed by her son to build churches upon sites which commemorated the life of Jesus Christ, so the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was about the end of the life of Jesus, just as the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (also founded by Constantine and Helena) was about its beginning.
		To the left, or west, is the Rotunda of the Anastasis beneath the larger of the church's two domes, in the center of which is the Educule of the Holy Sepulchre itself.
		To the right of the sepulchre on the southeastern side of the Rotunda is the Chapel of the Apparition which is reserved for Roman Catholic use.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre (2558 words)

	Holy Sepulchre
		That it was outside the city is confirmed by the well-known fact that the Jews did not permit burial inside the city except in the case of their kings.
		The Holy Sepulchre, separated by excavation from the mass of rock, and surmounted by a gilded dome, was in the centre of a rotunda 65 feet in diameter.
		That, on the contrary, the wall took an irregular course, excluding the Sepulchre, seems to have been sufficiently proved by the discoveries, in recent years, of masses of masonry to the east and southeast of the church.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/h/holy_sepulchre.html (2467 words)

	Sepulchre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A sepulchre (also spelled "sepulcher") is a burial chamber.
		Sepulchre - first mentioned as purchased by Abraham for Sarah from Ephron the Hittite (Gen. 23:20).
		This was the "cave of the field of Machpelah," where also Abraham and Rebekah and Jacob and Leah were buried (79:29-32).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sepulchre (164 words)

	Church of the Holy Sepulchre - MSN Encarta
		Church of the Holy Sepulchre, basilica in Jerusalem, built over the site in the garden of Joseph of Arimathea where Jesus is believed to have been placed in his tomb after the Crucifixion.
		Despite efforts by Roman emperor Hadrian to erase the memory of the spot by building a temple of Venus there in the 2nd century ad, the Sepulchre, or tomb of Jesus, survived to be restored by the first Christian emperor, Constantine the Great, in the 4th century.
		Major repairs to the dome of the Sepulchre were carried out in the 18th century and again, after a fire, in about 1810.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761580852/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre.html (452 words)

	St Sepulchre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		he sight of St. Sepulchre's must have chilled the souls of passers-by for several centuries, for it stood opposite the infamous Newgate prison and its bell marked the time of impending executions.
		As the result of a bequest made to St. Sepulchre's in 1605, a bellman was employed to go through a tunnel which connected the church to Newgate on the night before any execution.
		Sepulchre's is open on Wednesdays between noon and 3pm or at other times by special arrangement.
	www.hiddenlondon.com /st_sepulchre.htm (1053 words)

	SEPULCHRE, THE HOLY - Online Information article about SEPULCHRE, THE HOLY
		The wall is then supposed to have been carried north to the point C, and either to have turned east to D, and again north to F, and from this to the Antonia; or to have continued north to E, and thence east to the Antonia.
		A third theory is that the Gate Genath was at the point G, and that the second wall ran north to F, and thence to the Antonia.
		In another cavity in the rock, 28o ft. to the east, three crosses were discovered, which were assumed to be the crosses upon which Jesus Christ and the two thieves were crucified, the cross of Jesus being identified by its power of healing the sick.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SCY_SHA/SEPULCHRE_THE_HOLY.html (3630 words)

	Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem) - OrthodoxWiki
		The church has been an important pilgrimage destination since the 4th century, and the portions of it administered by the Orthodox are in the care of the Church of Jerusalem.
		Immediately in the front of the Sepulchre is what would be the main area of the church for the congregation, which has been walled off and used by the Orthodox.
		On Bright Saturday the church of the Holy Sepulchre was crowded with the worshipers, the Pasha ordered the people to evacuate the church to the spacious outer courtyard.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre_(Jerusalem) (1705 words)

	Bible Study - Sepulchre
		Sepulchre is a Latin word that is used to translate an original Hebrew word of The Bible that meant a chamber cut into solid rock that was used for a burial room, or tomb.
		In ancient times, sepulchres were often made within existing Caves, which were relatively common in the land of Israel.
		The first sepulchre specifically mentioned in the Scriptures was that purchased in Hebron by Abraham for Sarah, where eventually Abraham himself, as well as Isaac and Rebekah, and Jacob and Leah were all laid to rest to await their Resurrections.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/20021017.htm (576 words)

	Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Jerusalem
		The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, known as the Church of the Resurrection (Anastasis) to Eastern Orthodox Christians, is a Christian church in the Old City of Jerusalem.
		The exterior facade of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, on the east side of the church, was built by the Crusaders sometime before 1180.
		To the right (north) of the sepulchre is the Roman Catholic area, which consists of a large square chapel (the Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene) and another private chapel for Franciscan monks.
	sacred-destinations.com /israel/jerusalem-church-of-holy-sepulchre.htm (3442 words)

	St. Sepulchre-without-Newgate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Smith died in 1631 and is buried in the south aisle.
		The Royal School of Church Music was founded at St. Sepulchre's and the historic tower holds the twelve bells of the Old Bailey made famous by the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons'.
		Sepulchre Singers and Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Earis.
	st-sepulchre.org.uk (309 words)

	Church of the Holy Sepulchre
		The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built by Constantine I the Great during the fourth century, after he became christian, and turned Christianity to the official religion of the Roman empire.
		At the time of the Persian occupation of Jerusalem in the year of 614, most of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre's structure was ruined.
		After Jerusalem's occupation by the hands of Tslah A-Din in the year of 1187, The Holy Sepulchre Church was given for safe keeping to two Moslem families, the Nusseibeh and the Joudeh families, who own the place today, and currently hold the keys to the church.
	www.trekker.co.il /english/church-holy-sepulchre.htm (663 words)

	The Sun and the Sepulchre By Clark Ashton Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I saw the declivous latter sunlight fall and glitter upon the sepulchre of one whose immomentous name was holden awhile from Oblivion by the deeply-trenched remembrance of marble.
		And, touched ere-long by the richer fires of the horizon-cloven and ensanguined orb, those cold, marmoreal pallors blushed with a fervent blazonry of roseal-tinted splendour.
		And thus thy latter setting, vast with the marvel of strange light and imagineless flame, shall inform those bleak and spheral pallors with a fervant blazonry of roseal-tinted splendour.
	www.eldritchdark.com /wri/prosep/sun_and_the_sepulchre.html (122 words)

	A History of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulchre
		The great devotion of Christians to Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre has resulted in the founding of various Sepulchre Guards, Honor Bodies, and Orders honoring the military valor of the Knights of old who defended Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre against the Saracens.
		The tradition was this: Knights who visited Jerusalem and prayed in the Sepulchre would assume the title of "Knight of the Holy Sepulchre." Upon their return to Europe, these Knights would dub, create, and appoint others as Knights of the Holy Sepulchre.
		Sepulchre Knights, in honor of the middle Eastern warrior monk Knights of medieval days, wear to all informal and formal occasions the official uniform derived from the ancient monastic tradition of our Holy Sepulchre forebears.
	www.greeleynet.com /~maxalla/OKHSSub/ohs.html (2239 words)

	CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE
		On a recent visit to Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre I stood for a moment in the Chapel of Adam and gazed at the bare rock beneath Golgotha.
		Believed by most of the Christian world to encompass such sacred sites as Calvary (Golgotha), the Holy Sepulchre, and the cistern in which Helena found the True Cross, the church is alive with a profusion of languages and a variety of diverse apparel.
		Destined to become the most venerated of Christian sites, Golgotha and the Sepulchre were lost to the Christians a century after the Crucifixion: in 135 Roman emperor Hadrian destroyed Jerusalem, rebuilt the city as Aelia Capitolina, and covered the holy sites with idolatrous shrines.
	www.christusrex.org /www2/baram/B-sepulchre.html (1975 words)

	Daily Bible Study - The Sepulchre Of Christ
		Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
		Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
		A sepulchre is derived from the Latin words meaning to bury.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2004/20040401.htm (355 words)

	HOLY WEEK AND PASCHA IN JERUSALEM
		The Turks rushed in to break it up, but their guns had been taken away; and they ran to save the Holy Sepulchre and the Church of the Resurrection, for at that time, since it was towards Palm Sunday, everything was ornamented with silver and gold.
		The soldiers were standing around the Holy Sepulchre, hand to hand, with their weapons too, and so that there would not be any theft, they stood by the gates of the Church of the Resurrection.
		When the Metropolitan of Trans- Jordan goes into the Sepulchre, he finds a large lamp standing on the Grave of Christ which has been lit by itself; sometimes it lights itself unexpectedly while he is there.
	www.ocf.org /OrthodoxPage/reading/holyfire.html (6004 words)

	Easter sepulchre in England
		By the early thirteenth century the Easter Sepulchre is occasionally mentioned in parish church inventories, though is probably not common that early.
		The sepulchre would be surrounded by 'lights' (candles), often paid for by gilds of parishioners, or from money bequeathed for the purpose.
		Even the shape of the two surviving wooden English Easter Sepulchres is similar to the 'herse' used to carry the coffin and support the candles round the body in church.
	www.ecclsoc.org /eastersepul.html (1719 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		At the time of the Crusades the church was known as "St. Edmund and the Holy Sepulchre" and eventually "St. Sepulchre" - after the Holy Sepulchre of Christ in Jerusalem.
		As the church of the Holy Sepulchre, the benefice was granted by Rahere, the Prior of St. Bartholomew's, to Hagno the Clerk in 1137.
		In the north wall of the sanctuary are what may be the remains of an Easter Sepulchre.
	www.st-sepulchre.org.uk /history.htm (1199 words)

	Topical Guide: Sepulchre
		sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.
		sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
		sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
	scriptures.lds.org /tgs/splchr?sr=1 (739 words)

	Holy Sepulchre Cemetery - Rochester NY
		Holy Sepulchre Cemetery was created to be part of that promise...
		Holy Sepulchre Cemetery is a serene, reverent environment that evokes spirituality and closeness to God.
		Today, Holy Sepulchre is incomparable for its beauty, pristine maintenance, and architectural significance.
	www.holysepulchre.org (113 words)

	The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
		Most of my pictures are dark, which is too bad on the one hand, but on the other hand the place is dark and so the pictures do convey a pretty accurate impression of that aspect of it.
		The Holy Sepulchre consists of two small rooms, the first containing a marble basin with a piece of stone under glass said to be part of the stone that would open and close the tomb, the second containing a stone table upon which Jesus’ body is said to have lain.
		At all times, except when he took a break and closed the door, the entrance was controlled by a tall fl coated well-bearded Greek Orthodox priest who would gesture to the waiting line saying “four peoples, four peoples” inviting them into the first room.
	www.misericordia.edu /users/davies/jerusalem/Sepul.htm (1121 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Fathers of the Holy Sepulchre
		The Fathers of the Holy Sepulchre are the six or seven Franciscan Fathers, who with as many lay brothers keep watch over the Holy Sepulchre and the sanctuaries of the basilica.
		To the right of the Sacred Tomb in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre is the chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, which opens into the tenth-century church of the Apparition of Christ to His Blessed Mother, served by the Franciscan Fathers and containing their choir.
		The convent being accessible only from the basilica, which is in charge of Mohammedan guards, the keys which lock the basilica shut the friars off from the outer world, their only means of communication being the aperture in the main portal, through which they receive provisions from St. Saviour's.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07427b.htm (269 words)

	Holy Sepulchre Church Photos
		The Holy Sepulchre is the most sacred, ancient, important, magnificent and celebrated monument of the Christian faith.
		In 637 the Muslims conquer Jerusalem but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Holy Lands are protected due to the edict «Ahtiname» (Omar's Treaty) of caliph Omar Hatab to Patriarch Sofronius.
		In 1948 the big dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is hit from two Jewish mortars and is repaired.
	www.orthodoxphotos.com /Holy_Land/Holy_Sepulchre_Church/index.shtml (1001 words)

	Order of the Holy Sepulchre
		The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem goes back to the first Knights that were established by Godfrey de Bouillon around the Sepulchre of Our Lord as a guard of honour immediately after the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099.
		The Order's principal objectives are to revive in modern form the spirit and ideas of the Crusades, undertake and assist religious, charitable, cultural, and social projects in their own diocese and country, and to preserve the rights of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land.
		The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, already "a Juridical Person under Canon Law", since 1st February 1996, also become "a Juridical Person in the Vatican" with its legal seat in the Vatican City State.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Estates/5126/eohs.html (1238 words)

	Amazon.com: Sepulchre: Books: James Herbert,Sean Barrett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In Sepulchre, there is a house that holds a dreadful secret.
		Sepulchre is a pure, fast-paced and extremely suspense-loaded mixture of thriller, horror and the supernatural.
		The story - shortly, as the cover says, a conflict between the Bad and the Bad - is so ingenious that the shocking and horrifying scenes come to you more unexpectedly than ever, mainly because in such a literary jewel you wouldn't believe these shocks to happen.
	www.amazon.com /Sepulchre-James-Herbert/dp/0753107120 (1302 words)

	Holy Sepulchre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the center of Jerusalem, in the old city and on the hill of Golgotha.
		In 969 Muslims burn the dome, ravage the Temple and burn the Patriarch of Jerusalem John 4 to revenge the expedition of Byzantine emperor Nic.
		In the internal are carved verses from the gospels and carvings of the event.
	www.holylight.gr /patria/english/ensepul.html (1952 words)

	Rituaal voor de installatie als Knight of the Holy Sepulchre
		And be brought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
		There is a superb cupola over the Sepulchre; and in the aisle were the tombs of Godfrey, defender of the Sepulchre, and Baldwin, the first Christian King of Jerusalem.
		And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
	www.stelling.nl /vrijmetselarij/ovorcc_r2.html (4144 words)

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