{"id":1380867,"date":"2026-04-11T15:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-holy-fire-descended-in-jerusalem\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:12:45","slug":"the-holy-fire-descended-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-holy-fire-descended-in-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holy Fire descended in Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On April 11, on the eve of the feast of the Resurrection of Christ, the Holy Fire descended in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This became known from<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5VC1AdUP9iE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the video broadcast<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the solemn ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At around 2:20 p.m., His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem emerged from the Kuvukliya of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a chapel with a cave where, according to tradition, Jesus Christ was buried. He held candles with fire in his hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was preceded by prayers for peace and blessings for humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is believed that the Holy Fire appears in a miraculous way. It symbolizes the victory of life over death. Believers are convinced that if the fire does not come down, the end of the world will soon come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Traditionally, after the fire ascends, the Patriarch lights and takes out 33 candles. This number represents the number of years in the life of Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Holy Fire will be transferred to churches in different parts of the world, including Ukrainian ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 11, on the eve of the feast of the Resurrection of Christ, the Holy Fire descended in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. This became known from the video broadcast of the solemn ceremony. At around 2:20 p.m., His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem emerged from the Kuvukliya of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1380859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76873,76875,76871],"class_list":["post-1380867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1380859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}