Tomb of Jesus reopens in Jerusalem after restoration. NTDTV on Mar 20, 2017. The tomb of Jesus has been resurrected to its former glory. Just in time for Easter, a Greek restoration team has completed …More
Tomb of Jesus reopens in Jerusalem after restoration.
NTDTV on Mar 20, 2017. The tomb of Jesus has been resurrected to its former glory. Just in time for Easter, a Greek restoration team has completed a historic renovation of the Edicule, the shrine that tradition says houses the cave where Jesus was buried and rose to heaven, at the the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
Gone is the unsightly iron cage built around the shrine by British authorities in 1947 to shore up the walls. Gone is the black soot on the shrine’s stone façade from decades of pilgrims lighting candles. And gone are fears about the stability of the old shrine, which hadn’t been restored in more than 200 years.
“If this intervention hadn’t happened now, there is a very great risk that there could have been a collapse,” Bonnie Burnham of the World Monuments Fund said on Monday. “This is a complete transformation of the monument.”
The fund provided an initial $1.4 million for the $4 million restoration, thanks …More
NTDTV on Mar 20, 2017. The tomb of Jesus has been resurrected to its former glory. Just in time for Easter, a Greek restoration team has completed a historic renovation of the Edicule, the shrine that tradition says houses the cave where Jesus was buried and rose to heaven, at the the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
Gone is the unsightly iron cage built around the shrine by British authorities in 1947 to shore up the walls. Gone is the black soot on the shrine’s stone façade from decades of pilgrims lighting candles. And gone are fears about the stability of the old shrine, which hadn’t been restored in more than 200 years.
“If this intervention hadn’t happened now, there is a very great risk that there could have been a collapse,” Bonnie Burnham of the World Monuments Fund said on Monday. “This is a complete transformation of the monument.”
The fund provided an initial $1.4 million for the $4 million restoration, thanks …More
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Qué bien !! Cómo haces para estar bien informada de todo. Quisiera saber sobre los preparativos de la próxima celebración de los 100 años de Fátima. Tú vas a asistir?? Cómo podría yo ir??