Sentences with phrase «holy fire miracle»

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In his speech he even references the «yearly miracle» of Holy Fire.

It is thought that between 1099, when the crusaders took Jerusalem, and 1187, when the church was lost to Saladin, the Roman Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem tried but failed to replicate the miracle of Holy Fire.

Whether a genuine miracle the Western Church has ignored or simply the blessing of natural fire to become something more, Holy Fire is one of the longest - held Easter traditions in Christianfire to become something more, Holy Fire is one of the longest - held Easter traditions in ChristianFire is one of the longest - held Easter traditions in Christianity.

When its time came, the Protestant Reformation rejected as fraudulent many of the relics and miracles so it is no surprise that the miracle of Holy Fire was viewed as yet another vain superstition of the past.

It was here, on the eve of Pentecost 1544, that a famous miracle took place — Philip saw the Holy Spirit enter him in the form of a ball of fire, and come to rest in his heart (after his death, an autopsy showed that the heart had actually been enlarged by this event, and the ribs forced outward).

This past year I observed an Easter ritual in Jerusalem that will be repeated soon, unchanged, exactly as it has been performed each year for centuries — the Miracle of Holy Fire.

According to Ravitch, writing in a recent New York Times op - ed essay, titled, of course, Waiting for a School Miracle, all these high - powered education reformers, from President Obama to Arne Duncan to Jeb Bush to Michael Bloomberg, are claiming «miracles» for their reform efforts; and Ravitch is there, a one - woman Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Devil's Advocate, to throw some almighty holy water on the hype fires.

At Pentecost, the fires of the Holy Spirit empowered the stones and the Apostles performed miracles in God's name throughout the Empire.