21/04/2026

There are many witnesses to the Savior’s Resurrection.


 “There are many witnesses to the Savior’s Resurrection. The night and the light of the full moon, for it was the sixteenth night and the moon was full. The tombstone that received the Lord beneath its canopy and the carved rock that will stand opposite and will expose the Jews, for he saw the Lord. The stone they rolled in front of the tomb back then, which remains there to this day, bears witness to the Resurrection. The Angels of God who were present also bore witness to the Resurrection of the Only-Begotten. Peter, John, Thomas, and all the other Apostles, some of whom ran to the tomb and saw the burial cloths, with which they had previously wrapped Him, were found inside the tomb after the Resurrection, while others touched His hands and His feet (cf. Luke 24:39) and saw the marks of the nails (cf. John 20:25). But all of them received the saving breath and were empowered to forgive sins through the power of the Holy Spirit. And the women who held His feet when He appeared to them, who experienced the magnitude of the earthquake and saw the radiance of the Angel who was present there, they too are witnesses of the Resurrection. But also the shrouds he was wearing (cf. Luke 24:12), which he left there when he rose, are witnesses to the Resurrection. The soldiers and the silver coins that were given. This place, which one can still see today, and this holy church, which was built through the Christian goodwill of that most worthy Basil and which, as you see it now, has been so wonderfully adorned”

(Saint Cyril of Jerusalem)

 

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