According to written sources
According to written sources, on Holy Saturday that year, a group of Turkish soldiers, after mediation Armenians, prohibited the transit of the Orthodox Church of the Resurrection. The crowd of the faithful remained in the courtyard of the church throughout the day, but even after sundown. Patriarch Sophronius D, which diinye the first year of his tenure, took over for the first time to carry out the most important ceremony of the year, however, the Turks denied him the legal right. The patriarch stood praying in the left part of the gate of the temple, near a column. And suddenly, having already fallen the night, the column ruptured and Holy Fire sprang from the inside. The patriarch immediately lit the candle and conveying the Holy Fire to the believers. Within minutes, the sacred flame spread to all attendees and the churchyard was illuminated. The astonished Turkish guards then opened the gates of the church and the patriarch, with the number of Orthodox, went solemnly to the Holy Sepulchre
The temperature of the Holy Fire is around forty degrees Celsius for a few minutes after its defeat, so the faithful can take it freely in their hands and "wash" their faces in it during this period, because they do not burn. Archbishop Gennady Zaridze, the Orthodox Christian Scientist and Rector of the Church of the Mother of God, a protective veil in the Voronezh region, said in an interview with RIA-Novosti. "I was using a fire extinguisher and I recorded the temperature of the Holy Fire immediately after the descent: I immediately wash my face with this Fire (and I didn't burn it!) And I measured its temperature and it turned out that the average temperature of the Fire was where it was holding and My neighbors had a fire that was forty-two degrees Celsius. Fifteen minutes later I measured the temperature again and reached 320 λ Celsius by that time, "the high priest said. a many years a. Fr. Gennady Zaridze used a pyrometer, which uses a non-infrared infrared thermometer to measure the surface temperature of an object to measure the temperature of the Holy Fire. A silver width of five millimeters and one millimeter thick was used as the object. Since silver is one of the largest heat-producing metals, when you place a plate on the fire, you will immediately get the flame temperature. Fr. Gennady Zaridge visited the Holy Land in April 2016 for Easter, at the invitation of the St. Joseph Foundation. Andrew and with the blessing of Metropolitan Sergy Voronezh and Liski. "I have no doubt that the Holy Fire is the work of God's grace, it is a kind of divine mercy in the sinful world designed to maintain and strengthen faith," the shepherd said in an interview with RIA-Novosti. that there were cases of healing miracles during the feasts of St. Photios. that in 2008 Andrei Volkov, a scientist from the Russian Research Center (Kurchatov Institute) in Russia, had come to Jerusalem before the conquest of the Holy Fire and brought with him an instrument that recorded various spectra of electromagnetic radiation from Volya. He was the first man that day (even before the patriarch gave the faithful the fire) to learn that the Holy Fire had collapsed because the bodies showed a very strong electrical discharge.
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