The miracle of the Holy Fire is an annual event in which the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem enters the Holy Sepulcher with thirty-three unlit candles he has bound together and emerges with them lit. Both the Sepulcher and the Patriarch are thoroughly searched by civil authorites before the event to exclude the possiblity of any technical igniting. The first written record of this event, which occurs on Saturday of Passion Week dates back 870 A.D.
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