The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is also believed by Christians to house Jesus’s tomb. The idea that Jesus was buried close to the place of his crucifixion comes from the Bible.

It ends with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, claimed to be the site of Jesus' crucifixion, and the Garden Tomb where his ...

Because, by your holy cross, you have redeemed the world. On the uppermost part of the cross, the reason for the sentence is written: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews (Jn 19:19). And all who ...

The death of Jesus Christ on the cross isn’t just a historical event—it’s the divine epicenter of Christian redemption, ...

While it is archaeologically impossible to say that the tomb recently uncovered in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is the burial site of an individual Jew known as Jesus of Nazareth, there is ...

The Holy Grail is, supposedly, the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper. The goblet that Christ drank from before his arrest, sentencing and crucifixion would of course be of interest to ...

Parishioners washed each other's feet during the Maundy Thursday mass at Holy Cross church in Santa Cruz this week, as part of the observance of Holy Week leading up to Easter Sunday.

I propose that a particularly relevant image for our time is the helplessness of Jesus on the cross. The cross was not simply torture, humiliation and shame; it was also total and abject helplessness.

It’s often called Holy Friday also. But in another sense, Good Friday is always tied to Easter Sunday, ... followed by Jesus carrying the cross and being hung on it to die. ...