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On Holy and Great Saturday, we celebrate the Burial of the Divine Body of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ, and His descent into Hades, through which our race was recalled from corruption, and was transplanted to eternal life.
Verses
In vain you watchmen guard the tomb.
No grave can contain the Source of Life.
Synaxarion for Holy and Great Saturday
Concerning the Burial of the Lord (St. Cyril of Alexandria)
On the Lord's Passion, Death and Descent into Hades (St. John of Damascus)
St. Amphilochios of Iconium: On the Burial of Our Savior
St. Epiphanios of Salamis: The Lord's Descent Into Hades
How Christ Buries Himself In Us In Order To Raise Us (St. Symeon the New Theologian)
Christ's Divine Strategy in Defeating the Devil (St. Gregory Palamas)
The Liturgical Theme of Holy Saturday
Who Wrote the Lamentations of Holy Saturday?
Ezekiel's Prophecy of the Resurrection
The Mystery of the Tomb of Christ
Great and Holy Saturday: The Forgotten Feast
The Lord In Hades
The Descent of Christ Into Hades
Jesus In Hades and the Sign of Jonah
Christ and the Binding of the Strong Man (Origen of Alexandria)
"Lift Up Your Gates": A Powerful Paschal Custom
Holy Saturday in Fourth Century Jerusalem According to Nun Egeria
Prophet Jonah Resource Page
On Leaving Church Early On Pascha After "Christ is Risen!"
A Prayer Before the All-Holy Sepulchre
Akathist to the Lifebearing Tomb of Christ
Video: The Holy Sepulcher, a 3D Journey Back in Time
Documentary: The Guardians of the Holy Sepulchre (Greek)
One Door and No Fire Exit at Holy Sepulchre Church
A Second Century Paschal Miracle in Jerusalem
The Miracle of the Holy Light in Jerusalem
Fr. Mitrophanes: The Monk Who Saw the Holy Light
A Miracle of the Holy Light of Jerusalem in Athens
Russian Priest Seeks Scientific Proof for the Miraculous Nature of the Holy Light (Holy Fire) of Jerusalem
News Report On the Holy Light of Jerusalem from 2001
The Holy Light (Holy Fire) of Jerusalem 2010
Miracle of the Holy Light of Jerusalem 2011
2011 Holy Light Arrives In Athens From Jerusalem
The Holy Light Of Jerusalem In Kalymnos 2011
A First Look At the Holy Light of Jerusalem 2012
A First Look At the Holy Light of Jerusalem 2013
A First Look at the Holy Light (Holy Fire) of Jerusalem 2014
A First Look at the Holy Light (Holy Fire) of Jerusalem 2015
A First Look at the Holy Light (Holy Fire) of Jerusalem 2016
A First Look at the Holy Light (Holy Fire) of Jerusalem 2017
A First Look at the Holy Light (Holy Fire) of Jerusalem 2018
The Torn Column and the Holy Light: Pascha 1579 AD
Saint Tounom the Emir (+ 18 April 1579)
Regarding the Column That Was Split By the Holy Fire in 1579
10 Reasons I Believe the Holy Light Is a Miracle 1
10 Reasons I Believe the Holy Light Is a Miracle 2
10 Reasons I Believe the Holy Light Is a Miracle 3
Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem on the Holy Light
British Archaeologist Charles Warren and the Holy Light
A Russian Study of the Holy Light of Jerusalem
A Satirical Look at the Miracle of the Holy Fire
Why the Shroud of Turin is Fake
Why the Shroud of Turin is a Forgery
Holy Saturday Morning In Kerkyra (Corfu)
2011 Paschal Messages of Orthodox Leaders
Protestants To Join Orthodoxy on Holy Saturday
Holy Week Resource Page
Pentecostarion Resource Page
