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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)
The Homily on Holy Saturday by St. John of Damascus: A Summary
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
Holy Saturday in Fourth Century Jerusalem According to Nun Egeria
Who Wrote the Lamentations of Holy Saturday?
A Lamentation of the Lamentations
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
Prophet Jonah Resource Page
On Leaving Church Early On Pascha After "Christ is Risen!"
Holy Light of Jerusalem Resource Page
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
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
