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    The Guide: Radio: Friday 13 May
    WILL HODGKINSON

    The Guardian - United Kingdom
    May 07, 2005

    The miracle of the Holy Fire has, it is claimed by Orthodox Christians,
    been occurring in Jerusalem's The Church Of The Resurrection on the
    first Sunday after the Jewish Passover for the last 1,000 years. A
    fire is said to emerge from the stone where Jesus rose from the dead,
    but since the miracle occurs behind locked doors in front of only one
    witness (an Orthodox patriarch) we'll have to take his word for it. On
    The Holy Fire ( 11am, R4 ) Stewart Henderson travels to Jerusalem
    to talk to devout pilgrims, sceptics, and the Israeli police that
    ensure the security of the ceremony, where tempers have been known to
    fray. In 2002 a Greek Orthodox patriarch and an Armenian priest came
    to blows over who should be overseeing the ritual. A shoe was lost.
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