{"id":216186,"date":"2021-03-31T19:25:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hi-tech-imaging-sheds-light-on-holy-sepulchre-wall-crosses\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T19:25:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:25:39","slug":"hi-tech-imaging-sheds-light-on-holy-sepulchre-wall-crosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hi-tech-imaging-sheds-light-on-holy-sepulchre-wall-crosses\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hi-tech imaging sheds light on Holy Sepulchre wall crosses"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Hi-tech imaging sheds light on Holy Sepulchre wall crosses<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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JERUSALEM \u2013 Crosses etched in mysterious abundance across the walls of Christianity\u2019s most sacred church were long assumed to be graffiti, but they may be the work of medieval masons paid to carve them by pilgrims, research suggests.<\/p>\n

Revered in Christian tradition as the site of Jesus\u2019s crucifixion and burial, Jerusalem\u2019s Church of the Holy Sepulchre usually bustles with worshippers and clergy. That has made study of the sacred markings difficult.<\/p>\n

But renovations in 2018 at one of its chapels featuring thousands of the close-bunched and hand-engraved crosses gave Israel\u2019s Antiquities Authority and Hadassah Academic College Jerusalem an opportunity for research.<\/p>\n

In coordination with the Armenian Orthodox Church, which controls the chapel, the scholars used digital cameras and three-dimensional imaging to map out, compare and date the crosses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis unique phenomenon always baffled us: Is it graffiti of the pilgrims, or rather, something else?\u2026,\u201d said Amit Re\u2019em, Jerusalem regional archaeologist for the Authority.<\/p>\n

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Father Samuel Aghoyan stands at the Saint Helena chapel inside the church.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cWe saw that all of them (crosses) have the same depth and even the marking of the mason,\u201d he said, provisionally dating them to the 15th century.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe two or three hand artists made these crosses,\u201d Re\u2019em said. \u201c\u2026So it\u2019s not graffiti, it\u2019s something more organized.\u201d<\/p>\n

He suggested an intercessionary purpose.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s say that you are an Armenian pilgrim, so you pay something to the priest, you pay something to this special artist and he carved for you, for the benefit of your soul and your relatives\u2019 souls, \u2026a special cross in the most sacred place for Christianity on earth,\u201d Re\u2019em said.<\/p>\n

Father Samuel Aghoyan, the Armenian superior at the Holy Sepulchre, saw benefits to the church from the research, especially as it struggles to emerge from COVID-19 lockdowns\u202e \u202cand prepares for Easter.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow there are no pilgrims here, (but) still their spirit is here, we know, I believe in that,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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