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Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulchre ‎Jerusalem. Only the right hand door of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is open. The left side was blocked up by the Sultan Saladin. The church has a fascinating history, beginning in the 4th century. In 326 A.D. St. Helena, mother of Constantine, the first Christian Emperor, visited Jerusalem, following a dream, in which the remains of the True Cross were revealed to her in the place known as Golgotha, a Roman crucifixion site and the place of Jesus’ burial and Resurrection. In 135 A.D. the Roman Emperor Hadrian had erected an altar to Venus on this spot. Following his mother’s revelations, Constantine the Great built a large basilica, the Martyrium (witness in English). Constantine’s basilica was destroyed in the 7th century, and later rebuilt by the Crusaders in the Romanesque style. Most of the church standing today is from that period.   

Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulchre ‎Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Chapel of the Angel, itself white as an angel, contains part of the rolling stone that was used to cover the opening of the tomb. Here sat a snow-white angel and, revealing himself to Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome, told them of Jesus’ resurrection: “He is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him” ( Mark 16:6 ).