Examples of use of Holy Fire
1. Tens of thousands of worshippers packed the Old City on Saturday to observe the ‘holy fire’ ritual.
2. During last year‘s holy fire ritual, tempers flared as thousands of people waited to pass through security barricades into the Old City.
3. According to tradition, the holy fire descends from the sky onto the burial site of Jesus, at a time when the Greek Orthodox Patriarch and a representative of the Armenian Orthodox church are in the chamber.
4. The holy fire‘‘ is passed among worshippers outside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and is taken aboard special flights to Athens and other cities – connecting many of the 200 million Orthodox worldwide to their spiritual roots.
5. The mood was sombre at the south Kolkata venue of the yagna, where priests chanted mantras in front of a holy fire as admirers of the star of the millennium prayed for his recovery.