Christ’s Prison Re-Opened for Veneration of the Faithful
The chapel in the room where Christ was imprisoned by the Roman soldiers before His crucifixion reopened in the end of January 2019 after being closed for major reparations.
This place of worship located near the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem waited several years before being restored after a large amount of damage was caused by a fire.
The chapel that is once again open to pilgrims is located in the part of the Holy Sepulcher that is under the protection of the autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church. By virtue of the 1852 Status Quo, five Christian confessions besides the Catholic Church share—on sometimes conflictual terms—the responsibility of caring for the tomb of Christ.
“It was in this prison that Jesus was arrested after having carried the Cross on the Via Dolorosa,” declared a Greek Orthodox leader to the AFP on February 8, 2019. The chapel has two holes dug into the rock that were used, tradition would have it, to bind the feet of Our Lord.
These two holes have been covered by a glass pane with an icon representing the bound feet and hands of the Savior.
Sources: AFP / FSSPX.News – 2/16/2019
