Mount of Olives. Next - the Garden of Gethsemane and the tomb of St. Marii.Reportazh browser AiF of the Holy City on Christmas Eve: go through the Saviour to Calvary, even now, was not so easy.
"For many years we put security there, but people still come. Please provide me some fifty soldiers, to increase the cordon on the mountain. " This letter is a Roman officer Lucius Antoninus sent to the prefect of the province in 1972 by. er. The soldier immediately identified, but it did not help.

Pal nicknames ask: what they are worse than the Ethiopians?

... kneeling, an elderly woman with trembling lips touch the cold stone slab, and the already polished by tens of millions of kisses.
- I myself from Saratov. Came the second time, I want to thank. Hurt very much, knowing people are advised to "worship».

«First was a clinic nearby, because they kiss the stone, and those who are ill infectious diseases - reported me in the press department of the Medical Service of the city. - But now doctors have been removed. Over the past fifty years has not been a single case that someone is somehow caught ».
In a corner of the giant building - a modest structure by a small dome, surrounded by dozens of flickering lights. Especially the oversight of people extinguish the candles burned on the third and take them out of the candlesticks, otherwise there will be room for new ones. At the entrance is languishing crowd - visitors came from Donetsk.

- In what garbage ... They say, and sandwiches are not allowed, and I bought a Shawarma.
Crunchy pickled onions guy shoves his greasy parcel companion.
- Svetlana, and hold little ... I am right now - have a look and back.
Svetlana did not hear. She is keen on chewing the Orbita and cell phones.
- What? No, Oksana, in the shopping center was not yet, everything is on some graves carry.

hunched up, people get into the low doorway . Svetlana remains outside and shrilly contend with a monk, because she wanted to go with chewing gum and constantly trezvonyaschim phone inside, but it somehow did not want to start.
In protecting the small chapel on-site cave where the apostles laid the body is removed from the cross of Jesus, gaining only a stalwart monks, because the situation may be different. I saw myself as Polish pilgrims went to the tomb of a breakthrough: they say, they have half an hour later the bus leaves. However, the Fathers, his hands clasped, stood a wall - men thrust into the breast, women rubbed shoulders. The Poles tried to take a number, but to overcome the "cordon" and could not.

The very cross ...

Perhaps this olive remembers taking Jesus into custody. ... the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem - the most important and sacred place for Christians around the world. It is believed that each year it is visited by nearly two million people. The huge church was built in the XII century on top of Golgotha