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Bulgarian churches will be lighting candles with last year's Holy Fire

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At midnight, the faithful in Bulgaria will take away from the Orthodox temples part of the Holy Fire brought from Jerusalem last year. The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has decided that a church delegation will not travel to Israel this Easter due to "unfavourable circumstances"
"The Holy Fire is a great sign that God has not forgotten us, that he is with us, and as long as this fire is present, it must burn in our hearts, it must be kindled above all by our faith, and we must always keep it," father Lachezar Popov of the capital's Church of the Protection of the Mother of God told the Bulgarian National Radio. 

Every year on Holy Saturday, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem the Holy Fire falls from heaven into the hands of the Patriarch of Jerusalem. To this day, the mystery remains unsolved, although many scholars have built hypotheses.



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