Holy Sepulchre

British

noun

New Testament the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion

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Last month, there was an international outcry after Israeli police prevented the top Roman Catholic leader in Jerusalem from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for a private mass on Palm Sunday.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

AFP journalists at the scene saw the damage just a few hundred metres from Jerusalem's revered holy sites of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

It is why Vice President JD Vance insisted that he visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during a recent trip to Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Earlier Sunday, Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre — revered as the site of Jesus’s crucifixion — also held a service.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2024

Elizabeth, the earl of Essex, George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, and Cromwell, is now a nunnery of the order of the Holy Sepulchre.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

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