COMMENT:
... the Mother of God was the first person to receive from the Lord the Good News
of the Resurrection, and she saw him risen and had the joy of his divine words
before anyone else. She not only beheld him with her eyes and heard him with
her ears, but was the first and only person to touch with her hands his most
pure feet. If the Evangelists do not say all this openly it is because they do
not want to put forward his Mother as a witness, lest they give unbelievers
grounds for suspicion. (Saint Gregory Palamas).
The Meditation from St. Gregory Palamas vividly reminded me in visits to the Franciscan Church in the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem. It waked me to find the photos and the details. Terra Santa obliges us to the amazing Website, below.
Search 4c. the Apocryphal Gospel of Gamiliel.
Mary at the Fourth Station, the Pieta at the Thirteenth Station, the Mother of God ...of the Resurrection, ...
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Since that time
the Franciscan friars have occupied the Chapel of
the Apparition of the risen Jesus to his Mother. Fra Niccolò da Poggibonsi, who
visited the Holy ...
http://www.holysepulchre.custodia.org/default.asp?id=4116
Chapel of the Apparition of Jesus to his
Mother
“Then Jesus said to Mary:
‘You have shed enough tears. He who was crucified is alive and speaks to you
and consoles you, it is he whom you are seeking, it is he who is wearing the
heavenly purple. He whose tomb you seek is the one who has shattered the bronze
doors and liberated the prisoners from Hell.’” (Apocryphal Gospel of Gamiliel)
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| Chapel of the Apparition |
Known as the Chapel of the
Blessed Sacrament or the Chapel of the Apparition of Jesus to his Mother, it
commemorates an event narrated in the apocryphal “Book of the Resurrection of
Christ by Bartholomew the Apostle”.
The chapel has existed since the 11th century restoration of Constantine Monomachus, and was restored during the 1980s by the Franciscans. It is adorned with a modern bronze statue of the Stations of the Cross by Father Andrea Martini.
To the right of the altar is the Column of the Flagellation, a piece of the red porphyry column, venerated for centuries by the Latin faithful in the Upper Room in Jerusalem, brought to this location in 1553 by Father Custos Boniface of Ragusa.
The chapel has existed since the 11th century restoration of Constantine Monomachus, and was restored during the 1980s by the Franciscans. It is adorned with a modern bronze statue of the Stations of the Cross by Father Andrea Martini.
To the right of the altar is the Column of the Flagellation, a piece of the red porphyry column, venerated for centuries by the Latin faithful in the Upper Room in Jerusalem, brought to this location in 1553 by Father Custos Boniface of Ragusa.
Chapel of the Apparition
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| 4. Jesus meets hid mother |
13. Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross. The Pieta
http://www.holysepulchre.custodia.org/default.asp?id=4116&ricerca=apparition#b264
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