What name is given to the winding route through Jerusalem from the Antonia Fortress to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?
Church of the Holy Sepulchre of free movement among shrines in the streets of the city. The dedication of these chapels indicates the importance of the pilgrims' devotion to the suffering of Christ. They have been described as 'a sort of Via Dolorosa in miniature'... since little or no rebuilding took place on the site of the great basilica. Western pilgrims to Jerusalem during the eleventh century found much of the sacred site in ruins." Control of Jerusalem, and thereby the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, continued to change hands several times between the Fatimids and the Seljuk Turks (loyal to the Abbasid caliph in
Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre supplication. A sepulchre is a burial chamber and in this case "Holy Sepulchre" refers to the burial chamber of Jesus, what is believed to be his tomb inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The history of the Brotherhood is closely linked with the history of the Church in Jerusalem which began in the Apostolic Age. Following Constantine's Peace of the Church in 313, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was founded under the patronage of St Helen, at the time of Bishop Macarius of Jerusalem. At about the same time, St Hilarion introduced monasticism in Palestine, erected the first