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Every day many faithful get up on their knees and immerse themselves in the silence of the prayer of the "sacred stairs" from Rome, 28 marble steps that according to tradition Jesus Christ ascended to be judged and that since this Thursday, for the first time in three centuriesthey are shown without the wood that protected them.
"For sixty days we can walk with our knees and touch the marble on which Jesus walked himself in the courtroom where he was tried by Pontius Pilate"said Fr Francesco Guerra, rector of the Pontifical Shrine of" Sacred Stairs ".
The marble staircase has been restored in the last two years, revealing some of his best-kept secrets, and for his open-air inauguration, he was blessed by Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Angelo De Donatis, who He sprinkled holy water with a hyssop.
Several people walk on their knees on the sacred stairs during its extraordinary opening, this Thursday at the Basilica of San Juan de Letrán, Rome (Italy) (EFE).
The steps are located in a building near but independent of Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome and they are one of the most visited places of pilgrimage in the city.
These original marble steps will be accessible until June 9, 2019, the feast of Pentecost, after which their walnut cladding, sought by Pope Innocent XIII in 1723 to protect them, will be repositioned. / AP
According to an ancient tradition, Jesus ascended this staircase in the Praetorian palace of Jerusalem where he was condemned to death and was transferred to Rome in 326 AD by order of St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, who in 313, under the edict of Milan, legalized Christianity and made it the official religion of the empire after centuries of persecution.
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A story that "remains under the veil of tradition", as recognized by Paolo Violini, restorer of the Vatican Museums, who is responsible for cleaning this relic.
D & # 39; First the stairway was in a portico outside the Lateranens Palacepapal seat in front of the Vatican, but it's Sixto V who in 1589, he ordered to build a specific building to house it considering his veneration already widespread.
The Vatican discovered for the first time in three hundred years what are called the sacred stairs, for which, according to tradition, Jesus of Nazareth rose to be judged. EFE / Alessandro Di Meo
It consists of twenty-eight white marble steps which lead to the "Sancta Sanctorum", a small chapel where the pontiffs were gathered in prayer until the Middle Ages, extremely rich in relics and It can only be observed by a thick grid.
There is no Catholic pilgrim who does not go through the "Scala Santa" during his trip to Rome and many of whom are raise her on her knees to get back the indulgence of her sins.
The Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Angelo De Donatis, knelt to inaugurate the restored Sacred Staircase (Scala Sancta), which, according to the Catholic Church, is the stairway through which Jesus is mounted to lead him on the path of crucifixion to Rome. / AP
But from today and over the next 60 days until Pentecost, they will do it in addition walk on the original marblebecause the walnut slats that covered and protected it from 1723, on the orders of Pope Innocent XIII, were removed for restoration.
View of the tomb of Jesus Christ in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, in the Old City of Jerusalem (EFE).
His discovery aroused great interest among the faithful, who pressed to the doors of the building to be the first to touch the marble, provided that plastic bags on the feet to prevent stainsespecially on this rainy day in Rome.
By removing the boards that protected these steps were revealed fascinating secrets, as the presence of three crosses where it is believed that drops of Christ's blood have fallen: one in bronze on the last step, another in red marble in the first and another in the eleventh, where it is said that Jesus stumbled and broke the stone.
Pope Francis on the ground on the occasion of the celebration of the Pbadion of Christ on Good Friday in the Basilica of San Pedro (EFE).
But that also helped to discover a huge amount of coins, bills and letters with prayers, fears, desires and concerns that for years the faithful tended through the wood slits and this will now be properly studied, said Vatican Museums Director Barbara Jatta.
These original marble steps will be accessible until June 9, 2019, the feast of Pentecost, after which their walnut cladding, commissioned by Pope Innocent XIII in 1723, will protect them.
What draws the most attention from this staircase is precisely the form that marble has acquired, distorted by the pbadage of thousands and thousands of faithful during its unpublished history, to the point that the stone of some bars is shown perforated.
A Christian tourist prays in solitude in the part of the Church of the Nativity in which was the manger where Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, in the West Bank (EFE).
The restoration of the "sacred stairs" and the wood that covered it is only part of a much larger project to improve the whole complex launched since 2000 to clean it, especially its rich frescoes damaged and even cracked. .
Several people walk on their knees on the sacred stairs during their extraordinary opening on Thursday at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. EFE / Alessandro Di Meo
Specially The pictorial cycles of the walls and the vault were which delimit the staircase, which served for centuries of "Biblia pauperum", the book of the poor, because They illustrated the illiterate faithful on the various biblical pbadages.
This work also revealed other surprises such as a lot of graffiti, paintings canceled by the desire of a pontiff and even a scribble with which one of the painters who decorated the building left his portrait improvised for posterity.
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