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Alessio Romenzi

A row of nuns hold their candles at a Holy Fire service.

Catholic members of the clergy leave the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

A Christian pilgrim proceeds to the Holy Sepulchre, which is believed to be the original site of crucifixion and then burial of Jesus.

The roof of the Edicule–and above it, the window in the ceiling of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre–are pictured through the smoke of the Holy Fire ceremony.

A Christian pilgrim kisses a wooden cross as she mourns the death of Jesus.

An Orthodox nun takes a picture of the Edicule with her mobile phone.

A Christian pilgrim carries a wooden cross inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. The red ribbon tied around the representation of Jesus on the cross may represent the red vestment he is said to have worn when crowned with thorns on the day of his crucifixion.

Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Tawadros II, presides over an Ethiopian Orthodox ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Orthodox Christians clean the inside of the Edicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

An Orthodox pilgrim stands in the light coming from a window of the Holy Sepulchre right after the Holy Fire ceremony.