Fascinating is the research of Dimitris Alikakos. The clear and thoroughly documented answers provided by the researcher to the critical questions -when? where? how? who? why?- are not just some opinions added to those that have existed for a long time. They emerged from systematic and fair scrutiny of the facts and from his repeated interactions with the protagonists of a miracle that has the characteristics of a drama. Alikakos does not operate with the arrogance of a debunker. He honors and respects, but prefers the bitter truth over the sweet and very popular falsehood. His research is captivating for the reader and simultaneously disillusioning for the practitioners of the regular miracle in Jerusalem, who understand faith as superstition.

Pantelis Boukalas

However, if it is a common secret in the Holy Sepulchre Brotherhood that the lighting of the holy fire is the work of man, the exact way in which the lighting is done remained a secret for a few. Even people high in the church hierarchy of the Brotherhood are unaware of it. Dimitris Alikakos' book, with impeccable journalistic ethics, calmly and without fanaticism, also solves this secret.

Stavros Zouboulakis