Descending stairs to the Tomb of Theotokos

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The most-pure body of the Mother of God was buried in the family tomb. Christians honored the sepulcher of the Mother of God, and they built a church on this spot in Gethsemane, Jerusalem, near the tomb of Her holy parents, Joachim and Anna.

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