[1] المرجع الرئيسي للشهادات التاريخية: H. Sarlikidis, The Holy Fire, Elaia Editions, Athens, 2011 مع تحديد رقم الصفحة، ولكنّ نذكر المرجع الأصلي (c. ref.) ، لكي يتمّكن القارئ من العودة إليه إن رغب بذلك.
[2] Ibid. p. 17
[3] Ibid. p.97, c. ref. B.Ward, Miracles and the Medieval Mind, London, 1987
[4] Ibid. p. 21, c. ref. Tactitus, Histories, 5.13, the Loeb classical Library, Cambridge, Mass. 1981
[5] Ibid. p. 22, c. ref. C. Papadopoulos, History Of the Church of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 1910, p. 42
[6]Ibid. p. 26, c. ref. Eusebius, History of Church, 4.6
[7] بشكل باسيليك
[8] Ibid. p. 42, c. ref. Egeria’s Travels 47:3, trans. J.Wilkinson, Warminster, 1999
[9] Ibid. pp. 34 - 38
[10] عملياً، يطفئ نور القنديل كل سبت عظيم قبل البدء برتبة نور القبر المقدسّ، ثم يضاء تلقائياً من نور القبر الإلهي غير المخلوق عندما يشعّ من القبر
[11] Ibid p. 42, c. ref. Egeria’s Travels 47:3; trans. J. Wilkinson, Warminster, 1999
[12] Ibid. p. 44, c. ref. Gregory of Nyssa, On the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, ed. J.P. Migne, Patrologia Graeca (PG), 46.636
[13] Ibid. p. 44, يوحنا الدمشقي، كتاب المعّزي
[14] Ibid. p. 45, c. ref. John of Damascus, Oration On the Holy Saturday, ed. J.P. Migne, PG 96, p. 628
[15] Ibid. p. 46, c. ref. J. Magness, “Illuminating Byzantine Jerusalem, Oil Lamps Shed Light On Early Christian Worship”, Biblical Archeological Review, 24102 (March/April 1998), pp. 40-47
[16] Ibid. p. 50, c. ref. Kiriakos Ganjakets’i’s, History of the Armenians, 11.2, ed. and trans. R. Bedrosian, NY 1986
[17] Ibid. p. 52, c. ref. مخطوطاتIviron Codex 381 (in Russian), MS Sinai 544 (in Greek), Sinai Arabic MS 538 (in Arabic)
[18] Ibid. p. 54, c. ref. مخطوطCodex Paris Arab. 5866 (fol 237)
[19] Ibid. p. 57, c. ref. مخطوطMS Mattei 303, fols. 98v – 99r; Library of the Moscow Patriarchate
[20]Ibid. p. 58, c. ref. مخطوط MS Paris supl. Arabe 1483
[21]Ibid. p. 60, c. ref. مخطوطMS Ahmad Taymur 103 (c. 1389), National Library of Egypt
[22] Ibid. p. 78, c. ref. I.J. Karchkovsky, “Le ‘feu beni’, d’apres le recit d’Al Biruni et d’autres ecrivains musulmans du X au XIII siecles », Proches Orient Chretien 19 (1999)
[23] Ibid. p. 82, c. ref. Ibn Al-Qalanisi, History of Damscus, ed. H.F. Amedroz, Beirut 1908
[24] Ibid. p. 91, c. ref. مخطوطMS Phillips 1870, fols 87r, 87v (Berlin)
[25] Ibid. p. 92, c. ref. مخطوط Codex Paris lat. 10912, 11th c.
[26] Ibid. p. 102, c. ref. S. Runciman, A History of the Crusades, Cambridge 1951-4, vol. 3
[27] Ibid p. 106, c. ref. C.W. Wilson, The Pilgrimage of the Russian Abbot Daniel in the Holy Land 1106-1107, London 1888
[28] Ibid. pp. 155-165, مراجع عدّة
[29] Ibid. p. 173, c. ref. T. Gale, vol. II, Itinerary of Richard I, Oxford 1687
[30] Ibid. p. 207, c. ref. Proskynitarion of Jerusalem and the Other Holy Places, 1608-1637, ed. A. Papadopoulos - Kerameus
[31] Ibid. pp. 211-216
[32] Ibid. pp. 217-241
[33] Ibid. p. 148
[34] Ibid. pp. 150-154
[35] من المؤكد أنّ القديس كان شاهداً لأعجوبة نورالقبر المقدّس بما أنه كان راهباً في دير القديس سابا القريب
[36] Ibid. p. 186, c. ref. John VI Kantakouzanos, Third Apology, ed. J.P. Migne, PG 154