The research by Dimitris Alikakos is fascinating. The clear answers, fully substantiated, that the researcher provides to the crucial questions -when? where? how? who? why?- are not just opinions that add to those existing from the past.

They arise from a systematic and fair examination of the facts and from his numerous encounters with the protagonists of a miracle that has the characteristics of a drama. Alikakos does not operate with the arrogance of a dogmatist. He honors and respects, but prefers the bitter truth to the sweet and highly popular falsehood.

His research is gripping for the reader, yet simultaneously demystifying for the practitioners of the regular miracle in Jerusalem, who understand faith as superstition.

However, while it is a common secret in the Holy Sepulchre Brotherhood that the touch of the Holy Light is a work of man, the exact manner in which the touch occurs remained indeed a secret for a few. Even those high in the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the Brotherhood are unaware of it.

The book by Dimitris Alikakos, with impeccable journalistic ethics, calms, unobtrusively, and substantively, resolves this secret as well.