"In his book, the journalist Dimitris Alikakos presents an interview with the skeuophylax Archbishop Isidoros of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in which the former admits that the "Sleepless Candle", which himself puts into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during the morning of the Holy Saturday, is ignited by him with a lighter[1]:75[29][30]. The former (1984-1988) skeuophylax Archbishop Nikiforos makes the same acknowledgement, except that he was using matches[1]:89. In the same book, Archbishop Gerason Theofanis states that the Holy Fire does not light up in a miraculous, but in a natural way, and it is then blessed by the Patriarch. He adds: "we deceive the believers letting them believe that it is a miracle. This is unacceptable, and does not reflect well on us"[1]:86. According to Theofanis, the fraud of the "miracle" was invented by catholic crusaders a few centuries ago, and unfortunately was later continued by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate[31][32]. In addition, the Metropolitan Bishop Kornilios of Petras, surrogate of the Jerusalem Patriarchate in 2001, confirmed an older interview, saying that he also had ignited the candles of the Holy Fire with a natural candle, and he described in full detail what he saw when he entered the Church of the Holy Sepulchre[1]:101-106. Lastly, in his book, the journalist mentions the chronicle of the deletion of the word "miracle" from the official website of the Patriarchate in 23/6/2018, with the commandment of the Patriarch Theofilos III[1]:29-47. "
