Catechism of the Catholic Church 647 O truly blessed Night,
sings the Exsultet of the Easter Vigil, which alone deserved to
know the time and the hour when Christ rose from the realm of
the dead! 512 But no one was an eyewitness to Christ's
Resurrection and no evangelist describes it. No one can say how
it came about physically. Still less was its innermost essence,
his passing over to another life, perceptible to the senses.
Although the Resurrection was an historical event that could be
verified by the sign of the empty tomb and by the reality of the
apostles' encounters with the risen Christ, still it remains at
the very heart of the mystery of faith as something that
transcends and surpasses history. This is why the risen Christ
does not reveal himself to the world, but to his disciples, "to
those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are
now his witnesses to the people." 513 English Translation of the
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