The rite to open the Holy Door — sealed since the extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy in 2016 — included the proclamation of a passage from the Gospel of John in which Jesus says: “I am the door.

The Holy Doors are located within the basilicas and are ceremoniously sealed shut from the inside at the end of each Jubilee year, to only be opened again at the official ceremony for the start of ...

which will then be bricked up and sealed. The prison door is a hypothetical Holy Door. As the Pope will walk through the main door as 'a symbol of all the prisons dispersed throughout the world.' ...