1. Principal Door. 4. Tombof Oodfrey. 6. Tomb of Bal.lwin.
6. Tomb of Mplrhizedek.
7. Ctiaf.el of Adam and John the Bap
list.
8. Tomb of Adam.
11. PI
the Virtrin Mary stood while the Body was anointed.
Gronnd-plnn of the Church of the Iloly Sepulchre.
13. Chapel of the Anirel.
17. Tombs of Soseph and Nicode-
19. Oreek " Centre of the World."
27. Where Christ appeared to Mary
Mapdalene.
28. Where Mary Magdalene stood. 30. Part of the Pillar of Flagella- tion.
32. Where Christ appeared to his Mother after the resurrec- tion.
33. Place of the recognition of the
Cross. ,15. Place of Christ's Bonds. 36. Chapel of the Virgin. 38. Chapel of Lonj^nus the Centu-
39. Chapel of the Mockinff.
41. Chapel of St. Helena.
42. Chapel of the Penitent Thief.
44. Chapel of the Finding of the
Cross.
45. Stairs to Golfrotha.
46. Place of the Cross.
47. Chapel of Our Lady of SoP
SEPULCHRE
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SEPULCHRE
3. Tlitlii Objects in Detail.— Leaving for a moment the throng that is constantly pressing at the door of the sepulchre, let us make the tour of the church, be- ginning from the south-west and proceeding by the north to the east, and so round to our starting-point. The church, be it observed, faces the four cardinal points.
The first object we have to notice is an iron circular railing, in the shape of a large parrot's cage, having within it a lamp, and marking the spot where Mary watche* the crucifixion "afar off." In the arcades round the Latin dome are small chapels for the Syrians, Maronites, and other sects of Christians, who have not, like the Catholics, Greeks, and Armenians, large chapels in the body of the church. The poor Copts have noth- ing but a nook, about six feet square, in the western end of the sepulchre, which is tawdrily adorned in the man- ner of the Greeks. The Syrians have a small and very shabby recess, containing nothing but a plain altar; in the side there is a small door opening to a dark gallery, which leads, as the monks say, to the tombs of Joseph and Nicodemus, between which and that of the Saviour there is a subterranean communication. The tombs are excavated in the rock which here forms the tioor of the chamber.
Farther on, and nearly in range of the front of the sepulchre, is a large opening, forming a sort of court to the entrance of the Latin Chapel. On one side is a gallery containing a fine organ; and the chapel itself is neat enough, and differs but little from thuse in tlie churches of Italy. The chapel ni which the organ stands is called the " Chapel of the Apparition, where Christ appeared to the Virgin. Witliin the door on the right, in an enclosure completely hidden from view, is the Pillar of Flagellation, to which our Saviour was tied when he was scourged, before being taken into the presence of Pontius Pilate As in this instance tiie hol^^ ob- ject cannot be reached by the lips of the faithful, it is deemed equally efficacious to kiss it through another medium. A monk stands near the rail, an i, touching the pillar with a long stick that has a piece of leather at the point of it, like a billiard- cue, stretches it towards the lips that are ready pouting to re- ceive it. Only half the pillar is here ; the other half is in one of the churclies in Rome, where may also be seen the table on which our Saviour ate his 1 ist supper with his disciples, an 1 the stone on which the cock crowed when Peter denied his Master.
Leaving the Ciiapel of the Apparition and turning to the left with our faces due east, we have on the right hand the outside of the Greek Chapel, which occupies the largest space in the body of the church, and on the left is a range of chapels and doors, the first of which leads to the prison where they say our Saviour was confined before he was led to the crucifixion. In front of the door is an unintelli- gible machine, described as the stone on which he was placed when put in the stocks.
In the semicircle at the eastern part of the church there are three chapels : one of these contains the stone on which our Lord rested previously to ascending Mount Calvary ; another is the place where the soldiers parted his raiment among them; and the third marks the spot where Longinus, the soldier who pierced his side, passed the remainder of his days in penance. Beneath one of the altars lies a stone having a hole through it, and placed in a short trough, so that it seems impossible for anything but a spectre to pass through the hole. Nev- ertheless, the achievement was a customary penance among the Greeks, and called by them "purgatory;" but latterly the Turks have in mercy guarded the stone by an iron grating.
In this part also is the entrance to one of the most holy places in the church, the Chapel of the Cross. De- scending twenty-eight broad marble steps, the visitor comes to a large chamber eighteen paces sipiare, dimly lighted by a few distant lamps ; the roof is supported l)y four short columns with enormous capitals. In front of the steps is the altar, and on the right a seat on which the empress Helena, advised by a dream where the true cross was to be found, sat and watched the workmen who were digging below. Descending again fourteen steps, another chamber is reached, darker and more dimly lighted than tiie first, and hung with faded red tapes- try; a marble slab, having on it a figure of the cross, covers the mouth of the pit in which the true cross was found.