Travels in Turkey, Asia Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt ...

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TRAVELS IN ASIATIC TURKEY,
pel of St. Helen was, as well as the other places,
by the Armenians. St. Helen lived eighty years
stolen from us
: she was buried
in one of the churches of Rome.
Under the holy Mount Calvary is the Chapel of Adam, where,
as authors say, the head of Adam was buried by Shem the son of
Noah, after the deluge. This belongs to the Greeks. At a little
distance from it, is the place where the holy women stood whilst
our Saviour was crucified, and likewise the place where they sat
down. Behind the holy sepulchre is the monument of Joseph of
Arimathea, who earnestly requested of Pilate the
holy body of
•Jesus: this belongs to the Armenians.
Near the door of the church you ascend eleven steps, and come
to the chapel of St. Mary of Calvary, where the blessed Virgin
stood with St. John the Evangelist, when the Jews crucified our
Saviour, and where we perform mass every day.
In the road lead-
ing to the garden of Gethsemane, called the Mournful Way, are
seen the place where the Lord fell under the weight of the cross,
which he carried on his shoulders ; the palace of Pilate, within
which is the tribunal where the Saviour was scourged, and given
into the hands of the Jews to be crucified ;
and also the place where
they bound him to the column, and crowned him with a crown of
thorns, saying to him "Hail! King of the Jews." Without is
likewise the place where he was ; scourged together with the arch
where Pilate shewed him to the "
people, saying Behold the man."
In the court-yard of the palace is the place where the soldiers spoil-
ed him of the purple, and dressed him again in his own garments,
giving him the cross to carry.
At a short distance from the arch before-mentioned, is the place
where the Virgin Mary met her son. Pursuing the road to Geth-
semane, you meet with a mosque near the gate of St. Stephen,
where the Virgin Mary was born. Without the gate is the place
where St. Stephen was stoned by the Jews, and near to it, the cis-
tern, into which they say his body was thrown. The church of the
Virgin Mary is next seen. Having descended forty-eight steps,
you view the altar or sepulchre, whence she was taken up into hea-
ven bv the angels. About ninety years ago this was taken away
from us by the Greeks. Within the church are the tombs of St.
Ann, St. Joseph, and St- Ja)nes. At a short distance from the
church is the grotto, in which our Saviour sweated blood. Near
the grotto is the garden in which he was taken. In this garden are
rght olive-trees, which according to tradition, were there in [