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

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TRAVELS IN ASIATIC TURKEY,
lem, which is marked by
a broken column, and an olive-tree; the
cottage of St. Pelasgia, the penitent, who came to Aniioch in the
dies:, of a man, and taking the name of Pelasgius, led there a
monastic life.
About half a mile from Jerusalem, near the tombs of the kings
of the Jews, towards Siloe, is seen the execrable place where the
sacrilegious Judas, after having sold Jesus, hanged himself. Two
miles from the Mount of Olives, stands Bcthana, where are the
vestiges of the house of Mary Magdalene and Martha, and the
tomb where Lazarus their brother was buried and raised to lite
agaki. Not far from this place is Beth/age, upon a hill, where,
by the desire of our Saviour, the apostles brought him an ass, upon
which he gloriously entered Jerusalem, on Palm-day, by the gol-
den where there is now a wall.
gate,
On Mount Sion, is seen the cenaculum, or supper-room, where
the Holy Ghost descended upon the apostles; where the Saviour
appeared to them after the resurrection, and washed their feet; and
where he also appeared to St. Thomas. The place where St. Mat-
thias was elected an apostle, in the room of Judas, and the tomb of
David who lived seventy years and six months, are also to be seen
there. At a short distance from Mount Sion is the house where the
Virgin Mary lived after
neatly twenty-four years
sion, and where, according
her son's ascen-
to tradition, she died. Near this is the
chapel of St. John the Evangelist. Entering at the gate
called Sterguillina,
you come to a little grotto, where Peter wept, after ha-
ving denied Christ. Farther on is the. house of Anna, the highpriest,
where Jesus was led bound, and where the ungrateful Mal-
co, servant of the high-priest, who had been healed but a little before,
gave the Saviour a blow: this place belongs
to the Armenians.
Near it is seen an olive-tree, to which Christ was bound,
and the palace of Caiphas, the high-priest. There St. Helen built
a church, and the Armenians the convent which they now oc-
cupy. In a corner of the church, on the right of the great altar,
h the prison where Christ remained a whole night. Near the
door of the church, on the right, under a portico, is the place
where the maid said to Peter, " and this man was likewise
with him," and the place where Peter thrice denied Christ, on
which there is a tree, as a mark of it. There is likewise a place
called the cock crow* because the cock crowed on that spot, and re-
minded Peter of the denial.