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Travels into the Levant. 
Part r 
The Door of 
the Church 
of St. Sepul- 
chre. 
The Chappel 
of the Appa- 
rition. 
Pillar of Fla- 
gellation 
Prifon of our 
Lord. 
Mount CaJ- 
•vary. 
Stone of 
1)nàicn, 
there were eighteen Bells in it. After that, you come to the Door of the 
Church, which is ftately and Magnificent ^ having over it many Figures in 
Bafs-Reiief, reprefenting feveral facred Hiftories. This Door is always fhut, 
and fealed up with the Baftia's Seal, unlefs when fome Pilgrims or Relic^ious 
Perfons are to enter into it, and then the Turks open it, and immediately fliut 
it again. There are three holes in this Door, two whereof are but fmall 
and made on purpofe that they who are within may fpeak through them to 
thofe that are v/ithout, and the third bigger to let in Victuals to fuch as ftay 
within ; but there is a Bar of Iron crofs.it, to hinder any frohi entring in that 
way, there is another Door clofe by this, but it is Walled up. Betwixt thefé 
two Doors there is a kind of Stone-bench, where the Turks that keep the 
Door fit. So foon as we were within the Church of St. Sepulchre, we went 
to the Chappel of the Apparition, fo called, becaufe they fay our Lord appear- 
ed firil; in that place to the BlefTed Virgin his Mother, immediately after his 
glorious Refurredion. Here the Monks put themfelves and the Pilgrims in 
order of Procelfion, every Monk had a Wax-Taper given him, and a Book 
containing proper Prayers for every itation. We began our Proceffion before 
the Pillar of Flagellation, and having there fung the Prayers proper for that 
ftation, we went two and two to the Prifon of our Lord, where the proper 
Prayers for that place were fung ; then to the Chappel of the parting of his 
Garments. We next went down to the Chappel of St. Helerij and from 
thence ( without flopping ) to the Chappel of the Invention of the Crofs • 
having there fung the Prayers, we came up again to the Chappel of St. Helen, 
where having made the ftation, we afcended into the Church again, and there 
went to tha Chappel of Exprvhration, from thence to Mount Calvary, where 
having performed our ilation, we came down again from that holy place, and 
went to the Stone of the VnEtion, then to the holy Sepulchre, and turned 
thrice round it j then entred into it, and having there ( as in all other places) 
fung the proper Prayers for the place, we returned to the Chappel of the Ap- 
parition, where we made the laft ftation before the holy Sacrament, and there 
we ended our Proceffion, by the Litanies of the Blefled Virgin. When that 
was over, every one had liberty to go and perform his Devotions where he 
pleafed, and view all the works and corners of that Church ; of which I fhall 
give a little Defcription hereafter. 
Next day being Palm-Sunday, the fourteenth of jifril, every one of us recei- 
ved a Palm Branch, bleffed upon the holy Sepulchre, from the hand of the 
reverend Father CommifTary, who afterwards fung aMafsupon an Altar made 
on purpofe before the holy Sepulchre -, we had there a Monk, who played upon 
a little Organ, purpofely brought thither, which exceedingly delighted all the 
Turks, and Oriental Chriftians, who much wondered,how by the motion of the 
Fingers, one could make fo fweet an Harmony. At the end of Mafs, we all 
received the Communion , from the hands of the reverend Father Com- 
millary, and then went to Dinner in the Convent of St. Saviour. 
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