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repealed a prayer : Demine Jem CJ&iste, 
qui in hard diet vesvertind de criu^e depd- 
sUus, in brac'hiis d'ulcmima lilntris fuc 
rrcUnatos fuisti, hordqne ultima in hoc 
sancfismno monumerdo corpus tuum e.v^ 
anime contulisti, he. Al! I can say is, 
tliat, vviien I beheld this triumphant se¬ 
pulchre, I felt r.otl'in^ but my own 
weakness; an.d that, when my guide ex¬ 
claimed with St. Paul, “ O death, 
wd)ere is thy victory ! "O grave, where is 
ti'.y sting!” 1 listened as if death were 
about to reply that lie was conquered, 
and enchained in this monument. 
We visited all the stations till we came 
to the summit of Calvary. Wliere sinill 
we look in antiquity for any thing so im¬ 
pressive, so wonderful, as the last scenes 
described by the Evangelists? These 
are -not the absurd adventures of a deity 
foreign to human nature : it is the most 
pathetic history —a history, which not 
only extorts tears by its beauty, but 
x'Aiose consequences, applied to the uni¬ 
verse, liave changed tlie face of the 
earth. I hadjust beheld the monoments 
of Greece, and my mind was still pro¬ 
foundly impressed with their grandeur; 
Lutjrow far inferior were the sensations 
wliich they excited to those which I felt 
at the s’ght of the places commemorated 
in the Gospel! 
OTHEK SACRED PLACES. 
I returned to the, convent at eleven 
o’clock, and an hour afterwards I again 
left it to follow the Via Dolorosa. This 
is the name given to the way by which 
the Saviour of the world passed from the 
residence of Pilate to Calvary. 
Pilate's house is a ruin, from which you 
survey the extensive site of Solomon’s 
Temple, and the mosque erected on that 
site. The governor or Jerusalem form¬ 
erly resided .in tiiis building, but at pre- 
scTit these ruins serve only for stabling 
for his horses. 
Christ, having been scourged with rods, 
crowned wiih thorns, and dressed in a 
purple robe, was presented.to the Jews 
by Pilate. Dece Homo ! exclaimed the 
judge ; and you still see the window from 
which these memorable words were pro¬ 
nounced. 
According to the tradition current 
among tlie Latins at Jerusalem, the 
crown of Jesus Christ was taken from 
the thorny tree, called Li/cium spinoswn. 
Ilasselquest, a skilful botanist, is, how¬ 
ever, of opinion, that the nahka of the 
Arabs was employed for that purpose. 
Another tradition at Jerusalem pre¬ 
serves the sentence pronounced by Pi¬ 
late on the Saviour of the world, in these 
words: 
Jesum NazareniDiif subversorem gentis, 
coniemptorem Ccesaris, et fahum itfes- 
sioin, ut raujorum sure gentis testimonio 
qnobatten esf, ducite ad communis sup- 
plicii locum, et eum ludibriis regia ma- 
jesfatis in medio diioru?n latronum cruci 
affigite. I, lictor, expedi cruces. 
A hundred paces from the arch of the 
Ecce Homo, I was shewn on the left the 
ruins of a church formerly dedicated to 
Our Lady of Grief. It was on this spot 
that i\Jaiv, who had been at first driven 
away by the guards, met her son bend¬ 
ing beneath the weight of the cross. 
Eighteen centuries of persecutions with¬ 
out end, of incessant revolutions, of 
continually increasing ruins, have not 
been able to erase or to hide the traces 
of a mother going to weep over her 
son. 
Fifty paces farther we came to the spot 
where Simon, the Cyrenean, assisted 
Jesus to bear his cross. 
Here the road, which before ran east 
and west, makes an angle, and turns to 
the north. 1 saw on the right the 
place where dwelt the indigent Lazarus, 
and, on tlie opposite side of the street, 
the residence of the obdurate rich 
man. 
The distance from the Judicial Gate 
to the summit of Calvary, is about two 
hundred paces. Here terminates the 
Via Dolorosa, which may be in the whole 
about a mile in length. If those who 
read the history of the. Passion in the 
gospels are overcome with sacred melan¬ 
choly and profound admiration, what 
must be his feelings who traces the 
scenes themselves at the foot of Mount 
Sion, in sight of the Temple, and within 
the very walls of Jerusalem ? 
After this description of the Via Doh- 
rosa, and the church of the Holy Sepul¬ 
chre, I shall say very little concerning 
tl:e other places of devotion in the city. 
I shall merely enumerate them in the 
Older in which tiiev were visited by me, 
during my stay at .lerusalem. 
1. The house of Anna, the priest, near 
David’s Gate, at tlie foot of jMount 
Sion, witlrin the wall of the city. The 
Armenians possess the church erected on 
the ruins of this house. 
2. The place where our Saviour ap¬ 
peared to Mary ^Magdalen, Mary, the 
mother of James, and Mary Salome, 
between the castle and the gate of Mount 
Sion, 
S. The 
