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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
" Column of the Derision," a fragment of a granite column on which Christ is said to have sat
when he was crowned with thorns and mocked by those that stood near. In the same chapel
is also kept a crown of thorns, made from the species of shrub which is supposed by tradition
to have been that which supplied the original crown. Between the two last-mentioned chapels
PILGRIMS OF THE GREEK CHURCH BUYING CANDLES,
To be lighted by the " Holy Fire " in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, at the celebration of the Easter Festival.
a flight of steps leads down from the east aisle to the Chapel of Helena, a portion of the
church which does not seem to have suffered during the fire (see page 19). The chapel is
divided into three aisles by four stunted columns with heavy-looking capitals, which carry a
dome that rises above the level of the courtyard of the Abyssinian Monastery, and gives light
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
" Column of the Derision," a fragment of a granite column on which Christ is said to have sat
when he was crowned with thorns and mocked by those that stood near. In the same chapel
is also kept a crown of thorns, made from the species of shrub which is supposed by tradition
to have been that which supplied the original crown. Between the two last-mentioned chapels
PILGRIMS OF THE GREEK CHURCH BUYING CANDLES,
To be lighted by the " Holy Fire " in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, at the celebration of the Easter Festival.
a flight of steps leads down from the east aisle to the Chapel of Helena, a portion of the
church which does not seem to have suffered during the fire (see page 19). The chapel is
divided into three aisles by four stunted columns with heavy-looking capitals, which carry a
dome that rises above the level of the courtyard of the Abyssinian Monastery, and gives light