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Title: A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Jacob, Robert Urie
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, The J. C. Winston co
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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er leading us to another part of the church.Here the Lord appeared to Mary, His mother, after theResurrection. In a niche beside the high altar is a holein the wall. If you hold your taper up to it you maysee within the wall a part of the column to which theSavior was bound during the Flagellation. You maytouch the sacred column with this round stick, providedfor the purpose, if you wish to do so. The stick, beingworn smooth by the numberless kisses that have beenpressed upon it by the pilgrims after touching the holycolumn, can do it no harm. In a vestibule outside the chapel a star in the marblefloor marks the place where Christ appeared to MaryMagdalene after the Resurrection, and a second stara few feet beyond marks the spot where Mary stoodwhen she recognized the risen Lord. We passed from the rotunda into the Church of theCrusaders or Greek Church, through a wide openingdirectly opposite the door of the Holy Sepulchre. Inthis large chapel the walls and ceilings, the seats of the
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THE VERY STONES HIS SACRED FEET HAVE PRESSED. (233) 234 ^ TRIP TO THE ORIENT. choir, the high altar, and the seat of the Patriarch inthe rear of the altar, are composed of precious woodsbeautifully carved and ornamented with gold and silverand jewels. Hundreds of superb golden and silverlamps, varying in form and design, hang suspendedfrom the ceiling at various heights. In the centre ofthe chapel, standing in the middle of a fancifully designedcircle on the checkered marble floor, is an urn contain-ing a marble ball. This ball marks the centre of the world, explainedthe guide, as we halted beside the urn. About eightcenturies ago certain wise and holy men ascertained,by calculation or by inspiration, that this spot is theexact centre of the world. It was marked in thismanner so that the pilgrims coming here from all partsof the earth might see it and carry the knowledge of thewonderful discovery back with them to their variouscountries. Beyond the Greek Chapel we descended, by aid of

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