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Rh anointed. Here they found nine large candles burning, and Euthymus added one of his own to the number.

His companion then conducted him to the right side of the place, that they might ascend the steps which lead to Mount Calvary and view the spot on which stood the Redeemer's cross.

Here they knelt and prayed, after which they were shown the fissure in the earth that resulted from the earthquake which accompanied our Lord's dying hours.

Then the pilgrims were allowed to look upon the alleged locality where Christ's hands and feet were cruelly nailed to the cross, after which they were shown the "Tomb of Adam," where the blood of Jesus is said to have appeared upon our first parent's bones.

A short distance from here they saw the very stone on which Christ is supposed to have sat while being crowned with thorns, and also a pole to which it is said our Saviour was fastened