Towards the east, in the place that is called in Hebrew Golgotha,
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another very large church has been erected. In the upper regions of
this a great round bronze chandelier with lamps is suspended by ropes
and underneath it is placed a large cross of silver, erected in the selfsame
place where once the wooden cross stood embedded, on which suffered
the Saviour of the human race.
Now in this church, beneath the place of the Lord's cross, there is a grotto cut out of the rock where sacrifice is offered on an altar for the souls of certain privileged persons. Meanwhile their remains are laid out in the court before the door of this church of Golgotha, until such time as the holy mysteries for the deceased are completed.