Note Note XVI — NOTES TO CHAPTER IV.
T. G. (Thomas George) Bonney translation
The short street which connects the two churches of S. Mary the Great and S. Mary the Less was called, at the time of the Crusades, the street of Palms, because palm-branches were there sold to pilgrims. A similar traffic goes on at the present day, and on the same spot, during the feast of Palms; but palms being scarcer than formerly, olive-branches are generally substituted for them.