Note (5) — 40.—Of Jherusalem and of the Holy Sepulchre.

(5.) “the priests from the country of Prester John.”—Upon descending the steps on the east side of Calvary (Raumer, Palæstina, etc., 301), another flight of twenty-four steps is reached, at the foot of which is the Chapel of St. Helena, whence another flight of eleven steps conducts to the place where the cross of Christ and those of the two thieves were found. Here is an altar of the Latin church. The chapel of the Jacobites must have been higher up, near the Chapel of St. John which enclosed the tomb of the Baron of the Holy Sepulchre and of his brother, the first king of Jerusalem; interesting monuments that have been destroyed, not by the Turks but by the Greeks (Richter, Wallfahrten in Morgenlande, 22).—Bruun.