However, a baton is kept here, which the pilgrim thrusts through a hole in the screen, and then he no longer doubts that the true Pillar of Flagellation is in there.

He can not have any excuse to doubt it, for he can feel it with the stick.

He can feel it as distinctly as he could feel any thing.
Not far from here was a niche where they used to preserve a piece of the True Cross, but it is gone, now.

This piece of the cross was discovered in the sixteenth century.

The Latin priests say it was stolen away, long ago, by priests of another sect.