It has been proven conclusively that they can not worship together around the grave of the Saviour of the World in peace.

The chapel of the Syrians is not handsome; that of the Copts is the humblest of them all.

It is nothing but a dismal cavern, roughly hewn in the living rock of the Hill of Calvary.

In one side of it two ancient tombs are hewn, which are claimed to be those in which Nicodemus and Joseph of Aramathea were buried.
As we moved among the great piers and pillars of another part of the church, we came upon a party of black-robed, animal-looking Italian monks, with candles in their hands, who were chanting something in Latin, and going through some kind of religious performance around a disk of white marble let into the floor.

It was there that the risen Saviour appeared to Mary Magdalen in the likeness of a gardener.