Near by was a similar stone, shaped like a star--here the Magdalen herself stood, at the same time.

Monks were performing in this place also.

They perform everywhere--all over the vast building, and at all hours.

Their candles are always flitting about in the gloom, and making the dim old church more dismal than there is any necessity that it should be, even though it is a tomb.
We were shown the place where our Lord appeared to His mother after the Resurrection.

Here, also, a marble slab marks the place where St.
Helena, the mother of the Emperor Constantine, found the crosses about three hundred years after the Crucifixion.