They then returned to the city, and the guards stationed themselves opposite the outer door.

They were five or six in number, and watched three and three alternately.

Cassius never left his post, and usually remained sitting or standing in front of the entrance to the cave, so as to see that side of the tomb where the feet of our Lord rested.

He had received many interior graces, and been given to understand many mysteries.

Being wholly unaccustomed to this state of spiritual enlightenment, he was perfectly transported out of himself, and remained nearly all the time unconscious of the presence of exterior things.