It is customary to give them three or four piastres for their pains, with which sum they are satisfied, and remain at the entrance during the whole time the stranger is in the church, reclining on divans, drinking coffee and smoking tobacco.

At the entrance of the church we noticed a long square stone on the ground; this is the "stone of anointing." In the centre of the nave a little chapel has been built; it is divided into two parts.

In the first of these compartments is a stone slab encased in marble.

This is vehemently asserted to be the identical stone on which the angel sat when he announced our Lord's resurrection to the women who came to embalm his body.

In the second compartment, which is of the same size as the first, stands the sarcophagus or tomb of the Saviour, of white marble.