In this respect the Franciscan order is much to be commended.

The priests are mostly Spaniards and Italians; very few of them belong to other nations.
Father Paul was kind enough to offer his services as my guide, and to-day I visited several of the holy places in company with him.
We began with the Via Dolorosa, the road which our Lord is said to have trodden when for the last time he wandered as God-man on earth, bowed down by the weight of the cross, on his way to Golgotha.

The spots where Christ sank exhausted are marked by fragments of the pillars which St.Helena caused to be attached to the houses on either side of the way.

Further on we reach the "Zwerchgasse," the place whither the Virgin Mary is said to have come in haste to see her beloved Son for the last time.
Next we visited Pilate's house, which is partly a ruin, the remaining portion serving as a barrack for Turkish soldiers.

I was shewn the spot where the "holy stairs" stood, up which our Lord is said to have walked.