came out of the wall; it must have constituted the upper part of the oven used for roasting the Paschal Lamb, for to-day the steps were quite heated during the repast.  I cannot describe in detail all that there was in this part of the room, but all kinds of arrangements were being made there for preparing the Paschal Supper.  Above this hearth of altar, there was a species of niche in the wall, in front of which I saw an image of the Paschal Lamb, with a knife in its throat, and the blood appearing to flow drop by drop upon the altar; but I do not remember distinctly how that was done.  In a niche in the wall there were three cupboards of various colours, which turned like our tabernacles, for opening or closing.  A number of vessels used in the celebration of the Pasch were kept in them; later, the Blessed Sacrament was placed there.

In the rooms at the sides of the supper-room, there were some couches, on which thick coverlids rolled up were placed, and which could be used as beds.  There were spacious cellars beneath the whole of this building.  The Ark of the Covenant was formerly deposited under the very spot where the hearth was afterwards built.  Five gutters, under the house, served to convey the refuse to the slope of the hill, on the upper part of which the house was built.  I had preciously seen Jesus preach and perform miraculous cures there, and the disciples frequently passed the night in the side rooms.

MEDITATION III.

Arrangements for eating the Paschal Lamb.

When the disciples had spoken to Heli of Hebron, the latter went back into the house by the court, but they turned to the right, and hastened down the north side of the hill, through Sion.  They passed over a bridge, and walking along a road covered with brambles, reached the other side of the ravine, which was in front of the Temple, and of the row of houses which were to the south of that building.  There stood the house of the aged Simeon, who died in the Temple after the presentation of our Lord; and his sons, some of whom were disciples of Jesus in secret, were actually living there.  The Apostles spoke to one of them, a tall dark-complexioned man, who held some office in the Temple.  They went with him to the eastern side of the Temple, through that part of Ophel by which Jesus made his entry into Jerusalem on Palm-Sunday, and thence to the cattle-market, which stood in the town, to the north of the Temple.  In the southern part of this market I saw little enclosures in which some beautiful lambs were gambolling about.  Here it was that lambs for the Pasch were bought.  I saw the son of Simeon enter one of these enclosures; and the lambs gambolled round him as if they knew him.  He chose out four, which were carried to the supper-room, engaged in preparing the Paschal Lamb.

I saw Peter and John go to several different parts of the town, and order various things.  I saw them also standing opposite the door of a house situated to the north of Mount Calvary, where the disciples of Jesus lodged the greatest part of the time, and which belonged to Seraphia (afterwards called Veronica).  Peter and John sent some disciples from thence to the supper-room, giving them several commissions, which I have forgotten.