The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-30

upon force of arms or strategy to win
their battles, and will try to purchase
with accumulated wealth what so many
lives and so much treasure were vainlv
sacrificed to win.
The duties of the modern crusader
will be confined to furnishing the
means whercwith to make this posi-
bic. There is but one condition inn
posed upon those who join the army
of the Holy Cross, the payment of the
prescribed fce-25 cents annually or
SIC for n life membership The army
numbers hundreds of thousands of
members all over the world and al
ready counts its membership in Ameri-
ca by the thousands. Its Headquarters
in the United States are in the city of
New York
With the contributions furnished the
army has already purchased the Turk
ish novels that surrounded the ancient
basilica of St. Joseph, the first church
ever dedicated TO the foster father of
Jesus. said to have been erected on the
site OF his workshop, and at Nazareth
house for Catholic pilgrims is being
erected with these funds. Bat the
grand idea of the army is To raise suifi-
cicnt money to purchase all the shrincs,
including the holy scpulchcr, which is
now. as it has been since the year 1S0S,
under the joint control of the orthodox
Greek priests and the Franciscan
fathers, who have charge of it on be-
half of the Roman church.
The Church of the Holy Scpulchcr is
very large building, and includes be-
r1nDth itS roof hcei1ne- 4: a.
tomb OF Joseph of Arimathea. wherein
Christ was laid. many other spots
made sacred 10y association with the
passion and death of the Redccmcr.
The holy scpulcher stands right under
the cupoia, and about ninety feet away
from it is the rock of Calvary. whercon
the cross was raised. Just across the
rotunda is an altar marking the spot
where Christ appeared to Magdalene,
and farther on is the prison of Christ.
Another altar is at the spot where
the Roman soldiers divided Christ's
garments, and just ut the foot of the
steps which lead to the chapel of Cal
vary is the stone on which Christ sat
when crowned with thorns and mockcd
in the prctorium. On the rock
of Calvary are the places where
Jesus was stripped of His gar
ments, the spot where lie was
nailed to the cross, the place where
the cross was planted and the spot
where His lifclcss body was placed in
His mothers arms after being taken
down from the cross. Here also is one
of the rocks that were split across at
the time of His dissolution.
The Chapel OF Holy Scpulcher. the
center of all the sanctuarcs. is divided
into two parts. First is the Chapel of
the Angel, wherein the angel appeared
on Easter morning, and where there is
shown piece of the stone that closed
the tomb, on which he sat, and then
comes the sepulchcr itself. The en-
trance to this is so low that person
can only enter in n STOPPING position
or on Bonded knees, and there is bare
~ room within for three persons at n
time. The original rock is covered
over with white alabaster to preserve
1t from PROCLAMATION, and the slab now
there is said to be the identical one put
in place by ST. Helen, the mother of
Constantine the Great. On panels be-
hind the tomb are two representations
In relief of the resurrection, one be-
longing to the Greeks and the other to
the Romans. The latter is beautiful
solid silver reproduction of Raphael's
famous painting.