Identifier: innocentsabroad01twai (find matches)
Title: The innocents abroad;
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Hartford, American publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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o start after them of its own ac-cord. A Christian could not be so disguised that it would notknow him and refuse to hurt him—nor a Moslem so disguisedthat it would not leap from its scabbard and take his life.These statements are all well authenticated in many legendsthat are among the most trustworthy legends the good oldCatholic monks preserve. I can never forget old Godfreyssword, now. I tried it on a Moslem, and clove him in twainlike a doughnut. The spirit of Grimes was upon me, and ifI had had a graveyard I would have destroyed all the infidelsin Jerusalem. I wiped the blood off the old sword and handedit back to the priest—I did not want the fresh gore to obliter-ate those sacred spots that crimsoned its brightness one daysix hundred years ago and thus gave Godfrey warning thatbefore the sun went down his journey of life would end. 564 PRISON OF THE SAVIOUR. Still moving through the gloom of the Church of the HoljSepulchre we came to a small chapel, hewn out of the rock—
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CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE. a place which has been known as The Prison of Our Lord for many centuries. Tradition says that here the Saviour was THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH. 565 confined just previously to the crucifixion. Under an altar bythe door was a pair of stone stocks for human legs. Thesethings are called the Bonds of Christ, and the use they wereonce put to has given them the name they now bear. The Greek Chapel is the most roomy, the richest and theshowiest chapel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Itsaltar, like that of all the Greek churches, is a lofty screen thatextends clear across the chapel, and is gorgeous with gildingand pictures. The numerous lamps that hang before it are ofgold and silver, and cost great sums. But the feature of the place is a short column that rises fromthe middle of the marble pavement of the chapel, and marksthe exact centre of the earth. The most reliable traditions tellUs that this was known to be the earths centre, ages ago, andthat when Chri

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