Here conclude the descriptions of all that occurred on the day of
the Passion of our Lord; but we will add some supplementary matter
concerning Holy Saturday, the Descent into Hell, and the Resurrection.



CHAPTER LIV.

On the Name of Calvary.



Whilst meditating on the name of Golgotha, Calvary, the place of
skulls, borne by the rock upon which Jesus was crucified, I became
deeply absorbed in contemplation, and beheld in spirit all ages from
the time of Adam to that of Christ, and in this vision the origin of
the name was made known to me. I here give all that I remember on this
subject.

I saw Adam, after his expulsion from Paradise, weeping in the grotto
where Jesus sweated blood and water, on Mount Olivet. I saw how Seth
was promised to Eve in the grotto of the manger at Bethlehem, and how
she brought him forth in that same grotto. I also saw Eve living in
some caverns near Hebron, where the Essenian Monastery of Maspha was
afterwards established.

I then beheld the country where Jerusalem was built, as it appeared
after the Deluge, and the land was all unsettled, black, stony, and
very different from what it had been before. At an immense dept below