As soon as a faint glimmering of dawn appeared in the east, I saw
Magdalen, Mary the daughter of Cleophas, Johanna Chusa, and Salome,
leave the Cenaculum, closely wrapped up in their mantles. They carried
bundles of spices; and one of their number had a lighted candle in her
hand, which she endeavoured to conceal under her cloak. I saw them
direct their trembling steps towards the small door at the house of
Nicodemus.



CHAPTER LXIII.

The Resurrection of our Lord.



I beheld the soul of our Lord between two angels, who were in the
attire of warriors: it was bright, luminous, and resplendent as the sun
at mid-day; it penetrated the rock, touched the sacred body, passed
into it, and the two were instantaneously united, and became as one. I
then saw the limbs move, and the body of our Lord, being reunited to
his soul and to his divinity, rise and shake off the winding-sheet: the
whole of the cave was illuminated and lightsome.

At the same moment I saw a frightful monster burst from the earth
underneath the sepulchre. It had the tail of a serpent, and it raised
its dragon head proudly as if desirous of attacking Jesus; and had
likewise, if I remember correctly, a human head. But our Lord held in
his hand a white staff, to which was appended a large banner; and he
placed his foot on the head of the dragon, and struck its tail three