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