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this they laid the Body of Jesus, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre (Fig. 92) [1]
- ↑ The sepulchre, or cave in the rock, was about fifty paces from the spot of the Crucifixion. It was hewn out of the solid rock, and consisted of an outer cave, through which a low opening led to the sepulchre itself, which was destined for the burial of only one person. Joseph and Nicodemus carried the Sacred Body to this sepulchre, Mary, John and Magdalen following. It was indeed a striking funeral procession, at which the tears that were shed were most holy. Only the Mother followed the bearers into the outer cave, and remained until the two disciples had laid her Son’s Body in the grave. “The setting sun threw feeble, tremulous, bloodred rays on the silent group of men and women who sat on the ground outside the cave, and whose grief was unfathomable as the ocean” (Schegg). After the Sacred Body had been deposited in the grave, they rose and took the sorrowful Mother away from the terrible place.
