The Christian Church,
The Synagogue.
From painted glass in Bourges Cathedral.

His disciples' feet; the towel, often represented hanging on a ring, with which He wiped them, and the fire at which S. Peter warmed himself. The five wounds are sometimes represented by the hands and feet with a heart in the middle, each pierced with a wound, sometimes by a heart only pierced with five wounds. The examples here given on shields are taken from the poppies in the Chancel of Cumner Church, Berks, the others are from S. Alban's, &c., and on a sort of high tomb, on the north side of the Chancel, in Porlock Church, Somersetshire; they occur also on a similar structure in the Chancel of Stanton Harcourt Church, Oxfordshire, and on bench-ends in the nave of Braunton Church, Devon; they are in fact of constant occurrence in every part of a Church, where the original decorations have been preserved.

In some ancient representations of the Crucifixion, as in the painted glass of Bourges Cathedral, in place of the usual figures of S. Mary and S. John, on either side of the cross, allegorical figures are used, representing the Jewish and Christian Churches, the first in a stooping position, with her crown fallen, her eyes bandaged, and her staff broken, in allusion to the text in the Lamentations of Jeremiah v. 16, 17; the second erect, rejoicing, with her crown on her head, a church in one hand, and a cross in the other, or catching in a chalice the blood which flows from the side of the Saviour. This was a favourite symbol of the early Christian poets.

Formerly an erection, either of wood or stone, was prepared near the Altar expressly for the Easter ceremonies, called the Holy Sepulchre, and many of the stone ones remain in our Churches. The most celebrated, and probably the finest remaining, is at Heckington, in Lincolnshire; this is richly ornamented with sculpture, having figures of the Roman soldiers watching or sleeping round the tomb. More commonly the Easter sepulchre is merely a sepulchral recess in the wall, on the north side of the Chancel, near the Altar; it often has an actual tomb in it, which was no objection to its being used also for the Easter ceremonies; their being used for this holy service was probably a reason why the north side of the Chancel was so frequently chosen for sepulchral monuments. Persons were employed to watch the Sepulchre or Paschal light, for which charges are always found in parish accounts previous to the Reformation. A curious account of the ceremonies anciently observed at Easter will be found in Davies' Antient Rites of Durham.

The Tenebræ, a service signifying darkness, is performed in Roman Catholic Churches on Good Friday, to denote the circumstances and darkness at the Crucifixion. This is partly symbolized by a triangular candlestick, with fourteen yellow wax candles, and one white one, seven of these yellow candles being on each side, and the white one at the top. The fourteen yellow candles represent