Then Pilate had Jesus taken and scourged. And the soldiers, having woven a crown of thorns, placed it on his head and put a purple cloak on him; then they came before him and said, Hail, King of the Jews! And they slapped him. Inside the Convent of the Flagellation stand 2 chapels: the first commemorates the Flagellation of Jesus, while the second commemorates the Condemnation to Death. The Sanctuary is also called "Lithostrotus," a word of Greek origin meaning stone floor, because of the thousand-year-old pavement that is kept there. Br GIUSEPPE GAFFURINI, ofm Guardian Convent Flagellation – Jerusalem This 1902 chapel, the work of a German Franciscan - Wendelin Hinterkeuser - traces the remains left by an earlier chapel. The school of the "Nazarenes" adorned this chapel with the image of Pontius Pilate washing his hands, with the very peculiar image of John the Evangelist who, with his cloak, covers the Virgin's eyes so that she does not see the disfigured body of her son's scourging. There are also 2 wooden statues -from the late 1800s- of the Spanish school, which resemble the Ecce Homo, and Jesus charged from the cross. Unfortunately, the Ecce Homo statue was vandalized on February 2 this year. In anticipation of Holy Week, the Custody's Lenten pilgrimages stopped at the Chapel of Condemnation. Holy Mass was presided over by Br. Gregor Geiger professor of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, and concelebrated by many friars present. Br. Alexander Coniglio, in his Homily, continued to reflect on the passages from the Prophet Isaiah, where Jesus, the Suffering Servant "offers himself as a sacrifice of reparation." Br ALESSANDRO CONIGLIO,ofm Professor Studium Biblicum Franciscanum - Jerusalem Obviously, contemplating Jesus burdened with the cross here does not mean to remain in purely static contemplation of what his mystery is, but it means to make us also bear the burden of the world's sin, that is, to imitate the steps of the immolated lamb. This means, imitating this gift that Jesus makes of himself, imitating the offering of his life, an offering he makes to the Father, precisely because he wants through his sorrows, to overcome our sin, our faults, iniquities We are also called to imitate the immolated lamb, immolating ourselves by offering ourselves in turn to God for the salvation of man, of our brothers and sisters.