Early in the morning of Easter, at the first streak of dawn, the people hastened to the church to be present when the Blessed Sacrament was brought by the priests from the sepulchre to the usual place where it hung over the altar. Sometimes the image of our Lord, which had been placed with it in the figurative tomb of the Easter sepulchre, was made movable, and on Easter day was placed on the altar in a standing position. This probably was the case at St. Mary’s, Cambridge, where in 1537 the churchwardens paid “for mending of the Vice for the Resurrection.” Generally, however, the crucifix was brought out of the place of repose and taken to some side altar, and there once more, as on Good Friday, all clergy and people knelt to honour it and kiss it. This was the practice in many large churches, and a description of the “Resurrection figure” is given in the _Rites of Durham_. “There was in the Abbye church of Duresme,” says the writer, “a very solemn service uppon Easter day, between three and four of the cloche in the morninge in honour of the Resurrection, where two of the oldest monkes came to the sepulchre, being sett upp upon Good Friday after the Passion, all covered with red velvett and embrodered with gold, and then did sence it, either monke with a pair of silver sencers sitting on their knees before the Sepulchre. Then they both rising came to the sepulchre, out of the which, with great devotion and reverence, they tooke a marvelous beautiful image of our Saviour, representing the Resurrection, with a cross in his hand, in the breast whereof was enclosed in bright christall the Holy Sacrament of the Altar, through the which christall the Blessed Host was conspicuous to the beholders. Then, after the elevation of the said picture, carryed by the said two monkes uppon a faire velvett cushion all embrodered, singinge the anthem of _Christus resurgens_, they brought it to the high altar, settinge that on the midst thereof, whereon it stood, the two monkes kneelinge on their knees before the altar and senceing it, all the time that the rest of the whole quire was in singinge the aforesaid anthem of _Christus resurgens_. The which anthem being ended, the two monkes took up the cushions and the picture from the altar, supportinge it betwixt them, proceeding in procession from the high altar to the South quire door, where there was four antient gentlemen belonginge to the prior, appointed to attend their cominge, holding up a moste rich canopye of purple velvett, tacked round about with redd silk and gold fringe; and at every corner did stand one of these gentlemen to beare it over the said image, with the Holy Sacrament carried by two monkes round about the church, the whole quire waiting uppon it with goodly torches and great store of other lights till they came to the high altar againe, whereon they did place the said image, there to remaine untill the Ascension day.”