Holy week in the Vatican: the ceremonies

HOLY WEEK

IN

THE VATICAN.

DUBLIN:

JOHN F. FOWLER, PRINTER,

3 CROW STREET.

HOLY WEEK

IN

THE VATICAN

THE CEREMONIES, AND THEIR CONNEXION WITH

History, Science, and the Fine Arts;

MUSIC, PAINTING, SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE,
ENGRAVING, AND ASTRONOMY;

WITH RELIGIOUS REFLECTIONS ON

Wonders,

IN THE ORDER OF NATURE AND GRACE.

BY

THOMAS CANON POPE,

PRIEST OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBLIN, AND CHURCH OF
Saint Andrew.

JAMES DUFFY AND SONS, 15 WELLINGTON QUAY,
AND 22 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.

1874.

110. j. 375.

ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.

CONTENTS.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR VISITORS TO ROME.

Route. Money. Time. Post Office. Passports. Custom

House. Hotels. Lodgings. Cafes and Trattorie. Vit-

ture, or Hackney carriages. Audiences of the Holy

Father. Full dress of the Roman court. Places of

amusement. Engravings. Permission to say Mass.

ANCIENT ROME.

Ruins. Here time stands. Former glories. Temperament, eru-
dition, and capacity necessary for a profitable visit to Rome

MODERN ROME.

Population.

Rome is because the Popes are. Statistics.

Religious, Collegiate, and Scholastic Institutions. Rome

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External objects employed to convey religious impressions
through the senses. Rites, signals to the soul. Ritual
observances an eloquent language.

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OBJECT OF THE CEREMONIES.

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True Religion is interior. Rites employed to convey religious
impression to the interior. Nature's convulsions around
Calvary, employed to impress the soul with sentiments
of awe, contrition, and veneration.

Historical reminiscences. Henri de Gelders, his mitre and
crown. Henri de Dinant. The Crusaders. Pope Urban II.
Field of the Cloth of Gold. The Kaiser in the Römer.

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