Holy week in the Vatican: the ceremonies

The Catechumens. Competents. Rites of the Easterns. Palm

branches. To St. Peter's ..

BLESSING AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE PALM.

The flesh pots of Egypt. The fountains of Elim. Customs of

the Abbey of Bee in Normandy and of St. Alban's in

England. The procession. "Gloria, lans, et honor". Abbot

Theodulph. Knocking at the doors with the Cross.

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THE OBELISK. THE BRESCA FAMILY. THE PALMS.

Erection of the Obelisk, Fontana. Wet the ropes! The Grand

Penitentiary.

RETURN OF THE PROCESSION.

History of the Passion. Music. Stabat Mater. Cheering

hopes

SPY WEDNESDAY.

Serene evening. The refulgent sun an emblem of Christ.

Glories of an Italian sunset. Emblem of the heavenly

Jerusalem. Come to the Tenebræ. The Piazza.

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WONDERS OF ST. PETER'S. WONDERS OF VISION.

History of the Basilica. Dimensions. The Cupola. The Papal

Altar. The Baldacchino. Confessional. Shrines. "A poem

in stone". Optical wonders. Vision of God.

SCENES ON THE ROYAL STAIRS.

Guard of honour. Distinguished visitors. Royal personages.

Knights of Malta. Knights Templars. Royal hall. Papal

court full dress costume.

SISTINE CHAPEL.

Architecture. Decorations. Accommodation. Reserved places. 66

LET ME A MOURNER'S PLACE OBTAIN.

Fervent adorers ascending the royal stairs. Dolorous train of

pious ladies, emblems of our Lady and the holy women

who met Jesus in His passion. Redeem your time.

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ORIGIN OF MATINS AND LAUDS.

watches. Nocturns. The term Matin. Lauds. Ferial

mays. Jube Domne. Hours. Vespers. Complin.

CONTENTS.

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OFFICE OF TENEBRÆ.

No psalms or hymns of praise. Triangular candlestick. Lights
extinguished. Lamentations.

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THE MISERERE.

The music. Impenetrable gloom. Mysterious silence. Capti-
vating notes. Harmonious wailings. Peculiar character-
istics of the chaunt.

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ON CHURCH MUSIC.

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Cantofermo and Figurato. Simple, distinct, harmonious, devo-

tional, multitudinous. Corruptions and profanities. Pales-

trina. Operatic music. Explanation of liturgical terms. 81

GOD'S IMMENSITY. THE NEBULE.

Gloom of the old city. The star-spangled dome of the heavens.

Orion. Nebulous light. Boundless extent of space. Be-

fore God space is contracted. The lofty sinks. The pro-

found is shallowed.

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HOLY THURSDAY.

Brilliancy of the morning sun, emblematic of hope's rays
beaming from the Sun of righteousness. Agitation of the
city. Term "Maunday Thursday". Number of masses.
Jewish passover.

Ceremonies of consecration. Different kinds. The liquids sig.

nificant of grace. Veneration for the holy oils. Two hosts

consecrated to-day.

The Most Holy borne from the Sistine to the Paoline chapels.

The repository.

THE BULL "IN CENA DOMINI".
Asserted temporal power of the Pope over the British Isles.
Edward and Eleanor. The Pope and Scotland.

The Huguenots. Pope Gregory XIII. Queen Elizabeth. King

Charles IX. Henry of Navarre. Duke of Guise. Cathe-

rine de Medecis. Historical errors regarding the massacre

Misrepresentations. Broudinus, his works and refutation.

Pope Adrian. King Henry II. Pope Alexander III. His-

tory of the transfer of Ireland scrutinized. Kells. Four

Masters. Paparo. Hildebrand. Guiscard. William of Nor-

mandy. Papal sovereignty over islands. Cardinal Ronald.

Statements of Lanigan, Ussher, Matthew of Paris, Lin-

gard, Gratianus Lucius, M'Geoghegan, Baronius, Giral-

The Pope washing the feet of the thirteen Pilgrims. Why

thirteen. Antiquity of the "Lavanda".

THE COENA.

The Pope entertains and serves at table the thirteen Pilgrims.

The table and fare. Russian imperial family.

QUATRO CAPI. TIBER. GHETTO. FORUM.

A walk through the city. Fishing the Tiber for antiquities.

The Jews in Rome and in the colonies. The Campo Vac-

chino. The Via Sacra, and adjacent antiquities. Domitian. 127

EDUCATION IN ROME AND IN ENGLAND.

The Church patronizes education and science. The Vatican

Council on knowledge, natural and divine. Priests pro-

moters of science. Distinguished examples. Copernicus.

The Propaganda. Contrast between education in England

and in Rome. Educational establishments of Rome. San.

Michele. Pauper child of England. Nobody's child. Mi-

series of female pauper children. Boys in the mercantile

marine. Cruelties to little sweeps. Children in workhouses.

Penalties on education in Ireland. Charter and other

schools. Universities for the education of Protestants in

England and Scotland. The Catholic University. Solici-

tude of Rome for youth. Religious teaching communities.

Education unchristianized. The school and the sanctuary.

Guizot on education.

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CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OF ROME.

Hospitals, asylums, their endowments, and number of patients

relieved. Monastic hospitalities to the poor. Anecdote in

exemplification. Philosophy of modern political econo-

mists contrasted with the Gospel precepts. British poor

laws. The poor in monastic times. Duties of the affluent

towards the destitute. Religious urged by the charity of

Christ in relieving the woe-stricken.

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THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD. ATOMIC CREATION.

Might of the Omnipotent displayed in minute objects. Won-
ders revealed by the microscope.

A VISIT TO THE MOST HOLY.

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The Paoline Chapel. Captivating scenes. Emblem of Jacob's

ladder. Decorations and illuminations. The Swiss guards.

The adorers. Cardinals, princes, princesses, Sacconi, and

lady pilgrims. "Arise and eat". Light in churches.

SECOND EVENING OF TENEBRÆ.

The music of Bai. Soothing reminiscences. The voice of the
turtle dove. The palace of eternity.

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WASHING THE PAPAL ALTAR.

Desolation of the Basilica. The ceremony. The procession

through gloom. Overpowering effect in the mysterious

obscurity. Indistinctness conveys ideas of the grand rather

than distinctness. Milton coincides with this sentiment.

Illuminated cross. The relics. Washing the pilgrims' feet,

and the supper at Trinita dei Pellegrini. Don Miguel.

ROME-THE SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN ART IN

PAINTING.

Sistine and Paoline chapels. Rome-the resort of all aspirants
to perfection in art. Religion ennobles the genius of de-
sign. Religion supplies the models. Religion imparts ex-
pression. Inferior capabilities of an irreligious artist.
Blessed Angelico. Contact of the ancient and modern
schools of painting. Cimabue. The Byzantine_style.
Giotto. Michael Angelo. Raphael. Ghirlandazio. Dome-
nico. Il Francia. Religious art.

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GOOD FRIDAY.

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The city sat solitary. Emblems of mourning. Mass of the

presanctified. The liturgy. The adoration of the Cross.

Casting the money into the dish. Agios O'Theos.

BLOOD UPON THE LAND.

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"My hands did not shed this blood!" Trying ordeal recorded
in the book of Deuteronomy. A murder in our land.
Heartless cruelty. Who is guilty? Peccavi! To-day the
Cross is triumphant. Is it so over me? The procession
to and from the Paoline chapel. Porters of the red rod.
Scala santa. Pilgrimage of the Pope.

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THE BRIDGE OF SAN. ANGELO.

Statues of the Angels bearing emblems of the instruments of

Christ's passion.