APPENDIX. PECULIAR CEREMONIES OF HOLY-WEEK AT JERUSALEM 121

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DIRECTIONS

FOR SEEING THE CEREMONIES

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Provide yourself with a HOLY-WEEK-BOOK, or _Uffizio della Settimana
Santa_. Take care that your dress is according to rule. For many of
the ceremonies ladies require tickets signed by _M. Maggiordomo_.

On Palm-sunday morning the Pontifical ceremonies begin at S.
Peter's, at about 9 o'clock: no stranger can receive a palm without
a permission signed by _M. Maggiordomo_. In the afternoon the Card.
Penitentiary goes at about 4 or half past 4 to S. John Lateran's,
where the Station of the day is held.

On the _afternoons_ of _Wednesday_ and _Thursday_, (between 4 and half
past 4) and of _Friday_ (half an hour sooner) the office of Tenebræ
begins at the Sixtine chapel. After it is over, you may go to S.
Peter's to bear the conclusion of a similar service: there on Thursday
evening the high-altar is washed by the Card, priest and chapter;
on Friday the Pope, Cardinals etc. go thither to venerate the relics
after Tenebræ in the Sixtine chapel; and on the afternoons of both