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Getting ready for t he C oeter Monday agghunt In Grant park, Atlanta. Tbo
park gatee have been cloead for the morning and man ara driving about
tha grounda ecatteHng thouoando of oondy egge In oil tflrootlono. At O
Certain flxad time tha gotoo ara Opined ami tha children poor In to iioroli
for tha treaauro.
HE ortUn of Barter to loft
in antiquity ; The first trace
of It li u a pagan rtt%
celebrated In honor of
Eastre, the Saxon goddess
of spring. Then It became
with the Jewish pasaover,
and, about ?8 A. D, wae instituted an
n Cbriatlan festival. I
There are mnnjr quaint customa in
celebration of ^srter In oountrlee
where auperaUtlon still hoi da sway
over the minda of the people. In
Spain, Portugal and meet of South
America, Judas, the betrayer*, plays
a prominent <part In the proceedings
of Barter, and Holy Saturday to a day
which la devoted almoat entirely to
maltreating hla efflgr.
Execution of Judaa. I
On Good Friday the shopkeepers are j
j buiy all day aelllng Judaaea, of every
aire and ahape, by the doaene. to iaem
women and chlldrenj and oh the fol
lowing morning the whole community >
to transposed Into a place of execu
tion. Ropes are stretched across the
streets from house to bouae, and on
them ?are strung Judaaea tilled with
itraw and gunpowder, black and very
ugly as they sway In the aunllght.
A few minutes before, 12 o'clock,
there to a bush over all the place, and
then as thOj church bells ttoll out the
noon hour a sudden frenzy aelses the
people and every Judas Is cut down
and hurled Into flames amid wild
?bouts of rejoicing, and pandemonium
reigns supreme.
In Cuba and other Spanish-Ameri
can countries there la a curious cus
tom which almost outrivals those ot
other places. At an appointed hour
on Easter morning the cathedral
doors are thrown open for the resur
rected Saviour to pass out. This Is a
waxen figure of Christ (with open
wounds exposed) seated upon a
draped platform, beneath which may
be seen the legs of the score of monks
who carry It. Following is a long lino
of priests bearing crosses and many
candles.
This odd procession passes down
;he sunlit street until at a given point
it la met by a second figure, borne on
the shoulders of four priests. This
represents, a woman dressed in the
most, gorgeous finery. It is Mary Mag
dalene coming to meet her Lord after
his resurrection.
Like the Biblical 8tcrry.
There is a sudden halt of both fig
ures, and then Mary turns and has
tens away, the eight legs beneath
galloping furiously In order that it
may be seen how fast the repentant
one Is hurrying to spread the news of
the risen Christ. As she goes she to
met by a third figure, decked jp yel
low satin and crowned with gold, and
this Is the Virgin Mary. The two
pause. and then turn to meet the ad
vancing Saviour. When they do reach
him they bow repeatedly and then
the procession solemnly returns to the
church, passing through rows ot sol
diers who, as they enter Its door s,
jlro a salute, and the muBlc ends with
a groat flourish. * "* * .
In this modern and progressive
world this quaint custom seems most
primitive, but the glamor of It all
brings such jcry to these people that
a sojourner with them at this season
cannot but be Impressed with their
simple faith. _ji.1
The ceremony of holy firo within
the Church of the Holy Scpulcher,
Palestine, is a very remarkable prac
tice and one against which the popo
vigorously protests, but the Greek
church, declares It la an annually re
curring miracle. On Holy Saturday
with the church crowded almost to
suffocation, nil lights are extinguished,
and one of tho Greek patriarchs opens
the service by Circling three times
around the sepulcher, followed by the
bishops (all of them clad In rtch
robes) all praying fervently that the
Are may be sent down from heaven. |
The Blessed Flame.
The Patriarch then enters ths sep
ulcher alone and for a moment all
Is dark, when suddenly through tho
holes in the wail light appears and
the priests, standing lri front of them,
hand in candles. Thcser they receive
again lighted and they are sent by
chosen messengers to Bethlehem, Nax
areth and all over Palestine. *s tney
p ess through the congregation to the
church door titer* to a mad Wl t?
ward them, each member of the van
sssemblsge striving to light hie ua?
die with the bleeeed flame.
There le legend of a crusader from
Florence, who, finding himself ool
Easter at Jerusalem, Joined the throng
who lighted their tapers at the e?
cred flame within the Holy Bepulcbeff
church. Anxious to bHng thla baqh
to hie native town unextinguished, to
protect It from the wind he rode the
whole of the land Journey on * don
key, with hie face to lta talL
The devil tried* Iwt unsuccessfully,
to bio# It out, and on .hie arrival
home the taper wan stilt alight
Thereupon he presented It to the city
of Florence, only claiming aa his prtr*
0ege to be the first to take a light
from It on Holy Saturday.
Another of Palestine's practices la
!h* pilgrimage on Monday of Holy
week to the River Jordan. At the Pll?
grime' ford are congregated thousands
and tens of thousands of Christiana,
who, la the gray light of dawn, pour
down upon the river on foot and
horseback, straining every nerve to
get to the waters quickly, where, upon
arriving, they splss|i,ln* dipping them
selves three times In honor of the
Trihlty. After fitting bottles and
flasks with the consecrated water
they hasten away*
The Italian Caster.
The Italians hold Easter as the
most Important festival of the eccles
iastical year, even attaching more Im
portance to It than to Christmas.
Throughout the whole peninsula there
are family reunions, fetes and cere
monies; all of the latter originating In
remotest antiquity, and each connect
ed more or less with the worship of
fire as the great purifying element ,
Florence has always been distin
guished for a most unique ceremony,
known as ."flcappio del Carro" (the
"explosion of the car"), which la un
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douljtedly of c?most ancient origin.
Early In the 'thirteenth, century it so
chanced that a young man ' of the
great Piazzl family was the first per
son to light his to/oh from the fire
which was drawn from the sacred
flint from the tomb of Christ, and so
greatly pleased were his whole clan
that they resolved on the next holy
Saturday to celebrate the circum
stance with pomp and a display of
| fireworks such as to tills day is a sign
of Italian rejoicing.
Erer since, the family has spared
no expense In marking the occasion.
Tear after year these demonstrations
grew more showy, the family spend
ing more and more, until at last it oc
curred to them to build a car, to b*
crammed full of1 fireworks, and this
they proposed to plaoe in front of the
cathedral, 11 ght 1 nf ythe $ whole g mass
from the sacred fire and causing It all
to explode at the mordant when the
city bells (silent since Holy Thurs
day) burst forth Into merry peals at
the stroke of midday, when was cele
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rocl Ion At tntlMf Biachlaa (H
made every y*ar, but after a certajfl
time tbey determined to hsve * 4u*
able one. end accordingly bttiK a huge
triumphal cmr. carved and gilded, bat
It 414 not serve lo?g. for It, wtUi ?w
eral more, wee burned.
The PyreteeHnlp Cm*.
But In Ittt (M en inscription om
the inside testifies) the car now la uea
wee made. 1 It ha? bee? partially 4a
stroyed ??4 reetore 4 a number of
limes, until the inel4e la a patchwork
of many kind* of wood, aacfe piece
being lnacfibed with the name of the
carpenter who ftxe4 It It fa a maulvt
aquare structure, torn atorlaa high,
aaade of great boama and boarda
clamped together an4 supported on
low, solid whale. ; j?
When the time ftpr the celebration
arrives this strange structure la pack
ed with Artworks and adorned with
flowers und four hope white ox?
4 raw it through the streets to. the
front of the cathedral. Hera there la
fixed to it a wire connected with the
high altar at the farther end of ****
cathedral. At the eud of this wire Is
a mechanical device, made of wood,
with a wheal aa4 a show fuee Inal4e
of It, known aa the ^Columbia" or
flora.
Tb, archbishop applies a light from
the sacred Are to the 4ove, which goea
hissing down the wire, over the heads
of the congregation, to the oar and
Ignltee the fireworks, yben loud ex
plosions occur which can be heard
all over the city and the surrounding
country.
The peaaanta attach great Import
ance to this ceremony and are ex
tremely superstitious about the suc
EasUr Procession In 8evllle, 8paln,
Pasting Through th? , Parta Ma
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cessful passage of the done, for tbey
tske it as a sign that the coming har
vest will be good. Should it stick in
any way on its passage to the car or
not ignite the fireworks there Is loud
cursing, and they look,?or nothing but
ill luck from this omen. People come
from all over .Italy to see the cere
mony* and so keen la the interest in
it that many more centuries will see
it performed.
Washing Beggar** Feet,
In England, on Maundy Thursday,
there used to prevail a custom for
the sovereign to wash the feet of as
many poor people as corresponded
with the years of his or her life. King
lames II. was the last monarch to
regularly perform this service, though
Queen Elisabeth in her thirty-ninth
rear washed the feet of thirty-nine of
her subjects.
? Her majesty was attended by an
equal number of ladies and gentle
men. The feet of these poor of the
kingdom were first washed by yeo
men of the laundry with warm water
and sweet hertfS; the queen then
bathed them and made the sign of
the cross on the Instep and kissed It.
Thia ceremony took place at Green
wich palace.
THE RESURRECTION.
. Tho flrnt day of the week
cometh Mary Magdalene early,
when it was yet dartc, unto tho
sepulchre, and eeeth the stone
-taken away from the sepulchre.
Then she runneth*, and cbmeth
to Simon Peter* and to the other
disciple whom Jesua loved, and
salth unto them. They have
taken away the Lord out of the
sepulchre, and jfe know not
where they have laid him. Peter
therefore *ent forth, and that
other disciple, and came to the
sepulchre. So they ran both
together; and the other disciple
did outrun Peter, and came first
to the sepulchre. And he stoop
ing down, and looking in, saw
the linen clothes lying; yet went
he not in. Then cometh Simon
Peter following him* and went
into the sepulchre, and seeth
the linen clothes lie; and the
napkin, that was about his head,
nofclylng with the linen clpthes,
but wrapped together In a place
by^^eolf^.;^i^.weniivXio ilsol
that Other disciple which came
first to the sepulchre, and he
and believed. For as yet
knew not the 8cripture,
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