Holy Week has come and gone with all ils elaborate religious ceremonies, One of the most curious of these is the adoration of the relies at Notre Dame. Ths seminary students are admitted to the choir of the cathedral and are allowed to kiss the cusses containing what the faithful are expected to accept as the crown of thorns, a piece of the true cross, and a nail used ab the Crucifixion. The first of these relics is a wreath of what resembles very aged and discoloured osier twigs, held together by gold wire. The thorns were distributed by St, Louis in 1240 among several French churches, "The crown is enclosed in a sulid gold ease from which it is never removed. The fragment of the true cross, now contained inn crystal veliquary, has also been handed down from St. Louis, It suffered during the Revolution but is still about nine inches long and about an inch and half thick, The nail was originally in. the possession of Charlemagne, who obtained it from the Emperor Constantine V. Charles the Bald handed it over to the monks of St. Denis. The Passion plays wre another curious feature of Holy Week in Paris, ong of these, performed at a concert hall, under the patronage of the clergy, an actor from the Gymnasa Theatre appears as the Saviour, and Mary Magdalen ts represented by an actress named Harris (! 3 6th April.
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