Impressive Ceremony in Rome:
Holy Door of St. Peter's Opened by the Pope Rome, Dec. 24.
"Holy Year," which is now celobrated every quarter of a century and which is expected to bring mil-ions of pilgrims to Rome during 1925, was inaugurated by His Holiness the Pope opening the holy door of St. Peter's Cathedral to-day. The ceremony was most impress The Pope, attended by his religious and secular court, went-in process sion to St. Peter's and amid a solemn silence thrice struck the Jdoor with a gold hammer, sayi "Aperile miki portas Just (Open to me the doors of Justice), Whereupon workmen slowly lowered the door which had already been cut away from the wall and rolled it feom the entrance. The sides and the threshold were then washed wi holy water before the Pope passed through.
The bells of St. Peter's Cathedral and ut 400 other churches then announced that "Holy Year" had begun.
After the ceremony the doors of St. Peter's were thrown open and crowds of the faithful passed through the newly-opened door, sy1 volizing the eternal doors of the City of God, one kissed the doorpost as he passed—Reuter.
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