The Archive · 1938

Midnight Masses In Barcelona

Barcelona, Dec. 25.

Eight hundred midnight masses: were celebrated in this city last night, and over 10,000 people received the sacrament—Havas.

Jerusalem, Dec. 2 Despite a Christmas truce and that curfew in Jerusalem has been relaxed, Palestine today faced its third successive cheerless Christmas in general insecurity.

Relaxation of traffic control in the Bethlehem area and the roads from Jerusalem to Bethlehem and from the adjoining villages, permitted many persons to travel to Bethlehem last night to participate in midnight masses in the Cathedral and the

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