HOLY YEAR.
THE DOORS OF JUSTICE. OPEWED BY THE POPE. THE FAlTirnil, PASS TitROTTGH. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 1 p.m.) ROME, December 25. Holy Year, which" is now celebrated every quarter century, and is expected to bring millions of pilgrims to Rome in 1925, was inaugurated by the Pope opening the holy door of St. Peter's with an impressive ceremony. The Pope, attended by his religious and secular ■ court, walked in procession to St. Peter's, and, amid solemn silence, thrice Struck the door with a gold hammer, saying, "Eperite mihi portas justitiae," whereupon workmen slowly lowered the door, which had already been cut away from the wall, and rolled it from the I entrance. The Bides and threshold they washed with holy water before the Pope passed through. The bella of St. Peter's and four hundred other churches in Rome then announced that the 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 doors, symbolising the eternal doors of the city of God, each kissing the doorpost ns they passed.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 306, 26 December 1924, Page 5
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