Pilgrims throng Holy City
NZPA-Reuter Jerusalem Christian pilgrims witnessed the Easter Saturday blessing of the fire and of the baptismal font in Jerusalem as the week-end’s commemoration of Christ built to its Eastern Sunday climax. Pilgrims from around the world have poured into Jerusalem and other Holy Land cities for the Easter season. Israeli authorities say 100,000 tourists have arrived for Easter and the Jewish Passover holiday. Many Christians began Easter vigils yesterday in the churches of Jerusalem's Old City and the many shrines surrounding the walled sector. The celebrations reached its climax with a Pontifical High Mass of the Resurrection inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre celebrated by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (Monsignor Giacomo Guiseppe Beltritti). Inside the Crusader-era Church of the Holy Sepulchre, men and women wept openly as they prayed where Christ was crucified and at the Stone of Unction, where his body was anointed. Israelis began the eightday Passover holiday on Wednesday with festivities marking the exodus from Egypt led by Moses. The Greek Orthodox and other Eastern rites begin their Holy Week today.
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Press, 12 April 1982, Page 6
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