Since the. deaths of the Russian Czar Nicholas II and the old Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph, Spain is the only remainins; European country' where the sovereign observes the ancient religious ceremony of “washing” the feet of to old men on Maundy Thursday. In Madrid the ceremony, as performed by King Alfonso, consists in bis kneeling on a cushion before each of the old men, who are seated with feet bare. A Court dignitary holds a gold dish before the feet of each man in turn, while the King sprinkles a few drops of the scented water over each foot, and then touches each lightly with a cloth handed to him by one of the bishops present.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3672, 29 July 1924, Page 50
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116Page 50 Advertisements Column 3 Otago Witness, Issue 3672, 29 July 1924, Page 50
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