A PILGRIMAGE
TO BETHLEHEM THOUSANDS AT THE SHRINE ORIENT AND OCCIDENT UNITE IN WORSHIP. RACIAL DIFFERENCES FORGOTTEN. By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright. Received December 28, 6.25 p.m. JERUSALEM, Dec. 27. Thousands of pilgrims from all parts of the world, in motor-cars, joined the pilgrimage from Jerusalem to the Shrine at Bethlehem, led by the Greek and Roman Catholic Patriarchs. The Orient joined with the Occident and Jew with Gentile, while Arabs and Jews, who are usually at daggers drawn, forgot their differences and joined in the journey. Pilgrims all day on Saturday and Sunday crowded the Basilica grotto, which was lighted by fifteen lamps, four representing the Latin Church, five the Armenian and six the Greek. Following Mass on Friday at midnight, the Patriarchs led the congrega* tion through the Basilica, depositing an image of the infant Christ upon a manger at the exact spot where ha was born.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19732, 29 December 1926, Page 7
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