The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 24, 1899, Page 9

THE SUNDAY CALL. By WhYCh éa'fiQ Dfd JQSUS Enter? SOrE OJI:D IDEAS . - a . pass ~ e Lere mony Introduced by DPoniface VIl and Indulged Throuzhout the World Wherever Jesuit Churches E coms= ~ember, which Year of apos- I instituted the cu the the door er's in Rome, and custom should century, has bee Jesult church in has Its holy door resent and are » Cardinals, prei- proach, awalting s of silver mace, in procession may pass e approaches the Xist, in Y During which Pope casts som o Immediate to await the c of Jut ! passe seaied “Year ur each twenty-fiv 2 The Pops now proceeds to the altar, where as the most devout penitent he gets upon his knees. In the meantime the dean of the College of Cardinals, fol- lowed by a retinue of prelates, p: on through St. Peter's and approaches the holy door of the Basilica of St, Paul's, and there, representing the Pops, per- forms the same ceremony. After these two ceremontes are performed the Car- UPSET BY THE - KAISER’S VISIT TO JERUSALEM LATHE GOLDEN GAT INSIDE 637, onTy mgnt years after Heracliug’ umphal entry, when he had not yet ished the work of 1 ng never added to after tha n fact had the entrance to the ga = It was te walled | When, n 1187, Saladin captured vw.?ifl the entrances to the gate » morgf walled up. And so It A watch sh at the same hour Avold putting anything excessively cold. The cold also ulates the ofl ax the pivots and - wheel work less frealy and ~ affect the regu- larity < the time- keeping in the ofty, not in the temple 1. e came in through The had re t = real restoration of these gates only took this eastern gate. I think that Her- / a reasona- - piice later. aclius, who wanted to rebutld some- 1 natural account of the occur-- The Hulda Gate'was rebullt by Justin- thing in Jer em, was the one in the sixth century, as we know from on a stone used for it. The who undertook the reconstruction of it fs suppo e Golden Gate on Its anclent Je Hulde g formed the foundation for his foundations, but according to a vthi Al and forc Church of Bt. Mary. As to the Golden NeW Byzantine plan. In this way he 4 d to be Gate, In the year 562, when Justinian dled, W&y it became a monument of it had not been his victorious entry into Jeru- salem and bringing back ot the holy eross and at the same time a reminder of the for- mer entry of Christ, Baedeker nssigns the re- building to the seventh cen- f there us lower down deeper but slso pp admits that ly path but did irden of Geth- tward into the red, for a little later, between 570 and 60, Antonius Martyr saw it still In ruins. He says: “From Geth- semane we ascended many steps to the gate of Jerusalem. This e 1s connected with that once beautiful gate of the tem- ple, whose threshold and posts still stand.” wer and steeper Jesug went by the o far as the ( d off w and teet its threshold was ¥ above the road t e e oot routs. A northerly Here we have mention of two separate :,";’}(;‘:r"’"fl'.‘,h‘f‘“: 1 eastior away In an alr too, short cut would have led by the so-called gates; first the city gate, of course, in the ;g 10 ™ Cn"l.‘f".‘f“ vallar was Attt the tomb of Absalom into the valley to the city wall, and near it, but somewhat re- javer completed an ot oy { ing from the nc de of lower bridg But this road is very s moved, were the ruins of the former tem- begun and partly cnrn:i‘ i »d into the valley Kid- much per than that which led to ple gate, which had been part of the tsm- out, This would be fneg- - le As a Golden Gate. In fact, In order to ple wall. The steps that he mentions are plicable if Justintan had // 1 to run along to the western suburb comfortably on those which had Been lonz u by ‘cot been the rebuilder, for 7 > ass, 80 as to pass through Ophe!, the travelers, leading directly the valley he certainly would lden Gate 18 in the temple Toute had to be followed further In the up to the gate from the south of the Gar- have finished f. at time the city wall w 3 1 of Siloam, and den of Gethsemane. This has nothing to But the Moham- e ' olitite o TN Of hundred feet to do with the path by which Jesus made medans cap- EtalE. Neokaatrats » Hulda Gate had to his festal entrance into the temple. tured the B Sk to dn the road to the Golden A little later the Persians, under Chos- city under e as long as that roes, captured the and destroyed Omar in AIc to the ot many buildings, especlal churches, Bt Ther be no doubt that among which were those that had beem gate. All In the valley of Jehosaphat (Kidron Val- ley). The notioes agree with tern gate was included in this destruc The Christian Em. r Herg be: ed the Per- s and (ytered Jerusalem in 625 o was partially de- €7 ns is proved by the SIaD ch the accompanying mu!ltit vith ’ together, increased also of the lower sec. WIth the t children, who came it this gate was (°% 1ses th n In the sec- "t pro This em- whievements were whi he a's and priests retire to their respec- most solemn occasion. A procession is L4 ur rr formed which Is prestded over by the v riva hat s, t hbishop, who has already delegated 8 of the fathers to represent the - pe. Behind are the priests and J - sser dignitaries of the church and / chur and wing them fs the | T e of penit In the ut- £ ultl alt d with howed heads the demolition of the e, not even the Arch- ralses his head at this Particles of the refuse d by cach b person and de- tly pres he cere- | witness the cnr. my is conducted in abso- | It is rly Interesting to know jute silence and is the most that the churches of the Jesult fathers solemn occasion of the hroughout the United States have pre- Catholic year, as ved this custom with rigid directness, and also that it has been made an annual bservance. ““The Year of Jubilee,” which occurs every twenty-flve vears, at the meridian of the 24th day of December, is with them an epoch. On such occasions well as one of the most im- pressive ot ¢ a programme is prepared, arrange- ments are made and the peni- PR tents of the church are g + 1 bidd. to bhe at the ceremon; and it Is a *"The Pove Now Proceads-to £he Altar Whaere, as the Most Davout-Penttent, He Gets Upon HisKneess”