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Excerpt from The Ceremonies of Holy-Week at the Vatican and S. John Lateran's Described, and Illustrated From History and Antiquities: With an Account of the Armenian Mass at Rome on Holy-Saturday, and the Ceremonies of Holy-Week at Jerusalem
On Friday morning the service of the Sixtine chapel begins at about 9 or half past 9. (devotion of 3 hours' agony from about half past 42 to half past 3 at the Gesu, ss. Lorenzo e Damaso etc.; and after the Ave Alarm the Via Crucis at Caravita, devotion of the dolours of the B. Virgin at S. Marcello, etc. An hour after the Ave Maria poetical compositions are recited at the Serbatoio dell' Arcadia).
On Saturday morning service begins at S. John Lateran's at about half past 7. As soon you have seen the baptism at the baptistery, you had better drive to the Vatican, to attend at the beautiful mass of the Sixtine chapel.
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