Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-03-25 | Page 1 | Good Friday Rites Held in Holy, Eternal Cities

Good Friday Rites Held In Holy Eternal Cities Thousands Visit Stations of Cross on Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem MANY PILGRIMS ON HAND Catholics and Anglicans Conduct Conduct Conduct Con Con- duct Services By United Press JERUSALEM March 25 Thou 25 Thou Thousands sands of believers trudged today I along the Via Dolorosa the Way of I Agony wi with h its stations of the cross where Christ stumbled and fell under under unter un- un der ter his heavy load lond The Via Dolorosa leads from the place pAce now a convent where Pontius Pilate the Roman procurator of Judea Ju Ju- dea condemned Jesus to be cruci cruci- fled fied Each of the nine places where Christ fell bearing his cross to Calvar Calvary Calvary Cal Cal- var vary now is marked as the site of ot a church hurch Jerusalem has been filled with great pilgrimages since Palm Sun Sun- day lay Even larger crowds drawn from all 11 parts of Christendom are expected expect expect- ed d before Easter Sunda Sunday PLAN PLA RITES AT TO TOMB lB A service will be held at the garden garden garen gar- gar den en tomb at dawn on Easter Sunday at t the foot of the Hill of the Skull the reputed place of Calvary It is here herc that hat Jesus was said to have been placed prior to his ascension Alternate Catholic and Anglican ceremonies will be held throughout the lie da day starting starling with the service conducted conducted con- con ducted by Canon Bridgeman American Amerlean Amer- Amer lean ican can chaplain attached to St. St Georges George's Anglican cathedral A Catholic ceremony will till be held in n the Holy Sepulchre where a throne and nd a s silver er 1 altar will be erected before be be- fore the actual site o of the sepulchre The service of pan pontifical t kal mass has hascen been cen a symbolical occa occasion ion for gen gen- rations Ho Holy week was ushered in Palm Sunday with traditional observances and nd glittering gUttering spectacles The Roman Roman Roman Ro Ro- Ro- Ro man Catholic procession headed by bythe bythe the ic robed purple-robed patriarch marched to o the church of the Holy Sepulchre brilliant with vestments CONSTABLES ON HAND British and Palestine constables imperturbable and stolid mingled with the crowds On Palm Sunday afternoon a devotional devotional devo- devo onal walk was conducted by the English Engish archdeacon at It St St. Georges George's cathedral Hundreds of Anglican Christians including many Amen Amerl- cans ans and British walked from the home lomo of Mary and Martha at Bethany along long the traditional path that ends in n the Garden of Gethsemane passing passing pass- pass ing ng through the village of Bethpage outside the walls o of Jerusalem that I knew the passage of Christ