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Show Vatican Prepares To Open Holy Door Workman Chisel Away Bricks Rsady for Pop to Par. form Csramony 1 VATICAN CITY. March II m-Vatlcan m-Vatlcan pre la tea and workmen mad their finsl preparation today for tha pope's Inauguration of the holy year I tomorrow and the opening of tha holy door of SL Peter's Thi will com-! memorata the nineteen hundredth an-' nlveraary of tho passion, death and resurrection of Christ. I Workmen carefully aawed and chiseled chis-eled out tha little brick wall filling up the holy door. This wall now pivots piv-ots In tha frame reedy for tho moment when the pope, with a golden ham-mer, ham-mer, will shatter tho thin marble black eros in the renter of lh door snd puah tha barrier In. Thia morning the pontiff sacristan. sacris-tan. Monaignor Agoatino Zampini, blessed the holy water that will be used as wash tha threshold of tha door 1 afur tha bricks have crashed down and been removed. He also got ready tha linen ta dry tha threshold after I the washing. ' Tha holy door of SL Peter', which t on of tha three main doors, has it been opened sine 123. Usually j 1 1 thrown open only every 25 year, out tha pope daeraad that tha present ' holy year ahould have tha ama aol-1 emnlty as those recurring every quar-1 ' tar-century. i Thia Is the first Urn In the church hUtory that tha holy door is to be opened for a apectal Jubilee year, although al-though the ritual of tha holy door 1 , tha same th,t pope have employed mora thaa tout centuries. i |