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Show HOLY WEEK IN MANfLA. A special cable dispatch from Manila to the New York Sun on Saturday last said: "There has been a remarkable demonstration of religious fervor during the past few days. On Holy Thursday and Good Friday business was entirely suspended and everybody in the city appeared ap-peared to be occupied with devotions. All the Hags w-rre at half-mast, no bells were rune, and not a carriage was to be seen In the streets. All the people who had occasion to go out walked. Men,, women and eh.il.dren made pilgrimages to the churches. Ten thousand persons marched march-ed In a procession on Holy Thursday and fought for the privilege of carrying images of the saints. On Good Friday 20. Oi iO persons participated in the service, which was solemnized by the Archbishop. Arch-bishop. There wore some remarkable I scenes of humiliation and self-torture. |