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Show ! HOLY COAT. I j The Most Sacred Rolic in tho Eyoa of Good Catholics It Ib Supposed to lie tho Garment Worn the saviour Just Before the Cruoi- Festival The pilgrimage of Americans to Europe to look upon the holy coat of ! I rovt-s has beiin. That is a Ioiilt jour-'.H'.y.to jour-'.H'.y.to look upon a relic. But this is an 'xtraonllnary rv lie tho most sacred u the keeping of the Catholic church. 'o be sure certain ecclesiastics have 3iserr.ijT.CKl its authenticity. But, says the Chicago Herald, the mass of people in the Catholic church believe it is thu ar:n.ci:t the Saviour wore. When the announcement was made tli it tuc coat would be on exhibition t.n.i v-ar it aroused much interest imr:iT ;-ond Catholics m America. r: v otd and famous is the city of i iwv.s. in l.heniMi Prussia. It lies on Lie ;-iht bank of the Moselle, a ruin of f riri'T mairmticence. In Treves are ; mud the hnot specimens of Roraan-isUe Roraan-isUe arclntecture. Very splendid is the cathedral. A hundred years ago the citv library contained 100,000 volumes. vol-umes. But tae citv is celebrated above all other taniLi-s because in it is treasured tiie holy coat, v;;u.'a has received the most devout veneration from all good Catholics. U was St. ITelena who rj-ave the coat to the citv. It is said Mie was born in Colchester, l.ivs.. Lite in the third i i M c c id n t e t Christiani-tv Christiani-tv until she was ci-litecn. Then her z.al was extraordinary. Her piljrim-i piljrim-i a-e to Palestine in the fourth century ! is a famous event m tlie history of the : catholic church. I he object was to secure se-cure the cross upon winch the Saviour was crucmed. Siie found three crosses. The holy one was distinfruished because it was stud a mere touch healed a helpless invalid. in-valid. hile searc-mug for the cross St. Helena found the cottt. the seamless coat. She Si:cured what was considered consid-ered positive proof that the Saviour had worn the garment just before crucifixion. cru-cifixion. Y hen ht. ITelena returned to Europa she spent many years in Treves, which - "-"3 li ' v I TIIK HOLY COAT OF TREVES. was tnen a famous relimous center, fehe presented the coat to the cathedral. Hie lirat mention made of the coat was m the fourth century, lt appears m liie tiest.a rrevirorum. For centuries aiier that lt was exhibited regularly. 1 ne bishop of Bruno was consecrated in it in list In 1!S-; it was translated from tiie chair to the high altar of the caiuedral. 1 iicn came the wars of the middle ages. In order to preserve the coat it was placed in the ca--t;le of Ehrenbreut-stean. Ehrenbreut-stean. 1 here it remained for centuries, safelv hidden awav. In 1S10. with the permission of Zsauoleon. the bishop of I revcs and Mar. alannavhad it brought back to the cathedral. It was made a religious festival. Vhen it waas placed upon exhibition aaO.aaO people flocked to see it. It was exhibited every seven years until 1S44. that year its exhibition was one of the Greatest religious excitnnent. Eleven a hois and over 'a.oa'J.dao of the laity aaeac.l to tne city between August 13 and O.-tolor 0. Tliere were 9,000 from the tinted States. 1 or a number of years petitions have been made to the irovernraent asking tor permission to exhibit the holy coat, ililherio lt has been refused. Now it is exoeeted that there will be a tremendous tremen-dous movement to Treves. It is said .hat 100. cue will go from America, .k-.- |