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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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.