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Title: Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Forbes, S. Russell
Subjects: Art -- Rome Rome -- Guidebooks Rome -- Antiquities
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ed, ourLord came down after his mock coronation in the judgment-hall ofPilate. The blood from his bleeding brow marked certain of thesteps, and these are kissed by the ascending faithful, the knees ofwhom so wore away the marble that it is now covered with a woodenstaircase, in which thiough slits the maible is seen. They aresaid to have been brought from Jerusalem (where it formed thestairs to Pilates house) by the mother of Constantine. By ascendingthese stairs on the knees, a thousand years indulgence is secured tothose who believe it. Dickens said, The sight was ridiculous inthe absurd incidents inseparable from it—to see one man with anunbrella unlawfully hoist himself with it from stair to stair, and a de-mure old lady of fifty-five, looking back every now and then to assureherself that her legs were properly disposed. On the feast of the As-sumption, the sacred picture Acheirotopeton (made without hands)is exposed to view. This picture is said to have been drawn in outline IQ
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THE SCALA SANTA. RAMBLE IV. 243 by S. Luke, and before he commenced to Ull the colours in, it wasfound finislied by invisible hands. From the front of the church a charming prospect of the Cam-pagna is obtained. To the right of the stairs is the Kiss of Judas; on the left, EcceHomo, by Giacometti. At the left of the hall, Christ Bound to the Pillar, oppoi^ite Pius IX. Martin Luther had made the ascent half-way, when he suddenlystood up, turned about, and walked down. He said that a voice hadwhispered to him, The just shall live by faith. The SanctaSanctorum at the top is only open to the Poj^e, who alone canofficiate, and on the day before Palm Sunday to the canons ofthe Lateran for adoration. The stairs can only be ascended onthe knees. Be/nnd is THE VILLA WOLKONSKY. Open on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Permission to he Itad at theRussia7i Consulate, Piazza Feoli Corso. The grounds are tastefully laid out, and are intersected by thearches of Neros aqueduct. From the roof of the casino, t

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