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Title: The Argosy
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887 Wood, Charles W. (Charles William), b. 1850?
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Publisher: London (etc.) R. Bentley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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eat doors are closed, and the great church, the solemnaisles, are left to silence and solitude and repose. And ghosts come iforth, and a shadowy form at the organ once more sends forth the;pealing anthem, and now the thunder of diapasons reverberates!through the aisles, and now the soft sweet music of the reeds iwhispers and floats in the unseen, and waves of melody fill the air;«,and almost it seems as if a still small voice from heaven were seek-ing a heart charged with the cares and sorrows of life to encourageit with hope and consolation. Ecco RomaT 417 But we must not linger any longer in St. Peters. Our spacedraws to a close. That day, passing out from the church, weturned to the Piazzo S. Giovanni and the Church and Palace ofLateran. In the fourth century Constantine conferred the houseupon the Bishops of Rome, to be henceforth their episcopal resi-dence, and then consecrated the Basilica. It was looked upon asthe first of the Christian Churches, and bears an inscription which
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Arch of Constantine. ■anks it as the Mother Church ot the City, the Head ot all the :hurches in the world. Its chapter takes precedence of St. Peters, imd until the year 1870 the Popes were crowned here, not in St. Peters. Even now, the ceremony of taking possession of the Basi- ica is one of the first to be observed when the Pope is elected. i A few moments will take you from the Church to the Palace, where ou may gaze upon the Holy Staircase, which is preserved as one ot he treasures, one of the most sacred and precious relics of Rome. For thousand years this palace was the residence of the Popes. The VOL. XLVII. c c 4i8 * Ecco Roma !. staircase is said to have been that of Pilates house, and was troddenby our Saviour when he was brought before Pilate. The removalof the staircase from Jerusalem to Rome is attributed to the motherof Constantine, in the fourth century. At the foot of the staircaseare two sculptures by Giacometti, the Ecce Homo and TheBetrayal by Judas. At the head o

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