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This is a Roman Catholic plan for the most sacred shrine in Christendom-the place where the crucified body of Christ is said to have been laid. According to tradition, the Holy Sepulchre was discovered in about 300 A.D. by Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine. Destroyed and rebuilt several times since then, the present church is a cramped, badly maintained building that has disappointed many a pious tourist. Crowded into its dingy interior, the shrines, chapels and stalls of six branches of Christianity (Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Coptic and Abyssinian) constantly interfere with each other...
...Vincent's Seminary and Mary's Central Shrine in Germantown, Pa., everyone bustled through preparations for this week's big celebration. Philadelphia's Cardinal Archbishop Dougherty himself was to be on hand; there would be more than a dozen bishops and scores of priests to celebrate a golden jubilee Mass in honor of the Rev. Joseph A. Skelly's 50th year as a priest and the 35th anniversary of the organization he founded. Only one man looked forward to the occasion "with much unpleasantness." Brushing the cigar ashes off his black suit, spry, 76-year...
...Berlin's Tempelhof Airport, which has become something of a shrine for Berliners since the airlift, the U.S. staged a large, lively show including a parade of 1,000 crack troops (led by the 298th Army band and the 7868th fife & drum unit), massed Army, Navy and Air Force colors, helicopters which performed special feats of daring, an exhibition of jets and other U.S. aircraft, and (in the afternoon) a baseball game. Tempelhof field was jammed by 100,000 Berliners who had turned out with baby carriages, folding chairs and lunch boxes to see the show. Star attraction proved...
...high points of the pilgrimage were the vigils in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. But by the third vigil, familiarity had so far bred irreverence in some of the company that they desecrated the shrine outright-bargaining with the Moslem merchants, "swilling [strong wine] till the bottles were empty." Some of the priests got into a wrangle over their turn to celebrate Mass, and the lay pilgrims were forced to intervene. And then there were those pilgrims who went about scratching their names on everything in sight, and hunting for souvenirs. Felix's own "irreproachable" collection of relics...
Torchlight & Pickpockets. Baedeker's supreme duty was to take the tourist by the hand and lead him gently through the pitfalls of foreign lands. Thieves of all kinds were among Baedeker arch foes; speaking of Lourdes shrine, Baedeker says: "The torchlight procession presents a fairylike scene (Beware of pickpockets...