Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-05-13


whole subsequent display as if our coats had
torne the court impress. Af,er the procession
reached the high altar the Pope dismounted
from his chair and went behind Il into the
chancel. Taking his scat on the side, he was
disrobed and his tiara taken of, and then he |
and the choir performed an antiphonal SER
vice. Soon he was robed in another dress
golden mitre put on his brows, and he assumed
the throne at the end of the chaDcel. Here
inceuse was burned before him, and forms of
gone through, when he performed
another antiphonal service with the choir
He was then conducted to the high altar,
where he said mass. The silent ceremony
was relieved by an occasional burst Of music
or ringing of bells.
At the elevation Of the host and the ehal-
ice, the crowd fell upon their knees, priests,
soldiers, officers, princes, beggars ladies and
children, dropped in their places, and then
sounded through the church FROM some dis
tant and unseen balcony such soft, sweet
and delicious peal of silver trumpets, as made
the nerves fairly tremble and shiver with de-
light The effect was fine and greatly en-
HANGED by the soldiers rising from their knees
and grounding arms all along the lines on the
marble floor think the theatric effect Of
the whole scene could not be surpassed The
mass was over, and the procession resumed lis
course to the sound Of military music through
the church to the vestibule, and then TO the
balcony Of St. Peters, where the Pope bless
ed, as ON Holy Thursday, the immense crowd
assembled in the square. After the benedic-
ton, the cannon ihundered the bells rang,
t.,ttr.b f.rfh from
600 throats The bands struck up, 10000
soldiers ordered arms, Dragons fourishcd their
sabres. excited officers marshaled their compa-
nes, and the religious services Of Easter Sunday
We're over. But the picture Of the crowd in
St. Peters square on that day will never be
oiiaced II was one Of those pictures which
only the old world can produce This even
ing occurred also the illumination of ST.
Peters church aud colonade | have just re-
turned from the spectacle. | went with T.
Buchanan Read, the great American painter
to the house of Mr. Mozier the great Ameri-
can sculptor, in Rome.
4 large company of Americans were ASSEM-
bled in his drawing rooms and on his bacon-
les. His house is on the Pincian Hill at the
top of the Scala Spagua The situation COM
mands the best view of st. Peters of any in
Rome | met there Bayard Taylor, Brad
ford Rogers and others who are and will be
celebrated in our history. The church is one
mile distant, and stands relieved against the
sky and Vatican Hill in tranquil majesty
The illumination began at seven o'clock.
Silver lights followed all the lines of the
building from the base to the cross on the
top Of the dome. The wonderful structure
was thus relieved against the sky, then black
with Clouds in all its grand proportions,
perfect in every part, like a temple of light.
| 1t was an ideal picture, like my conception
of the Holy Temple in the New City of God.
/ 1t was a mosaic Of silver fire and at no time
and in no place has this marvellous building
put on such bewidering glory, as when to-
night all its architectural lines and parts were
traced in stars against the clouds. At eight
precisely, in a single moment, at the sound of
cannon, the Illumination changed from silver
to golden light But the splendor of the Sec
ond illumination was too profuse. 1t lacked
the purity and clearncss of the first. Still,
as ! bade farewell TO it at nine O'Clock, it
seemed as if was bidding adieu to a celestial
vision, like that which will greet the eye in a
better world. | was so far away from the
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