Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-30
A RARE PILGRIMAGE,
Rarer Because of Pictures Drawn by
One Well-Known Pilgrim.
REV. CARROLL IN THE HOLY LAND.
The Popular Priest Tells of What He and
Other Pittsburgers Saw.
PYRAMIDS, JERUSALEM, SMYRNA, ETC.

Andrews Church, Allegheny, and his sis
ter Anna, are expected home soon from
their long pilgrimage to the Holy Land, in
company with the large party of pilgrims
who left this country last February. He
did not return with the third section Of the
party. which arrived last Friday week
in New York, but fingered awhile
in the Emerald Isle. A short time
since, the Sisters in the Convent
of ST. Andrews Church received long
letter from Father Carroll giving a history
of his pilgrimage from the time he sailed
from Constantinople for Athens and the
classic land of Greece. The letter is replete
with interesting data, incidents and de-
scriptions of the different places visited.
Following is a copy of it, with the excep-
ton of personal mention and few things
with which the general public are already
familiar 1t is dated Constantinople, May
20, and is as follows:
Our programme said we were to arrive at
Rome March a. spending there the time until
March Is, when we were to start for Naples
This was carried out April 26, at Naples, we
visited the ruined city of Pompeu. April q
we embarked on an Italian steamer for Alex
andria, Egypt. April 1 (Monday) we arrived
at Alexandria and took the train in the after
noon to Cairo. We remained at Cairo three
days and sailed on Cooks steamer up the Nile
to a landing near
THE SITE OF ANCIENT MEMPHIS,
where we got on donkeys and rode to the
pyramids of Sukkora, which were the ceme-
teries of Memphis. Nothing of Memphis now
remains, except huge statue lying at the
~&la \. Al.
pyramids, which are in ruins, and the tombs of
the sacred bulls. These bulls. the idolatrous
Egyptians worshipped gods, and after the
bull died they inferred him in a sorcophagus,
body and bones. The sarcophagus was huge
rock of granite, externally in the form of a
chest with movable cover. This block of stone
was followed, so as to contain the bull. We
had to descend under ground to vaulted
sorcophagi. See what idolotry brought the
most civilized people to do!
After lunch we rode on the donkeys again
across the desert to the pyramids of Gizen, a
persons got from the donkeys. Suffice |
This was tiresome day indeed, and the first
experience for most of us in donkey riding. At |
the pyramids of Gizeh carriages were IN wait |
ing to convey US to Cairo. They were vel |
good repair They are visible from Cairo.
April Thursday, we took cars from Cairo |
atsP: N. Travelling all night we arrived at
Ismalia early in the morning. April S we em.
barked on small steamer on the Suez Canal
at n A NJ. and arrived at Port Said in three or
four hours, where We dined, and at
Jaffa. The canal is sufficiently broad and
deep to float large vessels and allow them to
pass each other. April 6 Saturday morning)
we arrived at Jaffa, the part of the Holy Land,
having sailed through portion of the Suez
Canal to Port Said on the Mediterranean
After landing we put up It the convent of the
ing for Ramleh. the ancient Aramathea. Our
course lay across the beautiful plain of Sharon.
which is as level as floor, very fertile and well
Country We stayed at the Ess Franeiscan an Con. Son
vent on Saturday night in Ramleh.
IN MODERN JERUSALEM.
April z after mass and breakfast, we started
for Jerusalem, where we arrived in the even
ing, singing hymns on our way through the
streets to the Holy Sepulchre. The road from
Jatfa to Jerusalem is very good-one of the :
few roads in the Holy Land on which wheeled
vehicles can travel From April z, P. NJ, till
the 22d. A. NJ, we stayed at the Convent of the
Franciscan Fathers, visiting from day to day
the holy places around. April we celebrated
mass on the Holy Sepulchre of our Lord for
the Young Ladies' Sodality, in which Sister
Louise. all the sisters, all the sodalities and the
people of the congregation were remembered.
During our stay l visited Bethlehem and said
mass in the Holy Grotto, where our Savior
was born. Bethlehem is about four, OF five
miles southwest of Jerusalem. You would
say that religion was not yet dead IN the world
TO see all the strangers of the different nations
that assembled there to venerate our Lord.
April 2, started on horseback from Jeru-
salem north to Nazareth, and to BeyrouI in |
Syria as the end of our ride. This journey oc-
cupied us two weeks. We camped in tents in
the open country at night after our days
journey, and stopped to lunch about midday. |
wherever we found shade to sit under and |
water for ourselves and the horses to drink
This was the roughesI part of our journey, as
we had no roads to travel, nothing but paths, |
through rough rocks, up and down mountains |
of which the Holy Land is full. Sometimes we
passed over level plains and sometimes along
the the seashore, and these were the easy parts of
places we saw and passed through in our
journey: Bethel, Milo, Mts. Gerizim
and s5d p,,s Ebal .,o6,s 6M,aploTs o tthe siehem of
versed with the Samaritan woman; Sunam,
Jezrahel. Samaria, Sanour 1.-THE ancient Bethu-
liza of Judith). Cana, Nazareth (where our Lord
fguredl, the Mount of the Beatitudes, Ii :
berias, Sea of Galilee; the sites of Capernaum
and Bethsaida and the shores of the Lake of
Galilee. ION these last three places very few .
ruins remain]; Mt Carmel (where we spent a
night at the monastery of the Carmellite !
Kaifa, ST. John of Acre, Tyre Sidon
tradition points out where Jonas was disgorged
BY the fish,, and Beyrout the end of our long
-ide. 4
All these places have their history: but it | s
would be too long to relate it here. Although | L
We had between 80 and 70 persons in saddles /
Ind many of them ladies' who never rode on | Il
horse before, yet no serious mishap befell any, Il
with one exception, and that one was priest a
rom Colorado. who was kicked by horse and
yot his leg broken; and him we had to leave at | Z,
Nazarethe in hospital His name is Father = =
Robinson.
PAST FAMOUS PATMos. r
Sailing from Beyrout May 1--WE passed the Z
sland of Patmos at dusk of May O. where st. =
ohn in exile wrote the Apocalypse. About t
loon, May 10, we landed at Smyrna, city of n
Asia Minor This was the see of St. Polycarp, v
disciple of the Apostles. This church and :
omb are shown here still. Smyrna is large
city. with many vessels in its har-
'or, and is said to contain population of 2SO.-
90 Inhabitants. 1t has fine bazaars, theaters,
orse cars, carriage roads, gas ana electric
ghrs After landing we got into carriages
nd were driven to the railroad station
or an excursion to Ephesus. That city was the
ee of st. john, the beloved disciple Ephesus '
in ruins. Its site is "a miles from Smyrna
cross a beautiful and rich plain, planted with
ineyards and fruit trees and interspersed
nth pastures, in which we saw horses, sheen.
attic, goats and elephants in large numbers.
he ruins we observed at Ephesus were: The
heaters. the agora or market place, the hippo
rome, large temple with most of its walls
till standing, the site of the celebrated.temple 4
f Diana in a hollow place, the church of st.
ohm Converted into mosque now partly in
uins), and the citadel, on hill near the rail- VI
'hird General Council of the Church was held .
he ruins indicate that Ephesus was at one