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does not coincide with that Of the western
churches. holy week in Jerusalem is celebrated
predominantly according to the Greek calendar,
the services OF the other churches being repeated
on their own dates.
In all the Greek orthodox countries-Russia.
Roumania Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Montenegro,
and large part of Austria-H ungary-Easter is
celebrated with great fervor and devotion. The
Easter kiss is well-known incident OF these
celebrations
Jerusalem is naturally full Of churches. monas-
teries hospices and hospitals OF the various
creeds, and every one of them at Easter brings
out its own peculiar religious individuality. The
Latin church, for instance. whose establishment
in Jerusalem hanks back to Godfrey do Bouion
and his crusaders, has a number OF oriental
churches united to the Roman Catholic church.
Thus there are the United Greeks the United
Syrians, the United HISTORIANS, the United Ar
menians, the Maronites. all Of whom celebrate
mass in their own tongue and so add In their
ceremonies and garb a picturesque distinctive
ness to the whole
Then there are the Copts, the Armenians. the
Syrian Jacobites the HISTORIANS, the Abyssinians,
besides Greeks and Protestants. The relative
standing of the various churches Is In measure
expressed In the way they share the Is lamps
that burn in the Holy Sepulcher chapel, which
is In the center Of the stone that was rolled away
from Jesus grave by the angels. Five OF these
lamps belong to the Latins, five TO the Greeks
four to the Armenians and one to the Copts
Away from the ecclesiastical ceremonial the
n,irrim IN Easter time seeks the traditional
places where our Lord spent his last days ana
nights OF these Gethsemane is the principal
goal. and here the difference in creed among the
many visitors is obliterated by an earnest aud
ouiet devotion which Is Unexpectedly free from
the emotional.
Another figure has prominent place In Easter
celebrations In Jerusalem; that OF Moses, whose
liberation OF the Jewish people from the yoke OF
Egvpt "a commemorated in the ancient Hebrew
paschal feast
There ia a very little known Mohammedan
celebration which, though no longer so general as
formerly. Is still Q most interesting one 10
the Mohammedan. II must be rememDe~ad, Jeru'
salem Is holy city, like Mecca and Medina ana
there "a a saving among Arabs Syria is the
Messed county. Palestine the holy land. and Je-
rusalem the holy city, il the holy OF holes"
Na,,va Mohammedans and pilgrims make NJ
nrooession and issue from the Stti hyriam
gate They are Joined by throngs Of their oreth
rem from the neighborng villages, and, amid the
Widest enthusiasm, with standards being borne
sloft and 10 the typical Arab music OF drum ane
ATE. the pilgrimage proceeds In the direction o
the Dead sea.
As the Arabs claim common descent with tn
Jews from Abraham. the Holy Land holds IRA
d,tions equally sacred to them. Jerusalem
second only to Mecca in sanctity because It con
tains. according to tradition. the rock OF Anrs
hams sacrifice, over which the famed mosque
omar Is built The Arab pilgrimage to the ouria
place Of Moses recalls the similar one TO the tom
of Noah, near the ruins OF Basioek . snort w
lance from Damascus.
IN eosmopolItan charm Easter IN Constantinopi
.lrcost equals that found in Jerusalem The capiti
If the Turkish empire is. Of course, in itself high
cosmopolitan; and there Is no other city In U
World where so many languages are heard IN 9
streets. not BY foreigners. but By the vAriegate
native population. The background here Is n
Jewish and Mohammedan. as in Jerusalem. D
uohammedan and Christian. with strong uni
Of spanish Jevry.