Holy Thursday - the Pope washing the feet of poor priests, 1844. Easter in Rome: '...the feet of certain poor men are washed by the Pope, in the Sixtine Chapel; it is performed in white, contrary to the usage of this penitential time'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.

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