The Holy Land and Syria . Waiting for the Holy Fire to come down from Heaven, a miraclecelebrated by the Greek Church during Easter Week. From the candlemysteriously lighted inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, others arelighted in rapid succession. ^1^^ iSAt >/¥^tjS^ The use of ladders to gather the olive crop has replaced the old, waste-ful method of beating the trees to shake off the fruit. The olive growsbest where its roots can find their way into the crevices of a rock EASTER IN JERUSALEM in Jerusalem seems to be waving palm branches, and thecourt and Church of the Sepulchre are f
The Holy Land and Syria . Waiting for the Holy Fire to come down from Heaven, a miraclecelebrated by the Greek Church during Easter Week. From the candlemysteriously lighted inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, others arelighted in rapid succession. ^1^^ iSAt >/¥^tjS^ The use of ladders to gather the olive crop has replaced the old, waste-ful method of beating the trees to shake off the fruit. The olive growsbest where its roots can find their way into the crevices of a rock EASTER IN JERUSALEM in Jerusalem seems to be waving palm branches, and thecourt and Church of the Sepulchre are filled with Greek Patriarch and his bishops march three timesaround the grand aisle outside of the rotunda of thechurch, bearing a cross of gold and preceded by cloudsof incense from urns carried by the bishops in gorgeouswhite brocaded silk gowns covered with roses of red andgold. In the procession there are a score or more ofbishops with crosses of diamonds six inches long upontheir breasts, and with their long hair flowing from undertheir high caps and down upon their shoulders. TheGreek Patriarch, the central figure of all of these cele-brations and the head of the Greek Church in Palestineand Arabia, carries the gold cross-like st
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