The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The Table of Contents was added by the transcriber. THE CEREMONIES OF THE HOLY-WEEK AT ROME. BY THE RT. REV. MONSIGNOR BAGGS, BISHOP OF PELLA.
CONCERNING A POOR MAN WHO WAS CALLED LE VIEUX PAR-CHEMINS
ODD SAYINGS OF THREE PILGRIMS
INNOCENCE
THE FAIR IMPERIA MARRIED
EPILOGUE
THIRD TEN TALES
PROLOGUE
Certain persons have interrogated the author as to why there was such
a demand for these tales that no year passes without his giving an
instalment of them, and why he has lately taken to writing commas
mixed up with bad syllables, at which the ladies publicly knit their
brows, and have put to him other questions of a like character.
The author declares that these treacherous words, cast like pebbles in
his path, have touched him in the very depths of his heart, and he is
sufficiently cognisant of his duty not to fail to give to his special
audience in this prologue certain reasons other than the preceding
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The Table of Contents was added by the transcriber. THE CEREMONIES OF THE HOLY-WEEK AT ROME. BY THE RT. REV. MONSIGNOR BAGGS, BISHOP OF PELLA.