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Mysteries and devotion of holy-week Palm-Sunday, entry of Christ into Jerusalem of Julius II into Rome Sixtus V and Captain Bresca triumphant return of Pius VII to Rome, contrasted with ancient Roman triumphs. Part 2.
Not only was the sailor Bresca pardoned for transgressing the papal command, but he was rewarded, and the district of Bordighera, from which he came, received the privilege of supplying the palm leaves for the use of Rome on Palm Sunday a privilege which it still possesses, and which forms the principal trade of the place.
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