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Having spoken of the ceremonies of the Vatican and S. John Lateran's, we might consider our task as completed . Yet one more funzione attracts our countrymen on this day; and we are therefore unwilling to bid them farewell, before it is ended.
After the 4th, 8th, and 11th prophecies an appropriate Tract is sung by the choir. Formerly some or all of these prophecies were said in Greek as well as in Latin. Set. These lesson are recited even where there is no baptismal font, as at the Sixtine chapel. After them follow in S. John Lateran's and other churches the blessing of the font, and in some of them administration of baptism.
The ceremonies of holy-week are performed at S. John Lateran's by the chapter of that protobasilica, and resemble for the most part those which we have already described. On holy-saturday however, in addition to the rites before mentioned, the font of the baptistery is blessed by the Card.
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