Pilgrimage to the Holy stairs of onehouse
Pilgrimage to the Holy Stairs of Campli
Saturday, February 27, 2016
The Fontevecchia Association organizes for this year, in collaboration with other cultural and historical associations, the event dedicated to the historical devotion which is divided into different times. The event is scheduled to begin Saturday, February 27 at 8:30 am in via Ofanto 24 in Pescara, behind the new court which will be celebrated Mass in Latin according to the rite of St. Pius V, in the Oratory of the Precious Blood. Afterwards he will leave for Campli where the arrival is scheduled at 10.45 in front the entrance of the Holy Steps.
It is a way of enriching Lent, following the rules of abstinence and fasting, going to his knees 28 wooden steps olive of the Holy Steps built between 1772 and the 177 years in which it was blessed and opened for worship in month of May.
The internal plant model of the construction is similar to that of the Lateran, with two ramps scale that are connected on a single landingwhere the grating that allows you to see inside the environment of the Sancta Sanctorum. In the small chapel there are the 'altar dedicated to the Savior, relics of martyrs is saints kept in reliquary of school Neapolitantwo stauroteche with two fragments of the cross of Christ and a canvas that reproduces the image of St. Francis of Assisi. On the landing two wallsfrescoes recall the figures of Pope Clement XIV and St. Helena Empress, Mother Constantine I, Who holds in her hands a large cross. According to a medieval legend, the sovereign, during his trip toHoly LandHe would have found and brought to Rome the staircase ascended Jesus to reach the presence of Pontius Pilate.
An indulgence, however, is due to apostolic brief, Issued by Pope Clement XIV, January 21 1772, «equipped with Regio exequatur in the day April 6", By which the pope officially granted, in the third year of his pontificate, in Campli the same privilege of 'Indulgence Plenary belonging to Scala Santa of Rome. The papal document assigned also the task of designating the days related to indulgence to Monsignor De Dominicis which set the reference dates. The large number of faithful in Campli for these recurrences necessitated further surgery atHoly See in order to also extend to other days the possibility of obtaining the indulgence. Pope Pius VI, By means of a rescript, dated December 17 1776. John Paul II, January 14 2002, It enacted the papal bull where, confirming dates earlier, he recognized the indulgence to the faithful who visit the Scala Santa Campli in the period Lent.
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