THE HOLY YEAR OF 1825.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9, 1 March 1900, Page 28

THE HOLY YEAR OF 1825.

Amons? these who were present at the opening of the holy doorway in IS2."> was Joachim Pecci, the present Pontiff. It is too early yet to know all that is contained in the various documents that may be found hidden by the door closed by Pope Leo XII. at the end of the year IS2.">, but it is believed that they will be found to contain many things which, when fully disclosed, will verge upon the prophetic. A peculiar coincidence marks the ceremonies of 182") and of the present year in that Pope Leo XII. almost a year before the time for the ceren.ori} of 1 8 2."> was not expected to live, and, in fact, had' taken the la-L sacraments on December 2H, 1 823. and prepared for death. He recovtred, however, and lived until IS2'J. At the end of the jubilee year he closed the portals and sealed them up, anticipating that within a quarter, or at the latest half, of a century some succeeding Pope would open them and find the relice and tokens deposited within.