Identifier: throughportugal00humeuoft (find matches)
Title: Through Portugal
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp, 1847-1910 Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson), 1869-
Subjects: Portugal -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, E. G. Richards
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ful life-sized colouredgroup of figures representing scenes in the passionof our Lord. Half-way down there was anentrance from one of the platforms into a lovelyold - world terraced garden, overflowing withflowers, palms, and sweet-scented verdure, andoverhung by the dark yews and pines that bor-dered the graded descent from top to bottom.At length after descending many flights of stepsand passing many terraced platforms with foun-tains, figures, and obelisks, a large mosaic-pavedsemicircular space was reached, ending in a stoneparapet. Turning and looking upwards fromhere an extraordinary effect was presented. Thealternate zigzags of the stairs and the faces ofthe walls, indeed all the architectural features,were outlined, like the great church toweringfar overhead, with brown grey granite, and facedwith perfectly white plaster. Stage upon stagethe great staircase rose, its parapets at the sideand the centre line being marked by statuesrising alternately one over the other at each 52
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So > o BRAGA AND BOM JESUS successive stage of the ascent. Dark greenery,palms, yews, acacias, orange trees, and trailingflowers overhung the ascent on each side, andit was not difficult to understand the devotionalfervour of pilgrims, who with tears and contritiontoil up this vast via dolorosa by the hundred onthe special anniversary, worshipping at the affectingshrines on the landings, and ending in an agonyof remorse at the foot of the miraculous Christwhich is the main attraction of the Sanctuary,Nor is the scene looking down over the parapetat the bottom of the main flight less striking.Sheer over the precipice you see the billowymasses of dark thick woods far below. On oneside of the wide mosaic landing is a stair leadingto another chapel, and so down by a successionof zigzag flights, bordered by thick greenery, tothe porch, set in its grove of yews, and leadingto the outer world. But mere words are weakto describe the charm and beauty of the BomJesus. There is nothing quite

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