‘The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies’ [‎208] (229/508)

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Ihe Travels of Peter Delia Valle,
FiliarJerufaleM, dixit illis, Noliteflerefrper At which
turning of the facred Image, the people who were very numer-
ous 3 and fill'd the whole ftreets 3 lamented and utter'd very great
cryes of Devotion. At length, the Proceflion being come to the
Church, Dell a Gratia, where it ended, after the Attgujiine Nunns
(whofe Covent ftands near that of the Fryers in the fame Piazza)
had fung a while, an Image of ddvoito Santo, of our Lord's Coun
tenance like that at Rome, was (hown to the people gather'd to
gether in the faid Piazza,from a window of one of the Bell-turrets
which are on either fide the front of the faid Church 5 and (b the
Solemnity ended. But the above-mention'd Altars in the ftreets
are every Fryday during Lent adorn'd in the ramemanner,and vi-
lited by the people every day, and alfb many hours of the nighty
}uft as the Church of Saint Peter at Rome is vifited every Fry day oE
March ^ and they call this vifiting 3 Corror os Pajfos, that is, go
ing about and vifiting the fteps of our Lord 5 which fervesthe
people, during this time of Lent, no lefs for devotion then for
paftime.
March the firft, There was al(b another Proceffion in Goa of
the Difciplinanti, which I went not to fee 5 the like is made
every Fry day during all Lent, and therefore I (hall not ftand to
defcribe it. I believe there is no City in the world, where there
are more Proceflions made then in Goa all the yfcat long 5 and
the reafon is, becaufe the Religious are numerous, and much
more then the City needs 5 they are alfo of great authority and
very rich, and the People being naturally idle, and addided to
Shews, negleding other Cares of more weight, and perhaps
more profitable to thePublick,readily imploy themfelves iq^Jiefe
matters} which, however gooc^as facred and parts of divine wor-
(hip, yet in fuch a City as this which borders upon Enemies, and
is the Mearopolis of a Kingdom lying in the midft of Barbanam t
and fo alwayes at Warr, and where nothing elfe (hould be mind
ed but Arms and Fleets, feem according to worldly Policy un
profitable and too frequent, as alfo fo great a number of Religi
ous and Ecclefiaftical perfons is burdenfome to the State, and
prejudicial to the Militia. In the Evening of everv Frydayd
Lent, there is a Sermon upon the Paflion, in the ChulWof Giesu j
and lb likewife in other Churches, but upon other dayes and
hours. At the end of thefe Sermons certain Tabernacles are
open'd, and divers figures, reprefenting fome paflages of the Paf-
fion, (according to the fubjedt of the Sermon ) are with lighted
Tapers (hew'd to the People > as one day that of the EcceHo*to\
another day. Our Lord with the Crofs upon his (houlders 5 and
thelaftday, the Crucifix 5 and fo every day, one thing futable
tothepurpofe. Oftentimes they make thefe figures move and
turn, as they made the Robe fall off from the EcceHowo, and
difcover the wounded Body 5 at which fight the devout People
utter prodigious Cryes, and the Women force themfelves to
(hreek out 5 and the Signore, or Gentlewomen, are fo zealous,
that