(See the passage of John the deacon cited above in the note).
The two customs of washing the feet first of 12, and then of 13, have
been reduced to one, and in it the number 13 is preserved[76].
[Sidenote: Cardinals' public dinner.]
Till within the last few years the Cardinals used to dine in public
at the Vatican on holy Thursday and good Friday, that they might be
spared the trouble of returning to their respective palaces before
Tenebrae; and anciently the Pope used to dine with them at the Lateran
palace, in the hall called the Triclinium Leonianum[77]. The Pontiff
wore on such occasions his cope and mitre, and the Cardinals were
habited in sacred vestments with mitres. After dinner a sermon was
preached before the Cardinals. _Mons. Maggiordomo_ used to invite on
these days prelates, officers, and others engaged in the _cappella_ or
palace, to a dinner at which he presided.
[Sidenote: Tenebrae etc.]
[Sidenote: Recapitulation.]
In the afternoon, at the office of Tenebrae, among other signs of
mourning, the cross is veiled in black, and the candles are of yellow
wax: the Pope's throne is stripped of its usual ornaments, and is
without a canopy: the cardinals' and prelates' benches also are
without carpets. The Cardinal Penitentiary goes to S. Peter's, where
the minor Penitentiaries are Conventuals of S. Francis. We have spoken
on these subjects in the preceding chapters.
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