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HOLY WEDNESDAY From today on, the stationary functions of Holy Week are celebrated in Rome, in the great basilicas. That of Holy Wednesday in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore is the largest and most illustrious of the Sanctuaries consecrated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Sanhedrites decide to kill Jesus and find the traitor in Judas Iscariot. The hour of the Passion is approaching in which the eternal Word of the Father, already oppressed by internal pains, will be totally crushed by the executioners, offering his Body and Blood as a holocaust for the ransom of sinful humanity. The first passage of the Prophet Isaiah applies to the Passion. The blood that purple the Saviour's garment is His own blood: and the Saviour, instead of annihilating the people in His indignation, suffers and dies for them.