three times, using at the same time the words of Ps. cxviii. 19
(_Aperite mihi portas justitiae_). The doors are then opened and
sprinkled with holy water, and the pope passes through. A similar
ceremony is conducted by cardinals at the other jubilee churches of the
city. At the close of the jubilee, the special doorway is again built up
with appropriate solemnities.
The last ordinary jubilee was observed in 1900. "Extraordinary"
jubilees are sometimes appointed on special occasions, e.g. the
accession of a new pope, or that proclaimed by Pope Leo XIII. for the
12th of March 1881, "in order to obtain from the mercy of Almighty God
help and succour in the weighty necessities of the Church, and comfort
and strength in the battle against her numerous and mighty foes."
These are not so much jubilees in the ordinary sense as special grants
of plenary indulgences for particular purposes (_Indulgentiae
plenariae in forma jubilaei_).
JÚCAR, a river of eastern Spain. It rises in the north of the province
of Cuenca, at the foot of the Cerro de San Felipe (5906 ft.), and flows
south past Cuenca to the borders of Albacete; here it bends towards the
east, and maintains this direction for the greater part of its remaining
course. On the right it is connected with the city of Albacete by the
Maria Cristina canal. After entering Valencia, it receives on the left
its chief tributary the Cabriel, which also rises near the Cerro de San
Felipe, in the Montes Universales. Near Alcira the Júcar turns
south-eastward, and then sharply north, curving again to the south-east
before it enters the Mediterranean Sea at Cullera, after a total course
of 314 m. Its estuary forms the harbour of Cullera, and its lower waters
are freely utilized for purposes of irrigation.
JUD, LEO (1482-1542), known to his contemporaries as Meister Leu, Swiss
reformer, was born in Alsace and educated at Basel, where after a
course in medicine he turned to the study of theology. This change was
due to the influence of Zwingli whose colleague at Zürich Jud became
after serving for four years (1518-1522) as pastor of Einsiedeln. His
chief activity was as a translator; he was the leading spirit in the
translation of the Zürich Bible and also made a Latin version of the Old
Testament. He died at Zürich on the 19th of June 1542.
See _Life_ by C. Pestalozzi (1860); art. in Herzog-Hauck's
_Realencyklopädie_, vol. ix. (1901).
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