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Holston

a river which rises in Wythe co., Va., and flowing a tortuous S. W. course through Smythe and and Washington counties, enters Tennessee between Hawkins and Powell counties.

Thence traversing Granger, Jefferson, and Knox counties, it unites with the Clinch river at Kingston in Roane co., to form the Tennessee river; length, about 200 miles.

Holy City

an appellation given by different peoples to that particular city whence proceed all their religious traditions and worship. By Jew and Christian Jerusalem is so named; by Catholics, Rome; by Mohammedans, Damascus, Mecca, and Medina; by the Hindus, Benares; by the Mohammedans of India, Allahabad; by the ancient Incas, Cuzco.

Holy Cross

an order of Augustin ian canons, suppressed in the 17th century. Also a religious order established in 1834 in France. The members devote themselves to education and works of mercy. Also a society consisting of clerical members of the ritualistic school of the English Church. It was founded in 1855.

Holy Cross College

an educational institution in Worcester, Mass.; founded in 1843 under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 50; students, 625; volumes in the library, 45,000; president, Rev.

James J. Curlin, S. J.

Holy Family

the infant Saviour, the Virgin Mary, Joseph, Elizabeth, Anna, and John the Baptist. A picture which all or the most of the subordinate personages are introduced is called a "holy family."

Holy Fire

a flame at Jerusalem maintained by the Greek and Armenian priests in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

Holy Ghost

the Holy Spirit; the third person in the Trinity, whom the Saviour promised to send to comfort His disciples (John xiv:, xv:, and xvi.).

Holyhead

an island and seaport of Wales; off the W. coast of the Isle of Anglesey, with which it is connected by a long causeway which may be crossed at low water, 23 miles N. W. of Bangor.

The isle is a barren rock. Holyhead has a breakwater inclosing a harbor.

Holy of Holies

in Judaism, the inner or most sacred apartment, first to the Tabernacle, then of the Temple, into which none was permitted to enter but the high priest, and he only once a year, and then "not without blood." It was separated from the Holy Place or Outer Chamber by a veil.

Holyoke College

MOUNT. See MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE.

Holyoke Mount

in Hampshire co., Mass., between Hadley and Amherst on the N. and South Hadley and Granby on the S. two miles E. of the Connecticut river, three miles S. E. of Northampton.

It is a steep, narrow ridge of greenstone; highest point, 1,120 feet above the sea.

Holy Roman Empire

a title which the German Empire received in 902 when Otho I. was crowned at Rome by Pope John XII. It came to an end when Francis II. became hereditary emperor of Austria in 1804.