EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 961, 31 October 1910, Page 8

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

: . A MAGNIFICENT PROCESSION. ! : The heautiful Church of Notre Dame, Montreal, was packed to the doors on the night of September 7, when two Cardinals, 150 Archbishops and Bishops, and 2000 priests attended a solemn High Mass there in connection with the Eucharistic Congress. The scene was' most impres- , sive. Cardinal Vannutelli celebrated Mass at St. Patrick's on September 10, and cflnferre'd the' : Pontifical Blessing oil 30,000 1 school children at St. James's Cathedral. : His Eminence was - escorted ' from tho : Archbishop's Palace to St. Patrick's Church by a mounted escort of' two ■ hull- • (Ired men dressed in special costumes of ■ white and gold, ..the .uniformed' Hibernian • Knights, special cadets, and oue hundred j and fifty, citizens. ' ■ An open-air Mass was celebrated on ' September '10 in the Shadow of Mount I Royal by Archbishop Parley, of. New ' York, an eloquent 6ermon being preached by Archbishop O'Connell, of .'Boston. ' There- was' an attendance, of 15,000 per- ' sons.- , i The Congress concluded on Sunday, 1 September •11 ■ (says the "Catholic , 'rimes"), when 400,000 persons witnessed . Cardinal Vannutelli, tue' Papal Legate, f bear the Sacred Host'from Notre llaius to Fletcher's Field. The procession form- , ed one of the most magnificent spectacles over witnessed in the streets of Mont- 1 real. All the thoroughfares and, cross- i streets down town for almost p mile west' i of .Notre Dame after 10.30 were thronged with the various religious societies and lay organisations, all facing towards Notre Dame Street and awaiting the signal to file into i the latter thoroughfare to join the solemn procession of marchiiig men. Precisely at 12.30 tho solemn tones of the big Bourbon sounded forth'from the towers of Notre Dame, announcing to all within hearing that the immense body had started on its way eastward aloiig Notre Damfc'from Place d'Armcs Square. Montreal policemen in their • white helmets and dress uniforms constituted an advance guard. ' They were followed by firemen, Zouaves; and various Catholic organisations. It was not till towards tho end of tho procession that his Emincnco tho Papal Legato was seen bearing tho Blessed Sacrament, surrounded by a guard of honour. Preceding his Emincnco were choir children, cross* bearers, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, and abbots, wearing full canonicals and mitres; and following the Blessed Saora-' inent were several thousands of priests'and members of religious orders, and [ 25,000 laymen of every class, representing Canada, the United .States, and 'many other countries. The procession wended its way through richly-decorated streets, hung on every side with the Papal colours, the Union .Inck, and tho tricolour. The 05th Regiment, under Colonel Labelle, by permission of the 1 Ottawa , authorities, paraded in full, force as an es-. cort to the Messed Sacrament. A service was held N at Fletcher's .Field, ai which tho sermon was preached by Arch-' bishop Glennon, of St. Louis. ' ■ The Congress will meet next year at Seville, tho following year at' Vienna, . and in 1913 at Lyons. It may -bo held in tkerUnited States, in 1914,.