EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1545, 14 September 1912, Page 5

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

A SCENE OF STRIKING SPLENDOUR. By Telegraph-Press Aasociatlon-Oopyrlslit . . Vienna, 'September; 12. . The Euchar.istic Congress has opened. tChe. scene, to-day was one o£ striking splendour, had was witnessed by enormous crowds: Representatives at the Congress include eight Archbishops and fifty bishops. . ' ,

The main outline of the programme of tho Eucharistic" Congress was fixed in November last, at a conference at which 22 of tho Australian Hierarchy were present, including the Archbishops of Vienna, Prague, Olrautz, and Salzburg. Tho opening day (September 12), is a historic anniversary for Vienna. For it was on September 12, IGB3, that, aftor the city had been besieged for weeks by a Turkish army 100,000 strong, John Sobieski appeared at the head of nn army of Poles and Germans and won,tho great victory that raised the siege. It was this success that put an end for pood a.nd all to the Turkish menace to Christendom, and the anniversary of the day ' When tho White Eagle's outspread wings Became Vienna's shield, therefore unites religious and patriotic memories for Catholic Austria. The Congress will end on Sunday, with tho grand open-air procession. It will set out from the Cathedral of St. Stephen and follow the line of- the "King," the series of boulevards, more than fifty yards wide, that have replaced the old fortifications of the inner l city. It will pass bv the Royal Palace of the Hofburg, the 'Town Hall, and tho Houses of Parliament. On the line of routo there are also the house ■where the Rcdemptorist "ApostTo of Vienna," St. Clement Hofbaucr, lived a hundred years ago, and tho Toom, now converted into a 'chapel, where tradition says St. Stanislans Kostka received Holy Communion .from - tho hands of angels. The chief altar of repose, will bo erected on the very ground on which tho decisive struggle in the Christian victory of IGB3 took place