JOAN OF ARC

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 199, 18 May 1920, Page 7

JOAN OF ARC

CANONISATION CEREMONIES,

.London, May 16. Sixty' Cardinals, four hundred Bishops, and 25.000 .French pilgrims; including 120 members of Parliament, took part in the impressive ceremony of the canonisation ;of Joan of /Arc at 1 Sfc -Peter's, ;Rome ; Scores'of women feinted owing .to the heat and'the incense. Pageants and commemoration services' wore held *t Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris,';and 'Westminster Cathedral; 'London.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn '. ..•,

the'latter part of the nine-, teenth century, says the "Encyclopedia Britannica," a popular cult of tho Maid .of Orleans sprang up m France, being. 1 greafly. stimulated -by, the Clerical Part}, winch desired to advertise, in the of this national heroine, ;the intimate union between,patriotism and tho Catholic faith, and'ibr this purpose ardently desired her enrolment among the Saints, :■ Oh ; January ,27, 1894. solemn .approval' was given by Pope* Leo XIII, and in February, 1903, a formal proposal was entered>for,- her canonisation. The Feast ~ of...the Epiphany 1 (January. ,6, ,190-4) was , ; mado the occasionfforv. public 'declaration by Pope Pius X .that .she was entitled,to the designation Vcneiable, 'On December 13, J9OS, the decree ot'Deatifica„.tioii. was._ published by the Consistory •Hall.6f;-the "Vatican.] ..■"'-.'. -