CRUSADE FOR PEACE
WISH OF THE POPE His Holiness the Pope desired the National Eucharistic Congress to be held in Wellington in February to be a crusade for peace, which all desired so much, announced his Grace Archbishop O'Shea at the St. Patrick’s College, Silvertsream, prizegiving. The archbishop said that there was to have been an international congress in Europe, but this had been cancelled because of the war. The Pope was pleased, therefore, that there was going to be a Eucharistic Congress in the world this year, despite the war. The Minister of Justice and ActingMinister of Education, the Hon. H. Ci/r. Mason, said he was thankful for the decision to hold the congress despite all difficulties crea'ed by war. tt was an act of t; >th which could be of assistance in giving a direction to a world which needed help.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 8
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