EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1928, Page 3

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

IN SYDNEY THIS YEAR. SYDNEY. Jan. 3. The coming Eucharistic Congress is a I read v causing a flutter oi excitement among the Catholic community in Sydney. There is to be a big and imposing pilgrimage from abroad. Ibe work of extending St. Marys Cathedral in Sydney is being pushed rapidly ahead. The aim is to have it completed in time for the Congress. Already one of the few architectural glories of Sydney, the Cathedral will be a magnificent edifice when completed. Anglican Church folk made no secret of their fear that their own new Cathedral if built on the suggest'd site in Macquarie Street, only a few vards from St. Mary’s, would he in such close proximity to that imposing edifice as to he overshadowed hv it. architecturally. The comparison would he obvious were the two Cathedrals within a stone's throw <d each other, for it is dear that the Anglican Church could not, for very many long years, hope to erect a Cathedral on the same stately and impressive lines as St. Mary’s. The Catholic community in Sydney is fortunate, not onlv in possessing such a Cathedral, but in having as its setting a spot like Hyde Park, which, incidentally, will bo far more lroautiful to the eye when the remodelling of it, now in its preliminary stage is completed.