ENGLISH CATHOLICS
■ , CELEBRATE EMANCIPATION . . ,1/lilted Press Association.—By Eiecjtrio Telegraph.—Copyright. j rv: LONDON, Sept. 0. Three hundred thousand people, >- drawn from all parts of Lancashire, forming the largest gathering of Ropaan Catholics that has ever been in Britain, attended High Mass in jjie Thingwell Park at Liverpool, for the celebration of the Centenary of Roppp Catholic Emancipation. / Bishop Dobson'celebrated High Mass at a large altar that was ejected on an eminence. Amplifiers carried the choir, singing to alb parts of the ptjr£, but some sections of ; '.the. Vpieople, yteye so crowded that there kneel. • ■ . . / The elevation of the Host was Heralded by the firing of maroons, the ■ roll of drums, and the sounding of bugles. ' ' . .. ;- , The heat was so oppressive that sis hundred of those present collapsed, and two hundred of those fainting were carried off in stretchers.^. . *.... Archbishop Downey was the preacher. He said that the vast concourse “were celebrating a historic victory, setting the seal on that' liberty where- / with Christ ipade men free.” | Twenty-five thousand people attended a sifnilar service held in GlasgoW.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1929, Page 3
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