DUBLIN CONGRESS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1932, Page 5

DUBLIN CONGRESS

PONTIFICAL MASS POPE’S GIFT OF A CHALICE. (United Press Association—By Electric t Telegraph —Copyright.) DUBLIN, June 24. The principal event on the second day cf the Eucharistic Congress was tlie celebration of Pontifical High Mass I by Cardinal Lauri, the Papal Legate, at I the Dublin Pro-Cathedral. , The Cardinal Legate made another triumphal tour through cheering multitudes of people in perfect midsummej sunshine. At the Cathedral the service at. Pontifical High Mass was again marked by resplendent pomp. It was attended by many notables, including the members of the present Free State Ministry and those of the former Ministry, while, apart from the Legate, Cardinal Lauri, there were present seven other Cardinals, thirty Archbishops, and one hundred Bishons, along with clergy from all the nations, The whole of the service, as was yesterday’s opening, was wirelessly relayed, aiid it was heal'd through loudspeakers outside the Pro-Cathedral. The Cardinal Legate, during the celebrations, used a magnificent gold chalice, which the Pope himself use? last Friday. The chalice is u present from the Pope to the Archbishop of Dublin. The chalice is beautifully embossed. It depicts scenes in the life o r Christ, and is inscribed in Latin: “Presented to my Irish Sons in Christ in Memory of the Eucharistic Congress.”

NEW ZEALAND SECTION MEET. DOMINION’S FIRST CATHOLICS. DUwLIN, June 24. At their first meeting the New Zealand section of the Eucharistic Congress listened to the reading of a paper written by the New Zealanders, Miss Eileen Dugan and Mr Paul Kavanagh. on “New Zealand’s Pioneer Roman Catholic Family,” telling the moving story of the efforts of the Irish settler, Thomas Poynton, to obtain a Priest for the pioneers. Thomas Poynton reached New Zealand in the year 1828. and he twice made perilous crossings of the Tasman Sea- in a whaling boat before the Bishop of Sydney was fin allv able to supply a Priest. His Grace Archbishop Redwood spoke, stating that Thomas poynton had a thorough knowledge *nf tihe Maori language, and he was thereby able to dissuade the natives from attacking the first Roman Catholic Missictiafies ih New Zealand.

RETALIATION by GOVERNOR. DUBLIN. June 24.

Tlie non-inclusion of Mr McNeill, the Governor-General of the Free State, at a reception in Dublin Castle, had « speedy secjUel, as neither President De Valera nor any of his Ministers were invited to the Governor-General’s dinner at the Vice-Regal Lodge in honour of the Papal Legate.

ANOTHER BRILLIANT SCENE

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DUBLIN, June 24. The streets continue to be crowded day and night, and buildings are floodlit' by searchlights playing, and throwing Latin texts into the skies. There was a great scene at Phoenix Park last might,, when a quarter of a million men marched thither and assembled round a high altar. As darkness came on, at a given signal, every individual lighted a taper, and the vast park became a. sea cf lights, as the ncunced the benediction. Six Cardinals and one hundred prelates participated in the service. The previous day’s .splendours at the Pro-Cathedral were repeated this morning when Pohtificiai Mass was ecleb rated.

Another paper, by Eileen Dufjgan and Paul KavanagL, on "New Zealand’s debt to Ireland,” was read at to-day’s New Zealand session at the University College. The writers traced the early history of Catholicism from the landing of the French oishop, Pompaliier, in the North Island when there were only 350 white Catholic)', in the island, nearly all Irish. The firs: Irish priest to arrive was Father O’Reilly who reached Wellington in 1843. Awhblsbop Redwood, now known as the Patriarch of the Pacific, though an Englishman, was ; ordained in Ireland. ssev Zealanders of Irish descent were proud of the way Archbishop Redwood had surrounded himself with Irish lut p. er r, and had, himself, ever remained an outspoken friend of the Irish nationality.