MILLION PEOPLE
- HUGE GATJIERING IN DUBLIN FOR ETJ CH ARISTIC CONGRESS PREPARATION ON YAST SCALE A million people will attend the Pontifical High Mass at the Eueharistic Congress, which is to open at Dublin on June 20. There will he a procession 15 miles long, and six liners, packed with visitors, will be anchored in Dublin Bay. At the pilgrims' camp 2,000 bell tents, ,with 16,000 beds, are to be erected. Preparation is being made for the greatest assembly that ever visited freland. People are coming from all parts of the world. They include thousands of Irishmen, returning for the first time to their homeland and descendants of Irish parents who have not seen the Emerald Isle. An astonishmg spectacle is planned for June 22. During the 40 hours of the exposition of the Sacrament the whole city will be lit all night long, candles burning in every window. The final celebration of High Mass, which will he in Phoenix Park, will be followed by the Papal Legate, leading a procession of 1,000,000 people, walking eight abreast, necessitating 20,000 stewards to assist the civic guards^
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 205, 22 April 1932, Page 3
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185MILLION PEOPLE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 205, 22 April 1932, Page 3
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