MOVING SCENES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 261, 28 June 1932, Page 5

MOVING SCENES

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CROWD OF A MILLION

— By Telegraph — Copyrlght).

DUBLIN, Monday. 'he Eucharistic Congress reached climax to-day, when an assembly mated at 1,000,000 heard mass in lenix Park, and later the Blessed rament was taken in procession five miles to the altar set up at !onnel Ilridge, in the centre of the r, where the Papal Legate projnced the benediction upon a multie which stretched as far as the could see along the seven roads jrerging on the bridge. |our columns of men and women Ishippers marched to the city along jirate routes as a single procession lld havo taken eight hours to reach I scene. The tramping columns sied banners and sang hymns. Ihe record crowd began to assemlaround the altar at the park in I early hours. Ipart from the throng of visitors, lesenting every country in ChrisSom, who had spent the week in Klin, scores of special trains Ight thousands from every part of Euid, including Ulster. ghen the worshippers had taken I- place at noon, the whole of the icre field was a mass of humanity, |h hushed into a silence as the K opened. I a circular space were hundreds li'iests, members of orders, and a B of 500 men and boys. Een the arrival of church digni- |? began with a procession of arch ®ps and hishops, who took their ks at the colonades. Finally came ■eardinals, headed by the Papal Bte, who took his place on the gp as the eelebrant of the Ponti- ■ Mass. Be Legate delivered a simple devo1 homily in English. Everything ■heard by the huge congregation Bgb loud-spcakers, until the cliBeame at the end of the Mass. Bi the Pope's brief message was Hlcast, photographers and aero■es drowned the Pope's words. ■ were a simple quotation in Latin B Eaint Patricks: "As you are Btians, he ye also Romans!"