CATHOLIC PRELATE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 305, 19 August 1932, Page 2

CATHOLIC PRELATE

DESCRIBES EU CHARISTIC CONGRESS AS SUCCESS. ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD'S VIEWS Lodking his accustomed self, and bearing no visible sign of the stress of a journey half-way round the world and baclc, his Graee Archbishop Redwood, Metropolitan of Wellington, returnedHby the Rangitata last weelc from London, after having attended the Eucharistie Congress at Dublin. .His Grace was accompanied by the ftev. Father P. J. Smyth, parish priest the Baslica, Hill street. Although Archbishop Redwood is in his 94th year, travelling apparently holds no terrors for him, as during his trip abroad he took the opportunity of malcing a journey from England to Rome and back again. • Among those to meet him upon arrival were his Grace Archbishop O'Shea and a number of the clergy. "My trip to Europe and back has been, on the wh'ole, a great success, including my audience with His Holiness the Pope," said Archbishop Redwood, interviewed by a "Post" reporter on board the Rangitata. "As regards the great Dublin Eucharistie Congress, it was the sight of my life. No words can express its grandeur and vast signifiance as a display of Catholic faith, worthy, and more

than worthy of such exhibitions of faith in the long and chequered history of Ireland, the land of saints. "I will pick one incident out of many, namely, th'e arrival and reception of the Papal Legate. Through seven miles of cheering people Cardinal Laurinzo Lauri had a welcome from Ireland unequalled, I think, in history. Even before the Legate came on shore, the national welcome began, for army aeroplanes, flying in the shape of a cross, greeted him at sea and accompanied the Cambria to Dun Laoghaire harbour, where guns boomed out their royal salute. On his way from the ship the Cardinal passed through two rows of troops who stood at the 'present arms,' blessing them as he passed; and the people cheered and cheered. As he approached tho motor car he graciously stopped to permit the Press photographers to take some photos. He then entered the car, followed by his Grace Archbishop Byrne, of Dublin, who sat beside him, and President de Valera sat with his back to the driver. The mounted military escort, in their brilliant uniforms, took their places in front and behind the Legate's car. As the procession moved off, one further cheer of welcome rang out. The roads were lined with school boys and girls numbering thousands, in front, most of them carrying flags in the Papal colours. Great Demonstration. ^Ireland was making this gr>eat demonstration of homage and affection, to use the Legate's own words, to the representative sent them by Christ's Vicar on earth. A quarter of a million people took part in the procession. It was a sight hard to equal and to be ever remembered."