VOLLEYS IN CHURCH.
NOVEL CEREMONY IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, August 3. St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral yesterday was densely packed for solemn memorial field mass for the Allied sailors and soldiers who fel, in the Great War. A firing squad of ten marines from the warship Wes Virginia was present and fired a volley each of the three times the sacred (Host was elevated.. The volleys sounded within the building like three heavy explosions and though warninghad previously been given they created a sensation, startling the congregatidn and several persons fainting. An elderly woman overcome by the excitement clapped her hands vigorously and danced before the altar, but was finally induced to kneel quietly. The ceremony is a novelty in Australia though common in Europe and America.
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Shannon News, 4 August 1925, Page 4
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126VOLLEYS IN CHURCH. Shannon News, 4 August 1925, Page 4
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