Pageantry

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 451, 5 September 1928, Page 1

Pageantry

Church Dignitaries Greet Papal Legate

RECEPTION ABOARD ORAMA (Special to THE SUN) SYDNEY, August 30. In the half-light of a pearly dawn, the Orient liner Orama entered Sydney Heads this morning, the Papal flag with the triple crown and crossed keys at the masthead betokening the presence on board of the first Papal Legate to Australia and New Zealand. On the bridge stood Cardinal Cerretti himself, his glowing crimson robes catching the rays of the bright sunlight as he stood surrounded by the more sombre-clad members of his suite. On the wharf were gathered the Apostolic Delegate (Archbishop Cattaneo) and the sponsor of the Congress, His Grace the Archbishop of Sydney (Dr. Kelly), and his coadjutor, Archbishop Sheehan. Then, the tall and commanding figure of Dr. Duhig, Archbishop of Brisbane, was seen surrounded by the members of the Permanent Committee of the Eucharistic Congresses—Bishop Heylen of Namur, the Prince de Croy, Monsignor Nunlist (Berne), and others. ABOARD THE ORAMA Our first encounter was with Bishop Malouf, a very handsome whitebearded Patriarch from Mount Lebanon. Bustling through the crowd of passengers came Monsignor Curran, the smiling vice-Rector of the historic Irish College, Rome, who is acting as the Legate’s secretary. The Bishop of Orihuela, in Spain, was accompanied by tall Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, Count Guizzazola, who is the special envoy of His Catholic Majesty, King Alfonso, from whom he bears letters of greeting to the Congress. He might have stepped out of the pages of an Anthon. Hope novel in his velvet uniform of white and blue, with gold stripes, resplendent with glittering orders, and with a cocked hat of cobalt blue surmounted with plumes. Two Papal Chamberlains, Count Hearn and Count di Mimbula, an American and an Italian respectively, wore scarlet uniforms which would make a field-marshal look drab. Count Luigi Chiaserotti was clad in cape, doublet and knee-breeches of watered black silk, with silver-buckled shoes. In his hand was a plume-fringed tricorner hat, and he wore an ivoryhilted sword, with a silver scabbard. Members of . thn Papal household, Monsignori C a c c i a Dominion! (Master of the Papal Palaces), Carlo Grosso (Papal--Master- of Ceremonies), Respighi (Prefect - df Pontifical Ceremonies) and the Marquis di Sant ’Elia, were. noticable. about the threshold of the stateroom, whither the members of the Australian Hierarchy had been admitted to welcome His Eminence. -

Then, the handsome figure of Cardinal Cerretti emerged from his room. Smilingly, hq bowed to all those assembled to greet , him. His beautifully clear olive complexion, flashing eyes,-and quickly radiant smile, marked him as a man above his fellows. His personality is magnetic and compelling. His clear' and strong voice is almost bell-like in tone, and his English is perfect, only the rolled “r’s” giving a hint-of his foreign birth. He had warm greetings for New Zealand. Hearing there was someone there from Auckland, the Cardinal left the group around the door and came over to ask after the health of his friend, Bishop Cleary. “I well remember your beautiful Auckland, he said, “the dreamlike beauty of the Gulf in the dawn, and warm-hearted hospitable people?. I have the happiest memories of your favoured country.” He then handed over the message to New Zealand, which Dr. Cleary had obtained for release through the Press Association, THE PROCESSION At half-past ten, the Cardinal landed after having received a seemingly interminable queue of Bishops and other dignitaries here for the Congress. They were dressed in purple, with purple birettas and ferriolas, or shouldercapes, and prominent among them, the oldest of them all, the senior of the whole episcopacy of the World-wide Catholic Church, the veteran Archbishop Redwood of Wellington./ The order of the almost royal progress of the Legate to St. Mary’s through crowded streets of cheering onlookers was as follows: The Cardinal lead the procession in the first motor-car, accompanied by Archbishop Kelly. The occupants of the second car were Monsignor Caccia Dominloni, Master of the Papal Household, and Morisignor Carlo Respighi, who is Master of Ceremonies at the Vatican, and is related to Respighi, the famous Italian composer. Archbishop Gilmartin, of -Tuam, and Bishop Doherty, of Galway travelled in the third car. In the fourth car were Bishop Clemente Malouf, of Syria; Bishop Saviero Irastorzo, of Spain, and Abbot Agostino Antoniolli, of the Benedictine Order, from Italy. Monsignor Carlo Gross and Alberto Marquis Mella di Sant’ Elia, from Rome, followed; and then, in the sixth car, came Count Mimbela and Count Edward Hearn, official representative of the Knights of Columbus in Rome. Next in order were Monsignor Curran (Vice-Rector of the Irish College in Rome) and Fathers Vincenzo di Lorenzo and Remo Riccioni. Monsignor Lamerand, of France, Monsignor Gauci, of Malta, and Monsignor Allessandro Tauber werfe the occupants of the eighth car. In the ninth were Canon Rossiter, of Wexford, an old schoolfellow of Archbishop Kelly; Father Benedict Seton, who was in Sydney twenty years ago as an officer of the British Navy, and has since become a priest of the Benedictine Order; and Father Francesco Bucys, Superior-General of the Mariani Order, Italy, Archbishop Barry, of

Hobart, was in the tenth car, accompanied by Father Barry, of Cloyne, Ireland. In the eleventh car were the Very Rev. Father P. E. Magennis, of Rome, General of the Carmelites; Father McGrath, of Rome, one of the Augustinians; Father Flanagan, Carmelite Commissary, New York, and Father Power. Next in the procession were Counts Batthyani and Zileri, friends of Cardinal Cerretti, who are accompanying him on the present tour; Monsignor Soldini, the Marchese Carnaggia, and Count Calderon Guizzazola, representing the King of Spain. A further instalment describing the scene in St. Mary’s Cathedral will be published to-morrow.