Corpus Christi Vienna.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 115, 15 August 1885, Page 5

Corpus Christi Vienna.

The Corpus Christi processions took place to day all over the Empire, and the festival is kept as a general holiday. The procession in Vienna was all that fine weather, ecclesiastical pomp, and military and court pageantry could make it. The Emperor Jseeps early hours, so that by 6 o'clock' the city was astir with regiments marching to line the route of the procession, and with good people in their Sunday clothes hurrying to secure front places. The officers and solders, all wore sprigs'of oak leaves in f their shakos. - By 7 o'clock the streets were almost impassable. . , , The procession started from the Palace at 8 o'clock, going to St. Stephen's Catherdral by a c'ircuitoup route. At several points altars had been erected in, the open air, and these were like mounds of flowers j Tho streets were all sanded, and a gangway of •boards,! strewn with grass and rashes, ran down the middle of the roadway. First in tho procession came choristers and schoolboys, chanting canticles, then, monks of various orders, Capuchins in brown, Augustines in black, Dominican in black and white. After these appeared the clergy of the different parishes, in their richest} vestments, with the banners of the charities and religious corporations in their districts. The effects of all these banners born© aloft down the Kohimarkt, and forming fi long' medley of beautiful coloursand rich golden embroidery, was very striking. • The great officers of State, the fpreign, Ministers who are Roman Catholics, ajndthe Ministers of the monarchy and of thja Aus-< tralian State followed the clergy on foot, and in gala .uniform. Count Kalnoky^ walked beside -'the Minister Jor war, Count; de Bylancb/and bothoarried tapers about ja yard long.' The Emperor also carried a taper and a wfeatfi, of- flowertf. His Majesty walked' belnnS'tlie canopy' under whioh Cardinal

Gariglbauerj Archbishopo^-Vienna, held, up; the.JElost. The crowds-did, not;prqstrate themselves ,;op their knees, -as jls,^.qnp r in Flanders, on [Similar, occasions, bitfi^every head was bared. . After the Emperor camo the Crown. JBrince, .the Arcbdukea^andi a long and brilliant train pf npblemen, : qpsrj tiersiand officers.!,., ,,; ,v ' , • ,' . \--.ttr; j i T-he procession was closed by, the -A^truiA ( Life Guards in scarlet uniforms and mounted on superb tylaok horses; and.by.^hejH^n-; garian Guards, on white'horBes, ; )vith;bripUed of red leathor. Everyman of, the^e, Hungarian Guards wears a fur bonnet,., yelldiv boots, and a whole leopard's skin over Jtiia shoulders. The procession took about) an hour to file by, and, what, with the Veligiouq chants, and the flourishes which |the. mounted heralds performed on their, silver trumpets, there was o feast for the ear asjwell as for the eye.— ," London Timeß" Vienna Corr., June 4. - , , -< ,i „ , '