An Impressive Funeral.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4908, 2 October 1884, Page 2

An Impressive Funeral.

(Pee Pbess Association.)

Napiee, This day. The body of the late Very Rev. Father Forrest was interred in the Napier Cemetery yesterday. Before the funeral pro* cession was formed service was performed in St. Mary's Church, where the deceased was lying in state. The Church was decorated for the occasion with flowers, evergreens, and festoons. The altar and pulpit were: draped with black cloth, embroidered with white, and several large black banners, bearing scriptural devices worked in white silk, appropriately added to the solemnity of the scece. The Church was crowded to excess, not an inch of available space being unoccupied. At the conclusion the coffin—a magnificent one, ornamented with silver, and with a glass lid, beneath which could be seen reposing the body of the deceased, arrayed in a priest's habit—was' covered with another lid, and conveyed by four priests fo the hearse. The procession was formed in the following order :—A cross bearer, habited in scarlet and while; boys of the altar in red soutanes and surplices ; members of the Hibernian Society, in mourning regalia ; children of the Marist Brothers School; the sanctuary boys and the clergy ; the hearse, with members of the Rosary Society forming a guard of honor on either side ; the chief mourners, Revs. Fathers Reignier and Grogan, Major Scully, Dr Spencer, and Messrs J. H. Vantier, A. P. Sheath, and J. P. Bowerman ; the Sisters of the Missions; the Children of Mary, in regalia; the children of the Society of Infant Jesus, in white and pink, and also wearing wreaths of flowers; Convent children in mourning; members of the Altar and Rosary Societies; and the congregation mourners in vehicles. The procession, which was over a quarter of a mile in length, was followed by a large number of the general public. At the cemetery, Fathers Sauz^au, Keigner, Grogan, Kirk, Ahem, and Cassidy took part in the burial ceremony. The de profundis having been sung, Father Ahem delivered a short and impressive address, in wbich he compared the deceased to his illustrious compatriot St. Patrick.