BIG ATTENDANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1943, Page 4

BIG ATTENDANCE

AT FUNERAL OF CARDINAL HINSLEY CONGREGATION OVERFLOWS CATHEDRAL. MESSAGE FROM THE POPE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, March 23. A congregation of 6,000 crowded Westminster Cathedral and many others, unable to get in, listened outside, to the Requiem Mass for Cardinal Hinsley. Queues -formed at 7.30 a.m. to attend the Mass due to begin at 11.0 a.m. Five hundred clergy, carrying unlighted candles, participated in the procession down the nave to places on each side of the catafalque. The coffin, with its black, velvet and gold pall, was surrounded with massed white candles. The Cardinal’s beads and religious orders were in the sanctuary as the cathedral choir sang the mass. The congregation included members of the diplomatic corps representing the Allied nations and other countries, members of Parliament and representatives of national, international and religious bodies. Mr C. Knowles, private secretary, represented the New Zealand High Commissioner (Mr W. J. Jordan). The Archbishop of Liverpool preached the funeral obsequies. He said the loss of the Cardinal was the loss of the universal church, the nation and humanity. He read a telegram from the Pope, in which his Holiness expressed profound grief at the death of Cardinal Hinsley, recalled his untiring and conscientious labours and expressed confidence that his' memory would serve as a lasting inspiration to the hierarchy, clergy and the faithful. The coffin will rest in the Chapel of Holy Souls, in the south aisle of the cathedral, until the interment in St Joseph’s Chapel, where a vault is being prepared. The interment probably will be carried out on March 26 and will be private, attended only by relatives, the late Cardinal’s court and the Metropolitan Cathedral Chapter.