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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 19, 6 February 1891, Page 11

The Spanish Government has decided that the principal celebration of the centenary of the departure of Columbus for ths discovery of the New World will take place at Huclva, from which port he sailed. Meetings will be held at the Convent of La Bobida, where Columbus was received when he despaired of obtaining aid. It was the prior of this convent who obtained royal assistance for him. The Cardinal Archbishop of Paris expects to be able to consecrate the Basilica on Montmartre in Juns, 1891. |This Totive Church of the Sacred Heart will thus have taken eighteen years to complete The special law of the National Assembly, which authorised Cardinal Guilbert and his successors to acquire the site, and to undertake the work as a national work, bears date July 25, 1871. Since then the sum of £900,000 has been subscribed and expended. The Holy Father himself sent £800 as his personal offering, The great Dominican preacher, Father Monsabie, has begn invited by CfardJAftl Richard to preach ths dedication serigoQ,