The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-23
DOMESTIC CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.


DOMESTIC CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.
Grand Cathedral.-The new Cathedral
of Boston, now almost entirely hhisheu'
will undoubtedly be one of the most mag
uificept churches in this county. IL was
originally projected by k,gnt .h me corn Dr.
atone being laid by him some five years
ago. The style is purely medi@va, Gothic
cruciform, with wings, rave, aistes' anu
clere- story, without the modern deiormity
of a gallery, the clere story being support
ed by two rows of clustered iron columns
resting on bases of solid masonry its
whole length including the chapel OF tue
Blessed Sacrament on the north east cor
per, is 1854 feet; the length of the nave ex-
elusive Of chapel, 800 feet; width from
transept to transept, 100 feet wiath Oh
nave and aisles 90 feet; height to the
ridge pole, 100 feet. There are two nam
towers in the trent, with glittering spires
surmounted by crosses, and one turret, all
of UNEQUAL height. The principal tower
nm the south west corner Is $40 feet high.
The turret rises near the main entrance
and on the north west nerAnother u"
er ascends 200 feet-all of solid masonry
the massive walle being eleven feet thlck;
The interior of the church will be grand
and beautiful. The lofty ceiling, finished
in open roof style, and elegantly orna
mented in blue and gold, tho lower part Oh
the edifice, sanctuary, pews. etc.-aii WIN
be solid and substantial. Tho high altar
will DO of beautiful Italian marble. Twen.
ty large and fifty-tw small windows, mlieu
with stained glass, will cast their mellow
ed brightness through the edifice. The en-
tire cost of the structure will, it is report
ed. probably exceed two million aud
quarter of dollars.-Baltimore Mirror.
A Touching Scenc.-A remarkable con-
firmation took l ice at the Aims House,
Blackwell Island, Feb. goth. The chH-
dren were mostly old men and women !;
chiIire1, indeed, as the childhood OF the
christian soul lasts until confirmation and
old indeed, as q large number were over
sixty years Of age, good many seventy,
some eighty, and one even eighty eight
years old. 1t was a striking sight to see
the fervor and happy eagerness with
which these poor people, crippled by age
and infirmities, crawled to the altar. They
were as many as ITO, altogether. Many
had to be supported on the way; several
had to be carried to the chapel, and, in or
der to spare them the trouble to be carried
to tho altar, the Archbishop kindly went
down to confirm them in their places. To
be sure it is sad thing that 30 many neg
lect SO long to be confirmed, but If they
have been guilty of Indifference before
they fully made up for it on the occasion,
their wrinkled cour rnGnces abundantly
testified. When the Archbishop in his ad-
dress feelingly remarked how dcsolate their
condition would be, if deprived as they
were of every worldly consolation, they
had not the consultations of religion to sus-
tain them, there was not one dry eye In
the whole church. Many friends of the Is
lands Mission, had come to cheer up those
poor people, and the ceremony did perhaps
sc much good to the visitors as to the in
mates themselves. The winter season had
been chosen for this confirmation, as it is
the time when the Aims House is full, but
Father Cham bon had made his Aims House
children pray for n fine day, and as the
Arch bishop observed there had not been
such fine day since Christmas-Ner
York Tablet
Tho Catholic Guardian, late but able
accession to the Catholic press of the Uni
ted States, in noticing our statement that
the Cathedral parish of this city registered
within the last year 43 600 communions for
I2, 900 people, eolipses it by the record of the
church Of the Jesuits in San Francisco, in
which there were as, 900 communicates.
Though we of Cincinnati do not like to be
outstripped in our practical faith, we can re-
joice on account of the greater good and
tho sanctification of greater number
on tho Pacific Coast. But We would in
duire, still clinging to the belief that the
Catholics of our parish are unsurpassed, is
not the record of San Francisco larger only
in appearance We are under the i'm
preston that the Jesuits in the admins
tration of the saeraments of Penauce and
Eucharist are confined in that city by no
parochial limits. That they are follow
ing in that place more than others
the rule of their Institute - exercising
the ministry for the most part in hear
ing confessions and giving commu
MON. The communicate in their church,
if our impression DO correct, would thus
be drawn from all parts of the city. In
that event, their number might 10 proper
tionately smaller than those of our own
distinct and limited congregation.-Cn ci
natl Telegraph.
Death Of j. d. Homlcy.-The death of
this gentleman, well known through
out the land as one Of the most
jealous and energetic Catholic layme in
the Union, occurred on the 9TH inst Says
a correspondent of the Baltimore Mirror !:
ATTENDED yesterday the funeral of this
earnest and energetic friend of the Tenn
porance cause, from his late residence in
Philadelphia. All tho Catholic Temperance
and Rannynlant Sociatiaa nf thot firm