The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-04-29

The Ceremony Of Conferring the
Berretta on Cardinal
McCloskey.
A Scene Of Dazzling and Imposing
Magnifcence.

/ A Scene Of Dazzling and Imposing
Magnifoence.
New YORK, April 27.-Five Catholic
Arshbishops, sixteen Bishops, and 2eO
priests were present to take part in the
ceremonies of imposing the berretta on
Cardinal McClosky to-day. Thousands
of spectators gathered at ST. Patrick s
! Cathedral this morning to witness the
ceremony There had been an enormous
demand for tickets, and numbers of
those who had them found great difficult
| ty in gaining entrance through the
crowd. The streets in the Immediate
neighborhood were packed with human
beings, all anxious to get even a chance
| to see the portals Of the church. Ine
interest manifested was so great that
representatives from every part of the
country were present.
| A number of the front seats were re-
served for the invited guests, and among
these, seated in them, were Cbief-Jus-
tice Daily. Judge Donohue, District-At-
torney Phelps, Sinclair Tousey, Collec
| tor Arthur, the Hon. Thomas Murphy,
and many other well-known citizens
AT twenty minutes before IL o'clock
| the head of
THE PROCESSION EMERGED FROM THE
| vEsTRY,
| aclytes leading, bearing the procession
cross and tall tapers. Then followed
long lines of clergymen, who, after
making genuhexions before the high
alter, passed down the centre aisle,
which was soon packed. When the
surpliced priests had all taken their
places. representatives of the various re-
ligious orders IN the Diocese began to
emerge from the vestry IN their pictur-
| esque habits.
When the procession had all been ar
ranged in the proper places, there was
an interval of ten minutes, during which
the church was filed with joyous music
| from the choir.
THE PROCESSION OF PRELATEs
at length emerged from the vestry with
slow and measured tread and the au-
| dience rose. AS the magnificent specta-
| Gle began TO unfold itself the scene was
one which New York will probably never
again = ss,esa. Boys, with picturesque
robes and swinging censers, end dig1li-
taries iii dark purple, preceded the Arch
bishops and Bishops. The procession
| was closed by the celebrants of the
mass, Bishop Loughlin, Of Brooklyn; !;
the Rev. DR.. McGlynn, Assistant; the
Rev. Father Mclean, Deacon; and
| Father Kean, Sub deacon. Then came
Cardinal McCloskey, the Papal ENJOYS,
DR.. Ubaldi, Mgr. Roncetti, and, lastly,
the tall figure of Count Marefoschi, of
the Pope's noble guard, in his dazzling
| uniform
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL.
| AS the procession of dignitaries filed
into the Cathedral from the sacristy,
every eye seemed to rest upon the ven
erable and most Rev. Archbishop Pur-
cell, who preceded the celebrant of the
mass, and who was assigned seat on
the gospel side, in front of the other
Archbishops and Bishops. The Rev.
DR.. McCloskey, brother of the Bishop,
of Louisville, was present, with the Rev.
Sylvester Malone, pastor of the Church
of Saints Peter and Paul, Brooklyn, the
only living members of the seven young
men whom Cardinal McCloskey, soon
after he was made Bishop, had raised to
the dignity of priesthood The Rev.
Mr.. j. f. Kearney, of st. Patrick S
| Cathedral, was master of the ceremonies,
and to him was owing not only even
proceeding of the services, bat the care
taken Of the press A double duty de-
volved upon him owing to the illness OF
| Vicar-General Quinn.
CARDINAL NJ 'CLosKEY
wearing his rochet, his purple cassock
and nantelet, knelt at the epistle side OF
the alter the Archbishop of Baltimore
| coH u fhrnnn on ho Gil
the officiating Bishop and clergymeI
stood at the alter steps, and mass was
commenced At the confteor, the Car
dinal stood up and proceeded to his
throne, at the gospel side, he alone, OF
all the prelates present, having pastor
al staff, which was carried by an assis-
tant officiating Bishop. After incensine
the altar three times, he sat down with
the Deacon and Sub deacon. Bishop
Loughlin read the introit, recited the
kyrie, and intoned the ''Gloria IL Excel
sis, which was afterwards sung bJ
the choir.
THE COLLECTS WE'RE READ
by celebrant. and the epistle by Sub
deacon; and while Bishop LoughliI
read the Gospel the entire congregation
rose to their feet. He then chanted the
words ''CredO IN unum Deum and III 8
low voice recited the remainder Of the
Nicene Greed. When it was concluded
the celebrant, together with the assis
tant Deacon and Sub deacon, sat dowr
until the choir had finished. BishoI
Loughlin returned to the alter, where
after the customary s'Dominus Vobis
cum and "Oremus," he proceeded te
read the payers at the offertory.
The Deacon and Sub-deacon then pre-
pared.the sacred vessels, and bread an6
wine, and ,Mercadant's ''Quam Dlecta'
was sung during this period the acolytes
again advanced with censers, and tht
altar was incensed by the celebrant, the
Archbishop and Bishops rising and re
moving their mitres, the priests and thu
entire congregation also. rising.
At this time the church was level SCI
| of heads from ripht to left. and from til.