The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-28
CONGREGATION OF THE BISHOP OF
FERNS,

CONGREGATION OF THE BISHOP OF
FERNS.
The Euniscorthy correspondent of the
Cork Examiner, under date of Sunday,
May 7th, says:
To- day, in the Cathedral at Enniscorthy,
the Most Rev. DR.. Warren was solemnly
consecrated by the Cardinal Archbishop to
the Bishopric of Ferns, in succession to the
late Most Rev. DIR. Furlong. His lordship
was born in the neighborhood of Ennis
corthy, and has been about twenty one
of about eleven years, he was curate in
Enniscothy, and he then was appointed su-
perior of the Mission House there, which
was founded by the late Bishop, and he
filed that position until the present time.
The Cathedral in which the conservation
took place is lofty, spacious building, of
great external architectural beauty, but
inside rather destitute of ornamentation.
At ten o'clock this morning, when the
ceremonies commenced, the nave, aisles,
aud side chapels were thronged with the
large congregation, and the seats were al
most inconveniently crowded. The clergy
OF the diocese, in their white SUPPLIES,
filed the stalls, and among them, breaking
up the monotony of the color, were here
and there the brown habit of the Francis
eau friar or the black of the Augustinian,
with ewo members of the Redemptorist
white collars. Ga the throne at the Gospel
side sat the venerable Cardinal who rules
the Irish Church. At first he was clothed
in Cardinals scarlet robes, but after some
private devotions he was invested by his
attendant chaplains with white episcopal
vestments-the white gloves, a jewelied
mitre, and the ancient archiepiscopel pal
lium. The Cardinal being robed took his
seat on q faldstool with his back to the
altar. The bishop elect in episcopal vest
ments, bat wearing as yet 40 mitre, was
then brought into the sanctuary by the as
Coadjutor Bishop of Kildare, and the Most
Rev. DR.. Moran, Bishop of Ossory, who
wore the plain white mitres. Having taken
their seats on stools facing the Cardinal,
the solemn, highly symbolical ceremony
commenced. The Most Rev. DR.. Lynch
having made the petition prescribed by the
Ritual, that the consecrating prelate should
raise the bishop elect to the episcopal
charge, the Very Rev. Dean Krwan read
the episcopal commission, and the bishop
elect took the oath of obedience to the
Holy See-an oath whose origin dates back
many centuries, and which is rather cur
ious in its nature. The examination, of
course, in Latin, by the consecrating pre-
late of the bishop elect, touching articles
of faith and discipline followed. When
that had'been conc uded, the bishop elect
proceeded to his own altar in a side chapel
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verse of the Tract, the Cardinal doing the
same at the High Altar. The bishop elect
was again brought into the sanctuary, aud
the consecrating and amounting with the
holy oils was performed and the copsecra-
ting prelate gave the pastoral staff, the
ring and the Book of the Gospels TO thu
now conseerated bishop. The Mass was
read as far as the Offortory, and then the
new bishop, coming in from his chapel with
the assistant bishop, kneit before his con-
secratOr and made him an offering of two
lighted torches, two losves, and two small
gilt barrels of wine. The offering having
been accepted, the consecrating prelate
went up to the altar and proceeded with
the reading of the Mass, while the new
bishop, standing at the epistle corner of the
came altar with his missal before him, said
and did the same. AS the Conservation
Mass was then finished, the bishop having
assumed the mi're, and accompanied by
the assistant bishops, proceeded down the
church, blessing for the first time the con-
gregstions over which he is to have episco-
pal charge. After the return to the altar the
ceremonies, which had lasted about three
hours, concluded With the singing Of some
versicles prescribed by the Ritual.
GEN. MosBY's WIFE.-The following obitn-
airy appeared in the last number of the Louis
Vile Catholic Adroeate:
The many friends and acquaintancos of bIrs.
Pauline Mosby will be shocked by the an
nouncement of her death which occurred at
her residence in Stanton, Va, on the 10th