The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-15
THE NEW ROMAN SAINTS.
Manner In Which the Ceremony
Was Performed Ia St. Peters.

This morning his Holiness Lee
Kill. in the great Hall of tbs Bepe-
diction above the vestibule of ST.
Peters, splendidly decorated and illu
minated for the occasion, celebrated
the rite of csnonization. by which
the beatfed Giovanni Battiets de
Rosei, Lorenzo di Brindisi, Guiseppi
L.hre and Clara di Mon'e,alco have
been raised, ss it Is termed, to the
non0rs of the altar. The ceremony
WAS performed with all the spIendor
If -cclesia-tical pomp practicable 10
90 circumscrlbed q space. At the last
canonizAtion. in 1867, the procession
made the entire circuit of Bernini's
grand portico before entering the
Bazilica. This morning it was neces-
sariIy limited to the area OF the great
halls. Within the PortR di BronzS.
the gr' silk red. white and yellow
flag OF the Swiss Guards, with the
Pope's arms upon 1t, vac hoa Ing 10
sight OF every one outside. At the
90 OF the Scala ReRis line OF
Gua is WIS drawn across, and there,
AZ 10 former days, n great crowd OF
ladies' and gentlemen, whose tickets
had been closely scrutiniZed at the
gate, and who stood psusiug and
squeezing against each other. ex-
tended half way down the long cor
rldor At O'Clock the Guards were
Withdrawn, and iutt such trenend.
uu4 rush followed as one used to see
up the st4ircase to the 6istine chapel
on the Mieerere days in Holy week,
In the sals Regia the Guardie Noble.
among whom was the Pope's
nephew, Count Pecci, we're pacing
up and down, foreign ambassadors
and Eovoys. with their suites en-
grands tenue. passing on to their
places, and ladies and gentlemen still
focking in until 9 O'Clock when the
doors are closed. Shortly afterwsrd
the Pope descended and the procession
began to form IN the Sals Ducsle.
First came the various monastic Or
ders, toe chapter of the great Basli-
cas-, aud other ecclesiastical bodies,
who rmed large contingent of for
mer professions. but on this occasion
were each perforce represented by
one or two persons only Dr. the pro-
csssiou could not have moved. Then
came the postulants of the four new
saints; the Sixtine choir, chanting
the lave Maria 5tella;" $50 Bishops,
walking two and two, in cloth of sill
yer copes each carrying lighted wax
candle; the tbirty.eight Cardinals
now in Rome followed with their
suites. also carrying candles; and,
lastly, the Pope, wearing his inter,
and, carrying a lighted candle, in
his hand, was borne aloft on the SeaiG
Gastatoria, the great cloth-Of-silver
canopy carried above him. the ,taa-
6eLIt on each side, the members OF
the Political Court walking around
him and the Noble Guard marchingf
before and after.
Fhe scene in the hail WAS brillian
in the extreme. 1t was illuminated
10y thousands OF wax candles. The
cloth OF gold hsngipgs glittering in
thsir light, the crowd OF ladies In
black walls on one side and the gen.
tlemen in full dress on the other. the
diplomatic corps. the Roman Prin-
ceases and Otner distinguished persons
in the tribunes, and the splendid pro-
cessiDE Of the Bishops. Arch-bishRps,
and Cardinals, followed by the Pope,
passing slowly along and extending
from one end of the ball to the other,
the choir chanting as they went. pre-
sented a coup del OF such splendor
as it is impossible to reflect. To de-
scribe the ceremonial. which lasted
from 10 in the morning to 3 in the
is impracticable in this
letter, but some details l may meu-
ton. The 6ixtine choir we'll sustained
its repusAt on. "Te Deum" was most
taken up as it was by All
present. and for the frst time since
1870 the silver trumpets which used
to seuod from the dome Of st. Peters
as the Pope elevated the host, we're
heard again from somewhere aboVS
the cornice in all their clear. sweet
solemnity. Every breath Was hushed,
and the efiettwas magical. While the
was proceeding the ad-
joining Pauline chapel was point
of great attraction to th9ee who knew
what it contained. There on four
large tables were ranged the oblatione
to be offered to the Pope by the postu-
lant' or proposers for canon'zst;oo OF
each saint. The CfsriDgs on each
table consistei of two losves of bread,
one gilt. the other silvered GA hand
some sslvers; twO small barrels of
wine one gilt and the otner silvered;
Eve splendidly painted wax candles
Of great sizs and weight and three
wrough: bird cages, one
two doves, the second two
pigeons, and the third 8 number of
goldfinches and other small birds; and
st the proper time these were carried
ia procession to the lhrone, Cardinals
the oblations for each
Of those cRnonized. This ceremony
s continuation of the primitive Gus
.om of the Church when its members
aid their offerings at the feet of the
A postles.
This has been the first occasion en-
which Leo XIII has exercised Papal
authority at q high altar as his pre-