Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-11-08
THE CATHOLIC CENTENARY.
Programme of the Celebration to be Held


in Baltimore Next Month.
The Catholic hierarchy centennial cele-
bration. for which preparations have been
making for several months, under the
general direction of Cardinal Gibbons,
will be one of the most brilliant and in
teresting church celebrations that has
ever taken place in the United States, in
view of the number of prelates and 9TH
ers OF rank and dignity. Cardinal Glib.
bons has received acceptances of the in
vitation to attend from so bishops and
others of rank, including Cardinal Tas-
chereau, of Canada, and archbishops and
bishops from Mexico. Most Rev. Fran
els Satolli archbishop of Lepanto, will
arrive IN Baltimore next week as the spe-
cial representative of the Pope at the Gel
ebration.
The exercises will open with pontifical
mass at II a. m, Sunday, November 10,
in the Baltimore cathedral. Archbishop
Williams. of Boston, will be the cele-
brant. Archbishop Ryan, of Philadel-
phia, will preach the sermon. At pom
tiacal vespers, 7.30 A. NJ, Archbishop
Heiss, of Milwaukee, will be the cele-
brant, and Archbishop Ireland, Of st.
Paul, the preacher. Further services
will be held Monday, and the congress of
Catholic laymen will then begin.
The Congress of Catholic laymen Is
composed of prominent gentlemen in all
parts Of the country. It will meet In
Baltimore at the same time as the
Hierarchy Centennial celebration. They
will hold sessions Monday and Tuesday,
November 11lh and 18th. Wednesday,
the 18th, they will attend the celebration
in Washington of the opening OF the Di-
vinity Department of the University, and
Thursday they will, in phaetons, visit the
parks and other places in Baltimore of
interest to visitors.
Among the papers which will be read
at the Congress will be the one by Mr.. @.
j. Bonaparte, of the Baltimore Bar, on
Tie Independence of the Holy See.
Mr. Bonaparte is Chairman OF the Execu-
tive Committee, which will meet Satur-
day, November 9th, to make final ar
rangements.
The Congress will be opened with a
Pontifcial Mass at the cathedral at 8 A.
NJ, Archbishop Corrigan, of New York,
being the oelebrant. The sermon will be
by Archbishop Gross, of Oregon.
The business sessions will be held at the
Concordia Hall.
The first session on Monday will be
from 1890 A. NJ to 1 p. NJ, the second
session from p. NJ. to 1907. M. A re-
ception to the visiting prelates, clergy
and laity will be held from 7:30 p. NJ. to
10 P. NJ. in the hall, with addresses by
Hon. Charles B. Roberts, Of Westminster,
and Martin f. Morris, of Washington,
and the reply by Archbishop Elder, of
Cincinnati.
There will be a grand illumination the
same night of the dwellings and other
buildings of Catholics in all parts of the
city and other citizens who may choose
to do so in compliment to the occasion.
Tuesday the sessions of the congress
will be held from 10 to 12in the forenoon,
and to Up. m. There will be torch
light procession at night
The ceremony in Washington of the
dedication of the Catholic University of
America will be performed by Cardinal
Gibbons at 1890 a. m. Wednesday. Pom
tifical mass at II a. m. will be. celebrated
by Archbishop Satolli, of Lepanto, Italy,
with sermon by Bishop Gilman, of
Cleveland. An oration will be delivered
at p. m. by Bishop spalding. of Peoria.
A latin poem will be read by Professor
Schroeder.