The Washington times., 1895-03-18
GLORY OF IRELAHD'S Saint
His Praises Sung in All of the
Catholic Churches.
GALA DAY AT ST. PATRICK'S
Pontifcal High Mass Celebrated by Mgr
satolli-Elaborate Musical Service with
Orchestral Features-President Richards,
of Georgetown University Eloquently
Reviews the Life Work of the Missionary.

Reviews the Life Work OF the Missionary.
st. Patrick's Day, sometimes called
the Seventeenth ofIreland. Just as we speak
of the Fourth of July, enjoyed special
dispensation from Providence in the flood
of glorious sunshine which was poured
over the city and suburbs.
The verdant trefoil would not have been
so much of success as a boutonniere
or cockade in a canopy of clouds over
head, or a mire of slush and snow under
foot, as sometime happens, st. Patrick
and the Weather Bureau to the contrary,
Notwithstanding. The emerald sparkles
best in a setting OF diamond sunshine
The observance of the day was in sub
dued measures. II was Sunday, day
on which the harp and sunburst are not
often in public evidence The occupa-
ton Of the band leader and drum major
was gone. So was that of the banquet
orator.
Festivities were few in number, and
as far between as the visits of ST. Pat
trick himself. The public manifesto :
tions Of enthusiasm have been bottled
up and scaled as Theoretically as the
boss snake in his chest at the bottom of
the pellucid big Lake of Killarney. But
the evidence of patriotism for the patron
saint OF all the Irish was largely there
i'll the green badges ofloye and admiration
of all the Irish for st. Patrick and the his
tory and traditions Of their race.
The special aspect of the day was in the
religious observance OF the festival. All
of the Catholic churches were crowded
with devout worshipers, and especially
at the morning services. There were
special musical programmes at most of the
churches, which were rendered by reinforced
chors. The music was also a marked
feature at the vespor services.
AT ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH.
The presence yesterday morning at St
Patrick's Church of Most Rev. Archbishop
satolh, papal ablegate, lent distinction
to the services there in honor of the patronal
saint of the church. There, as elsewhere
in the Catholic churches, there was a very
large assemblage. which occupied all the
available space in the pews, aisles, and
vestibules.
The archbishops throne, canopied with
red. was placed on the right OF the sanctuary
The altar boys were in red and white, and
made double line along the altar railing.
In the sanctuary with Archbishop Satolll
We're Rev. Dr. Garrigan. vice president
OF the Catholic University, as ass staBt
priest: Father Dumant, deacon; Father
WatterSon, sub-deacon, OF the mass; Mgr.
Sbaretji, ard Rev. DR.. Rocker, secretary
OF the papal legation, as deacon and sub
deacon of honor; Rev. Joseph H McGee,
assistant pastor of st. Patrck's Church,
master OF ceremonies; Rev. DR.. ID. j. Stat
ford, assistant, and the Rev. Father J.
Hayens RichaIds, who delivered the sermon.
The music was elaborate. the mass sung
being Haydn's Imperial" There were
thirty voices in the choir, sixteen instru-
ments and the organ, the conductor being
Nr. Eugene French. The leading features OF
the music in solo and concert We're sung by
Miss Blanche Mattiugly, sopra no: Mrs.
Laura Zeh, contralto; Mr.. w d. McFar-
land, tenor, and Mr.. Bernard Ryan, bass
At the offertory the ''Gaudeamus'' OF y ia.
belli was sung by the quartet above. The
'Vcni Creator was sung by Mr.. Mcfarland.
The choral music was unusually fine, While
the quartet and solo singing were up TO the
usual high standard at this church.
REV. FATHER RICHARDS PANEGYRIC.
The sermon, which was essentially and
naturally panegyric of Ireland's patron
saint, was heard with the attention always
commanded by Father Richards. The
introductory thoughts were based on the
commission OF the Saviour to the Apostles
to preach the Gospel TO all nations. He
treated the subject first as TO st. Patrick's
personal characteristics; second, his mis-
sion, and third, the peculiar and destructive
features of both of these spheres of his life.
His personal character the speaker re-
yarded as among the most remarkable in
history. His life was begun at time
when the Roman empire was stll standing.
The luminous cross had appeared TO Con
stantine and the imperial policy of Chris
tan persecution had ceased. Missionaries
of the church had gone forth and had
preached the religion of Christ among many
nations, but there was one, as beautiful
then as now in the richness and beauty OF its
scenery, which had not yielded to the
Roman arms and which was still shrouded
in darkness.
Father Richards here related the cap
ture OF Patrick when a youth by pirates
and his enforced exile from Brittany; his
service for six years as a shepherd in the
north of Ireland, and his escape. Natu
rally from his early associations of luxury
he would not desire to return to the land
of his bondage, but incited by dreams of
recall to that land like the decoy sent out of
Macedonia, he equipped himself for his mis-
sion ard came back, not as a slave, but as
q free man, carrying freedom to those who
had enslaved him
Christ was introduced to Ireland not by
conquest and sword and fire. Its people
received Patrick with joy Her gates
f,rp h1rP
to the young missionary. He found it
wholly Pagan; he left it universally Catho-
lie, and left behind him as monuments of
three years of incessant activity, priests
churches, monasteries and converts
SECRETS OF ST. PATRICK'S SUCCESS.
The grand achievements OF st. Patrick
were due to several causes, among which
was the favorable predisposition of the
Irish race. They Were Pagan, but they
did not practice human sacrifices. In
morals they were honest and upright The
success of the work was also due to the
exalted virtue of the apostle himself What
he learned in suffering he taught and prac-
ticed while he preached the Christian
moralities to the Irish race. Ireland is
today filled with monuments to his peni-
tential spirit.
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the ful! power and scope of his work. He
labored not for Ireland, but for the world
He was to be divinely appointed guard
ian of the religious TRUTH and he taught
it to a people, who kept the faith. as did
the 1sraelites in captivity and sorrow and
suffering, and afterwards returned safe
with their charge to their own land.
Ireland was the land in which heresy had
never gained a foothold. Wherever the
English flag goes the Irish missionary
goes and often precedes the march of that
great empire. Father Richards illus
trated this noint by noting the tide of eni-