Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-28
DENOMINATION CEREMONY In Which His Holiness the Pope
 OfiCiated. ROME IN PRISTINE GLORY ' s.Great St. Peter Thronged With a Vast MuItitude-The City Illuminated For 2 the Sacred Occasion.

Js Rome, May 27.-The canonizing today ayf the Blessed Zaccaria, founder of the sprder of Barnabas and of the Blessed Fouiler de Mataincour, surnamed the | Apostle of Lorraine, was the most i'm pressive ceremony witnessed al St. Pe- ter's since the abolition of the temporal power of the popes. The huge basilica was throneed. According to estimates 10000 persons were present The cere- mony of eanonization was divided into three parts, namely, the request of the pope to grant the consolidation, the pro- clamation canonizing the Blassed Zac- caria and the Blessed Fourier and the ponltihcal mass
 Cardinal Gaetnao Alois-M asella, pre- feet of the congregation of Sacred rites. the advoca te of cause canonizine. formal ly demanded that the Blessed Zaceania and the Blessed Fourier be inscribed on the roll of saints, making the demand thrice, instanter, instanting ard in stantissino. After the first request the pope intoned the litany, after the second request his holiness intoned the Vino Crater After the third request his holi- ness wearing the mitre of decorator of the church proclaimed the new saints The pope then authorized the official act of proclamation and afterwards intoned
 
 gaton Joined. At the same time the bells of the vatican and of the basilica were tolled and they set ringing the bells of all churches In Rome.
 Tha canonizatLon being complete Car dlnal Lusgi Cregoh al Saneo Stefano, dean of the Sacred college, and CamerMn- go of the holy Roman church, celebrated mass. The onertory followed, at which special gifts, emblematlc of tha. .caroniza- tion, were presented to the pope. They included five colored decorated candles. two loaVes of bread emblazoned with the arms of Leo III. in gold and silver two casaks, one gilded and containing wine, and the other sslvered and contain- ing water and three cages In the first cages were turtle doves and in the second were rock dovs, and in the third were smaller birds, all symbol cal of the yir- lures of the blessed Zaccaria ard the blessed Fourier, whose names he'd just been ins',ribed upon Physiological calen- dar.
 The music of the mass was chsnted by the choir eff Slstine chapel, and at the moment of the elevation the famous sil- yer trumipets played a prelude to a cho- rus by several hur 1red children station d Tn the gallery Of the domsl The effect of the chr fish voices descending from the great height was very beautiful.
 After the mass the procession returned to the Vatican in the same order as 1t came, and subsequently the great gates cf St. Petsr's wsre opened in order u per init the general public to view the dec craHlons. Tonight there was a grard H. 1un'fratin ce the facade of St Peers s-'' '''o f"Tt tiron within thir'y yeers. The facades of n-nny other churche= were also fGuminrlt@d and grsl9t crowds wara ir 5ttsn5anIaa at the services an nd throng- ed the streets to view tha illumir 1tions. wfytah wter7a extremely b~iFiant ard beau- tiful. All the church bells in the city were rung.