The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-28
cANoNIzATIoN ~ sd. pETEns.
The Pope ON the Throne and 10000
Spectators in Attendance.


Rome. May 1.-THE canonization of the
blessed Zaccharia, founder Of the order of
Barnabates, and of the blessed Fourier
Mataincour, surnamed the apostle of
Lorraine. at ST. Peters to-day was the
most Impressive ceremony witnessed in
Rome since the abolition of the temporal
power of the pope. Forty thousand per-
sons We're present. The approaches to the
church were lined by Italian troops In
side the building were pontihcal gem
darmes and Swiss pontihcal guards. Soon
after noon the strains of the AVA Maria"
heralded the approach of the inaugural
procession from the Sistine chapel. 1t
was headed by representatives of the
mendicant and monastic orders and Gull
minating in the venerable figure of he
supreme pontiff, Leo NIL borne on the
Soda gestatoria
His holiness wore a pontifical tiara; in
the stt hand he carried a lighted candle
and with the right hand he blessed the
people while traversing to the nave. The
procession halted at the altar of the
blessed sacrament to permit the pope to
make alteration. Then his holiness pro-
ceeded to the apse and seated himself on
the throne, on the steps of which were
grouped twelve assistant archbishops aud
bishops. The assembled dignitaries of the
church made the customary obedience to
the pontiff, the cardinals kissing his hand
and receiving the accoiade, the bishops
kissing his hands and knee, and the minor
prelates kissing his feet. The ceremony
OF canonization followed.
The ceremony of canonization was di-
Vided into three parts, namely, the request
of the Pope to grant the canonization, the
proclamation canoniziug the blessed Zac-
caria and the blessed Fourier and the
pontiflcal mass
Cardinal Gaetano Alisi- Masella project
of the congregation of the sacred rites,
formally demanded that the blessed Fac
caria and the Blessed Fourier be in
scribed on the roll of saints, making the
demand thrice. instanter, instanting and
iustantisimo.
After the first request the pope intoned
the litany of the Saints. After the sec
ond request. his holiness intoned the
'Nni Creator" After. the third request,
his holiness wearing the inter of decorator
of the church, proclaimed the new saints.
The pope then authorized the official act
of proclamation and afterwards intoned
the tie Deum," in which the entire con-
gregatiOn Joined. At the same time the
bells of the vatican and of the basiica
were tolled and they set ringing the bells
of all the churches in Rome.
The canonization being completed Car
dinal Luigi Orogii di Santo Stefano, dean
of the Sacred College and Camerlingo of
the Holy Roman church. celebrated mass.
The offertory followed at which special
gifts, emblamatic of the canonization,
were presented to the pope. They includ-
ed five colored decorated candles, two
loaves of bread emblazoned with the arms
of Leo XIII in god and silver, two casks,
one gilded and containing wine, and the
other siivered and containing water and
three cages.
In the first cage were turtle doves, and
in the second were rock doves, and in the
third were smaller birds. all symbolical
of the virtues of the blessed Zaccaria and
the blessed Fourier, whose names had
just been inscribed upon Psychological cal
endar.
The music of the mass was chanted by
the choir of the Systine chapel and at
the moment of the elevation, the famous
silver trumpets played a prelude TO
chorus by several hundred children sta
toned in the gallery of the dome. The
effect of the childish voices descending
from the great hight was very beautiful.
After mass the procession returned to
the vatican in the same order as it came.
and subsequently the great gates of ST.
Peters were opened in order to permit
the general public to view the decora-
tions
Tonight there was grand illumination
of the facade of st. Peters for the first
time within thirty years The facades of
many other churches were also ilumnat-
ed, and great crowds were in attendance
at the services and thronged the streets
to view the Nominations, which were
extremely brilliant and beautiful. All the
church bells in the city were rung.