Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-04-15

On the high altar are seven great cam
dies lighted, three on each side of the
cross and one behind.
The Holy Father makes a short prayer
OH faldstool at the foot Then rising
he begins: 81 will go unto the altar of
Cod" On his right is the Cardinal
Dean as Bishop Assistant; on his left is
the Cardinal Deacon of the Evangel; be-
hind him are two Cardinal Deacons
! Assistant.
When the Pontiff has finished his con-
| fession the Dean of the Rota brings his
mitre to the two Cardinal Deacons as
sistant who put it on his head and lead
him to the throne, while the three first
Cardinal Priests intone the prayers.
Then his Holiness descends, his mitre
is borne away, and the first Cardinal
Deacon assists the second to invest him
with the sacred pail, the plenitude of the
pontifical Office, in honor of the Lord
God omnipotent, of the most glorious
Virgin his Mother, of the blessed Apos-
ties Peter and Paul, and of the Holy
Roman Church" The Cardinal Deacon
of the Evangel fixes the three purple
crosses of the pail with three diamond
clasps.
His Holiness mounts to the altar pail
ed, but without mitre, kisses the altar
and the Book of the Evangel, puts in
cense in the censor and-censes the altar.
/ he Grct
dinal Deacon censes him three times.
| Then he ascends the throne. Cardinals
take off their mitres and adore him.
The other clergy follow in their respect
i've ranks and clad in ceremonial habits.
The Pope takes off his mitre, and 60
ing to the altar chants the Introit,
Kyrie and the first words of the "Glori1
in Excelsis Deo," sitting npon the throne
again until the Angels hymn is sung.
Then the first Cardinal Deacon de-
scends to the confession of St. Peter
under the high altar, passing through the
hundred golden ever-burning lamps with
the Apostolic Sub-Deacons, the Auditors
of the Rota and the Consistorial Advo-
Gates in snow-white copes on purple al
muces Before the shrine of the apostle
he chants the versicle:
Give Ear, o Christ.
The rest respond
To our Lord, the Supreme Pontiff OF
the Pope, decreed by God
This is done three times. Then they
chant again:
o Savior of the world, Help Him.
The Litany of the Saints follows,
chanted by Latin sub-deacon. On the
high altar the Epistle is chanted in
Latin by Latin sub-tieacon and after
ward in Greek by Greek sub-deacon.
The Gradual is sung by the Papal choir
One Cardinal Deacon chants the Evangel
in Latin; another after him i'll Greek.
The,l the Holy Father, with vestments
unchanged, ascendS his lofty throne
borne OIL the shoulders of twelve porters
clad in scarlet and to them there come
the Cardinal Arch-Priest of St. Peters
and two canons of the same basilica, Of
fering a purse of white damask which
contains twenty-five gold coins.
They ask him to accept this as homo
rarium for mass we'll sung. He designs
to take it, and bestows it on the Cardinal
Deacons who have chanted the Evangel
in Latin and i'll Greek. These in their
turn give the money to the boys in YER
million and white laces who bear the bur
den of Their Eminences' train.
His Holiness goes in procession on his
lofty throne to the balcony of benedic.
ton, accompanied by all his splendid
court and surrounded by the conservators
of the Roman people. Around his throne
palefreniers in red beat the perfumed all
with long fans formed of peacocks
tails.
Arrived at the said balcony the two
first Cardidal Deacons assist His Holmes
to mount a new throne erected in th'
middle of the balcony, and the Papa
choir chants anthems all the time.
Then the second Cardinal Deacon take
the precious mitre from the Pontiff'
head and the first Cardinal Deacon
crowns him with the triple crown. say
ing, Receive this tiara adorned will
three crowns, and know myself to be tn
father of Princes and of Kings, the rule
of the world, and OIL earth the vicar o
/, Jesus Christ, our Savior"
Arising crowned, he blesses the faith
: full in the city and the world, repeating
three times the apostolic benediction.
Two Cardinals publish a plenary in
diligence in Latin and Italian. Last G
all His Holiness retires into the Palac
= of the Vatican At the Sistine Chape
, Cardinal Deacons divest him of his pon
:, tificial ornaments, and the first Cardins
: Priest, acting as the spokesman of tn
9 Sacred College, makes him the time
honored compliment, "Ad multo
amos"
1t is we'll known that no court in til
> world can show State pageants of sue
magnihcence as the court of Rome.
!, In the present condition of affairs it
" more than likely that these pageant
will be shorn of much of their grac
y and beauty and that the obsequies {
Leo. XIII. and the election and corona
ton of his successor will be conducte
Z With n,utilafed rites