The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-08
IMPOSING CEREMONIES At THE
ELEVATION OF NEW CARDINAL
Pope Leo sends His Greetings to Mgr
Martinelli, Who Takes the Second
Step in His Elevation to the
Observation-Disclosures Bal
timore Church Crowd
ed With People.

Baltimore, May S.-Sebastian Martinelll
tituar archbishop of Ephesus and Cor
dinal elect of the church of Rome. today
received at the hands of Cardinal Gibbons
the red berretta and donned the robes
which will hereafter mark his rank. The
ceremony, which is the second step in his
elevation to his new position, was mark
ed by all the pomp and brillance usual
ly attendant upon such occasions. 1t
was held in the venerable cathedral the
first edifice of its kind erected upon
American soil and in which the first
American priest and the first American
bishop We're ordained. Among those who
witnessed it We're men and women, prorn-
lnent in every walk of life-diplomats,
legislators, educators. journalists and ec-
clesiasts, the latter including half a score
of archbishops, half hundred bishops,
priests, monks and seminarians.
The initial step in the ceremony took
place in the palace of the cardinal and
consisted of the transmission of the
berretta to Cardinal Gibbons by Mgr.
Marchetti, the papal ablegate. Brief ad-
dresses We're made by both participants
in the affair. While this was in progress
a procession was formed in front of Call
vert hall, block away, in which were
arians, priests. Franciscan and Angus
tinan monks, the members of the faculty
in the Catholic university in Washing-
ton. abbots, bishops and finally the arch
bishops, the purple and gold of their rich
vestments adding brilliancy to the scene.
At 20 o'clock they moved through the
cathedral to Charles street, passing the
palace of the cardinal, where they We're
Joined by his eminence in full official
paraphernalia, who took his place last
in the line. Thence the procession
moved to the main entrance of the ca
thedral. The cardinal elect meanwhile
had entered the building through a rear
door and advanced to meet the process
sion at the altar rail. The cardinal and
the cardinal elect saluted each other pro
the cardinal elect saluted each other
profoundly and each sought the throne
provided for him. That for Cardinal
Gibbons occupied the gospel side of hte
altar, while that Of the cardinal elect
was placed upon the epistle side. Wh4n
they had seated themselves the papal
brief to Cardinal Martinelli was read as
follows:
Papal Brief to Mgr Martinelli.
"Our beloved son, health and aposto-
lie l+nel'ctlon.
Although unworthy, being consti-
tuted by Divine mercy in the sublimity
of the apostolic see, and by virtue of our
office having care of the welfare of the
Catholic church. among our first solici-
tudes is that the college of our veer-
able brothers, the Cardinals of the
Holy Roman church should be kept
brilliant by most distins uished men as
the dignity of that most spledid order
demands. For this reason we have de-
termined to ascribe you in their mum.
ber of your piety your learning, your
zeal for the Catholic faith and your
other qualities and gifts of mind which
lead us to hope that your ministry will
be Of great use and benefit to the church
of God.
I'VE resolved to commit the honorable
duty of apostolic delegate to Fran
els Marchetti, auditor Of the apostolic
delegation in the United States of North
America, who will present to you created
by us a cardinal of the Holy Roman
church one of the insignia of this SUI
blime dignity, the red berretta, so that
when it shall have been conferred on
you, having been raised to the card!-
nalitial dignity, must ever stand fear
less and invincIble against all dangers
to the church of God eve. to the
shedding of your blood, precious in the
sight of the Lord. We wish, however,
that when you receive the berretta you
will by all means take the oath to be
given you by the said Francis Marchetti
and that signed by you, you send it US
either through him or through some
oth her person.
"Given at St Peters, Rome. under the
seal of the Fishermans Seal on the 18th
day of April, 1901, in the twenty fourth
year of our pontificate.
tSigneD
"ALOYSIUS. CARDINAL MACCHI."