Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-03
COSTLY CHURCH vEsTMENTs.
Those at st. Patrick's Cathedral Valued
at Half a Million Dollars.

Those at st. Patrick's Cathedral Valued
at Half Million Dollars.
In st. Patrick's Cathedral there are
vestments valued at half million dol
lars. The collection is the finest in any
cathedral in America, and compares
very favorably with the vestments in
many famous cathedrals in Europe,
says the New York Sun.
Archbishop Corrigan presented to the
cathedral the only complete set Of Holy
Thursday vestments in the world. Its
value Is $4,000. In the set are thirteen
chasubles, ten delmatics, nine tunie5,
two copes and lace abs, amices and
other yestments to correspond to the
Holy Thursday service alone.
These vestments are for the archie
piseopal set proper and are Of the finest
imported white satin, embroidered In
gold 80 per cent fine The principal
ornaments are the passion flower, wheat
sheaf and grapes, embroidered in silks
and gold, emblematic of Holy Week.
The body of the vestments is worked
with sprays of fuchsia The remainder
of the vestments in the same set are
made of the finest moire antique, en-
broidered in colored silk and gold to
correspond. This magnificent set of
vestments was made by the Dominican
nuns at Hunts Point. To embroider
the yestment it took fifteen nuns an en-
tire year, working eight hours a day
The chasubles are studded with pearls
and rubies. The archiepiseopaI set
worn when the archbishop pontificates
are of the finest red silk velvet. There
are eight sets and they cost $1,000 each.
They are embroidered in pure gold.
A famous old set of vestments now In
the cathedral sacristy was a gift to the
late Archbishop Hughes. On these
yestments, which are of the finest gold
cloth, is worked the archbishop's coat
of arms. They are embroidered in gold
and incrusted with jewels. The set
comprises vestments for twelve priests,
besides the archbishop. 1t is valued at
$4,000 and was imported from Lyons.
Archbishop Corrigan has worn these
yestments occasionally.
Still another set of vestments that has
attracted general attention from ad-
mirers of artistic embroidery was pre-
sented to Archbishop Corrigan. They
are rose color, and are worn on only
two days in the year, and are permitted
to cathedrals and collegiate churches
only throughout the world. They are
embroidered in fine gold and artistic
needleWork. On the chasuble Is the
usual cross, and the figures on the cross
and designs on the frontispiece are
worked in silk of different colors, gold
and silver, on gold.
/ A very handsome set Of vestments is
one worn for pontifical requiem mass.
It is Of black moire antique silk.
A set of vestments for nuptial mass
was prepared especially for Archbishop
Corrigan's use. 1t is made of white
satin and around the outer edge is
worked vine of forget-menots In col
ors that blend. Around the cross in the
back of the chasuble are worked gold
sprays of marguerites in vine shape
In the center Of each spray is inserted
a pearl. The cross is richly ornament
ed in pearls and pink sea shell embroid
cry.
Hundreds of persons who desire to
examine the vestments visit the cathe
dra1 annually. Permission to see then
is granted only to very few persons.
Of late years there has been a grow
ing sentiment in favor of richer vest
ments in the Episcopal church. Ths
Episcopal churches in this city where
the most costly vestmente are now arr
st. Ignatius', st. Mary's, st. Edward
the Martyrs and the Church of tht
Holy Gross.
The late Father Brown, Of st. Mary
Church, on 45th street, between 7th ant
Sth avenues, had some of the fines
vestments in the country. He wore {
cope on the hood of which was embroid
cred in gold figure of the Virgin. TIL,
crown and necklace Of the figure Wer,
of the finest first water diamonds An
gels that were embroidered about tn
figure were also thickly embroidered
with diamonds. The embroidery on tIi
cope was of the most artistic quality
, and was worked by the Sisters of 81
Mary. Father Brown also wore a yer,
handsome stole embroidered with an
! | gels, the heads of which were worke,
in human hair.