The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-10
PAID LAST HONORS
ARCHBISHOP CoRRIGAN's FUNERAL
AT ST. PATRICK'S.
AN IMPOSING CEREMONY.
THOUSANDS GATHERED IN DEAD
PRELATE'S HONOR.

ArchbishOps, Bishops and Priests of
the several Orders of the Church
to the Number of 1000 Attended
With Cardinal Gibbons at Their
Head-Many National Guard OFF,
ers and City Officials Were Also
Present-The Body Laid to Rest in
the crypt Under the High Altar BE-
side Those of Archbishop Hughes
and Cardinal McCIoskey.
New York, May 9.-The body of the
Most Rev. Michael Augustine Corri-
gan. D. D., Archbishop of New York,
was inferred to-day in the crypt of st.
Patrick's Cathedral. The funeral was
conducted with all the impressive SOL
emnity and ceremony of the Roman
Catholic Church and attended by a re-
markable gathering of clergy. Almost
with the break of day crowds began
TO assemble at the Cathedral and when
the hour of the funeral arrived a vast
multitude had assembled to pay their
last reverence to the dead prelate.
Inside on the Gothic altar six can
dies were burning and the smoke of
incense hung about it. Around the bier,
where the dead Archbishop lay, three
burned on each side of him, with a
double row in a candelabrum above his
head and another double row below his
feet. These were the only lights, ex-
cept the blue and crimson bars of sun
shine, which slanted through the rose
window of the sanctuary Black cloth
was hung about the fluted pillars on
the vacant archiepiscopal throne there
was purple and black and wild laurel
tied with red silk. On the episcopal
side, cardinals throne had
been prepared, all purple. These,
with the crepe on the pulpit, were all
the signs of murning. The chimes
played and then the bells tolled from
the spires; and after that the thousand
priests, and bishops, and archbishops,
and Cardinal Gibbons filed in, follow
ing a boy with a cross, and candle
bearers. There were bearded Francis
cans in coarse brown cowls, with white
lace SUPPLIES; Jesuits in dull black;
Dominicans in black and white cowls,
and more priests in lace; bishops in
purple; and, after an interval, the
spare, bent figure of the Cardinal
in straight gathered folds; the apron
in red, and two deacons in black and
gold, a half pace behind him on either
side
Then there were National Guard Of
ticers in uniform; and up the south
aisle came various officers of the city
government, two by two, in black
frock coats, bows of crepe on their
sleeves. Within the altar rail, priests
and bishops and archbishops were
ranged in proper precedence; the Car
dinal assembled his throne and the at
tending deacons placed over his red
the white vestments of the mass, and
on his head the white mitre, and the
mass began.
After 4he reading of the Gospel,
Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia
preached the sermon, paying an elo-
quent tribute to the dead prelate.
After the sermon Cardinal Gibbons,
accompanied by four bishops of the
archdiocese, Bishops, Burke, Gabriels,
Ludden and McQuaid, descended to the
catafalque. The five absolutions TO
which the dead Archbishop by rank of
Office was entitled were then given.
At the close of the service a death
mask OF the dead archbishop was
taken Then the body was placed in
a casket, which was taken to the crypt
under the high alter and placed in a
vault beside the bodies of Archbishop
hughes and Cardinal McCloskey.