The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-22
ADDRESS BY BISHOP HAID
A Large Crowd Went Out From the
City to View the Exercises
CHURCH OF THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS
The Bishop Predicts That New Nazareth Will be
One Of the Glories Of North Carolina.
The New Church Will be in
Front of 0rphaEage.

On Sunday afternoon at the Catholic
Orphanage occurred one of the most i'm
pressive ceremonies ever witnessed in
Raleigh and the first of it's kind in the
city's history. 1t was the laying of a
cornerstone for Catholic church with
all the sacred form and ritual that have
cient Roman church.
A large crowd went out from Raleigh
to view the novel exercises, which took
place at Nazareth, about two miles
southwest of the city, where the or
phanage is located. There We're fully
1OOC people of ell denominations and all
walks in life. Everything combined to
make the occasion a beautiful and MEM
orable one. The spot is ideally lovely,
on high hill, commanding view OF
the country from Raleigh to Method,
taking in the beautiful landscape Of
Pullen Park and the State Hospital
grounds. The weather was superb,
perfect spring day.
The Right Rev. Leo Haid, Bishop and
Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina, ar
rived at $50 from Durham where he
Rad preached in the morning, and pro-
ceeded directly out to the Orphanage,
where everything was in readiness for
the ceremony to begin. After the bene-
diction and sacrament were administered
in the present chapel. the procession
was formed and crossed the road to the
site of the new church of the Holy Name
of Jesus, which is directly opposite.
First came the cross. followed by
double line of altar boys holding light
ed candles. Father O,Brien, of the or
pranage, led the way. Then came the
Bishop, attended by. Father Irwin.
Father Griffin, rector of the Church Of
the Sacred Heart, Father Price, who is
in charge of the ophanage, and Father
Stapleton, of Goldsboro, followed. The
Bishop was striking figure, with his
flowing gray beard, for he is Bene die
tine, his lofty mitFes and his gorgeous
vestments and gold crooked pastoral
staff.
The cornerstone was a beautiful piece
of granite, with the inscription I'm
Nomine Jesus" on one side. and the
cross engraved on all six sides. After
prayer. singing of hymns. and the in
toning of the Litany of the Saints, the
stone was formally laid, and then the
entire procession followed the line of
the foundation all around, the Bishop
sprirkling holy water as he proceeded.
Then Bishop EIaid made a short adj
dress to the people, in the course of
which he said: ''You have witnessed
this afternoon the ceremony of the lay
ing of a cornerstone of a Catholic
church. No doubt, like many other
ceremonies this may appear very
strange to you, but these ceremonies are
strange, not because they are new, but
because you have forgotten them. II [
could recall from the dust your ances-
tors of hundreds of years ago, they
would recognize all these ceremonies
we have gone through just now.
ITO Catholics the erection OF church
is matter of the most vital interest.
It is to us more than religious form,
because the church is to us more than
mere worshpping place. 1t is the
home of GCd Just as everything Of
Importance in our daily lives centres
around our homes, SO all of our spiritual
life centres around the altar of our
church, everything which is most init
mately connected with the soul life.
In life and in death, the church is dear
TO US, because it is connected with
everything that is dear to us in our
lives. So you will understand why it
is that the Catholic church still con-
tiuues these old ceremonies of ages past.
'.The little beginnings you see here
are only beginnings. You will live to
coo tho dav whom New Nazareth will hn
one of the glories of North Carolina"
In this connection, the Bishop SPOKE
of the remarkable growth Of the Bene-
dictine Order in Westmoreland county