Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-05-10
PRELATE Laid At REST
Imposing Funeral Ceremonies Over
the Late Archbishop Corrigan.
INTERMENT IN CATHEDRAL.
lmpressive EuloRy of the Deceased
Ecclesiastic Delivered By Arch
bishop Ryan-President Roose.
welt Sends Token Of Respect.

New York, May 10.-The funeral Of
Archbishop Corrigan took place at st.
Patrick's cathedral at II o'clock in the
morning. Solemn pontifical mass was
said, with Cardinal Gibbons as cele-
brant, and at II o'clock Archbishop
Ryan delivered the funeral sermon.
When the ceremonies were complet-
ed, the body of the dead archbishop
was placed in the crypt beneath the
cathedral altar.
From early morning vast crowd
surrounded the high portals of the
cathedral, and when the doors opened
at $50 O'Clock the big cathedral filed
rapidly. When, at 1870 O'Clock, the
organ took up the opening strains of
Cherubinis Requiem and Sanctus."
every seat was filed and the open
spaces behind the pews were thronged
| with people.
Liberia me, Domino" chanted the
choir, and the cardinal walked to the
foot OF the altar, where the mass was
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harmony from the choir, where 100
seminarians began to chant the Ky.
rie'' and "Miserere" from the Gregg
rian requiem service.
| For the first time the congregation
| found its attention wandering from the
| silent figure Of the dead archbishop to
the sanctuary, where the impressive
ritual, with its accompaniment Of
| shifting groups and lights through
which rose halo Of incense, was like
a medieval scene.
After the chanting Of the gospel the
, cardinal and his attendants retired to
his throne, and Archbishop Ryan as
cended the pulpit and delivered the
funeral Grafton.
The Grafton.
In his sermon Archbishop Ryan said
| in part:
Your Eminence, Venerable Fathers OF the
| Episcopate and Clergy and Dear Breth-
| rem Of the Laity:
| How impressive in its eloQuence OF ST.
| lence Is this scene and how salutary in its
| lessons. Behold before you today "a great
priest who in his day pleased God and
| was found just" Behold him, clothed in
| the ves,ments OF his order. as he stood at
| the altar to offer sacrifice and prayer for
| you and yours. He breaches his last ser
| mon from that funeral pulpit But yes
| terday. / may say. he proclaimed the
great conservative Christian truths which
| alone can preserve society from socialism
! and anarchy. Being dead he yet speak
! eth in the eloQuence OF highest example.
| For TWO purposes are We here this morn
| ing-to honor the dead and to pray for
| the dead. The external actions Of men
| are not adequate evidences OF their real
! worth. 1t is the inner life Of motive and
, purity OF intention and disinterested sac
| rtfice that constitute the greatness OF
goodness" Great deeds inspired by ambi-
| ton and tinted with vanity count as moth
| ing before God and very soon sink into
| insignifcance and are forgotten by men.
| The world knows its weakness and honors
the magnanimity that despises its ephem-
eral praise. The deceased prelate shrank
from 1t. His one great motive Of action
was to please God and benefit, not merely
please, his fellow man. Here you find
the secret Of his love OF solitude and
| communion with God
The archbishop was as . rock-mossy
and yielding on the surface. but beneath
firm and immoyable. He was brave with
the courage of God, for whom alone ne
acted and suffered. What, after all. is
death to such a man as this? What bui
liberation, an illumination, a union? a
liberation from most pressing duties and
responsibilities, an illumination when the
light OF Gods face shall shine upon him
and he will hold the solutions Of the grea'
problems of life and the length and
breadth and height and depth Of God
love and a union with the divine original
after whom he was formed.
The crush in the cathedral was Sc
great that Mgr. O'Reilly of Montreal
who is ninety years old, was pros
trated.
Early in the day a wagon left at tbs
see house big box marked The