The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-12
SPEAKS OF OLDBN
 DAYS OF CHlYALRY
FATHER KERRiGAN BREACHES SERMON TO KNIGHTS OF CO., LUMBUS-SEVERAL MEMBERS INITIATED INTO THE ORDER.

Birmingham Council No 63J, Knights of Columbus, which celebrates it's first an- niversary tonight. attended high mass in body at St. Pauls church yesterday morning at 10:3O o'clock.
 The music of the mass was Webers melodie and brilliant work in G and it was sung exceptionally we'll Mrs. Sat terneld. the leading soprano, was in par ticularly fine voice and delivered her solos, high pitched and difficult, with artistic skill. The Rev. Father Kerrigan was the celebrant and preacher, but he was not feeling well and on that account shortened the service by changing it to low mass after the credo; consequently the choir omitted the Sanctus and the Benedicite.
 Oliver Chalifoux played for an offertory a pathetic solo on the violin by Goddard. Father Kerrigan read as a text for his sermon to the Knights, St. Pauls Epistlc to the Ephesians about loins girt in truth, the breast plate of justice, feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; the shield of faith, the helmet of salva- ton ana the SWOru or the Splrll WlicH lS the word of God.
 He began by saying that as we glance in retrospect down the long vista of his tory, flecked with It's myraid lights and shadows, no period of 1t attracts and holds our attention with such Irresistible charm as the age of chivary; the days of the lance and the shield, when "Knighthood was In Flower" We delight, he said, to revel in all that 1t presents of lofty ideal, of magnanimous virility, of intrepid courage, of gentle courtesy, of love of God, of reverence for woman. We enshrine, within our hearts, as our eidolon some bright particular hero of that period, some Sir Lancelot through all the tract of years, wearing the white flower of a blameless life.
 Father Kerrigan described the manner of making knights in the olden time. The the vigil of arms" He spent the whole night armed from head to foot, before the high altar of some abbey church, in prayer. In the ceremony of initiation the candidate advanced to the altar and presented his sword to the priest, who prayed over 1t that it might serve as a protection of widows and orphans and the Christian religion. The candidate then took the VOWS of knighthood.
 The preacher exhorted the Knights of Columbus to be faithful to their VOWS, to initiate the virtues of Christopher Columbus and to be true to the Holy Mother Church.
 From St. Paul's the knights marched to their hall and conducted a class of candidates through the first degree of the order
 The first, second and third degrees will be conferred on a class of seventy or seventy-hve some time in March.
 Birmingham councils anniversary re- ception will begin tonight at o'clock.
 The committee of the order will be as- sisted by Mrs. R. N. Wheeler, Miss Mary Cahalan, Miss Margaret ONeill Mrs. Oliver Challfoux, Mrs. Sterling Wood, Mrs. Frank r. O'Brien, Mrs. B. B. Mar tin, Mrs. Kettle Walsh, Miss Florence Feeley, Miss Belle Dangaix, Mrs. James Mackin, Mrs. A. J. Krebs, Mrs Charles Roy, Miss Mabel Roy Miss Ethel Cliff ford, Miss Alice Fallon, Mrs. Charles Whelan, and Mrs. J. Cary Thompson
 Father ORcilly said mass Sunday at 7:9O and the Rev. Nj. s. ODonnell said the o'clock mass. Fat.ser O'Donnell ar river here Saturday night. He' has been appointed assistant at St. Paul's, in the place of Father Sweeney, recently trans- ferred to Pensacola. He is d native of Burlington, Vt, and was ordained in De- cember in the Boston cathedral He re- ceived his theological training at Mount Saint Mary'S Emmits sburR Md