The sun., 1903-12-26
BRILLIANT CATHEDRAL MASS,
ST. PATRICK'S CROWDED Ar TEE
CHRISTMAS SERVICE.
Archbishop Farley tho Central Figure
OF Gathering OF DistinEuished
Clergymen-The Building Finely
DoCOrated--Crank Asks for tho Pope.

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OF Gathering OF DistinEuished
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DocOrated--Crank Asks for the Pope.
st. Patricks Cathedral was crowded
TO the doors yesterday morning when
Archbishop Farley celebrated the solemn
pontifical high mass which was the chief
Christmas service Of the diocese. Un-
mindful Of the rain, music lovers and regu-
lar churchgoers filed every pow some
time before the chimes ringing out the
"Gloria in Exoelsis Deo' announced the
beginning Of the mass. Tickets had been
issued for the service, and hundreds applied
for admission to whom no tickets had
been given.
The aisles, naves and side ohapels were
thronged when the main doors were closed
for the procession. ...
This was led by oroes-bearer and candle
bearers, followed by 200 crimson-robed
altar boys, the white-robed chancel choir,
the students from Dunwoodie Seminary
and about twenty parish priests. Then
came Archbishop Farley and the officers Of
the mass.
A brilliant color effect was produced
when the central figures in the ceremony
Against background of giant palms stood
the high altar, banked with white lilies,
while the episcopal throne and pillars and
rails were festooned with evergreens,
tied with cardinal ribbon.
The officers Of the mass at the altar
and on the throne stood out in bold relief
in their brilliant gold cloth and white satin
veetmente. Two hundred little altar boys
formed band Of crimson across the chan
eel foreground, and before the throne
we're twelve little pages to the Archbishop,
in white and crimson.
Enormous wreaths were suspended from
each OF the forty arches OF the Cathe-
wreathed. The pulpit was outlined with
sInilaN and lilies. and massive curtain
of smiax swept from the choir loft to
the floor of the centre aisle.
Archbishop Farley was attended at the
mass by Vicar-General Lavelle as assistant
priest. br, snnor az deacon, Father Thomas
Murphy as sub-deacon, and Chancellor Hayes
and Father James ID. Lewis as masters of
ceren nonies: Father Lavelle. in the name OF
the Archbishop, gave the greeting to the con-
gregation. and the Archbishop bestowed
ihe Apostolic benediction.
Father Lavelle announced that the col
lections, which during the last thirty years
have been devoted to the aid and support
of the Catholic Orphan, Asylum, would
the orphan asylum being now on an indie
pendent basis. He expressed the hope that
another year would not find single Catholic
child receiving its instruction except in a
Catholic institution. The Christmas sermon
was preached by the Rev. Father O'Kane,
s. D., of the Jesuits College in Boston.
Archbishop Farley used for the first time
yesterday the costly gold chaiice which
was presented to him last week by the
Ancient Order Of Hibernians. on the occas-
sion of the celebration of the prelate's
eighth anniversary as Bishop and first as
Archbishop.
At the close OF mass. when the procession
was passing through the centre aisle, an
rmkempt, poorly clad man forced his way
through the crowd and demanded that one
OF the ushers take him to the Pope. The
man. who was evidently foreigner. was
at the base Of the pulpit. Some one sug-
gested he was Of unsound mind, and asked
that policeman be sent for. This quieted
the man, and he quickly disappeared.