The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-06-17
More Than Four Thousand Knights and Their
Ladies Enjoy Huge Barbecue Served
by Local Chapter.
Los Angeles Proves an Ideal Place For Cath
elics to Meet Because Of Its Early
Catholic History.

Could good old Padre Junipero Ser
ra, organizer of the California mis-
sions. and devout Padre Crispi, won
derful executive in the plans for the
Mission San Juan Capistrano, have
stood on the crumbling adobe walls of
that venerable pile yesterday they
would have witnessed sight too mar.
velous for them to believe possible, as
one Of the outcomes Of their labors.
says the Los Angeles Times.
There, in the enclosure of the mis-.
sion walls. would they have seen
Catholics gathered from all parts of
this far.expanding United States, to
pay tribute to the work of these his.
toric Franciscans, and to view with
tender emotions the ruins of one of
the most notable piles where the
standard Of the Cross was raised for
the first time to the vision of the Cal
ifornia Indians, and where lives best
efforts were freely poured out that
Christianity might be planted in a vir-
gin soil
Never was there such a gathering at
the old mission; not even in the palm
lest days of old, when hundreds were
bidden to the religious feasts and sec
ular fiestas, and where San .Duan's at
fractions were heralded by messen-
gers from settlement to settlement
along El Canine Real until they
reached from Mission San Diego to
Monterey.
More than 1000 Knights of Colum-
bus and their ladies joined in the
pilgrimage. Well repaid they were,
as the hospitality which has surround
ed them since first they landed in Los
Angeles abounded within the walls of
Capistrano. and the true old-time well
come We're given whomsoevcr would
come in as guests.
The trains began to leave La
Grande station, Los Angeles, at Z
o'clock, and continued until o o'clock.
They bore a jolly company, and to
many the ride through the deep green
orange groves, the wide expanses of
ripe barley and the changing browns
OF pasture hills, covered with grazing
stock. and the stops in thrifty little
cities, gave a revelation of the rich
ness Of this land of the afternoon.
At Capistrano the excursiOnists i'm
mcditely marched to the mission and
inspected it's many curious hooks and
corners. The little chapel was crowd
ed with knights and ladies', who es-
| teemed 1t an honor to kneel a few
moments before the altar in prayer.
The band from the Banning Indian
School and the League Of the Gross
Cadets Band played sweet music, and
in the little chapel the voices of a
choir of young Spanish girls were
raised in hymns of praise.
AS the party, in which were Arch
bishop Montgomery, Bishop Conaty
and Bishop O'Reilly and large num-
Der of priests, came up from the rail-
way station, two picturesque old Pala
Indians began the ringing Of the An
gelus Scattered over the grounds in
striking groups We're thirty Mission
Indians from the Pala reservation,
who had been brought to San Juan
CapistranO by Rev. l.. A. Grammar,
priest in charge at Pala. They were
individually presented to the arch
bishop and the bishop of this diocese,
and their devotion as they paid their
respects to these dignitaries was
noticeable feature.
Besides these Indians the young
men and boys from the Banning In.
dian school attracted much attention.
They were in charge of Rev. B. Flo
rain Hahn, missionary apostolic, and
they gave musical program from an
improvised stand in one of the por-
ticos. They were directed by Rev.
Raphael Fuhr, o. F. NJ, who, robed in
the brown habit of the Franciscans,
made a fitting picture in the arch
ways of the old cloisters.
The large collection of old Mission
relics were arrayed for inspection, and
their history was Interestingly told by