The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-07-24
Rev. P. M. McKenna Returns
to His Church.
FIVE MONTHS ABSENCE
Visited Many Countries Including Pal
estine-with Party Of Priests Had
Special Audience With
the Pope.


Rey. p NJ. McKenna, pastor Of St.
aIonioa's church, returned Saturday
night from fye months trip abroad
When seen by Times reporter this
morning, Rev. Mr.. AcKenna told the
story Of his trip 10 very interesting
manner
The party sailed from New York,
February 2nd, on the steam ship Arabic
of the White Star line. They stopped
for a few days at the tropical Madeira
Islands. On these beautiful Islands the
orange and lemon groves were ia full
bloom and were also loaded with fruits
quite a change from the cold, wintery
New York which they had left only a
few days before. From here they went
TO Cadiz and Seville in Spain, thence
to Gibraltar, Algiers, Malta and to Ath-
ems.
At Athens the party visited many
places, among them the battlefield Of
Marathon where little band Of the
heroic Greeks withstood the great Per-
sian army, also the famous Forum, from
which Demosthenes hurled his great
phillipics. From Athens the party went
ON to Constantinople where they were
fortunate enough to see the Sultan as
tie went to public mass on Friday morn
ing After spending q few days in Con-
stantinople, they proceeded to Smyrna
and then to Caiffa in Palestine, where
they took carriages to Nazareth, visit
ing Cana. the place where our Lord per-
formed His FIRST miracle; Mt. Tabor, the
Mount Of the TRANSFORMATION; the Mount
Of the Beatitudes, the city Of Tlberius
across the Sea Of Galilee, and Magdela,
the home Of Mary Magdalene.
The party then went on to Jerusalem,
where they visited many places famous
as being connected with our Lords life
upon earth. They said mass over the
manger Ia which Christ was born III
Bethlehem and also at the tomb where
Christ was buried They visited Mount
Oliyet, the Garden OF Gethsemane, the
river Jordan, where the Lord was bap-
tized, Mount Nebo, where Moses died,
the Tomb of Lazarus and the home Of
Mary and Martha. From Jerusalem
they went back to Alexandria in Egypt
and along the fertile delta Of the Nile
AT Cairo they went through the palace
the Holy Family stayed during their
soiourn in Egypt, visiting the Pyramids
and the wonderful museum of Cairo
In the museum the party were shown
the mummy 81 Rameses II, the Pharaoh
of the Exodus They also visited the
spot where the baby Noses was found
III the bulrushes by Pharaoh's daughter.
At aCiro they went through the palace
ef the Khediye, the ruler of Egypt.
From Egypt the party went on to Ma
pies and thence to Rome.
AT Rome the American priests in the
party were granted a special audience
with Pope Plus X, on March 26th While
in Rome they visited st. Peters cathe-
dral, the ancient city OF Pompeii and
volcano Then proceeding along the
Mediterranean they stopped at Vile
franche and visited Monte Carlo. From
Villefranche the party sailed directly to
Liverpool. From that place Rev Fr.
AfcKenna went to Ireland, where he yis-
tied many interesting places The party
sailed for home on the Arabic July sth
from Queenstown, arriving In Boston,
July 18th.
Rev McKenna Is much Improved in
health as a result Of his long and in
teresting trip and returns to his parish
and people strong and hearty