The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-25
INVESTED
WITH PALLIUM
Archbishop of New Orleans
Recognized as Successor
to Chapelle.
Ceremony Was Attended by
Prelates From All Parts
of Country.
OLD ST. LOUIS CATHEDRAL IN
CRESCENT CITY DECORATED IN
PAPAL cOLoRS FOR sTHE &C.
CASION PALLIUM Described
BY ARCHBISHOP GLENNoN, OF
ST. LOUIS.
Bv Associated Press.


New Orleans, La. Apr. - before
distinguished portion Of the Roman
Catholic hierarchy of "a" United
States, including CARDINAL Gibbons.
two archbishops and sixteen bishops
Archbishop Blenk of New Orleans
was today invested with the paIlium-
This insignia is the oficial recogni-
ton by the church of the archbishop s
power to succeed to the functions or
the late Archbishop Chapelle, whose
archiepiscOpal province comprised the
six states Of louisiana, mississippi,
Alabama Arkansas, Texas and Okla
homa, and who died during the yellow
fever epidemic here two years ago
In the old st. Louis cathedral
where other important. events in
Archbishop Blenk's life have tran
spired since he lived in this city as
a boy, the ceremony tookFplace. The
structure was decked in tEe papal col
ors. yellow and white, interspersed
with the American colors and the
archbishop's purple. About 10 O'Clock
solemn procession of $50 Of the
clergy wendell its way to this cathe-
dral and a thrOng. of ot.ter persons
crowded the edifice. Fol- q wing high
mass the palIium was pied on the
altar.
PaIIium Describf {.
1t is a band of white wCr with two
pendants of the same msteTial and
bears four black CROSSES - sigas
brought here from Rome and its sa-
cred import was described as follows
by Archbishop Glennon, of st. Louis,
who delivered the sermon
Before its being brought to st. Pc
ters tomb. there was the simple his
g -, OF
the hands of the Daughters of St
Agnes. from the wool of lambs which
were dedicated to St Agnes, the viz
gin and martyr. the snowdrOp of the
springtime in the Christian Rome in
the DAYS of old. So woven and sur
mounted with her martyrdOm, the pal
Iium was carried TO the tomb of the
apostle. guarded there on his feast
day. blessed by the sovereign pOntin,
and forwarded from that shrine
here"
With the palliUm were three Jew
els. An amethyst a topaz and ruby,
each set in a pin for fastening the in
sigma upon the aTchbiShOp'S gar
ments. Contrary 10 custom. these
Jewels were not sent from Rome. but
were, with the pOpe'S permission,
gifts of an old New Orleans family
winch ndQ Known AIcHb4Shpp AASiiN
for many years. The jewels were
heirlooms.
PreIates Present.
After the mass. Archbishop Blenk
renewed his oath of allegiance and
fidelity 10 the Holy See and then Car
dinal Gibbons placed the pallium upon
the Most Rev Mr.. Blenk's shoulders
In addition TO Cardinal Gibbons
and ArchbishOps GlennOn and Blenl, /
the following were present: Arch
bishop MOeIler of Cincinnati, and
Estrada, of Havana. Cuba;
Scannell, of Omaha, Neb.; Jansen
of Bellville Ill: O'Reilly. tauXiliaEyD
Of Peoria. H.; Morris. (cOadjutorD OF
Little Rock. Ark: Byrne. OF Nash !
Vile. Tenn; Garrigan. of Sioux City. |
Ia: Kenny. of St Augustine. Fla;
Verdaguer, of Brownsville. Texas: /
Dunno of Dallas. Texas; Gallagher. /
Of Galveston. Texas: MeeschaeTt. OF |
Okla; HesHn, of Natchez. !
Miss; Allen. Of Mobile. Ala and Van /
devon, of NatchitOChes. La