Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-17

missions.
Chicago Nov. 16.--In the Cathedral
Of the Holy Name in the city of Chi
caso the first step in the great mis-
sionary congress which is to mark a
ssr reaching change in the policy Of
he Roman Catholic church in the
United States and Canada was taken
yesterday morning, when Papal Legate
Diomede Falconio celebrated solemn
pontifical high mass, marked by the
singing of the Gregorian chant, il
Illustrative of Pope Pious' ideas as to
church music. Following close upon
the initial religious pagant came other
festivities and ceremonies spreading
out in a widening circle until in the
evening tens and scores of thousands
of men and women and hundreds of
clergymen of all degrees had joined
in the oratory and the prayer, the
deliberation and the hymns of praise.
The chief event of the afternoon was
a luncheon to 200 visiting priests and
prelates, a banquet attended by 900
leading laymen of Illinois, and ad-
dresses by clergymen and laymen of
international reputation at the Aud
itorium hotel. In the evening there
We're special services in eighty-six of
the largest churches of the city, at
which sermons were delivered by dis
tinguished priests and prelates.
Gorgeous Pageant Precedes Mass.
The greatest day in the history of
the Catholic church in Chicago, and
perhaps in the United States, was
nnonod h., on re
majority of the hierarchy of the
church in this country, bishops, nit
cred abbots, monsignori, archbishops,
and priests, between rows of glitter
ing drawn swords in the hands OF
distinguished laymen of the Catholic
faith. and thousands of loyal sons and
daughters of the church
The gorgeous pageant proceeded
rom the doors of the cathedral college
md the Holy Name parish house
he corner Of Superior and Cass
treets north on Cass street to Chi
ago avenue, west on Chicago ave
nue. to State street and south on State
rect to the doors of the cathedral.
he sun broke through the Novem-
her mists just as the 500 knights Of
Columbus of the Fourth Degree, as
sembled from all part of Illinois. In
diana, Wisconsin, and Michigan for
the occasion, marched from the ca
thedral college in sword and baldric
to line the route of the procession.
Stately March Begins.
AS soon as they were in place the
doors of the parish house opened and
two by two in purple cassock and
white surplice the choir boys marched
but, l60 in number, and ranging in age
from years to II.
Behind them came about 800 visiting
priests, also in white surplices, but
with black cassocks, and following
them the higher dignitaries of the
church. First came the mon signore in
ped with purple. Following them were
the mitered abbots, their vestments
the same as those of the monsignore
but each garbed in the color of his
order, Benedictines in black and Trip
pists in white
The greatest showing in numbers
was made by the bishops, fifty-two OF
the eight-rine Americans bishops be-
ing In lines Each was attended by
two chaplains, distinguished priests,
delegates to the congress from all
parts, of the country. Their brilliant
purple robes Were set off by the sober
'.sek and white of their cI1aplains and
L seemed but an instructive act when
the 500 men who lined the way drew
ltheir swords and brought them to Il
reverentia1 salute to their spiritual
lords Their robes were the same as
those of the monsignore, but upon
their breasts cleaned the insignia of
their office the pectOral cross