The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-08
GOLDEN YEARS OF
CATHOLIC CHURCH
NOTABLE CELEBRATION or CEN
TURY or CATHOLICISM IN
NEW YORK CITY.
Splendid coneourse Of the Noble Dig
nitaries Of the Church
Attend.

New York. May Not since tbs
last plenary council of Baltimore has
there been such a gathering of Catho
lie hierarchy as that which assembled
today in ST. Patricks Cathedral and
offered public thanksgiving for the
completion of a hundred years of
Catholicism in New York. With two
exceptions, every archbishop in the
country was present and all the lead
ing bishops and numerous heads Of
the various religious orders. The
archbishops were Ryan, of Philadel-
phia; Ireland, of st. Paul; Glennon,
of St. Louis; Keane, of Dubuque;
O'Connell, of Boston; Blenk, of New
Orleans; Quigley of Chicago; Noel
ler,of Cincinnati; Farley, of New York,
and Bishops Canevin, of Pittsburg:
Fitzmaurice, of Erie; Colton of Buff
falo; O'Connor, Of Newark McQuaide,
of Rochester; Burke, of Albany; Lud-
den, of Syracuse; McFaul of Tren-
ton and others, and at their head
representative in the sacred
college, Cardinal Gibbons, Monsignor
Falconio, the Apostolic delegate rep
the Vatican, and at the !
close of the ceremonies impaired the /
1apal benediction.
The Thanksgiving was in the form
If a pontifical mass, the celebration
,eing another prince of the church,
Cardinal LOgue, of Ireland, and close
o 5000 persons were gathered in the
athedral long before the mass began
nd as many more stood in Fifth ave-
ue. There We're $50 policemen about
he Gothic edifice, but they had no ,
ifficulty in keeping order, for those
-ho could not get inside remained on
fifth avenue and the cross streets
iewing the procession of the clergy
ON the college in Madison avenue :
the Fifth avenue entrance of the Y
ithedral
Abbot obrecht Present.
At exactly II o'clock hundreds of !,
rpliced clergy filed out of the col i
ge in pairs and were followed by
me fifty bishops and their chap :
ms, then the monsignors, clad in i
cir purple raiment. These were fol i
we'd by the representative Of the ~
merous religious orders, the Jesuits =,
d Dominicans, the Franciscans and of
ssionists, the Carmeltes and the IL
and Abbot Obrecht, the -
i'd of the Trappists of Gethsemane,
ntucky. Then came the higher =
ks of the Drelacy, the arch-bishops, "
| finally the crowds gathered in
tn avenue could behold the figure
the Irish cardinal, robed in the red
a prince of the church. AS soon
he and his chaplains had turned CT
, Fifth avenue there occurred what
ely occurs at a Catholic assemblage
nat nature, the crowd greeted MN
b enthusiastic cheers. The cardi- ]
lifted his right hand and imme- ard
ely the cheers were hushed and tall
crowds fell on their knees and he Mis-
sed them, then passed into the wht
edral The cardinal was escorted she
he archbishop's throne and there box
ed for mass. thre
the end of the gospel, Cardinal her
IONS, the American cardinal in enc,
long flowing red robes, walked from
ly into the sanctuary bowed first YOU
he representatives of the Pope, to ;
signor Falconio, then to the Irish foun
inal. A moment later Cardinal knit
ons mounted the pulpit and de- He
ed mastery and comprehensive thou
urse in which he reviewed the his was
of the Catholic Church in New Med
and paid a beautiful tribute to and
IRISH immigrants. stra,