The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-01
Catholic Celebration Held In
City of New York.
CARDINAL LOGUE OF IRELAND
Foreign Prince Of the Church Is the
CeIebrant, Most Of Archbishops
in Country Are There.

New Ork, April Z5.-NOL since tHe
last plenary council of Baltimore has
there been such a gathering of Catho-
lie hierarchy as that which assembled
in st. Patrick's cathedral and offered
public thanksgiving for the completion
of hundred years of Catholicism in
New York With two exceptions,
every archbishop in the country was
present and all of the leading bishops
and numerous heads of the various
religious orders. The archbishops
were Ryan of Philadelphia, Ireland of
st. Paul, Glennon of st. Louis, Keane
of Dubuque, O'Connell of Boston,
Blenk of New Orleans, Quigley of
Chicago, MoeIler of Cincinnati and
Farley of New York, and Bishops
Canevin of Pittsburg, FitZmaurice of
Erie Cotton of Buffalo; O'Connor of
Newark, McQuaide of Rochester.
Burke of Albany, Ludden of Syracuse,
McFaul of Trenton and others, and
at their head Americas representa-
tive of the sacred college, Cardinal
Gibbons. Monsignore Falconio, the
apostolic delegate, represented the
vatican, and at the close of the cere
monies impaired the papal benedic
tion
The thanksgiving was in the form
of pontifical mass, the celebrant be-
ing another prince of the church,
Cardinal Logue Of IRELAND, and close
to 5000 persons were gathered in the
cathedral long before the mass began
and as many more stood in Fifth ave-
nue.. There were $50 policemen about
the Gothic edifice, but they had no
difficulty in keeping order, for those
who could not get inside remained on
Fifth avenue and the cross streets
viewing the procession of the clergy
from the college, in Madison avenue
to the Fifth avenue entrance of the
cathedral. liz i itT ;ipi.s
: Crowd Cheered Irish Cardinal.
; The process ion began when hun
dreds of surpliced clergy filed out of
the college in pairs and were. followed
by some fifty bishops and their chap
lains, then ,the' fmonsignori, clad in
. their purple raiment These were fol-
lowed by the representatives of the
numerous religious orders, the Jesuits
and Dominicans, the3 Franciscans and
the Passionists, the Carmelites, and
the Benedictines and Abbot Obrecht,
the head of the Trappists of Gethese-
name, Kentucky. Then came the high
rank of the prelacy, the archbishops,
and finally the crowds gathered in
Fifth avenue could behold the figure
of the Irish cardinal, robed in the red
of a prince of the church. AS soon
as he and his chaplains had turned
into Fifth avenue there occurred what
rarely occurs at Catholic assemblage
of that nature; the crowds greeted
him with enthusiastic cheers. The
cardinal lifted his right hand and I'M
mediately the cheers were hushed and
the crowds fell on their knees and he
blessed them, then passed into the
cathedral. The cardinal was escorted
to the archbishop's throne and there
vested for mass. At the end of the
gospel, Cardinal Gibbons, the Ameri-
can cardinal, in the long flowing robes,
walked slowly into the sanctuary,
bowed first to the representative of
the pope, Monsignore Falconio, then
to the Irish cardinal A moment later
Cardinal Gibbons mounted the pulpit
and delivered mastery and compre-
hensive discourse in which he re-
viewed the history of the Catholic
church in New York and paid beau
tiful tribute to, the Irish immigrants.
Archbishop Farley after the sermon
read message of congratulation from
Pope Plus X in which the head of
the Catholic church throughout the
world expressed the hope that the
good work would continue and closed
by saying that he sent his blessing to
the archbishop of New York and all
his people. At the>close of the cere-
mony Monsignore Falconio impaired
the blessing in the pope's name.
Letters of congratulation were re-
ceived from numerous public officials,
including President Roosevelt After
the service the clergy of the archdio-
cese gave dinner to the visiting pre-.
lates in the Cathedral college.
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