The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-26

| Rev. John J. Milan, or ALneSpOIy,
 Mass, who will be the seventh bishop 1 of Hartford and successor to the late Bishop Tierney, has now been com pleted This ceremony, the most i'm pressive in the ritual of the Roman
 Catholic church, will take. place in St.
 Joseph s cathedral Pennington ave | nue. Hartford Thursday of this week, | in the presence of the archbishop of the New England province, Most Rev.
 William H. O'Connell. of Boston who will preside, by over a dozen sb1shops, 400 priests, hundreds of nuns and thou sands of laymen and women, including State and city officials and prominent
 people in all. walks of life, to the full capacity of the spacious cathedral | The ceremony of conservation will be- gin at 10 o'clock and will occupy fully two hours and a. half.
 The sanctuary and altars Of the ca
 thedral will be richly decorated. The
 music will be in accordance with the
 so1emnity of the ceremony and the
 choir will include the youthful n1u-
 sicians Of St Thomas seminary of
 Hartford and hundreds of the leading
 male vocalists from the Catholic choirs
 The exercises at the cathedral will
 be followed by a banquet to the newly
 consecrated bishop, and to the visiting
 prelates and clergy.
 Tn the evening solemn vespers will
 be celebrated, with a sermon by Rev.
 Thomas J shahan, g. T. D., Pr@zlaeht eh
 
 ington, and formerly chancellor of the
 Hartford diocese.
 / The officers of the conservation ser
 vice and pontifical high mass will in clude the Most Rev. William O'ConneH.
 D. D., archbishop of Boston. as the
 eonzeerato and e the the sisfant e1ngi foig
 Walsh, bishop of Portland, Me, and
 the Rt. Rev. Daniel F. Feehan, D. D., bishop of Fall River, Mass. IT The Rt
 Rev. M. J. Iavelle, rector of St Pat rick,s cathedral, New York city, will deliver the sermon.
 The other officiating bishops and clergy will include the assistant priest, deacon of the mass. sub-deacon, chap Iains to the bishop-elect. chapla1rls to tors, reader of apostolic brief. offertory bearers, masters of ceremonies, assist ant masters of cerepnonies, acO1ytes, n1itre bearer. erozier bearer, thurifer, book bearer, candle bearer. notary, gremaile bearer, chanters. chaplains to the most reverend and right reverend visiting prelates book bearer. censor bearer, and assistant at the faIdstool.
 The following order of exercises will be followed at the conservation cere- mony: Processional, reading of apos- tolic brief administration of the oath of fidelity, profession of faith. com mencement of the holy sacrifice of mass, reading of the chief duties of bishop, ,-1itany of the saints, imposition of the book of the gospels, imposition Of hands, prayer and preface, t-Veni Creator annointing head of the bish- op-elect blessing and conferring of ring, commission to preach the gospel, kiss of peace, continuation of the holy sacrifice of mass, offertories symbolic of the holy sacrifice, holy communion, blessing and conferring of gloves, en- throning the bishop, gre Deum Lauda- mus, blessing of congregation. solemn pontihca1 blessing. @'Ad multos An nos.'' kiss of peace. gospel of St. John. | recessional. preceded by a procession of robed pre- 1ates and priests, starting from the 1 episcopal residence. on Farm1ngton l avenue and will enter the cathedral, l the most reverend consecrator Arch | bishop OiConne1l, bringing up in the | rear. takes oath before the archbishop l who is to consecrate him, that he will | be faithful to the Holy See. that he l will promote it's authority and that he | will, at stated intervals prescribed by l law, visit the city of Rome and give l office. Afterwards the elect l is consecrated bishop by imposition of | hands, the tradition of staff and ring, ! the unction with the chisrn, the i'm | position of the book on his shoulders, | and other rites prescribed in the pom tifcaI. i
 Immediately after being duly con- | secrated Bishop-elect Milan will leave | the sanctuary and give the honor of ! his first apostolic blessing to his ven members of his family. This will no | doubt be a solemn and touching c1i- l max, as it will recall to many of the prelates and clergy in attendance a similar act at their own consecra ton Or ordinati in past years, and it | will also bring to mind that hardly a | dry eye was noticed in the same Cathedral in 1894 when the late Bishop Tierney bestowed his first apostolic | blessing to his feeble and crippled mother just after being consecrated. op-elect, escorted by his other bishops, and attired in his gold 1nitre, his silk and gold embroidered robes, and car rying his great crozier, will be con- Iucted around the cathedral, blessing the. people with gestures of his white gloved hands and afterwards return Ing to the altar, blessing the whole | con gregatioIl again, soIenan1y making the triple sign of the cross.
 Bishop-eIeet Milan will be the sev-