El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-05
HIGH CHURCH D|GNHAR|ES
ATTENDING CONSIDERATION
Celebration of Conservation of Magnificent ST. Patrck
Cathedral in New York Wednesday Morning
Occurs on Centennial of Starting of Move
ment to Erect Cathedral = Cardinal
Vanneutalli, Papal Delegate.
Is Present

New York, N. Y, Oct. 5-The greatest
Catholic celebration witnessed in this
city in many years began today,
when archbishop John NJ. Farley
of New York opened the celebration
Of the conservation of ST. Patrick's ca
thedral, one of the most magnificent
church edificeS in the United States.
The celebration will last three days and
will be participated in by high church
dignitaries from all over the world, in
Guiding cardinal VanneutaIli, the papal
lEgate; cardinal LOgue, primate Of Ire
land. and cardinal Gibbons, of Balti-
more. There Will also be so bishops
and archbishops and 1000 priests from
every section of the country.
Has No Debt.
The conservation Will be of special
significance to every Catholic through
out the country, as it will mean that
the last cent has been paid on the debt
of this magnificent cathedral, the ply
steal center of the Catholic church in
America. The Catholic churches may be
used for services as soon as habitable
but they canOt be conSecrated until
the last cent has been paid on their
debt.
After many years Of unceasing labor
archbishop Farley has completed the
work begun by his predecessors, and
estimated has cost 100000 is now
free entirely of any debt
In connection with the celebration
there will also be services held in COM
memoration of the centennial of the
birth of cardinal McCloskey, the first
prelate in the United States to be in
vested with membership in the college
Of cardinals and the man, who was
archbishop of New New York and did
oh, - of hn
cathedral.
Celebration begins Early.
The celebration began at 3 o'clock
on Wednesday morning with solemn
services in the cathedral and was
attended by many of the church digni-
taries, as well as hundreds of cOmmu-
nicants. On Wednesday evening arch
bishop Diomede, papal delegate at
Washington, will be the celebrant of
solemn pOntificial vespers and bishop
r. Hickey, Of Rochester will preach.
On Thursday, October s, the morning
will be given over to a special chill
dren's celebration in the cathedral. All
the cardinals and archbishops will be
present to hear 5000 pupils from the
p2rochial schools throughout greater
New York sing during the services.
Besides the solemn celebration there
will be many lay functions for the en-
tertainment OF the cardinals and visit
ing priests. One of these will take the
form of a general reception which will
be held at the Catholic club on 59th
street.
Planned 100 Years Ago.
The history of St Patrick's cathedral
covers a period of 100 years. 1t was
in 1910 that the Rev. Anthony Kohlman,
vicar general Of the diocese purchased
the PROPERTY on which the cathedral
now stands. Vt was not until 1858
however, that the work of collecting
money for the cathedral was begun. II
was archbishop Hughes, who was re-
sponsible for this. He succeeded in
raising over 100000 with which to
start the work.
Despite the criticism Of many people
on account of the site he selected (al-
though St Patrick's cathedral is on
Fifth avenue and 5Sth street and in
the heart of the city, this section at
that time was far outside of the city's
limits, the farseeing prelate went
ahead with his work and the corner
stone was laid on August Is, 1853.
Owing to the civil war work was
delayed on the structure. but it was
taken up again by archbishop Nc