The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-20
CATHOLICS TO VISIT MONTREAL First Eucheristic Congress in North America to be Held
 There
 MANY FROM THIS CITY Speakers Will Include Papal Le- gate Cardinal Vannutelli and
 Cardinal Gibbons
MANY FROM THIS CITY

Many priests of the city and diocese perhaps including Bishop Milan, are intending to be present at the first Eucharistic congress ever held on the North American continent, to be held at Montreal next September and it will be one of the most notable gath erings in America. The object of the meeting from an ecclesiastic point of view is to create a greater love and veneration for the Blessed Sacrament or Holy Eucharist.
 Cardinal Vannute1li will represent Pope Plus x, as special Papal IIe- gate. He will be assisted by Cardinal Logue of Ireland, Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore and 86 Archbishops and
 Bishops. Of the latter. one is from Belgium, two from England, one from France, four from Mexico and four from South America.
 The number of ecclesiastical visitors of high degree will be the largest ever gathered together in America. In ad- dition to the many archbishops and bishops there will be thousands of priests from all parts of the world. Most Rev. William O'Connell, Ach- bishop of Boston, will deliver the ser mon at the solemn pontificial high mass, which will be solemnized in the
 open air in Manse Park, at the foot
 of Mount Royal. Cardinal Gibbons
 will preach the sermon at the mid night mass which will be celebrated in the Church of Notre Dame, the
 largest on the American continent.
 This mass will be for men only.
 Archbishop Glennon of St. Louis
 will deliver the sermon in St. Patrick's church on the occasion of the ponti-
 ficial mass which vii be chanted by Cardinal Vannutelli the Papal Legate
 The following have been announced
 as the speakers before the English speaking section of the congress: Rev. Rev. A. Thompson of Glace Bay, N. s.: Rev. H. Canning, Toronto; Rev. Thomas Campbell. s. J., of New York, editor of America; Rev. A. F. Doyle, c. s. F.. of the Apostolic Mission House, Washington, D. O.; Rev. Louis Drummond, s. J.. New York; Rev. F. s. Fitzgerald, Holyoke; Rev. P T. Hartigan, Deseronto; Rev. Louis A. Lambert, LL.D., Scottsville, N. Y., editor of the Freeman's Journal; Very Rev. J. Cavanaugh, c. s. C., President of the University of Notre Dame, In- Rev. Richard Neagle, Maiden, who was prominently mentioned for bish- op of the Connecticut diocese when a vacancy existed after the death of Bishop Tierney; Rt. Rev. Mgr. O'Brien Cambridge: Very Rev Dan Hand Tor 
 novelist.
 Great Procession Planned.
 The eliminating point of the con- eress will be the procession of the Blessed Sacrament. No less than 40 triumphal arches will mark the line of march. The procession will leave historic Notre Dame, and amid the churches the Host will be borne | through four miles of city streets by the Cardinal Legate.
 Immediately preceding the latter | will be the visiting cardinals, whilst | upward of 250 archbishops, bishops and other prelates, all vested in their 1 scarlet, violet or purple robes of of flee, will be seen in the line of march, l Thousands of priests in black cas- socks and white surplices will give | another touch of color to the pie l turesque scene l the line for Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the | Canadian Premier, and his ministers, l the Provincial premiers and their cab | inets. the judges of the Canadian | courts, mayors and aldermen of Can l adian cities, all of whom will be at- tired in full regalia.
 The guard of honor to the Cardinal | Legate will be furnished by 250 mem | bers of the Catholic club of New York | city.
 To the music of countless bands, the | procession will wend it's way through l flower -strewn streets, where an open air mass with the glOwering noun | tain side as background, will be eel l ebrated.
 The mass will be a full pontificial | one, and a choir of upward of 5000 1 voices will furnish the musical DOT the Sixty-f1fth Regiment will accom- pany.
 To Kneel on Slopes.
 For the accommodation of those as- ssting, special stands are being erect ed, but the great bulk of those pres ent will have to kneel on the gently undulating slopes of the mountsfn side.
 Cardinal vincenzo Vannutelli Bishop of Palestrina, Papal 'Legate to the congress will leave Ostend on Aug. 25 and will spend the next night in Liverpool with Most Rev. Francis Bourne. Archbishop of Westminster and the Duke of Norfolk, where the three will embark on the Empress of Ireland, in which their cabins are all ready reserved. portable altars. on which mass may be said from five to eight every morn ing during the voyage across. On Sunday there will be pontificial high 1 mass at 8 o'clock on the third class deck. The distinguished visitors will | proceed to Niagara Falls immediately upon landing at Rimouski
 Thence the Cardinal will go to To- ronto, leaving that City by steamboat on Sept. and arriving in Montreal on the evening of Sept. 5.
 Many of the local Knights of Colum- bus who will attend the national con- vention of their Order in Quebec next month, will stop over in Montreal on the return trip and will participate in the ceremonies incidental to the congress.
 French-Canadians all over the State have also made plans to attend, and one of the forty arches that will span the streets of Montreal will be con- tributcd by them.
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