The Irish standard., 1910-08-20
CONGRESS
Preparations Practically Complete
For the Great Church
Event.
Solemn Procession of the Blessed
Sacrament to be the Crown
ing Feature.

The eyes Of the Roman Catholic
world are turning to Montreal, where
on Sept. g. the worlds Eucharistic
congress will open. 1t will be the firs1
time in the history of the church tina,
the congress has chosen any place out.
side of Europe or Asia for the scene
of it's deliberations. And the choice has
been peculiarly happy one.
Montreal ranks as one of the great
Roman Catholic cities of the world. II
is moro Roman Catholic than Rome
and is the chief city of community
manifesting more love and devoutness
for their religion than many of the
older seats of Roman Catholicism in
the old world. The population is abou,
three-fourths Roman Catholic and d
considerable proportion of that fraction
is composed of French Canadian Cath
olics, whose love and respect for the
church and its clergy is world famous
AS might naturally be expected, the
city abounds with beautiful churches
converts, schools and charitable insti.
tutions Of all kinds managed by thu
various religious orders. male and fe.
male, for which the church of Rome
is noted. Without these the enter.
tainment of the vast number of peo
nj la u N OF he l.
be we'll nigh impossible.
In connection with this event tn,
metropolis of Canada will be able t.
demonstrate to the world that it is on,
of the freest cities of them all. Ever
freedom Of action and conviction, tn,
congress was not able to carry out it,
intention of holding an open air pro
cession for the alteration of the Host
Owing to the protests which :, were
made to the authorities the government
deemed it advisable to countermahd tn.
carrying of the Host in public, which
is an important feature of the meet.
ingS of the congress.
Carrying of the Host.
In Montreal no such difficulty car
present itself. The solemn procession
of the Blessed Sacrament will be the
browning event of the gathering, and i
will surpass anything that has hither.
to taken, place along those lines TIL,
Fette Dieu. or Corpus Christi, process
sion is an annual event in Montreal
but the demonstration at this congress-
will be on much more extensive lines
The great procession. which will in
clude thousands of prelates and priests
not to mention hosts of laymen, rep
resenting all the various societies o
from the Champ de Mars and went
its way to the foot of Mount Royal
where an altar will be erected in
picturesque situation. There with tn
tree clad mountain for a backsroun,
the high dignitaries of the church will
unite in celebrating with all Its solem
nifty and grandeur one Of the mos
solemn Of the church's services.
The Host will be carried through tn
streets by the cardinal legate from
! Rome. representing His Holiness tn
Pope. He will be flanked by soldier
and police, not that there would b
any danger of attack or insult, bu
to give the impression that the sac
redness of the holy institution is en-
titled to all manifestation of power an
protection of temporal character a
we'll as it's counterpart in religious sig
nificance.
| VannutelIi to Como.
/ The central figure OF the congress
will be his eminence. Cardinal Vincenz
Vannutelli, Mgr. Heylen. bishop of Ma
muir, a noted Belgium prelate, the per
manent chairman of the congress, viii
also be here, having already paid
visit to Canada to inquire into tn
progress of the arrangements for tn
meetings. The legate will have wit
him several distinguished ecclesiastic
! from Rome and large number of tn
clergy and Catholic laity will also com
over with him.
In addition to these and to all tn
archbishops and bishops of Canad
there will be in attendance Cardina
Gibbons of Baltimore, Archbishop Far
ley of New York, Archbishop O'Con
nell of Boston, Archbishop Ireland @
ST. Paul, Archbishop Quigley of Chi
cago, Archbishop Blenk of New Or
leans. Archbishop Glennon of ST. Loui.
Archbishop Messmer of Milwaukee an
many we'll known bishops and Jesse
oignitaries.