The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-09-05
Montreal Congress An Epoch
For the American Catholics

the pontifical mass to be sung in the
open air in Mount Royal park on Fri
day. September 3. at $50 o'clock.
The grandest feature of the week.
however, will be the procession of the
blessed sacrament. which will take
place next Sunday. AS the procession
leaves the Church of Notre Dame. the
bells of the city churches will be rung
in honor of the host. as it will be
borne by the papal legate through the
city streets under gorgeous canopy.
The route will be magnificently dec
GRATED. Forty triumphal arches will
span the streets at leading points. The
famous band of the Royal Sixty-fifth
regiment will head the line. discours-
ing the inspiring music of 20 Salu-
taris Hostia."
Right behind the military band will
come $50 members of the Catholic
club of New York City, marching II
abreast as guard of honor to the car
dinal legate.
Next in line will be upwards of $50
prelates of the church. all vested in
their scarlet or purple robes of office.
There will be three cardinals. Gibbons
of Baltimore, Logue of Armagh. and
Vannutelli, Rome. The long line Of
bishops and archbishops will include
one from Belgium, two from England,
one from France. four from Mexico,
four from South America. 1t is ex-
pected that every diocese in the Unit
ed States and Canada will be repre-
scented by a prelate. There will be
thousands of priests in the profession,
the secular clergy in black cassock and
white surpIice The priests Of the
various monastic orders in their hab-
it's of white, brown, black or grey will
add a great variety of color to the
scene.
To the music of scores of bands. al
ternating with the singing of hymns in
honor of the blessed sacrament by the
members of the Catholic societies of
Montreal and Quebec. the procession
will wend its way to historic Mount
Royal, from which the city takes it's
name. Here, in Manse park, which is
at the base of the mountains. great
altar will be erected upon which sol.
emn pontifical mass will be offered by
Archbishop Sbaretti, papal delegate to
Canada. The sermon will be preached
by the Most Reverend William H.
O'Connell, archbishop of Boston.
The music of the mass will be rend.
cred by chorus of 5000 voices. &C
companied by the band of the Sixty.
fifth regiment.
More than oo.ood people will kneel
on the mountains slopes and in the
park and with bowed heads do homage
to the blessed eucharist as it is raised
above them at the moment of conse'
Grafton in the pontifical mass and in
the colemn service of benediction
which is to follow the mass.
Cardinal Gibbons will preach the
sermon at midnight mass in the
Church of the Notre Dame, the larg
est church on the western hemisphere
This service will be for men only.
Both in the procession to Mount
Royal and the pontifical mass at No
ire Dame, special positions will be re-
served for Sir Wilfred Laurier, the
premier of Canada. and the members
of his ministry, the provincial pre-.
miers and their cabinets the judges OF
the Canadian courts and the mayors
of Canadian cities.
The congress will be divided into
several sections. The proceedings OF
some will be conducted in Latin, in
others the deliberations will be carried
on in French or in English.
The chief discourse of the congress
will be delivered by Mgr. Bruchesi
Cardinal Vannutelli. Cardinal Gibbons
Cardinal Logue. Archbishop O'Connell
of Boston, Archbishop Glennon of St
Louis, Father Vaughan of London
Mgr. Heylan of Belgium, the Able
Duchesne, the Rev. A. P. Doyle, C. S.
P; the Rev. DR.. Landing. the Rev. DR.
Lambert, the Rev. T. j. Campbell. S
j., editor of America; Mgr. Tronchet
and Mgr. Bourne.
The following will deliver addresses
before the English-speaking section
Rev. DR.. John ]. Mccoy of Worcester
Very Rev. Thomas Campbell, S. j.. OF
New York, editor of America: Very
Rev. A. Thompson of Glace Bay, N S. (;
Rev. H. Canning Of Toronto. Rev. A
P. Doyle, c. S. P, of the Apostolic
Mission House, Washington, D. c.:
Rev. Louis Drummond, s. j.. New
York; Rev. E. S. Fitzgerald, Holyoke |;
Rev. P. ]. Hartigan, Deseronto; Rev.
Louis A. Lambert. LII. D.. Scottsville,
n. Y, editor of the Freeman's Jour
nal: Very Rev. j. Cavanaugh. c. S. c..
president of the University of Notre
Dame. Indiana; Rev. James Coyle, of
Taunton: Rev. Richard Neagle, NAL
den; Right Rev. Mgr. O'Brien. Cam