Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-11-13
CONFIRMATION
LARGEST HERE
Class of About 400 Receive
Sacrament in st. Mary's
R. c. Church Yesterday.
BISHOP M'FAuL PRESENT
Edifice Filled to Capacity
and Crowd Assemblies on
Street. Impressive Event.

In the presence OF more than one
thousand people, the Right Rever-
end Bishop James A. McFaul, of
Trenton, confirmed a class of about
400 after the 10:45 o'clock mass in
st. Mary's Roman Catholic church
yesterday morning. This class was
the largest ever receiving the sac
rament In this city and one of the
largest ever confirmed by Bishop
MeFaul. Not only was the church
filed to capacity, but Center street
to the doorE or the edifice was
packed with people eager to catch
glimpse of their friends in the
procession.
Girls Dressed In White.
AL of the girls In the class were
gowned In white dresses and wore
wreaths, while the boys were attired
In blue suits, with white ribbon
bows on the left arm and carnations
In the lapel of their coats. A beau
tiful sight was witnessed as the soft
candle rays fell upon the children
while kneeling at the altar.
Immediately after the mass the
Bishop in company with Rev. Peter
b. Corr, Rev. DR.. Griffin and num-
erous altar boys formed process
sion at the front OF the church and
slowly proceeded up the center
aisle to the chancel, where the
Bishop robed.
Mr.. and Mrs George F. Reynolds,
Miss Mana Brennan and George
Brennan, acted as sponsors for
those confirmed. The altar was
decorated with cut flowers and the
Bishops throne was erected to the
left OF the chancel.
Give Promise to Bishop.
Bishop McFraul prior to admins
tertng the sacrament told IF its
meaning and effect. The most inn
pressive part OF the ceremony was
the closing, when In firm and de-
termined voice every member OF the
stain from all Intoxicating iifIiors
unity twenty-one years of age.
stain from all intoxicating liquors
until twenty-one years of age.
Acting Pastor Peter B. Corr as
ment they received Yesterday.
Members of Glass.
In the class were Loretta Burns,
Mary Stack, Loretta Stack, Eleanor
Wall. Katherine Mcdonald, Rather
inc Donovan, Mary Martin, Veron-
let, Fury, Julia Devenya Anna Kel-
tenback, Helen Hilferty, Elizabeth
Massopust; Helen Weingard, Helen
Desmond, Alice Kirk, Mary Nolan,
Mary Leahy, Mary Fennessey. Re-
gina Mcnamara, Agnes Kerr, Mill
dred Mooney, Mary sSpallane, Kath-
crime Cannon, Katherie Campbell,'
Mary Brennan, Beatrice Connors.
Mary Kozub, Florence Madden, Mol
lie Hospidor, Elsie Hospidor, Ger
trude Meagher, Madeline Brooks,
Ella Anderson, Katherine Feeney,
Anna Hughes, Louise Reilly, Anna
Smith, Norah Burke, Mary Flynn,
Ethel Buckley, Jane O'Hara, Mar
garet McKeon, Margaret Curry,
Helen McArdle, Elizabeth Egan,
Grace Sullivan, Katherine Malloy,
Helen Clark, Margaret Burke, Mar
garet Farroat, Mary Mcnamara, Mary
HalIahan, Marion Ludwig, Virginia
Scully, Mary Smith, Anita Burns,
Alice Cladek. Josephine Beatty,
Mary Daily, Ellen Williams, Lillian
Raymond, Nellie Manton, Henrietta
Dasch, Cecilia Baumlin, Margaret
Nolan, Anna Donovan, Rose Huff,
Madeline Amerheim. Ethel Lorent-
gen, Nellie Flynn, Helen Fennessey,
Josephine, Harrington, Lillian Fl
nan, Mary o. Hara, ITeen McGreal.
Florence Melder, Florence Buckley
Dorothy Hal1ahan, Florence Tighe.
Helen McKinnon, Katherine Henry,
Theresa Mansfield, Elizabeth White,
Helen Reilley, Martha Musolf, Eliz-
abeth Martin, Mary Sullivan, Ellen
Meany, Lillian and Helen Rechnft-
ser, Loretta Harthersall, Margaret
Reidy, Margaret Powers, Mary
O'Hara, Anna Henry, Irene Gerba,
Adele Coley, Ellen Keihm, Eva Man
attain, Gertrude McGreal, Helen
Stokes, Nora Coughlin, Mary PEN
dergast Theodore Nolan, Clara Gott
stein Agnes Hurley, Elizabeth
Young, Pauline Leavy, Margaret
Costello, Agnes Deegan, Elizabeth
Egan. Theresa Sheehan, Loretta
Maloney, Katherine Hayes, Marga-
ret Mulvaney, Sadie Mulvaney, Hell
en- Kelly, Mary Tague, Elizabeth
Dwyer, Katherine Egan, Amelia
Mistler, Carmelita Harrington,
Katherine Floresch, Madeline Lor-
entzen, Susan Kisko, Marie Powers,
Jane Coughlin, Ethel Lewis. Agnes
Boil, Caroline Hoffman, Evelyn
Erickson, Katherine Hanley, Ida
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