The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-11-18
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Dominican Celebration.

Catholic University of America, dur.
ing the week Of Nov. II. when the
Dominicans in the United States will
honor the Tooth anniversary of the
approval Of their order by Pope Hon
Orius Ill.
On Tuesday. Nov. IA, which is
Hierarchy Day" of the celebration,
the three American Cardinals will be
present. The Pontifical Mass will
take place in the chapel of the DOM
inican College and will be sung by
His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons, while
His Eminence Cardinal Farley of New
York, His Eminence Cardinal O'Con-
nell of Boston, and Most Rev. Arch.
bishop Bonzano. Apostolic Delegate,
will be present in the sanctuary.
Archbishops and Bishops from all
parts of the United States will also
be present. The sermon on this occa.
sion will be delivered by Right Rev.
Bishop Shahan. rector of the Catholic
University.
Wednesday is University Day
when the Pontifical Mass will be sung
by the Apostolic Delegate, Most Rev.
John Bonzano. The sermon will be
preached by the Very Rev. DIR. Peter
Guilday, professor of church history
in the Catholic University. The en-
tire faculty of the university and the
student body will participate in the
exercises of this day.
Friday will be Dominican Students
Day." At $3.50 in the afternoon the
classic convent cloister of the Dom.
inican House of Studies will be the
scene of an event rarely witnessed in
this country. A scholastic disputation
on theological subject will be de-
Tended by Rev. Brother Richard Wal
ter, o. p. of Piedmont. Va. The DOM
inican objector to the thesis will be
the Rev. Brother John Welsh. o. p,
of Chester. Pa. Professors of the
Catholic University and others may
also offer objections. which the de-
Tending Dominican must answer. Rev.
Antoninus Marchant, o. p, discusses
the Dominican order as combining
the active and contemplative life. The
Introductory CRATIC will be delivered
by Brother Basil Saylor, o. p, OF
Columbus. Ohio.
Thursday will be known as Civic
Day" The exercises will be held ut
Polls theater at $3.50 D. M. when the
chairman will be the Hon. J. J. Fitz-
gerald Of Brooklyn. N. Y. Addresses
will be delivered by Hon. W. Bourke
Cochrane of New York. Hon. Charles
Bonaparte of Baltimore and Hon. Will
liam +. Kearns of Newark.
Sunday. Nov. 10, will be Religious
Orders Day" when all the various or
ders in the Catholic Church will be
represented. The Mass will be sung
by Very Rev. Alphonsus Donlon, s. j.,
president of Georgetown University,
and the sermon will be by Very Rev.
DR.. Paschal Robinson, o. II. NJ, of the
Franciscan Monastery.
The Dominican Order was c0n-
firmed in 1916. two hundred and
seventy-six years before Columbus dis
covered this continent, and five hun
dred and seventy before the signing
of the Declaration of Independence
The father of the order was Dominic
Guzman, a Spanish noble. upon whom
the Church has placed the crown of
sanctity and whom history regards as
one of the greatest intellectual giants
of his time.
Born in the castle of CalarOga, in
Old CASTLE, Spain. about the year
1176. Dominic. while a mere youth.
gave evident signs of future sanctity
Entering the ecclesiastical state, his
learning and piety so attracted the
notice of superiors that very shortly
he was made a canon of the cathedral
at Osma, and it was in this capacity
while travelling with his Bishop, Don
Diego de Azavedo. through the South
of France, that he received tho
miraculous call bidding him go forth
and preach.
Thoroughly imbued with the spirit
of his new vocation, great crowds of
disciples soon gathered about him, so
that in short time he laid the foun.
dation Of great religious institute
whose special mission was to spread
the Gospel of Jesus Christ
The Church at this time was suffer
ing from the atrocious attacks of the
Albigensian hcresy, and providen.
TALLY, as it would seem, the holy Span
ish priest was raised up by God to
shelter His spouse from these enemies
of salvation.
BY the end of 1916 the little CON-
pany of preachers had spread with
such rapidity that its members were
to be found preaching the word of
God in all the chief cities and towns
of Europe. So great was their sue
cess that news of it soon reached the
ears OF the Sovereign Pontiff who at
once determined to preserve so useful
upon it the approval of the Holy See.
Accordingly. by letter dated from
Santa Cahina ROmo III Of tho kalands