Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-04

of Columbus. at the head of the line. Following them came 150 men of the Holy Name society, preceding a com pany of the women of tho parish. They were followed by 100 members of the Young Ladies' Sodality, all in wnlte with blue and white turbars, and carry ing, in the form of a cross, a long strip of blue, lettered in gold. Members of i the Maidens of the Sacred Heart, dress ed in white with big red bows in their hair, and members of the Immaculate Conception society. who also wore white, completed the parade. Tho line marched from Convent avenue through l the rectory grounds and took station within the foundation walls of the new church.
 Cornerstone Ceremonies.
 After several hymns by the band, Bishop Milan, in the robes of his office, and attended by the priests, proceed ed to conduct the ritual of the church for the laying of the cornerstone, reading the prayers first at a cross which had been erected where the altar will staads He then proceeded to the southwest corner of the church where the stone hung suspended from a crane With q silver trowel provided for the occasion Bishop Milan formally laid Lae stcne when it was lowered to it's position as the prayers were said
 A sealed copper box, which contained among other records the list of 1S0 men
 of the parish who served in the world war and copy of the Saturday morn
 ing issue of the Norwich Bulletin, was
 placed in the cornerstone.
 The ritual ceremonies were completed
 when the bishop and priests marched
 around the wall of the church lless;ne . each corner. Officer Timothy I. Dris- coll preceded the party of ecclesia astics clearing the way for them as they pasa. ed around the church
 The priests then toclI seats on tb, i speakers platform, which was decorated : In bunting and set up at the center o1 z the westerly wall of the church Havin,
 seats on the platform also were Mayo
 H. M. Lerou representing the city gov ernment, First Selectman Casper K Bailey representing the town govern
 ment and Rev. c. H. Ricketts. Dastor q
 the GreenevilIe Congregational church. The priests attending BiCaop Milan l. Included Rev William A. Keefe, Rev William H. Kennedy, rector and curate ! respectively of S>. Mary's church, Rev : M. H. May, Rev. NIyIes P. Calvin an }: Rev Philip J. Mooney of St Patriek' I ] church. and Revs. U. o. Bellerose. Taft vile, H. Chagnon. Taftville, T. V. Ma T. ciejewski, of St. Joseph's church, thi r city, F R. Des Surreault, Occum, Will o jam O'Brien, Baltic, J. J. McCabe, Jewet O City, R. P. Morrissey, Plainfeld, T. j. Foley, Colchester, Joseph Meussier, Dar $ lelson. George Coyle, S. J, and John I e x Pine, S. J., representing Holy Cros -- college, w. c. Fitzsimmons and T. s Crowley New London, J. J. Smith an e William A. Casey New Haven Thorla
 C0ney tI1Nl g and John Walsh, Waterbury, James Tin o mons, Manchester, John P. Cotter. M e Hartford, Arth:.r J. Keetan, c, NJ, Ge Ie mantoWn, Pa. William Flynn, Hartfo1
 N. Faletico and William Fox, Groton, ! s- H. Bryne, Atlanta, Ga, and Thomas y Deiihant, Baltimore, Md.
 d After a hymn by the Ma1dens Of tr B. Sacred HsarG, led by the church organis e. Henry J. La Fen taine, Father Keefe req D. the following translation Of the Latin re Id ord placed in the cornerstone:
 i- For the Greater Glory of God, (. is The Welfare of the Church of Christ r. and the Salvation of Souls, Id the Prosperity of the United States i- of America,
 pc and Of the City of Norwich, se The Cornerstone of the New. Church
 In Honorem of the Most Blessed Virg at Mary
 ,n Was Laid With the Solemn Ceremoni l?i of the Holy R. c. Church by the D. Right Reverend John Joseph Milan, et Seventh Bishop Of the Diocese of Hartfo as In the Prss@nce of Large and Enthut its agtic Gathering of the Clergy and Lait T. this Third lay of July, in the Year in Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hun
 d=e6 and Tventy-One
 In the Glorious Pontifcate of
 Benedict the Fifteenth.
 Warren G. Harding Being President
 of the United States of America, V Everett J. Lake
 IA Governor of the State of Connecticut, IL Herbert Lerou Mayor of Norwich, h Reverend William A. Keefe nI Pastor of St M&Iy's Parish, or Reverend William H. Kennedy Assista: K John T. Sullivan and Francis J. Murt as Trustees.
 1i 1i Father Keefe warmly thanked afi V -e had helped toward the cornersrons layi 'e' bg their sifts and their services and n so thanked the contributors to the flu
 for the church. Be announced that O.
 ;s.99c had been collected through Id special effort in the Join St. Mar or Four Hundred campaign" and he i