The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-23
CATHOLIC RITES
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.PAPAL MESSAGE
The Number of Visitors
OUereStimated


national Eucharistic Congress at the
Holy Name Cathedral, with PapaI
Legate Cardinal Bonzano on the
throne and with message from Pope
Plus as sendoff, was marked by
three hours of religious pomp and
circumstance. The services were re-
strited to the prelates, the clergy, a
few favored laymen and, of course,
the press. The public was excluded.
The papal message, read in Latin
and English, struck the keynote of
the Congress.
1.-THE work of the missions is to
be far more widely spread, in or
der that temples and affairs to
Christ hidden under sacramento
wells, may be multiplied in lands
not yet subjected to His sweet yoke
uand that new .adorers of the Euchar-
ist may be added to those who now
adore said the pope's brief in part.
Cardinal Mundelein, official host of
the congress and Cardinal Bonzano,
legate of the pope amplified this note
in their respective addresses. Thru
out the sabbath, thousands of masses
were sung to. overcrowded churches.
Less Than Half Million.
But the original estimate of a mil
lion visitors to the Congress is now
recognized as plainly overstressed.
Railway officials and hotel men are
estimating that there are less than
half million pilgrims in Chicago for
the ceremonies.
This, however, does not materially
affect the magnitude of the Congress.
1t is a world affair. Chicago is COM
pletely submerged in the congress.
The press of the city is giving pages
and pages of space to the cardinals
and the rites.
$4,000 Child Voices.
A great field mass was held at
Grant Park Stadium yesterday. The
feature of the occasion was $1,000
chiIdren's voices singing the mass OF
the angels. About 125,O00 people
damned into the stadium. Thousands
more were unable to get in.
Epecial language section gatherings
are being held in which sermons in
various languages are given by pre-
lates from abroad. Cardinal Munde-
lein claims that 100000 caholics
have received communion in the near
ly 400 churches in the archdiocese.
But there are more than $4,000 cath
Ollie church members permanently in
the Chicago district.
Medieval March.
The procession that preceded the
services at Holy Name Cathedral was
witnessed by almost a hundred
thousand people. The ten cardinals,
their red robes bejeweled, led the re-
ligious march that seemed with its
plumed knights of orders of the
church and it's cowled monks, to be-
long to another age.
When the bells of the cathedral
rang out, thousands of catholics,
damned in the street which the cathe-
dral faces, dropped to their knees.
Mexico Propaganda Rife.
Two hundred and fifty more visi-
tors arrived today from Mexico. The
press is featuring pictures of Arch
bishop Oraszco of Mexico who is said
to have been Saved from execution"
by the intercesion of the Japanese
ambassador" Mexico occupied a
prominent place in the hundreds of
speeches delivered in the church and
sectional meetings.
Food Prices Up.
The secnd day of the congress finds
Chicago deluged in flood of catholic
propaganda. Even the price of food
has been affected. The wholesalers
are taking advantage of the large inn
migration to raise in some cases as
high as 25 per cent the price Of staple
articles Of food.
The climax of the congress will be
reached on Wednesday with impress
sive ceremonies at Mundelein, Ill.
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