Evening star., 1935-12-19
POMP MARKS RISE
OF NEW CARDINALS
Plus Confers Red Hats Of
High Office in Brilliant
Public Ceremonial.
ny the Associated Press.


ny the Associated Press.
: VATICAN CITY, December 10
Pope Plus, in a ceremony of great
pomp and solemn splendor, conferred
red hats today upon Is of the 20 new
cardinals he created in Mondays secret
consistory.
The other four new cardinals, papal
nuncios at Vienna. Madrid. Warsaw
and Paris, will receive their hats at
their posts.
Silver trumpets. sounded from q
high balcony in the ancient Cathedral
of ST. Peter, heralded the Pontiff's
approach as he came on his throne,
carried on the shoulders of II. scarlet
clad attendants, to the ceremony. He
wore a bishops miter.
Tens of thousands of the faithful
cried viva IL Papa" and waved hands
and handkerchiefs, many mounting
chairs and pews to see him better as
he was carried up the nave.
Midway to the central altar the
procession halted while his holiness
descended for a moment to pray at
the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament.
Mounts Throne Near Altar.
The shouts became a continuous
roar when the holy father again came
into full view of the vast crowd as he
passed the tomb of st. Peter and the
central altar and was carried into the
right transept, where he mounted an
other throne.
There, near the altar of Saints
ProceSSo and Martiniano, were per-
formed the ceremoniouS rites of the
public consiStory, the comforting of
the red hats to the new cardinals for
the eXaltation of peace and quiet
among Christian peoples"
A tie deum was sung by the famous
SiStine Choir.
His eminence, Cardinal Santiago
Luis Copello of Argentina, only prelate
Of the Western Hemisphere raised to
the purple in this consistory, was in
the conclave-center of attention Of
the several hundred students of the
Latin American College, and repre-
sentation of diplomats from Latin
American nations.
Officials Sit Well Forward.
Royalty. aristocracy and hundreds
Of high prelates, their uniforms, robes
and medals glittering under the hun
dreds of cleaning chandeliers of St.
Peters, had first place in the pews.
Behind them were thousands of
humblygarbed priests and student
priests, itinerant brothers and lay
brothers of various orders; nuns, chill
dren and civilians.
Noble guards, bearing rifles in reg
ular parade ground manner, lined the
central aisle leading to the great nave.
Shortly after 9 am, the new cardi-
nails headed by their ranking member,
Cardinal Carlo Salotti, went to the
Saint Petronilla Chapel. There they
were received by Cardinal Pacelli,
Vatican secretary of state and chan
cellor of the Holy Roman Church. and
Cardinal CapotoSti, chancellor of the
Sacred College, with a small delegation
OF other ranking cardinals.
In the presence of these seniors
they professed their faith, swore
fidelity to the church and promised
.3to conserve fle dignity and prestige
OF the purple. t -ir
( Silver Trumpets Speak.
The real spectacle, as far as the
public was concerned, was announced
by the six silver trumpets.
Eyes cleaning behind his spectacles,
Plus waved his blessings right and
left as the crowd cried his name.
At the right tranSept the Pope
seated himself on regular throne
and after receiving obeiSance of the
old cardinals sent certain of them to
summon the new cardinals
These entered in order of religious
seniority. Each bowed three times,
then kissed the foot and hand of the
Pope and received his embrace.
Each also went to the old cardinals
present and embraced them.
: The comforting of the red hat fol-
lowed. AS each new cardinal knelt be-
fore him, Plus held the hat over the
bowed head and said, in part:
TO the glory of Almighty God and
establishment of the Holy Apostolic
See, receive the red hat, insignia of
the singular dignity of the car
dinalcy o"
Each Cardinal ExhOrted.
He charged each cardinal further
with being intrepid for the exaltation
of the holy faith, the peace and quiet