The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-06
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temporarily until the board of con. sultors appoints an administrator. It was expected to be several months before Pope Plus appoints a successor.
 TOday's Ceremonies
 Today's ceremonies included a solemn high mass for parochial school children. A mass will be celebrated tomorrow for nuns.
 Fridays final service will be 8 solemn pontifical requiem mass, at which the other three cardinals Mundelein of Chicago, O'Connell of Boston and Dougherty of Philadel- phia-are expected to be present.
 Mayor P. H. LaGuardia proclaim ed 8 period of mourning and all flags on city buildings were put at half staff until after the burial.
 First Day of Mourning
 The richest Catholic diocese in the world, saddened by the death of its Cardinal of Charity" began the first of four days of public mourn- ing yesterday for Patrick Cardinal Hayes who was found dead in bed in his summer cottage at St. Jo- sephs. N. r., Sunday morning.
 Four of the seven diocesan con- sultors who will appoint @ tempo rary administrator to rule in Car dinal Hayes stead until Pope Plus selects successor decreed the mourning period in a solemn meet ing in the cardinals residence soon after word of his sudden death was received here. Funeral services will be held Friday in St. Patrick's Cathedral and Cardinal Hayes body will lie entombed in a crypt under the altar with the two archbishops and two cardinals who preceded him as administrator of the archdiocese of New York.
 A number of ceremonials rich in the pageantry of the church will take place during the mourning pe- riod with the first of these the sing ing of the vespers for the dead to- morrow night by general choir of priests of the metropolitan area. On Thursday the Right Rev. Michael j. Lavelle, 82-year-old vicar-general of the archdiocese and rector of St, Patricks will preach at a solemn requiem mass for Cardinal Hayes He performed the same office for Cardinal Farley.
 Only 10000 Can Attend Only about 10000 persons will be able to attend the final funeral service, the solemn pontifical mass at 10:30 a. m. Friday. But among them will be the highest Catholic figures in the nation probably in- cluding the three remaining Ameri- can cardinals-Cardinal O'Connell archbishop of Boston; Cardinal Mundelein, archbishop of Chicago and Cardinal Dougherty, arch. bishop of Philadelphia. Tn addition high national, state and city per- sonages and army and navy officers will be present.
 Cardinal Hayes had been i'll since June 1892 when he fell unconsciou; while attending the 31st Interna- tional Eucharistic Congress in Dub. Hin from an attack of phlebitis Since then he had been under the constant eye of his personal physi. elan but the the gravity of his con- dition was not made known. Sc few of his flock knew of the serious nature of his ailment that a startled gasp ran through the congregation of St. Patrick's Sunday when his death was made known.
 Monsignor Casey Finds Him
 Monsignor John J. Casey, private secretary to the Cardinal found him dead when he went to ascertain why the prelate had not come down tc his private chapel for his usual mass at 8:30. He found Cardinal Hayes with his hands clasped and benign smile on his face, giving rise to the belief he had died while at his nightly hour-long prayers about 8:3C p. m. Saturday night. still burn- ing was the light which the prelate was accustomed to turn down about 9:30 p. m. after he had finished his prayers.
 Cardinal Hayes had been at St. Joseph's for his customary two and 8 half months vacation and was preparing to return to New York city next Thursday to celebrate the 18th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. He would have been 71 years old on November 20 and next March A would have oh- served the 18th anniversary of his elevation to the rank of Cardinal Cause Of Death
 The cause of death was listed as coronary thrombosis, blood clot affecting the heart. On Aug. 10,