EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 277, 23 November 1927, Page 10

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

TO MEET IN SYDNEY.

IN SEPTEMBER NEXT YEAR.

EWORLD DELEGATES ATTEND.

Dr. Buxton, of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathedral, has been appointed diocesan secretary in respect to the Eucharistic Congress, to be held in Sydney next September. It is anticipated that fully 500 people from New Zealand will be amongst that vast gathering. Already some 30 laymen in Auckland have enrolled to attend. It is ' not improbable that a special steamer ■ will bo put on to take over the contingent from New Zealand. Accommodation has already ben booked by a number of people anxious to leave Wellington for Sydney on August 24. Information has been already received by the local office of Thos. Cook and Sons that a party of 25 Canadians will reach Auckland on August 13 en route for the congress. They intend to make a short tour through the North Island before crossing over to Australia. The trip will, of couree, include Rotorua and the Waitomo Caves.

A large delegation from Rome will also pass through Auckland. It is hoped that the grand old man of the Catholic Church in New Zealand, Archbishop Redwood, of Wellington, will head the deputation from this Dominion. He has the honour of being the senior bishop of the Catholic Church throughout the! world.

The congress will last for four days Every country in the world will be represented amongst the quarter of a million pilgrims who will attend the congress. St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, which Seats 6000 people, is to be the cetnre of the congress ceremonies.

It is expected that Cardinal Bourne,) Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal ODonnell, Archbishop of Dublin, and Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York, and Cardinal Ceretti, formerly Apostolic Delegate to Australia and New Zealand, will attend the congress, as well at other dignatories from all parts of the world.

Sectional meetings at the congress will be carried on in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. The contingent of Catholics from America will come In a flotilla of their own, with the Malola as flagship. Monsignor Bella, who was in Sydney spine years ago with the Sistine Choir, has been asked "to superintend the music during the con-

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