THE POPE AND THE ENGLISH PILGRIMS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13609, 18 December 1909, Page 13

THE POPE AND THE ENGLISH PILGRIMS.

' Hβ Holiness the Pope received on *ti* morning of October 26th in the Sib Cbnsistorialo the pilgrims who {•mc Ito Homo under the auspices of Jfe Roman Catholic Truth Society, -d&g Tnth several of the clergy and Ttitr -belonging to the English colony fejbe city. Among those present were & Most Rev. Dr. Stonor. Titularjfiwlbiehop of Trcbissond; the Right "*f£tv Thoime Whiteside, Bishop of toerpool, the ltight Rev. Joseph Cowgill, Coadjutor to the $RK>p of Leeds; tho Right Rev. Mgr. >jMJiB Prior, Auditor of the Rota; and >iW»Fery Her. Father l)oLan, Rector of £86 ■Sylvester's. When the usual hom/•gft'lad been paid to the Holy Father jijthe pilgrims, each of whom was pre<*stfd by Archbishop Stonor, tho his seat on the throne and -jiehrend-'Ki interesting address. He i lido them * iearty welcome to Rome, **nd exposed his gladness at their r ~tßi&i* to keep and strengthen tho m their native country. Their lint io the centre of " Ghristendom ( he raid, be for them full of the oarJy Church and #tt*Lt«mbi'6f the Apostles. To tho frhe gave'the privilege of importbe Apostolic Benediction to their] <m "their return to England, ■ta both clergy and laity several patl favours of a personal kind j jpinerously granted. On October i the Bishops of the pilgrimage j laiqed to dinner .At the Hotel Jtterre a body of the clergy and yrfiicf among th« guests whop Stonor. ilgr. Prior, and r ttj Rev. Rector of St, SyJvere-