CATHOLIC CHURCH

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18721, 18 June 1926, Page 7

CATHOLIC CHURCH

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. ELABORATE PREPARATIONS IN U.S. (BT CABLr— rBSSS ABSOCHTIOW—COFfMOHT.)(AVSTBAMAH AKO H.I CABLB ASSOCIATION) (Received June 17th, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 16. Cardinal Bonzano, the Papa! Legate, with Cardinals Charest, Faulhaber, Dubois, Casanova, Piffl, Czernoch, Hayes, and O'Donnell left aboard a special train called the Cardinal Special, for Chicago, to attend the 28th International Eucharistie Congress, following a several days' visit to New York, which included a formal civic receptibn and colourful processions. Cars for the train were specially built and decorated, and were painted a brilliant cardinal red. Unusually elaborate precautions were taken to safeguard the prelates throughout the jouruey, including special detachments of police along the route, the careful inspection of foods and the examination of the tracks. Thousands thronged the station to witness their departure. The Congress formally opens on June 20th, and will last for four days. Pre'pu rations, therefore, have been extraordinarily elaborate, accommodation alone necessitating a million reservations of hotel rooms, etc., for delegates and visitors. In the meantime nuns and others have long been working preparing Communion wafers, vestments, paper flowers, and other, requisite articles. The Coliseum has been converted into a shrine for Masses, which will be celebrated at half hour intervals, from dawn until noon, each day, during the Congress. The biggest altar in the world has been erected on the so-called "Soldiers' .Field" for the Papal delegate, while 400 other shrines have been erected ] elsewhere.