EUCHARISTIC COMGRESS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 12, 16 January 1928, Page 8

EUCHARISTIC COMGRESS

GREAT GATHERING IN SYDNEY THIS YEAR (From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 3rd January. Tho coming Eueharistio Congress is already causing a flutter of excitement among tho Eoman Catholic community in Sydney. There is to be a big and imposing pilgrimage from abroad. The work of extending St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney is being pushed rapidly ahead. The aim is to have it completed in time for the Congress. Already one of the few architectural glories of Sydney, the Cathedral will be a magnificent edifice when completed. Anglican Church folk made no secret of their fear that their own new Cathedral, if built on the suggested site in Maequarie street, only a few yards from St. Mary's, would bo in such close proximity to that imposing edifice as to be overshadowed by it, architecturally. Tne comparison would be obvious wero tho two cathedrals within a stone's throw of each other, for it is clear that the Anglican Church could not, for very many long years, hope to erect a cathodral on tho same stately and impresaivo linos as St. Mary's. The Roman Catholic community in Sydney is fortunate, not only in possessing such a cathedral, but in having as its setting a spot like Hyde Park, which, incidentally, will be far more beautiful to tho eye when tho remodelling of it, now in its preliminary stage, is completed.