EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
S. AMERICAN GATHERING. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] P,UENOS AIRES, October 10. One million pilgrims gave a royal welcome last, night to Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, the Papal Legate to. the thirty-second International Eucharistic Congress, which opens today at Buenos Aires. Cardinal Pacelli was accompanied by Papal Court dignitaries. They reached port aboard the s.s. “Conte Grande,” the Legate receiving a twenty-one guns salute from the shore battery.
The Cardinal entered the cathedral for -a brief service, after being welcomed, and he was then escorted by the Grenadiers to the residence prepared for him.
IMPRESSIVE SCENES.
(Recd. October 11, noon.) BUENOS AIRES, October 10.
The thirty-second international Eucharistic Congress was opened today by Cardinal Pacelli, before the continent’s greatest assemblage, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all overthe world gathering about a cross 100 feet high, at Palermo Park. Four other Cardinals, and hundreds of bishops, priests, diplomats, and Cabinet members are participating. A choir of 500 sang as the Cardinal Legate arrived.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1934, Page 7
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