CATHOLIC CENTENARY

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 October 1939, Page 5

CATHOLIC CENTENARY

CEREMONIES IN VICTORIA. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] MELBOURNE, October .29. Centennial celebrations took .place to-day, that of the first emigrant-ship, David Clark, with Scottish •colonists, and that of the Catholic -.Church in Victoria, and of the first celebration of Mass in Melbourne. At St, Patrick’s Cathedral, Archbishop Maniiix blessed the new towers marking the completion of the Cathedral, also being memorials to the pioneers. They are composed of Armagh stone. Thousands took part in the Catholic Young.JVlen’s Society Communion at 8 a.m. Some 13Q0 Victorian and 50 visiting New and Australian priests participated in the procession. The emigration centenary was celebrated at the Scots Church, when the youngest descendant of the migrants, was christened. The largest and . most representative gathering of Catholic hierarchy and priesthool for many years -attended the ceremonies to-day for the blessing of the recently-completed three spires of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The ceremonies, which will continue for a week, also mark the centenary of Catholicism in Victoria. New Zealand representatives present included his Grace Archbishop O’Shea, Rt. Rev. Monsignor' Holbrook, and Rev. Father L. Buxton. In brilliant sunshine a huge crowd saw the colourful proceedings from the lawns outside the cathedral, where Archbishop Mannix blessed the memorial stone sent, by Cardinal Macrory from St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, Ireland. The blessing of the spires followed. Inside the cathedral Pontifical High Mass aws celebrated by the Papal Legate (Archbishop Panico), Three choirs of 340 voices, including the Vienna Mozart Boys’ Choir, sang Palestrina’s impressive Mass “Assumpta Est Maria."