CATHOLIC CENTENARY
VICTORIAN CELEBRATIONS.
[by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.]
MELBOURNE, November 5
A week of celebrations marking the centenary of Catholicism in Victoria ended to-day with special Masses at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. On Saturday night 60,000 people saw the presentation of the spectacular pageant play "Credo” at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Although heavy rain fell in the afternoon the weather cleared for tire performance. Each day during the week Pontificial High Masses were celebrated in St. Patrick’s for various sections of the Catholic community, one of the most impressive being that for the nuns and brothers of teaching orders. At each Mass a special sermon was preached by a member of the visiting Hierarchy. Archbishop O’Shea (New Zealand) was the preacher at a Mass for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
The organisers of the celebrations said to-day that the week had been one of the most striking demonstrations of, Catholic devotion ever held in Victoria.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 November 1939, Page 9
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