EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 June 1926, Page 5

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

ELABORATE PREPARATIONS. SPECIAL TRAIN FOR CARDINALS. 8Y CABLE—PBES3 ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. NEW YORK, June 16. Cardinal Bonzano, the Papal with Cardinals Charost, Faulhaber, Dubois, Casanova, Piffl, Czernoch, Hayes and O’Donnell, left aboard the special train, called the “Cardinal Special,” for Chicago, to attend the twenty-eighth international Eucharistic Congress. Their journey follows a visit of several clays’ duration to New York, during which has been included a formal civic reception. The colourful procession of cars for the train w-ere specially built and decorated, being painted a brilliant cardinal red. Unusually elaborate precautions have been taken to safeguard the prelates throughout the journey, including special detachments of police along the route, careful inspection of their food and an examination of the tracks. Thousands thronged the station to witness their departure. The Congress formally opens on June 20, and will last four days. Preparations for it have been extraordinarily elaborate. Accommodation alone has necessitated a million reservations of hotel rooms, etc., for delegates and visitors. Meantime tlie nuns and others have long been w-orking, preparing Communion w-afers, vestments, paper flowers, and other requisite articles. The Coloseum has been converted into a shrine for Masses, which will be celebrated at half-hour intervals from dawn until noon each day of the Congress. The biggest altar in the world has been erected on tlie so-called “soldiers’ /field” for the Papal delegate, and four hundred other shrines have been erected elsewhere.

NEXT TO BE HELD IN SYDNEY. Received 11.5 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK, June 17. It was officially announced on Thursday that the 29th International Eucharistic Congress would be held in Sydney in 1928.