EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 18 June 1926, Page 5

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

ARRIVAL OF DELEGATES ELABORATE PREPARATIONS (Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association) ~ NEW YORK./June 16. Cardinal Bonzano, Papal Legate, with Cardinals Charest, Faulhaber, Dubois, - Caspova, Piffl, Czcrnoch, Hayes, and O'Donnell, wleft aboard a special train called the Cardinal Special, for' Chicago, to attend the 29th international \ ! Eucharistic Congress, following several days' visit to New York, which included a formal civic reception and colourful processions. Cars for the train were specially built and decorated, and paint-." * ed with brilliant cardinal red. Unusually elaborate precautions were taken'• to safeguard ithe prelates throughout the journey, including special detachments ..' of police along the route, careful in- • spection of foods and examination "of ." tracks. ..Thousands thronged the station to Witness the departure. The'Con- . gress formally opens on 20th inst. and ' will last four days. The preparations therefore have been extraordinarily ~, elaborate, accommodation alone necessitating a. million reservations at .hotel ' rooms ,etc., for the delegates and .visitors. Meantime nuna and others have long been working preparing Communion wafers, vestments, paper flowers, . and other requisite articles. The Coli-, seum 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 bigr gest altar in the world has been erectedon the so-called "Soldiers' Field" for : ■ the Papal delegate, and four hundred other shrines have been erected else?->-where. -- v' ' NEXT CONGRESS AT SYDNEY 'NEW YORK, June 17. ? It was officially announced on Thursday that the 29th international Eucharistic Congress will be held at Sydney in' 1928. v ■ '; FESTIVITIES INAUGURATED NEW YORK, June 17. : ; Cardinal Mundelein me£ nine cardinals on their arrival from New York'-• for, the Eucharistic Congress. A huge crowd gathered at the'station, to whom Che Papal delegate, Cardinal Bonzano, bowed graciously from the observation platform. The arrival was greeted, with steam whistles from the railroad yards, horns from lakeboats and chimes from all Catholic churches. Cardinal Munde- r ' lein embraced'Bonzano and. extended a 1 welcome in the name of the Church," ' the city and friendship. .. - -'• The Congress will not be opened of- " ' ficially until the 20th, but festivities ' are now informally inaugurated. It is • expected pilgrims will pay reverence tm f " the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist. '■' before thev are ended. ■ '■■'••-