EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 24 June 1926, Page 6

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

CONTINUATION OF CEREMONIES GREAT ASSEMBLAGE OF WOMEN (By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.) .Australian & i\.Z. Cable Association.) NEW CORK, June 22. In Chicago to-day an enormous gathering, even larger than .Monday’s, assembled in the open-air cathedral —the so-called "soldiers’ field” —to lake pari in I lie Eucharistic ceremonies. The day was set aside for women, who lor mod the great majority of the 250.000 people in the congregation, while it is estimated that, 100,000 .more people waited outside the field bearing the ceremonies as Lltev were broadcasted. Six thousand nuns and 6000 additional lay women members of the Chicago Catholic churches intoned Maes, after which a brilliant procession c4' cardinals, archbishops, bishops, monsignors, and priests moved on to the field to, the strains of the American National Anthem sung by the whole gathering. The Austrian Cardinal l’iffl opened the proceedings with an address in German. Justice Pierce Butler, of the'United Stales Supreme Court, followed. Then came Cardinal O'Connell, of Boston. The assemblage was greatly moved emotionally, many women weeping II is described as the greatest, assemblage of women ever gathered in one enclosure in North America, while Archbishop Hanna, of San Francisco, terms the occasion as the greatest honour to womankind in history.