EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3853, 17 January 1928, Page 10

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

GREAT GATHERING IN SYDNEY THIS YEAR.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SYDNEY, January 3. The coming Eucharistic Congress is already causing a flutter of excitement among the Roman Catholic community in Sydney. There is to be a big and imposing pilgrimage from abroad. The work of extending St. Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney is being pushed rapidly ahead. The aim is to have it completed in time for the congress. Already one of the few architectural glories of Sydney, the cathedral will be a magnificent edifice when completed. Anglican Church folk made no secret of their fear that their own new cathedral, if built on the suggested site in Macquarie street, only a few. yards from St. Mary’s, would be in such close proximity 7 to that imposing edifice as to be overshadowed by it architecturallyThe comparison would be obvious were the two cathedrals within a stone’s throw of each other, for it is clear that the', Anglican Church could not, for very many long years, hope to erect a cathedral on the same stately and impressive lines aS St. Mary’s. The Roman Catholic community in Sydney is fortunate, not only in possessing such a cathedral, but id having as. its setting a spot like Hyde Park, which, incidentally, will be fat more beautiful to the eye when the re* modelling of it, now in its preliminary, stage, is completed.