200,000 GATHER FOR EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS PUBLIC SESSION.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. CHICAGO, June 21. Undaunted by threatening skies, over 200,000 assembled in Soldiers’ Field on Monday to witness the first public session of the Eucharistic Congress. The day began with a solemn Pontificial Mass at the stadium altar before the greatest throng of worshippers ever gathered for the rite. The ecclesiastical procession, headed by the cardinals, coukl not enter the stadium until the police, had struggled for half an hour, and cut a lane . through the crowd’. The communion blessing was given by Cardinal Bonzano, Papal Legate. It was barely over when throngs of worshippers, with the intention of approaching as nearly as possible to the prelate and the altar, rushed forward, bringing the ceremonies to a halt. The remainder of the programme, consisting of addresses, including one by Archbishop Mannix, was abandoned.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17880, 23 June 1926, Page 15
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