ANGLO-CATHOLICISM.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15289, 16 July 1923, Page 5

ANGLO-CATHOLICISM.

PROCESSION IN LONDON. AN UNWONTED SCENE. RESPECT EVERYWHERE ACCORDED Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, July 14. The Anglo - Catholic Congress marched through the streets of London from Suffolk Galleries to the Church of Saint Martin's-in-the-Fickls. First came a processional cross and two acolytes, bearing candles that flickered palely in the bright daylight, and two priests with swinging censors, the incense from which gave an unwonted fragrance to the hot and dusty streets. Nino hundred clergy followed, singing hymns. Then came bishops, fully robed, headed by the Bishop of London. An imposing figure was the Russian Archbishop, Fuilogios, whose ruby and gold robes and domed mitre eclipsed the splendours of the English, Dominion and American bishops. The procession everywhere was treated with respect, but as the bishops entered the old church they had to face a placard which a man held aloft, bearing the words: "AngloCatholics are traitors to Protestantism. Priests will be the downfall of England." When the procession left the church the majority of the multitude in Trafalgar Square knelt and received the blessing of the bishops.