CANTERBURY CATHOLIC LITERARY SOCIETY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 7, 10 June 1887, Page 17

CANTERBURY CATHOLIC LITERARY SOCIETY.

Cbristchurch, June 4, 1887. The usual weekly meeting of the above Society took place on Tuesday evening, May 31. Present — The President (in the chair), and about 45 members. Two candidates were nominated for election at next meeting. The President reminded the members that the annual meeting would take place on Tuesday, June 14, and that instead of one, as heretofore, it would be necessary, acording to the new rules, to elect three vice-presidents, besides the other officers. The programme for the evening was to have been a lecture by Mr. Nolan, but that gentleman (who was present) apologised for not being able to keep his engagement, as ho was prevented from doing so by unforeseen circumstances. However, in order not to disappoint the meeting, he gave a brief, but very interesting sketch, of the life, sufferings, and martjrdom of St. Cecilia, and also referred to the miraculous preservation of her body from decay, as was ptoved to be the case wben her tomb was opened in the sixteenth century, thirteen hundred years after her death. Mr. Nolan likewise exhibited a drawing of tbe chair of St. Peter, of which he gave an historical account. On the motion of Mr. Hoban, a vote of thanks was passed to the lecturer, after which the meeting was closed with prayer, in the usual manner.