THE NEW APOSTOLIC-DELEGATE

New Zealand Tablet, 30 August 1917, Page 36

THE NEW APOSTOLIC-DELEGATE

: - CONSECRATION CEREMONY. Lively interest was shown in ' the world of Rome on. July. 10 in the consecration of the Most Rev. Bartolomew |Gattaneo, Titular Archbishop of Palmyra and Apostolic. Delegate to Australasia.' Long before the hour fixed for the ceremony those invited made their way to the historic chapel in Propaganda College, where his -Excellency was to be consecrated by Cardinal Serafini, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda, with the Right Rev. H. W. Cleary, Bishop of Auckland, and the Right Rev. Monsignor Fiorentini, Bishop of Tricarico, as consecrating prelates. Monsignor Dante and ■ Monsignor Giobbe acted as masters of ceremonies, and the students’ choir of Propaganda rendered the music. -Among those present were Most Rev. Monsignor Zaleski (Patriarch of Antioch), the Most Rev. Archbishop Zongi,. (President of the Academy of Noble Ecclesiastics) p. the Right Rev; Bishop Stanley (Titular of Emmaus), Right Rev. Monsignor Mclntyre (Rector of the English College), Right Rev. Monsignor Mclntosh (Rector of Scots’ College), Right Rev. Monsignor Berthog (Rector of St. Sulpice), Count de Salis (British Minister to the Holy See), Rev. Mother Aubert, of New Zealand, with several religious ; the Right Rev. Monsignor Laurenti (Secretary of Propaganda), Right Rev. . Monsignor Cerretti (Secretary of Financial De-

partment), Right ~RevT~Monsignor' Carinci (Rector of Capraniean College), Right Rev. Monsignor O’Riordan (Rector of Irish College), .Very Rev. Father Rodriguez (General of 0.5. A.), Very Rev. Father Superior of Calced Carmelites, etc. A special seat was ' reserved for the relatives of the new Archbishop. Just a few dates in The career ,of Australasia's Delegate. . Born September 26, 1866, at Novi Liguri, North Italy. Took Doctorate of Jurisprudence in the University of Genoa, 1889, the president of the examining board being the actual Premier of Italy (Signor Boselli). Finished term of military service at Genoa, and then entered Capraniean College, Rome, in 1889 to study for the priesthood. Ordained priest 1891, taking D.D. in the Gregorian University. Canon of Cathedral of Novara in 1902. Called to Rome 1912 as Rector of Propaganda. Next morning the Holy Father received his Grace in audience, and afterwards the 18 newly ordained priests of Propaganda. All these leave for New York tn route for Australia. They had no difficulty in getting permission of the British authorities to visit Ireland. One of the last places visited by them before leaving Italy is Subiaco, cradle of monasticism in the West, where St. Benedict founded his Order.