ROME IN 1920

New Zealand Tablet, 4 March 1920, Page 39

ROME IN 1920

The year 1920 will be the year par excellence for worldwide gatherings in Rome. “All roads lead to Rome.” First, Gaels from the four winds under the banner of the Cardinal Primate of All Ireland are expected to attend the Beatification of Oliver Plunket, one of his Eminence’s predecessors in the historic See of Armagh. Some day next spring the venerable successor of St. Patrick will see his life-long work realised to the fullest. Than Cardinal Rogue no one has done so much and made so many sacrifices in the cause of the martyred Archbishop of Armagh. Secondly, December 8, 1920, will see the celebration of the 50th year of the definition of the Dogma of Papal Infallibility. his was defined by Pius IX. on December 8, 1870. More Bishops were present at this, the Vatican Council, than in any other of its many predecessors. At the first Council of Nice there were 318 Bishops. At. the first Council of Constantinople, 150; at the second, 165; at the third, 170. And so on with all the other (Ecumenical Councils down to the Council of Trent, at which gathered 200 Bishops. At the Vatican Council of 1870 no hover than 533 Bishops assisted. And at Turin on August 15, 1920. anniversary of the birth of Don Bosco, a monument to the venerable founder of the Salesians will be unveiled. Delegates from Salesian houses in India, Patagonia, Aialia, China, Africa, America, as well as from every part of Europe, will come to Turin for the occasion to honor “the friend of the poor boy.”