MEMORIAL OF CANONISATION.

New Zealand Tablet, 5 August 1920, Page 28

MEMORIAL OF CANONISATION.

His Holiness Pope Benedict XV. has expressed his wish (says the Iri*h Catholic ) that a large picture in mosaic depicting the apparition of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque should be placed over one of the altars in the Vatican Basilica. It will replace the only picture painted on wood in that church. The others in the Basilica are in mosaic, the design, painted on canvas, is already finished by the artist, Count Muccioli. The picture will be exposed on the altar on the afternoon of May 13, on the occasion of the ceremony of Canonisat of St. Margaret Mary. The mosaic will not be completed for four years. The mosaic pictures in the Basilica, as is well known, are peerless works of art, and perfect gems as regards design and richness of color.