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Show I Diocese of Denver t Happenings in Church and Catholic Social Circles of X Z the Colorado Capital. t -t- BY ELIZABETH A. KELLY. ITALIANS HONOR THE MEMORY OF KING HUMBERT. Beautiful Address of Bishop Matz. (Correspondence Intermountain Catholic.) Donvw-, Aug. 14. The love and tut com in which the Italian colony of Itcnvcr held the ruler of their native land as manifested ly their memorial fcfrviers in St. Elizabeth's church last i Thursday. A procession was formed at Fourteenth Four-teenth and Arapahoe streets at 10 o'clock. It was lead by a platoon of mounted police. Chopin's grand funeral fun-eral march was excellently rendered by a military band. Various Italian su-cieties su-cieties made a grand display. A striking feature of the procession was that the "Star Spangled Banner" was everywhere in evidence, for the Italians here are very proud to be called Americans. A hearse drawn -by six black horses and bearing1 a beautiful casket was a salient feature of the parade. It was draped in the Italian colors on which were written the words: "La Patria Dolente Pinnge, La I'erdita del suo He." a country is grief stricken for its king has perished. This was followed by a number of carriages. The Italian consul. Dr. Cuneo, headed these. Lieutenant Governor Gov-ernor Carney, Mayor Johnson and city officials, together with the British, French. Belgian and Swedish-Norwe- j gian consuls took part in the proces- tdon. A vast concourse of people had assembled as-sembled at St. Elizabeth's before the funeral procession arrived, but the middle aisles 'were reserved for those who formed the procession, so that all were seated. The pillars of the high eltar were festooned with crepe and streamers of white ran the entire length of the church. Six lighted wax ta-pers oast a dim funeral light from the high altar, which was otherwise devoid of ornament. A catafalque, with lighted candelabra on either side, was prepared to receive the casket. As the procession moved slowly up the middle aisle the organ pealed out Mendelssohn's Men-delssohn's funeral march, and the choir sanur with much feeling "Dues Irae." Miss Woeber presided at the organ, and the choir was composed ' of Josephine Woeber. soprano; Margaret Battmuseh. alto; M. T. F. Sullivan, tenor, and N. Sayer, bass. flight Rev. Bishop Matz. assisted by Revs. Gunitosf. S. J., deacon; Cornelius, O. S. ft., of Roulder, sub-deacon, and Father Phillips, master of ceremonies, pronounced the absolution at the catafalque. cata-falque. The service was very impressive, impres-sive, and at its conclusion Bishop Matz delivered a strong address against anarchy. "Our sympathy for a nation," said he, "bereft of its leader by the hand of an. erchy, brings us together today. In the name of humanity we1 assemble to pro- test against such a heinous crime. In doing this, as the representative of the Catholic Church for this great Itocky Mountain icountry. I am only expressing" express-ing" the sentiment proclaimed by our holy father. Leo XIII.. when the atrocious atroci-ous crime was announced to him. Although Al-though on his sick bed he insisted on fretting up to say mass for the murdered mur-dered king. No matter what their relations re-lations in life had been, in death Leo XIII.. representing the clemency of the church, had only blessings to bestow." Bishop Matz. reciting the deaths of the empress of Austria, the president of France, prime, minister of Spain, em- i peror of Russia, two presidents of our own country, continued: "Whither is humanity tending? What is becoming of society? Modern society for some time has been sowing the wind and now they are reaping the whirlwind. Modern society has cast off the voke of the Omnipotent, and infidelity in-fidelity has replaced religion. Infidelity is the forerunner of anarchy, for those that reject the law of God will soon repudiate all law." The bishop was followed by Father rvrsone. S. J., of Trinidad. Father IVrsone is a venerable, silver-haired ' priest of the old missionary type, and delivered an eloquent address in Italian Ital-ian on the vicissitudes and brevity of this life, sketching many beautiful characteristics of King Humbert. He said it was his paternal care for his subjects that endeared Humbert to Italians all over the world. The paths of glory, he said, led but to the grave, apd we should always be ready for the death that is. certain, for It is waiting for ms down4 the : road we know not where. After the services an informal reception recep-tion was held in the parlors of the Franciscan priory, where the various consuls and .officials were presented to Bishop Matz fnd Father Persojne. Dr. Cuneo expressed himself as profoundly pro-foundly grateful to the people of Denver Den-ver for their .-.sympathy to the Italian nation in its hour of grief. "It is bound to weld the nations closer together." he said. "The presence pres-ence of so many noted men was " an extremely gracious -expression 'of fiynr-pathv. fiynr-pathv. and one that we deeply appre- iate." After the services in church were concluded a luncheon was served to the Plate, city and county oificials and the foreign representatives in the Franciscan Francis-can priory, ftishop Matz delivered a . short discourse' hoping that Ihey would all frequently meet again, but never to celebrate .such a deplorable event. |