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Show HONORS AMERICAN PRELATES. Pope Leo XHI. Invites Them to a Place of Precedence. Archbishop Corrigan has received, in common with other American Archbishops, Arch-bishops, an invitation to be present in Rome at the opening of the year of rejoicing, re-joicing, to begin on next Christmas day. The invitation comes from Car-dina? Car-dina? Jacobini, and through the Papal Delegate at Washington, and is all the more urgent to American Archbishops owing to the unusual honor which is to be accorded to American Catholicism this year. The ceremony of Christmas day, which the Cardinal desires all Archbishops to attend, is the same that took place on Christmas day, 1799. The Pope goes in state to the main entrance to St. Peter's, and there knocks three times. At the third knock the ereat doors onen.. not to be closed until New Years day. The Pope enters bearing a cross in the right hanid and a lighted taper in the left, and followed fol-lowed by all visiting prelates. At this unusual ceremony it has been the custom, for many centuries to accord ac-cord the place of honor in the line, and indeed, throughout the entire ceremonies ceremo-nies of the week, to the Archbishops from the country that has made during the century then ended the greatest religious progress. That honor is to be accorded to the Unitedt States at the forthcoming ceremonial, and hence Car. dinal Jacobini, who is president of the committee in charge of the jubilee, especially es-pecially urges American prelates to be well represented. Archbishop Corrigan s'aid that he would arrange his plans to be present if possible, but could tell better about his movements after the meeting of the Archbishops in Washington Wash-ington next mpnth. Speaking of the jubilee, which is to continue one year and to be inaugurated inaugu-rated by the ceremonial described. Cardinal Car-dinal Jacobini says in his communication communi-cation to the American Archbishops that the plan is to have Catholics throughout the universe affirm by a series of solemn manifestations their love and gratitude to the All-powerful Redeemer of the human race. |