Show CHILDREN CROWN BLESSED VIRGIN Beautiful and Impressive Ser Services Services Services vices Are Held in St SI Marys Catholic SCORES OF LITTLE ONES SINGING BY TOTS AN APPEALING FEATURE Beautifully impressive and to the mst last degree appealing were the services in St Marys Catholic last even een evenIng evenIng Ing when the coronation of the Blessed Ble sed Virgin Mary took place One hundred and little girls were ere the chief participants in the tho cere ceremony ceremony ceremony mony Twenty of f these the e were only 3 years of age The company of little ones formed on the lawn of the Fred Wilson residence and marched to the cathedral cathedra where in inside inside side the church the procession was con continued Fifty acolytes led the procession Next came the cross bearer and six torch torchbearers torchbearers torchbearers bearers These were ere followed by the ban banner banner banner ner girls The Very Vel Rev D pre preceded preceded preceded ceded the crowner Mary OBrien who with her maids of honor led the line ot girls The pages were Lawrence Hughes and Joseph Putnam Act of Consecration Before the procession moved moed the act of Consecration to the Blessed Virgin was read rea by b Eugenia Mercier Little Eu genias voice rang clear as a bell and sweet beyond description At the altar of the Virgin Mary Iary a lad ladder ladder ladder der all aU In white had been set tet Up the tho steps of this ladder the tiny Miss OBrien climbed unassisted Reaching tho top she hc placed upon the head of the Blessed Vir Virgin Virgin Virgin gin a magnificent crown of oC white roses Down again she came and then the th lit little little littie tle tie girls laid their offerings at the feet of the statue The singing of the little children was a feature of the services Marguerite Locke from the choir loft sang verses erses of the Hail Hall Mary Responses were sung by the scores of little folk on the floor floo of the cathedral catheral St Cecilia CecUla chorus sang san splendidly Father Sermon The Rev Re Father Kiely preached a brief sermon He spoke about the devotion or of orthe orthe the little girls and boys bos to the Blessed Virgin They The honored her tier he said be because because because cause she is the Mother of God The benediction of the blessed sacra sacrament sacrament ment was pronounced by Father Kiely Father M 31 1 J said the thc rosary and the litany Bishop Scanlan and the priests of the In the sanc sanctuary sanctuary tuan The children were In charge of Misses Martha Buboltz Ella EUa Canning Etha Col Collins Collins Collins lins Genevieve Brooks Elizabeth Fits Fitz FitzGerald FitsGerald Gerald and Leona Neuhausen |