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Show I' NOTABLE CELEBRATION j BY BOSTON CATHOLICS . ! BOSTON. Oct. 2S. With most, of the 1 highest officials of tho Roman Catholic church prelacy in America present, and with the impressive ceremonies of a ' x solemn pontifical mass, of which Most j Rev. Diomode Falconio, papal delegate i , to "Washington, was the celebrant tho five da3's' observance of the annivor-i annivor-i sary of tho founding of the diocese of ; Boston was begun in tho cathedral of- the Holy Cross toda3 . ! Archbishop William JI. 0 'Council, of ( tho Boston diocese, in hia office of preacher, offered " thanksgiving for ', the blessings God has granted us dur ing these first hundred years of Bos-, Bos-, t ' ton 's existence as a diocese." . ' Besides tho church dignatarics there " j wore also present Governor Guild, ' ; Ma3'or Georgo A. Hibbard, and other ; i representatives of tho state and city i , government and the judiciary. j Tho great cathedral has been elabor- ! ' ately decorated for the exercises of the week. ! The streets leading from the rectory o the cathedral had been roped off for the procession of the clcrgv. winch slow- and solemnly wended its wa3', headed 113- acolytes, choristers and the diocesan dcrgy, who were followed. by j' the mousignori, bishops and archbishops , and finally the officers of the mass. ' Archbishop Falconio and Archbishop O'Cnnnell were seated in' the sanctuary, where episcopal thrones, elaborately draped, had been arranged on cither side. Tho visiting prelates were seated at cither side of the two thrones, while . . tho parish priests occupied reserved scats in the bodv of the church. |