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Show MDUHCHS KIT HISTDRmCHURGH King Albert and Consort Attend Service in Ancient Spanish Mission. SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Oct. 12. King Albert, with his consort and the Duke of Brabant, attended mass today in the historic Spanish mission of Santn Barbara. The scene within the ancient church was in striking contrast to tho pomp of the servico in Boston's cathedral cathe-dral last Sunday, but was no whit less colorful. Franciscan friars In their dark brown habits waited on the pray stone steps to receive their majesties, and a throng of parishioners had gathered around the doors when the royal cars approached. The Spanish fathers formed in line and led the procession, while four of them held a canopy over the pair as they filed slowly down the aisle. The king and queen dipped their fingers in holy water and crossed themselves reverent-ly reverent-ly when they passed the sacred portals. They were ushered to seats at the left of the altar, upon the sanctuary which never before had received a ruling rul-ing monarch, although it had been a place of worship for 133 years. All three knelt as tho simple service began be-gan and followed the mass devoutly. Sisters of St. Vincent and St. Francis sat just back of the king's entouracc, but the eowled and long-eloaked monks had a room apart. The Belgians were welcomed by Father Fa-ther Julius, the superior of the brdcrv which has conducted the mission since it was founded in 1786 by Father Fer-mine Fer-mine Lasucn. The original adobe structure was destroyed by an earthquake earth-quake in 1812 and the one which now stands was dedicated in 1820. Father lulius greeted them not only in the name of his own priests, but in that of "all the Franciscan friars up and down the coast and every loyal Cath: olic who worships everywhere In the church, which, after loyalty to God, teaches the virtue of patriotism a virtue vir-tue of which the Belgian king and people peo-ple have given so illustrious Aa example. ex-ample. ' 1 After the mass the party filed into the mission church yard where the king planted a cypress and an orango tree to memorialize his visit there. The queen was the first woman in nineteen years to pass inside the garden walls, the last before her was Mrs. William MeKinlay, wife of the former president. The Countess tie Onraman-Ohimay and Mrs. Bra-nd Whitloek passed in also with the queen. All three were greeted cordially, although the law of the church forbids the passage of women within the walls of a monastery except by special dispensation. |