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Show Enthralled the Congregation. It Is related that a stranger once entered en-tered a cathedral In Sicily and bogged to be allowed to try the organ, which was new and a very fine instrument that even the organist did not understand. under-stand. With some reluctance the organist or-ganist allowed the stranger to play, and soon the cathedral was filled with sounds that Its walls had never heard before As the stranger played, pulling pull-ing out stops never before combined, and working slowly up to the full organ, the cathedral filled, and It was not until a large congregation had wondered at his gift that the stiangor told his name. He was Dora Lorenzo PerosI, the young priest composer, whose latest oratorio, "Loo," was recently re-cently performed at the Vatican during dur-ing the celebration of the Pope's jubilee. |