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Show Enthralled the Congregation. It Is related that a stranger once entered en-tered a cathedral in Sicily and begged 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 on ganlst allowed the stranger to play, and soon the cathedral was filled with sounds that Its walls bad never beard before. As the stranger played, 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 stranger told his name. He was Dom Lorenzd PerosI, (he young priest composer, whose latest oratorio, "Leo," was re" cently performed at the Vatican dur' Ing the celebration of the Pope's Jubl' lee. |