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Show vf r Published by the Diocese of Salt Lake Business Manager Very Rev. Mons. Duane G. Hunt VOL. Business Address 331 East South Temple, Was. 8826 Salt Lake City, Utah October, IV Editor Rev. Louis J. Fries, S.T.B. 1926 No. 2 Consecration of Bishop , Mitty St. Patricks Cathedral, New York City, which has been the scene of many elaborate ceremonies since its dedication in 1879, was again the setting for a beautiful and solemnly impressive ceremony on September 8th, when the Right Reverend John Joseph Mitty, D. D., was p consecrated Bishop of the Salt Lake Diocese by His Eminence, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, of New York, assisted by the Right Reverend John J. Dunn, Auxiliary BishopoFNew York, and the Right Reverend Daniel J. Cuiley, Bishop of Syracuse. The ceremony was attended by twenty-o- n e Bishops, forty-eigh- t Monsignori, five hundred and thirty-fiv- e priests' and a congregation of the laity which filled the vast Cathedral. Preceding the ceremony a procession of those to take part in the consecration of the new Bishop formed at the Cardinals home and proceeded through Fiftieth Street and by the main entrance on Fifth Avenue into the Cathedral. Into its lights of various color, the reds, b lues and greens of the stained-glas- s windows, three hundred students of the Cathedral College and two hundred walked fifty altar-boyand fifty seminarians of Dunwoodie, Bishop Mittys Alma Mater. Then followed the Christian Brothers and the hundreds of priests, with their garb of black cassock and white sur. plice. Next in line came the Very Reverend and Right Reverend Monsignori and after them the Bishops, each with two chaplains, the vestments of these groups adding a stream of slowly-movin- g color to the sombre black and w hite of those preceding them. Then followed the ministers of the Pontifical Mass in their vestments of gold, and after and his six chaplains. At the end of the prowith the Bishop-elec- t them the cession were Cardinal Hayes and his eight chaplains, with three little boys dressed in black velvet bearing his long train of scarlet robes. The ceremony lasted three hours. There was no sermon, at the special request of Bishop Mitty. At the close of the ceremony the new Bishop, garbed in the robes of his office, walked slowly down the center aisle of the Cathedral and imparted his blessing to ' fi the people. V.' a The visiting clergy attending the ceremony included the following: the Right Reverend Maurice McAuliffe, Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford; the Right Reverend John F. Noll, Bishop of Fort Wayne; the Right Reverend Joseph C. Plagens, Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit; the Right Reverend Constantine Bohachevsky, Bishop of Ruthenian Greek Catholic Diocese; the Right Reverend Andrew J. Brennan, Bishop of Richmond; the Right Reverend Michael J. Crane, Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia; the Right Reverend Hugh C. Boyle, Bishop of Pittsburgh; the Right Reverend Francis J. Tief, Bishop of Concordia; the Right Reverend John Gregory Murray, Bishop of Portland; the Right Reverend William A. Hickey, Bishop of Providence; the Right Reverend William Turner, Bishop of Buffalo; the Right Reverend Edmund F. Gibbons, Bishop of Albany; the Right Reverend John J. Cantwell, Bishop of Los Arch-Viisho- s, co-Consecrat- ors ; |