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Show 16 j THE INTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC (which may God avert) we decree that both of you incur ipso facto the penalty of suspension from the exercise of the Episcopal office and from the administration, both spiritual and, temporal, of your Churches. Given at St.Peters, Rome, the twenty-firs- t day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1926, the fifth year of our pontificate. PETER CARDINAL GASPARRI, Secretary of State. - The letter to the Clergy and People of Salt Lake was as follows: Pius, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God, to our beloved children, the1 Clergy and People of the City and Diocese of Salt Lake, health and ihd apostolic benediction. We, on this day and with the counsel of our venerable brothers, the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, have by apostolic authority appointed our beloved son, John J. Mitty, pastor of St. Lukes Church, New York City, to preside over your Cathedral Church of Salt Lake, bereft of its pastor, and have placed him over it as Bishop and Pastor. Wherefore, we exhort you all and we bind you to accept devoutly and honor with due as your father and the shepherd of your souls, homage the said John J. Mitty, Bishop-elecand to render obedience and reverence to his administrations and ordinances, so that you may rejoice in finding he in you devoted children, and you in him a benevolent father. We wish also, and command, that these our letters be read publicly and as a matter of official observance by the Ordinary who now rules your Diocese from the pulpit of the Cathedral Church on the first day of precept to be observed by the people. Given at St. Peters, Rome, the twenty-firs- t day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1926, the fifth year of our pontificate. PETER CARDINAL GASPARRI; Secretary of State. t, s The Holy Father also addressed the following letter to the Most Reverend Edward J. Hanna, D.D., Archbishop of San Francisco, the metropolitan of the Province of which the Diocese of Salt Lake forms a part: Pius, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God, to our venerable Brother, the Archbishop of San Francisco, health and the Apostolic benediction. We on this day and with the counsel of our venerable brothers, the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, have by apostolic authority appointed our beloved son, John pastor of St. Lukes Church, New York City, to preside over the Cathedral Church of Salt Lake, bereft of its pastor, and have placed him over it as Bishop and Pastor. Wherefore, in the Lord, we advise and counsel the spirit of brotherhood, that you accept with favor the said John J. Mitty, Bishop-elect- , your Suffragan, as a mark of your reverence for us and the Apostolic See. We, therefore, hope that you will receive him as a brother and that, moved by zeal for promoting the glory of God and the welfare of the Church; you will be impelled to render to the said John J. Mitty, Bishop-elecwhatever assistance he may ask of you, in order that he may readily fulfill, unto the advancement of his Church, the tasks committed to him. As a mark of Divine favor, we impart to you our Apostolic benediction. Given at St. Peters, Rome, the twenty-firs- t day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1926, the fifth year of our pontificate. PETER CARDINAL GASPARRI, Secretary of State. J.-Mitty- s , t, The Bulls having been read, Bishop Mitty gave his Episcopal blessing. Then Cardinal Hayes escorted him from the altar and placed him upon the throne of the Bishop of Salt Lake on the Gospel side of the s anctuary. His Eminence then proceeded to a throne which had been especially erected for him on the Epistle side of the altar, after which, one by one, the priests of the Diocese o f Salt Lake went to the throne of their new spiritual leader and tendered him their promise of obedience. Pontifical High Mass was then sung by the Right Reverend Daniel M. Gorman, D. D., the Reverend CorneBishop of Boise, assisted by the Reverend James OGrady as Arch-priesThe Mastlius E. Reardon as Deacon; and the Reverend Joseph P. Moreton as ers of Ceremonies were the Very Reverend Monsignor Stephen J. Donahue, the Reverend Joseph S. Keefe, the Reverend William A. Ruel and the Reverend Albert A. Pinckney. The music of the Mass was rendered by the Choir of the Cathedral of the Madeleine under the direction of the Very Reverend Monsignor Duane G. Hunt, with Miss Ethel Hogan at the organ. t; Sub-deaco- ; n. |