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Show , Magnificent Temple of Worship in Salt Lake Is : -f Impressively Dedicated by Sacred Rites j of the Roman Catholic Church. -. j Cardinal Gibbons Pronounces Solemn Blessing for the Pope by j Orders From Holy See. j Salt Lake Herald-Republican, Aug. 16) I With the pomp and grandeur of the glorious, solemn pontifical high mass, j with the simple tenderness of the hymns sung by 200 little girls, with the j impressive chanting of two score of the mose prominent Catholic prelates in 1 America, with the deep, rich music of the great organ accompanying a matchless choir, and with the solemn blessing of his holiness. Pope Pius X, pronounced for the pope by His Eminence James Cardinal Gibbons of Bal- I timore acting under special orders from the Holy See, the cathedral of St. I Mary Magdalen, one of the most magnificent temples of worship in the en- I tire west, was impressively dedicated to the Lord. J From the first note of the pretty hymn from 200 baby voices to the disap- (pearance of the last tiny acolyte in the closing dedicatory precession the event was a profound exemplification of the sacred rites of the Roman Catholic Cath-olic church such as is displayed only on rare occasions. It was the only time in the history of the west that a service as profound pro-found as this was ever celebrated, and it will undoubtedly be generations before such another ceremony is ever seen in Salt Lake : : !The massive structure on the commanding com-manding site on Erigham street has been nine years in the course of con-1 con-1 struetion. Those whose generosity and energy made this occasion possible have looked forward to the day of its dedi- '1 cation as the goal of their life work. !The importance of the occasion may be . judged from the fact that the Roman Catholic church sent from every part of I the United States scores of its leading f brought Cardinal Gibbons for the first : prelates. It was this occasion that f --time in his life across the great divide, j , - ' coming to the west as the first Roman Catholic cardinal ever to visit the west- L em part of the United States. , New Era Is Marked. 1 ! A new era in religious worship of the west is marked by this dedication. ( ' i, A new chapter in the Roman Catholic j history of the world has been written. The cathedral itself is a monument to 3 the progress of the west and of Amer- I ica. : The profound dedication has awak- ' i ened in the Catholic breast a greater ! I religious fervor and formed an incentive j I for even greater piety and devotion. !To the others whose privilege it was to witness this unusual display of pomp and ceremony the dedication was a service ser-vice of wonderful and awe-inspiring grandeur. To them it gave a suggestion i of the oldest, and in point of numbers, at least, the greatest church in the world. The profound adoration of the Lord by cardinal, archbishop, bishop, priest and people in the glorious cele- ibration of the most solemn ceremony in the Catholic ritual was a sight that can never be forgotten. Added to all this was the stately and solemn procession of scores of prelates in the rich robes of their priestly station, sta-tion, the marching of 209 little girls and 300 acolytes with crosses, censors and beautiful vestments, in brilliant ensem-J ensem-J ble. - 1 McCauley s Essay. !j From the dedication of the cathedral j! of St. Mary Magdalen some thought i1of the Wonderful organization of the Roman Catholic chuch may be gleaned: some suggestion of the tie that binds millions of souls together in their aim to secure eternal salvation through the devotion prescribed by the ceremonies of the Roman Catholic church. Too, the ceremony recalled the essuy of McCauley, McCau-ley, not always a friend of Catholicism, in which he said: "The Roman Catholic church saw the commencement of all the governments and all the ecclesiatsieal establishments I that now exist in the world, and we feel I no assurance that she is not destined to i see the end of them all. She was great 1 f and respected before the Saxon set foot J ' on Great Britain; before the Frank had j ' passed the Rhine, when Grecian elo quence still flourished at Antioch: when ' idols were stillworshipped in the temple - of Mecca, and she may still exist in undiminished un-diminished vigor when some traveler from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude take his sand on a broken arch of London bridge and sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." The dedication of the cathedral of St. Mary Magdalen on yesterday may be construed in a sense as a fulfillment of the fanciful prophecy of McCauley's lines. When they were written the fu- ture site of Salt Lake was as desolate a wilderness as even the pen of McCauley Mc-Cauley could picture. Yet even at that time there was the evidence of the Roman Ro-man Catholic religion in the valley of Salt Lake along the missionary trail of Father Escalante. A prophecy by McCauley that some day in the midst of the wilderness of the unknown region between the . Rockies and the Paclnc, at the dedica-j tion of a massive cathedral, a prfnee of the Church of Rome would pronounce the blessing of the pope on thousands of devout Roman Catholics would have appeared just as fanciful as the suggestion sug-gestion that when London was a wilderness wil-derness the Catholic church would be lust as powerful as in the centuries of the past. Thousands Attend. And yet on Aug.- 15, 1909, the feast of the Assumption of the Elessed Virgin Marv. beneath the towers of the great cathedral of St. Mary Magdalen, which has risen like magic from what a few I decades ago was a vast solitude, nearly V 2.000 people bowed their heads as James Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Balti- more, pronounced the pontifical blessing V . of Pius X. . ; - The long dedicatory ceremony and the ' 1 I pontifical high mass that followed it at-i at-i tracted thousands. Hundreds of those X w ho sought to attend the ceremony were f unable to get in, so crowded was the great cathedral. Those who were turned away saw only the beginning of the consecration con-secration of the great temple, when the procession of priests and children moved ' about the edifice, blessing the exterior of the structure. The ceremony began with the procession proces-sion of little girls marching from the old cathedral to the new. Two hundred pretty little girls, whose juvenile voices gave utterance to hymns of praise as thev marched, formed - a long procession proces-sion reaching nearly from the old church to th new. Each little girl was dressed in white, with a white veil and a wreath of daisies. Held's band preceded the little children chil-dren as they marched. The blatant nots of the band Instruments were softened a they played "Adeste Fi-r'elip" Fi-r'elip" by Novello, and the "March of th Priests." from Athn'la. Just fit the new cathedral, as the Chilian Chil-ian marched around th residence of Blshon Lsnrence Fcflnlf.n, the bind played, at the urgent request of Bishop Scanlan, one of his old favorites, "Home, Sweet Home." At the rear of the new cathedral the dedication procession, headed by a cross bearer and two acolytes, was formed. Then came the white-robed little girls, singing Haydn's "Te Deum." Following them came the lace-surplicel acolytes, some in scarlet and tne rest in purple cassocks. After the acolytes marched the censor bearers and all the ecclesi-asts ecclesi-asts of the church at the dedication, save Cardinal Gibbons. Each prelate wore the robes of his order in the distinguished dis-tinguished colors of his rank in the church. Dedication Prelate. At the rear of the procession came the Right Rev. James J. O'Donnell, coadjutor coad-jutor archbishop of San Francisco, vested vest-ed in the gorgeous robes of the dedication dedica-tion prelate. He wore the golden cope and the great mitre and carried the bishop's crook. As the distinguished ecclesiast pronounced pro-nounced the dedication blessing on each portion of the cathedral the answering choir of, Catholic prelates chanted the responses. The nuns of the Sisterhood of the Holy Cross joined the procession proces-sion as it passed into the cathedral. Within the church the altars and other oth-er parts of the interior were dedicated with prayers and psalms and blessings. From the dedication service within the church the public was excluded. On the c ompletion of the formal dedication ded-ication of the church the doors of the cathedral were thrown open and nearly 2,000 people filled the church. To many it was the first interior view of the completed new cathedral. Before them in the sheen of myriads of great candles can-dles the beautiful marble altars were seen. The rest of the cathedral was seen in the softening twilight of the sun pouring its rays through the stained glas of the beautiful memorial windows. win-dows. Massive pillars throughout the great auditorium formed a colonnade of impressive im-pressive grandeur. About the walls of the cathedral in bas relief is told the story of the crucifiixion. Above in the choir loft the pillars of the great cathedral cathe-dral organ formed a beautiful frame for the pretty St. Cecelia wln,dow. As the people entered the cathedral the Symphony orchestra under the leadership of J. J. McClellan, played softly. A little later the first of the pontifical procession entered the cathedral. cathe-dral. The procession formed at the episcopal residence and marched into the cathedral through the main entrance. en-trance. First came the cross bearer with two acolytes, then the little girls, then the acolytes, the clergy, with Bishop Scanlan Scan-lan in the robes of the celebrant of the pontifical high mass, and finally Cardinal Cardi-nal Gibbons with a scarlet biretta and a flowing scarlet robe, the train of which was borne by four scarlet-robed acolytes. The procession moved down the main aisle of the church to the high altar. There the little girls took seats at the communion rail. The acolytes knelt at the altar step, the clergy went to the sanctuary and the cardinal was taken to the great throne to the right of the altar. Above this throne was draped the coat-of-arms of the cardinal. Bishop and Prelate. Bishop Laurance Scanlan in flowing robes of gold and white, wearing his great mitre and carrying the shepherd's crook, was conducted to the foot of the altar. With him, also attired in great gold and white copes, were the Very Rev. J. J. Guinan, president of All Hallows college, sub-deacon; Very Rev. Denis Kiely. vicar general of the diocese of Salt Lake, deacon; Rev. Father George T. McCarthy, master of ceremonies, and Monsignor Harnett of Los Angeles, assistant, and Very Rev. Dean Harris, arch-priest. Other prelates assisting in the ceremony cere-mony of the mass were Archbishop J. J. Glennon, who preached the dedication dedica-tion sermon: Archbishop J. Doppenwill of Vancouver, Archbishop J. S. Foley' of Detroit. Bishop Scannel of Omaha, Bishop Glorieux of Idaho, Bishop Keane of Cheyenne, Bishop Carrol of Helena and Rev. Fathers Sullivan of Butte, O'Ryan of Denver. McCabe of Idaho Springs, Colo., McGovern of Emmets-burg. Emmets-burg. Md.. Barron of Los Angeles, Shean of Ely. Butler of Tonopah, Cushnahan of Ogden, Ryan of Ogden and Rev. Fathers Brennan. A. J. Ryan, W. K. Ryan, Collins and Curran of Salt Lake. Music Is Feature. To many of those at the service of the pontifical high mass the music was the principal feature, the impressive meaning of the ceremony of the mass being understood in its fullness only by the Catholics. To everyone, however, how-ever, the singing of the great choir and the music of the cathedral organ was a great factor in the solemnity of the Impress of the occasion. At the beginning of the mass the choir of seventy voices, accompanied by the great organ and the Symphony orchestra, sang Gounod's "Kyrie." Miss Nora Gleason, director of St. Mary's choir, led both the choir and the orchestra. To her belongs the credit for the organization of the dedication choir, composed of the best vocalists in the west, the selection of the music for the occasion, and the triumphant success scored by the choir in singing the dedication dedi-cation music j. J. McClellan at the organ was always al-ways in perfect sympathy with the members of the choir in the difficult accompaniment ac-companiment of the music of the Catholic Cath-olic service. ;'.'" One of the most Impressive hymns of the service was the "Gloria," from Mozart's Mo-zart's "Twelfth Mass." The gladsome hymn was sung with feeling and expression ex-pression and the interpretation of Mo zart's conception of the glorious refrain of the angels was almost perfect. As Archbishop Glennon prayed silently before be-fore preaching the dedication sermon, F. E. Smith Bang the beautiful solo, "Veni Creator." At the offertory Klein's "Ave Marie" was sung beautifully by Mrs. Hannl-fan, Hannl-fan, Miss McCarthy and J. J. Burko. Mr. Burke sang Gounod's solos, "Banc-tus" "Banc-tus" and "Benediction." A double quartet quar-tet sang the "Agnes Dei" by Gounod. An Impressive feature of the service, was at the elevation of the host when Cardinal Gibbons left his throne to kneel at the foot of the altar in adoration. adora-tion. At the sound of the great altar gong the cardinal and the other prelates pre-lates fell on their knees as Bishop Scanlan Scan-lan elevated the host at the point In the mass symbolical of the crucifixion of the Christ. |