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Show The Gregorian Centenary. The Thirteenth Centenary of St. Gregory the Great, which is to be celebrated with unusual ceremonies cere-monies in Rome during the month of April, is the subject of a timely and interestintr article bv Marie Donegan Walsh in the pages of the April Catholic AVorld. The writer thus speaks of ihe character and rower of the great Pontiff; "The active life work of the Pontiff brought results re-sults immediate and wide-spreading, but after his death the moral force and influence remained and . endured t hroughout the ages, and the seeds which St. Gregory sowed brought forth an ample harvest. The voice which spoke in inspired Homilies reechoes re-echoes still in the universal church of todav, a model for the episcopate of all time! The hands once outstretched in solemn benediction over St. Augustine and his companions, as at St. Gregory's bidding they went forth from the roof-tree of the 'Coelian' to evangelize the future land of 'Mary's Dowry are upraised still, in the benediction of the faitn which the glorious Pontiff brought to unborn thousands in the uttermost ends of the earth! Now, thirteen centuries after his death, when the great men ot tar Jater epochs have passed into forgetful-ness, forgetful-ness, the Catholic church keeps the thirteenth Gregorian Gre-gorian centenary, not alone in the city where St. Gregory lived and labored, but all over the Catholic Cath-olic world. Kings, conquerors, generals and politicians poli-ticians have had their reward, in the fame of a lifetime, in the fierce controversies over their name waged by contemporaries and descendants. But the force of a spiritual dominion exerted over Christendom, Christen-dom, the benefits to humanity and the world-wide f atherdom of the sixth century monk of the Coelian, still remain,' fresh as in the days when the great Pontiff cherished that noblest inspired ideal of universal uni-versal unity of peoples and races and nations and tongues, gathered under one spiritual head. It is the ideal yet of every, true successor of St.. Peter; but one which St. Gregory did more than any other to strengthen and consolidate." ' |