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Show f BUTTE. BISHOP BRODEL HONORED. The Catholics of Butte Turn Out En Mass to Receive Their Chief Pastor An Army of Children Parade Through the Streets Thousands Kneel to Receive the Episcopal Blessing. Butte, Mont, June 18. Sunday will be long remembered by the Catholic people peo-ple of Butte as having witnessed a series of ceremonies which for impres-siveness impres-siveness and grandeur were never before be-fore attempted in Butte or any part of Bishop Brondell's vast diocese. Bishop Brondell. who is making his .annual tour of his diocese, which includes in-cludes the entire state of Montana, arrived ar-rived in Butte Saturday evening. Sunday Sun-day morning at 10:30 o'clock he assisted at the celebration of a solemn high mass at St. Lawrences church in Walkerville, and administered the sacrament sac-rament of confirmation to a large class in that parish. At 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon seven carriages, containing members of St. Patrick's parish and clergymen, arrived at the handsome parochial residence of St. Lawrence parish in Walkerville and from there escorted the bishop down Main street to Park and west on Park to Montana. Here the carnages were met by 1,500 children, who were formed in line in the following order: Girls of the Parish. 106 Boys of the Confirmation Class. 122 Girls of the Confirmation Class. 4s" adults of the Confirmation Class. 48 Altar Boys. 30 Flower Girls. Nine boys in White, Representing the Nine Choirs of Angels. The Clergy. Bishop BrondeH. Train Bearers. : r.n,.v,rA tV nnrorh- AS tne proceanion icav." . - ial school the bishop left his carriage and entered the building, where he was assisted in assuming his Episcopal Episco-pal robes. In the meantime the procession pro-cession continued on down Washington Washing-ton street, on the west side, to Mercury, where they countermarched, and as the head reached the school building they turned south again in the middle of the street, completely filling the wide thoroughfare with moving, marching children, the boys in black and the girls in snowy white. When the rear end of the line again reached the school the bishop, who stood in waiting, vested in all of his rich official robes, joined tne procession on foot. . , The central column, as it reached the church, opened out, forming an open avenue through which the bishop passed, the crowd kneeling to receive his blessing. . All of the prayers prescribed by the ritual for the reception of a bishop were chanted by Father Callahan, acting act-ing pastor of the parish, as the bishop entered the church, concluding with the prayer to its patron St. Patrick. The solemn ceremony of conferring the sacrament of confirmation was proceeded pro-ceeded by the singing of "Come, Holy Ghost," and the reciting of the acts of "Faith." "Hope," "Charity" and Con- trinthe evening at 7:30 the procession formed again and conducted the bishop j from the Rectory to the Church, i where for the first time in the history ! of the Catholic Church in Butte, solemn , Pontificial Vespers were celebrated. The assistants at this celebration were Fathers English and Harrington at the Bishop's throne; Fathers Batens and Blaere as chanters; Edgar Andrieux, thurifer; Miles Hogan and William McGovern, acolytes; Timothy Ryan, Episcopal cross bearer, and Father Callahan, master of ceremonies. After the close of Vespers the choir sang the "Hymn to the Sacred Heart," which was followed by the reading of the act of consecration, the I blessing of the crosses and diplomas and the conferring of the same upon tlie promoters of the league. The ceremonies of the day closed with the Pontificial Benediction, which j is one of the most solemn and impressive im-pressive services in the ritual of the Catholic Church, and much was added to it on this occasion by the mechanical mechani-cal perfection of the movements of the small army of allar boys in their white, black and red cassocks, the two mites of little fellows who acted as train bearers being simply poetical in their graceful movements as they followed fol-lowed the Bishop from point to point of the sanctuary. The remarkable work of the children who took nart in the parade, the precision pre-cision with which thev made every move and the complete absence of any disturbance of the remarkable harmony of the arrangements retlects great creu-it creu-it upon those who handled the details. Between Vespers and Benediction Bishop Brondel spoke from the altar steps, giving a most interesting account ac-count of his visit to the Holy Father. During the course of his remarks he gave expression to one sentiment that touched a responsive chord in the large audience. After drawing a striking word picture of Pope Leo XIII, as he saw him, he alluded to the action of the peace congress at The Hague in prohibiting a representative of the Vatican Vat-ican from being present, and said that it was generally understood that England Eng-land was at the bottom of the opposi-j opposi-j tion. He then drew attention to the fact that scarcely had the peace congress adjourned when England's sons were shedding their blood on a foreign soil. |
