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Show THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. Consecration Mgr. Conaty Will Gather Gath-er a Notable Array of Prelates. The attention of the university is being directed at present toward the ceremony of the consecration of its rector, Right Rev. Mgr. Conaty, and all indications point towards a most remarkable re-markable gathering of prelates and clergy. The rector is fully determined to have the ceremony at the university, so as to give It the character of a university uni-versity event, but it was soon found that the university had no chapel large enough to do justice to the occasion, and hence the rector has yielded to the kind invitation of the cardinal chan-cellar chan-cellar to hold the ceremony at the cathedral in Baltimore. The consecration will take place Sunday Sun-day morning, Nov. 24, at 10 o'clock, and his Eminence Cardinal Gibbons will act as consecrator. The following have been chosen as officers to assist him: Consecra tors Right Rev. Camil-lus Camil-lus P. Maes, D.D., bishop of Covington, and Right Rev. Thomas D. Beaven, D. D., bishop of Springfield, the diocese dio-cese with which Mgr. Conaty has been affiliated since his ordination. Very Rev. P. J. Garrigan, D. D., vice rector of the university, will read the Papal brief. The assistant priest will be Very Rev. A. L. Magnien, S. S., D. D., president of St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, Bal-timore, and the deacons of honor are Right Rev. Mgr. Thomas Griffin, D. D., P. R., of Worcester, Mass., and Chancellor Chan-cellor Emeritus of the Springfield diocese, dio-cese, and Right Rev. Mgr. Thomas Ma-gennis, Ma-gennis, P. R., Jamaica Plain, Boston. The deacon of the mass will be Right Rev. Mgr. James Lynch, D. D., P. R., of Utica, and the sub-deacon. Rev. P. B. Phelan, p. R., of Holyoke, Mass., while the master of ceremonies will be Rev. William A. Fletcher, D. D., rector rec-tor of the Baltimore cathedral. The proper of the mass will be sung by the students of St. Mary's seminary, while the Cathedral choir will render an elaborate programme of music for the remaining portions. Rev. Bernard Conaty of Worcester, brother of the bishop-elect, will act as his specinl master of ceremony. The sermon of the occasion will be preached by Very Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, D. D., pro-fespor pro-fespor of ecclesiastical history at the university and editor-in-chief of the Bulletin. About thirty archbishops and bishops and over 100 clergymen from all parts of the country, notably from New England, Eng-land, where twenty-five years of Bishop-elect Conaty's life was spent, will be present. A large delegation of his brother priests from ' the diocese of Springfield, as also a strong representation representa-tion of his former parish in Worcester, and many representative laymen from different sections have expressed their intention to take part in the ceremony. cere-mony. The professors of the university will attend In a body and in academic dress, and all the students of the university uni-versity will also be present. A dinner to the visiting clergy will be given at St. Mary's seminary after the exercises at the cathedral. Since the announcement of his elevation. ele-vation. Mgr. Conaty has been busy re-receiving re-receiving congratulations from all parts of the country, coupled with good wishes for him and for the university. It is felt that this act of kindness on the part of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII is another evidence of his appreciation of the importance of the university in the educational life of this country, and the honor which has come to its rector is an added dignity to his office and gives great promise for the university work, to which so many years of his life have been devoted. All the friends of the university are very proud of this recognition, and feel that it will bring great success in the development of the university idea. Mgr. Conaty, who is now in his 54th year, was appointed second rector of the university by His Holiness Nov. 20, 1896, so that his consecration as Titular Titu-lar Bishop of Samos will occur on his I fifth anniversary. June 2, 1S97, he was promoted to the dignity of a domestic prelate. |