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Show JOAN OF ARC BEATIFIED. In the presence of 40,000 French pilgrims, practically prac-tically all the bishops of France, many cardinals and numerous- descendants of the family of the new beatified, the solemn ceremonies in the beatification beati-fication of .loan of Arc were carried out in St. Peter's Rome, last Sunday. According to the rubric. ru-bric. Ihe Pope does not attend beatifications in person, per-son, but. as a ma'rk of special devotion, he assisted that afternoon at a solemn benediction, which replaced re-placed the ceremony of the veneration of relics, none existing in this case. Soon after daybreak streams of pilgrims began to arrive in every imaginable conveyance. They crowded the great edifice and at '::0 o'clock myriads myr-iads of electric lights burst out and the great organ or-gan thundered. The long procession of cardinals took its place. In the special' galleries were the Duke of Alencon, the sisters of the Pope, and a host of French and Italian notabilities. The Basilica presented a fairylike appearance. It was hung with red velvet draperies, and everywhere every-where strings of electric lights were artisically arranged. ar-ranged. Huge pictures, representing the miracles of Joan of Are, and her statue, were placed over the high altar, but they were.veiled. The ceremony began by the reading of the brief, at the last word of which the veils fell. The statue appeared framed with electric bulbs; the bells pealed forth and the massed church intoned the Te Deum. which was taken up by the vast throng. Many of the pilgrims, overcome, burst into frantic cheers, which were quickly suppressed. The Bishop of Orleans then said the first pontifical mass in honor of Joan of Arc, which ended the first portion of the ceremony. In the afternoon the ceremonial was no less impressive. im-pressive. The Holy Father passed through the kneeling pilgrims, followed by his court and picturesque pic-turesque guards, to the altar. After the singing of the liturgical hymu, the advocates for the beatification presented to the Pope the traditional gifts of a basket of flowers and the life of Joan of Arc. magnificently bound. The United States was represented by Archbishop Arch-bishop O'Connell of Boston. Mgr. "iSteon. archbishop arch-bishop of Heliopolis; Mgr. Kennedy, rector of the American College, and Bishop Farrelly, the new I bishop of Cleveland, who for the first time appeared ap-peared in his robes of office. The congregation of the afternoon ceremony is estimated to have numbered 00,000 persons. Over 10,000 were refused admission to the edifice. The Pope, responding Monday to an address by the Bishop of Orleans at the reception of a deputation depu-tation of French pilgrims, thanked the pilgrims for their devotion and exhorted them to remain united. He said there, ivward would be the welfire of their country, as it was . religion that guaranteed order and prosperity in society, and the interests of religion re-ligion and society were inseparable. The Pontiff denied vigorously that, the church desired the faithful to become enemies of their country. On the contrary, he said that love of country was stronger when it was united with devotion de-votion to the church. He declared that the Catholic Church dominated domi-nated the whole world because it was the spou.-e of Christ and the depository of truth, and that no government could claim separation of love if it warred against truth. In conclusion the Pope felicitated fe-licitated the French Catholics who had enrolled themselves under the banner of Joan of Arc. At. the right of the papel thron? during the reception stood a standard showing the lilies of France. At the conclusion of the reception the Pope imparted his blessing to the kneeling pilgrims. pil-grims. As the Pope's chair was carried past the French national colors, which were borne by the Catholic Society of Orleans, his holiness rosefI took the flag in his hands, kissing it twice. The pilgrims, carried away by their emotion and forgetting that they had been forbidden to applaud. ch?ered enthusiastically. |