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Show ' m Diocese of Denver. I ' -- : ' . - : DENVER. Thp principal pvcht. of . the week . in religious. .rir-les was the consecration of St. Elizabeth's, church. This cere-j lnony, 'is onejso. seldom"' performed that I It excited no .little curiosity. For weeks j j ppnv.er.Catholics haver pleasantly an-j I ticipaiec the event nd were not disap- J 1 pointed. lJt;jS n-m. Bishop -Mtz con- a 1 h-pcrated the irtein a 1 rs f. , and .Bishops j Oahrifls and -. Cunningham, the. altars I of the BlesKOd Virgin and; fet. Joseph J respectively. -At this service none but I the clergy were allowed to be-'.present. Long before 11, o'clock the church was filled -witfa devout worshippers'. ' but pioroptly at 'that hour the procession j marched up the main - aisle and ! through .Ulo sanctuary.." First came the A little ones of St.. data's orphanage, all P iifatly 'dressed. Follovying them were I ihe Knights vf StJ John;-who acted as j j guard 6f honor to the officiating clergy. I All the priests of the city followed 1 while the organ and orchestra pealed t forth the soft and melodious strains of 'Aida." Abbot Conrad of the Berte- I; I dictine Order eelebrated pontifical I mass. Father Francis delivered the ser- mon.. which embodied a resume of his work in freeing the parish from debt. Haydn's Imperial mass was sung by an augmented choir under the direction direc-tion of Miss Josephine Woeber. At the offertory Mrs. Otis Spencer sang an Ave Maria, with violin obligato by Miss Frances West. j The following children were con- I firmed by Bishop Gabriels at 4 o'clock S in the afternoon: Joseph Thiemann. Henry Stadler. j Adolph Miller. Stephen Garcia, Al ii fred Yarrow. Kdward Dougherty. Har-' I! Jy Murphy, Edward Wagner. Epeme- I nio Sanchez, Jacob Muller, John Van j Hee. Frank Mohanna. Ferry Jochim, J ' John Christmann, Hermann" Strasser, ' Matthew Lynch, John Hirshfield. Al- I phons Wesselmann, Michael Egan, I Kdward Cox. Allen Grant, Earl Mc- Ginley, George Biedy, Frank Stroess- ! mer. Margaret Ziegler. Elizabeth Al- v. therr. Veronica Hanses. Mamie Win- j " ter. Gertrude Lamers. Florence Weiv- f rr- Gertrude Halligan, Catherine J Scnouten, Clara Hebert, Maria Hokof. Slizabeth Baltrush, Miriam Williams, -. Emma Wesselmann, Josephine Huber. Elizabeth Stoehr, Bessie Fairy. Eliza-Veth Eliza-Veth Backer, Mabel Schebelka, Horten-sia. Horten-sia. Jones. Elizabeth Murphy. Mary Sweeny.' Rosa Barth Carmen de Cordova. Cor-dova. Rosa Hines. Agnes Kernick, Annie An-nie Wilthauer; Lilly Listmann. In the evening Pontifical Vespers -were sung by Rt. Rev. Bishop Gabriel I followed by a lecture by Rev, Thomas I M alone. On Monday evening a public recep- I tion was tendered the visiting bishops. |