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Show EASTER SERMON BY NOTED INDIAN ARCHBISHOP AT CATHOLIC CHURCH On Easter Sunday, His Excellency, Excellen-cy, the Most Rev. Joseph Attlpetty will celebrate a pontifical low Mass at 8:00 a. m. at the Catholic Church of Christ the King In Cedar City, and will preach the sermon at the High Mass at 10:00 a. m. which will be sung by Father Le May, the local Pastor. Non-Catholics are cordially cor-dially Invited to attend either of these Masses, but women are requested re-quested to wear a hat or some head covering. , The Mass to be sung will be the Mass of St. Basil, with solos by Mr. Bernard P. Qulnn and Mr. Sturman L. Adams. Mrs. Beth Leigh will play the organ during the Mass and at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament Sacra-ment which will follow the High Mass.. Archbishop Attlpetty arrived In Cedar City Monday morning In company with his secretary, the Rev. Jacob Chaklamury, and will remain as the guests of Father Le May until Easter. Father Chaklamury Chakla-mury was attending the Propaganda College In Rome at .the time Father Le May visited the Eternal City during the war as a Naval Chaplain, Chap-lain, ana li was there in the Vicar-late Vicar-late of Pope Pius XII that they first met. Father Chaklamury very kindly acted as guide to Father Le May and a group of Naval officers around the many places of interest In Rome. The Most Rev. Joseph Attlpetty. PhD., DJ5., Is the Archbishop of Verapoly In South India. After finishing fin-ishing his studies In the secular University of Madras In India, Archbishop Arch-bishop Attlpetty went to Rome where he ' had his ecclesiastical training In the Propaganda College, and where he was ordained a Catholic Cath-olic priest in 1926. Hardly six years after his ordination, the Most Rever-and Rever-and Joseph Attlpetty was consecrated conse-crated Archbishop by His Holiness r Pope Pius XI in the Basilica of St Peter in Rome. He was at that time the youngest Archbishop in the world, and even now he is the only Indian Archbishop of the Latin Rite. Archbishop Attlpetty la also the President of the Missionary Union of Clergy in India, the Director of Catholic Social Action of India, and the president of the Catholic Educa tlonal County of the native states of Cochin and Travancore in India. The Metropolitan See of the Most Rev. Archbishop is situated in the southwest of India, known as Malabar. That part of India was evangelized by St. Thomas the A-postle A-postle in the very first century. Consequently, out of the four and a half million Catholics In the whole of India, a million and a half are found In the small territory of Malabar. Ma-labar. In his own archdiocese, which has an area of 3000 square miles, the Archbishop has 127,000 Catholics of the Latin Rite. But in the same territory are found 280,000 Catholics of the Syrian Rite who are under the Jurisdiction of three Syrian Bishops. For more than seven months now the Most Rev. Archbishop has been touring the United States and Canada Can-ada seeking help for the poverty-stricken poverty-stricken people of his country, and to meet the needs of the numerous Institutions in his Archdiocese. His Excellency has 78 primary schools, 11 middle schools, 11 high schools and three University Colleges in his Archdiocese. Besides these, for the poor and aged people of his Archdiocese Arch-diocese the Archbishop Is also running run-ning one hospital, one dispensary, eleven orphanages and two homes for the aged and destitute. The Arch Diocese of Verepoly Is rich In native vocations. The 83 Diocesan priests working In the Archdiocese are all Indians, not to mention the 35 Indian Diocesan |