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Show BRILLIANT SPECTACLE IN ROME AS JOAN OF ARC IS MADE SAINT o : ROME, May 16. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Joan of Arc, the shepherd lass, who in 1429 was called from the peaceful fields of Pomremy to lead the armies of Erance to victory against the English Eng-lish and Burgundlans, today was exalted to sainthood. Thirty thousand thou-sand persons witnessed the'rite in honor to tho meek girl whose-leadership founded modern France and whose life Inspired the allied world during the dark hours of the , great war just closed. Impressive ceremony and ancient an-cient ritual marked the addition of her name to the roll of the saints. The rite was concluded by celebration cele-bration of mass by the pope, the light from Benevenuto Cellini's historic candelabra falling over the gorgeously vested acclesiastics . gathered about tho altor. Pope Benedict concluded his part of tho ceremonies with an oration on the Hfo of the new saint and as he spoke a picture of Joan of Arc which was placed behind the high altar, was unveiled. Great emotion was shown by members of the family of Joan of Arc, who had places in a tribune with members of the French senate sen-ate aud chamber L4epesrau- . niclpajr-cox: other""! French pilgrims, , Seldom has Rome, accustomed as it is to pageantry, seen a more brilliant spectacle than' that witnessed wit-nessed when the pontiff entered St. Peter's today. i Priests and monks in black, I brown and white robes headed tho procession and after them camo ecclesiastics. Among those seen taking part In the procession were Archbishop Edward J. Hanna of San Francisco, Francis-co, Bishops John P. Carroll of Helena, Hel-ena, Mont,; Daniel M. Gorman, of Boise, Idaho, and Paul Joseph Nussbaum of Corpus Christl, and Fathers Edward Hignejv of New Port, R. I., John J. Connelly, of Wilmington, Del., and John A. Butler, or San Antonio, besides all the students at the American college in Rome. PARIS, May 16. All churches in Paris, from historic Notre Dame to the most humble chapel in' the suburbs, celebrated the cannoniz-ation cannoniz-ation of Joan of Arc today. Singly and in groups, elderly gentlemen and women in mourning and middle-aged men retaining their 'military 'mili-tary bearing in civilian clothes, deposited de-posited numerous floral wreaths at the foot of the statutes of France's heroine in th9 Place St. Augustin and iJlace Rivoll. At "Notre Dame for ten' first time a golden halo was placed about the head f thejCsUtueof. ; -Joan" ofTrc? whefethechurcli-'' ' goers worshipped silently. Near SL Roch church, at which point stood the saint honor gate where Joan of Arc was wounded in 1429, a great concourse of people I knelt in prayer. |