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St. Patrick's Year
POPE JOHN SENDS TWO PAPAL LEGATES
Two Papal Legates have been appointed by Pope John for the celebrations which begin in Armagh next Friday in honour of the fifteen hundredth anniversary of the death of St. Patrick, Ireland's national apostle.
The Patrician Year will be solemnly opened in Armagh Cathedral at midday with Pontifical High Mass, with Cardinal McIntyre of Los Angeles as Papal Legate, and in the presence of Ireland's Primate Cardinal D'Alton, Cardinal Godfrey of Westminster, and Cardinal Cushing of Boston who will preach.
Visitors
Many leaders of church and state will be attending and among the visitors from Britain will he the Archbishops of Liverpool and Birmingham, and the Bishops of Nottingham, Brentwood, and Leeds.
At the Consecration of the Mass 'the ancient Bell of St. Patrickwhich is referred to in the annals of Ulster as early as 550 A.D., will be rung. It is being loaned by the Irish Academy.
The BBC's Northern Ireland Home Service will broadcast recorded extracts from the ceremony and from Cardinal Cushing's sermon on the same day at 7.30 p.m.
On Friday afternoon there will be a symposium on St. Patrick's Iife and influence by three eminent Patrician scholars—Fr. A. Glynn S.J., of University College, Dublin, Professor
Corish and Professor Fee of Maynooth.
After dark the Cathedral will be floodlit and benediction will follow a torchlight•procession.
The second Papal Legate appointed by Pope John will go to Dublin in June for the opening of a missionary exhibition showing the work of Irish missionaries all over the world. (Mansion House 18-25.) During the past 10 years nearly 4,000 priests, nuns and brothers have left Ireland to preach the Gospel overseas.
The I,egate is Cardinal Agagianian, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith—and thus overseer of all missionary activities throughout the world.
On June 22 Cardinal D'Alton will preside at Pontifical High Mass celebrated by the Papal Nu nein, Archbishop R beri, which will he attended by President de Valera and members of the government.
On June 25 Archbishop Walsh of Tuam will celebrate open air Pontifical High Mass at midday in Croke Park, Dublin. Cardinal D'Alton will preside. A choir of more than 500 men drawn from all the seminaries will take part.
At Westminster Arthur Pollen's new statue of St. Patrick will he unveiled in St. Patrick's chapel in time for the Feast. This Sunday (March 12) hundreds of children from Irish dancing schools wearing colourful costumes and led by five hands will walk from Horse Guards Parade to Westminster Cathedral where a short sermon will be preached in Irish by Fr. James O'Friel of St. Anne's parish in East London. The Rosary in Trish will be led by Fr. John Cremin of Kingston-on-Thames.
On the feast itself it is ex peeled that the Irish Ambassador will attend Capitular High Mass in the Cathedral. Many churches all over the country will be having evening Mass on this day.
On Friday
Archbishop King of Portsmouth will he at St. Patrick's, Woolston on Friday where he will celebrate Pontifical High Mass at 11 a.m.
Bishop Cunningham of Hexham and Newcastle will bless and open the new St. Patrick's church at Owton Manor Lane, W. Hartlepool.
Bishop Parker of Northampton will lay the foundation stone of St. Patrick's. a new church for Corby, at midday.
Bishop Holland, Coadjutor of Portsmouth will celebrate Pontifical High Mass in St. John's Cathedral at 7 p.m. on St. Patrick's night.
A special "Patrician Year" number of the Westminster Cathedral Chronicle includes articles on the Saint, on emigration, on Blessed Oliver Plunkett, and on one of England's most Irish parishes — the-seventeencrowded-Masses-a-Sunday parish of the Sacred Heart, Quex Road in N,W. London. This last by Fr. L. M. Dowling, O.M.I., a member of the Order which has charge of the 97-year-old-parish.