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PAPAL LETTER TO TIIE" picture to unite Rosary Sunday, the Coronation and Mission Sunday if,

WEMBLEY CORONATION
230 seminary students to draw Our
Lady's statue through streets
MORE than 500 motor coaches will make their way to the Wembley Stadium on Sunday from various parts of the country to the solemn coronation by Cardinal Griffin of the statue of Our Lady of Willesden.
The Holy Father has addressed a special letter for the occasion to the Cardinal. It will be read in the stadium by the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop O'Hara.
The Cardinal and the Archbishop will be accompanied by Bishop Ellis of Nottingham and Bishop Beck of Brentwood. Bishop Cowderoy of Southwark will take part in the evening ceremony at Willesden.
The people in those 500 coaches will not form a majority of the great open-air congregation for the ceremony and the preceding pageant; early this week applications for tickets had reached capacity.
Two hundred and thirty students for the priesthood—I00 from St. Edmund's College, Old Hall, Ware, and 130 from St. Joseph's College, Mill Hill—will draw the float upon which the crowned statue is to be taken after the ceremony to Willesden, where the statue to be re-enshrined.
The gates of the stadium will be open to ticket-holders at 12.30 p.m. From 2 p.m. until the pageant begins the band of the Coldstream Guards will play in the arena.
THE TWO CROWNS
The pageant, with 750 players and a choir of 300 voices. will last over an hour. Mary O'Farrell and James McKechnie will be the commentators.
Then comes the coronation ceremony. The crowns will have been borne into the stadium, in the Cardinal's procession. by two Privy Chamberlains, Mgr. E. S. Sutton and Mgr. G. Tomlinson,
The Cardinal will bless the crowns and give an address, and Bishop Beck will read the .Holy Father:e Mary,Thlr. prityer 6, fen fare 4011 be followed by the "Te Deurn."
Finally the Apostolic Blessing will be given, with a plenary indulgence, and, while hymns are being sung, the crowned statue will he borne round the arena for the acclamation of the people.
The statue will then be taken to Willesden in a procession of 2,000 men, reaching the church at about 6.30 p.m. All those on the terraces and the stands are being asked to remain in their places until the procession has left the stadium.
At the Church of Our Lady of Willesden the statue will he received by the Cardinal, in company with the Apostolic Delegate, the Bishops and the clergy and people of the parish. Archbishop O'Hara will give Benediction.
The church will remain open throughout the evening.




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