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(Continued from page 1) Archbishop of Liverpool, Mgr. Downey, senior Metropolitan after His Eminence, will deliver an address of welcome.
Immediately after Mass. the thousands of people attending the open-air Mass outside the Cathedral and the tens of thousands who have not been able to secure a place in or outside will be able to see the Legate and the Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops driving across London to Wembley in a succession of cars.
From Francis Street — by the Cathedral — starting at about 1.45 p.m., they will go by way of Vauxhall Bridge Road. Victoria Street, Grosvenor Gardens, through Hyde Park to Victoria Gate, on to the Bayswater Road, Westbourne Street, Westbourne Terrace and Harrow Road. through Harlesden High Street and Craven Park to Wembley Hill Road, and finally to Empire Way and Olympic Way.
About an hour later the waiting thousands in the stands and on the terraces will see them coming in procession across the Wembley turf to the great altar in the centre of the stadium—an altar which will have been completed only after allnight work by carpenters and other workers.
But everything and everyone will be ready, including scores of scouts to direct people to their seats and girl guides to • take care of any lost children.
It is announced this week that two of the Masses to be celebrated on the morning of September 29, at Tyburn Convent. Marble Arch, and the English Martyrs' Church, Tower Hill. will he pontifical.
Early start
At 8 a.m.. at Tyburn. the Mass will be celebrated by the Archbishop of Armagh, whose predecessor, the last of the martyrs, Blessed Oliver Plunket, was hanged close hy.
At the sante hour the Mass at Tower Hill will be celebrated by the Bishop of Southwark, successor of Cardinal St. John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, who was beheaded in the Tower.
For a great number of people, Wembley Day will begin in the early hours of the morning.
Thousands are cooling to London in special trains arid by road, some starting at about 6 am, And though attendance at the afternoon Mass in the Stadium will fulfil the Sunday obligation. many want to go to Mass in their own parishes, both out of devotion and just in case of hold-ups on the road,
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