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ORE than 400 choirboys. members of 20 choirs in England and Scotland who belong to the international organisation Pueri Cantores, sang at High Mass in Westminster Cathedral on Tuesday evening.
Wearing their varying choir dress they walked in procession through the West door of the Cathedral for the Mass which was celebrated by the head of the Choir School, Fr. Herbert Veal. Conducting avas Fr. Wilfrid Purney, National President of Pueri Cantores and Precentor of the Cathedral. Special preacher was Canon Bartlett.
Choirs of boys came from as far away as Motherwell Cathedral, St. Catherine's, Birmingham; St. Anne's, Liverpool; Lowe House, St. Helens; Golden Hill and Tunsal in Stoke-on-Trent; Elm Park, Essex; two school choirs from Walsall: St. Joseph's, Highgate: St. John's Prep School, Alton. Staffs; St. Lawrence's. Kirkby, Liverpool; St. Dominic's. Haverstock Hill, London; and Hornchurch parish choir.
Some 70 choirs in Britain are members of Pueri Cantores which has several thousand choirs as members in about 80 countries.
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