Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1898 — Big Catholic Celebration. [ARTICLE]

Big Catholic Celebration.

New York, May ft.—Not since the laying of the corner stone of St. Patrick’# ,'athedral in 1860 has there been a celebration among Itonian Catholics of .his country equal in ceremony and tn<jgnifi Deuce to that begun Wednesday to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the elevation to the episcopate of Most Rev. Michael Augustine Corrigan. Pontifical high mass was celebrated it ten o’clock. There was a procession notable Catholic clergymen with a juurd of honor of 500 ondets.