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Ins for National Shrine Are
■omplete After Two Years’ Work
lop Shahan Describes Imposing Edifice, Which Will
Seat 6,000 When Completed—Will Surpass Many Great
Suropean Churches—Two Popes Contributed to Fund
for Its Erection.
hi
Y RIGHT REV. THOMAS J.
SHAHAN, D. D.,
Sjector of Catholic University,
ashington, D. C.—The plans of
National Shrine of the Imma-
Lte Conception at the National
ital have reached an advanced
;e of completion. They can now
seen in the parlor of Caldwell
1 at the Catholic University of
erica, where also an admirable
Ister model of the noble edifice
exhibited. The architects,
ssrs. Maginnis and Walsh, of
ston, and Mr. Frederick V. Mur-
of Washington, have labored
llinually for over two years at
se beautiful designs, and have
xluccd a'master-piece of eccles-
tical architecture of which Amcr-
13 Catholics can be proud. The
le adopted is the Romanesque in
ich many of the most beautiful
rehes of the early Middle Ages
R|c built. Those who have seen
n recent great churches as the
red Heart basilica at Montmar-
the Westminster Cathedral, the
thedral of Haarlem, and the vast
gliean minister of Liverpool, say
the Washington edifice ' will
Id to none of them, and in some
s will surpass them. Its dimen-
s are imposing; length 4G0 feet,
lit 88 feet, width of main tran-
1 160 feet, width of main nave
feet, diameter of dome 90 feet,
crior height or dome 204 feet,
ght of campanile 332. Its seating
icity is about four thousand not
liking of the Crypt which will
t nearly two thousand.
Will Be None Too Large,
lowever broadly the great church
been planned, *: will be none
large in the coming generation
the needs of Catholic worship
the National Capital. Its popula-
of nearly a half million will
bably reach the million figure
lin thirty years. It is hoped
by that time the new church
' be available for the largest
blic services , meetings of the
(orarchy, thanksgiving and funeral
^ice of a national character, and
ny great occasions for which
ish church could well suffice,
year will henceforth witness
ic events of international im-
bringing together a: the Na-
1 Capital Catholic men and
and women h-om all parts of
world and affecting in various
s Catholic life and interests at
ne and abroad. The splendid
ine of Mary Immaculate at Wash-
ton, will be for all visitors a
of piety, zeal, and pure
ual joys.
seems assured now that Our
ed Mother, Mary Immaculate,
possess ere long this monu-
1 edifice, offered to her as
.ess of the Catholic Church in
ed States, and destined to
the most solemn way her
offices of Intercessor and
ess. There are certainly
ue Catholics in our vast
ry who will not rejoice that
c near future art and science
rown the fair brow of Mary
ulate as nobly as rcligi’on and
phy did when her sweet name
given to so many American
tains, rivers, janes and bays,
countless missionaries from
Ida to Alaska. The popular de-
n to Mary Immaculate is one
gems of our religious life,
nage or statue is seen in
Catholic household, her
fes are in every Catholic heart,
clients arc innumerable in
walk of life. Her glory as the
ulate Virgin of Lourdes is
indeed, but Lourdes is only
blendid, religious manifestation
btimonts that , have always
;ed the Catholic heart from the
rings of our holy religion.
AIDED BY TWO ROPES
ere can be no doubt that
|rican Catholic generosity will
.to its usual high level, and
foon make ample provision for
ampletion of this great monu-
35, of Catholic faith and love.
| and Benedict XV were gen-
contributors to the holy work,
[commended it cordially to all
fican Catholics by their Apos-
uetters. Nothing elevates a
|Iikc its architecture, and
^reveals so fully its finer
.of mind and heart as its
edifices. Hie National
|f the Immaculate Conccp-
i£ the final magnificient
expression of one hundred years of
American Catholic religious life
since the building of the Baltimore
Cathedral revealed to our fellow-
citizens the possibilities of religious
art and its future influence on
American life and thought.
While much remains to be done
toward the decorative plan of the
great edifice, the working plans of
the crypt or basement are ready
for execution, and it is hoped that
in the near future work may be be
gun on this part of the National
Shrine. The crypt will be a good-
sized church in itself, and will ac
commodate nearly two thousand
people. Its height of twenty five
feet twelve of which are over
ground, permits abundant light and
perfect ventilation. It is proposed
to dedicate the high altar of Our
Lady of the Catacombs, as the of
fering of all the Marys of the United
States and elsewhere. Provision is
made for fifteen beautiful altars in
the triple lapse of the crypt. Four
of them will be in honor of the
Sacred Heart, St. Joseph, St. Anne
and St. Elizabeth. The remaining
eleven altars of the crypt will be
dedicated to the most famous of
the early Christian virgin martyrs,
like St. Agnes, St. Cecelia, St. Aga
tha, and others whose name and
fame are dear to Catholics from
time immemorial. They will be as
a crown of praise and honor about
the Mother of Sorrows.
Tmrwrmmw
Rt. Rev. Thomas E. Malloy
Installed.
ARCHBISHOP HOME
Chicago Prelate Returns
from Honolulu.
Chicago, 111.,—Archbishop Munde
lein is hurrying home from San
Francisco, where he arrived Wednes
day from Honolulu, on the last
stretch of his first trip west of
Chicago, and his first real vacation
from his work since he took charge
of the Chicago Archdiocese six
years ago.
He will he in Chicago to preside
at the farewell reception toRt. Rev.
Alexander J. McGavick, former auxil
iary bislTop of Chicago, who goes
to Wisconsin at the end of the
month, as bishop of the diocese of
La Crosse.. This reception wil be
held in the auditorium theater Feb
ruary 26.
The program of the testimonial
to Bishop McGavick is a pretentious
one, some of Chicago’s most promi
nent citizens having taken bozes at
the theater for the event. It is in
IBniiJids oqi sbav >|.->iAcrppj, doqsifj
of some 90,000 members of which
Sumq SI asjnd oSju[ y •.ip}OO.itp
charge of the Holy Name society
SEMINARY OPENS
Chicago,—Tile philosophy build
ing of the new University of St.
Mary of the Lake at Aera, near Chi
cago, was opened during the week.
Pontifical high mass was celebrated
by Bishop Hoban. The chapel con
tains five altars. The seminary,
which opened with a class of fif
ty .prospective priests last fall in
the nucleus of the great Catholic
University in which Archbishop
Mundelein intends to include the
other university colleges, Loyola,
Dcpaul, and Rosary College for Wo
men. now- existent.
Brooklyn—The Right Rev. Thomas
E. Molloy was installed as third
bishop of Brooklyn last Wednesday
in St. James’ Pro-Cathedral, Brook
lyn. Archbishop Hayes and many
bishops and monsignori, as well as
hundreds of priests witnessed the
ceremony. The Pro-Cathedral was
crowded and hundreds stood in the
street outside after the police had
ordered the doors c?osed.
Archbishop Patrick J. Hayes was
the installing prelate, and made the
address to the newly installed bish
op, a plea for “moral principles
and standards” to save the world
from “madly spinning along an or
bit of darkness and doubt, without
hope or certainty as to what we
may meet ahead.”
The Right Rev. Monsignor Ed
ward McCarthy, rector of St. Au
gustine’s Church, Brooklyn, preached
the sermon. Monsignori Patrick F\
O’Harc, rector of the Church of St.
Anthony of Padua, Greenpoint, and
Alfonso Arose, of St. Lucy’s Church,
Brooklyn, assisted Archbishop
Hayes in th cinstallation ceremony.
Among the prelates present at the
installation were the Right Rev.
Thomas F. Hickey of Rochester; the
Right Rev. Michael J. Hoban of
Scranton; the Right Rev. Louis S.
Walsh of Portland;; the Right Rev.
Thomas J. Shahan of the Catholic
University; the Right Rev. John J.
Nilan of Hartford; the Right Rev.
Joseph H. Conroy of Ogdensburg;
and the Right Rev. John J. Dunn,
auxiliary Bishop of New York.
The newly installed Bishop of
Brooklyn was ordained on Septem
ber 19, 1908 and was consecrated
titular Bishop of Loria on October
3, 1920.
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N. C. W. C. COMMENDED
Washington, D. C.—Many letters
of commendation for the work of
the Teachers’ Registration Section
of the Bureau of Education, Na
tional Catholic Welfare Council,
have been received from the heads
of Catholic institutions in which
teachers have been placed and from
teachers who have been helped to
positions during the last eleven
months. The Teachers’ Registra
tion Section will have been in op
eration a year on March 15th.
Registrations have been received
from Canada, the Latin American
countries, Porto llieo and elsewhere.
The director general of Public
Education in Peru was among those
who sought the assistance of the
section in finding twenty-five Amer
ican teachers w'anted by the Peruv
ian government in its plan of reor
ganizing its public school system. •
The former head of the depart
ment of education of the University
of Idaho was placed in a corres
ponding position in a Catholic uni
versity in the Middle West.
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