Impressed by Pageantry
By Editor
A CORRESPONDENT in Colorado tells us that he was present in Denver on the occasion of Cardinal Farley’s visit to that city recently. The ovation was very great indeed. The cardinal was taken over the city in a private car, and dined and feted like a great potentate. At the dedication of the new cathedral in Denver, at which our informer was present, seated only about ten steps from the balcony on which “his eminence” was seated, the cardinal was surrounded by a distinguished company, which included the governor of Colorado. 15,000 persons marched in the parade, accompanied by nearly all the bands in the city, each band of music preceded by the United States flag, which in nearly every instance was dipped as it passed “his eminence,” who was seated with his hat on. In the new cathedral, before the high altar the cardinal conducted mass; and at the elevation of the “host,” thousands knelt in the dust, and a large majority in the crowd removed their hats. The writer, who has witnessed many celebrated pageants in honor of European royalty, is free to confess that as far as reverent subserviency was shown, this one stands unique. But these very impressive pageants are what are molding the American mind toward Catholicism.