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They stood in the hallway of the bishop of their diocese-young Jack and Bernardone and the bishop. At their feet was a parcel of rich woven-stuffs, linen and cloth of gold, a silver altar cloth, a sword-belt. The bishop, brown and quiet, was explaining something, half-humorously, to Pietro Bernardone; the merchant seemed too angry to hear him. Had he ever denied his son anything? Why, Jack's friends called him Francis because of his rich ways. And now to turn thief. If Jack had asked he would have given him that bundle of gewgaws...
When the car jolted to a stop the Abbe Loubiere shepherded his new-found charges about the Sacre Coeur, pointed out the giant Christ above the altar, blessed a rosary for one of the young women...
With naive enthusiasm he announced that Lincoln was not, as some said, unfriendly to Catholicism, but that "when Father St. Cyr came to say mass for Lincoln's stepmother, Mr. Lincoln would prepare the altar himself. Indeed with his own hands Abraham Lincoln carved out six wooden chairs to be used at the mass. And if I could only find those chairs, I'd pay for them with their weight in gold...
...prophet Isaiah in Chapter VI, verses 5, 7, 8, of the book of Isaiah, reports: Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here I am, send...
...Archbishop Glennon to the Cathedral for the classic ritual of Pontifical High Mass. Robed in their most gorgeous vestments, the assemblage of churchmen provoked manifestations of devout reverence. In front glinted the cross with a candle-bearer on each side. Then followed, seriatim, colorbearers, resplendent church flags, cherubic altar boys ranging in size upwards like steps, seminarians four abreast in black cassocks with white surplices. Last, preceded by pages and surrounded by a retinue of priests, marched the scarlet cardinals,* with purple-clad Prelate Bonzano dispensing blessings upon his genuflecting worshipers. Said Cardinal Hayes in delivering the sermon: ". . . . This magnificent...