Word: aspersorium
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...they moved in solemn parade through Cleveland streets, lively with Eucharistic shields and yellow-&-white Papal colors, to the ugly red brick St. John's Cathedral. In the vestibule Bishop Schrembs censed the Cardinal Legate, presented him with a crucifix and aspersorium. A choir sang: Ecce Sacerdos Magnus ("Behold the great priest"). Protector noster aspice Deus ("Oh God, Our Protector, look upon us"), chanted the Bishop, while the Cardinal knelt at a faldstool. His brief liturgical reception over, Patrick Cardinal Hayes had nothing official to do until that evening when, in the Public Auditorium, he was publicly welcomed to Cleveland...
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