Word: luneta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...included even a Committee on Bells & Whistles, and last week when the Conte Rosso ploughed into Manila Bay all the bells in the city, all the craft in the Bay, including 15 "floating hotels" for Congress pilgrims, set up a prodigious din while 25,000 Filipinos cheered on the Luneta, the city's spacious waterfront park. Welcomed by Manila's Archbishop Michael J. O'Doherty, Mayor Juan Posadas, and the pious Vice President of the Commonwealth, Sergio Osmeña, Papal Legate Dougherty wept happily. Although many U. S. Catholics consider him a self- possessed, even arrogant...
...planning of the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress, its officials were at pains to announce that, according to the Manila Weather Bureau, there had never been a typhoon during February, and during its first ten days there had been rain in only 47 out of 69 years. On the Luneta, on which there had been erected a tall, glass- enclosed, air-conditioned altar, two downpours of rain scattered the faithful who came to worship in crowds of from 50,000 to 200,000 at a time. Also, to the scandal of strait-laced Filipinos, the Congress coincided with the annual Philippine...
...women and children, focused primarily on the missionary character of the Church, today filled with new zeal. Thus one of the members of Cardinal Dougherty's official entourage was Joseph Lo Pa Hong, rich Chinese Catholic charitarian of Shanghai, and a Solemn High Mass on the Luneta which drew 40,000 women was celebrated by Bishop Januarius Hayasaki of Nagasaki, Japan. Altogether there went to Manila a score of Oriental prelates as well as a dozen U. S. bishops and archbishops...
Shortly after dawn on Sunday in Manila, 500,000 Catholics on the Luneta attended mass, celebrated by Legate Dougherty who appeared as a choir sang Ecce Sacerdos Magnus (Behold the Great Priest), In the afternoon, soldiers, prelates, priests, government officials, members of the Philippines National Assembly and men, women and children formed in a long liturgical procession which took five hours to wind up on the Luneta, where Cardinal Dougherty held aloft a Sacred Host in Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. To these joyful Catholics then came, through loudspeakers, the voice of the Holy Father. On his divan...