Word: triduum
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Form of the Lourdes celebration was a triduum-three solid days and nights of prayer, 140 successive masses, one of which was celebrated by Bishop James Edward Kearney of Salt Lake City. More & more pilgrims arrived, sleeping on the open ground, until 100,000 gathered around the Grotto for the final mass by Cardinal Pacelli, with benediction broadcast from the Vatican by the Pope. Object of the whole triduum was Peace, according to the Holy Father's letter, "to look at and pray to the Madonna to intercede with God in order that the palm of peace...
...Alaska confided his scattered Indians and Eskimos to her charge. A Catholic cathedral in the newest diocese in the U. S.-Monterey-Fresno-is to be built in her honor.*Two years ago, the Pope beatified her; more than 60,000 persons went to Rome. At the beatification triduum at Lisieux, 100,000 persons were present; the Pope sent a Legate and there were no less than three Cardinals, 14 Bishops and 500 Priests. In the past ten years, some million and a half persons have made pilgrimages to her tomb. In short, she is the greatest woman...
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