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The 2.7-mile (4.3 km) closing procession was marched in by 80,000 people, including 18,000 children. [8] From the gondola of the Goodyear Blimp Reliance, Rev. Joseph Bassich, SJ, sang hymns projected down to the crowd via loudspeakers. [2] [1] The congress formally closed with benediction at the Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France ...
[6]: 41 The monstrance was placed on the altar, and then the entirety of those in procession were able to walk by and bow in veneration. Among the many groups in procession were a police and military escort, various men's and women's societies from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and other dioceses, Catholic youth organizations, and vested clergy.
The Eucharist and the Social Reign of Jesus Christ Cardinal G. Pignatelli of Belmonte was the papal legate. 26th 1922 May 24–29 Rome: The Peaceful Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist Pope Pius XI officiated the Mass at the St. Peter's Square; first congress after World War I. 27th 1924 Jul 22–27 Amsterdam: The Eucharist and Holland
A monstrance, also known as an ostensorium (or an ostensory), [1] is a vessel used in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, High Church Lutheran and Anglican churches for the display on an altar of some object of piety, such as the consecrated Eucharistic Sacramental bread (host) during Eucharistic adoration or during the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
The first International Eucharistic Congress owed its inspiration to Bishop Gaston de Ségur, and was held at Lille, France, on June 21, 1881.The initial inspiration behind the idea came from the laywoman Marie-Marthe-Baptistine Tamisier who lobbied clergy following the French Revolution in an effort to restore religiosity and Eucharistic devotion to France. [3]
This is a list of current and former churches in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. [1] [2] [3] All church buildings of parishes closed on August 1, 2023 under the All Things New rationalization plan will remain open for prayer. [4]
St. Ulrich of Augsburg is also reported to have practiced adoration in the form of Eucharistic processions: "...the biographer of St. Ulrich (d. 973) speaks of a procession, "hallowed by tradition", with the Eucharist to the church of St. Ambrose, returning to the church of John the Baptist on Easter morning." [23]
Caesarius also recounts more extraordinary tales, such as bees creating a shrine to Jesus after a piece of the Eucharist was placed in a beehive, [31]: 130 a church that was burnt to ashes while the pyx containing the Eucharist was still intact, [31]: 136 and a woman who found the Host transformed into congealed blood after she stored it in a box.