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ST. EDMUND'S* COLLEGE.
On a
recent
Wednesday
Cardinal
Bourne visited
St.
Edmund's
College,
Ware, where he was received by
the students and professors, headed
by
the president,
vested 'In
cope.
His Eminence,
before
entering
the
ambulacrum,
' assumed
the
cappa
magna.
After kneeling
to
salute
the crucifix offered to him
by
the
president, he sprinkled those present
with holy water.
A procession was
then formed, and as it proceeded to
the sanctuary the choir chanted
the
"Ecce Sacerdos Magnus."
The Cardinal
walked under a canopy,
which
was carried by six of the lay
students.
As
at
Westminster
Cathedral,
the Cardinal, on reaching
the
sanctuary, knelt on a faldstool
before
the altar while the president, at
the Epistle side of the altar, chanted
the
vereides
and
prayer
prescribed
by the Pontifical,
to
which
the choir responded.
After the Antiphone
of
St.
Edmund
was sung
and the prayer of the saint chanted,
the Cardinal took his seat
on
his
throne, when an address of welcome
was read by the president,
in
the
course of which he said that
it was
beyond
all
doubt
a great
joy to
them.to greet his Eminence amongst
the
exalted
company
of
famous,
learned, and
holy
men
who
have
borne the rank of Roman
Cardinal.
For, on every account, his Eminence
belonged to them, not only
because
his predecessors were to them Fathers
and patrons, but because they delighted
to recall that once
he
was
a son of that house, both as a lay
boy and as a cleric,
and
that
St.
Edmund's had moulded and enriched
his life, his charactcr, and his mind.
On this account they begged
God's
blessing on him,
and they
trusted
that his loving-kindness would never
fail them, and
that
they
in
turn
would never
be
wanting to him in
reverence, in duty, and in love.
Hie
Cardinal briefly replied to the
address,
after which the Te Deum was
sung, and his Eminence imparted his
blessing to those present.
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