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Bishop welcomed to Azorean feast Continued from Pa.ge One ing to Sao Miguel for the feast and by islanders with relatives in Southeastern Massachusetts. The bishop was accompanied by Msgr. John J. Oliveira, diocesan chancellor and Rev. John J. :9 ~~~j'~,!-~~~g9ifq 'i\la ~9r;·9frt'he <Ii!Jc~'san' Portuguese apostolate. Before traveling to the Azores, the trio spent three days in mainland Portugal, there celebrating with some 300,000 international pilgrims the 76th anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady at Fatima and also visiting l,.i~borl. .. At Fatima, said :Bisbop O'Malh:y,.observances inCluded' an all-
549 Graduates Continued from Page One. Name Church and again for gradduation ceremonies at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the school. 'Graduation speakers will include Eighth Bristo\ District Representative Edward M. Lambert, class president Brian P. Comeau and valedictorian Catherine M. Torphy. Bishop O'Malley will address the 158 graduates of Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taull1ton, during commencement exercises 4 p. m. June 3 at St. Mary's Church. Also speaking will be class valedictorian Amanda Terra. The baccalaureate Mass will be held at II a.m. that day, also at St. Mary's, celebrated by school chapplain Father William Boffa. Baccalaureate speaker will be salutatorian Kathleen Egan McGlynn. i73 students will graduate from Bishop Feehan Hi,gh School, Attleboro, at 4 p.m. June 4. Nita Patel is class valedictorian; Timothy Famulare and Erinn Hoag are co-salutatorians.. 119 seniors at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, will attend their baccalaureate Mass at 6 p.m. June 5 at St. Julie Billiart Church, followed by graduation ceremoniesat2 p.m. June6. George dos Santos is valedictorian and class president Christene Patenaude is salutatorian.
night vigil and recitation of the . gada, Bishop O'Malley, reported In this connection, Father Olirosary with the fourth decade veira noted that Santo Christo Father Oliveira, joined Antonio prayed in Polish and led by PresiCardinal Ribeiro, Patriarch of parish in Fall River, whose full dent Lech Walesa of Poland, who name in Portuguese is Senhor Lisbon, Bishop D. Aurelio Granwas on a state visit to Portugal. ada Escudeiro of the Azores and Santo Cristo dos Milagres (Lord On May 13, anniversary of the other prelates in a visit to the Christ of the Miracles), is the only first apparition; Our Lady's statue Santo Cristo shrine to view the church in the United States to bear was brought in solemn procession many capes donate,p to the stjHUe, that name. to' Fati'ma'sbasilica altar where some by ancient noble families Contin~ingparticipation in the Mass was celebrated. The threeand some by Azorean immigrants feast, the bishop, Msgr. Oliveira day pilgrimage was led by Bishop and Father Oliveira joined the to the United States and Canada. D. Serafim Ferreira E. Silva, The morning of May 15, Bishop Saturday afternoon procession ordinary of the Leiria diocese, O'Malley was principal celebrant transferring the Santo Cristo statue who also presided at a 1983 piland homilist at a Mass at the from its place of ·honor in the grimage of Rhode Island and shrine, with the cardinal and other 'former Poor Clare convent to Our Massachusetts Portuguese to Labishops as concelebrants. In his Lady of Hope chapel. Father OliSalette Shrine, Attleboro. homily, the bishop expressed his veira said the 500-year-old carved joy in corning as a pilgrim to a wood statue had been given to the In Ponta Delgada shrine so beloved by so many in Poor Clare nuns by Pope Paul II I, Arriving May 14 in Ponta Del·· who reigned from 1534 to 1549 Fall River diocese.
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TRANSFER OF 800-pound Santo Cristo image by specially chosen guard of honor walking on streets carpeted with flo'wer petals and colored sawdust.
and who presented it to the sisters when they came to Rome to ask permission to make their foundation in the Azores. The statue remained within the convent until April of 1700, when .t he first Santo Cristo festival was ,i'ti:ld. Today's four··hour procession ;$jill tra verses the 1700 route, noted 'Father Oliveira. He said that the statue, following the custom of the time at which it was made, originally had an opening in the chest used as tabernacle. Now it encloses a relic of the True Cross, inset in a golden medallion. Due to the veneration in' which the relic is held, said Father Oliveira, the st.atue is always covered with a canopy and escorted by can?les when it i~ carried in processIOn. . Concluding the festival observance, Bishop O'Malley was a concelebrant at a Sunday morning Mass at which Cardinal Ribeiro was principal celebrant and homiliest. In the following days he visited several villages and scenic areas of Sao Miguel and also went to the island of Terceira, where the cathedral church of the islands and the diocesan major seminary are located in the city of Angra do Heroi'smo. In a report on the feast, the Ponta Delgada ne:wspaper A~ori ano Oriental, nott:d "This year we have the honor of a visit from the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon and the Bishop of Fall River, a Franciscan who surely has seen the marks of the Franciscan spirit among his diocesans who were born on these nine islands." After discussing his Azorean experiences, Bishop O'Malley commented briefly on his hopes for greater outreach to the Portuguese community !in the Fall River diocese. Specifically, he said he is looking towards ill1creased Portuguese-language radio and television programming and establishment of the Cursillo retreat in Portuguese. Personally, he hopes for a return visit to the hospitable Azorean shores.
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