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AU Canada, and more particularly all old Frenel Canada, is preparing to celebrate on à seale of unusual religious splendor the golden sacerdotal jubilee of the venerable Cardinal Tascherean Archbishop of Quebec. on Monday and Tuesdar.

The French Canadians feel justiv proud of this the first prelate in British North America honored with the Roman purple, and as his jubilee is the first occasion when an American Cardinal has celebrated à similar anniversary the bishops and archbishops of the United

States and Canada are markine it as a special event

which will be attended by more than ordinary ceremomas in the Catholic Church.

All the Canadian Chureh dignitaries Will be present in the Basiliea of Notre-Dame in Quebec on Tuesday, the 234 inst, at nine o’elock, when pontifical mass will be celebrated in à most imposing manner andiu the presence of probably one of the most distinguished gatherings of the kind that has been witnessed in America, AIT the Canadian bishops wi be present, and from the United

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States thore will bo ñ laree representation, ineludine Cardinal Gibbons, from Baltimore, Archbishop Corrieaun and Right Rev. Bernard OReïlly, D. D., from New York, and the pr'ominent bishopsof the country generally,

Cardinal Taschereau’s pr'ominence in Canadian erelos does not rest alone on his lb Ms in the Church, but as Well through the standing that he has ns belongine to one of the best old Canadian Éunilies, and the splendid efforts he has SUCCOSSEUTT made in the cause of education

and advanconent of deserving publie movements,

More than one of his ancestors acquired fume as the pionecrs and discoverers of the great Northwestern territories, and Mer Tascherean himself had a chief part, With the late Louislacques Casault, in founding the Laval University at Quebec, so called from the first Bishop of Canada, and to day the first Catholic institution of learning in the COUNETV. On these accounts and his sterling merits as à publie spirited man, his jubilee Will be attended by à publie procession in Quebec on Monday, in which members of the Legislature, judiciary and publie functionaries will take part, as well as the chureh prelates and eitizens.

The national fenst of the French Canadians is that of John the aptist on June 24: but in order to celebrate it more solemnly in Quebec and to add 10 the interest of the jubilee of the Cardinal it has been deferreduntil next Monday. On Tuesday will be the regions celcbration of the jubilee in the Metropolitan Church, followed in the eveninge by a publie banquet,

The whole aftair promises to be an exXtraordinarr occa- Sion, and one of the greatest chureh solemnities scen in Canada. (Ver York Herald du 20 août,

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