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Insure against Holiday pains by taking GENASPRIN The SAFE BRAND The Universe THE CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER Office: 1, ARUNDEL STREET, LONDON, W.C.2. "When a greater conservation of God and of his Church, there is no blessing which it does not merit." — The Message of His Holiness the Pope to the "Universe." CAR & GENERAL INSURANCE CORP., LTD. Head Office: 83, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1. MOTOR—FIRE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION 72ND YEAR, No. 3729. (New No. 1053) FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1932. [REGISTERED AT THE G.P.O.] AS A NEWSPAPER PRICE TWOPENCE. BRAVO DUBLIN! BRAVO IRELAND! Magnificent Closing Scenes of the Congress 1,000,000 PEOPLE ATTEND FINAL PONTIFICAL MASS DUBLIN BECOMES A SILENT, ADORING CITY AND THE WHOLE WORLD LISTENS A PANCARE of trumpets, sounded before the altar on O'Connell Bridge after Benediction on since the dawn of time. Bravo Dublin! Bravo Ireland! You have made history. Ireland Eclipses the Congress at Chicago (From the "Universe" Special Correspondent) CHICAGO, the great centre of Catholicity in the "Middle West," though it had more prelates at its Congress, was outstripped in magnificence by Catholic Ireland. To-day Dublin's Pontifical Mass, celebrated by Archbishop Curley, of Baltimore, at the Congress altar in Phoenix Park with the Papal Legate presiding, was attended by a bigger crowd than any crowd ever before physically present at a celebration of Mass. Yet it was not so long ago, as time runs, that Mass was said in Ireland in secret places. A million people, it is estimated, were at that Mass in the Park. Who knew if there were a few more thousands or a few less? Who had ever seen 1,000,000 people before? Who had ever seen 1,000,000 people more than? Who had ever seen 1,000,000 people before? This 1,000,000 people tramped out to the Fifteen Acres in Phoenix Park and, owing to the masterly organisation which preceded the Congress, fell into allotted places without hurry or bustle. On the Fifteen Acres there 1,000,000 people slood in their sections, without dividing barriers, like soldiers on parade. When they were out in the Park, Dublin still had its hundreds of thousands of people lining the route of the procession, even before Mass began at 1 o'clock. In the streets of Dublin there were unprecedented scenes. Loud speakers broadcast the Mass, and as the celebration was heard to begin "In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus sancti" all the men in the crowd doffed their hats. People took out rosaries and prayer-books, windows opened, and people made the Sign of the Cross. There in O'Connell-street, where I slood during the ceremony, thousands of people slood as reverently as though they were slanding at the church-door, crowded out of Mass. And the B.B.C. broadcast the Mass—every word, crowded out of Mass. And the B.B.C. broadcast the Mass—every word and every note—to the whole world. A military ran through the every note—to the Angelicus. Everybody stopped and was silent whilst the famous voice filled every corner of every street for miles…