There was a most impressive ceremony in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Westminster on Saturday in honour of the thirteen hundredth anniversary of the death of.St. Gregory. Of course the Anglican and Froe Churches have as bodies taken no part in the festival, since Gregory was a Pope; but it was an event which the whole Christian community of England might fairly have joined in oslebrating, for no one can deny to Gregory the honour of having sent the first missionaries to Saxon England. I believe modern historians do not accept as historica! the Venerable Bede's pretty story of St. Gregory and the little English slave boys whom be thought beautiful enough to called Angels rather than Angles; but whatever inspired him, he certainly sent Augustine over here. It will be many years vet before the great cathedral in which Saturday's ceremony was conducted attains its full but it already affords a fine background for such festivals.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.