EUCHARISTIC CONGRESSES

gatherings of the Roman Catholic clergy and laity, held with the object of glorifying the Sacrament of the Eucharist, were inaugurated by Bishop de Ségur, of Lille. The first congre , held in that city (1881) excited little but local interest; but the movement rapidly developed, succeeding congre es being held at Avignon (1882), Liége (1883), Paris (1888), Jerusalem (1893), Lourdes (1899), Rome (1905), and elsewhere. In 1908 the congre held in London was attended by Cardinal Vannutelli, the first Papal legate to visit England for three centuries, by six other cardinals, fourteen archbishops, and seventy bishops. A proposal to carry the Sacrament through London in proce ion aroused much opposition, and the project was abandoned on the personal inter yen tion of Mr. Asquith, then Premier.