Religion: Eucharist in Budapest

A squadron of airplanes, in the form of a cross, roared over Budapest and the rippling Danube. The river, banded by bridges, the buildings and monuments on both its banks blazed with batteries of searchlights, neon lights, torches, candles. No less than 1,000,000 people thronged the Danube banks when down the river, six miles to St. Margaret Island and back, steamed a procession of ten vessels from which sounded trumpet and organ music. In the steamers were cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, monks, nuns and laymen of the Roman Catholic Church. One boat bore, in a golden monstrance in an illuminated,...

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