Brooklyn Daily Eagle-Home Talk, Feb. 22, 1935 -1,000 priests to witness consecration of Bishop Kearney at O.L.P.H. Monday
By Claude A. Porter
What promises to be one of the most colorful and spectacular religious demonstrations held for many years in Brooklyn will be the formal consecration Monday of Auxiliary Bishop-elect Raymond A. Kearney, at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 5th Ave. and 58th St.
More than 1,000 priests, 100 monsignori and possibly 15 bishops from various parts of the United States will witness the ceremonies.