Kingstown, 6 November 2014. His Eminence Cardinal Martino presided over a Mass of Thanksgiving at the Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption in Kingstown on 6 November 2014. The mass was attended by several hundred people including Governor General HE Sir Frederick Ballantyne and the Prime Minister The Hon. Ralph Gonsalves together with other state and faith leaders. The visit marked the first official engagement of a member of the Sacred College of Cardinals in the country.
Magistral Delegate Anthony Bailey addressed the congregation and informed them of the creation of a new Order delegation for the Caribbean and the new direction of the Order in terms of its international engagement. Two new Order chaplains were also appointed during the Mass when Cardinal Martino as Grand Prior invested The Most Reverend Charles Jason Gordon, Bishop of Kingstown as an Ecclesiastical Knight Commander of Grace and Msgr Pawel Obiedziński, Chargé d’Affaires a.i of the Apostolic Nunciature as an Ecclesiastical Knight of Grace of the Constantinian Order.
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