The New York Herald

ORDINATION IN THIS CITY.
A New Addition to the Jesuit Fathers.

At nine o'clock yesterday forenoon the Church of St. Francis Xavier, in West Sixteenth street, was the scene of unusual pomp and ceremony. Mr. Peter Racicot, S. J., who had been made a sub-deacon on Wednesday, and deacon on Friday, was ordained priest by the Most Rev. Ignatius Arciga, Archbishop of Michoacan, Morelia, Mexico. Although no public announcement of the ordination had been made, a number of the parishioners occupied seats in the aisles. The students of the college, 600 in number, marched from their class rooms and knelt in the body of the church.

The Archbishop was attended by the Rev. H. Hudon, president of the college; Rev. Fathers P. F. Dealy, J. Daubresse and several others. The celebration of the mass was then commenced, and when the Archbishop came to the offertory (which properly speaking is the beginning of the mass) the postulant repeated slowly after the celebrant the sacred words of the missal. At the communion the blessed eucharist in both forms was partaken of by the candidates for orders. The Archbishop, after the Benedicamus, gave his blessing to the congregation in the usual way. As soon as the last gospel was finished the acolytes and assistant clergymen preceded the Archbishop into the vestry.

Father Racicot remained a while in prayer before the altar, and then there was a general movement towards the altar on the part of the congregation to obtain the first benediction of the new minister of God. The ceremonies concluded. Father Racicot retired to the house, where he was again greeted by all the members of the order.

He is a man of varied and profound erudition and is a valuable acquisition to the splendid corps of professors already among the Jesuits. The Archbishop returned from Rome two weeks ago and in a few days will depart for his home in Mexico. Meanwhile he stops with the Jesuit Fathers.