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Sunday September 27th 1846
This morning went to Grand Mass
at the cathedral and found about
several hundred Volunteers as spectators
of the clergery there was but few
communicants they were partly of
our Regulars and voluteer troops
The most fashionable Mexican Belle
and servant girl the aristoc
ratic getleman and the peone all kneel
ing together at the threshold of the
church All distinctions of society
put aside but during service all
are on an equality. There is nothing
very extraordinary in this church. The
paintin are very ordinary so far as
I was capable of judgeing. the images
were bronzed or painted the alter and
fixtures were of wood and
painted with some taste