The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-08
GLa9rtelIlgE
Thn Lnta Rllh0p MheIanL

useful citizen, The sad event occurred
yesterday afternoon at ST. Agnes hos.
pital, Baltimore, where he went q few
days ago from the Maryland Seaside in
fast failing health: The news will bo read
With general regret ID this community,
where the dlitipsuiaked pSelate has %
long lived and lsbored, and where he was
held in such. high esteem by ali classes ol
our people, he died from some organic az
feclion Of the heart, the precise nature Of
which weare unable TO learn, His body
wfllbs brought here for interment, pre-.
viousto 10 which the solemn and imposing
ceremonies incident to tho burial service
oI The Catholic Church under such cir
cumstSnces will be celebrated In his honor,
ReRev. RlcuGRD VINCENT wuE1As,
D. was born June 2Oths 1900, at Balti-
more. In early childhood his education
was entrusted to aprfvate tutor. Atthe
sgeoi ten or eleven years he was placed
&Ms St. MaryS College, Emmltsbutg,
Nd. In that celebrated institution Of
learning he became project Of studies and
hlledthe Office Tor several years, maniiest.
ing an order Of administrative talent that
attracted general attention. For his
philosophical and theological studies he
repaired TO France and entered the re-
nowned Seminary Of 81 sulpicein in Paris.
The years spent in Paris were go faith
folly devoted to study that when he had
attained the age required in his church
for ordination he was regarded by the
faculty as a young man ol eminence in
the whole course Of ecclesiastical studies.
BE was ordained Priest in Paris or Yer.
sailes May 1st, 1881, for the arch diocese
otBltlmore. On his return to Balt-
morehe re.entered Nj. 81. Mary's College
in the capacity oi Professor, which he
continued 70 al Tor several year. gR
HswAs then assigned by the Most Rev
Archbishop Of Baltimore, tothe missions
Of Harpers Ferry, Martinsburg, etc. In
this position his zeal and successful ad y
ministration soon appeared SO conspicu.j
ous as 10 command the admiration o. .
his ecclesiastical superior, the Arch.
bishop. This was signSlly manifested in
the fact that he was recommended in
1910 for the responsible Office Of Bishop
Of Richmond, Virginia, and appointed
thereto by Pope Gregory XVI. His con.
sscration took place in the Cathedral at
Baltimore, March 81, 1s4l. As Biahop
Of Richmond his Jurisdiction extended
over tho whole State ol Virginia, as It
then existed! 4 U !FfhG L!sGgI
AS became the vlgilant and indefatig-
able shepherd he was untring in his
journeylngs throughout the vast territory
oonaded to his care, lecluring to nom
Catholic as well as Catholic audiences,
but especially ministering to the spiritual
needs Of his Church. Under his fostering
care little congregations, which apostolic
zeal called together were provided as far
ss possible with pastors imbued with q
spirit laborious and seltsacrifcing akin TO
that which then and to the close OF his
career as Bishop distinguished the Rt Rev.
Dr.. WHELAN. A few years later the
Bishops Of the Catholic Churches in the
United States assembled in council at
Baltimore and deemed 1t expsdient to di-
vide Virginia into two dioceses. Wheel
ing was selected as the Episcopal See
Of the new diocese, and DR.. WHRLAN was
az liberty to retain the old diocese, then
more or less developed, or take the new
one comprising the western portion Of
the State. The zeal and spirit
oflabot which marked his whole minis
terial lie appeared in his choice Of the
new diocese where the work to be done
would probably have disheartened a pre-.
late possessed Of less untiring energy and
ludomiable will Having been succeeded
at Richmond by Ri, Rev. Dr.. McG1LI,
BlshopWHRLANt took charge Of the diocese
Of Wheeling in 1850. His lie In this
new field Of labor is more or less familiar
to many Of our readers. It was charac.
terized by spirit the most enterprising
Is the result Of his episcopate Of 2S or "a
years In our midst amply prove. BE was
always ready to lend his influence and
contribute % far as possible 10 every
project tending to advance the interest
Of the city in which he dwelt or the State
Of which he was q distinguished citizen.
But II was in his position as
BHhop that the sinslenesS Of his pur-
pose; the whole energy OF his character
aud the fine administrative talents tha,
were his appeared most Strikinsly. He
trained up q clergy now numbering about
forty, where he found but one Or two
BE formed parishes to the number Of 60
or 10, where there were few indeed thai
merited the name Of parish. Education
was a iavorite subject with him, and 4
was his constant aim to provide for al
the best opportunities Of obtaining solid
but at the same time religious education
As llwho have heard him express him
self on ttds subject know, he was power.
fully impressed with tho idea that q
divorce between the culture Of tho head
and the heart must prove fatal to the bes,
interests Of the individual, Of the family
and Of society. We see that he required
othIs clergy, 90 far as practicable, to hay,
in every 'pafish good schools But h,