Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-19

this sorrowing world. And when think
OF such holy evangelists As Bishop ne
Der, Doctor Chalmers, Doct. fayson anu
Cardinal De Cheverus, l feel as though
the mere sect is sometimes only an naoii-
ment of the outward man, while true Cnrls-
tianity burns with shining light, when
ever and wherever it is klndlsd by HIM.
who spake as never man spake.
John l.. A. NJ. Lefebvre De Cheverus
WIS born at Mavenne, in France. January,
l76S. His family was highly. respected,
and his mother was rare and very plous
woman. His childhood was distinguished
for sweetness of disposition and assidulty
in his studies. He finished his education
at the College of Louis lie Grand in Paris.
He commenced his ministry at Mayenne
in 1890. In 1892 he was obliged tn fly in
disguise, with many expatriated priests to
England, to escape the horrors OF the
French Revolution were there re-
ceived and treated with great Kindness
and beneficence.
While in England NJ. de Cheverus ac-
quired the language, taught French ana
Mathematics, and established Chapel In
London. At the solicitation OF the Aboe
Matignon of Boston, he came to that city
JcIODcr d, IfJU, anu was SOttiNN ao SC"e
,utor with him. At that time there was
no Roman Catholic church erected IN the
place, He caused the Cathedral of the
Holy Cross to be built, and it was conse-
Grated by Bishop Carroll. of Baltimore,
September 20, 1908. Soon after his
arrival in this country, he founded st.
Patrick's Church in Newcastle, Maine,
and also Catholic Chapel at Oldtown, on
the Penebscot.
In April. the 9Th, 1908, Pope Plus VII.
created him Bishop of the Metropolitan
See of Boston. Sept. 10, 1918, he lost his
revered and much loved Matignon. In
1928, he was appointed by the Pope Arch
bishop of Mountauban, at the request OF
Louis XVIII, and afterwards OF Bor-
deaux, through Charles X. On his recall
to France, great sorrow and sympathy
were manifested in Boston. An address
full of feeling was subscribed and pre-
scented TO him by two hundred and twenty
two Protestant citizens, handsome sum
of money was raised and put to his disposal
by subscription of gentlemen without re-
gard to sect, and more than three hundred
carriages escorted him out of town when
he babe farewell.
The voyage was almost completed,
when, NOV. >, 1873, terrible storm arose,
and the ship was dashed to pieces in the
British Channel, not far from Havre. In
the alarm and terror around him, the calm
and heaven-minded Bishop Cheverus was
at his post of duty. He sympathized with
the passengers, heard confessions, granted
absolutions, and joined with them in
prayer. 1.-The Captain threw himself up
on the neck of the Bishop, exclaiming that
his prayers had saved their lives" Other
vessels were lost, and other passengers
and crews persisted in this storm. This
alone went to pieces and not soul per-
ished. "God has saved us in remarka-
BILE manner" he wrote to his family.
He was proclaimed Cardinal, Feb. /,
1886, and died July 10, the same year.
He had resided twenty-seven years in the
United States. He was over sixty-eight
years old when he died, and at his obse-
quies at Bordeaux, $4,000 persons, it is
said, formed his funeral procession. Can
/ do better than to quote his own eulo-
GUM, in single line from his own favor
tie Horace book ever on his table
"Multis lille bonis febilis occidit."
j. II. Sheppard