The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-03-28
John. Cardinal McCloskey Archbishop Of New
York
New York Freeman 9 Journal

French, or British COlOnlsts.
Mgr. Jean Louis Lefebvre Cheverus, q
after rws ards Count, Archbishop of Bordeaux, 7
and Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Z
wss, indeed, the Fl rat Bishop of Boston, but | !
he resigned that See, after many years OF
jealous labor, and returned to MS natiVe
France, from which the Revolution HAD
driven him into exile. 1t was as Prelate 1
of France that he was advanced to the I
Purple. {
Cardinal McCloskey completes his sixty
fifth year Oh Saturday of this week, March
Goth. Wednesday of last week, March
10Th, was the thirty first anniversary Of his
Episcopal Conservation. The Mass he SAID
that morning was the first after receiving
the certain information that he WAS to be
preconised Cardinal on Monday last-the
| 18Th.
| What a crowd -of memories, all linked
with the novena, and with the octave OF
the Feast of st. Joseph, must have occupied
him. .
When he was born, March 20, 1910. his
native place, Brooklyn, was an incoI slider
able village, lying across the Iver from
New York, which itself counted less than
one hundred Thousand inhabitants. There
was, then, no church, OF chapel, in Brook
lyn, nor on all L ,ng Island, n0r any priest.
Now, under its jealous first Bishop, ana the
Cardinals old friend, DR.. L,ughlin, Brook
lyn has thirty eig ght. churches, on the rest
of Long Island nearly as many more,
with more than one hundred priests in care
a of souls-and ia, in size, the third city in
- the United States. Then, New York had
lately been erected into Diocese, but had
: not seen its first Bishop. Now, within the
territory of what was then in the urisdic-
A iton of ;he See of New York, the Metropoll-
tan See of the Cardinal Archbishop has six
. other extensive and f1ourishlng Sufrasan
a Sees in its Province. Then, st. Peters IN
Barclay street, the only Catholic
# church in the City of New York. The Ca
, thedral in Mulberry street had its corner
n stone laid, out was not completed Tor
ar several years afterwards When the Cardi-
i. nal Arch bishop came to the age for con
firmation, Bishop Connolly had, in New
IN York City. only three priests, one at st
a Patrick's Cathedral and two at old st.
n. Peters. Aud the Cardinal Archbishop re-
70 members, in his boy hood, of crossing over
h from Brooklyn in a row boat to attend
nj Mass at St. Peters: 10 1922, when he was
- twelve years old, Bishop Connolly had just
% eight priests under his wide jurisdictInn
tn Que was with him at St. Patrick's. Two
b. at st. Peters, Barclay street. One, domi
A. cled at Paterson, had all New Jersey, Al
.re far south as Princeton, to look after. One
.,o on Staten Island, had, also, to look aftel
no Catholics scattered through the Valley o
no no the Hudson River. One for " Albany anc
Of vicinity" One for Utica and vicinity
A. One for Auburn, Rochester, and thence e
ID Lake Erie. All told, scarcely more prizes
nil than there are now Bishops!
, a John McCloskey, growing up in the fea
,At of God, was early encouraged by the piou
.r Bishop Dubois to devote himselfto til
Ecciesiatical State. After pursuing pre-
ma paratory studies at Mount st. Mary's, En-
nd mettsburgh, he was ordained Priest I"
nj January 12, 1894 by Bishop Dnbois.
"a. the same year, desiring to pursue severe
". studies, he went abroad and passed tw
10 years at Rome. He had letters special.
commencing him to Mgr. Resach, then q
lar the, Propaganda, afterwards Cardinal, an
rch also to that grand scholar, Cardinal Ma
At the several advice OF each of these. VIII
remained his friends SO long as they lived
a., Father McCloskey, taking up his abode a
Ipe San Audrea della Vale fol"wed specia
ana courses of study at the Roman Collest
~. ui There. too, he met again, and had tn
ou' w friendship ard good counsel of the illustr
Q AL triOus Jesuit Father Anthony kohlma
" AZ" II then Lecturer at the Roman College, at
s""a % who, while pursuing Apostolic labors in tt
"es early days of CathOicity in New York
5. 10. s.. Peter's, had baptized some of the fami
, ,'elS , to which the Cardinal Archbishop belongs
'e and had known him youth. Aft
mere leaving Rome Father McCloskey spent
'"e wear travelling in Europe. Ou his return
~ " - New York, he was appointed to ST.. Jesept
er ~. i" Church. In ls4l, he was made first Pres
@ '"e dent of St. Johns College. Fordham y
10" vember 81, 1913, Pope Gregory XVI,
,n happy memory. named him Bishop
'"' av AxeTe, in partiGaS intdelium, aud coatj
10 al tor cum jure SuccessiOnis. to Bishop Hught
of New York. March 10, 1914, he was co
! in secrated IN SG. Patrick 4 Cathedral 6lsD
Hughes Thy consent of the Metropoita
Archbishop EccIesteh), being the consecr
To tor, assisted by Bishop Fenwick of Bosto
,rir, and Bishop Whelan, then of Richmon
Enrn, afterwards of Wheeling. These Prelat
,'ao. officiating have all gone ad Patres
mo By Buila of our Holy Father, Plus y
~ tSa May 2l, l647, Bishop McCIoskey was tran
,nr ferred and made first Bishop of Affair
Arm There he began and completed the spend
nd an Cathedral OF Albany, aud the fitting Ep
ridsd copal residence. He introduced into
roo M nascent Diocese surdry Religious Co
a. ia munities, of men and of women. AT
i,,ing seventeen years of Episcopate in Albar
Tbe lie left 1t, beloved by his clergy, a
f Ire. "havng good report among those wit
" out the Catholic fold. He left Alba
nonr Diocese, at the mandate of the Holy See,
rs r. 1864, to become Archbishop of New Yo
Now. on March Is, 1875, Our Holy Faith
,drsr Pope Plus TX. has elevated Archbish
McCloskey to the Roman Purple. 1t is tr
undoubtedly, that the honor and the d