Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-01
THE NEW CARDINAL.
The Appointment of DR.. Patrick A.
Feehan, DID,, OF ChicaxO-A
Sketch of His Life.
New York Herald.

The extraordinary growing OF the Roman
Catholic Church in this country has again
been recognized by the holy see in the nomi-
nation to the consistory of the Right Rev.
Archbishop P. A. Feehan, DID,, of Chicago,
to the cardinalate. America, though still a
missionary country, occupies euch promi-
nent position in the eyes of the propaganda
and OF the supreme pontif that in the COM
ing distribution OF the red hat it was consid-
cred entitled to another than the one worn
by our Right Rev. John McCloskey. In Sc
lecting the ecclesiastic to receive the honor
thus bestowed upon the Catholic Church in
America, it conld not have been placed on a
more worthy individual than Archbishop
Feehan or better locality than Chicago,
the lake city and empress of the West.
The formal announcement of the appoint
ment will follow its Endorsement by the votes
OF the consstory at its next meeting, and
some months later the worthy cardinal will
probably visit Rome for his investiture. He
will make but little change in the archdio-
cese in consequence of his promotion, which
he takes quietly and easily; though it can
not be expected that he will exhibit the same
degree OF abnegation that marked Cardinal
Manning's entry into the highest order of
the priesthood in the Catholic Church.
Cardinal Feehan is of commanding pres
ence, his stature being fully six feet and
weight 200 pounds, we'll proportioned and
evidently in possession OF great muscular
strength. His face is strongly marked, bear
ing full traces of his nationality; complex
ion fair, eyes blue, and hair long and combed
back from the expressive and intelligent face.
In manner he is modest and unobtrusive, in
action quick and energetic. Positive in his
convictions he is still ready TO acknowledge
an error and promptly correct it. In moral
and intellectual strength he is man and
priest before his fellows and his God. His
kindly disposition, strict attention to the du-
ties of his Office and the knowledge of his re-
liability in all natters has endeared him 10
the people for whom he has ministered since
his ordination, and has rendered him in ev-
cry way worthy of the elevation which he is
about to attain. Born in Tipperary, Ireland,
he was educated in Maynooth College, from
which he graduated in 1852 and was at once
appointed superior of the Ecclesiastical
Seminary, at Carondelet, Mo. This position
he occupied some eight years, when he was
transferred to the pastorate OF the Church
of the Immaculate Conception, at st. Louis.
On November /, 1865, he was consecrated
bishop of Nashville, and assumed the duties
of his Office on the 18th of the month. He
was the third bishop in the diocese, and
finding it in debt devoted all his energy to
render it unencumbered. This he succeeded
in doing, at the same time making personal
friends in all directions, in his own church
and among Proteetants. He has never de-
nounced the public school system, while at
The same time he has provided an abundance
of parochial-school accommodation for his
people. His energy and work during the
yellow-fever panic won him a universal
and when, on November 10, 1880,
he was promoted to the archbishopric of
Chicago it was matter of deep regret TO the
entire State of Tennessee, which did not want
to lose him. In the archdiocese OF Chicago
he has made himself equally popular, and
the congratulations on his new dignitiss as
cardinal archbishop of Chicago are by no
means confined to his archdiocese or to the
of the Catholic Church.