Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-17
SECoNU SEPUFrURE.
The Remains of Archbishop Hughes
to be Transferred to the New
Cathedral.

New York Herald.
A solemn ceremony in which New
York will be more or less interested,
is to take place on the ooh and 30th
of this month. Ga the evening OF
Monday, January ooh, tho remains
Of the late Archbishop Hughes will
DO removed from their resting place
10 tho vaults Ct tho old S., Patrick's
cathedral, corner of Piece and Mott
streets, to the new cathedral on Fifth
aveuue. The disinterment and removal
will be effected quietly. Only a few
of the Immediate relatives of the late
archbishop and some of the clergy are
to be in attendance. The remains
will bo borne to the new cathedral
and placed on q catafalque lit up by
burning tapers, the pillars of the Ca
thedrals and tho affairs drapod In
black. Gu the morning of the 30oh
inst. there will be q solemn mass Of
requiem In presence of the cardinal,
Archbishop Corrignn being the cole.
brant. Invitations for the MACS are
to be sent to the clergy Of the city
and the disease, to the bishops of the
province, and to all ecclesiastics no
may be able to attond. 1t is proba.
Bile that there will be a very large
gathering # the clergy to do honor to
the memory of the energetic prelate
whom 80 many of them knew person
ally.
The clergy will chant the solemn
Office Of the dead, and Mgr. Preston,
the vicar general and chancellor, will
delivers panegyric. Father Preston,
as secretary aud chancellor tf the late
archbishop, was intimately associated
with him for many years.
At the close of the ceremony the
CARDINAL will deliver the benediction.
After this the remains will be Inferred
in the vaults under the high alter at
the new Cathedral, which have been
prepared for the archbishops of New
York. There are twenty. four of these
vaults, the first to be very pre- perly
filed by the remains of the venerable
prelste who laid the cornerstone of
the great Cathedral, and who himself
was the r stone of the entire
structure, since to his energetic in
spiration i. owed its origin and much
of Its growth.
THE DEAD PRELATES OF THE DIOCESE.
The vaults of the new cathedral
ere Theoretically aealcd with marble
slabs On tho slabs will bs epgraven
the names of the deceased prelates,
according as each In turn is borne to
mis- last resting place. In the ST., Pat.
rick's cathedral are the remaius of sll
the dead prelates of the see Of New
York, save tho first appointed, the
Right Rev. II Luke Concanen, O. p,
who died en route to this country.
His successor, the Right Rev. DIR.
Connolly, is buried in the ground IN
front of rho main entrance Of the old
cathedral. He died in 1926 Bishop
Dubois, who succeeded and died In
1912, vas buried, at his own re.
quest, Immediately under tho
main entrance, that the people might
walk over his grave a. they entered
the church. Archbishop Hughes, tho
first archbishop of the see, died In
1864, and is buried below the middle
aisle. 1t has not been determined
whether or not the remains of the
former prelates of the see will be dis
inferred aud transferred to the vaults
of the new cathedral. In the parlors
of the cardinals new residence on
Madison avenue are portraits in oil of
all Of them, There is one of Arch
bishop Hughes, by Healy. The por.
trait is not from life. There is also q
painting by the same artist OF the
present CARDINAL.