The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-04

sage has Just been received from rev. Dr'
Callaghan:
BLANcHEsTER, July 3, 4;10 P. NJ.
To agent of the Associated Press: Arch
bishop Purcell is dying. ]. f. CALLAdHAN.
Sketch of the Life of Archbishop Purcell.
His Grace, Rev. John Baptist Purcell, was
born at Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, Feb
ruary %, 1900 He was the son of Edmund
and Johanna Purcell, who were very highly
respectable and pious people, and who gave
their children a sound education as far as
possible. In the early days of John (the
Archbishop he was allowed to serve at the
altar and distribute the Sunday contributions
among the needy. He endeavored to obtain
means from his well-to-do relatives to COM
plete his studies at Maynooth, but being I'M
able to do so, emgrated to this country at
the age of eighteen. Receiving a certificate
of qualification from Asbury College, Balti-
more, he started as a private tutor in east
Maryland and served two years. Then he
went as student and teacher to Mount st.
Mary's College, near Emmittsburg, Md, and
in 1928 received the four minor orders
from Archbishop Marechal. With the
DlSuOp vi NluCtuu6S, EteN. dLH6T DTuOe, lie
went to Paris to complete his studies
in the Seminary of st. Sulpics. In
1926 he was ordained priest by Archbishop
de Quelen, in Notre Dame, Paris. He then
returned to America, and became professor
of philosophy in Mount st. Marys College;
at the same time he assisted Father Brute in
teaching theology
Il - h.
eessor OF Right Rev. Bishop Edward Fenwick
who died the previous year while the cholera
was raging in Cincinnati. His conservation
was effected by Archbishop Whitefeld, of
Baltimore. Bishop Purcell took part in the
Second Provincial Council of Baltimore, and
thence set out for Cincinnati, where he
found only one church in existence. Nothing
was hourishing in the diocese, but he went
from house to house, and soon had another
church erected. In 1850 Bishop Purcell was
appointed archbishop, and the next year,
while in Rome, received the pallium from
Pope Plus TX Since that time over thirty
five Catholic churches have been erected in
the diocese.
URder his administration the following in
situations we're established Theological Sem :
mary at Mount ST. Marys, St. Xavier Col
lege, Passionist Monastery. Mt Adams; Cath
Ollie Gymnasium of st. Francis d Assist ST.
Joseph's College, st Mary's Institute six
young ladies' literary institutes, six converts
among them the Good Samaritan and the
Betts-street Hospital; the ST. Aloysius Or
phsn Asylum, The Boys Protectory, and St.
Peters and St. Joseph's Asylums. He also
established over thirty parochial schools
with an attendance OF over 10000.
Among the incidents of the Arehbshop's
life were these: The celebrated debate be-
tween Alexander Campbell, the founder of
ciplesl and the Archbishop. This debate
caused the conversions of Judge
Burnet and many others to the Cath
Ollie faith. In 1861, when in Rome, Count
Hippolyte Bocarme had been sentenced to
death for the murder of his father
No one was admitted by the
man to see him except the venerable Arch
bishop. The execution took place in Pour
nay, Belgium. On seeing the Archbishop
the murderer's first question was: Have
you been sent by the King or by the Pope?"
"By neither" was the reply. II come by
the providence of God" "You are the man
want" the prisoner said kissing the Arch
bishops hand with emotion. During the
war of the rebellion Archbishop Purcell had
the flag of the Union raised over St. Peters
Cathedral and the churches elsewhere in his
diocese, and throughout the war he cast his
immense lnHu6hC6 among MS DeODie steadily
for the Federal cause. In 1862 the Pope
called his Grace to Rome for the fourth time,
to be present at the canoniZation of the Jap
anese martyrs. In 1867 the Archbishop again
went to Rome, and in 1869 in the same city,
took a most decided stand against the Pope's
infallibility when that question came up be-
fore the great general council of the Vatican
His fiftieth anniversary of his priesthood
was celebrated on the 21st of May 1876
In 1877 the Archbishop issued an order for
the establishment of colored Catholic schools,
and the result of that measure was a most
guccessful one, as not only Catholic but
Protestant colored children visited the
schools.
On the 18th of February. 1873, Mr.. J. NJ.
Adelbrich BenZiger, of the firm of Benzieer
Brothers, died. The deceased was intimately
connected with the diocesan duties of the
Archbishop, and was the originator of the
Wahrheitsfreund," the German organ of
the Catholic church. This paper of the date
Of Jan. %, 1879, says
1.-The Archbishop came here about forty
years ago, when Cincinnati had only popu-
lation of So, 900, when only one Catholic
church was in existence. The number of
churches increased to thirty-five, but the
debts kept on growing, and the Archbishop
assumed the debts that the congregation
could not pay. Then came the financial
crash, the particulars of which are too we'll
known to everybody, especially those who
had money with his brother on deposit"
On the 10th of February a synod of the
Catholic clergy was held at the cathedral,
when the Archbishop made an address, stat
ing that he could not pay the diocesan debt,
and asked the representatives of the churches
to help him out. He said he had never re-
ceived for his own use a cent of the money
deposited Nothing was done at this meet
ing On the 10Th of March the clergymen OF
the various churches met and adopted reso-
luton that collections be made among the
congregations. 1t was done, and proved
failure. Then came the rush on the assignee
of the Archbishop. Daily hundreds and
hundreds crowded the Office of Mr. Mannix
and wanted their share of the money de-
posted which in toto amounted to $3672,-
37t57. On the Goth of March the Archbishop
issued circular to the Catholics in the world