Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-06
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Monsignor Capel, the distinguished
enclesiastic, Is expected to arrive IN SAT-
Lake City tonight, and the date and
title of his lecture may early be looked
for. Perhaps the most complete sketch
of his career and his personal appearance
is that given by the New York Tribune
which says: Monsignor Capel is an
Englishman, and was born in 1888. tie
is of Irish extraction. Without social
distinction of wealth or family he entered
the Roman Catholic priesthood at the age
of "a, receiving ordination from Cardinal
Wiseman. The opening OF MS PROBES
sional career was modest ana unproihlS-
| ing. It was in a training school or
college organized for the education o.
teachers. And vet not unlikely much OF
his subsequent success may be owing 70
the special drudgery and rudlmental
severity of this early work. After re"
years he was driven by failing health 10
seek rest in the south of France, and III
the place of his sojourn, among the
| leisurely visitors from his own country,
! he opened his first mission as knight
Grant of Catholicity, directing his efforts
to the idle, Indifferent world OF fashion
in which he found himself; and with
such vigorous and unexpected results
that he was soon summoned to Rome,
where, under the auspices OF the Propa-
ganda, he established a mission with
conferences among Englsh-speaking resi-
dents and visitors. who always constitute
an important element in Roman society,
made up as it largely is of artists,
scholars and families of wealth, elegant
leisure or of hereditary distinction.
Honors fell thick and fast upon him,
for he seemed the mantle bearer of the
great Wiseman himself, and in 1867 he
was made Monsignor and private cham
berlain to the Pope, and in 1872 he re-
ceived the appointment of domestic pre-
late, an honor accompanied with the
titular and ecclesiastical rank of the
episcopate. Thus in thirteen years the
young priest found himself crowned with
dignities which the Vatican usually con-
fers with provoking deliberation. Here
he developed and matured his proven
bal fondness for work among titled and
influential circles and at the same time
was acquired that high-bred lordly pres
ence which was by no means to the
manor born, together with that unerring,
irresistible tact and intuition which consti-
tute the consummate influence and fasc-
nation among the cultivated and privil-
eyed classes the world over.
1t was this signal mastery of social OPP
portunities that drew the admiration of
Disraeli and led him to draw his portrait
with such brilliancy and painstaking as
al - ~,
world of English letters, Monsignor Capel
is better and more widely known as Mon
signOr Cdpel.
In his forty-eighth year he is yet in his
prime and physically and Intellectually
at his best. Standing in a group of eccle-
siastics he is at once Il central and COM
manding figure-a little taller than the
average, with an erect, graceful figure,
bearing and presence full of courtliness
and unstudied eloquence, well-modeled
head, solid and symmetrical, with broad
forehead and boldly-arched brows, eyes
of steel gray, that kindle and glow IN the
heat of delivery, face marked with
sensibility and refinement, with mobile
features, eager, flexible lips meant for the
finer purposes of oratory, healthy
English complexion, indicating fine phys
ical endurance and constitution, his I'M
thinned hair freaked with gray-worn
rather short-these are the personal traits
that Immediately arrest and command
attention. 1t is not often that we look
upon such graceful, fnely-mannered
presence either in the pulpit or On the
stage. He is not unlike George Van
derhoff twenty years ago in personal
appearance, and indeed in his voice and
elocution. He uses no notes-reads
possibly verse or two as text from
small Bible, indicating his line of thought,
and with absolute composure begins his
work All personality seems laid aside,
all timidities, self consciousness-indee
all concern as to what the people may
think or say of the speaker. It's a curl
Gus example of spontaneous self abnega-
ton a self surrender to the supreme
urgency of official duty. Not that the |
speaker estranges himself from the con-
gregation, or is wanting in sympathy, or |
is buried in his own intellectually and |
bewitched with his own grace of speech |
and felicities of thinking He seems over
much lost in the people, as if in trance
of determined effort, during which ne
hides himself in their thought and spirit
ual purposes.