Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-02-02
HIS EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY.

Bishop Marty Quietly observes AZ
Epoch in His Career-a0me Facts re.
latiye to HIS service as a Catholic
header.
Rt. Rev. Martin Marty, bishop of the
Catholic church in south Dakota, yes
terdsy observed very quietly the eighth
anniversary of his conservation to the
bishopric. The occasion was modestly
observed, the bishop receiving several
copgratulatory visits, and also congratu-
~lations by telegraph and letter. A num-
Der of priests met with Bishop Marty
and Vicar General Otto Zsrdetti at the
bishops residence and the visitors dis
cIssed the occasion with their distIn-
guished host at some length. The cele-
bration was characterized by that I'M
ostentation which is q marked feature of
all OF Bishop Martyrs career, and was
wholly enjoyable.
ln this connection ii may be interest
ing to the public TO know something of
Bishop Martyrs ecclesiastical history
and for enlightment q reporter called
npon that gentleman this morning. The
reporter found Bishop Marty in his resi-.
dence study consulting a volume of some
sort which was considerably laid aside
by the reader when the reporter entered.
A few moments was devoted to remarks
upon current topics and her the sub
lect of the bishops conservation and
church work was introduced.
Bishop Marty was born in 1884 in
Switzerland. He began his ecclesias-
tical career in that country ut the
age OF q, and when % was ordained
priest. Pope Plus the OH appointed him
abbot of the diocese Of st. Mearind, In
Spencer county, in Indiana, U. 8. A., in
1870, and in 1879 he was preeonized
bishop of Tiberiss and vicar apostolic of
Dakota, February LIST, 1880, he was con-
secrated bishop of Dakota. AT that
time the Catholic church IN Dakota was
under the control of three different
bishops, the bishop of st. CLOUD Min
%nesota, having charge of the northeast
ern portion, the bishop OF st. Paul,
Minnesota, looking after the southeast
ern portion, and the bishop OF Omaha,
having charge of all that country lying
west of the Missouri. Bishop Marty
came to Dakota In 1880 and since that
time has had his hands we'll filed. He
has established more than $50 churches.
has founded and put in operation six
schools for the education of Indian
children and has organized and started
numberless educational and charitable
institutions. His term of office has
brought about q great change in the
condition OF the Catholic church in Da-
kota, and to-day the Catholic church is
enc 6 tbs III The TERRITORY. Ge
has secured for Dakota a ministry of in
telligent and active priests, and many
substantial and growing parsonages are
testimonials of his earnest labors. He
is much respected for his ability and
goodness and his priests and pensioners
alike ore never lacking of their praise OF
HIM.
Bishop Marty is o in his fifty fourth
year and after more than thirty years of
close study and christian work is as we'll
preserved as many younger men. A few
gray hairs are visible in his looks, but
his general appearance betokens excel
lent health, and the pleasant smiles with
which he grests a visitor are outward
Indications that he is at peace with the
world. He is such a man as Dakota
needs and it is hardly necessary to say
that he is appreciated.