Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-14
THE CATHOLIC CENTENNIAL.
Noted Delegates on the Way From
Europe.

Noted Delegates on the Way From
Europe.
Much speculation has been INDUCED in by
prelates, priests and laity of the United
States as to who the distinguished prelate may
be whose name was announced in a recent
cable dispatch as having been named by Pope
Leo XIII as his personal representative at the
approaching Roman Catholic centennial cere-
monies at Baltimore.
The Most Rev. Francis Satolli is titular arch
bishop of Leponto, one Of the most historic
sees in the Roman Catholic church, since in its
harbor was won decisive victory on October
T. 1872, by Don John Of Austria from the
Moslems. Monsignor Satolli was born in the
archdiocese of Perugia, Italy. in 1882 and is a
personal friend of Pope Leo XIII. who knew him
when his holiness was yet archbishop of
Perugia. Monsignor Satolli was once a dis
ungulshed professor in the propaganda at
Rome. He was appointed archbishop June /,
1883. He will sail for America October 20 and
will be accompanied by his secretary. Abate
Iacchi: an alumnus Of the Academy Of Noble
Ecclesiastical.
The other member of the delegation is the
Very Rev. DIR. ID. j. O'Connell, rector of the
American college at Rome, who precedes Arch
bishop Satolh to America, and is now in New
York, the guest of Archbishop Corrigan. He
will not only represent the pope at the cere-
monies attending the centennial. but will also
attend the opening Of the Catholic university
here November Is. He did missionary duty for
some years in North Carolina and the Bahamas,
and was one of the principal officers of the
third plenary council of Baltimore, and was
appointed. in company with Bishops Keane and
Moore Of Florida, to bear the DEGREES of the
council to Rome, where he was subsequently
made rector OF the American college, in itself a
most important position, since its occupant is
almost certain to be promoted to a bishopric.
MGR. o'CoNNELL on THE cHURcH's GROWTH.
The New York World prints the following in
terview with Mgr. O'Connell. who is a young
man, still in the thirties, slight in build tall
and graceful, with mild blue eyes, dark hair,
and an oval face clean-shaven and OF great
mobility:
There is really no news connected with my
visit, he said. Il come to the city to visit my
home and afterward to attend the ceremonies
connected with the centennial celebration Of
tie American Catholic hierarchy to be held in
Baltimore November TO- There seems to be
Misunderstanding as to the character of the
coming celebration. 1t is not an assembly for
the discussion Of church doctrine. Assemblies
OF that sort are never held. The doctrinal
laws OF the Catholic church are fixed. What
will take place is the celebration with pomp
and ceremony of the first establishment
10, 1889. Pope Pious vi created the hierarchy
of the Catholic church in the United States
appointing Father John Carroll of Balti-
more bishop. He received his orders in
the chapel of Lulworth Castle, England. He
came to this country in 1890. and for TWENTY
five years remained the bishop of the see of
Baltimore. He was personal friend of Benja-
min Franklin. At the time of the conservation
OF Bishop Carroll the population of the CONT
nent Of America was less than 100000 souls
and the Catholic population but &C, 900. There
were only thirty priests in the country and not
q single asylum or hospital, and the only
Catholic college was at Georgetown. Now the
Catholic population OF America is s, 900, OOO or
one-sixth of the entire population; there are
ID archbishops, II bishops, 80 sees. 5000
priests, 1880 churches, ~ ecclesiastical col
leges, $50 colleges and academies, 8, 100 parish
schools and $40 hospitals.
'Seventy-three bishops and archbishops
have accepted invitations to be present at the
ceiebration-every state and territory in the
Union will be representative cardinal of
Quebec and other Canadian prelates are ex-
pected, and Mexico will send two representa-
tiyes. The exercises will begin with a pontifi-
cal bigh mass, at which Archbishop Williams
of Boston will officiate, Archbishop RYAN of
Philadelphia filling the pulpit. A body of lay
men from all the churches of America will be
present to attend the congress to be held Nov
ember IL and II, at which various subjects of
church interests will be considered and dis
cussed. The following day will be devoted 10
the dedication of the Catholic university in
Washington. The congress will discuss church
charities, educational matters, temperance,
missionary work and like subjects"
THE CANADIAN CARDINAL.
OF the distinguished visitors from other
countries the most prominent will be His Most
Reverend Eminence Eleazer Alexander Tashe-
reau, cardinal archbishop of Quebec. His
presence will insure for the first time to the
Catholics OF this country the spectacle of two
cardinals together. The first Canadian cardi-
nal is described as a most affable and dignifed
prelate and is, Of course, metropolitan Of Can
ada. He will be accompanied to Baltimore by
a suite of several Canadian archbishops aud
bishops.
Two Mexican bishops will also be present
Among the other invited guests is the veuer-
able Cardinal Manning, archbishop of West
minister, but it is hardly probable that with his
advanced age and steadfast fidelity to official
duty he could be induced to visit this country