The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-08-08

hour, though unable 10 speak. All the
local priests spent the day and night
with him. and during the past week he
has been visited by many priests of the
diocese. No arrangements FOR the tu
neral are vet made.
Although the Bishop has been lying
at deaths door so long that his demise
Is not surprise or Il shock to the
public, yet there have been
large number of callers at the house
of prominent churChmen to learn about
arrangements for the funeral. Tele-
grams of inquiry come from all d!rec-
tions. Only so much is known now as that
the funeral will be in the Bishops cathe-
dral and the Interment in -. Joseph's
Cemetery. The body is being en-
balmed, and will lie in state at the ca
thedral for several days. Two sisters of
the deceased only near rcla-
tives living-have been his at
tendants through his long illness
and were beside him in his last hours rs
we'll as several local priests. Vicar
General Schwebach left for his
home few blocks away ut
. O'Clock but was sent for half an hour
later and sat beside the dying man until
the last breath. All pain seemed to
have left him for II number of hours
and, though unable To artirulaie Il word,
showed by the motion of his head that
he knew those about him. The end
was calm and painless.
Bishop Flasch was so years Of age
on the 10th OF July. He was an able,
learned prelate, and might have become
archbishop of Milwaukee had not the
maiady which caused his death made ~
appearance be fore the time that noiiII-
nations for Il successor 10 the late Arch
bishop IielsS were made and sent 10 the
Holy See. 1t was quite generally eX-
pectcd that he would become the third
archbishop of Milwaukee,. But his poor
health rendered any such step inadNis-
able, and Bishop kaizer, OF Green Bay,
much younger and stronger, and equal
iy learned, was finally selected by komo
for the arChiepec"pacy.
The Rt. Rev. lillian llasch, second
bishop of La Crosse, was native RctZ-
stadt, in Wuerzhurg, Bavaria. He was
reared on his father farm and attended
the neighhoring schools. In 1917 his
parents came to Milwaukee. Soon
afterward he entered the College Of
NOtre Dame, Indiana. ana decided To
study for the priesthood. He became IA
student in the SalcSianum or Seminary
of st. Francis, at its opening IN lN16.
He took solid course of divinity
studies and was ordained priest un
December Ii, lSh9.
He WAS one of four children who de
voted their lives to the church, Ills
pious parents both lived Ia see their
SOM priest and three daughters enter
the NisterIood of Notrc Dame. Wicn
his mother was nearly four score ycais
and ten sAe received his episcopal
blessing.
After being ordained 10 the priest
hood Father IlaSch was stationed nj
LaketOWn for about ten months. ln
October, 1850, he was recalled to the
Saieslanum, where, as master ot dIscl-
pine and professor, he remained until
MAY, 1867, when ill health compelled
him to make Il change. He sought rest
in mission work. taking charge OF the
small parish and orphan asylum at Elm
Grove. In November, 1874, lie became
spiritual director at the Seminary and
professor of moral theology, and IN
1879, on the retirement of Rev. Mr.
Wapclhorst, Father Flasch became rec
tor of that institution.
When Bishop lleiss, of la Crosse,
was chosen coadjutor of Milwaukee,
under Archbishop IIenni, Father
FIasch, who had achieved a wide repu-
tatlon for learning and experience, was
selected for the La Crosse hishoprC.
He was conse rated by Bishop iiciss on
August y, 1851, 80 that lie had hardly
served as bishop ten years when he
died.
Bishop Flasch laborcd hard to pro-
mote the interests OF thc church in the
Diocese of Ia Crosse, and his work was
crowned with success. The current
edition Of IIoti;.ann's Catholic bircc-
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