The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-04-04
ARCHBISHOP WILLIAMS.
The Venerable Boston Prelate Cele-
brates the 25th Anniversary of
His Conservation.
CATHOLIClTY'S ONWARD MARCH

The Marvellous Progress that the Church
! Has Made in the Eastern
States.
ALI eyes in the archdiocese of Boston
and, in fact, IN all Of New England, /,
were eagerly turned toward that CITY
during the last week. Twenty-Five
years had passed since the metropolitan
Of New England had been elevated to
the purple, aud in celebration Of his
silver Jubilee, priests and people had
come to offer their congratulations and
best wishes, and to present fitting s0uve
enirs of so grand An event.
First of all, His Holiness the Pope,
mad sent special blessing to Arch
bishop Williams. Last Saturday the
students Of St. Johns Seminary, BriRh
ton, gave an entertainment in his honor.
1t consisted of theological disputa
tion, essays and music. 1t was follow
ed by the presentation to the archbishop
of the Students gift-a magnificent
! POntificale R0manum and Canon
Missal These came from Paris, and
are in the best style OF the book-makers'
art. The archbishop made appropriate
response; assuring the students of the
happiness it will be TO him tn use their
noble gift when comforting holy orders
on themselves.
Then the Sisters of Notre Dame
brought their gifts, and on Tuesday
rendered his grace a reception. On
Thursday the grand pontiical mass was
celebrated; a banquet was rendered to
the iubilarian at which Right Rev.
Louis De Goesbrand, bishop Of Bur-
| lington, VT, presented him with a
magnificent bust OF himself. the gift of
the bishops of the province. and Rev,
William 2. McQuaid, pastor of st.
James Church, the archbishop's old
charge. presented him with purse of
$25 600. the offerings Of the priests Of
the archdiocese. Thursday evening the
Catholic Union of Boston, gave q recep
ton in Boston College Hall, at which
the public were present to pay their re-
spects to the venerable prelate.
When the Holy See decided to make
DR.. Carroll, Baltlmore's first preIate,
an archbishop, and gave him as suffra-
gans the bishops OF Boston, New Y 0rk,
Philadelphia and Bardstown, the limits
OF the first. named see were so arranged
that they imbraced all New England.
Bishop Cheverus, as is We'll known, was
consscrated on the Feast Of ALI Saints
1910, by Archbishop Carroll, in St
Peters Church, Baltimore; the differ
ence of two years between che erectl on
of the Boston see and his conservation
being due to the tardo arrival In that
city of the apostolic letters announcing
his appointment. DR.. Matigon had
paid visit to Vermont as early as 1916,
when he held a mission at Burlington,
to which place Catholics came from the
surrounding villages; and among other
Boston clergyman to visit the Green
Mountain state in these earlier years,
were Revs. jeremiah O Callaghan, John
Brady, and. later on. Fathers Hamilton
afterwards the pastor OF CharlestoWn;
Lennon, subsequently, of NewDuryport.
and Shahan, now Of Arlington. The
large number of French Canadians in
the state made the appointment of a
French speaking prelate desirable, and
hence. in 1858, Rome made another di-
vision of the Boston diocese. detaching
the churches of Vermont from Bishop
Fitzpatrick's Jurisdiction and intrust~
ing them to the care Of Right Rev.
Louis De Goesbriand, who was conse.
Grated the first bishop Of Burlington in
the fall of that year.
Two wears later, and during the ad-
ministration Of DR.. Fitzpatrick, the
Holy See, being moved thereto by the
great increase in the Catholic popala-
tion of New England, again divided the
Boston diocese and erected a new see
at Portland. comprising the states of
Maine and New Hampshire, Right
Rev. David w. Bacon, a Brooklyn
priest, being cOnsecrated the first ordi-
nary of this episcopa5e. April %. 1855.
Bishop Fenwick, as We have already
seen, and before him Bishop Cheverus,
were frequent visitors to the early
churches and missions of the two states
that were given over tn Dr Rac0n'a |
episcopol SUPERVISION. Fathers French
who afterwards became pastor of Law
renee, Ryan, Romagae, Conway, Ma
guire, Caraher, Dougherty and others
also visited Maine and New Hamp-
shire in the Years when those common
wealths formed part of the Boston
diocese; and the bishop Of Boston went
into both states frequently up to the |
time when the formation Of the Port