The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-22

the memories of that which gave him
birth, and those of the chivalrous nation
which adopted him. We join them in
celebrating the beneficent result that
flowed from his labors. The Judgment
of mankind today upon his character
and services is the same as when the
friars of La Rabida loved and trusted
him, and Palos and the Catholic kings
forwarded his enterprise. Posterity
places him as a scientific benefactor in
the galaxy Of Copernicus and Calico.
'As long as the statue just unveiled
at La Rabida looks out over the Atlantic
from the heights of Palos, so long will
we join the Castilian in celebrating the
great event which placed Spain high
among the nations.
"A Castillo, a Leon
'Nuevo Mundo dis Colon"
The Haydn Quartette, Misses Knight
and Kicker and Messrs. Nickerson and
Merrill came next on the programme,
they being down twice on the programme,
delighting the audience with Franz Abt's
Home that Love- and Sullivan's "The
Lost Chord"
The Catholics, both laity and clergy,
have taken great interest in the reviv-
ing of the memory of Columbus; and
Bishop James Augustine Healy was very
cordially received when he was intro
duced. He said:
Bishop Healy's Address.
1t is no small attraction that draws a
churchman from his long-accustomed
place in the sanctuary to a place and
scene like the present. In spite of the
kind invitation of the gentlemen of our
city government | should feel out of
place were it not that | appear in charac-
ter. Aftera residence of over II years
in Portland l presume that am person
ally known by name and perhaps by face
to very many in our beautiful city. But
tonight am invited to appear not simp-
lv as your fellow citizen to rehearse the
story of Columbus, but as representa-
tive character. A descendenant OF Co
lumbus might precede me in this repre-
sentation but not even a native OF Spain
or of sunny Italy is more entitled to rep
resent Columbus and his associates than
the humble individual who has the honor
to stand before you. | am not, SO TO
speak, an old man, and yet [ represent
the faith, the religion, the prayers, the
sacred songs of Columbus; the lnten-
lions, the hopes, the sincere sympathy
and the efforts of his most efficient
friend. AS Catholic priest [ claim kim
ship in faith, liturgy, language, doctrine
with Juan Perez, the Franciscan Prior
of the monastry of La Rabida; with Dl-
ego Diaz, the Dominican with Cardinal
Mendoza and,with the Alexander vi, the
Pope then reigning. This morning per-
formed the same act of religion as did
the chaplain of Columbus on the little
island of San Salvador (Holy SAVIOR ex-
actly 400 years ago. And were the early
Spanish or Portuguese or English adven-
turers to rise from their different graves,
they would feel themselves at home in
our churches, and their chaplains would
use our liturgical books and address in
the Latin, the common language of the
priesthood.
If you start from Grenada, the last
refuge Of the Moors in Spain, before
whose walls Columbus received his com
mission. and go back over the eight hun
dred years of heroic struggle on the part
of Spain, you would find my character
and office already old, in the land, when
the Moors first crossed from Africa, and