The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-17
ARCHBISHOP v. l. GROSS
The Distinguished Prelate From
Portland on a Visit to the
Queen City.
Ho Win Preach at the Helene
Cathedral at the Morn
Ing Mass.
Tho MAN who began His Career / \ tho
Church by Mfnistering to tho
Wounded.

Archbishop William III. Gross. OF Port
land. Ore, arrived in Helena yesterday
afternoon on the west bound Northern Pa
oifio express for a visit of q few days. He
was accompanied by his brother. Very Rev.
Mark 8. Gross, vicar general Of the diocese
OF North Carolina. and Rev. Il. ID. O'Dea.
The distinguished party were met at the
depot by Bishop Brondel and Rev. Law
renoe Palladino. and escorted to the epis-
oopal residence on Catholic hill. The arch
bishop will preach in the cathedral ut late
Inass to-day. and will also make an address
ct vespers. After vespers a reception will
be rendered him in st. Aloysins hall by
the Catholic knights and the Literary as
socintion. There will be m address OF vel
comv and q response BY the archbishop.
The ecclesiastical province over which
Archbishop Gross prosides embraces Mon
tana, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and
Vancouver island. He has been east at
tending a family reunion at his old home
in Baltimore. He afterwards attended the
jubilee Of Archbishop Kendrick at st.
Louis, md stopped in st. Paul a few days
On his way west.
Archbishop Gross is a fine scholarly look
ing man Of about IS years. He was born in
Baltimore on june IL, 1887. His father had
emigrated from Alsace, then. as now, a.
German province, before the revolution,
and settled in Maryland. On his mothers
side Archbishop Gross is of Irish;desoent.
After acquiring a preparatory education in
Baltimore, young Gross went to st. Charles
college, whore be spent some years. While
there he joined the redsmptorists and was
sent to the Redemptorist novitiate, at An
~napolis, to continue his studies. He was
ordained by Archbishop Kendsick, at st.
Mary's church, Annapolis, on March q,
1865. His first duties wers as q chaplain in
the federal army. and he rendered efficient
service among the wounded i'll the hospital
near Annapolis. The then Father Gross at
the same time devoted Shis attentions to the
pAroled confederate soldiers and the newly
emancipated slaves in the ne%ighborhood.
Afterwards he was sent on several import
aut missions, all of which he filled credita-
bly,. For five years he was rector of st.
Alphonsus church, New York CITY, and the
Church of Our Lady Of Perpetual Help,
Boston. In 1878 he succeeded
Bishop Persico, at Savannah, Georgia.
While bishop Of Savannah, he built the
fine cathedral of Oar Lady. Of Perpetual
Help. The colored people of Georgia were
special objects of his zeal, and he opened
schools for them in many places. index
his care the equipment Of the diocece in
1884 had been increased to thirty churches.
chapels and stations. He also built up
three male and eight female religious insti-
%tutions, and three asylums. In 1885 he was
raised to the archbishopric and sent to sue
coed Archbishop Seghers at Portland
Archbishop seghers was allowed to give up
the province over which he had presided in
order to return to Alaska, whore ne was
subsequently killed. "