The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-02-28
AN ACTIVE LIFE.
4 Brief Outline of the Late Prelate,s
Career.

= Brief Outline of the Late Prelate's
Career.
In the History of Sacramento Coun-
ty," compiled in 1890, appears the fol-
lowing biographical sketch of Bishop
Manogue:
The great spiritual see over which this
gentleman presIdes embraces the twenty
I'VE northern and central counties of Cali
tOrnia ana the whole Of the western and
most pOpulCus portion of the State OF
Nevada. 1t was practically created for
him in 1856. For the laboriUus duties en-
tailed upon the Bishop Of field so ex-
2 tensiye and including the mining regions
OF the Sierra Nevada, probably no one
could be better fitted than the afIable
Bishop ManOgue, because of his life and
training, and his siugularly clear judg-
ment OF human nature.
Patrick Manogue was born in the
County Of Kilkenny, ireland, in 1881. At
the city of Callan, IN that county, he pur-
sued his early studies, and there resided
until be left for America in 1919. After q
few years spent in the Eastern States he
continued his studies at the University Of
ST. Mary's of the LAX e at Chicago. Dur
ing the cholera epidemic in 1871 in that
city he wore out his health in the arduous
labors Of lbe time, and for the purpose of
fTeCupeTatlng he IINed Tor fourteen months
the hard lite of miner in Nevada Coun-
'ty, in this state, learning by actual ex-
perience the prlVatlOnS and hardy pleas
ures OF this rough but sturdy phase Of
human life.
I'm the address delivered by him at
the laying of the cornerstone OF the
beautiful Cathedral in this city, he said
he held a drill when at every stroke Of the
hammer the ire few from the flintlike
quartz. W henever hard work was TO be
done he referred 10 his associates in the
mines to prove that he was ready to take
a hand in its performance. Those We're
the days when the thrift the Drawn OF
the State was in the mountains.
HE lived for three years in the mines,
and then went TO Paris, whore, at the
Seminary Of st. SnlpiCe, be completed
his studies in a course extending over
four years, and in 1861 was ordained a
priest by Cardinal MorIot, his special
mission being to work on the Pacific
Coast.
while on his way to California he
stopped in Virginia City, New, where he
was appointed to the pastorate of the
Catholic Church there. For twenty years
thereafter he labored in that field for the
good Of souls, and during the last fifteen
years of that period he was Vicar Cen
eral of the diocese of Nevada.
He erected the first Gothic building
in Virginia City, costing $50, 900. During
his priesthood there lie built three
churches, a convent and hospital at
total cost of about $500, coo, all of which
sum was collected by himself and every
debt he had contracted was discharged.
His residence in Virginia City is remern-
bered with veneration. love and affec.
ton by everyone In that section, ire
spectivs OF sect or church, Tor the ready
haEi of Father Manogue had helped
multitudes OF people through seasons of
distress and suffering
I'm 1850 he was appointed Coadjutor to
Bishop O'Conneu Of the Grass Valley
Diocese, and four years later he succeeded
that prelate who, by reason Of advancing
years, was permitted To retire.
'In 1856, owing to Bishop Manogue's
representations regarding the growing
importance OF Sacramento as the official
head of the State and the distributing
point for trade, Pope Leo MIL decreed
that thenceforth what had been known
as the Catholic Diocese of Grass Valley
should be known as the Diocese of Cali
fornia, with the seat OF the Episcopate at
Sacramento City.
Sat once he set about utilizing his rare