The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21
SERVICES AT ST. IGNAT1Us.
Governor Budd Present Out OF Re-
spect to the Memory Of the
Pioneer Executive.

Governor Budd, with full staff in brilliant
uniform, was present to extend the respect
of the people to the memory of the man
who had stood at the head of this Govern
ment at the dawn of California statehood.
The church of which the deceased was a
member, with all the solemnity and
grandeur so characteristic of the Catholic
form of praying for the dead, lost none of
its beautiful and touching devotion in the,
requiem services which it celebrated for
the repose of the soul of the departed.
The funeral procession left the Burnett
residence, at 1713 Larkin street, at $50
o'clock and proceeded by way of Van Ness
avenue TO st. Ignatius Church. A long
line of the Gentlemen's Sodality of st.
Ignatius, wearing the blue and gilded re-
Then came the honorary pall-bearers
Omitted States Senator Perkins, Judge
McKinstry, Captain James Mcdonald,
DR.. c. D. Cleveland, Christian Refs, Alex
ander Boyd, w. A. Piper, James r.
kelly) in carriages.
The hearse and mourners came next
and long line of carriages followed. At
Van Ness avenue and Hayes street, and
Immediately in front of the church, inn
mense crowds had gathered, while the
edifice was packed from sanctuary to en-
trance. Many prominent citizens were in
attendance.
The members of the Sodality formed par
allel lines from the pavement leading up
the great stone stepsto the entrance, and
the honorary pall-bearers thus passed
through the solid mass of humanity. Stall
wart men bore the casket on which rested
wreaths of white and pink roses, punches
of sweet peas and sheaves of wheat, bound
with satin ribbons of delicate color. John
M. Burnett, the well-known son of the
illustrious dead. his wife, heavily veiled,
| leaning on his arm, Superior Judge and
Mrs. Wallace, Mr.. and Mrs. G. T. Ryland
of San Jose and other immediate relatives
of the family followed the casket into the
church and down the aisle to the altar rail-
ing, while the soft strains of funeral
march floated down from the organ loft.
At the altar Rev. Father Varsi awaited
| the coming of the dead. Governor Budd
who occupied the front pew to the left of
the aisle, with his staff about him, arose
as the procession approached, and, with
bowed head, turned to salute the casket
that held the sacred remains of an official
| predecessor.
Just behind the Governor and staff were
seated the gray and aged representatives
of the Pioneer Society of California. The
honorary pall-bearers and mourners were
given seats to the right of the aisle. and
the casket was placed on catafalque
draped in black and mounted with gold
candelabra, holding many lighted tapers.
The altar was flood of light.
| The solemn requiem mass followed. A
procession of acolytes, richly gowned in
| purple with white lace surplices, filed into
the sanctuary followed by several digni-
taries of the church and large number of
! the clergy from different parts of the City
and Oakland. Among them were the Very
Rev. Father Prendergast and Rev. P. G..
Yorke, vicar general and chancellor re-
spectively of the archdiocese; Rev. Father
| Seaman, in charge of st. Joseph's Church !;
Rev. Father McNally of Oakland; Rev.
| Father Mulligan, Rev. Father White, the
Paulist, and Rev. Brother Bettelin. Rev.
Father Colteli was the celebrant of the
mass, and Rev. Father Larkin acted as
deacon and Rev. Father Prelato as SUBJ
deacon. The choir was composed of male
voices, and the mass and solos were very
effectively rendered. The entire service
was solemn and impressive throughout
! Rev. Father Cottle pronounced the
eulogy of the dead, whom he knew and
loved in life." The tribute he paid to the
and practices. He did not go into the
| judicial, gubernatorial, professional and
business career of his subject, but limited
his remarks to his daily life and Christian
work.
81 have been requested, as having been
his former pastor" began Father Cottle,
"to say few words of respect to the
memory of our departed friend on this
| solemn occasion. / knew Peter Burnett
in his lifetime and loved him, and only
wish that some one more capable ana
worthy had been selected to pass upon
his virtues and his character. will only,
however, direct your thoughts to his re-
ligious life. 1t is not because of the fact
that he was an able jurist, a man of fine
literarary attainments, or that he was the
| first civil Governor of the State of Cali
fornia, that we feel his loss so keenly. but
because he was primarily and principally
a sanity man. 1t is because of the ex-
ample of his virtues and his goodness that
we feel his loss more than all else.
"Peter Burnett entered the Catholic
| church in 1S47 against the strong opposi-
/ ton of his relatives and friends, and later
others of his family followed his example
He was at all times man of truth and
| justice; at all times he recognized the ex-
istence of God above him. a God to whom
he was responsible for his innermost
thoughts"
The speaker here took up the literary
work Of the deceased and spoke in high
| praise of his work. 1.-THE Path That Led a
Protestant to the Catholic Church" He
| read DR.. Brownson's criticism of the work
and how the great Catholic writer analyzed
the judicial mind of Peter Burnett and
showed how it was his clear-cut reasoning
as lawyer, his clear conception of law,
that led him into the fold of the ancient
church. Continuing on the life of the late
Governor his eulogist said:
His life, especially during late years,
was one of meditation and prayer. While
the one widened the scope of his knowl-
edge the other obtained for him many
additional graces. The love of God is
closely allied to the love of your neighbor.
So Peter Burnett was a man of many
charities. He would never himself speak
i'll of another and if anything derogatory
were said in his presence of an absent one
he always took the side of the accused
and argued in his defense.
"The closing years of his life were beau
tiful. He was daily attendant at the
holy sacrifice of the mass. He could be
seen tottering along back and forth to the
church, lost in spiritual contemplation
and prayer. One day he was stricken
down and thus the venerable old patriarch
of nearly 80 years, fortified by the las,
sacraments of the church, fell asleep in
the Lord"
Following the services at the church the
remains were conveyed by special train to
Santa Clara, where the interment took
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