St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-14
FOR FIFTY YEARS.
A History Of the Catholic
Church From i841 to the
Present.
COMPILED BY A CHURCHMAM
Bishop Grace and His Quar-
ter Of a Century OF Ardu-
Gus Labor.
COMPILED BY A CHURCHMAN
STORY OF THE PARISHES.
Life and Works of Archbishop
Ireland and Other Noted
Priests.

Note-In Offering this work to the
public it is due to myself, as well as to
others, that L state that the early
historical and biographical portion is
copied from the writings of the Most
Rev. Archbishop Ireland, Rt. Rev.
Mgr. a. RavouX, V. G., Rev. Lucian
Galtier and my deceased non-Cath-
Dlic friends, j. Fletcher Williams, in
his History of ST., Paul, Mimi, pub
lished by the Minnesota State Histor-
lcal society in 1876, and Maj. T. NJ.
Newson, in his Pen Pictures" pub
lished in 1886. The other portions are
furnished me by reverend clergy of
the city, members of the different
orders and officers of institutions and
societies.
These are the vouchers for the verify
IF the work. j. ]. WILLIAMS.
AT the same period, in 1851, the Sis
ters of st. Joseph had much increased
In number-they had then under their
charge in st. Paul an academy, a
parochial school and a hospital, and in
st. anthony, an academy and a paro-
chial school. In November. 1858, the
number of sisters was eighteen. The
Benedictine sisters had also convent
in st. Cloud. The services of these
charitable, pious and devout virgins,
consecrated TO God, were then, as now.
most useful to religion. May our mer-
ciful God increase more and more
their number for the glory of His name
and the spiritual and temporal good
of those in the midst of whom they
livei May the virtue of their example
oil h.
Christ.
The first bishop of st. Paul is no
more; but The vineyard he has planted
and watered for six years with the
sweat of his brow shall with the
grace of God, continue to fructify and
bring forth precious fruits to the end
of the world. These happy fruits will
be gathered up by the hand of God,
and brought into His kingdom, to
glorify Him and be glorifed by Him
Tor an endless eternity. The first bishop
of st. Paul is no more with US; but we
nope that he is with God, that he has
not forgotten his children in Jesus
Christ, that his prayers for his flock,
winch were so fervent when upon
earth, have now become more ardent,
because he better understands our
wants. We have, then, many reasons
to believe that if the year after his
death we had a church, spacious
enough to contain a whole congrega-
ton; if on the same year the number
OF THE PRIESTS
OF the diocese was twenty-seven, hav-
ing increased by ten since the year be-
lore, and if, the year after, in 1859, Di-
vine Providence changed our days of
mourning into days of joy and glad
ness, by sending us, as a gift from
heaven, our present good, pious and
devoted bishop; we have, L say, many
reasons to believe, that all these bless
ings came upon us principally through
the prayers of our late bishop, the
founder of this diocese"
Thus wrote Mgr. RavouX shortly
after the arrival of Right Rev. T. l..
Grace as the second bishop of St. Paul.
OF Bishop Grace Williams writes in
1875:
During August, 1859, the hearts of
our Catholic population were gladden.
ed by the arrival of
RIGHT REV. THOMAS l.. GRACE.
who had recently been consecrated
bishop of the diocese of st. Paul
Bishop Grace was born in Charleston,
S. c., Nov. Is, 1914. He commenced his
studies, preparatory to the priesthood,
under Bishop Fenwick, in the seminary
of Cincinnati in 1928. A year later he
went to the Dominican Monastery of
st. Rose, Kentucky, where he became
a member of the Dominican order,
continuing his studies there until 1897
In that year he went to Rome, and
studied at the Minerva until 1874. He
was ordained priest in Rome, Dec. q,
1899 On his return to America in 1874,
he was for two years engaged in the
ministry in Kentucky, and for thirteen
years in Memphis, Tenn.
while in Memphis he built the very
fine church of Saints Peter and Paul,
the convent of st. Agnes, orphan asy-
lum, etc, etc. On July "a, 1859, he was