The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-23
body taken TO HIS Home
Impressive Services Over the Remains
Of Rev. John j. Mangan.
MANY PRIESTS IN ATTENDANCE
After Requiem Mass Thousands Paid
Their Last Tribute of Respect TO Dead
Priest-Taken to the Home of His
Youth for Intcrmcnt.


Over the remains of the late Rev.
John J. Mangan most impressive fu"
neral services were held yesterday
morning at St. Peters cathedral, after
which the body was borne. attended
by an immense concourse of people, to
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern depot, and thence on the 1,24 p. m.
train to Cuba. N. Y, the home of the
dead priest, for interment.
The body had rested in the episcopal
residence from the hour of death until
s o'clock yesterday morning. From
that hour until the services began at
$50 streams of people poured into tho
church. The interior of the cathedral
was draped heavily in black; along the
winding gallery was width of mourn
ing, and the columns and chandeliers
We're shrouded. The tabernacle of the
high altar was clothed in purple on ac-
count of the rules of the church at
the approaching season of Lent. But
the candelsticks We're concealed be-
meath Grape and the sanctuary furn-
ishings We're, too, in mourning.
lie bbuS ISpOStu oIl No'S
falque in the center aisle. Rich sacer-
dotal vestments of purple bedecked the
dead priest and his hands folded across
his breast held the golden chalice that
he owned and which he used in Offering
the sacrifice of the mass. The casket
was of black cloth. Around the cata-
falque six surpliced boys, Henry Bill
man, Arthur Blewitt, Gabriel Dun
leavy, James Moriiing, Patrick McHlale,
and James Doyle, sat each beside tall
candle.
In the front pews We're the father,
John Mangan; brother. Thomas Man
gan; aunt, Mrs. Lynch; brotherin-law,
Mr. Breslin, and other relatives of the
deceased. In the reserved front pews
also were the students of St. Thomas
college. and representatives of Catholic
societies of the city. The ushers were:
b. ID. O'Reilly, p j. McCaffrey, j. j.
O'Boyle. and Frank McAndrew. At 9
o'clock there was hardly room for an
other person in the church; the aisles
and gallery were very crowded
Services Over the Remains.
The services began with the chant
Reverend Bishop O'Hara was seated
upon the sedalium: on his right was
Very Rev. John Finnen. of Pittston,
and on his left was Rev. John Lough-
ran. the venerable pastor of st. Jo-
seph's church, Minooka. Rev. Peter
Christ, of St. Mary's German church,
on the South Side, and Rev. Thomas f..
Coffee of Carbondale, chanted the anti
phons in the Office for the dead, and the
responses We're made by sixty priests.
who were seated in the sanctuary and
are as follows:
Rev. John Rosar, Fathers Cyprian
and James, of St Bonaventure's Theo-
logical seminary and college, Allegheny
n. Y; Rev. j. A. O'Reilly, rector of st.
Peters; Rev. j. A. McHugh, Rev. NJ. j.
| Millane. Rev. p. F. Quinnan, Rev. p. j.
Cough, Rev. Thomas Carmody and Rev.
| Domenico Landro, of st. Peters; Rev.
p. j. McManus and ]. /. Dunn, of st.
Pauls, Marion street; Rev. p. ]. Nc
| Nally and Rev. Daniel Dunno, of st.
Patrick's, Jackson street: Rev. f.. j.
| Melley and Rev. j. A. Moffitt, of st.
Johns, Fig street: Rev. George stopper,
of st. Mary's, River street; Rev. j. j.
| O'Toole, of Holy Rosary church, Will
lam street; Rev. Richard Aust, of Pros
pect avenue; Rev. G.. +. McMurray and
Rev. NJ. b. Donlan, Dunmore; Rev. j.
L. Stanley, Dickson; Rev. p. j. Murphy
and Rev. j. Smoulter, of Olyphant; Rev.
T. ]. Comerford, Archibald; Rev. NJ. A.
Lynott, Jermyn; Rev. j. j. Curran and
Rev. w. A. Nealon, Carbondale; Rev.
j. j. Griffin, Honesdale; Rev. j. ]. Hea-
ley. Mount Pleasant; Rev. Michael
Shields, Towanda; Rev. ]. II. SANDAL
Athens; Rev. ]. V. Hussie, Bently
Creek Rev James j. O'Malley and Rev.
w. II. Connolly, of Troy, the former a
room mate and class mate in the semin-
ary of the deceased, and both were or
dained on the same day as the deceased
Rev. John Costello, of Sayre; Rev. NJ
]. Manley, of Wellsboro; Rev. Michael
Dunn, of Great Bend; Rev. p. ]. Coli
gan, Little Meadows; Rev. p. j. Golden
Williamsport: Rev. Michael O'Reilly
Danville Rev. Felix McGucken. Nanti
coke; Rev. NJ. ]. Hoban, Ashley; Rev
A. T. Brodrick, Rev. NJ. ]. ORourke
Rev. ]. ]. Billstein and Rev. Theophilus
Klenowski, of Wilkes-Barre; Rev. Il. A
Donohoe, Plymouth; Rev. John p
O'Malley and Rev. J. McHale. Kings.
ton; Rev. r. f. Kiernan, Parsons; Rev
NJ. ]. Kelly, Pittston; Rev. NJ. f. Crane
and Rev. j. j. McCabe, Avoca, and Rev
Daniel Green, Minooka.
The Requiem Mass.
While the chanting of the Office was
being sung, the solemn high mass was
begun, with Rev. +. G, Winters, oi
Plymouth, celebrant; Rev. James +
Jordan, of Wilkes-Barre, deacon: Rev
Hugh Gerrity, of Blossburg, sub-dea.
con: Rev. John Stelnkircher, of Wilkes
Barre, master of ceremonies Charles u
OMalley, assistant; Martin J. O'Malley
thurifler. John Burke and John Coli
gan were the acolytes, and Patricl
Blewitt, candle bearer.
A full choir sang the mass and tn,
music was grand and extremely solemn
being composed In the Gregorian scale
except the Benedictus. At the offer
tory Mrs. w. p. Schilling sang the solo
Professor w. =. Schilling was the or
ganist and directed the music. Wher
the mass was over Right Rev. BishoI
OHara pronounced the final benedc
tion, and as the people We're departinl
from the church the compassionate,
solo. "Pie Jesu," was sung by Mrs. w
j. Burke.
Rev. w. p. O'Donnell, of St. Mary
church, Providence, preached the ser
mon from the text: For every higi
priest taken from among men Is or
dained for men in the things which ap
pertain to God. that he may offer VI
gifts and sacrifices for SINS
Who can have compassion on tn,
ignorant and the erring since he him
self is also encompassed with infirmi
ties (St. Paul, Heb. V, 1:2.)