San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-08
ARCHBISHOP coRRIGAN.
The Noted New York Prelate Passed
Here Yesterday.

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Here Yesterday.
| According to announcement in
the LIGHT, Archbishop Corrigan
and party of distinguished clergy
passed through the city yesterday
afternoon, on their way to the City
fof Mexico. They were met by
Fathers Donoly; and O'Callaghan
and Miss Kate Twohig, and Messrs.
VIM, Campbell, Jas. Wahrenberg-
er and J.T. McQueeney.
Mgr. Corrigan is one Of the most
distinguished prelates of the Ro-
man church in America. He
was educated at st. Mary's in Will
mington, Det., and In 1929 he was
graduated at Mount st. Mary's,
Emmetsburg, Md. Archbishop Cor
rigsn was one of the first students
to enter the American College at
Rome, and it was he who success
fully appealed to the United States
government to protect the property
of the college from being assumed
by the italian government. He
| was ordained in Rome in 1868 and
| in 1864 received the degree Of ID. ID.
| in q public competition. Suisse
quently he was professor OF dog
matte theology and sacred scrip
ture in famous Seton Hall college,
Orange, N. j., and in 1868 became
it's president. Pope Plus TX ap-
pointed Mgr. Corrigan to the See OF
Newark in 1878, and in the capaci.
ty of bishop DR.. Corrigan showed q
combination Of firmness and gen.
tleness which commanded the ad-
miration of his ecclesiastical SUI
periors. The see flourished won
derfully during his incumbency
and his administrative capacity
and his great fondness for educa-
tional work placed the see among
the foremost in the east. There
was a remarkable growth OF
schools, asylums and hospitals,
church property was largely in
creased in extent and value and
the number of priests and COM
municants grew in proportion.
DIR. Corrigan subsequently was
appointed coadjutor to Cardinal
McCloskey, archbishop OF New
York, under the title of Archbishop
Petra, in 1890 and thereafter per-
formed all the practical work OF
the diocese. In 1871 he went to
Rome to consult with the Pope as
to the work of the proposed PIE
nary council and represented New
York in that body. When he re-
ceived the pallium DIR. Corrigan
was the youngest archbishop
excepting Archbishop Seghers,
in the American espiscopate.
When Cardinal McCloskey died in
1885 he became metropolitan OF
New York, one of the largest and
most important dioceses in the
world. He was no longer arch
| bishop in title of a deserted strip
of Arabian soil, but the chief spiri-
tual ruler in one Of the first cities
of theworld. He was not obliged to
wait, according to the usual custom,
for the pallium to be bestowed, in
order to exercise his functions. By
a special act of courtesy done to
prelate who had so far remarkably
distinguished himself in the apos-
tolic virtues befitting his state,
Rome permitted him to perform
the acts of his Office as soon as he
| succeeded to the archbishopric.
Archbishop Corrigan enjoys the
reputation of being among the
most accomplished scholars in the
Cath Ollie hierarchy OF the United
States, with a keen interest in
modern literature. He has in the
pulpit the art Of stimulating and
and convincing; and the modula-
tions of a voice, trained in the best
schools, give variety and interest
even to the most abstract theologi-
cal theme. He is not great pulpit
orator in the rhetorical sense OF the
phrase, but a genial and pleasant
| talker, who never fails to soften
and charm his audiences, His adj
ministration of the diocese of New
York has already shown the results
to be expected from his successful
career in Newark. he enjoys in
the highest sense the confidence of
the people OF his section and the
friendship of leading statesmen
and other prominent men of the
country.
Altgeld is Going to Run Again.
CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. S.-A local
paper says: Secretary of State,
Henrichsen, came to town, ostensi-
bly, to attend meeting OF the
Democratic Central committee
which was held last evening. He
seemed to be more concerned, how
ever. in proclaiming that Gov.