The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-17

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 be in the state. He thanked the mayor
 through his representative, saying that
 he himself was a native of Boston and
 loved it beyond all other cities. When
 he was a boy he knew all Catholics in
 the city, but now his acquaintance em- braced but a fractional part of those
 whose acquaintance he cared for.
 He declared that he was but the
 standard bearer and asked that God 1 would save the country, preserve it
 from disturbance, especially preserve l New England Boston in particular. The archbishop's address was teem- ing with loyalty to state and country
 and his reference to Iassac chusetts each
 time greeted with deafening applause. l Governor Greenhalge was received l with great applause.
 Following is the address of Monsig-
 nor Satolli:
 | "I do not believe that I ever better 1 fulfill the intention and desire of the Holy Father, Leo XIII, than when par 1 ticipating in the joyous festivities att 1 tending the celebration of the jubilee of an American archbishop or bishop and 1 representing by my presence the Su- preme Pontiff, and giving voice to the l sentiments of loving congratulation with which he rejoices in the happy | completion of so many years spent in 1 the service of God and His Church. l For, if the Pope, in the fullness of his | power and of his Apostolic care, share with every bishop in union with the l Holy See the joys as well as the sor-
 rows of this life, he feels a special in- terest in the fortunes of the American Episcopate. This interest he has clearly and solemnly expressed in his last en- cyclical to this country, making his
 own the words of St. Gregory. My
 honor is the honor of the universal
 church. My honor is the unimpaired
 vigor of my brethren. Then I am truly
 honored when to each one due honor is
 not denied
 Flow deep and sincere Is the affec-
 ton of the Holy Father for the venera-
 ble archbishop of Boston I myself can
 bear witness. Five years ago, when for
 the first time the Pope sent me to this
 country after having charged me to
 bear his paternal salutations to the
 Most Eminent Cardinal Archbishop of
 Baltimore and to all the bishops who
 should be united in that city for the celebration of the centenary of the American hierarchy he added that there also I would meet Archbishop
 Williams, and in words of love and
 deepest affection bade me express to him his highest regard and special es-
 teem. This particular esteem and af- lection find new expression to-day in the letter and gift which the Holy Father has sent to the beloved arch
 bishop on this occasion of his golden sacerdotal jubilee,
 ITO me this special sympathy and love which the Pope feels for Archbish- op Williams is most natural and req sonable when I consider In now many ways the work and life of Leo XIII, when he was archbishop of Perugia, were similar to the life and work of the archbishop of Boston. Archbishop Pee ci governed the diocese of Perugia from 1S4S to 1878. His administration covered a period filled with the vicissitudes of war and revolution, and consequently with the gravest difficulties. Through them all, like 8 good navigator, he guided the bark of his diocese, saying little but doing much, guarding always the best interests of his charge, pro- tecting it's welfare, improving It's condi- tlons, both temporal and spiritual, car ing for every parish watching over it's seminary, increasing the number of in- stitutions for the education of youth of both sexes as well as those dedicated l to the works of sweet charity, so that his diocese abounded in all these good | works, most of which he either founded l or enlarged and improved.
 As regards the parishes I can certify | that during his Episcopate he either re- l stored or built anew every church in | his diocese, and that he repeatedly vts- | ited them i'm person, fostering every | where the parochial associations erect 1 ed for the administrative and religious | well-being of the church. He succeeded | too in forming about him a body of cler- | BY, all of whom were of his own dio- cese, educated and trained in his own seminary, which he labored to make equal to the largest and best in Italy | What specially characterized this work was his ardent desire that the teachers and professors of sciences and letters and philosophy and theology in his sem mary should be formed from the body | of his own clergy, and in the carrying 1 out of this desire he filed his diocese | piety and learning, nor in true ecclesias- tical spirit and zeal. He himself presi- ded at all the examinations, and every k year held public exhibitions in which the students were obliged to demon- strate what progress they had made in their studies. At these exhibitions theses in science, philosophy and theol- ogy were sustained by the young men and the victorious were rewarded with prizes. His interest in their work was and personal, and can re- member how he used to come unexpect- ed1y into the seminary, go about unan- aounced visiting the rooms, encoura- ging by his kind interest the young men It their work. I myself have often been .hus visited by him and found myself helped over difficulties by his unlocked { Or assistance.
 "The success of his relations with his ] ,lergy came greatly from his careful re- , gard of that rule given by St. Bernard n his letters to Pope Innocent IT., "Let he bishop be careful as he should be