The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-13


! general Ravoux at their head, who came
| to escort the new prelate to his see.
Two days after the conservation, the
party left the Mound city, and there be-
| ing no railroads in those days, they took
the steamer Northern Belle for st. Paul.
On their arrival at that city they were
met by delegation of priests and lay
| men, who escorted the new bishop to his
! cathedral, where "Te Deum" was sung
in the presence of the assembled gath
ering. Bishop Grace's administration
was a long and very successful one. 1t
covered from the time of his consecration
to July 81, 1854, when having secured an
able .coadjutor in the person Of Monsig-
nor Ireland, he resigned his. see, by
permission of the Holy Father, and en-
tered on the enjoyment of that rest
which he had so we'll earned. Bishop
Grace laid the foundation of much of the
prosperity that now belongs to the do
cese over Which he presided for a. quar-
ter Of a century. During his admins
tration Immigration began TO go to the
Northwest, and he had to build many
new churches, converts schools, etc,
to add largely to the number Of his
priesthood, and to introduce religious
orders into the diocese. He brought the
Dominicans, his own order, to .Minnea-
dictines. Franciscans and Marists He
introduced several sisterhoods, moreover
and to him st. Paul owes it's fine :Acade-
my Of Visitation. It was in 1872 that
Bishop Grace sent Monsignor Caillet,
pastor of st. Mary's Church, St. Paul,
to st. Louis to ask the Visitandines there
to dispatch colony of sisters to his
episcopal city, and the request having
been duly considered, two Visitandines,
Mother Marotte and Sister Wickham,
accompanied by chaplain of the St. Louis
convent, Rev. William Walsh, went to
st. Paul and made arran gements for the
new foundation. ''All preliminaries hav-
ing completed" said a writer On the
subject some few years ago in the Cath
i olic World, "the usual Visitation swarm
six religious-took flight from the
Hive. They were singularly happy in
their superior, Mother Mary Agathy
Russell, a woman of superior mind and
great .piety, and we'll fitted for her posi-
1,1y1r IN Sofn 70
and school work Of the house of her
profession, in which she had held i'm
portant offices during many years.
Mother Agathys experience, although it
had included more than one voyage
across the Atlantic, had been SO exclu-
sively interior for many years that this
long and tedious voyage (it lasted twelve
days. on the Mississippi was almost now
ell to her; altogether new was the sight
of a train Of cars, and her naively-ex-
pressed surprise drew around the nuns
an amused but who]ly-respectful crowd
of fellowyoyagers, all of whom, and
especially one old Methodist minister,
were foremost in pressing upon them
every attention and assistance in their
power.
Bishop Grace saw the diocese over
which he was paced in 1893 develop so
rapidly that sixteen years after his con-
secration he deemed it necessary to ap-
ply to Rome for a coadjutor, and one
was given him then in the person of
Right Rev. John Ireland, who was ap-
pointed that year, 1875, titular bishop
of Maronea. When this appointment
was first made Rome intended sending
Father Ireland to Nebraska, as vicar
apostolic of that territory, in succession
to Bishop O'Gorman, the first vicar-apos-
tolic, who had died the previous year.
But Bishop Grace, who was unwilling to
lose the services of Bishop-elect Ireland
went in person to Rome, and, laying be-
fore Plus TX. the true condition of things
and stating his own need of an assistant
prelate, he induced that Pontiff to recall
the Nebraska appointment and give him
DR.. Ireland for coadjutor. He conse-
Grated the .coadjutor himself on Dec. 81,
1875, which was the fourteenth ami
versary of Father Ireland's ordination,
and then he was satisfied because he had
secured successor. Had he been per-
mitted to do so, Bishop Grace would
have resigned in favor of Bishop Ire
land long before he actually , did so.
Bishop Ireland, however, protested
against such step whenever the vener-
able DR.. Grace suggested it; and it was
not until after Bishop Grace had ce.e-
brated his episcopal silver jubilee that
his auxiliary would listen to the thought
OF succeeding him. The bishop rounded
out twenty five years in the purple on
July "a, 1884, and "a week following his
resignation of the see of st. Paul, pre-
viously forwarded to Rome was accept
ed and he was appointed titular Bishop
of Mennith, Bishop Ireland, Of course,
succeeding him in the Minnesota see.
Once he was relieved from the burden
OF administering his diocese, DR.. Grace
rendered his valuabl, services to his
s1yccassr1 in whatever way hn cn1l1d