The Sauk Centre herald., 1898-03-31
HIS SILVER JUBILEE.
THE ELEVATION OF ARCHBISHOP
CORRIGAN TO THE EPlSCoPATE.

OOhhi1AN ~ iHG GFiSCOPAIE.
Ms Twenty-fifth Anniversary to BE =
Grand Celebration-wm Occur May 4.
and Preparations Are Already Under
way-Win Last For Five Days.
Catholic clergy and laity of the New
York archdiocese will on Wednesday,
May 4, celebrate the twenty fifth ami
xersary of the elevation of his grace the
Most Rev. Michael Augustin Corrigan
% the episcopate. The jubilee will ex-
tend over the following Sunday, and
will close with pontifical high mass in
st. Patrick's cathedral. Preparations
are already under way to make this cele-
bration one of the notable events of a
generation.
Committees of priests and laymen will
be appointed to work out the details.
Naturally, Bishop Farley will be the
head of the clerical committee, and it is
probable that Colonel John MoAnerney
Of the Seventh National bank, will be
chairman of the lay committee The
prime movers in the celebration are
Judge Joseph F. DAILY, Stephen Farley,
John D. Crimmins and the Rev. M. A.
Taylor of the Church Of the Blessed
Sacrament. An executive committee
will be got together to begin the work.
Notable features of the celebration
will be high mass in st. Patrick's ca
thedral, presentation of addresses and
sermons and banquet. The most dis
tinguished men in the country will be
invited to honor one of the most schol-
arly of American ecclesiastics. 1t is
whispered, by the way, that one of the
gifts may be a red hat from the pope
to the archbishop of the greatest diocese
I'm America. The archbishop's we'll
wishers believe this would be graceful
compliment Oh the part of his holiness
New York's archdiocese includes be-
sides this city the counties of Westches-
ter, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan,
Orange, Roekland and Richmond and
the Bahama islands, and from these
parts of the archdiocese there will be
large influx Of clergy and laity to the
city during the period of the celebra-
tion. The Catholic population of the
is between 100000 and
900, 900, and as Archbishop Corrigan is
known to other thousands
throughout the country it will be readi-
~ seen that this event will be of excep-
tional interest and almost national i'm
portance.
The esteem in which New York s
is held was shown in 1888,
when he celebrated his silver jubilee as
. priest. On that occasion bishops and
priests came from all over the country
to greet Mgr. Corrigan. The gentlemen
who will have this episcopal jubilee in
charge will make it far more memo
rable event than the silver jubilee of his
priesthood. They consider that the great
work he has been doing for years de-
serves extraordinary recognition. The
hospitals and seminaries he has founded
will always be monument to his men,
DRY, and they want the jubilee of 1898
also to go down in history.
When in 1878 Bishop Bayley of New
Jersey was promoted to the see of Bal
Eimore, Dr.. Corrigan, who was then
priest in Newark, was elected bishop of
Newark. That was OH Feb. IA, and on
May 4, the feast Of st. Joseph, he was
in his own cathedral by the
late Cardinal McCloskey, then arch
bishop of New York, II bishops being
resent. Bishop Corrigan was the young
est member of the American hierarchy.
He exhibited, however. the maturity
and experience Of age. By hard and sue
cessful work he arrived at such promi-
nenco that when the advanced age of
Cardinal McCloskey made the appoint.
ment of a coadjutor necessary Bishop
Corrigan was selected for that onerous
office. On Oct. 1, 1880, he was promot
ed to the see of Petra and made coadju
tor of New York, with the right of sue
cession.
The fourth provincial council and
fourth synod of New York were mainly
by jishop Corrigan. He pre-
pared useful manual for such assem-
blies. He was summoned to Rome as
one of the archbishops whom the holy
see wished to consult in regard to the
work of the plenary council, ard when
that body met in November, 1884, he
the archdiocese of New
York.
On the death of Cardinal McCloskey
in October, 1885, Archbishop Corrigan
became the third metropolitan of the
province Of New York.
The American college at Rome will
I'm some way, it is expected, participate
In the coming jubilee. His grace is held
In loving remembrance there, for he
was the first seminarian chosen and the
first to enter the American college.
which was fou1 Eed by Pope Plus TX.
He was ordained priest in the Latern
Basilica in September, 1S63.-New
York Herald.
How to Accept Praise.
Some of us have yet to learn to accept
praise and honest appreciation with