The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-03-17
BISHOP BRoNDEL VISITS LOU
VAIN.

Bishop Brondel of Helena, Mont, re-
Gently paid an interesting visit to Lou
vain, Belgium, and a student writing
to the Portland (Ore.) Catholic Senti-
mel, says:
, l am convinced that there are many
patrons of the Sentinel who will be glad
to read little news about the Louvain
! American college and that many more
will be delighted to read about the dis
! tinguiShed prelate who left his far
western diocese some months ago, for
! his visit ad Gmina, and who is just
now guest at the above named insti-
4 tutiOn-the Rt. Rev. ]. B. Brondel,
| bishop of Helena, Mont 1t is owing to
this double conviction, Mr.. Editor, that
an old time friend of your paper pre-
J sumes to address you these lines.
Since it was learned at the college,
through the columns of the Sentinel,
that Bishop Brondel had gone to Rome,
both professors and students looked
forward with pleasurable anticipations
to his visit to them; for his love for
the institution where he spent several
years of his youth in preparation for
the holy priesthood is we'll known.
Though his visit was. therefore, looked
forward to as a matter of course, his
lordship had not announced it; so that
he took everybody quite by surprise
last Friday evening. He was still
thought to be in Rome when, 10 and
behold, we are told that he has arrived
at the college. Though we know of the
rapidity with which the modern steam
engine carries its patrons from place to
place, we quite forget to realize it
sometimes, and are astounded when we
meet some one whom we knew a few
weeks before to be thousands of miles
away. Moreover our surroundings in
huence our feelings, and in this little
kingdom Of Belgium, which is not
larger than a good-sized western coun-
ty. people for the most part limit tllgfr
travels to within the confines of fSsi'
country
When they stand before someone who,
but ten or twelve days ago, was 1000
or 5000 miles away, they regard him
with something of the awe with which,
as children, we used to look upon pro-
fessional sleight-of-hand performer
Living here, far away from the country
of magnificent distances and of fast
time overland flyers" we get to think
and feel a little like the people with
whom we live.
1t is tradition in the college to take
advantage of the visit of every Ameri
can Bishop to have an ordination: for
its young candidates for Holy Orders.
~.
have at all times considered it a privi-
lege to be ordained at the hands of a
prelate from the grand country where
their future lots will be cast. The stu
dents, not being prepared for an ordi-
nation this time, it looked as if the ira
dition would have to be broken with;
but it was not, for, if not general, par
tial ordinations could take place, and
so they did Sunday morning, Feb. 4, in !
the spacious chapel of the college |
Those whom the Very Reverend Rec
tor. Canon de Becker. selected for the |
honor of receiving orders at the hands |
of Bishop Brondel were Messrs. w. De- |
Hasdue of the Vicariate Apostolic of |
Indian Territory; c. Koegel of the Dio- |
eese of Winona and F. Van Hulse of the
of Indian Territory. The for
ner was ordained sub-deacon and the
-Wo latter received minor orders One |