The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-01-06
VERY REV. J0sRPH L. SRUH
Receives the Title of :Monsignor from
the POpe

The title of monsegnor was conferred
upon Very Rev. j. F. Buh, OF Tower,
vicar general OF the diocese OF Duluth,
at the cathedral OH Wednesday morn
ing, Dec. 81. The ceremony OF confer
ring the title was a rather brief one, but
the services were very impressive and
attended with much ceremony. A large
number OF the dignitaries OF the church
and priests were present, among them
Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul, Bishop
Cotter OF Winona, Bishop Stanley OF
Fargo and Bishop Trobec of ST. Cloud
Ponti6cal high mass was celebrated
by Right Rev. James McGolrick, bishop
of Duluth, assisted by Father Theillon
of Gentilly, Mimi, as deacon; Father
Lynch, OF Brainerd, as deacon;
Very Rev. Dean Corbett as first master
OF ceremonies, and Father Huinagel
as second master of ceremonies
The deacons of honor attending
the archbishop were Father Roy
of Tcrrebonnc, and Father Giraux
of Cloquet, will, Father Garnacke OF
Grand Rapids as assistant The music
was very fine, and the choir was assisted
by Flaaten's orchestra.
The ceremony OF comforting the title
took place Immediately after the gospel
OF the mass. The archbishop blessed the
vestments, which the honor entities him
to wear and then clothed and vested
him with the purple.
The letter from Pope Leo XIII. to
Father Buh was read by Dean Corbett,
first in Latin and then in English. 1t
said:
"On account OF your zeal and your
wonderful labors among the Indians in
diffusng among them the light
Catholic truth, as we'll as for the good
example given your fellow priests by
your life and the exercise OF every
Christian virtue, as we'll as the able as
sis>>nce rendered to the bishop in the
government of the diocese, we deem
you highly worthy of the dignity where
with we honor YOU"
The title OF monsegnor is a mark OF
honor and makes the recipient men,
Der OF the pope's household, correspond
ing in some sense to the position OF
lords-in-waiting OF the royal courts Of
Europe, but carrying with it no spiritual
or temporal authority. In an assem-
blage OF the dignitaries OF the church, a
monsegnor takes his place with the
bishops, and, like them, is dressed in
purple and wears the four-cornercd "be-
retta' or cap.
The sermon was preached by Arch
bishop Ireland, who said in part:
The church in the Northwest at this
present day lives with much splendor
and gives promise for great achieve
ments in the future. While we are adj
mirlng the present status OF the church,
while we are thanking God for what we
see, her numerous ministry, her devoted
lalty, her institutions OF piety and learn
ing, her majestic temples, we should not
forget the pioneers Of the church in the
Northwest. They are those who laid
by the sweat OF their brows the stones
that make the foundation. They arc
those who plowed amid much fatigue
the fields now Respondent with the llar-
vest. The time is not so far distant
when those pioneers labored under the
eyes OF God seeing little to encourage
and nothing to compensate them. 1t is
exactly half a century since the sover-
eign pontiff OF Rome appointed to the
territory now known as Minnesota and
the two Dakotas its first mission Bish-
op Cretin fifty years ago came to the
little village OF St. Paul, having the
whole territory from Lake Superior to
the Missouri river as his diocese and
finding before him in that vast territory
one priest and few hundred Catholics.
That was all there was fifty years ago.
In the same territory to-day there are
six dioceses, nearly one thousand
priests and hundreds of thousands of
devoted Catholics, with churches and
institutions so numerous that we may
say their name is legion and we are
compelled to lift our voices in gratitude
to the great God.
"But the work was hard. The laity
were few and far between and the mis-
sionaries roamed painfully over the i'm
mense distances, administering sacra-
ments here and there to one and then
to another, preaching to the white man
and to the Indian, leaving everything to
God and expecting no rewards here in
their fields of labor. And so the year
went by and it is our duty to call in
grateful recognition the names OF all
these pioneers of the faith in this great
territory; the names of the bishops and
priests, the Catholic men and women,
who gave out of their poverty where
with to erect chapels and sustain the
priests and by their zeal and intelligence
kept burning bright the lamp of faith
in the family and among their neigh
boys.
II, who have lived in Minnesota the
whole of that period, who have known
these apostles, could tell of works OF
heroic sanctity, of truly apostolic zeal,
kh,% elod /, ., d;,~co o,,ar Tho o,ooe of