The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-16
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.
Conservation Mgr. Conaty Will Gath
er a Notable Array of Prelates

er Notable Array of Prelates.
The attention of the university is
being directed at present toward the
| ceremony of the conservation of it's
| rector, Right Rev. Mgr. Conaty, and all
indications point towards a most re-
markable gathering of prelates and
clergy. The rector is fully determined
to have the ceremony at the university,
SO as to give it the character of a uni
vcrsity event, but it was soon found
that the university had no chapel large
enough to do justice to the occasion,
| and hence the rector has yielded to the
kind invitation of the cardinal chan
cellar to hold the ceremony at the
cathedral in Baltimore. frI
The conservation will take place Sun
day morning, Nov. "a, at 10 O'clock
and his Eminence Cardinal Gibbons
will act as consecrator. The following
have been chosen as officers to assist
him: Consecrators-Right Rev. Camil-
lus P. Macs, DID,, bishop of Covington,
and Right Rev. Thomas D. Beaven
D. D.. bishop of Springfield, the do
cese with which Mgr. Conaty has been
affiliated since mis- ordination. Very
Rev. P. j. Garrigan, D. D., vice rector
of the university, will read the Papal
brief. The assistant priest will be
Very Rev. A. L. Magnien, S. s., D. D..
president of st. Mary's Seminary, Bal
timore, and the deacons of honor are
Right Rev. Mgr. Thomas Griffin, D. D..
P. r.. of Worcester, Mass. and Chan
cellor Emeritus of the Springfield do
cese, and Right Rev Mgr. Thomas Ma
gennis, P. R., Jamaica Plain, Boston.
The deacon of the mass will be Right
Rev. Mgr. James Lynch, D. D., P. R.,
Izf Il UOnvr
B. Phelan, P. r., of Holyoke, Mass,
while the master of ceremonies will be
Rev William A. Fletcher, D. D., rec
to- of the Baltimore cathedral
The proper of the mass will be sung
by the students of st. Mary'S seminary.
while the Cathedral choir will render
an elaborate programme of music for
the remaining portions. Rev. Bernard
Conaty of Worcester, brother of the
bishop-elect, will act as his special
master of ceremony. The sermon of
the occasion will be preached by Very
Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, d. D., pro-
fessor of ecclesiastical history at the
university and editor-in-c of the
Bulletin
About thirty archbishops and bishops
and over 100 clergymen from all parts
of the country, notably from New Eng
land where twenty-f five years of Bish-
op-elect Conaty's life was spent, will
be present. A large delegation of his
brother priests from the diocese of
Springfield, as also a strong representa-
ton of his former parish in Worcester
and many representative laymen from
different sections have expressed
their intention to take part in the cere-
mcny. The professors of the university
will attend in a body and in academic
dress, and all the students of the uni
versity will also be present. A dinner
to the visiting clergy will be given at
ST. Mary's seminary after the exercises
at the cathedral.
Since the announcement of his ele-
walton, Mgr Conaty has been busy re-
receiving congratulations from all parts
of the country, coupled with good
wishes for him and for the university.
1t is felt that this act of kindness on
the part of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII
is another evidence of his appreciation
of the Importance of the university in
the educational life of this country and
the honor which has come to its rector
is an added dignity to his office and
gives great promise for the university
work. to which so many years of his
life have been devoted. All the friends
of the university are very proud of this
recognition, and feel that it will bring
great success in the development of the
university idea.
Mgr. Conaty, who is now in his oath
year. was appointed second rector of
the university by His Holiness Nov. 20,
1896, so that his conservation as Titu-
lar Bishop of Samos will occur on his
fifth anniversary. June 2, 1897, he was
promoted to the dignity of domestic
prelate.