The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-04-21
And Will Be the Greatest Event in Church
History Since the Last Plenary
Council in 1884.
The Celebration Will Be on Scale of Mag
nificence Never Equaled in the
American Church.

was interrupted by the war with Eng
land. After the war the work was re-
sumed and carried on till the COM
pletion of the building i'll 1921.
On May 81. 1921, the edfice was
dedicated by Archbishop Mareschal.
constructed by Archbishop Kenrick.
"On Ascension day. Thursday. May
2:. 1876, the cathedral was consecratcd
by Archbishop Bailey. The sacristy
was erected in 1879. and the building
was enlarged and the new sanctuary
added in 1855.
Since it's dedication in 1891, the
cathedral has been the scene of many
conspicuous and historical gatherings.
No church in the United States has
witnessed SO many conscientious Of
bishops and ordinations of priests as
have taken place within these wallis
TwentysiX bishops have been conse-
Grated and many Of these prelates have
occupied a leading position in the AM
erican hierarchy, including Whitfield
and Eccleston of Baltimore. Fenwick
of Boston. Dubois of New York, Pur-
cell and Elder of Cincinnati. Whelun
of Wheeling, Gross Of Oregon and the
two I'oleys. OF the twenty-six bish-
ops raised here. to the episcopal rank,
j have had the privilege of consecrat-
ing ten.
have ordained 1,256 priests. Of whom
$50 received sacred orders in the cath
edral.
Three prel:les were invested with
the insignia OF the cardinalitial rank.
In 1885 | was delegated by Pope Leo
NIII. to confer the beretta on Cardinal
S;ltoli. ana six years later performed
Il similar Office in behalf of Cardinal
Martiuell.
"rhis venerable temple has been
The great hall of legislation for the
Church of the United States. Ten
) .
or national, councils We're assembled
here. Archbishop Patrick Kenrck
presided over the first national coun-
Gil in 1852 Archbishop Spalding pre-
sided over the second national council
in 1866, and l had the honor to pre-
side over the third national council in
1,,t.% oft 1,J
by seventy eight bishops and abbots
and by the leading clergy of the coun-
try. OF the seventy light preatcs who
attended that council only fourteen sur
, vive.
but this church is not only IL tenn
pie Of worship for the living: it is also
I! I, mausoleum for the sacred custody
Iof the dead. In the crypt under tho
high altar are deposited the ashes OF
Carroll and Mareschal, of Whitfield and
Eccleston, Of Kenrick and Spalding.
MANY of our American citizens are
, in the habit every year Of making pill
| grinEges to Mount Vernon to view the
spot where the father Of his country
| is buried. And many q citizen of the
republic of the Church is piously drawn
to this temple, that he may contem-
plate the last resting place of the pat
riarch of the American Church
What Mecca is to the Mohammedan
what the temple of Jerusalem is to the
!1sraelite, what ST. Peters basiica ir
Rome is to the faithful Of the church
universal. this cathedral is to the Am
erican Catholic
Cardinal Gibbons, whose home ad.
joins the Old editicc, loves it more thar
anything else on earth. Speaking abou
his own associations with it. the ven
crablc prelate said:
Every stone of the building is sac
red to me. 1t was in this church tina
II was regenerated in the waters O
baptism at the hands of the veneratet
DR.. White. Under it's shadow I wa
raised to The priesthood. In this tenn
PIC "hS COIlscCidlcu Dioiiop w fhiSh
} bishop Spalding. of happy memory. /
Twas here that the insignia Of cardinal
litial rank We're conferred on me b.
la representative of Pope Leo VIII
Here have labored as a priest an
prelate for thirty-two years.
II intend to continue to offer tn
/ holy sacrifice and to preach With