The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-07-20
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Lord Macauley wrote that in his es-
say on Ranke's The Popes of Rome, -
when Salt Lake lay unknown in the
midst of the Spanish republic of Mex
leo. Two years later the northernmost
portion of the vast country which lies
between the Mississippi and Cape Horn
was transferred as a result of the Mex
lean war to the territory of the United
States. And included within the trans
fer was the little Mormon. settlement
at Salt Lake In the Pacific country
the old Spanish diocese of San Fran
cisco became the new diocese of Cali
fornia, and from that center Bishop
Allemany sent out missionaries into
the desert country beyond. The first
Catholic missionary to penetrate into
the Salt Lake district was Father
Kelly, a travelling missionary from the
Marysville diocese. His sacrament
over the body of DR. Robinson, found
shot in the streets of Salt Lake in 1866
was the first Catholic sacrament per-
formed in Utah.
In 1869 Father Patrick Walsh was
sent from the coast to Salt Lake City,
where he remained and held the first
congregational services in the inter
mountain country on Second East
street, where the church of St Mary
now stands. He was then "a very old
man and saw only the beginning of the
church of St Mary Magdalen. On the
14th Of August, 1873, he retired and was
relieved by Father Laurence Seaman, |
who had served in San Francisco and
at Phoebe, New, and who had for two
weeks, the year before, filled tempo
rary vacancy at Walsh's church. For
the next thirty-four years the history
of the Catholic church in the inter
mountain country is the story Of Lau-
renee Seaman and the church of St.
Mary Magdalen.
Bishop Scanlan's Life Work.
When Father Seaman came into his
LIES work he found a congregation |
which had never exceeded a half a hun |
dred. There We're only a dozen COM |
municants Today he is the bishop of !
the diocese. He is the spiritual leader |
of 10000 souls. For thirty years he has
worked for his cause in the old church |
of ST. Mary, has established six other |
parishes, has procured the endowment |
Of five charitable and educational in |
stitutiOns, and the next feast of St |
Mary Magdalen Will see his great |
work dedicated. His work represents
the acquisition for the uses Of the
church in the northern valley of Utah
alone Of over $1.0O0000. Also Bishop
Seaman has loved and been loved by
his fellow men,
He was ordained a priest after his
education at All Hallows college in
Dublin on June a. 1868. He is more
than 60 years old, but he does not look
it. His hair is slightly gray, but his
eyes are as bright as when he first saw
the world from the Tipperary view
point He has the typical Irish mouth
and just trace Of the soft burr of old
Erin, not enough to call it brogue, just
enough for him to make his voice ca
ressing, whimsical and sincere at the
same time. In the hard days that he
has seen he has yet had time to be-
come a master of three of the European
languages. He communicates directly
with the pope at Rome in his episcopal
capacity and writes his communications
in either Latin or Italian as the church
precedent in the case dictates. He is
the typical high church officer, sincere,
hard working, educated in men as well
as books, with the fnesse of the Ro-
man prelate and the courage and inge-
nuity Of the western American.
His Life Is Simple.
His life is simple. With his assist
ants he lives in the cottage next to the
new cathedral on Brigham street. He
received an interviewer in a reception
room almost bare, opening on the side
garden. On the walls were six pic
lures, two popes. Leo and Plus the old
St. Mary's church. the St Mary's aca-
DENY, the Holy Cross hospital, the Sa-
cred Heart of Ogden. A Autograph of
the crucihxion of Christ, and two
framed testimonials, one from the chill
dren of his Sunday school on his or
dainment as bishop, the other from the
temperance society of the church upon
the same occasion. There is large
safe set into the walls of the room,
which the bishop, however. never lets
remain filed very long, and two tables
covered with books
A book lay on the center table. 1t
was catalogue of a surgical instru-
ment house. Through the front OF it
the bishop had been making estimates
for the new equipment of his hospital
Occasionally the notes would wander
from their medical poise into broader
lines. Mrs. Carroll of - street needs
coal. Mrs. Smith of - needs food and