The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-07-20
BISHOP SCANLAN AND ST. MARY'S PRO CATHEDRAL

winter when the mortar would be apt
! to freeze, anyway. The corner stone
was laid on July %. 1900, the feast day
Of st. Mary Magdalen. Archbishop
Riordan of San Francisco delivered the
dedicafory address Since then, day by
day [ have watched the structure rise.
1t is my life'S work and my hopes and
heart have been in its progress. There
has not been IN accident or mistake.
The original conception of Architect
G.. y. Neuhausen, which is thirteenth
century Romanesque, has been followed
through to the end. He is, by the way.
member of my congregation. These
men are also in my parish Foreman
A. MacCullen, who also did the stone
setting on the city and county building;
William McNulty. the plasterer, and st.
Mary's is the largest plastering job
ever done in the state; and John Con-
roy. the efficient foreman of my stone
cutters AS to the faithful men under
them it has never been my habit in the
employment to ask mans creed or
politics.
Cathedral Organ.
Today the work is practically done
We are taking down the last of the
scaffolding in the interior of the church
and will begin next week to put in the
remainder OF the DdS TellelS, winch rep
resent the stations of the cross. [ have
received word that the Kimball compa-
ny of Chicago will have our $4,000 or
gan done by the first of next May. 1t
VIII be built and shipped here in sec
tions. The work of putting it up will
require but a few days. The order has
lust gone forward for the three affairs
which Miss O'Meara has given us. This
marks the completion Of the church.
will give The Herald a picture of the
affairs. because | think they are the
most beautiful ones / have seen. There
will be three of them. The affairs of the
Savior. of Joseph and of Mary. They
are all to be cut of Carrara marble,
the only deviation being the crucifix
upon which our Lord is suffering his
last agonies This will be of brass. The
figure of the Savior on the cross is sur
rounded by statues of the four evangel-
lists. 1t will take about ten months to
complete the work upon them. 1 hope
to fix the dedication of the cathedral
on the 22d of June next, the feast day
of Mary Magdalen, eight years beyond
the day upon which the corner stone
was laid To this end I have prayed
and worked. When the cathedral of
st. Mary Magdalen is dedicated then l
can say with old Simon, "Uume dimitis,
sectum tuum,' Lord, now thy servant
can depart in peace
The bishop was asked about the ring
he wore. 1t is an old amethyst set
squarely in hand-hammered gold. He
told me it was the gift of Bishop
Croak of Cashel, in Ireland. ga
shell" he said, 'is the old seat of the
kings of Munster, near which I was
born and raised. For years held my
hopes high for return to the old town
from which 1 went down to Dublin to
school almost half a century ago. The
chance did not come until after 1 had
become the consecrated bishop of Salt
Lake. l met Bishop Croake and he
gave me the ring, the amethyst being
the sign of the episcopacy. He said
that he was not a Munster man him
self, so that 1 was the only native who
was a bishop and rightfully should take
the ring to my western fold and wear
1t. 1t had belonged to four of his pre-
decessors who had been the spiritual
heads of the community in which my
ancestors lived, worshiped and died.
The ring is 200 hundred years Old