The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-18
DubIin's Historic Cathedral.

Inc Dro-cathedral. Marlborough
street. Dublin. is. by far. the most not
able and interesting of the Catholic
churches of the Metropolis of Ireland.
1t links the present with the past-and
penal days with times of peace 1t was
in the year that Robert Emmett sllf-
fered death for his cOuntry-1S03-tha
the first steps We're taken for its cree
ton, and its foundations We're laid Just
as Napoleon had passed into his fatal
captivity at st. Helena, Nov. 4, 1915.
Danied O'Connel. Shiel and Moore
gave each d helping hand to the new
temple, and on a later larger day.
amidst the deepening gloom of the aw-
full famine of 1877 O'ConnelTs requiem
was chanted within its sacred walls,
and his remains borne thence, with a
nations mourning. TO the stately
tower in Glasnevin. From the belfry
of the pro-cathedral. in tones of over
passing sweetness and unrivaled SOL
emnity. was rung. in 1874. the first An
gelus that for three hundred years had
tolled across the city
The pro-cathedraI has been known by
many names ana titles, since its foun-
dation The Chapel now erecting"
1.-The Metropolitan Chapel" 1.-THE Met
rOpolitan Church. THE Church of the
Conception" st. MaTy's. Marlborough
street" The Church of the Immaculate
Conception ''The Cathedral THE
Pro-CathedTal." Archbishop Walsh
having sanctioned the use of the last
title. Properly and historically. Christ
Church, st. Laurence O'Tooole's own
church which he reconstructed and en-
larged. which he sanctified by his pres
ense and his prayers, is the Cathedral
of Catholic Dublin. It was so consti-
uted by Holy See. st. Mary's, Marl-
borough street, was not so constituted.
However, since its opening it has been
used as the Archbishops church-his
official chair, his archbishopal throne,
is there. It is the chief church, the
mother church Of the diocese.
The pro-cathedral, or st. Mary'S.
Marlboro street. succeeded in 1926 to
the canonical position of the old his
toric St. Mary's Liffey street, which
had long been recognized as a regis
tered mass house." and had been the
parish church for we'll night a century,
Rev. John Linegar, afterwards arch
bishop of Dublin. having been its first
parish priest. It was in the year 1853
that Dr. Troy took the first tops to-
wards the erection in St. Mary's parish
Of a church in some degree worthy Of
the divine mysteries and Of the Catho-
lies of Dublin. 1t was the archbiShop's
idea-heartily approved by the people
to erect in the great Catholic city Of
Dublin ''One splendid and costly edifice
as it We're a metropolitan chapel, in
the advantages of which all Catholics
might participate" A large sum was
readily subscribed-$25, 500. With that
sum the present site-the site of Lord
Annesley's town residence-was pur-
chased. The work of building was,
however. not soon begun. The purchase
Of the site left but little in hand avail
able wherewithal to advance the work.
The times. too, were difficult and dis
turbed The prospect Of immediate aid
was not encouraging. 1t was thought
advisable to accept for time an offer
made by the government of a rent of
81 500 a year for Lord Annesley's house.