The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-04-16
OF the St. Paul Province Are
All Appointed.
Will Be Consecrated in May
at the Seminary.
A Great Event in History of
the Northwest.

| the Northwest in the archdiocese of St.
Paul have been confirmed by Pope
Plus x, is to be the most elaborate
church ceremony ever witnessed in
Minnesota. High church dignitaries
are to be present, and the fact that
six bishops are to be consecrated at
the one ceremony will make it the
more impressive.
Announcement of the date is to be
| made within few days by Archbishop
John Ireland. 1t is expected the cere-
mony will take place in the st. Paul
Seminary. The apostolic delegate to
the United States, Mgr. Diomede Fal-
COMO, or, in his absence, his personal
representative, is expected to be pres
ent.
| The conservation of a bishop is a
J ceremony attended by solemn rites.
The assembling of six bishops will call
out added pomp and dignity. Arch
bishops, bishops, priests and attend
robes. The seminarians, in robes, will
give appropriate chants.
, The new bishops to be consecrated
are: Rev. James O'Reilly, pastor Of
! st. Anthony of Padua. Minneapolis;
| Rev. J. J. Lawler, pastor of the Cathe-
dral, st. Paul; Rev. Patrick r. Heff-
ron, rector of the st. Paul Seminary;
Rev. Joseph F. Busch, head of the
! Diocesan Mission band, Excelsior; Rev.
Timothy Corbett, pastor of the Cathe-
dral of the Sacred Heart, Duluth, and
Ri. Rev. Vincent Wehrle, abbot of st.
| Mary's Abbey, Richardton, N. D.
Sketches of Rev. Fathers O'Reilly,
Lawler and Hebron have already ap-
peared in these columns.
Father Busch, who has been ap-
pointed bishop of Lead, S. D., was
born at Red Wing, Mimi, April 16, 1866.
He was educated in the public schools
at Red Wing, Sacred Heart college,
Prairie du Chen, Wis, and studied
philosophy and theology at the Uni
versity of Innsbruck, Austria, and the
Catholic University of America, Wash
! ington, D. C. He was secretary to
Archbishop Ireland and engaged in
parochial work in the Cathedral and
st. Mary's parishes in st. Paul. He
has been pastor in South st. Paul and
st. Lawrence parish, Minneapolis. He
was the founder and superior of the
St. Paul Diocesan Mission band and
was in preaching missions throughout
the diocese of st. Paul and also in
neighboring dioceses In the diocese
Of Lead, S. D., he is we'll known as a
missionary. A brother of the new
bishop, Rev. William Busch, is attached
to st. Luke's church, st. Paul; another
brother is Jesuit priest in Cleveland
O.; and another is at st. Thomas Col
lege taking a preparatory course for
the priesthood. His sister is nun in
the Sacred Heart Convent, Chicago
III. Father Busch is a preacher OF
much power and richly deserves pro-
motion for the good work he has al
ready accomplished in the priesthood
Rt. Rev. Vincent Wehrle, who be-
comes bishop of Bismarck, N. D., was
born in Switzerland about so years
ago.. He was ordained to the priest
hood at Einsiedela Abbey, a noted in
stitution of the Benedictine order and
came to this country in the $685. first
going to st. Meiniad Abbey, Indiana
where he remained for some time be-
fore assuming charge of the Grow
Creek industrial school on the Indiar
reservation, S. D., about 1888. Abou,
1890 he went to Devils Lake, N. D., an6
covered that section as far as For
Buford, where he founded a priory
which he afterwards transferred tt
Richardton, N. D., where he resides a,
present He is man of great zeal anc
energy and we'll fitted for a new anc
undeveloped country.
Rev. Timothy Corbett of Duluth, the
new bishop Of CrookstoS,, Mimi, was
born in 1858 at Mendoza, the oldes
town in Minnesota, near historic For
Smelling. When boy, he removed
with his parents to Minneapolis ant
attended the Catholic school in Bisho1
(then Father) McGolrick's parish Oh.
serving the youths priestly vocation
Bishop McGolrick. after giving him {
private course in Latin, Greek ant
English, personally placed him in the
year 1876 in the old college of Mexi.
mieux, France, where Archbishop Ire.
land and Bishop O'Gorman completed
their classical studies. At the end O.
the four years he returned to pursu.
his course in philosophy and theolog,
at the Grand Seminary, Montreal, ant
Brighton Seminary, Boston. He wa,
ordained priest at the latter institu.
ton in 1885. Coming to Minneapolis
| hn 40 o.