The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-11-05
GALWAY CATHEDRAL
And College Fund Reaches a Most
Creditabie Figure.
The following letter from Most Rev.
DR.. O'Dea, bishop OF Galway, has been
published.

and College Bazaar is satisfactory
one. The sum realized represents
considerable addition to the fund.
Please convey my warmest thanks
to those who have co-operated with
you in achieving this success. have
reason to be deeply grateful to all,
particularly to you and your commit
tee, to the ladies who have been so
unsparing OF their help, and to the
many friends who have given valuable
prizes. My obligations are the great
er, because contrary to the general
tendency, the receipts are, l believe,
considerably in excess of those of re-
cent years, if We exclude -subscrip-
lions, which this year found their way
by another channel into the fund.
1t will interest we'll wishers to learn
that our appeal has so far brought
100000 in cash, inclusive of the sum
of e1,050 from other sources, and that
the promises amount to G6,120 more
This makes total of G17,170 to date
Adding the $4,000 available from the
beginning, and putting the cost of the
College Gncluding the purchase of the
site, furniture and grounds) at 92O,-
O0O-it cannot exceed G21,OO0-we are
in a position already, after paying for
the College in full to spare nearly
$4,000 for the Cathedral without
touching the $500 year (from in
vestments not easily saleable), which
we mean to keep as a permanent en-
dowment of the College and, in part
also of the Cathedral. This is hope
full result of few months labor, for
which We praise and thank Almighty
God. May His blessing be with us to
the end.
l regard $4,000 as a reasonable
estimate of the amount required to
commence even the part OF the Cattle
dral have been hoping to build. On
this assumption some G35,O00 remains
still to be collected or assured, be-
fore we are safe in beginning. Can
this sum be raised? l am full of hope
that it can, because of the wonderful
generosity already exhibited in many
quarters, and still more of the many
sources OF help that have not yet been
reached. And when I consider the
sacredness of the purpose in view, and
their import to those dear to us-how
holy it, and how profitable to ourselves
and our children, to raise up good
priests and bishops, capable of teach
ing Christs religion in turn from His
hand, and ministering it in the full
ness of it's divine benefcence to our
own people for ever, and to raise up
also worthy mother church, in which
that religion, and therefore, Christ
Himself, and all His mysteries shall
find fitting home, wherein we may
all be born and grow up as His broth
ers to the glory of God, till Death
gather us one by one to our home of
frritiOn in heaven-when I think of
these lofty religious interests on the
one hand, and, on the other, Of the
many Catholic men and women, even
within our own borders, who are
blessed by God with wealth and the
desire of doing great things for Him,
am not without hope that, as those
interests unfold, and especially when
the first stone of the Cathedral has
been blessed and laid, not a few may
be inspired by God to give large bene-
factions in life or by will, and that
SO we may be enabled not only to
build and complete part as now con-
templated, but to carry the work much
further to completion. But the date.
of beginning must depend on the
promptness with which intending
benefactors subscribe within the next
few months. Cardinal Vaughan,
speaking of his Cathedral, was able
to say to friend in his last days.
"You know l never built when l
had not got the money" For us in
Galway it would be rash and suicidal
to begin without having got at least
much of the money necessary to com.
plete the part We propose to build,
and clear prospect of soon finding
the balance.
If there be any who plead that there
are too many churches already in
Galway, answer that this would be
equally true if the pro- Cathedral were
a stable such as our Lord was born
in; and If they go further and say
that the pro- Cathedral is worthy to
be the mother-church of Galway and
of these dioceses, and capable of at
least substantially fulfilling all the
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