The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-05-07
Professor of Latin in the
College Of St. Thomas at
Merriam Park.
Delivered on the Occasion of
the dwelling of a
Celtic Cross
In St. Vincent's Parish of
Which Rev. L. Cosgrove
is the Pastor.

On Sunday afternoon, April 20. 1910,
the twenty first anniversary of st. Vim
cents church. st. Paul, was celebrated
by the unwilling of Celtic cross on
the grounds of the parish buildings,
Lafond street and Virginia avenue
The ceremonies were opened at $3.50
with an address on THE Celtic Cross
by Rev. Patrick +. O'Brien, NJ. A., of
cluded representatives from many of
the Catholic societies. altar boys and
twenty-one of the original members
OF the parish. In his address Father
OBrien spoke feelingly of the faith
full services of Father Lawrence Cos
grove, who has been the pastor for
twenty years and has brought the par
ish to a nourishing condition.
The cross itself is of Celtic design
and was presented to st. Nincents
congregation by Michael j. Lange,
president of the st. Paul Stone COM
pany. 1t is over seven feet in height
and was prepared by Mark Fitzpatrick
OF ST. Paul. Carved on the base is the
inscription I'm Pastoral Record of the
XXI. Anniversary of Our Parish, This
Celtic Cross is Memorially Placed.
1889 1870
monies were the following, who We're
among the charter members of the
congregation: Ambrose Pierce. F. No
Ian, w. Mccall, j. Duffy, J. McNeily,
M. O'Connor, c. McCarron. j. Cullen,
j. Mccormick, P. Moroney, William
Gormley, D. Furey, M. Cunningham, 7.
Gibbons, P. Gerraghty, J. Foley, P.
OBrien, James Rothwell, ]. King, M.
Delaney and p Golden.
The ceremonies were attended by
members of the following bodies: All
Hallow's court of the Catholic Order
of Foresters. st. Vincent De Paul Con-
ference of Holy Name Society, ST.
GATHERINGS Court of Lady Foresters
st. Andrews Trustees, Ancient Order
of Hibernians knights Of Columbus
and the Catholic knights of America.
The following is a verbatim report
of Father O'Brien's address on the oc-
casion:
1t appears to be a law Of history
that no people ever achieved great
result without having before them an
the Athenians, famous for poetry, art
and eloquence. and the reason OF it's
success lay in the cultivation of its
models. The Athenian poet had before
him the lliad Of Homer the Athenian
sculptor worked within daily sight of
the Acropols; the Athenian orator
loved to, mould himself on the glow
ing phrases of Demosthenes. It Is the
same ideal which erects in public
squares the monuments of great men
or of great events, which builds mu-
seulns, which seeks to gather under
one roof the trophies of generations,
in order to stimulate nations en-
ergy as we'll as to f1atter nations
pride. But of all the models ever held
UP for human imitation, there has
been none like that visioned by the
prophet and glorif1ed by the apostle
there has been no model like the Cross
{ of Christ
The true test of an ideal may be
found in the character of it's adher-
ents. Before the Cross Of Calvary the
4 world had witnessed many a hero but,
outside the Chosen People, it had not
seen saint The great men Of an
tiquity had carried their eulogies in
story or in stone by the display of
grand passions, by intrigue and self
ishness through rills of blood or BUSH
els of gold. The saint, on the other
his ambition, suppressed his very self.
4 His victories were won, not from the
a shouts of a populace or the clash of
4 spears, but among the sands of des-
gert or the stones of cloister. The
hero played to the world, as to an
u audience; the saint hid himself be-
4 hind the scenes. The hero struggled
to immortalize his name; the saint Of
4 ten put away from him the very name
n of: his baptism. And vet today for
4 one who bears the name Of a hero,
there are hundred who are named
after, a saint The saint therefore has
gained the end for which the hero
4 struggled. The ideal of the saint has
u conquered. What was this ideal? Lis
ten to St. Paul: Ear be it from me,
TO glory" says the apostle, "save in
the Cross Of Christ" There were sure
III many other things in which st. Paul
sscould have, gloried; yet he, dwells not
upon the Gospel episodes Of sweetness
u power, but upon tfe Passion and