Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-02-11
ARCHBISHOP RYAN
DIED TODAY
Venerable Archbishop Sud
denly Takes a Turn For
the Worse
HAS HAD BRILLIANT CAREER
From Humble Missionary He
Rose Step to Step to PreIate
of the Church.


Grace, Archbishop Patrick j. Ryan.
died at 4:1O o'clock this afternoon.
! The news of this great Catholic pre-
Iates death will cause grief through
out the land for the Archbishop was
greatly beloved for his learning his
piety and his never failing good hui
NOR Speaking OF him day or TWO
ago, Archbishop Pitaval said
Il am grieved to hear of The seri-
Gus illness of the Archbishop OF Phila-
delphia. His death would be a great
loss to the Catholic church
Philadelphia, Feb. 1l.-Archbishop
Ryan was taken much worse today
and at noon is not expected TO live.
His Career.
The Most Reverend Patrick ].
Ryan, Archbishop of Philadelphia,
was one of the most prominent RO-
man Catholic ecclesiastics in the
United States. He was born Febru-
airy 20, 1881, near Thurles, County
Tipperary, Ireland, and attended a
private school at Dublin until sixteen
years old He then entered Carlow
} College, with a view of preparing him
self for the American mission. He
was ordained deacon in 1888. and set
out the same year for st Louis No
where he finished his ecclesiastical
studies in Carondelet seminary, and
was raised 70 the priesthood in 1854
At the age of q he was aIointed prof
essor of English literature at the sem
mary from which he had graduated
= On September s, 1858, he was made
, assistant pastor of the st Louis Ca
, thedral, which position he filled un
= til 1856, when he become its rector
IN 1860 he was transferred to the An
nunciation Church, ST. Louis, where
/ he remained for twelve ears. actins
. also during the Civil war as ChaplIil
of a military hospital aud prison.
e He rose to be Vicar-General of th(
: diocese of St Louis. On February
s Is, 1872. he was elected coadjutor o
), St. Louis, and consecrated under tn,
title of Bishop of Tri1cEia on Apr
y IA. Owing to the great age of Arcn
D. bishop Kendrick, most of the work O
} governing the diocese fell to his shar
l. and his administration was energcti
> and successful
- He was nominated Archbishop 0
., Philadelphia on June 8, 1884, succeo@
- ing the late Archbishop Wood L
the preceding year he was one of h
q prelates selected to represent the II
n terests of the Roman Catholic churc
!. of the United States in Rome. #
l. was present at the third planar
r. council at Baltimore ;n 1924. at VIII
: the opening discourse, The Churc
g in Her Councils" was Pronounced b
!, him
y After he became Archbishop {
t Philadelphia his church 1abors CAV
= him wide renown. He was preache
d at the dedication of the Cathedral i
e New York: also when the palliur
/ was, bestowed upon Archbishop Coz
: rigan. He was the orator whe
Cardinal Gibbons received the re
l hat. He it was who delivered the az
Il dress to Leo XIII, when a copy of tn
= Constitution of the United States wa
, given to him by President Cleveland
- He visited Rome in 1887 on bushes
i connected with the plan of establist
: ing a Catholic university in Washing
ton.
In September, 1903, when the golt
en- jubilee of Archbishop Ryan Va
celebrated in Philadelphia, the chic
dignitaries of the church were pres
4 ent in the Cathedral of st. Peter an
!. st. Paul. The Pope sent Monsigno
t Falconio as a personal representative
Thirty thousand people were in tn
church, and thousands were turne
away for lack of room. In the grea
throng were many distinguished clel
gymen Of other faiths They ha
come to show their appreciation Q
/ the venerable prelate, whose work TO
the church and for the good of tn
J general public had brought great hor
or to him from his own people an
r fame beyond the borders of the I'm
ted States.
The daily life of the Archbisho
was of a most routine character. H
rose early, and usually said mass a
7:30\o'clock, after which he partoo
I of light breakfast. Two hours o
] more were then devoted to the bus
ness of the archdiocese; the mex
two hours lay to visitors. Dinner wa
served promptly at II o'clock, afte
which he took rest, That was fo
lowed by a long walk, extending owe
several miles. He returned about 81
o'clock, and after supper again CAV
attention to diocesan business unit
/ it was time to retire.
q The Archbishop lived quietly, plair
- ly and modestly and never evidence
: any desire to keep in the public eye
Il He could hardly be said to have ider
L titled himself with either of the 81
e called factions of the Catholic churc
n in America. Like Archbishop Irelan
q and the late Archbishop Corrigan an
one or two other members of the h
- erarchy in America Archbishon Rya