Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-13
ARCHBISHOP RYAN
IS TO Be LAID At
REST THURSDAY
Remains of Dead Prelate to Lie
in State at the
Cathedral.
BISHOP PRENDERGAST is TO
CELEBRATE REQUIEM MASS
Conjecture Rife as to Successor.
Bishop Kennedy Pr0nli-
nently Mentioned.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13.-Although
long foreshadowed the death OF Arch
bishop Ryan came as a mournful shock
to Christendom. At meeting of the
consulters of the dioeeses held today,
plans for the funeral were arranged
Grief was plainly written on every face,
and the proceedings were frequently
halted by its clutch.
The archbishop will be laid out in
the full robes of his office on Wednes-
day, and will repose in front of the
high altar of the cathedral
Cardinal Gibbons will preside and
archbishops bishops and priests from
all sections of the United States viii
De present when the divine office for
the dead is begun, Thursday morning
at $3.50 o'clock.
The nine lessons of the office will be
read by visiting prelates and the re
sponses will be made by the assembled
/ ciergymen. AT 10 o'clock the solemn
mass of requiem will be begun by
Bishop Prendergast, who is now
temporarily at the head of the arch
i diocese of Philadelphia The music of
the mass will be sung by a great choir
of priests and seminarians.
Archbishop GIennon to Preach Sermon.
i Archbishop Glennon, OF st. Louis,
/ will preach the funeral grafton. Arch
! bishop Ryan was at one time head of
thu See of st. Louis, and for many
years the closest friendship existed be-
tween the two prelates. After the
mass the body of the archbishop will
be entombed beneath the high altar
| of the cathedral
! Every Roman Catholic church in the
archdiocese was draped in black to-
day by order of Bishop Prendergast,
and every day until the funeral masses
will be celebrated.
Who will succeed Archbishop Ryan
as head of the archdiocese of Philadel-
phia2
This question is interesting thou
sands who are outside the Roman
Catholic fold as well as r. hundreds
of thousands who are communicates in
the churches of the big archdiocese.
! Upon the best authority the Press
states that the choice of a successor
| is likely to fall upon one of these
bishops In the order named:
Rt. Rev. Thomas f. Kennedy.
Rt. rev. Eugene A. GarVey.
Rt. Rev. Dennis J. Dougherty
TT Pcv. Edmund #. Prendergast.
Bishop Kennedy'E Qualifications.
Right Reverend Monsignor Thomas
+. Kennedy, rector of the American
College in Rome, titular bishop OF
Adrianapolis, ana the prelate most fire.
quently mentioned In connection with
a second American cardinalate is eX-
pected to rank first as the choice of the
College of Cardinals, of Pope Plus X,
and Of the priests and bishops who will
recommend To Rome three names for
the succession.
The reasons for this prominence are
many and weighty. He knows this
archdiocese as no other man of high
rank in the church knows it. He is
young, as bishops go, is an American
to his finger tips, is thoroughly CONVEX
SAINT with the policy of the vatican and
is a diplomat of rare learning and dis
cretion.
Bishop Kennedy sailed from New
York for Rome only last Saturday. He
was assured at that time that the ven
ernble archbishop had weathered the
storm of his malady and was recover
ing some measure of health. His abb
sepce from the country will make no
difference in the balloting for the sue
cesson, say his admirers among the
priests of the archdiocese.
Bishop Kennedy was born at Consho-
hocken in 1867. He carries his flfty-odd
years with a bearing that would do
credit to a man of thirty. Large,
clear-eyed, impressive of feature he has
all the appearances of a prince of the
Catholic church. His voice is soft but
resonant and possessing great capacity
for expression. His hair is still brown,
with tinges of gray just showing them
selves at the temples. He seems a
typical Irish American, the trace of his
Celtic ancestors being manifested in his
smile, in his rare humor and in the ease
with which he can be approached.
The announcement of the death of
Archbishop Ryan came as no surprise,
as for nearly a fortnight his life had
hung by little more than a thread. His
great age nearly so years, rendered
his case all the more critical. Qc-
casionally he showed signs Of improve
ment and this week his condition was
such as to rekindle hope that he might
be about again. At dawn Saturday,
however, the change came and he
slowly lost ground. AT noon it was
thought that he was about to breathe
his last, but he rallied, only to lapse
again into a sinking spell later. The
four attending physicians, who had
been resorting to artificial means to
keep their patient alive. shook their
heads at 8 o'clock and whispered that
the end wes not far off About this
time the dying archbishop reused him /
self and murmured the dying words of
st. Paul: 81 wish to be dissolved and
be with Christ "
An hour later the final change came. /
Messengers hurried out to summon
priests who were hearing confessions t
in the cathedral. As they entered the /
sick room Father Charles f. Kava-
naRsh, tho archbishop's secretary, be-
gan the prayers for the dying and the
priests. kneeling about the deathbed,
intoned the responses. The archbishop's
Continued ON Second Pase.)