The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-08-31
THE LATE FATHER DOYLE, esp.

York and Buried in the PauIist
Church-Thousands View the Body
and Assist at the obsequies.
Many appreciative notices of the late
Father Doyle, G. S. p, rector of the
Apostolic Mission House, Washington,
have appeared in the secular as we'll
as in the Catholic press since the an
nouncement of his sudden death at
San Francisco, on August 9th, which
came as a shock to all of his friends.
Non Catholics have wed with Cath.
olics in extolling his work as a man
and citizen. On account of his inter
est in non-Catholic mission work he
had hosts of friends who were not of
his faith and all have expressed sin
cere sorrow on account of his un-
timely death.
From the details which have come
to hand regarding his last illness it
seems that not even his physicians re-
garded it as serious. When he arrived
in San Francisco after his journey
across the continent he was very weak,
but his buoyant spirit led him to be
lieve that within a few weeks he
would recover his normal health. But
it was not to be so. The day after
his arrival he was seized with a sink
ing spell in St. Mary's Hospital and
passed away quietly from heart failure.
Funeral Service in San Francisco.
The funeral services were held on
August 18th in st. Mary's Church, San
Francisco. The Solemn Mass of Re
QUEEN was celebrated by the Very Rev,
erend Thomas Cullen, G. S. P,
Superior of the Paulists in California.
The sermon was preached by the Rev
erend P. G. Yorke, D. D., of Oakland,
Cal. The last absolution was given by
the Most Reverend P. w. Riordan, D.
D., Archbishop of San Francisco. The
Right Reverend Bishop Conaty, of Los
Angeles, and seventy priests were
present at the obsequies. ~
The remains of Father Doyle were
then shipped to New York and were
received at the Church of st. Paul the
Church, on Sunday afternoon, August
18TH. In the evening the Office for the
Dead was chanted by his brother Paul
lists and the Solemn Mass of Requiem
was celebrated on the following morn
ing, the Very Reverend John J.
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the officiant, and the sermon was
preached by the Reverend Walter
Elliott, C. S. P, who was closely asso-
ciated with Father Doyle, in the Apos-
tolate to the non-Catholics.
Interment in PauIist Church, New
York.
AS the body lay before the altar a
continual stream of people passed up
and down the aisles. 1t is estimated
that 10000 people viewed the remains,
among them many distinguished pre-
lates and laymen. When the Mass
began there were more than 1000 peo-
pie in the church. Those who were
unable to enter the edifice gathered
outside the doors and many waited
until the services had been concluded.
The remains of Father Doyle were
then inferred in the crypt of the Paul
lists Church beside those of the foun-
ders of the community and other de-
ceased members of the Order.
An Appreciation.
The following editorial appreciation
of Father Doyle's personality and work
appeared in the New York Evening
Mail:
Father A. P. Doyle, who died the
other day, will be missed by many
more people than those of his own
Immediate circle. He was a wonder
in many ways-a man with an Irish
heart and Celtic humor, but of thor
oughly American breeding and out
look AS keen as a Damascus blade,
he was as sweet and juicy as a big
red apple. And what was strange,
| he had in him lot of the Puritan
crusading spirit No other man
could have led militant cause, as he
did as the working, organizing power
of the Paulist Fathers, and at the
same time have managed SO well to
keep the good will of his theological
and sectarian opponents. For that
matter, it was never his idea TO rob
any other church of it's sincere COM
municants. In his mission work in
this city he directed his efforts to-
ward that great mass of the totally
unchurched who are found ON our
streets. The hurley-burley Of the
world-trek into and out of New York
throws, literally, hundreds of thou
sands out of relation to their own
religious communions. They are out
churched, outclassed, morally out
lawed. Father Doyle made a dead
set, religiously, at these outsiders
and was warranted in doing so, from
every point of view. And when he