The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-02
TELLS OF The PIONEER DAYS
High Tribute Paid to Pioneer Priests in
Work Of Establishing Great Church
in This Part OF Wisconsin-Many IN
stitutions Now Under Control.

liz lS6bLleTS LOT recognition IN WISc0n
sin are graphically recounted in
complete and authentic history of thu
archdiocese Of Milwaukee, containe,
in new Catholic Encyclopedia. Til,
remarkable rise of the see from it
humble beginnings to its present da,
important position in the communit,
lis tellingly reviewed and the genera
scope and influence Of the ecclesiasti
cal, educational and charitable worl
of the archbishopric treated at length
Interesting statistics have been com
piled by the author, Monsignor J
Rainier Of Milwaukee Much new in
formation will be found in the follow
ing excerpts taken from its pages:
The archdiocese Of Milwaukee es
tablished as a diocese, Nov. %, 1843
became an archbishopric, Feb. -, 1875
and comprises seventeen counties d
the state of Wisconsin; Columbia
Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green
Green Lake, Jefferson, Kenosha, Mar
quette, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine
Rock, sheboygan, Walworth, Wash
iington, Waukesha, an area of 1921
4uare miles. The metropolitan city
Of Milwaukee is picturesquely situat
ed on Milwaukee May, on the eastern
shore of Lake Michigan. It's name
is derived from the Algonquin family
of Indian dialects and means Coco
Land. In the history Of Catholicism
| it is first mentioned IN the Catholic
Almanac Of 1870; Milvakie, Rev. Mr.
Kelly who visits alternately Racine
Rochester, Burlington, Southport Ike
Inosha) etc. The first mass, however
was celebrated in Milwaukee as early
as 1887 by Rev. j. Bonduel, mission
airy from Green Bay, in the home Of
the founder Of Milwaukee Solomon
Juneau.
In 1866 two new dioceses were es
tablished in Wisconsin with episcopal
sees in Lacrosse and Green Bay Ii
1875 Milwaukee was made an arch
episcopal see, with Mgr. Henri as first
archbishop. During the last years OF
his administration his burden was con
siderably lightened by the appoint.
ment Of Rt. Rev. M. Heiss as coad
jutor, with the right Of succession, and
titular archbishop of Adrianople
Archbishop Henri who is rightly call
ed the Patriarch Of the Northwest
was called to his reward Sept. Z, 1881
The rapid, almost miraculous
growth Of Catholicism in the state OF
Wisconsin is chiefly due to the apos
|tolic zeal Of the pioneer priets Of the
secular priesthood; but the labors and
trials Of the early missionaries be-
longing to religious orders ought not
to be forgotten In 1857 the first
.Capuchin convent was erected at
Mount Calvary, Wisconsin. It has
been asserted, not without reason, that
the foundation of the Calvary Prov
ince is a fact unprecedented in the
history of the Catholic church in this
country, in as far as the order of
Capuchins was introduced into Wis
consin, not by religious, but by two
secular priests, Rev. Francis Haas and
Rev. Bonaventure Frey. The opposi-
tion which they met on all sides, the
trials which they had to endure, and
the undaunted courage with which they
met them, border on the miraculous.
Today the order possesses a FURNISHING
community with convent and college
at Calvary. convent and two
parishes in Milwaukee, not to speak
Of the numerous religious houses and
communities in other dioeeses. The
Society of Jesus, was established IN
Milwaukee in 1856, and St. Gall Is
church, erected in 1849, was placed in
charge Of the society. In 1880 the
Jesuit college known as Marquette
College was opened, and has lately de.
Eeloped into the FURNISHING Mar
quette University. The Jesuits also
have charge Of the Gesu church, one
Of the finest religious edifees in the
northwest. The Fathers Of the Holy
Cross conduct the College eff the Sac
red Heart at NatertoWn; the servite
Fathers, a monastry and novitiate at
Granville Center; and the Discalced
Carmelites, lately arrived from Rats
bon, Bavaria, attend to the chapel on
Holy Hill a well known place of
pilgrimage.
The School Sisters Of Notre Dame
came to Milwaukee IN 1855. The
sisters have their mother-house and
nositiate IN Milwaukee. In 1876 the
community WIS divided into two PROV
5nces, with the second mother-house IN
Baltimore; aud in 1875 third prov
ince was formed with a mother house
at st. Louis, No, The Sisters Of st.
Francis have two mother houses II the