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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-01
AN APOSTLE OF AMERICA

character, a celebrated lawyer once
replied: Go down among his neigh
bors and get their opinion" The
SANITY Loras" is the traditional title
by which this holy Bishop is known
in every city and hamlet and parish
where he lived. Wherever his mission
ary zeal led him, he left reputation
for personal sanctity. The symbolism
of art has instinctively placed halo
round the head of the saint; for there
is unquestionably halo round his life
as he walks among his fellowmen. It
is not only seen but felt by all who
come into contact with him. And
the local tradition, however vitiated
by the lapse of memory and of years,
sive human esteem, ever prone to ex-
aggeration, will have, nevertheless, un-
deniable evidence for it's basis and
support. For such traditions ripen
only upon fruitful soil; they come not
from thorns nor thistles.
The friends and neighbors of Bishop
Loras discovered his many extraordi-
nary virtues-his profound humility, his
ardent charity, his constant forgetful-
ness of self, his constant remembrance
of others. They saw his kindness to
the poor, the best beloved of Gods
kingdom. They saw the privations
and labors which he endured while
building up the Church in the midst
of the wilderness. They saw the love
and veneration that his own clergy
bore towards him, recalling the affec-
tion of Timothy for Saint Paul Above
all, they saw his thirst for souls,
which reminded them so forcibly Of
the Divine Master. And, seeing him
thus, an eXemplar and perfect pattern
to the f1ock-so pure and holy and de-
vout, so great in all his high Offices,
so richly endowed with the gifts of the
spiritual life-they did but naturally
concluded that he was saint. For
they held that missionary who would
voluntarily undergo such hardship and
modification, whose very presence
breathed the airs of the supernatural,
loving poverty as bride and loving
the heather as his own soul, must be-
long to the blessed company of Saint
Philip Neri and Saint Francis of AS
sisi
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PASTOR OF BROOKLYN CHURCH
FATHER HOGAN, FORMERLY OF
ST. PAUL SEMINARY, APPOINT
ED RECTOR OF ST. LOUIS
CHURCH.

Among the recent appointments an
nounced by Bishop Mcdonnell is that
of the Reverend Martin ]. Hogan, D.
D., to the Rectorship of the Church of
st. Louis, Brooklyn, in succession to
the late Father Jollon.
Father Hogan was ordained in 1891
and served for some years as curate
at the Church of st. Mary Star of the
Sea, Brooklyn, prior to his appoint
ment as pastor of st. Mary's, Roslyn.
He resigned his pastorate and took
two years. course of theology in
Rome. On his return he was appointed
Professor of Theology at ST. Paul
Seminary, st. Paul, Mimi, where he
remained until 1910 when he returned
to Brooklyn and became senior Curate
at st. Mary's Church and Professor OF
Philosophy in st. Francis College. The
latter position he still retains.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-01
A NURSERY OF BISHOPS

ander Christie, Archbishop OF Oregon,
consecrated June 29, 1898; the Most
Reverend James J. Keane, Archbishop
of Dubuque, consecrated Bishop of
Cheyenne, October %, 1902; the Right
Reverend John Stariha, consecrated
Bishop of Lead, october %, 1902. He
resigned the See on March 29, 1909,
was appointed Titular Bishop of Anti
patride and resides in Laibach, Aus
tria Five of the six priests elevated
to the episcopal dignity on May 10,
1910 belonged to the Archdiocese OF
st. Paul, namely, Right Reverend
James O'Reilly, Bishop of Fargo;
Right Reverend John J. Lawler, Aux.
iliary Bishop of st. Paul; Right Rev.
erend p R. Heffron, Bishop of Winona;
Right Reverend Timothy Corbett
Bishop of Crookston; Right Reverend
Joseph F. Busch, Bishop of Lead AT
the time of his conservation Bishop
Corbett was pastor of the Cathedral
of Duluth, but prior to the erection OF
that diocese he had been a priest o1
the Archdiocese of st. Paul, attached
to the Church of the Immaculate Con
ception, Minneapolis.
The latest to be selected for the
honors of the episcopate is the Right
Reverend James A. Duffy, Bishop
Elect of Kearney, Neb., who was ap
pointed first Bishop of that See on
January 81, 1913, and whose date oi
conservation has not yet been an
nounced.
1t is not generally known that the
Archdiocese of st. Paul gave an Arch
bishop to the Church in Tasmania. Il
is interesting to note that the Mos
Reverend Patrick Delany, who was
consecrated Coadjutor Bishop of Ho
bart, Tasmania, on December 10, 1893
and who succeeded to the See on Sep
tember 20, 1907, was ordained at AL
Hallow's College, Dublin, for the Dio
cese of st. Paul. Bishop Grace gavt
him permission to remain in his Aim;
Mater as professor, and when h,
sought affiliation with the Archdioces
of Melbourne, Australia, he receive,
his exeat from the present Archbishop
of st. Paul.
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HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
SOLEMN SERVICES OF INVEsTI-
TURE IN THE RELIGIOUS HABIT
THE MOST REVEREND ARCH
BISHOP oFFIcIATED-EIG
PoSTULANTs RECEIVE THE
HABIT.

The ceremony of investiture of eight
postulants in the religious habit of
the Sisters of the Good Shepherd took
place on the morning of the Gath inst,
in the Convent Chapel at which the
Most Reverend Archbishop oficiated,
assisted by Reverend Father George,
0. 8. B., and Reverend N. c. Odone,
Chaplain of the Convent.
A number of guests, relatives and
friends of the young ladies were pres
ent, some coming from a distance de-
spite the inclement weather, reaching
the Convent at an early hour to wit
ness the ceremony.
At half-past eight the Community
assembled, and the candidates, attired
in bridal robes, entered in procession
the Sisters Choir, to the strains of
the Ave Maris Stella After the sing
ing of the Veni Creator, the Most Rev.
erend Archbishop addressed the candi-
dates, portraying the duties, advan-
tages and rewards of the religious
life in general, and dwelling at length
on the particular call Of the Religious
of the Good Shepherd. He exhorted
the aspirants about to enter on a
term of two years novitiate, to re-
newed courage and fidelity, congratu-
lating them on the choice they had
made to work for God and the saliva
ton Of poor souls.
At the conclusion of the exhortation,
the young ladies again advanced to
the altar for the usual interrogations,
to which each responded, and then
withdrew to lay aside their bridal
robes and put on the religious habit
which had been previously blessed at
the altar.
AS they re-entered the Choir, the
beautiful strains of the Guam Dilecta"
terminated, and the newly clothed
Novices took up the singing of the
"Regnum Mundi" (the kingdom Of this
world and all it's pomps have 1 de-
spised for the love of Jesus Christ, my
Lord, etc.. They then advanced two
and two to receive from the Arch
bishop the Veil, Rosary and large
white Mantle worn by the Religious,
and also the name by which they will
be known hereafter as follows:
Miss Catherine Moroney, Decorah,
Iowa, Sister Mary of st. Sylvester:
Miss Gertrude Rudderham, London,
England, Sister Mary of ST. Raymond;
Miss Catherine Walsh, Ireland, Sister
Mary of st. Philomena; Miss Gather
inc Flynn, Seattle, Wash, Sister Mary
of st. Raphael: Miss Anna Walsh,
.Mankato, Mimi, Sister Mary Of st.
Martina; Miss Mary Wynn, Denver,
Colo, Sister Mary Of st. Serena; Miss
Catherine, O'Connor, Mapleton, Mimi,
Sister Mary of the Visitation; Miss
Victoria CULLEN, Dubuque, Iowa, Sis
ter Mary Genevieve.
The ceremony concluded with the
solemn Te Deum sung by the choir,
followed by Benediction OF the Most
Blessed Sacrament, given by the Most
Reverend Archbishop.
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4 HISTORIC CHURCH H
ST. MARY'S CHURCH, ALExAN-
DRIA, w. VA, DATES BACK TO
WAsHINGToN's TIME-WAs IN
CHARGE OF JEsUITs IN EARLY
DAYS.

In a sermon delivered recently at st.
Mary's Church, Alexandria, w. Va,
Right Reverend D. J. O'Connell, Bishop
of Richmond, paid warm tribute to
George Washington's views on relig-
ious tolerance. He also gave his
tory of the church, which, he declared,
had it's inception at banquet rendered
to Washington, ST. Patrick's day, 1888,
by Colonel Fitzgerald, one of his aides
de-camp. The land on which the
church was built was donated by
Colonel Hooe, also an aide-de-camp to
Washington The Bishop declared that
these facts in connection with the
establishment of the church would
have been lost forever were it not for
the fact that Washington kept diary.
The Bishop asserted that this parish
was the Oldest in the state of Virginia.
The first church was established at
Washington and Church Streets, the
town council of Alexandria having
named one street after General Wash
ington 1t named the other street
Church, because of the establishment
of a church thereon.
In the history of st. Mary's are in
cluded the names of many pastors and
parishioners, which lend deep hfstor-
ical interest to it. The Jesuit Fathers
were it's first ministers, and the name
of st. Mary's is richly interviewer in
the splendid story of the SONS of Igna-
thus in the new world. One of the
pastors in the early days was Father
Anthony Kohlman, who afterwards
went to Rome and was one of the
tutors of the young Count Pecci, who
was afterwards Pope Leo XIII of holy
memory.
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HISTORIC RELIC FOUND
METAL PLATE SUPPOSED TO
HAVE BEEN BURIED BY FRENCH
EXPLORER, LA ,VERENDRYE,
NEAR FORT PIERRE, S. D., IN
1743.

A zinc plate about eight inches
square was found last week by school
children near Fort Pierre, S. D., which
is supposed to have been buried there
in the year 1743. The inscription on
the plate translated, is as follows:
"In the twenty-sixth year of the
reign of the most illustrious Louis XIV,
Peter Gaultier of Verenderie claimed
this region for the king, his master,
and for the Lord Marquis of Beau
harnois, and placed this plate in wit
ness thereof in the year 1741."
On the reverse the French inscrip-
tion on the plate is '"This plate was
placed by the Knight of Lar in pres
ence of st. Louis of Loudette and A.
Miotte, March 80, 1743."
1t is a historical fact that La Veren.
I1rie established a fort known as Fort
st. Charles, on the shore of the Lake
of the Woods, in the northern part of
what is now Beltrami County, Mime
sofa, as early as the year 1882. The
location of this fort was discovered
about five years ago by the Jesuit
Fathers from st. Boniface, Man. From
this point La Verendrye departed on
exploration tours through the West
and penetrated as far as the Rocky
Mountains. He returned from one of
these trips by way of the Missouri
River and is said to have camped near
the present site of Fort Pierre, S. D.
In his journal he declares that he
buried zinc plates at certain places
and the one found near Fort Pierre is
believed to be one of these. It bears
the coat of arms of France. If genuine,
it is a very precious relic of the early
days when the hardy French explorers
found their way into the heart of the
American Continent.
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PSALM XIV.
JUDIcA NE, DONNIE.
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
Helen Hughes HieIscher.)

Judge me, Oh Lord! For have walked
In innocence,
And / have put my trust in Thee;
Be my defense.
Prove me, Oh Lord! and search my
heart
As fire tries;
/ love Thy truth, and council not
With the unwise.
| hate the wicked and with them
Will have no part;
But I will wash my hands with those
The clean of heart.
Let me before Thy altar come,
And hear Thy praise;
/ love the beauty of Thy house,
Thy glory's blaze.
Take not away my soul, Oh Lord!
With men of blood;
Not those whose hands are full of gifts
Are true and good.
Redeem me, Lord, for I have walked
In innocence;
NY feet within the church have
stood
Be my defense.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-01
4 MARTYR TO DUTY
PRIEST DIES OF DISEASE CON-
TRAcTED FROM PENITENT.

The Able Marie Pujos du Coudray,
military chaplain, is dead in circum-
stances which entitle him to the name
of hero. He was summoned few
days ago at the Versailles military
hospital to the bedside of an artillery
man who. was dying of an infectious
fever Although aware of the danger,
for the doctors warned him, he re
mained with the dying artilleryman
until the latter succumbed. The same
evening the chaplain was taken i'll
with similar symptoms of infectious
fever, and within two days he also ex-
pired, a martyr to duty.
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I do not claim for Bishop Loras the
highest place among American saints
and martyrs. have not singled him
out of the blessed company OF French
priests and pioneers because he shines
in our spiritual armament as star
of the first magnitude. AS an apostle
of the wilderness, he is not so re-
nowned as Marquette; he was not
called upon to endure the frightful tor
lures and the cruel death of Jogues,
though doubtless he would have done
so if Providence thus willed; he did
not work any miracles so surprising
as those attributed to Saint Rose of
Lima. In the missionary annals of
our country, De Smet, Badin, and La
combe are more splendid and enduring
names; while the American Hierarchy
includes numerous bishops who have
far surpassed him in natural endow-
ment, in scholarship and eloquence,
and in the successful administration
of the flocks committed to their care.
But after all these concessions are
made, writes Cecil Underwood in the
Ave Maria, Bishop Loras still remains
bright, particular star in the galaxy
of American saints. We may claim
this exalted rank for him in virtue of
his stainless character and self-sacri-
fcing example. 1t may be claimed for
him because of the quenchless zeal
and burning enthusiasm with which he
plunged into the wilderness in order
to rescue souls most dear to the Heart
of Jesus Christ. The basis of saint
ly life is self-sacrifice. 1t is the key
note Of Christian conduct supplied by
the cross. It is the great fundamental
lesson taught by the Saviour of man
kind. If the Lives of the Saints lay
stress upon any particular virtue, il
is surely that one which shines SO
brilliantly in the career of Bishop
Loras.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-01
SETTLERS FOR MONTANA
SEVENTY coLoNIsTs ON THEIR
WAY WEST.

Reverend Victor Day, Vicar Cen
era1 of the Diocese of Helena, Mont,
arrived in New York on February 25,
on the steamship Vaderland, bringing
with him seventy colonists from Hol-
land and Belgium, who viii go to Mon
tana The men of the party are all
practical farmers.
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WOMANS INFLUENCE IN COLONIAL DAYS
viction that women were to serve their
lords and live in complete retirement.
Women in New France.

viction that women were to serve their
lords and live in complete retirement.
Women in New France.
Much different was the condition of
women in New France. Catholic doc
trine did not require that women
should keep away from all spheres of
social activity. They could teach
school, keep hospitals, instruct the
Indians, and by fulfilling these func-
tions, were able to exercise whole
some influence upon all the colony.
The nuns were conspicuous in their
zeal for the intellectual and moral ad-
vancement of the colonists. Among
these good women, we may mention
Mother Marguerite Bourgeois, whose
cause has been introduced at Rome
and will doubtless obtain a favorable
decision.
On the other hand, in New England,
we find no women teaching, no wom-
en- devoting themselves to works of
public charity. Indeed, some women
came before the public eye, but they
we're Quakers and Salem witches. The
religious authorities of the times were
so strict that the women we're forbid
den to meet weekly, as was their
wont. to read and discuss the Scrip
lures.
Influence of Catholic Women.
Thus the feminine influence in the
two colonies was altogether different
In New England it could scarcely be
exercised except in the home, and only
indirectly could it make itself felt
in the outside world But in New
France women were never hampered
in their efforts to do good. Their in
| f1uence was both domestic and social
Everybody familiar with early Cana
dian history knows how the influence
of. Catholic women gradually pene
trated the whole social body, giving
it grace and an JUNCTION that has
lasted until the present time.
But in New England the restriction
was more than human nature could
bear. Emancipation needs must come
with time Well did Martin Luther
speak when he said that humanity
was like drunken man on horse
back: if it did not fall down on the
one side, it would fall on the other
Institutions prompted by the spirit
of Holy Church pass through the cen.
turies with minimum of change; in.
stitutions prompted by the spirit OF
private judgment change so rapidly
that time makes it impossible to trace
the line of descent.
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RUSSIAN CATHEDRAL BURNED
BUILT BY PETER THE GREAT
PRECIOUS RELICS SAVED.

The Troitsky Cathedral in st. Pet
ersburg, Russia, was destroyed by fire
on February 81 The great collection OF
pictures, carvings and precious relics
which had been gathered in the build.
ing since its erection in 1903 by Peter
the Great was saved.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-01
THE STATUS OF WOMAN IN NEW
FRANCE AND IN NEW ENGLAND
HER RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL
WORK AMONG EARLY CATHOLIC
COLoNISTS - HER CONDITION
AMONG THE PURITANS.
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
Paul Beaumont.)

James Douglas, professor OF
Queens University, Kingston, Ont,
has made careful research of North
American history for the infiu9uce
exercised by women during the Col
onial period. His object was to dis
cover the relative influence of women
in New France and in New England
This makes it a comparative study
of Catholic and Protestant women in
colonial days, and, as such, deserves
our attention.
The Puritans crossed the Atlantic
with their families; the French came
without them. 1t gradually dawned
upon the French that women were
needed and the authorities began to
encourage strong, healthy girls to
leave Europe for a husband and a
home in the New World. History
has many an amusing ancedote of
ships arriving at Quebec and Mon
treal with human cargoes, the male
population of the colony, meanwhile,
being assembled on the wharf, eager
to help the unloading.
The Pioneer Women.
Frontenac wrote to the French Gov
ernment that, were one hundred and
fifty girls sent to Canada each Sum-
mer, they would experience no diff
Guilty in finding husbands. Mr.. Doug
las says that all these girls were care
fully chosen, that they were sent over
under the supervision of religious, and
that, as a consequence of such pre-
cautionary measures, marriages be-
tween Canadians and Indians we're
. exceedingly rare.
In 1920 the Mayfiower brought sew
enty-five men and twenty-nine women
to New England. In 1923 the ship,
Little James and Ann, came over with
thirty-five men and nine women. For
a. considerable period of time after
ward we find incoming ships bringing
both men and women.
Father Ferland solemnized the first
marriage in Canada This was in 1917
The first New England marriage was
that of Edwin Winslow and Susan
White. 1t was given to this marriage
W O1IC AAuOA o6AAS ON GA 90 AcA away
as the mother country, because the
union took place before justice of
the peace.
The Puritan's Conception of Woman's
Status.
Though the number of women in
the Catholic colony was far less than
that of their sisters in the Protestant
colony, we find that the Catholic wom-
en- exercised the greater influence. Puri-
tanism did not give woman the con-
sideration that now obtains in New
England. With Milton, the Puritans
believed that women we're of an in
ferior nature. Man, for them, was the
ultimate end of creation, and woman
existed but to serve him. All chivalry
toward the fair sex had been discarded
as smacking of Catholicism, and had
been replaced by a feeling and con-
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Spirit Of seif.saorifice and prayer.


Exile-voluntary, lifelong exile
was the first proof of self-sacrifice.
So terrible is this privation that, as
Cardinal Newman writes, many dis
tinguished Romans in pagan times pre-
ferred suicide to Punishment on the
shores of the terrible Euxine. Not
less gloomy was the prospect of our
missionary exile as he waved fare
we'll to parents and kindred and sailed
away from the shores of sunny France.
Before him for a thousand leagues
spread the dark broad sea; and, be-
yond, the darker depths of the un-
explored wilderness in which Death
coiled and lurked and cast his fatal
snare in a hundred ways. The moist
meadows of the Phasis and the wave
beaten cliffs upon which Iphigenia
sacrificed the shipwrecked stranger
were mild and endurable in compari-
son with the dismal swamps and
tangled thickets of America, where
famine and fever prowled with the
wild beast, and the blood curdling war
whoop struck terror in the heart.
1t was, in fine, the spirit of complete
selfimmolation which impelled Bishop
Loras to voluntary and lifelong exile.
It was that ineffable love of the human
soul which was shared by his fellow
missionaries and by all the saints OF
God, and which receives its fullest
expression in the bleeding figure on
the Cross. How often the thought of
his luxurious home in Lyons and Of
his beloved France must have crossed
the mind of this illustrious exile as
he waded through the Southern morass
or slept in the rude wigwam on the
banks of the Mississippi. He who had
been brought up in every luxury that
wealth could obtain had now stone
for pillow and acorns and wild herbs
for subsistence. He who had private
tutors in his youth and had long been
accustomed to the elegant and refined
society of Lyons now sought the COM
panionship of the degraded Negro or
roamed the plains with the wild, fllft-
crate savage. Flesh and blood alone
could not endure so tremendous a
sacrifice, nor can we account for his
act upon any natural grounds what
ever. So we turn for an adequate ex-
planation to divine grace, the mysteri-
GUS power which transforms man
into saint.
Non-Cathollc Missionary Work.
It is a matter Of record that Bishop
Loras often prayed all night before
the Blessed Sacrament for the con-
version of single erring soul. And
God frequently answered his prayer
The conversion of a non-Catholic be-
came with him passion, and he anti
cipated the great Paulist movement
by nearly a quarter of century. As
early as 1910 he began to issue small
tracts and pamphlets from primitive
press in Dubuque pamphlet intended
for the enlightenment of Protestant
neighbors. But a weapon which he
always considered far more powerful
than the press was prayer. Time and
again Bishop Loras wrought conver-
sions which seem to be nothing short
OF miraculous, so surprisingly did
Heaven respond to his incessant pray
ers and petitions.
The "saIntIy Loras."
In reply to query as to the best
means Of ascertaining mans real
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-01

BISHOP LoRAs OF DUBUQUE, A
SANITY PIONEER MISSIONARY
his sELF-sAcRIFICING ZEAL
AND LOVE OF PRAYER-HIS LET
TIERS BREATHE THE SPIRIT OF
ST. PAUL-APoSToLATE TO
Observation-Disclosures
AND COLONlZATIoN-THE GOLD
EN- FRUITAGE OF HIS CAREER.