Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-22
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Celebrate F1tieth
Year as a Priest
Cardinal Gibbons May Attend
Anniversary Jubilee of
ST. James's Rector,

:, Of qualification and celebration by the
q many thousands Of parisnioners Of
q, The great church "below the railroad
y and they have decided to mark the
=, Jubilee of their beloved shepherd in
manner we'll BETTING the occasion.
Not alone will the pensioners o.
Sc. James's parish celebrate. Clergy
5 and laity have decided to join hands
in preparing for the jubilee and they
; will be aided by other friends of he
iubilarian from all parts of the STATE
81 Cardinal Gibbons, dean of the
= American Catholic hierarchy will at
TEND, If the condition of his health
permits. He has accepted an inyl-
: tatIon to come to Newark To partici-
= pate in the jubilee, He was gradu-
ated from st. Charles College, in
: Maryland, in 1867, in the same class
with Dean Cody. They have been
: Intimate friends ever since their
: scholastic days. They are the last
> of the class.
q! Dean Cody also was a classmate of
: the late Archbishop NJ. A. Corrigan
= Of New York. He and the late
! i prelate attended st. Mary's College,
: at Wilmington, Del, later being
szsssraduated together from the Ameri-
can College, at Rome.
Forty Years a Rector.
Newark has been especially in
debted to the labors of Rev. Dean
Cody for the priest has spent nearly
s7forty-one of the, fifty years OF ms
priesthood in this city as rector OF
st James's Church. He has seen the
nparish grow and spread despite the
{ fact that five other parishes have
been established within the original
limits of the parish of st. James.
oi The st. James's parish bullulngs
Bare valued at 100000 and constitute
Nnot alone a school and church, out
also a great hospital. which has done
..inestimable good In the way OF
charity that knows no creed or race
in ministering to the needy.
Twenty five years ago Father Cody
celebrated his silver Jubilee as
piiest, the event being observed oy
almost the entire Catholic PopulatloL
of the city. Many of the diocesan
dignitariee and other priests partici'
pated.
Plans for the golden jubilee Of Dean
cody were announced today by the
committee in charge. The celebration
will last one week and VIII pegln
Monday December 10. Tne program
for the week follows,
Monday. o a. m.--Serviees in the
church for the children of the parish.
Monday, D, m.-Reeeption, Vaude-
willie and musical entertainment at
which Dean Cody will be the guest
81 honor, and to which all parish
toner's, former parishioners anu tnen
friends are invited to attend
T.uasdev 7.3O D. m.-Banquet to
Dean Cody in ST. James's Hall by the
men of the parish, which Will be at
tended by Mayor Jacob daussiihg'
former United States Senator James
Smith, jr, Major Carl Lentz, City
Clerk James IT. Connolly, Charies M;
Police Michael 7: Long hdWaru
Reilly and others
"wednesday. 8 D. m.--Vaudeville and
Athletic entertainment by the boys or
the parochial school in the school nan.
Thursday, 1890 q. m.-Solemn hlgn
mass, at which Bishop OConnor anu
other dignitaries of the Newark no
rose will attend Immediately follow
inp the services dinner will be tender
ed the clergy and guests In the receory
THURSDAY. p. m.-Entertainment
and dance in the hall, under tne
auspices of the combined socleties
connected with the church.
Friday & n. m-Musical and atm
Latte entertainment by the girls OF the
school. c...,,
day. -.
Sunday, 1890 a. m.-solemn high
mass. 81. LII,
Sunday Afternoon Dean Cody Will
hold reception to the Children of
Mary and other church societies, and
the celebration will close with Sunday
nights services, with solemn vespers
ST James's parish is one of the
largest in the city, and NUMBERS
among its members men prominent In
every walk of life in Newark
bishop n Child OF the Parish.
R,sbon oConnor was born in st.
1ames's parish and received the early
part of his religious training tnere'
Father O'Rourke, one OF the leauihs
Jesuit educators in the country ana
masterful speaker, was FORMER
oarishioner. and attended st. James's
school, under the guidance OF Dean
cody. IT is expected that Father
O,Rourlse will attend the celebration.
The general committee in charge OF
the celebration includes Wllllan L.
Mullin. chairman; John Meehan, sec
retary: Rev. william J. Baird, treas.
urer: Mayor Jacob Haussling, Sheriff
Tohn r. Monahan, p II. Ryan, James
M. Reilly Thomas j. d. Smith, Will
lam Harrigan, DIR. Thomas McCaDe,
NJ F. Mclaughlin, Captain refer j.
Christie, Chief of Police Michael /.
Long, Thomas Preston, John II. Don
nelly, Eugene McCabe, John +. Fan
non, Robert Hancock and others.
Dean Cody is seventy-fl five years
did. He was born in Tipperary Ire
land, March II, 1888. His parents
came to this country when he was
two years of age and settled in Mad
ison N. j., where he received ms
early learning under the direction OF
the late Rev. Bernard j. McQuaid,
afterward bishop of Rochester, who
died several years ago. Father Nc
Quad recognized the talents In his
Young pupil, and in his fifteenth year
Patrick Cody was sent to the college,
of ST. Mary at Wilmington, Del.
Later he went to st. Vincents Col
.ege, Latrobe, Pa, and then to st
Charles's, at Ellicott City, Md. After
ward he went to Seton Hall College
TO complete his classical and philo-
sophical education.
in 1860 Bishop Bayley and Father
NIcQuaid, DESTROYS OF giving the
Young student the best opportunity
az extending his studies, sent him to
Rornc. where the American College
had lust been founded by the lament
"a Pope Plus TX. There for
three years the young American
studied with the best masters the
fields of philosophy, theology and
canon law He returned to America
IN 1853 we'll equipped with virtue and
learning, and, after a few months,
1cae ordained to priesthood by Bishop
3ayley. December 10, 1858, in the
chapel of the Immaculate Conception
at Seton Hall.
yice-President OF College.
nata te,,, ,,non hic ordinafion