The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02
MGR. SHAHAN WILL BE CONSECRATED IN BAL TIMORE NOV. I5
Distinguished Churchnan Was Once Chancellor of Diocese
 Of Hartford.

Monsignor Thomas J. Shahan at one time chancellor of the Hartford diocese and secretary to the late Bishop Laurence McMahon and at present rector Of the Catholic Uni- versity, Washington, D C., will be consecrated tftular bishop of Ger manicopo1is in Baltimore Cath edra1, Sunday Nov. 15. by Cardinal James Gibbons The assistants consecrators will be Bishop Milan of Hartford and Bishop O'Connel1 of Richmond Va The sermon will be preached by Mon- signor Thomas Duggan, rector of St.
 Joseph's Cathedral, Hartford, and vicar general of the diocese. The td- tular see of Germanicopo1fs Is in Asia Minor, in the mountainous prov-a ince of Iscuria, and is poor village of a few thousands inhabitants.
 Monsignor Ehahan was born In Manchester N H.. in 1857, and re- ceived his early education in the pub-s Montreal College. He was a student of the American College, Rome, from 1873 to 1882, in which year he was ordained priest for the diocese of Hartford, obtained at the Propaganda the Doctorate in theology, and was soon made chancellor and secretary of his diocese. Ins1889 he. Joined the staff of the Catholic University of America, then being organized by Bishop Keane, and after three years of historical studies at Rome, Ber- lin and Paris returned to Washing ton to occupy the Eugene Kelly Chair of Ecclesiastical History. This post he occupied for eighteen years, and meantime founded the Catholic Uni-a versity Bulletin, which he edited for ten years, besides contributing to sew eraI reviews. He is one of the five editors of the Catholic EneyIcioped and is President of the Catholic Ed- ucationa1 Conference of Catholic Charities, also National Chaplain of the Young Mems Catholic Union. He is a member of the Board of Judges for the Hall of Fame, New York City.
 Tn 1909 he became Rector of the Catholic University and was made a Domestic Pre1ate of the papal court. He has written several works, 'sThe Blessed Vfrgin in the Catacofnbs' '' ssThe Beginnings Of Christianity .HThe Middle A Ages,' :, ssSaint Patrick in History, tsThe House Of Gods' and other addresses and studies. He also translated from the German Barden-s hewer's- importantt work on the early fathers of the Christian Church. Within the last five years IAIonsignor, Shahan has seen the University take. lson a considerable growth. Four large and noble edifices have arisen. the Cardinal Gibbons Memorial Hall, the Dining Hall and Graduate Hall, the Engineering Building, and the Chemical Laboratory, now in progress Of construction. Additional land has been purchased land the Summer School for our Teaching Sisters and the Catholic Sisters College have been FcaIled into successful life. The stu
 dent body of the University has also grown in numbers, registering this year nearly seven hundred of whom over four hundred are lay students
 while the professorial body has grown from twenty eight to eighty teachers. If this proportion of growth be kept up in the near future, the University will realize, while they yet live, some of the great hopes sof its ori rigfnaI projectors and supporters One of the last works of Monsfgnor Shahan is the National Shrine of the Irnmac-s ulate Conception, a new and splendid church for the University, which it is hoped to build with the aid of the Catholic women of the United States, and for which shortly before his death Plus the Tenth gave to Cardi- nal Gibbons 8 substantial eontribu- ton, besides a beautiful Apostolic Letter, printed in the last issue of the Saliva Regina, the modest little
 bulletin. in honor of our Blessed Mother by which Monsignor Shahan
 makes known. the progress of the monument in favor of the National