The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-14
BISHOP CARROLL PREACHED
FINAL SERMON IN OLD cATHE-
DRAE OF HELENA AND ST.
HELENA'S CHURCH ON FEAST
OF ALL SAINTS-FlRST MASS IN
BASEMENT OF NEW cATHE.
ORAL ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8
--cATHEDRAL TO BE DEDI-
GATED ON CHRISTMAS DAY.
pRAL ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8
GATED ON CHRISTMAS DAY.

The Catholics of Helena, Montana,
babe farewell to the Cathedral of the
Sacred Hearts and to ST. Helenas
Church on the Feast of All Saints. On
Sunday, November s, the members of
both churches met together in the
basement of the new Cathedral of st.
Helena, where they will worship until
Christmas Day, when the upper
church of the Cathedral will be ready
for occupancy. Bishop Carroll made
the occasion memorable by assisting
in both churches and delivering ap-
propriate sermons. At nine o'clock
he celebrated the last Mass at st.
twenty-five years history of this
chapel of ease. At ten thirty o'clock
he appeared at the Cathedral of the
Sacred Hearts and preacher the fare
well sermon at the last Sunday Mass
to. be celebrated within it's walls.
He declared the old Cathedral to be
the connecting link between the past
and the future of religion in Helena
and Montana. The laying Of it's cor
ner stone September 20, 1874, marked
the permanent establishment of the
Church in Helena and, therefore, in
the whole territory of which Helena
was destined to become the civil and
religious capital. 1T was the crystal
lization of the work of the Jesuit
Fathers among the white population
east of the mountains so auspiciously
begun ten years before. For it was on
November /, 1864, just fifty years ago,
that Father Kuppens said the first
Mass on Silver Creek, the meeting
place of the miners of Last Chance
gulch, and Immediately began the
building of a log church. On Easter
Sunday, 1865, he said the first Mass in
Helena proper at the corner of State
and Warren Streets in an unfinished
log cabin which became the first tenn
porary church. Immediately there
after he secured the property now
known as catholic HIP and built
thereon Helenas first substantial
house of worship. If the gold seekers
Of Montana, from their very advent
to the territory, enjoyed the ministra.
lions of religion, they can thank
Father DeSmet and his fellow-laborers
of the Society of Jesus, who had been
on the ground since 1841 attending to
the spiritual wants of the Indians.
Built in 1874.
"The Church of the Sacred Hearts,
built by Father Palladino in 1874-76,
became, in 1884, by the appointment Of
Bishop Brondel to the See of Helena,
the first Cathedral Of the diocese" said
Bishop Carroll. What memories does
it not evoke, as at the end of it's forty
years of service, we bid it fond fare
we'll? 1t has been the scene of many
notable ecclesiastical ceremonies.
"Here Cardinal Gibbons, the primate
of the American Church, offered the
Holy Sacrifice and addressed the peo-
pie. Here Cardinal Satolli, the first
Papal Delegate to the United States,
conferred the benediction of Leo XIII.
Here Archbishop Seghefs, the martyr
of Alaska, and Bishop O'Co1nor, the
Vicar Apostolic of Nebraska, admins
tered the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Here were assembled the eight Rish-
ops who came from the ends of the
country to participate in the laying of
the cornerstone of our new Cathedral.
Here the first and the second Bishops
of Helena celebrated the silver jubi-
lees of their ordination to the priest
hood.