The Irish standard., 1915-12-04
NOTABLE PRFLATES WHO WE'RE
CONVERTS TO CATHOLICITY

CATHOLICITY
being twitted on account of his reli-
gion by his Protestant fellow-workers.
His apt replies to his tormenters made
so extraordinary an impression upon
Joshua Moody Young, a Universalist
and the one referred to above, that he
began the study of the true religion
with the result that he soon became
a Catholic. Bishop Purcell attracted
by the talents of the young man, sent
him to Mt. st. Mary's, Emmitsburg,
where he was ordained priest in 1887.
He then changed his name from
Joshua Moody Che was named for his
uncle, a Congregationalist minister)
to Josue Maria. After many years of
Jealous missionary labors in Ohio and
Pittsburgh, Father Young was in 1854
consecrated first Bishop of Erie,
Penn. He died in 1866.
The Rt. Rev. Sylvester Rosecrans,
first Bishop of Columbus. and broth
er of Major General William Stark
Rosecrans, U. S. A., the heroic Catho-
lie leader of the Civil war, was born
of Protestant parents at Homer, Ohio,
in 1927. He was received shortly
after his brother, and ordained in
Rome in 1852. In 1862 he was conse-
Grated Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati,
and when the diocese of Columbus was
formed he was translated thence in
1868. He died in 1878.
The Rt. Rev. Thomas Andrew Beck
err, was born in Pittsburgh, on Deem
Der 20, 1882, of German Lutheran par
ents, and was received into the Church
by Bishop McGill of Richmond while
still young man. The Bishop sent
him to Rome to study and it was there
that on June 10, 1859, he was ordained
by Cardinal Patrizi, having previously
received the degree of Doctor of
Theology as a pupil at the Urban Col
lege.
Glasgow, Scotland, was the birth.
place of the Rt. Rev. Richard Gilmour
second Bishop of Cleveland, who was
born of Scotch Covenanter parents in
1924. He was received into the
Church in 1912, ordained priest in
1852, and consecrated in 1872, dying
in 1891. Bishop Gilmour was the au.
thor of number of works including
a series of readers for schools.
A missionary priest in the diocese
of Wilmington, having business with
his Bishop that necessitated his re-
naming over night, arose in the morn
ing to find to his horror his spiritual
superior busily engaged in blacking
his (the priest's) shoes. Remonstrat
ing with him for SO demeaning himself
the Bishop replied: "Why not; black
my own shoes, and yours stood badly
in need of shine" This little story
is eloquent of the sanity humility that
characterized the entire life of him
whom we revere as the Rt. Rev. AL
fred Allen Curtis, successfully second
Bishop of Wilmington and Titular Of
Echinus, who died few years ago as
Vicar-General to His Eminence Car
dinal Gibbons.
Bishop Curtis was born in Somerset
County, Md, July 4, 1881. At the
time of his reception into the Church
by Cardinal Newman on April 10, 1872
he had resigned the rectorship of the
fashionable Episcopalian church Of
Mount Calvary, Baltimore, church
which has been a nursing-mother Of
converts.
On his return to Baltimore he was
ordained by Archbishop Bayley, Dec
10, 1874 On Nov. 16, 1886, Father Cur
tbs was consecrated Bishop of Will
mington, which See he resigned II
1896 and received the Titular Bishop
ric of Echinus, becoming Vicar-Genera
of the archdiocese of Baltimore.
The Rt. Rev. Edgar Philip Wadhams
first Bishop of Ogdensburg, was bor1
at Lewes, N. Y, in 1917. He was {
graduate of the General Theological
Seminary, New York, and in deacon's
orders when in 1846 he became {
Catholic. He was ordained in 1850
and consecrated first Bishop of Og
densburg in 1872. He died in 1891.
Of living convert prelates we have
His Grace the Archbishop of Oregon
City, and His Grace the Archbishop Of
New Orleans.
Archbishop Alexander Christie Of
Oregon City, was born of Vermont
Protestant stock, the son of Adam ant
Mary Christie. He was ordained
priest at the Grand Seminary, Mont
real, in 1877, consecrated Bishop Of
Vancouver, 1898, and transferred tt
Oregon City in 1899.
Archbishop James Hubert Blenck
S. NJ, was born in Germany Of Luth
eran parents; ordained priest in 1885
consecrated Bishop of Porto Rico ir
1899 and transferred to New Orleans
in 19O6.-Catholic Citizen.
There are nine books and one Psalm
mentioned in the Bible which are
now lost to the world.