The Irish standard., 1915-09-01
OLD CATHEDRAL, ST. PAUL, MINI.

munifcence of St. Paul's great citi-
zen, Mr.. James J. Hill. The year
of it's opening it numbered about 90
students, and during the present year
0914-15) it has on its list no less than
22O seminarians, representing "a do
ceses in the church Of the United
States and Canada.
The charitable institutions of the
diocese were maintained, enlarged,
and increased in their efficiency. The
same must be said and more of the
educational institutions, since large
number of parish schools was opened
within recent years, when clrcum-
stances seemed to demand Imperative
ly separate schools for Catholic chill
dren, and when the people were in
a better condition to provide them.
The Catholic Directory Of 1915 places
the number of children attending paro-
chial schools at 22,Sl7. An additional
community of religious women, that
of the Felician Sisters, is engaged in
this work, in the two Polish parishes
of St. Adalbert and St. Casimir in St.
Paul The Sisters of St. Joseph made
a new departure in the higher educa-
ton of women with the opening in
1905 of the College of St. Catherine,
which furnishes complete collegiate
education to Catholic young women.
Several events occurred within re-
cent years, which illustrate the growth
of the diocese and Of the ecclesiastical
province of St. Paul. On June 2, 1907,
the corner stone was laid for the new
and magnificent cathedral of St. Paul,
which has been opened for services,
and which when completed will be the
finest structure of its kind in the Uni
ted States, veritable monument of
Christian art. A year afterwards,
May 81, 1908, another corner stone
was laid for the new pro-cathedral of
Minneapolis, which, if smaller in size,
is equally magnificent as a church
building. On May 19, 1910, the chapel
of the St. Paul Seminary witnessed a
scene, extremely rare, if not unique,
in the annals of ecclesiastical history.
Six bishops received on that day their
conservation, and all six were destined
for service in the one ecclesiastical
province of St. Paul They were the
Right Reverend James O'Reilly,
bishop of Fargo; the Right Reverend
John J. Lawler, auxiliary bishop of
St. Paul; the Right Reverend Patrick
R. Heffron, bishop of Winona; the
Right Reverend Vincent Wehrle,
bishop of Bismarck; the Right Rev.
erend Timothy Corbett, bishop of
Crookston; and the Right Reverend
Joseph F. Busch, bishop of Lead.
The Catholic Directory for the
year 1915 gives the following
statistics: Archbishop |, Bishop
l, Diocesan Priests Psi, Priests
of Religious Orders 50, total 33l !;
Churches with resident Priests 200.
Missions with Churches 66, total
Churches 266; Missions without
Churches 8, Chapels Is, Theological
Seminary l., Students 218, College
(boys) 1, Students US, Commercial
Schools, Christian Brothers 2, Pupils
675, Parishes with Parochial Schools
95 Pupils 22,817, Boarding Schools
and Academies for Girls 9, Pupils D.
POI, total number of pupils in Catho-
lie Institutions of Learning (Schools
in Orphan Asylums inc1udeH 27.56O;
total number of Sisters 1920, Novices
and Postulants 128, Orphan Asylums
3, Orphans 447, Hospitals 3, Patients
during the year 1885, 925; Homes for
the Aged Poor 3, Inmates 352, House
of the Good Shepherd l, Inmates 2l0
Catholic Population about 265,O00.