The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-30
BISHOP O'GORMAN'S GOLDEN JUBILEE
COMPLIMENTARY ADDRESS AND PURSE OF
$4,000 PRESENTED TO BISHOP o'GORMAN
OF SIOUX FALLS BY THE CLERGY
OF THE DIOCESE.
OF THE DIOCESE.

anniversary, so rare in the life O
priest or bishop, we review with pride
the noble record which, as priest ant
bishop, you have written in the an
nails of the American Church. We see
you in the early days of your priest
hood traversing on foot and horseback
| the prairies of Minnesota, ministering
| devotedly to the spiritual needs of the
early settlers. We see you as first
President of the College of st. Thorn
as, laying deep and broad the founda-
| tions of that great Catholic institution
OF the Northwest. We see you adorn-
ing with your scholarly attainments
the noble Catholic University of Amer.
| lea. We see you as author and orator,
fearlessly expounding and defending
the truths of Christianity through the
| length and breadth of the land We
see you chosen by the President of the
| United States one of the Commission.
ers in the most important negotiations
ever transacted between the Vatican
and our country. We see your long
and glorious services to the Church
crowned with the dignity and glory OF
the Episcopacy. We see you Bishop
of Sioux Falls, rearing throughout the
state churches, academies, and schools
enduring monuments of your zeal and
energy, educating and ordaining 8
race of priests who will long perpetu
ate your spirit, and founding and
equipping a college to foster higher
education. In fine, we see you plan
ming and erecting Cathedral Church
worthy of your great ideals, worthy
too, of the Diocese that has grown
with the years of your Episcopacy.
Right Reverend and dear Bishop
you have been the inspiration and en-
couragement of your priests, old ant
young. Yours has always been the
heart of a priest who loves his breth
rem in the priesthood, yours the hears
of true bishop who enfolds his chill
Z dFen in the protecting mantle of his
fatherly affection. Their struggles
and difficulties you know, and with
paternal love you have charitably cor
rected, wisely advised, and patiently
borne.
Is it any wonder, then, that there
should be reciprocal love and esteem
on the part of your clergy; that this
thrice happy event should bring then
around you to express their heartfelt
congratulations that God has brought
you to this day of Jubilee, sound ant
vigorous of mind as you were on thai
other never-to-be-forgott day, when
fifty years ago you first ascendec
Gods holy altar? We rejoice will
you this day of your Golden Jubilee
and pray that God may grant yol
many years of life among us, anC
bring to happy issue the crowning eff
fort of your fruitful career, the new
Cathedral. Have no fears; you
priests are with you.
Ad muItos amos is the prayer O
the priests of the Diocese of Sioul
Falls.
After the reading of the address
Father Desmond of Huron, presente,
a Spiritual Bouquet" to the Righ
Reverend Jubilarian. Addresses wer
/, delivered by Archbishop Irelan,
and the other prelates, after whicl
Bishop O'Gorman brought the pre-
gram to close with an address, il
which he thanked the clergy for thei
testimonial and referred to what ha
been accomplished in the diocese dul
ing the past decade and half O
years.
Biographical Sketch.
The Right Reverend Bishop O'Gol
d man was born on May 1, 1S43, in Bo!
ton, Mass. He received his primar
J, education in Chicago, ILL.,, and st. Pau
J, Mimi, to which he came with his pa
d ents in 1887 The following year b
+ and the present Archbishop of s
Paul, went to France and entered tn
n Seminary of Meximieux, where b
n completed his studies for the prizes
II hood, and, on his return to St. Pau
# was ordained in the old Cathedral b
e the Right Reverend Bishop Grace Q
e November 5, 1865. From 1867 to 1S7
d he served as pastor of st. John
h Church, Rochester, Mimi. For IL
p, next four years he was member
g the Paulist community and gave mi
al sions in nearly all parts of the Unite
States. At the end of that time he We
,r appointed pastor of the Church of II
ID Immaculate Conception, Faribau
k, Mimi, where he remained until 1SS
to when he became President of the ne
re ly-opened College of st. Thomas, al
s professor of Dogmatic Theology
vi that institution. In 1890, he joined II
I'd faculty of the Catholic University
le Washington, D. c., as professor
ut Modern Church History, a positi'
rs which he occupied until his consecl
re ton as Bishop of Sioux Falls on APP
ar 19, 1896 He was a member of t
so Taft Commission appointed by Pre-
n, dent Roosevelt, to go to Rome a
OF negotiate with His Holiness Pope L
OF XIII in regard to the disposition
nd church property in the Philippine
on lands, mission which was entire
successful. Bishop O'Gorman is t
as author of "A History of the Rom
ne Catholic Church in the United State