Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-09-25
Death Takes Archbishop
! John Ireland At 3:55
O'clock This Morning
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Fanueil hall, cradle Of American lib
erty." After a short stay in Boston.
the family removed. to Burlington,
VT, where young John might be said
to have begun his church career,
serving as altar boy. !,
Then came a long and arduous
journey half way across the CONT
nent to Chicago, where young Ireland
had affew months schooling at. st.
Mary's on-the-Lake. But the Journey
westward was soon resumed, this time
by prairie schooner across the
prairies of Illinois to Galena, thence
by the good boat Nominee up the
Mississippi to st. Paul. This was in
than a frontier trading post where
Indians still stalked the winding
streets in bright-hued blankets and
scalping was anything but a dead
art"
Became Altar Boy.
John Ireland became altar boy in
the little gra stone edihce dignitied
by the name Cathedral.
AT the lower seminary at Next
mieux in France young Ireland en-
tered upon his studies with such
ne completed the eight years course
in four years.
HIS theological and philosophical
course he took with the Marist Fa-
theirs at Hyeres. on the Riviera, where
he distinguished himself as a student,
also as an orator of much promise.
News of the firing of the first gun at
sumter came to young Ireland as a
clarion call to service, but it was some
months before he was free to apply
for his passport at the Paris con-
sulate. There he was first asked:
Are You a Unionist?" w.
Undoubtedly! To the last drop Of
my blood" came the quick and
fervid reply.
On his return to St. Paul in the
fall Of 1861 Ireland Immediately be-
gan preaching CONSUMPTION and the
union cause, despite the fact he was
housed with a southern bishop.
Ordained in 1851.
On Dec. 81, 1861, he was ordained
and assigned to the cathedral parish.
His ardent desire to serve his coun-
try soon led to his being appointed
unteer infantry He Joined the regi-
n1ent in June, 1862, at Clearwater,
Miss, and his presence was felt i'm
mcdiately. He was more than priest
among the men. He made himself
one of them.
But fever gripped him before a year
had passed and Chaplain ireland was
left for dead. He recovered slowly,
however, but was compelled to resign
as chaplain. He returned to St. Paul,
where he gradually regained his
health and resumed his duties as
cathedral priest.
He began preaching temperance
with the same vim and grim deter
mination that marked his other activ-
tiles. One of the most important and
far reaching works was the organiza-
ton, in 1869, of the st. Paul Catholic
Total Abstinence Society. which soon
had its branches in every parish in
Minnesota, and later became national
in scope. He even carried his tenn
perance fight to Ireland and England.
In 1901 Father Ireland epre-
sented Bishop Thomas Grace at the
Vatican council in Rome.
In recognition of his conspicuous
services and marked ability he was
in 1875 appointed by the pope to be
titular bishop Of Maronea and apos-
tolic vicar of Nebraska, the latter
without consultation with Bishop
Grace. The bishop. not wanting to
lose Father Ireland from st. Paul.
hastened to Rome and succeeded in
having the appointment as vicar Of
Nebraska withdrawn and that Of
coadjutor bishop of ST. Paul substi-
tuted. He was ~consecrated bishop on
Dec. Fl, 1875. just IA years to the day
after his ordination.
- Went to Rome.
Bishop Ireland went to Rome in
1887, together with Bishop Keane,
Richmond, Va, and presented to the
for erection of a Catholic university
at Washington, D. c., which later
was established as result of this re-
port.
The diocese OF st. Paul was erected
into a metropolitan see in 1888 and
on his return from abroad Bishop
Ireland was installed as it's first arch
bishop, May S, 1888.
Archbishop Ireland's long career
was punctuated at every opportunity
with p~roclamations Of the doctrine of
democracy in the church. The prin-
ciples of democracy, he said, are
found on every page of a gospel hat
teaches the equality, fraternity and
liberty Of all men through Christ.
1.-THE world did not put its civil and
political institutions in accord with
its spiritual faith" he said on one
occasion, until the birth Of our re-
tation through the Declaration OF In
dependence. 1t came in a second
and final manifestations through Lin
coins proclamation of emanc1pa-
ton"
In a sketch of Archbishop Ireland
published ON years ago John Fos-
ter Carr gave this summary Of the
ma and his misunderstanding acts:
Tt him life has clearly been a bat
tie; and in that battles waging he has
used, not the cautious diplomacy of
many great 'prelates Of his church,
but boldness and power. He was first