The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-10-23
The Academies.


In the meantime st. Joseph's
Academy and the Visitation Convent
in st. Paul had grown to large pro-
| portions. ST. Agatha's Conservatory
had been opened by the Sisters of st.
Joseph in 1884 in ST., Paul, st. Thomas
College and Seminary began in 1885,
while in Minneapolis, the Sisters of
st. Joseph in 1877, had established
Holy Angels Academy under the di-
reotion of Mother st. John, sister Of
the late Archbishop Ireland.
st. Paul in this time had added
schools in the parishes of ST. Adalbert,
st. John, st. Matthew, st. Patrick, st,
Agnes, making a total of fifteen
parochial schools in st. Paul. Mime
apolis had added Notre Dame school,
making seven in that city.
Archbishop lreIand's Work.
Archbishop Ireland always made the
cause of Catholic education one of the
chief points, of interest in his varied
career. Besides enlarging the exist
ing institutions he endeavored to open
new schools wherever conditions
might warrant. Thus through his en-
couragement Cretin High School was
enlarged in 1889. About ten years lat
er the Christian Brothers opened De
La Sale Institute in Minneapolis.
The Colleges.
In 1894, through the munificence of
the late Mr.. James J. Hill the st. Paul
Seminary was erected, and ST. Thomas
College was left to impart the class
ics and commercial training and to
prepare students for the seminary.
The insistent need for accommoda-
tlons for young woman students
brought about, in 1904. the founda-
tion of st. GATHERINGS College under
the direction of the Sisters of ST.
Joseph in st. Paul, while in Minneapo-
lis, three years later, the same order
OF Nuns opened st. Margaret's Acad-
emy which may be said to be an out
growth of Holy Angels Academy in
that city.
Archbishop's Addresses.
Archbishop Ireland not only labored
for the upbuilding of education i'm his
s4Ssote but he also endeayored on
every occasion to enlighten the Amer
ican people on the true meaning of
Catholic schools and education. He
delivered number of discourses in
many parts of the country in defence
of the rights of Catholics to educate
their children along religious lines
The best known lectures, perhaps,
which he gave on this subject were
the following: State Schools and
Parish Schools, delivered in 1890, be-
fore the National Education Associa-
tion in st. Paul; Devotion to Truth,
before the same Association in Min
neapolis, in 1902; Catholic Church and
Liberal Education, delivered at the
Golden Jubilee of the University OF
Notre Dame in 1895; Catholic Sister
hood and Education, given at Sinsina-
wa, Wisconsin, on the occasion of the
Golden Jubilee of the Academy in
1907.
A PreIate's Pride.
The growth Of the educational insti-
tutions in this Diocese was in the
last twenty years of his life the sub
ject closest to the heart of the great
prelate. He urged his priests and peo-
pie to build parish schools wherever
it was at all possible. For many years
he encouraged the work of his Catho-
lie educators by attending the COM
mencement exercises at all the acad-
emies and colleges. During the last
few years of his life the greater part
of his leisure time was spent in visit
ing the Seminary, colleges and acad-
emies. Here he continually planned
and devised means to always increase
and to better the educational facili-
ties of these institutions.
Truly no greater monument could
be erected to perpetuate the memory
of Archbishop Ireland than an enlarg-
ed, strengthened, and perfected educa-
tional system in the Archdiocese of
st. Paul.