New Britain herald., 1921-10-13
ARCHBISHOP CURLEY
 OBSERVES 42D YEAR
Brief History of New Cardinals
 Career


 priest, all of them in Florida, and seven years the bishop of this diocese. preceded by four years in the Prop aganda University at Rome, com Irise the meteoric career of the young Archbishop of Baltimore. who will ascend the throne long graced by the great Gibbons, on November 30. Tomorrow Archbishop CVrley will celebrate his 42nd birthday.
 Michael Joseph Curley was born i'll Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland October 12, 1879. one of ten children and a happy boyhood Included among his playmates the celebrated tenor John Mccormack. Devoted to his ambition to become churchman- first determined upon, he says, at the age of ten-the new archbishop's career may be said to have began at sixteen. when he rode for the first time on train, his first trip away from home, carrying him to Limerick to the College of Mungret in 1895. From then on his rise has been steady.
 Hts early home life and success in school perhaps may have predicted a more than ordinary career for the rrelate-to-be. His parents were fair ly comfortable farmers. The River Shannon flowed through his fathers holdings and at times flooded them.
 His early education was received in the intermediate schools of his na- tive town. He attended a school con- ducted by the Marist brothers, a French, teaching congregation, and lad an unusual opportunity with them to follow a classical course. He was studying the dead language Of Caesar and Cicero as we'll as the liv- ing fiery language of Clemenceau and viviani when he was but nine years old. At twelve he had been awarded a first grade certificate in elementary chemistry, physiography and mathe- matics by the Science and Art Board Of South Kensington, London, which board had an examining center in Athlone.
 Going to Limerick at sixteen, he pursued the course outlined by the Royal Irish University and in 1900 with high honors recorded through cut his college course, he was given his degree in mental and moral science. His course included classics, logic. meta physics, ethics, natural theology, psychology, and history of philosophy.
 With his ambition for priesthood before him, he realized that there were other fields where a young Churchman might be more needed than in Ireland. While I loved the old land." as he puts it, "and it's warrn-hearted people, longed to con- secrate my life to the service of God and my fellow men, in some part of the world where catholics were less fortunately situated from the relig- ious standpoint than in Ireland" He applied for post and gladly accept ed an assignment to the mission ot Florida and by order of the late Bishop Moore of St. Augustine. went to Rome to study sacred science in preparation for his priestly work in the Land of Flowers.
 He entered the Propaganda Uni- versity at Rome in 1900, where he had an opportunity of meeting and mingling with students from every part of the world Forty-five lan- Euages or dialects were spoken in the in almost every examination. In 1901 HHUG ISCOlNSQ lu0 bdCu0lOT OI DlN1nlIy degree, and in 1903 the degree o1 < aicentiate of sacred theology. He was awarded medals in Christian arche oiogy, liturgy, fundamental theology dogmatic theology and Scripture.
 Tn the fall of 1903 he suffered z severe attack of neurasthenia of tn, brain, induced by his heavy work ant was forbidden by his doctor and hi bishop to present himself for furthe degrees. He relaxed his zeal in hi studies, rested several months an then continued. He was ordaine, spriest by Cardinal Parocohi March 1e 1904, in the Basilica of St. John La teran. During the greater part of hi stay in Rome the rector of the uni versity was then Monsignor Nate CardinaD Commassei
 T always look back on my day in Rome as the happiest of my life, the archbishop told The Associate, Press man. Rome with it's memo ries. sacred and profane; Rome, tn gathering place of, it would seem, tn world: Rome, consecrated by tn -