The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-01-07

CLERICS AND LAYMEN WHO
PASSED AWAY IN LAST TWELVE
MONTHS.
During the year that ended last
week, Catholics of the United States
were called to mourn the loss of the
most eminent churchman of the Amer
lean Hierarchy and the most distin-
guished citizen in public life among the
Catholic laity. In addition to these
two fgures-James Cardinal Gibbons,
who died on Holy Thursday, March a.
at the age of eighty-seven, and Chief
Justice Edward Douglass White, who
died on May 19, at the age of seventy
tive-the Church sustained the loss of
more than score of distinguished
clerics as well as many lay leaders.
Included among the members of the
hierarchy who passed to their reward
during the year were the Right Rev.
| John P. Farrelly, Bishop of Cleveland;
the Right Rev. Henry Gabriels, Bishop
of Ogdensburg; the Right Rev. Mat
| thew Harkins, Bishop of Providence;
the Right Rev. Joseph M. Koudelka,
Bishop of Superior; the Right Rev.
Charles E. Mcdonnell, Bishop of Brook
lyn; the Right Rev. Thomas O'Gor-
man, Bishop of Sioux Falls; the Right
Rev. James SchWebach, Bishop of La
| Crosse; the Right Rev. James Trobec,
retired Bishop of St. Cloud, the Right
Rev. Thomas Grace, Bishop of Sacra-
mento
Orders Lose Prominent Sons.
Many priests prominent in the Or
ders died in the United States during
the year, the Jesuits, Dominicans, Pas
sionists, Sulpicians, Benedictines, and
the Congregation of the Holy Cross
sustaining losses among their most
eminent scholars.
The Rev. Walter Drum, S. j., pro
fessor of Scripture at Woodstock Col
lege and Biblical editor of the Eccle-
siastical Review and Of the Catholic
Encyclopedia, died in Baltimore in De
cember. The Rev. Francis Barnum,
as a missionary in Egypt, China, ia
pan, Russia and many South American
countries as we'll as being a pioneer
in the Klondike gold rush, died at
Georgetown University, where he was
archivist, in November. Father Bar
mum was one of the few men who
spoke fluently the Esquimaux lam
guage and is credited with having
prepared the only complete grammar
and dictionaries of that language. lie
was seventy-two at the time of his
death.
The Dominican Order sustained the
loss of the Very Rev. John Plus Muir
ply for sixteen years vicar general of
the congregation in California. The
Passionist Order mourned the passing
of Father Fidelis, the son of the Rev
John Stone, an Episcopal minister and
himself an Episcopal clergyman before
he entered the Church. He establish
ed the Passionist Order in Argentina
and held many important positions in
the American province up to the time
|
The death of the Rev. DR.. John
Zahm, of the Congregation of the
Holy Cross. in November, was a loss
not only to the Catholics of the United
States, but to scientific circles as well
Father Zahm first suggested that the
late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt make
his famous expedition to South Amer
ica and was a member of Roosevelt's
party. He had written many books or
South American explorations, haG
travelled in every part of the world
and was on his way to Bagdad col
lecting material for a new book or
German aspirations in the near Eas
when stricken down.
The Right Rev. Peter Engel, Abbo
of st. Johns Abbey, and president O.
st. Johns University at Collegeville
Minn., also died in November. He
had been for twelve years heat
of the American Cassinese Congrega
tion of the Benedictines. Mgr. Rich
ter, pastor at Melrose, Mimi, for man!
, years, died shortly after Abbot Engel
One of the best-known Scriptur,
scholars in the United States died il
June, when the Rev. Father Francis
Gigot, of the Sulpician Society, breath
ed his last in st. Vincent's Hospital
New York. Father Gigot was a mem
Der Of the faculty of st. Joseph's Sem
mary, Dunwoodie, N. Y, and througl
his lectures and writings was wei
known to mahy outside the Church.
3 Deaths at the University.
The Catholic University sustaine
: two notable losses to members of it
I faculty among the clergy in the deaf
t of the Very Rev. DR.. Thomas Edwar
Shields, dean of the Catholic Sisters
J, College and editor of the Catholic EC
e ucatlonal Review, in February, an
e that of the Very Rev. John J. Griffir
) professor of chemistry, in Novembel
l. DR.. Shields was noted as an author a
s well as an educator
h Americas most distinguished India
S missionary of this generation wa
|, called from his labors in Novembe
S when the Right Rev. Monsignor VIII
i lam H. Ketcham, director of the Bl
S reau OF Catholic Indian Missions, diet
}, Baltimore lost its oldest priest j
the death Of the Right Rev. Mons