The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-21

only a few days on Easter Sunday,
April %, 1849, having occupied the
episcopal post only six months. On
his deathbed he appointed Father
st. Palais administrator during the
vacancy of the see. He was buried
by the side of Bishop Brute.
Father st. Palais was made
bishop to succeed the lamented
Bishop Balm on Jan. IA. 1849, by
Pope Plus TX. The fourth bishop
of the diocese of Vincennes was
born Nov Is, 1911, in La Salvetat,
France, of a noble and ancient fam
lily with ancestry dating back to the
time of the crusades. The turbu-
lent conditions of France made him
resolve to enter the service of God
and his church at the seminary of
St Sulpice, Paris, where he was
ordained at the age of 25. Having
heard the sanity Bishop Brute,
while the latter was in France, in
one of his appeals for missionaries,
he resolved to accompany him to
Indiana, arriving at VincenneS
in 1896.
TIE WAS assigned to a station
Il Il near Loogootee and visited the
settlements of Dubois and Spencer
counties. 1t is said that he made
use of Lutheran interpreter who
translated his French and English
sermons into German whenever he
visited German settlements. Later
he went to northern Indiana among
the Indians, preaching and baptiS-
ing them. In 1889 he was given
Chicago as a charge Here he met
with much opposition, even perse-
cution, but his fine disposition
finally won him the respect of the
inhabitants and with private means
he built st. Marys church (noW at
Wabash avenue and Ninth street,
which became the first Cathedral
OF Chicago. He remained in Chi
cago till 1874 when it was raised
to the status of a diocese. From
there he went to LoganSport and, In
1848 to Madison. In his thirteen
years of missionary travel, young
Father st. Palais experienced all the
privations ana dangers of pioneer
life on orseback-hunger. cold,
robbery zone time in imminent dan
ger of death from robbers who
wanted his money. but he foiled
them by escaping through a win
dow The trying experience of
these years we're to serve him most
ably afterwards.
Such was the priest that became
bishop on the death of Bishop
Balm. He was conSecrated in the
cathedral at Vincennes by Bishop
Miles of Nashville, assisted by
Bishop Spalding of Louisville, and
Father Hippolytus Dupontavice
vicar general. From the very day
of his conservation, his first object
of attention was the care of the
orphans. His heart went out to
these little ones and he determined
to build an asylum for girls at
Terre Haute where they might re-
ceive the shelter and care other
wise denied them. For the boys he
built an asylum at Highland, near
Vincennes His next object was to
secure more priests for his ever
growing diocese. He could not al
ways depend upon France as his
predecessors had done. He wanted
to establish in his own diocese an
institution which could supply him
with sufficient priests for his own
needs.
BY 1850 his diocese had 10000
souls, but only thirty-1ve priests,
hence, very often. one priest had to
serve two or more churches. In an
area of 1896 square miles. what a
flock with so few shepherds!
THOSE thirty-five priests created
Il history in the diocese for their
generation and the next, and laid
the groundwork for the great eX-
pansien of 1850 to 1877. Their
names. with the parishes and sta
lions as assigned to them at that
time are as follows:
VincenneS: The Rev. Ernest Aud
ran and the Rev. John B. Chase
at the cathedral and small stations
in Knox and Sullivan counties. The
German congregation at Vincennes
was in charge of Rev. Conrad
SchniederjanS.
AT Washington: The Rev. John
McDermott, st. Simon'S church.
Daviess county, the Rev. Bar
tholomew Piers, at st. Patrick'S and
st. Peters.
Mt. Pleasant in Martin county
and st. Mary'S in DavieSS county,
the Rev. Patrick Murphy.
AT Jasper and CeleStine in Du-
bois county. the Rev. Joseph Kun
deck.
AT Ferdinand in Dubois county
and Troy in Perry county: The Rev.
William Doyle.
At Leopold in Perry county: The
Rev. August BeSSonies: also in
charge of stations in Perry. Warwick
and Crawford counties. He attend
ed also Rome, Fredonia, Leaven-
worth and Rockport.
AT Evansville: The Rev. Anthony
Deydier. church of the Immaculate
Conception; st. JoSeph's Wander
burg county and ST. Wendell. PoSey
county, the Rev. Roman Weinzoe-
pfen.
AT Madison: The Rev. Hippolyte
du Pontavice. st. MichaelS church.
AT Columbus: The Rev. Daniel
Maloney. attending also Scipio and
st. GATHERINGS in Jennings county
and Martinsville in Morgan county
st. Magdalen in Ripley county:
The Rev. Adolph MunShina. attend
ing also Rockford and Vernon IN
same county, st. AIMS in Jennings
county and MuelhauSen in Decatur
county.
New Albany: The Rev. Louis
Neyron, who also attended Floyd
Knobs, Jeffersonville and Charles
town.
Lanesville: Harrison county, the
Rev. John Dion.