page_title: Louis Hostlot
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Hostlot / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Latin inscription in the mausoleum of the North American College in Rome's Campo Verano cemetery. It records the donation of the chapel by Monsignor Louis Hostlot's family.
context_page_description: Louis Edward Hostlot was an American Catholic priest who served as the third rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome from 1878 until his death in 1884.
context_section_description: By late 1883, however, Monsignor Hostlot's health took a turn for the worse. He became ill with a cold, which became so severe that by the day after Christmas 1883, he went to bed immediately after celebrating morning Mass. His ailment was probably influenza, which at that time was becoming epidemic in Rome. His doctors could not agree on a prognosis, with one suggesting that it was the green wallpaper of his bedroom that was causing his sickness. On January 31, 1884, he suffered a relapse that effectively eliminated any hope of recovery. That evening, he received Viaticum with devotion from the hands of the College's spiritual director, Ubaldo Ubaldi.
  At daybreak on February 1, 1884, Hostlot died at the age of 35. Despite his somewhat tumultuous term as rector, his good character and generosity were remembered by the "relatively large crowd of mourners" that came to view his body laid in state in the College's church of Santa Maria dell'Umiltà. Afterwards, his remains were carried in procession to the nearby Basilica of the Holy Apostles. The celebrant of the funeral Mass was Domenico Jacobini, who was at that time Secretary of the Propaganda Fide. Hostlot was then buried at the College's new mortuary chapel in the Campo Verano.
  Hostlot was very generous in his will to the American College. He had set aside $5,000 for the foundation of a new student scholarship, which was to be accredited specifically to the Archdiocese of New York. Moreover, he directed that the 12,000 lira debt owed to him by the College should be forgiven and used to pay off the remaining balance on the villa in Grottaferrata. Soon after his death, his family established another scholarship in his memory. Nearly twenty years after Hostlot's death, his brother, John Hasslocher, contributed $500 towards the College's purchase of a new wing to expand their campus near Piazza della Pilotta.
  Finally, in 1913, John Hasslocher and his sister, Anna Ehret, financed the construction and adornment of the American College's current Romanesque mausoleum in Campo Verano. Upon the completion of that structure the remains of Monsignor Hostlot and most of the other deceased of the College were transferred to the new mausoleum, where they rest today. The following inscription was erected in the chapel to commemorate Louis Hostlot and record the funerary chapel's donation by his family:
caption: The inscription commemorating Hostlot
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