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 CONTENTS 
 
 INTRODUCTION I 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 FIFTY-THREE YEARS IN PHILADELPHIA 3 
 
 STUDENT, PRIEST, RECTOR, VICAR-GENERAL, BISHOP, ARCHBISHOP 3 
 
 ADDRESS OF FELICITATION BY THE SEMINARIANS 5 
 
 HIS GRACE TO THE SEMINARIANS 8 
 
 CLOSING EXERCISES AT ST. MALACHY's SCHOOL g 
 
 CHAPTER II 
 
 INSTALLATION AS ARCHBISHOP 1 2 
 
 CABLEGRAM TO THE HOLY FATHER j* 
 
 COMMITTEES OF THE CLERGY 14 
 
 ADDRESS OF THE CLERGY AT THE ENTHRONEMENT jg 
 
 ADDRESS OF THE LAITY AT THE ENTHRONEMENT 2 O 
 
 THE ARCHBISHOP'S ADDRESS AT THE ENTHRONEMENT 22 
 
 SERMON OF THE RIGHT REV. M. J. HOBAN, BISHOP OF SCRANTON. 26 
 
 PRELATES PRESENT AT THE ENTHRONEMENT 42 
 
 THE TOASTS AT THE SEMINARY DINNER 4? 
 
 APPOINTMENT OF TWO VICARS-GENERAL AND CHANCELLOR 48 
 
 THE BULL OF APPOINTMENT 48 
 
 CHAPTER III 
 
 THE CONFERRING OF THE SACRED PALLIUM 54 
 
 CLERICAL COMMITTEES IN CHARGE OF THE INVESTITURE 54 
 
 THE DECORATIONS IN THE CATHEDRAL 57 
 
 THE DIGNITARIES ASSEMBLED FOR THE INVESTITURE 58 
 
 SERMON BY THE RIGHT REV. J. F. REGIS CANEVIN, BISHOP OF 
 
 PITTSBURGH 60 
 
 ADDRESS BY CARDINAL GIBBONS AT THE INVESTITURE 7 I 
 
 TOASTS AT THE DINNER IN BELLEVUE-STRATFORD HOTEL 73 
 
 ADDRESS OF HIS GRACE ON THIS OCCASION 76
 
 i i Contents 
 
 CHAPTER IV 
 
 RECEPTION TO THE AKCHBISHOP BY THE CATHOLIC LAYMEX OF THE 
 
 DIOCESE 8 1 
 
 ADDRESS BY CARDINAL GIBBONS 82 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE ARCHBISHOP 84 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA 85 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES J. CARROLL, D. D., BISHOP 
 
 OF NUEVA SEGOVIA 89 
 
 ADDRESS BY DR. JAMES J. WALSH, NEW YORK 94 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE VERY REV. JAMES F. TRAINOR, V. G 98 
 
 ADDRESS BY JAMES A. FLAHERTY, ESQ IOI 
 
 CHAPTER V 
 
 CELEBRATION BY THE PUPILS OF THE PARISH SCHOOLS IN HONOR OF 
 
 THE ARCHBISHOP 103 
 
 ADDRESS TO THE ARCHBISHOP IO4 
 
 THE ARCHBISHOP TO THE CHILDREN IO6 
 
 APPENDICES 
 
 I. PRESS COMMENT ON APPOINTMENT OF ARCHBISHOP PRENDERGAST 108 
 
 II. THE ARMS OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF PHILADELPHIA 1 16
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 "THIS volume is designed to chronicle in permanent form 
 the appointment, installation, and investiture with the 
 Pallium of the Most Rev. Edmond Francis Prendergast, 
 D. D., third Archbishop of Philadelphia. 
 
 As a souvenir of the memorable events recorded herein, 
 the book will have the value of association for all who par- 
 ticipated in or were witnesses of the time-hallowed ceremo- 
 nials with which Mother Church honors the inauguration of 
 her prelates. And, when the participants and spectators alike 
 shall have passed away, this record of a glorious expression of 
 faith may serve as a memento of the days and the men that 
 were ; may keep for both priests and people yet unborn the 
 testimony of the eye-witnesses of a vanished time, a time of ex- 
 ceeding joy for the See of Philadelphia. 
 
 In May, 1911, our Most Reverend Archbishop was ap- 
 pointed; his enthronement took place in July. In January 
 of this year (1912) the Sacred Pallium was conferred upon 
 His Grace by Cardinal Gibbons. The orators of the clergy 
 and laity rose to the occasion magnificently. If this book 
 of remembrance had no other reason for being, its preserva- 
 tion of so many eloquently important utterances would be 
 its all-sufficient excuse. Even when robbed of the magnetic 
 influence of voice and personality, and reduced to the diffi- 
 cult test of cold type, the sermons and speeches, as the critical 
 reader will perceive, are valuable chapters of contemporary 
 world-history, all too valuable to remain obscure in the for- 
 gotten and yellowing files of the press.
 
 2 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 The mist of the morning is little more ephemeral than 
 the news of the day, as contained in our papers our papers 
 of wood-pulp, which, in a few months' time, are rusty with 
 age, and which, within a few years, will crumble at a touch. 
 So, in this era of flimsy material, it is all the more necessary 
 to preserve enduring records of great events, to keep all that 
 is worth keeping "in the casket of a book" worthily bound. 
 
 To the princes, prelates, priests, and laymen who glori- 
 fied our new Archbishop's red-letter days with their friendly 
 presence and their enthusiastic tributes of esteem we owe 
 this duty, no less than we owe it to our own beloved Chief 
 Shepherd "May God enlarge his life with multitude of 
 days!"
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 FIFTY-THREE YEARS IN PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 STUDENT, PRIEST, RECTOR, VICAR GENERAL, BISHOP, ARCHBISHOP. 
 
 ""THE central figure in the solemn religious ceremonies 
 recorded in this volume, the Most Reverend Edmond 
 Francis Prendergast, was born at Clonmel, Tipperary, in the 
 year 1843. His Grace's branch of the Care w- Prendergast 
 family has given many sons and daughters to the Church. 
 One of his brothers, the Rev. Peter J. Prendergast, D. D., 
 became Rector of the Church of the Epiphany, New York 
 City. Another brother, Father Francis Prendergast, is sta- 
 tioned in Dungarvan, Waterford. Two of his sisters en- 
 tered the religious life in Ireland; one of these is the Rev- 
 erend Mother Mary Peter, of the Presentation Convent at 
 Lismore. His father's brother, the Rev. James Prendergast, 
 died in the ministry at the age of eighty-six, at Tallow. Two 
 uncles, his mother's brothers, were the late Father Edmond 
 Carew, of the Archdiocese of Cashel, and the late Father 
 Francis Carew, pastor of St. Rose of Lima's Church, Car- 
 bondale, Pa. 
 
 In 1859 the young candidate for priesthood, at the invi- 
 tation of Father Francis Carew, entered the Seminary at 
 Eighteenth and Race streets, Philadelphia. He was ordained 
 to the priesthood at the age of twenty-two and one-half 
 years, on the I7th November, 1865, in the Cathedral of SS. 
 Peter and Paul, by Bishop Wood. 
 
 Father Prendergast's first mission was at St. Paul's 
 Church, Ninth and Christian streets. There he had labored 
 only six months, when, on account of his health, he asked
 
 4 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 to be sent to a country parish, and was appointed to the 
 small mission of Susquehanna Depot, Susquehanna Coumy, 
 as assistant to the venerable Father John Vincent O'Reilly. 
 After some eighteen months he was appointed pastor of St. 
 Mark's Church, Bristol. St. Mark's then comprised the pres- 
 ent parishes of Newtown, Morrisville, Yardley, and Corn- 
 wells. For four years he remained pastor at Bristol, and 
 then was appointed pastor of the Immaculate Conception 
 Church, Allentown. On the death of Father John Kelly, 
 pastor and founder of St. Malachy's Church, at Eleventh and 
 Master streets, in February, 1874, Bishop Wood appointed 
 Father Prendergast to the vacant rectorship, where he labored 
 for thirty-seven years. On 4 November, 1886, he was ap- 
 pointed permanent rector of St. Malachy's. Ten years later 
 he was made Vicar General of the Diocese. 
 
 In the year of Archbishop Ryan's Episcopal Silver Ju- 
 bilee, his Vicar General was named Auxiliary Bishop of Phil- 
 adelphia, with the title of Bishop of Scillio, 3 December, 
 
 1896. His consecration as Bishop took place on 24 February, 
 
 1897. For fifteen years the Bishop was kept constantly busy, 
 ordaining priests, administering Confirmation, dedicating 
 churches, chapels and schools, officiating at the reception of 
 novices and at the solemn profession of numerous nuns in 
 the Diocese. Besides his duties as Auxiliary he had count- 
 less other activities as Vicar General, Rector of St. Mal- 
 achy's, Diocesan Consultor, and Irremovable Rector. At the 
 same time he was an active member of the Diocesan School 
 Board, the Board of Trustees of the Clerical Fund, the Dio- 
 cesan Building Committee; he was the Spiritual Director of 
 the Particular Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul 
 and occupied the same position in regard to several of the 
 parish societies of St. Malachy's. 
 
 Among the most burdensome of his duties not the least 
 have been those devolving upon him as Chairman of the Dio- 
 cesan Building Committee the examination of plans, the con-
 
 Fifty-three Years in Philadelphia 5 
 
 sideration of cost, of the material to be used in the struc- 
 tures, and the like practical questions. Notable among the 
 institutions may be mentioned the Catholic Protectory for 
 Boys, the Archbishop Ryan Memorial Library attached to 
 the Seminary, the new Catholic Home for Girls, and the 
 Catholic Girls' High School. 
 
 For fifteen years the new Archbishop had borne the 
 weight of this burden, when Patrick John Ryan, full of years 
 and merits, great in his goodness, was called to his reward, n 
 February, 1911. In his death the United States lost one of 
 its foremost citizens, the Church in America one of its most 
 influential and best churchmen, the City of Philadelphia one 
 of its most respected citizens, and the See of Philadelphia its 
 most beloved father, its second Archbishop. It is but true to 
 say that no one felt his loss more than his own chosen Aux- 
 iliary Bishop. After the death of Archbishop Ryan, Bishop 
 Prendergast became the Administrator of the Diocese. 
 
 Scarcely three months had the Bishop rilled the office of 
 Administrator when the news of his elevation to the Arch- 
 bishopric was received from Rome. It was an added satis- 
 faction and a source of congratulation among the priests that 
 for the first time in the history of the Diocese one who was 
 their own from his Seminary days should have been advanced 
 to the archiepiscopal chair. 
 
 At the closing exercises of the colleges, academies, and 
 parish schools, during June, 1911, the month after the Arch- 
 bishop's appointment, grateful reference was made, in the 
 salutatory addresses, to the high honor recently conferred on 
 the Auxiliary Bishop. First among these comes His Grace's 
 Alma Mater, the Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo, Over- 
 brook, which cordially greeted its most distinguished son and 
 new chief. The address of felicitation was delivered by the 
 Rev. Joseph S. Kelly, and was in part as follows : 
 
 "The spirit of reverence made animate by our faith is in 
 the hearts of the students of St. Charles' Seminary to-day,
 
 6 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 and mingles with the joy that marks this gathering, made 
 memorable as it is by your presence, Most Reverend Arch- 
 bishop. And if, profiting by the grateful assurance of your 
 special regard and good will towards us, your sons, we on 
 this occasion offer you our feeble tribute of fidelity, obedience 
 and devotion, we fully understand you will recognize and 
 appreciate the motives prompting us. 
 
 "Indeed, Most Reverend Father, there is no prompting 
 needed in the hearts of your loyal students to impel that 
 respectful obedience which characterizes the true sons of the 
 Church. For we behold in you our spiritual father; in you 
 we recognize our shepherd and our guide. Therefore, your 
 Grace, we humbly beg this opportunity to assure you with 
 all the faith and ardor of our souls that we will strive to the 
 utmost to be true and devoted sons, while still in the Seminary 
 and later when, in God's Providence, the day shall arrive for 
 our promotion to Holy Orders, we prayerfully hope we shall 
 prove ourselves less unworthy of the high vocation to which 
 each student in the Seminary feels called by Almighty God. 
 
 "With these assurances we greet you, Most Reverend 
 Father, and at the same time we beg leave to say how happy 
 and thankful we are that God has given us a father whom 
 we have known and loved for so many years. You will re- 
 ceive many tokens of esteem and love from devoted and af- 
 fectionate hearts, but we venture to think there are none who 
 rejoice with a keener and more personal joy than do your 
 students to-day. 
 
 "A few months ago the death of Archbishop Ryan 
 brought universal grief and sorrow. A kind father, a true 
 friend was taken from those he loved. The sense of loss was 
 universal; a nation mourned and paid homage to the mem- 
 ory of our great and holy Archbishop. In union with you, 
 our hearts were bowed with sorrow, our souls filled with 
 grief. And we knew that no one felt his loss more keenly, 
 no heart was flooded with more intense sorrow than your
 
 Felicitations at the Seminary 7 
 
 own. Your Grace knew it was God's holy will all accepted 
 God's will we bowed our heads in humble submission and 
 prayed for the repose of his soul. With that prayer went 
 forth another petition to the throne of heaven, asking the 
 Holy Ghost to enlighten the Supreme Pontiff in the selection 
 of a worthy successor to our late venerable Archbishop. 
 
 "Our prayers have been answered. May we be per- 
 mitted to say that we thank God for the blessing He has 
 conferred upon the archdiocese, upon the Seminary, upon each 
 of its students. A feeling of gratitude wells up in our hearts, 
 realizing how good God has been in giving us for our Arch- 
 bishop one whom we have reverenced for these many years. 
 
 "It has been our happy privilege to have known your 
 Grace during the past years as the constant associate, com- 
 panion and friend of our late venerable father. Wherever 
 we beheld His Grace we beheld, ever ready by his side, his 
 faithful co-laborer. Most of us have known you as God's 
 minister, who signed us with the sign of the cross in holy 
 confirmation. Some of us have known you in the imposition 
 of hands in sacred orders. All of us have known you in 
 your many repeated visits to Overbrook, year after year, 
 when you came to raise to the holy priesthood the young 
 levites who have gone before us. Consequently, Most Rev- 
 erend Archbishop, we are doubly blessed in your selection by 
 the Holy See, and we praise and bless and thank our Father 
 in heaven for His kindness in answering the prayers of the 
 archdiocese. 
 
 "However, your Grace, on this occasion, it is not so 
 much the formal address we would have you remember, but 
 the thoughts, the impressions, the memories which move our 
 hearts and awake our feelings of reverence and veneration. 
 The spoken word cannot indicate all that is hidden, buried 
 deep in our hearts to-day. But as true sons of a beloved and 
 venerated father we offer you our prayers. We promise to 
 remember you each day in our petitions to the Throne of
 
 8 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 Mercy. We shall ask our Divine Lord to shower His choicest 
 blessings upon your episcopate. We shall ask our Blessed 
 Lady to obtain for you from her Divine Son the lights and 
 graces necessary in the care and guidance of the many thou- 
 sand souls of this vast archdiocese." 
 
 At the conclusion of the exercises Archbishop Prender- 
 gast made a brief address and gave the episcopal blessing. 
 His Grace spoke in substance as follows : 
 
 "I will not attempt to express my feelings of appreciation 
 and gratitude, but I assure you I am profoundly thankful 
 to you for your kindly sentiments. Another year. of your 
 seminary life closes to-day, and brings you that much nearer 
 to the fulfillment of your hopes of becoming ministers of 
 Christ and dispensers of the mysteries of God. You have evi- 
 dently profited by the opportunities afforded you for study. 
 I congratulate those who have won medals 'palmam qui 
 meruit ferat/ but I am not unmindful of the fact that the 
 student of lesser gifts who so employs his time as to make the 
 best use of his talents is as worthy of praise as his more for- 
 tunate brothers in class. There is a great field in the missions 
 of the diocese and work for all the highest and the holiest. 
 Your constant prayer should be that Almighty God will give 
 you the grace to do your duty faithfully and well in what- 
 ever position you may be assigned. 
 
 "I am gratified to know that excellent discipline and ad- 
 mirable ecclesiastical spirit, unity and brotherly love exist 
 in this great institution. These things are of as much im- 
 portance as is efficiency in study. I believe, and I sincerely 
 trust that you believe it, too, that the faculty and trustees 
 of this institution have at heart your best interests, spiritual 
 and physical. The addition to the Seminary which is now 
 about completed is standing evidence of that, as it is also a 
 memorial of the love of our late Archbishop for the sem- 
 inarians, and will enshrine him in the memory of all the stu-
 
 Address to Seminarians 9 
 
 dents of St. Charles' Seminary as long as the granite walls of 
 the structure stand. 
 
 "You are the chosen sons of the diocese, and its priests 
 and people love you. You are the heirs of all the glory of 
 the diocese. Just as parents are anxious for children who are 
 away from home and no longer under the loving eyes of 
 father and mother, so all the people, the priests and the Arch- 
 bishop will be solicitous for you during vacation. All wish 
 you to have a happy, glorious time, and to miss no opportunity 
 of gaining health and all the other blessings of a well-spent 
 vacation. While you will not have to observe the rules 
 which have governed you during the scholastic year, there 
 are certain rules which you should observe, such as daily 
 prayer and meditation, the hearing of Mass every day if pos- 
 sible, the reception of Holy Communion frequently. You have 
 the honor of the diocese and of the Seminary in your keep- 
 ing, and you must give edification to all, never forgetting that 
 you are students of the Seminary and candidates for the 
 priesthood. Show your love for the sanctuary by joining 
 in the devotions of your parish whenever possible. Let us 
 hope you will come back refreshed in body and in mind, ready 
 to do your work, filled with the ecclesiastical spirit and the 
 spirit of charity among yourselves, and the priests and people 
 of the diocese will rejoice." 
 
 Here His Grace sat down, but immediately arose and said : 
 
 "Sometimes the best part of a letter is in the postscript. 
 The time fixed for the students to come back is September 
 7th. Many honors have been showered upon the Archbishop, 
 and among his privileges is that of extending the vacation, 
 and he now makes the date of return September I5th." 
 
 That the students appreciated this was evident from the 
 enthusiastic hand-clapping which greeted the announcement, 
 no warmer, however, than that which met His Grace when 
 he arose to speak.
 
 io Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 It is fitting to give place here to a brief record of the 
 commencement exercises of at least St. Malachy's School, in 
 His Grace's long-accustomed home parish. The closing exer- 
 cises were made "the children's farewell to their beloved Arch- 
 bishop." The program voiced mingled sentiments of joy and 
 sorrow joy that their beloved pastor of many years has 
 become chief shepherd of the diocese; sorrow that his eleva- 
 tion meant his removal from them. The program began with 
 the chorus " Vivat ! Vivat !" by the entire school, and was fol- 
 lowed by an address by Miss Teresa Cavanaugh. Miss Marie 
 Doyle recited "The Butterfly." The boys sang "Ecce 
 Sacerdos." Philip Berry rendered the sextette from "Lucia." 
 The little girls reviewed in a pleasing manner Archbishop 
 Prendergast's thirty-seven years of labors in the parish and 
 the senior girls sang "God Bless You." 
 
 Archbishop Prendergast addressed the children, thanking 
 them for their pleasing entertainment and for their expres- 
 sions of affection, and assuring them of a continued interest 
 in their welfare. 
 
 The following touching address, in the familiar metre 
 of Hiawatha, was presented by one of the children of St. 
 Malachy's School to the beloved shepherd to whom they could 
 no longer lay sole pastoral claim: 
 
 "Dear Archbishop, friend and Father, 
 We, your children, gather round you, 
 Gather here to-day to tell you 
 Of the joy and of the sorrow 
 In the hearts of all your children; 
 Joy at your appointment holy, 
 Joy that you have now been chosen 
 By St. Peter's great successor, 
 By the Holy Ghost in person, 
 As the Head of this Archdiocese:
 
 St. Malachy's School II 
 
 Sorrow, that we now must lose you, 
 Sorrow that you soon must leave us, 
 From St. Malachy's must sever. 
 
 "All our lives we loved to meet you 
 On the street or in the school-house, 
 Loved to have you walk amongst us, 
 Loved to open wide your gateway 
 As we saw your form approaching. 
 
 "Happy were our hearts at Christmas, 
 When you spoke to us so kindly; 
 Happy, too, at all our closings, 
 When our efforts you commended. 
 
 "At your voice, beloved Father, 
 Has the Holy Ghost descended 
 To live in these young hearts of ours. 
 We shall every day remember, 
 In our heartfelt prayers, our Father, 
 Asking of the Spirit Holy, 
 Asking through our Mother Blessed, 
 That our Lord may keep you ever, 
 Helping you in all your labors, 
 Guarding, guiding Our Archbishop."
 
 CHAPTER II 
 
 INSTALLATION AS ARCHBISHOP. 
 
 THE SYBIL'S MYSTIC SYMBOLS. 
 
 The Most Reverend Edmond F. Prendergast, D. D., enthroned Arch- 
 bishop of Philadelphia, 26 July, A. D. 1911. 
 
 Thus saith the Sybil to our cherished See : 
 "Of the great prelates in your annals old, 
 Three Egan, Wood, and Ryan are enroll'd, 
 
 Four letters in each name of dignity, 
 
 Which, with the Cardinal Virtues, may agree. 
 Again : In Conwell, Kenrick, Neumann, shine 
 
 Each, seven mystic letters which might be 
 Types of the Spirit's Seven Gifts divine! 
 
 "Can, then, no shepherd rule this blessed fold 
 Save one of letters either four or seven?" 
 Lo ! Philadelphia's Angel writes in gold 
 
 The chosen names decreed by Rome and heaven ! 
 'Round Seven Gifts the Cardinal Virtues twine 
 Both Seven and Four in Prendergast combine. 
 
 ELEANOR C. DONNELLY. 
 
 PREPARATIONS for the installation of the new Arch- 
 bishop began with the conference of the Diocesan Con- 
 suitors, who decided to call a meeting of all the clergy, regu- 
 lar and diocesan. This, the largest assemblage of priests of 
 the Philadelphia Archdiocese ever held in the Cathedral 
 Chapel, met on Tuesday afternoon, n July. The meeting 
 was called to order by the Right Rev. Monsignor James P. 
 Turner, D. D. The Right Rev. Monsignor John J. McCort 
 read the minutes of the meeting of the Diocesan Consultors.
 
 Cablegram to the Pope 13 
 
 The Rev. Daniel O'Connor, rector of St. Agatha's, was elected 
 Chairman; the Rev. P. J. Daily, rector of the Annunciation, 
 Treasurer, and the then Diocesan Secretary, the Rev. Charles 
 F. Kavanagh, was elected Secretary. 
 
 At this meeting a motion was adopted to send a cable- 
 gram of thanks from the clergy of Philadelphia to the Holy 
 Father. Following is the Latin text of the message which 
 was sent to Pope Pius X, through His Eminence Cardinal 
 Merry del Val, the Papal Secretary of State, by the Rev. 
 Herman J. Heuser, D. D., of the faculty of the Seminary 
 of St. Charles Borromeo: 
 
 "EMINENT. CARDINALI MERRY DEL VAL, 
 
 "Vaticano, Roma, Italia. 
 
 "Eminentiam Vestram rogant Sacerdotes Philadelphien- 
 ses ut SSo. Patri communicare dignetur grates sensus per 
 nuntium adjectum expresses. 
 
 "HEUSER, deputatus." 
 
 "Clerus saecularis et regularis Philadelphiensis con- 
 sociatus ad id ut Antistitis majoris recens electi festa ven- 
 turae inaugurations sollemnia rite celebraret, occasionem sibi 
 datam magno cum gaudio captat sui ipsius populique fidelis 
 gratos Summo Pontifici significandi animos ob nominationem 
 Rmi Praesulis Edmundi Prendergast cujus sollicitudinem pas- 
 toral em Ecclesia Philadelphiensis per multos jam annos ex- 
 perta est. 
 
 "MICHAEL DONOVAN, 
 "PHILIPPUS McDEViTT, 
 "CAROLUS KAVANAGH, 
 "CAROLUS LYONS, S. J. 
 "HERMANUS HEUSER." 
 
 TRANSLATION. 
 
 The clergy, secular and regular, of the Archdiocese of Philadel- 
 phia, assembled for the purpose of making suitable preparations for
 
 14 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 the installation of their Most Reverend Archbishop, take the oppor- 
 tunity of expressing, in their own name and that of the faithful 
 entrusted to their care, their sentiments of profound gratitude to the 
 Sovereign Pontiff for having appointed the Most Reverend Edmond 
 Prendergast as their chief pastor, since he has endeared himself to 
 all by his pastoral solicitude, fitting him to be their spiritual guide. 
 
 ANSWER. 
 
 To this message the Holy Father promptly sent the fol- 
 lowing reply through Cardinal Merry del Val, addressed to 
 the Chairman of the Committee, the Rev. H. J. Heuser: 
 
 "Beatissimus Pater Filiolis: Devotionis gratique animi 
 obsequio gavisus a clero saeculari et regulari Philadelphiensi 
 exhibito pro electione novi praesulis Prendergast gratias agit 
 et omnibus Apostolicam Benedictionem, imprimisque Antistiti 
 electo peramanter in Domino impertitur. 
 
 "CARD. MERRY DEL VAL. 
 
 "Rome, Italy." 
 
 TRANSLATION. 
 
 The Holy Father, rejoicing over the expression of devotion and 
 gratitude manifested by the secular and regular clergy of Philadelphia 
 on account of the election of the Most Rev. E. F. Prendergast as their 
 new Archbishop, in return thanks his children and imparts to them, 
 and foremost to the Archbishop, most lovingly in the Lord the Apos- 
 tolic Benediction. 
 
 CARD. MERRY DEL VAL. 
 
 Details were in charge of sub-committees of the reverend 
 clergy as follows: The Right Rev. Monsignor Turner, Chair- 
 man; the Rev. James F. Trainor, the Right Rev. Monsignor 
 McCort, the Rev. J. J. Kaulakis, and the Rev. Fenton J. 
 Fitzpatrick. 
 
 Entertainment Committee The Very Rev. Dr. Henry T. 
 Drumgoole, Chairman ; the Rev. Samuel B. Spalding, the Rev. 
 Charles W. Lyons, S. J. ; the Rev. M. J. Crane, the Rev. James 
 F. Trainor, and the Rev. Francis J. Clark.
 
 Installation Committees 15 
 
 Finance Committee The Rev. P. J. Daily, Chairman; 
 the Rev. M. J. Geraghty, D. D., O. S. A. ; the Rev. Thomas 
 F. Shannon, the Rev. Antonio Isoleri, and the Rev. George 
 Hespelein, C. SS. R. 
 
 Cathedral Committee The Rev. William J. Higgins, 
 S. T. L., Chairman; the Rev. Gerald P. Coghlan, the Rev. J. 
 F. Graham, the Very Rev. Peter Masson, the Rev. Joseph F. 
 O'Keefe, the Rev. Matthew A. Hand, and the Rev. John F. 
 McQuade. 
 
 Ceremonies Committee The Right Rev. Mgr. John J. 
 McCort, Chairman; the Revs. J. F. McQuade, F. J. Sheehan, 
 and D. A. Corbett. 
 
 Committee on Address The Rev. John J. Ward, Chair- 
 man ; the Very Rev. P. McHale, C. M. ; the Right Rev. Mon- 
 signor P. R. McDevitt, the Rev. Herman J. Heuser, D. D. ; 
 the Rev. Michael C. Donovan, the Rev. Hugh T. Henry, 
 Litt D., and the Rev. Gabriel Kraus. 
 
 A meeting of the General Executive Committee was held 
 in the Cathedral Chapel, Monday afternoon, 17 July, at four 
 o'clock. A week later the following letter was sent out to 
 all the rectors in the Diocese: 
 
 "July 21, 1911. 
 "DEAR REV. FATHER: 
 
 "The General Executive Committee requests the Rev. 
 Pastors to announce to their congregations, at all the Masses 
 on Sunday, July 23, the date of the Installation of Most Rev- 
 erend Archbishop Prendergast, D. D., Wednesday morning, 
 July 26, at ten o'clock. 
 
 "The Committee also requests that the church bells be 
 rung at the time of the beginning of the Installation cere- 
 monies. 
 
 "DANIEL O'CONNOR, 
 
 "Chairman. 
 
 "CHARLES F. KAVANAGH, 
 
 "Secretary."
 
 16 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 The Papal Bulls were borne from Rome by the Right 
 Rev. Monsignor Nevin F. Fisher, Rector of the Church of 
 St. John the Evangelist, and the Most Rev. Edmond F. Pren- 
 dergast, D. D., was solemnly enthroned as Archbishop of 
 Philadelphia in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, in 
 Logan Square, on the feast of Saint Ann, mother of the 
 Blessed Virgin, 26 July, 1911. 
 
 The Cathedral was brilliantly illuminated. Over the 
 main altar appeared an electrical sunburst above the Holy 
 Name JESUS just over the tabernacle. 
 
 Cedars, palms, fernery, and trailing vines lent the aro- 
 matic fragrance and coolness of forest aisles to the interior 
 of the Cathedral on that historic midsummer morning. Every 
 leaf expressed its traditional significance the symbolism of 
 the vine, "Christ our life" ; of the palm and cedar, triumph, 
 and "the death of death." The very color, green, was em- 
 blematical of immortality; and its other symbolic meaning, 
 "the gladness of the faithful," was most appropriate to the 
 happy day of the enthronement. 
 
 Never had there been so joyful an inauguration of new 
 rule, for never before had come to the archiepiscopal throne 
 one so well known to the priests and the people of the city in 
 which he had lived continuously for more than fifty years, 
 seminarian, priest, vicar general, and bishop. 
 
 The vast congregation might be described in a sentence 
 of Bishop Hoban's sermon, referring to the Church itself 
 "composed of the most varied elements, made up of men 
 and women of divers nationalities and of various degrees 
 of culture and education." Rich and poor, governor and 
 governed, Catholic and non-Catholic, society leader and reli- 
 gieuse, professional man and laborer, young and old, white, 
 black, and copper-colored, "all sorts and conditions of men" 
 and women were assembled to welcome the Archbishop to 
 his throne. 
 
 The occasion gave expression to civic as well as to ec-
 
 Day of Installation 17 
 
 clesiastical jubilation in the high honor conferred upon this 
 eminently representative citizen of Philadelphia, this long- 
 faithful shepherd of a great fold, this worthy scion of an 
 ancient race. Among the many prominent non-Catholics 
 present were the Honorable John E. Reyburn, Mayor of Phil- 
 adelphia; Judge Robert von Moschzisker, Judge Mayer Sulz- 
 berger, Judge John L. Kinsey, Judge Charles Y. Audenried, 
 and other officials of the city, beside leaders in society and 
 in the professions. 
 
 It was the very height of the hot season, when all the 
 larger town houses were closed, and when every one who 
 could go had escaped from the heat and dust of the city to 
 mountain or seashore retreat; yet to honor the beloved Arch- 
 bishop of Philadelphia so many, even not of the fold, had 
 returned for the day of Installation that, although ad- 
 mittance was by card, every seat was taken a full hour before 
 the beginning of the solemn ceremonies, and all available 
 standing room was occupied. Outside the Cathedral, Logan 
 Square was crowded with thousands of men, women and 
 children, who waited for hours to view the procession of 
 prelates, priests, and seminarians. 
 
 The bells of all the churches of the city rang out at ten 
 o'clock precisely to join in chorus the chiming joy-bells of 
 the Cathedral as the procession, which had formed in the 
 Cathedral Chapel, passed out into Logan Square and around 
 the street to the main entrance of the Cathedral. A cross- 
 bearer preceded the seminarians, who were followed by four 
 hundred priests, by the Monsignori, the Bishops, the Arch- 
 bishop, and the Apostolic Delegate. 
 
 At the threshold of the Cathedral it is the duty of the 
 administrator of the Diocese symbolically to transfer the 
 Cathedral to the new incumbent, but in this instance, as the 
 Archbishop himself had been administrator, the transfer was 
 made by one of the senior clergy, the Right Rev. Monsignor 
 George Bornemann, rector of St. Paul's, Reading, Pa., who
 
 i8 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 was ordained a few months before Father Edmond Francis 
 Prendergast, long ago in the year 1865. Monsignor Borne- 
 mann recited the prescribed prayers and presented the Cruci- 
 fix, which the Archbishop kissed as an act of faith. His 
 Grace then sprinkled the holy water with an aspergill, and 
 Monsignor Bornemann saluted the prelate with incense, the 
 fragrance of which was wafted up through the aisles as the 
 procession re-formed within the Cathedral and moved toward 
 the Sanctuary, chanting the Te Deum. It was a solemn 
 moment when the Most Rev. Archbishop for the first time 
 ascended the throne to which his priests and his people had 
 so enthusiastically welcomed him; and in that moment, with- 
 out doubt, all were united as one in a fervent aspiration that 
 it might be many, many years before the now trebly-sacred 
 throne should again be vacant. 
 
 When the Most Rev. Archbishop had been enthroned, the 
 Rev. John J. Ward, rector of the Church of the Sacred Heart, 
 read the address of the clergy, as follows: 
 
 "MOST REVEREND ARCHBISHOP: 
 
 "By the unanimous voice of the priests of the Diocese, 
 regular and secular, in meeting assembled in the Cathedral 
 Chapel, on the afternoon of July n, 1911, it was resolved to 
 prepare and present to Your Grace a formal minute of felici- 
 tation on the occasion of your promotion to the Metropolitan 
 See of Philadelphia, and to give some formal expression to 
 the sentiments of joy and gratitude wherewith we are ani- 
 mated by reason of the fact that we are privileged by the 
 grace of God and the favor of the Apostolic See to have 
 Your Grace for our Chief Pastor, the Guide and Ruler of our- 
 selves and the faithful intrusted to our care. 
 
 "The long years of your sacerdotal ministry, replete with 
 richest garnering, the fruitage of zeal and labor for the glory 
 of God and the salvation of souls; the high ideals of your 
 pastoral administration and the realized holy hopes of the 
 ordinary routine of your parochial life have been to the priest-
 
 Address of Clergy 19 
 
 hood of this Diocese an inspiration and incentive for the high- 
 est expression of priestly zeal and activity. 
 
 "In the more complex and varied duties of diocesan ad- 
 ministration your rare judgment and abiding wisdom, com- 
 bined with loyal devotion, gave service priceless to a loved 
 and venerated Chief; and your paternal interest and fatherly 
 solicitude for the welfare of the clergy quickened into affec- 
 tionate veneration the admiration and esteem which the in- 
 tegrity of your official virtues had begotten in us. 
 
 "With these sentiments toward Your Grace, and with this 
 appreciation of your eminent fitness for the high office, we 
 rejoice with unbounded joy that the Holy See, in the pleni- 
 tude of its power, has placed you to rule over us; and, with 
 sincerity and unanimity, the entire clergy of this great Arch- 
 diocese gladly and spontaneously offer Your Grace our heart- 
 felt congratulations; and, while assuring you of the love and 
 fealty of your devoted clergy, we pledge our faithful co- 
 operation to help to lessen the manifold burdens which are 
 laid upon you and to bring to a perfect consummation the 
 Reign and Rule which have so auspiciously begun. 
 
 "May the Divine Providence which has so singularly 
 blessed us preserve Your Grace in health and vigor for man^ 
 years, and fill you with the abundance of every good and 
 perfect gift. 
 
 "JOHN J. McCoRT, "MICHAEL DONOVAN, 
 
 "PHILIP R. MCDEVITT, "ANTHONY ISOLERI, 
 
 "H. T. DRUMGOOLE, LL. D., "HUGH T. HENRY, Litt. D., 
 
 "MARTIN GERAGHTY, O. S. A., "MICHAEL J. CRANE, 
 
 "PATRICK J. McHALE, C. M., "GEORGE KRAUS, 
 
 "PETER MASSON, V. F., "JAS. TIMMINS, Chairman. 
 
 "CHARLES LYONS, S. J., "JOSEPH KAULAKIS, 
 
 "GEO. HESPELEIN, C. S. S. R., "F. J. FITZPATRICK, 
 
 "CHRISTOPHER PLUNKETT, C.S.Sp. "C. F. KAVANAGH, 
 
 "BERNARD DORNHEGE, "JOHN J. WHEELER, 
 
 "JNO. J. WARD, "JOSEPH CORRIGAN, D. D., 
 
 "HERMAN J. HEUSER, "JAMES DUFFY."
 
 2o Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 The following address of the laity was then read by Wal- 
 ter George Smith, Esq. : 
 
 MOST REVEREND ARCHBISHOP: 
 
 "With full hearts the laity of the archdiocese join their 
 acclaim to that of the clergy on the solemn occasion of your 
 enthronement. Our venerable and saintly Pope, with a 
 prescience that manifests his wisdom and a love of souls that 
 brings its reward in the reciprocal love of his faithful chil- 
 dren, has chosen you to guide us, sustain us and comfort us 
 in the manifold trials of our earthly pilgrimage, and we lay at 
 your feet the assurance of our devotion and of our convic- 
 tion that the office illustrated by your noble predecessors will 
 suffer no diminution of its greatness while God spares you 
 to fulfil its duties. 
 
 "We have mourned with you for the loss of the dear 
 friend who for many years ruled us with a sway so benign 
 that we almost forgot his great dignity as an Archbishop in 
 our affection for him as our spiritual father. Full of years, 
 at peace with God and man, he passed from time to eter- 
 nity, sustained by the recollections of an unselfish life and 
 the prayers of an entire community, revered as their shep- 
 herd and loved as their friend. You, Most Reverend Arch- 
 bishop, stood at his bier and offered the prayers of the Church 
 for the repose of his great soul. No one of his flock, whether 
 clergy or laity, felt more deeply our common loss, and now, 
 under God's Providence, you take the crozier he bore so long 
 in your own strong hands and take the shepherd's place ; and 
 your flock looks up to you with trusting eyes. 
 
 "We shall not forget while life lasts the noble form, the 
 voice of awful grandeur and of tender kindness, the char- 
 acter that marked the well-nigh perfect ideal of man and 
 priest, joining the simplicity of a child with the wisdom of 
 a sage ; but we lay aside our mourning, for God has raised up 
 a successor who unites in himself an equal simplicity of pur- 
 pose and an equal devotion to his flock. We rejoice, 'for
 
 Address of Laity 21 
 
 winter is now past, the rain is over and gone.' Another true 
 servant of God will lead us 'till the day break and the shadows 
 retire/ and we shall follow you in all loyal confidence as we 
 did him who is gone to his reward. 
 
 "Most Reverend Archbishop, your whole manhood has 
 been given to the service of God among the priests of Phila- 
 delphia. You were educated in our Seminary; you were or- 
 dained by our first Archbishop. From the date of your ordi- 
 nation until this moment your life's work has been among us, 
 as curate, as consultor, as Vicar General, as Bishop. Step 
 by step, through all degrees of responsibility and strength- 
 ened by every trial, you come now naturally as one who by 
 common consent is pointed out as the most worthy to assume 
 the highest office in the Church of Philadelphia. Your hu- 
 mility would shrink from eulogium. It would be unbecoming 
 to pronounce it, though I know well no eloquence could frame 
 expressions of admiration that would not find responsive echo 
 in the minds and hearts of those who know you best. More 
 than a million and a half of the Catholic citizens of Pennsyl- 
 vania offer you their homage; for to-day not alone our own 
 diocese, but all the dioceses of the State, are gathered in 
 spirit under this Cathedral dome to express to you their hap- 
 piness that you have been chosen their Archbishop and their 
 purpose to join with you and under your leadership in the 
 advancement of the cause of the Church. We promise to aid 
 you in all works of charity, the care of the widow and the 
 orphan, the prisoner and the indigent, the sick and the maimed. 
 We promise, so far as our human limitations will permit, 
 each in his own sphere, wide or narrow, to show in the con- 
 duct of our lives the faith that is in us. We promise to strive 
 against the temptations of wealth as well as of poverty, 
 against the vices that draw down individuals while they under- 
 mine the secular state. We promise to show a broad charity 
 towards those who sincerely differ with us in religion, while 
 they join, as far as their lights permit, in the elevation of
 
 22 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 human conduct. With God's aid we shall do what we can by 
 precept and example to lift the cloud that centuries of false 
 representations have thrown about the face of Catholic truth, 
 that the world may learn that there is no other solution for 
 its problems and no other comfort in its sorrow than that 
 which the Church has offered, through storm and sunshine, in 
 time of power and weakness from the day of Pentecost to 
 this very hour. 
 
 "And from you, our spiritual father and friend, we shall 
 receive with obedient minds, admonition and encouragement, 
 sympathy and hope, to aid us in our effort to follow where 
 you lead and share in an humbler way in the struggles of the 
 militant Church. To you, dear Archbishop, we shall turn as 
 of yore to the great, kind and wise men whom you and we 
 remember as our shepherds, and we know we shall never fail 
 of entrance to your heart. 
 
 "May God preserve your Grace for many years and grant 
 that you may behold an ever-increasing fruition of your labors 
 for His cause!" 
 
 The first address from the throne is always an impressive 
 pronouncement. As His Grace rose to speak, all eyes were 
 turned upon the splendidly towering figure, to which addi- 
 tional majesty was given by the mitre and the pontifical vest- 
 ments. The Archbishop's soft, yet sonorous, voice, and the 
 powerful simplicity of his language, made an indelible impres- 
 sion upon the hearts and minds of the vast assemblage. 
 
 THE ARCHBISHOP'S ADDRESS. 
 "Your Excellency, Right Reverend Bishops, Right Reverend 
 
 Monsignori, Very Reverend and Reverend Fathers, and 
 
 dearly beloved children of the laity : 
 
 "It is incumbent on me, first of all, to render sincerest 
 thanks to Almighty God, since gratitude to Him is the surest 
 means of securing Divine favor and the continued help of 
 Divine grace, without which nothing lasting can be accom- 
 plished. For I am deeply sensible that in assuming the re-
 
 His Address at Installation 23 
 
 sponsibilities of the great Archdiocese of Philadelphia it would 
 be utter folly to rely solely on human prudence, foresight or 
 ability, and not to look for wisdom and guidance to Him alone 
 who grants all good gifts in fullest measure. 
 
 "In the second place, my thanks are due to the Holy 
 Father, Pius X, who, after the procedure usual in the selection 
 of an Archbishop, has seen fit to lay upon me the burden that 
 was borne so long and with so much honor by the illustrious 
 Archbishop who has gone before us. When our beloved Arch- 
 bishop, full of years spent in the service of the Church, and 
 full, too, of the merit that follows service well rendered, heard 
 the call of the Divine Master and passed to his eternal reward, 
 the Bishops of the province and the clergy and the laity of 
 this archdiocese awaited patiently and calmly for the canonical 
 appointment of his successor. And as soon as the Holy 
 Father's decision was announced, all hastened to give their 
 congratulations to the one upon whom the choice had fallen. 
 To-day you are assembled to translate those congratulations 
 into terms of obedience, to install him upon whom the burden 
 has been placed into his high office, and thus to ratify, in the 
 ancient and expressive ritual of the Church, the appointment 
 which our Holy Father has made. 
 
 "This ceremony, therefore, is not only the public installa- 
 tion of an Archbishop in his cathedral ; it has also another sig- 
 nificance, for it typifies again the constant love and unswerving 
 devotion that Bishops and priests and people have and have 
 always had for the Roman Pontiff. By this rite to-day you 
 give obedience to one who is all unworthy in himself and whose 
 sole title to the dignity of Archbishop is 'the mercy of God 
 and the favor of the Apostolic See.' 
 
 "I wish to-day to lay special emphasis on this lesson of 
 loyalty to the Holy Father so easily read in the ceremony at 
 which we assist. Never before, perhaps, in all the long and 
 varied history of the Church, has the authority of the Roman 
 Pontiff been so impugned as in these days, and never before
 
 24 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 have the love and the loyalty of the faithful for the head of 
 the Church been more in evidence. Throughout almost the 
 entire world doctrines destructive of religion and a morality 
 subversive of society centered their attack upon the Church 
 and upon its head, the Vicar of Christ. This age has seen 
 the birth of Modernism, that synthesis of heresies ; it has seen 
 the individual set up as the only standard of belief and the 
 sole measure of morality. It has seen a world-wide consensus 
 of fundamental error ordered and systematized and launched 
 against all religious authority. In a word, it has witnessed 
 a concerted attempt to deprive the Vicar of Christ of every 
 vestige of authority in the Church of God. And in the moment 
 when this vast system, leveled against authoritative doctrine, 
 hoped for success it was shorn of power and deprived of 
 influence by a prompt condemnation which issued from him 
 who holds the place of St. Peter. In his wonderful encyclical, 
 Pascendi, he exposed to the world the conspiracy that threat- 
 ened religion, to the utter confusion and dismay of its ad- 
 herents. 
 
 "The lesson, therefore, that to-day's ceremony teaches is 
 to reiterate our devotion and loyalty to the Vicar of Jesus 
 Christ, the Watchman in Israel, the successor of the Prince 
 of the Apostles. 
 
 "We are also to remember that, although this ceremony 
 begins a new administration in this archdiocese, it is not, 
 therefore, an inauguration of any new or untried policies. 
 It will continue those laws and customs and traditions which 
 had their origin under the wise government of our illustrious 
 predecessors. Those laws and customs and traditions were 
 approved because their value was demonstrated by experience, 
 and, doubtless, they will be found of equal value to meet con- 
 ditions as they arise in the future that is now so imminent. 
 
 "Relying, then, upon the mercy of Almighty God, encour- 
 aged by a clergy whose piety and efficiency are known to the 
 world, and supported by a faithful laity whose good will and
 
 His Address at Installation 25 
 
 generosity are proverbial, we are not without hope that, united 
 in heart and mind, we shall compass our measure of success. 
 Surely, it is not presumption in one lawfully appointed, what- 
 ever be his own attainments, to hope for success when under 
 Divine favor he is supported by a faithful laity and surrounded 
 by a devoted and zealous clergy. 
 
 "Finally, beloved brethren of the clergy and laity, I wish 
 to express my heartfelt gratitude for the many manifestations 
 of good will which I have received from you since my appoint- 
 ment. I beseech you to continue to encourage and help me 
 by your sympathy and prayers, that the spirit of union and 
 brotherhood that now exists between priests and people may 
 never be disturbed, that the harmony and good will between 
 us and our non-Catholic fellow-citizens which signally blessed 
 the administration of the loving, broad-minded prelate, Patrick 
 John Ryan, may always live as a tribute to his revered memory. 
 
 "Thus we may do our part for the peace and welfare of 
 the community at large, while zealously carrying on our work 
 for the sanctification of souls, for the Christian education of 
 our children, for the support of our charitable institutions 
 and all to the greater honor and glory of God." 
 
 At the conclusion of the Archbishop's address, all the 
 priests of the archdiocese present advanced to him where he 
 was seated on the throne and, kneeling, kissed his episcopal 
 ring in token of acknowledgment of his ecclesiastical author- 
 ity. During the ceremony the clergy sang the psalm, "Bene- 
 dictus." 
 
 Solemn Pontifical Mass was then celebrated by the Right 
 Rev. John E. Fitzmaurice, D. D., Bishop of Erie. The assist- 
 ant priest was the Right Rev. Mgr. John J. McCort, rector 
 of Our Mother of Sorrows' ; the deacon, the Very Rev. Henry 
 T. Drumgoole, LL. D., rector of the Seminary of St. Charles 
 Borromeo; the sub-deacon, the Rev. Fenton J. Fitzpatrick, of 
 St. Malachy's; masters of ceremonies, the Revs. Francis J. 
 Sheehan and Denis A. Corbett.
 
 26 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 The chaplains to the Most Rev. Diomede Falconio, D. D., 
 Apostolic Delegate, who presided, were the Right Rev. Mgrs. 
 James P. Turner, D. D., and Philip R. McDevitt. Archbishop 
 Prendergast was attended at the throne by the Rev. Daniel 
 O'Connor, rector of St. Agatha's, and the Rev. Samuel B. 
 Spalding, of West Chester, as chaplains, and the Rev. Gerald 
 P. Coghlan as assistant priest. 
 
 The minor offices were filled by seminarians, as follows: 
 Assistant masters of ceremonies, the Rev. Joseph Kelly and 
 Edward Gallagher; acolytes, Thomas F. McNally and Charles 
 McCarron; archiepiscopal cross-bearer, the Rev. James Gib- 
 bons; thurifer, John Bonner; boat-bearer, Joseph Boyer; holy 
 water-bearer, Philip Donahue; crozier-bearer, Joseph Ever- 
 ling; mitre-bearer for Archbishop Prendergast, Charles Mc- 
 Ginley; mitre-bearer for the celebrant of the Mass, Anthony 
 Flynn; book and candle-bearers for Archbishop Prendergast, 
 Edward Stapleton and Eugene McGuinness ; book and candle- 
 bearers for the celebrant of the Mass, Dennis Reardon and 
 George Petro; book and candle-bearer for Archbishop Fal- 
 conio, Thomas A. McNally; train-bearer for Archbishop 
 Prendergast, Joseph Smith, and train-bearer for the celebrant, 
 Vincent Campbell. 
 
 SERMON AT THE INSTALLATION. 
 
 The Right Rev. M. J. Hoban, D. D., Bishop of Scranton, 
 and senior Bishop of the Province of Pennsylvania, then 
 ascended the pulpit, and, taking for his text St. Paul's Epistle 
 to the Ephesians, preached the following sermon : 
 
 Text : Eph. iv., i : 14. 
 "Your Excellency, Your Grace, Right Reverend Bishops and 
 
 Monsignors, Very Reverend and Reverend Fathers and 
 
 dearly beloved brethren of the laity : 
 
 "The unity of the Catholic Church is not only the first 
 of the marks by which we recognize the Church founded by 
 Jesus Christ, but it is the special feature that attracts the 
 attention of studious men and women who are interested in
 
 Sermon at Installation 27 
 
 the history of mankind and in the part which the Catholic 
 Church has played for nineteen hundred years on the stage 
 of the world. These students see a world-wide organization 
 composed of the most varied elements, made up of men and 
 women of divers nationalities, of different temperaments, of 
 various degrees of culture and education. They observe that 
 the members of this organization profess the same faith, 
 receive the same sacraments and acknowledge the same spirit- 
 ual government. They notice with astonishment that the 
 Church obliges her children to accept certain doctrines, inex- 
 plicable by mere reason, and to practice certain mortifications 
 not altogether agreeable to our liberty-loving, self-indulgent 
 human nature, and yet they see her children yield loyal obe- 
 dience to her commands and practice self-denial to please their 
 mother. They see that the Catholic Church has endured while 
 the empire of the Caesars, who persecuted her, has fallen, and 
 she sits enthroned on the ruins of that empire. They see 
 that she has successfully withstood kings and princes who 
 sought to enslave her, and that she has buried them and their 
 kingdoms. They see that she has survived the defections of 
 some of her misguided children who betrayed her and plotted 
 against her, and that she has received back into her fold the 
 repentant descendants of apostate forefathers. They see that 
 while, humanly speaking, she should have disappeared long 
 ago from active participation in the affairs of the world, she 
 is to-day entrenched in the hearts of her faithful more strongly, 
 perhaps, than ever. In the history of the world, no such or- 
 ganization has ever been known. Non-Catholic students of 
 history are puzzled to account for this perpetual unity, as it 
 cannot be explained by any philosophy of history known to 
 them; nay, more, it is directly opposed to their experience 
 with ordinary human societies. Societies founded by men 
 appear and shortly disappear, or are held together for a time 
 by some material interest or national sentiment; but sooner 
 or later interests are divided and sentiments are weakened
 
 28 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 and other leaders appear on the scene at the head of other 
 organizations, which in turn are destined to give place to others. 
 
 "Whence this wonderful unity of the Catholic Church? 
 What is the life secret of this undying organization ? Students 
 and statesmen have sought this secret in vain, and they have 
 failed in their search precisely because they have not recog- 
 nized the supernatural element in the Catholic Church. The 
 Church is one now, has been one in the past and must continue 
 to be one in the future, because Jesus Christ, her Founder, 
 so willed it to be. 
 
 "Our Divine Redeemer commanded His Apostles to go 
 and teach all nations, to teach all nations all things which He 
 had commanded them to teach ; they were to preach the Gospel 
 to every creature, and he who should believe and be baptized 
 would be saved, but he who should not believe would be con- 
 demned. The men and women to whom the Gospel of Christ 
 was preached were not to judge how much they might accept, 
 how much they might reject. The Gospel of Christ was one, 
 and all that He taught must be accepted by His followers. 
 The disciples had no power or authority to add to or to take 
 from the deposit of faith, which the Master had committed 
 to the care of His Apostles and their successors. He told His 
 Apostles, 'As the Father hath sent Me, I send you.' 'He who 
 hears you, hears Me.' They were the divinely appointed in- 
 terpreters of a divinely given message; and the message was 
 always and everywhere one, as God is one. As the message 
 was one, so also were all those who received the message to be 
 one body. Our Blessed Lord often compared His Church 
 to a field in which good seed had been sowed; to a marriage 
 feast, to which the servants of the king invited all; and He 
 said that He would build His Church upon a rock and the 
 gates of hell should not prevail against it. He compared it to 
 a sheepfold, and He wished that all who accepted Him and 
 His teachings should become one visible society: 'I am the 
 Good Shepherd and I know Mine and Mine know Me. . . .
 
 Sermon at Installation 29 
 
 And other sheep I have that are not of this fold; them also 
 must I bring, and they shall hear My voice and there shall 
 be one fold and one shepherd.' These other sheep whom our 
 Saviour claimed as His were not to be allowed to remain out- 
 side the fold ; they were to be brought inside. All who heard 
 His voice were to be one. To obtain this union among His 
 disciples, on the night before He died, after having celebrated 
 the Last Supper with the Apostles, He prayed to His Heavenly 
 Father: 'Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou 
 hast given Me, that they may be one, as we also are;' 'And 
 not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through 
 their word shall believe in Me; that they all may be one, as 
 Thou, Father, in Me, and I in Thee; that they also may be 
 one in us; that the world may believe that Thou hast sent 
 Me.' In that solemn prayer to His Heavenly Father He 
 appeals to the unity of His followers as a visible argument 
 of His divine mission 'that the world may believe that Thou 
 hast sent Me.' And so much importance does he attach to this 
 visible unity as an evidence of His Mission from the Father 
 that He again prays : 'That they may be one, as we also are 
 one ; I in them and Thou in Me ; that they may be made perfect 
 in Me; and the world may know that Thou hast sent Me/ 
 What a comment on that earnest prayer is the religious con- 
 dition of the United States, where there are at present one 
 hundred and sixty-nine forms of Protestantism." 
 
 Here the Right Reverend preacher said that in the sixteen 
 years between the religious census of 1890 and that of 1906 
 fourteen Protestant sects had disappeared, but seventeen newer 
 ones had been founded. Continuing, he said : 
 
 "Even the Jewish high priest prophesied that 'Jesus should 
 die not only for their nation, but to gather together the children 
 of God that were dispersed.' As the Master taught and 
 prayed, the Apostles preached and practiced. St. Paul wrote 
 to the Ephesians that they should be 'careful to keep the unity 
 of the Spirit in the bond of peace. One body and one spirit :
 
 30 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 as you are called in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one 
 faith, one baptism. One God and Father of all, who is above 
 all, and through all, and in us all.' As they had one hope of 
 their calling, so they were to form one body and one spirit. 
 They should acknowledge only one Lord Jesus, Founder of 
 the Church; they should accept only one faith, that which 
 Christ had taught to His Apostles, and which the Apostles 
 taught to the Church; they should receive only one baptism, 
 that sacrament which admitted them into the house of their 
 Father. Once within the Father's house, they were to par- 
 ticipate in the Divine Banquet of the Eucharist, which super- 
 natural food would strengthen the bonds of unity among the 
 brethren 'For we being many are one bread, one body, all 
 that partake of one bread,' or, as St. Paul told the Romans: 
 'So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one 
 members one of another.' The great doctor of the Gentiles 
 constantly insisted on unity 'For in one Spirit were we all 
 baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether 
 bond or free.' And, as he advocated unity, so he condemned 
 schisms and dissensions. In the first chapter of the first 
 Epistle to the Corinthians, he writes ; 'Now I beseech you, 
 brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you 
 all speak the same thing and that there be no schisms among 
 you, and that you be perfect in the same mind and in the same 
 judgment/ So anxious was he that there should be no change 
 or variation from what he had first taught the Galatians that 
 he wrote to them in this very strong language: 'But though 
 we or an angel from heaven preach a gospel to you besides 
 that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.' 
 No wonder that he told them that dissensions and sects would 
 exclude them from the kingdom of God. No wonder that he 
 advised Titus to avoid heretics, and he urged Timothy: 'O 
 Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding 
 the profane novelties of words and the oppositions of knowl- 
 edge, falsely so called, which some promising have erred con-
 
 Sermon at Installation 31 
 
 cerning the faith.' Nor is it any wonder that the gentle and 
 loving John should have written: 'Whosoever revolteth and 
 continueth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God. He 
 that continueth in the doctrine hath both the Father and the 
 Son. If any man come to you and bring not this doctrine, 
 receive him not into the house, nor say to him, "God speed 
 you." ' John had heard that pathetic prayer of the Saviour 
 for unity on the night before He died; the pleading accents 
 still rang in his ears, and the Apostle of love, who constantly 
 preached love of Christ and love of the brethren, did not hesi- 
 tate to call those who tried to render fruitless the prayer of 
 his Master seducers and antichrists. The early Fathers of 
 the Church follow closely in the footsteps of Christ and the 
 Apostles, and they insist on this necessary unity of the Church. 
 Whether it be Clement writing to the Corinthians, or Ignatius 
 to the Smyrnians, or Irenaeus writing against the heretics of 
 his day, or even Tertullian, they all teach the same doctrine. 
 This may be summed up in the words of St. Cyprian in his 
 remarkable book on the 'Unity of the Church' : 'He who does 
 not hold this unity does not hold the law of God ; he does not 
 hold the faith of the Father and of the Son ; he does not hold 
 truth unto salvation.' But even though the early and the 
 later Fathers had not carried down the tradition of Christ 
 and the Apostles, our own common sense would or should 
 force us to recognize the necessity of unity in the Church, if 
 the doctrine of Christ was to be preached in its integrity to 
 the end of time. For the Author of our faith proposed to all 
 men only one doctrine; it was to be the only faith by which 
 men could be saved, whether they were men of the first century 
 or men of the twentieth century, citizens of the Roman Empire 
 or citizens of the American Republic. 
 
 "He founded a Church that was to continue to the end 
 of time, and He established a body of men, to whom He 
 gave the duty of preaching the Gospel to all nations, promising 
 to them and to their successors to be with them until the
 
 32 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 consummation of the world. If, therefore, Christ's prom- 
 ise be not void and He is now with His Church, the 
 faith which we now profess must be the same as that 
 once delivered to the saints, and which they received 
 from the Apostles, who received it from Christ Him- 
 self. The doctrine of Christ, like Christ Himself, is yesterday, 
 to-day and forever the same. The same sacraments which 
 our forefathers received we receive. There is no change nor 
 shadow of alteration. But, although we may profess the same 
 faith and receive the same sacraments, something more is 
 necessary to preserve these ever the same, and that is the prin- 
 ciple of authority, a principle divinely instituted, visible and 
 known to all men, which flows out into the Universal Church, 
 rules it and governs it, so that we are really one body and 
 one spirit. Our Divine Lord wished that all should belong 
 to this Church and obey its voice. He said : 'He that will not 
 hear the Church, let him be to thee as a heathen and a publican.' 
 It was His Church, the Church which He had founded on 
 a rock, against which the gates of hell should not prevail, 
 to whose head he had given the keys of the kingdom of heaven 
 and the command to feed His sheep and to feed His lambs 
 that Church in which the Holy Ghost had placed Bishops 
 to rule the Church of God placed them to preserve the unity 
 of the faith in the bonds of peace. Now, although we know 
 that the Church which was founded by Jesus Christ will last 
 forever, and that it must necessarily always remain one and 
 undivided, because its Divine Founder so promised, yet we 
 know also that our Blessed Redeemer did not promise that all 
 those who accepted His teachings should abide in His Church 
 forever. He did not guarantee that even the Bishops and 
 priests, the generals and the captains of His kingdom on earth, 
 should remain ever loyal and faithful to His commands. And, 
 as with individuals, so it is with nations and with dioceses. 
 We have no assurance that the nations once converted to 
 God shall continue to serve Him ; we know that Christ prom-
 
 Sermon at Installation 33 
 
 ised to be with the Church until the end of time, but He did 
 not promise to abide with any particular people or country. 
 Rather, on the contrary, He warned us that false prophets 
 and false Christs would arise and would seek to lead astray 
 the people whom He had purchased by His blood. We know 
 from the history of the Church during the past nineteen hun- 
 dred years that, unfortunately, not only princes and politicians, 
 but also Bishops and priests, have torn the seamless robe of 
 Christ and have morseled Christianity into fragments, as far 
 as they could. We know how proud and ambitious priests 
 like Arius and Eutyches in the early days, Wycliffe and Luther 
 later on, and Bishops like Nestorius of Constantinople and 
 Cranmer of England, like wolves in sheep's clothing, rended 
 the flock of Christ ; they scattered the lambs and sheep, so that 
 millions are outside of the fold to-day as a result of their per- 
 nicious activity in destroying the unity of the Church. We 
 have seen in our own days sad cases of defection, men like 
 Dollinger of Germany and Tyrrell of England, and others less 
 widely known, who have suffered shipwreck of the faith as 
 a result of their being disloyal to the teaching of the successor 
 of St. Peter, who holds the helm of that bark from which 
 Christ teaches now, as He once taught on the Lake of Galilee. 
 The few who, under the name of Modernists, sought to trouble 
 the Church and to bring discord among its members have 
 almost disappeared, and God grant that this synthesis of all 
 heresies may soon vanish and be forgotten. But, though false 
 prophets have arisen even within the fold, these would not 
 have succeeded in accomplishing much were it not that in 
 many instances they were aided and abetted by princes and 
 politicians who were anxious to enslave or to overthrow the 
 Church. 
 
 "It is now admitted by many students, I believe, that the 
 rebellion against the Church in the sixteenth century was 
 more political than religious. Luther would never have suc- 
 ceeded in breaking down the unity of the Church in Germany
 
 34 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 did he not have the assistance of the barons, who were anxious 
 to maintain absolute sway in their petty dominions. Nor 
 would Knox have succeeded in Scotland without the help 
 of the contemptible lords who were disloyal to their young 
 and helpless sovereign. England's Established Church is 
 rooted in the dishonor of Henry's lust, and in dishonor was 
 it watered and protected by Elizabeth, who hated the Church 
 that would not admit the validity of her mother's marriage. 
 The Catholics of Scandinavian countries were cheated out of 
 their faith as the people of England were cheated. They sup- 
 posed that they were members of the Catholic Church, but 
 merely freed from subjection to Rome, not knowing that the 
 bonds that bound them to Peter's successor bound them also 
 to Peter's Master, and that when these bonds were broken 
 they were no longer members of the Universal Church. In 
 our own times we have seen the beginning and the ending of 
 the Kulturkampf, which Bismarck waged against the Church 
 after he had humbled France to the dust. He thought that 
 the time was propitious for a sort of National Catholic Church 
 in Germany, independent of the See of Peter. But Bismarck 
 forgot that we were living then in the nineteenth century, and 
 not in the sixteenth, when each petty landgraf and baron 
 might compel his subjects to accept his religion in accordance 
 with the motto: 'Cujus regio, illius religio.' The German 
 Catholics rallied to the standard of the Cross and fought for 
 Christ and His Church as valiantly as a few years before they 
 had fought for their Kaiser and their country. All honor to 
 Mallinckrodt and Windthorst and their followers, to Bishop 
 Von Ketteler and to Cardinal Ledochowski, to the Bishops and 
 priests who were exiled or imprisoned rather than obey Caesar 
 in preference to Christ. May their names never be forgotten ; 
 they have left us a noble and heroic example of loyalty to 
 their priests and Bishops, to the great White Father of 
 Christendom and to Jesus Christ, the Shepherd of their souls.
 
 Sermon at Installation 35 
 
 "To-day we are witnesses of the agonies through which 
 the Church in France and Portugal is passing. France, the 
 Eldest Daughter of the Church, whose heroic sons and daugh- 
 ters have carried the Gospel to every land, whose contributions 
 to the support of the Holy See and of missions are greater 
 than those of any other country France, gallant France, chiv- 
 alric France, drives the innocent Sisters from their own con- 
 vents, drives them from their own hospitals, robs them of all 
 their possessions; drives Bishops and priests and Brothers 
 from their homes and schools, hoping to drive Christ out of 
 the homes and schools of the people. What an irony of fate 
 that the Government that robbed the good religious of their 
 houses and homes should in turn be robbed by the liquidator ; 
 that of the two millions of dollars that finally reached his 
 hands he should have retained over one million for himself 
 and his expenses. Is it not frightful to think that in seven 
 years almost five thousand religious establishments have been 
 closed? And this in that great nation which stencils even on 
 the walls of the churches, 'Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite.' O 
 Liberty! Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy 
 name. Our sympathies go out to those noble Bishops and 
 priests, Brothers and Sisters, and worthy laity, in their heroic 
 struggle to keep alive the faith, and we sincerely hope and 
 pray that their hour of agony may be short. Of them, too, 
 will it be written, as it was written of their fathers: 'Gesta 
 Dei per Francos' The deeds of God by the French/ 
 
 "And what words can we find to express our contempt 
 for the unspeakable meanness and outrageous tyranny of the 
 secret society that is now masquerading as a republic in Portu- 
 gal ? Why is it that these atheists who are so fond of demand- 
 ing liberty of conscience for themselves invariably deny liberty 
 of conscience and freedom of speech to others as soon as they 
 attain to power ? Why is it that, like a drunken costermonger 
 who beats and pummels his sick wife, these comic-opera re- 
 publicans invariably attack innocent nuns and peaceful friars
 
 36 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 first? Why is it that they do not loot the luxurious homes 
 of millionaire manufacturers instead of the poverty-stricken 
 convents of the poor religious? Because, though they have 
 the hands of thieves, they have the hearts of cowards. God 
 speed the day when a real republic will exist in Portugal, a 
 government of the people, by the people, for the people, and 
 not, as it is now, a government of atheists, by Freemasons, for 
 freethinkers. And now, brethren, why do I allude to these 
 sad stories? Why bother you with a recitation of the suffer- 
 ings of our brethren afar off? Precisely because they are our 
 brethren in the faith, and because their history may contain 
 a lesson for us in free America. While the Church of Christ 
 is one, and must ever be one, yet in each country, in each 
 diocese, in each parish, the unity of the Church depends, under 
 God, on the loyalty of the people to the priest, of priest and 
 people to the Bishop and of Bishop, priest and people to the 
 successor of St. Peter and the Vicar of Christ on earth. Where 
 this happy condition exists, where the priest is the father of 
 his people and the people are devoted to their father, where 
 their interests are his interests, their sorrows are his sorrows, 
 their joys are his joys, where the pastor lives for his people 
 and is willing to die for them, if necessary, where this happy 
 condition exists, I repeat, spiritual bonds are woven that 
 become stronger as years pass into years, and the peace of 
 God reigns in that parish. There are no contentions there, 
 no quarrels, no rivalries ; there is the unity of the Spirit in the 
 bond of peace. Now, such a pastor and such a people, because 
 they are truly Catholic and religious, and are loyal to each 
 other, must also be loyal to their Bishop, whom God has placed 
 over them to rule them spiritually. For they know that the 
 Bishop is the 'steward of God/ as St. Paul wrote to Titus, 
 Bishop of Crete, and that he should set things in order. They 
 know that he should 'speak the things that become sound 
 doctrine/ and they listen to his voice. They know that the 
 faculties to say Mass and to administer the sacraments come
 
 Sermon at Installation 37 
 
 to their pastor through their Bishop, who laid hands upon him 
 and ordained him that he might break to them the Bread of 
 Life. And so, loyal to their local pastor, they are also loyal 
 to their chief pastor, the shepherd of the diocese, who comes 
 from time to time to confirm them in the faith and to observe 
 their goodness and piety. 
 
 "The true priest will ever remember the promise which 
 he made to his Bishop on the day of his ordination. That 
 vow of reverence and obedience the good priest will keep, 
 even though it may cost him many a pang of sorrow and regret. 
 The observant Bishop will appreciate the sacrifices which the 
 good priest makes, the religious motives that inspire him and 
 the loyalty of the anointed servant of God to the consecrated 
 steward of God. Thus people and priests and Bishop are 
 united in the holy bond of service and the unity of the faith 
 is kept. But the Bishop of the diocese received his appoint- 
 ment from the chief Bishop of the world the successor of 
 the key-bearer to whom was given the care of the Universal 
 Church, against which the gates of hell shall not prevail. On 
 the day of his consecration he takes an oath of loyalty and 
 obedience to the Vicar of Christ. From time to time he will 
 visit the chief shepherd of Christendom and will give an 
 account of his stewardship; he will bring the Peter's Pence 
 of his diocese, collected from the various parishes, to help 
 the Holy Father in his needs. Even these little links of charity 
 bear witness to the union of the people in far-off coun- 
 tries to the head of their Church. The decrees of the 
 Sovereign Pontiff are received by the Bishops, who in turn 
 communicate them to their priests and people, and Bishops 
 and priests and people hear the word of the Vicar of Christ 
 and obey. Now, it is precisely because of the attempts of 
 the enemies of the Church to break these sacred bonds that 
 bind together people and priests and Bishops and Pope that 
 trouble has come to some Catholic countries where atheists 
 have gained control of the government. They would first
 
 38 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 divide and then destroy. The Church must resist these 
 attempts to destroy her unity, even at the risk of breaking the 
 iniquitous laws of their country. Unjust laws do not bind 
 in conscience. Nay, more, it may happen, as it happened in 
 Ireland during the Penal Laws, that the only decent and 
 honorable man was the man who broke the laws of the State 
 and served God when he broke them. Thank God that we 
 are living in a free country, where there is no enslaving con- 
 nection between Church and State. Thank God that we are 
 living in a country into which we Catholics introduced liberty 
 of conscience, even though, sad to say, we were robbed of it 
 again until the Revolutionary War, which broke the bonds 
 of servitude to England and helped to lift the shackles from 
 the arms of our Catholic forefathers, who were permitted once 
 more to worship their God in peace. 
 
 "But right here in our own beloved State, in this great 
 Commonwealth named after Penn, who so generously allowed 
 Catholics to unite in worship, notwithstanding the protest of 
 their enemies, we have still upon our statute books anti- 
 Catholic laws passed during the dark and disgraceful days of 
 Knownothingism. They were intended to hamper Catholics, 
 they were meant to sow dissensions among Catholics, they were 
 intended to be and have been the occasions of disgraceful 
 lawsuits between misguided people, aided and abetted by anti- 
 Catholics, financially assisted by free-thinking atheists and 
 prompted by pious Presbyterian lawyers, who think they are 
 doing a service to God by troubling the Catholic Church on 
 the one hand and the Bishop of the diocese, to whom was 
 committed the care of all the churches, on the other. Every 
 Catholic knows that churches consecrated to God's service 
 belong to the people of God, by whom these edifices have been 
 built, but that they are placed under the care of the Bishop 
 as the steward of God, in order that they may not be used 
 for purposes other than that for which they were built, namely, 
 the service and worship of God. They pertain to the Bishop in
 
 Sermon at Installation 39 
 
 that sense, and in that sense only. To say that churches and 
 cemeteries belong to the Bishop, as if they were his own real 
 estate, so that he may do with them as he pleases, is so utterly 
 absurd that I venture to say no Catholic may be found stupid 
 enough to think of such a thing. If the Bishop may not control 
 the church, who will? How can a Catholic congregation have 
 Catholic worship without a Catholic Bishop? We Catholics 
 are not Congregationalists. We may not set aside the Creed 
 or suppress some of the Ten Commandments by a count of 
 hands. The Constitution of our Church is a hierarchical con- 
 stitution, and the government of our Church comes from God 
 downward and not from man upward, precisely because our 
 Church is a God-made Church and not a man-made society, 
 like all the fragments of Christianity outside of the Church. 
 Who has a right to appoint pastors in the Catholic Church, who 
 has the right to suspend or change pastors, who has the right, 
 in a word, to control Catholic worship in a Catholic church? 
 If the Bishop should not control the property, those who do 
 control it may insist on the Bishop appointing some vagabond 
 priest, possibly without faith or morals, or close the church in 
 his face. They may lay down rules with regard to the admin- 
 istration of the sacraments which neither Bishop nor priest 
 can canonically accept. The so-called trustees may not be 
 able to read or write, they may be lax in their attendance at 
 church and in the reception of the sacraments, they may be 
 even atheists or anarchists, and yet, according to the laws 
 of Pennsylvania, they may be legal trustees of Catholic Church 
 property. 
 
 "The Bishops of this State would gladly see all church 
 property legally incorporated, but the Knownothing laws of 
 1855 will not permit, in this State, church corporations such 
 as the Catholics have in New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota and 
 other liberal States. Clergymen are not exempt from paying 
 taxes, from serving on the jury, even from serving as soldiers 
 in time of war, should they be drafted. They are citizens
 
 4O Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 subject to all the duties of citizens. Why should they not have 
 all the same rights as their fellow-citizens and be permitted 
 to act as incorporators of churches, without the brand of sus- 
 picion being placed upon them? Why this ignominious dis- 
 tinction? Here, therefore, in this great State of ours, is a 
 fruitful source of disloyalty to the Church. It places in the 
 hands of lax Catholics and their allies a frightful weapon with 
 which to cleave the unity of the Church. The only remedy 
 we Catholics have until the Knownothing laws are changed or 
 our learned Supreme Court shall reverse once more its opinion, 
 is to be still more loyal, if possible, to our Mother Church, and 
 bear in patience this salient wrong and grievous injustice." 
 
 The Right Reverend speaker referred to the danger to 
 the Church from the trustee system ; to the possibility of 
 Socialists making inroads among our people, and through that 
 system seeking control of church property. He contended that 
 for nineteen hundred years the Catholic Church had been the 
 friend of the workingman, and had improved his condition not 
 only spiritually, but in a material manner. 
 
 The Bishop urged his hearers to a cordial support of the 
 Catholic press, since the secular press so often misrepresents 
 Catholic matters, minimizing facts which tell for the Church 
 and exaggerating anything which may in any way reflect on 
 Catholics. He urged loyalty to the cause of the parish schools, 
 that Catholic children may have a Catholic education ; and that 
 their elders may get the Catholic viewpoint, he urged that a 
 Catholic paper be taken in every Catholic home. 
 
 In conclusion, the Bishop said : 
 
 "And now, Most Reverend Archbishop, we have witnessed 
 this, morning a regiment of the noble priests of Philadelphia 
 advancing to the throne upon which, by virtue of appointment 
 by the Vicar of Christ, you have been placed; we have seen 
 them kissing the ring which is a symbol of your union with 
 this great See, in acknowledgment of their loyal submission to 
 you as the choice of the Holy Father for their new spiritual
 
 Music of the Mass 41 
 
 leader. They represent, I am sure, the loyal sentiments of the 
 people who have been confided to their spiritual care. God 
 grant that this public manifestation of loyalty to you may ever 
 be remembered by those over whom you have been placed. 
 May they never falter in their allegiance, but ever remain loyal 
 to you and loyal to Christ. You are seated in the chair of a 
 learned Kenrick, of a saintly Neumann, of a brilliant Wood, 
 of an eloquent Ryan, and when in the distant future you shall 
 be called to give an account of your stewardship, may the 
 priests of the great archdiocese speak of you as the gentle 
 Prendergast and the people mourn for you as for a kind father. 
 And now, in the name of the Bishops of the ecclesiastical 
 Province of Philadelphia, I offer you our heartiest congratula- 
 tions and best wishes. I offer you, moreover, the pledge of our 
 loyalty to you as our beloved Metropolitan. We thank the 
 Holy Father for your appointment. I sincerely hope that your 
 administration of this important See will be eminently success- 
 ful. Ad multos annos ! 'Feed the flock of God which is among 
 you, taking care of it, not by constraint, but willingly, accord- 
 ing to God ; not for filthy lucre's sake, but voluntarily. Neither 
 as lording it over the clergy, but being made a pattern of the 
 flock from the heart. And when the Prince of Pastors shall 
 appear, you shall receive a never-fading crown of glory.' " 
 (I Peter v: 2-4.) 
 
 The music for the Mass, both the Proper and the Common, 
 was rendered by the choir of St. Charles Seminary, augmented 
 by several priests of the Archdiocese, under the direction of 
 the Rev. Hugh T. Henry, Litt. D., rector of the Boy's Catholic 
 High School. William T. Murphy, a student of the Seminary, 
 presided at the organ. The Mass which was rendered was one 
 chosen from the various Gregorian Masses which have become 
 so popular lately in the Church, and the choir, singing in its 
 solemn notes, followed the celebrant as he proceeded with the 
 Holy Sacrifice, taking in turn the Introit, the Kyrie, the Gloria, 
 the Credo, the Preface, the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei. Dur-
 
 42 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 ing the Offertory a solo was sung by the Rev. Joseph F. 
 O'Keefe, rector of St. Catharine's Church, Wayne. At the 
 close of the Mass, the Most Rev. Archbishop Falconio, Apos- 
 tolic Delegate, imparted the Papal Blessing. 
 
 Present at the enthronement of Archbishop Prendergast 
 were the following prelates : 
 
 His Excellency the Most Rev. Diomede Falconio, D. D., 
 Apostolic Delegate. 
 
 The Right Rev. Eugene Garvey, D. D., Bishop of Altoona. 
 
 The Right Rev. John E. Fitzmaurice, D. D., Bishop of 
 Erie. 
 
 The Right Rev. John W. Shanahan, D. D., Bishop of Har- 
 risburg. 
 
 The Right Rev. J. F. Regis Canevin, D. D., Bishop of 
 Pittsburgh. 
 
 The Right Rev. M. J. Hoban, D. D., Bishop of Scranton. 
 
 The Right Rev. Hugh MacSherry, D. D., Bishop of South 
 Africa. 
 
 The Right Rev. Owen B. Corrigan, D. D., Auxiliary 
 Bishop of Baltimore. 
 
 The Right Rev. John Monaghan, D. D., Bishop of Wil- 
 mington. 
 
 The Right Rev. Thomas F. Cusack, D. D., Auxiliary 
 Bishop of New York. 
 
 The Right Rev. James A. McFaul, D. D., Bishop of 
 Trenton. 
 
 The Right Rev. Joseph Yazbek, Chor-Bishop, Syro-Mar- 
 onite. 
 
 The Right Rev. Monsignors James P. Turner, D. D., 
 William Kieran, D. D., Nevin F. Fisher, John J. McCort, Philip 
 R. McDevitt, all of Philadelphia ; George Bornemann, Reading, 
 Pa. ; Joseph F. Mooney, V. G., Michael J. Lavelle, V. G., New 
 York ; J. Boyle, V. G., Johnstown, Pa. ; M. M. Hassett, D. D., 
 V. G., Harrisburg, Pa. ; Thomas J. Shahan, S. T. D., rector 
 of the Catholic University ; John P. O'Malley, Scranton, Pa.
 
 Prelates Present at Enthronement 43 
 
 Provincials of Orders The Very Revs. Patrick McHale, 
 C. M., M. J. Geraghty, O. S. A., E. Phelan, C. S. Sp. 
 
 Heads of Seminaries and Colleges The Very Rev. Henry 
 T. Drumgoole, LL. D., St. Charles Borromeo's Seminary, 
 Overbrook ; the Rev. E. G. Dohan, O. S. A., Villanova College ; 
 the Rev. Charles W. Lyons, S. J., St. Joseph's College; the 
 Very Rev. M. A. Drennan, C. M., St. Vincent's Seminary; 
 the Rev. William J. Ennis, S. J., Loyola. College, Baltimore. 
 
 Besides the prelates present, the reverend clergy in attend- 
 ance numbered more than four hundred, including all the 
 priests in the Archdiocese who were able to leave their parishes. 
 
 Priests at the ceremonies from outside the diocese in- 
 cluded the Very Revs. E. P. Fitzgerald, O. P., Charles H. 
 McKenna, O. P., New York ; the Revs. William Joseph Kerby, 
 S. T. L., Ph. D., and John D. Maguire, Ph. D., Catholic Univer- 
 sity, Washington ; M. F. Crane, Avoca, Pa. ; J. J. Curran, 
 Wilkes-Barre, Pa. ; J. J. Donnellan, Erie, Pa. ; M. B. Donlan, 
 Dunmore, Pa.; John T. McNicholas, O. P., New York; Cuth- 
 bert Wolseley, O. P., Gouyave, Grenada, West Indies; N. J. 
 McManus, Scranton, Pa. ; John J. McCabe, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. ; 
 John P. White, Huntingdon, W. Va. ; F. J. McShane, O. S. A., 
 Atlantic City; Michael E. Loftus, Scranton, Pa.; Fathers 
 Jordan and Dillon and P. Griffin, Ireland; Thomas A. Allen, 
 Salem, N. J. ; Francis J. Connelly, William Temple, D. D., 
 Wilmington, Del. ; William J. Scott, Henry Clay Factory, Del. ; 
 M. F. O'Rourke, Athens, Pa.; H. J. Geraghty, Dickson, Pa.; 
 John O'Toole, Wellsboro, Pa. ; James F. Raywood, New York 
 City ; Edward J. Campbell, Paris, Texas ; D. A. Dever, secre- 
 tary Papal Legation, Washington, D. C. ; H. J. Meyer, New 
 York City; Edward C. Griffin, D. D., Trenton, N. J. ; Edward 
 McGonigal, Pittsburgh; F. X. English, Toledo; J. A. Baum- 
 gartner, C. S. Sp., Pittsburgh; H. J. McDermott, C. S. Sp., 
 Pittsburgh; Michael Fox, O. F. M., New York; John P. J. 
 Spencer, St. Louis.
 
 44 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 Following the services, the prelates and clergy were con- 
 veyed in carriages and automobiles to the Seminary of St. 
 Charles Borromeo, at Overbrook. Here dinner was served, a 
 most fraternal family feast, during which the following toasts* 
 were proposed by the Rev. James F. Trainor : 
 
 OUR HOLY FATHER. 
 
 "Your Excellency, Most Reverend Archbishop, Right Rever- 
 end Bishops, Right Reverend Monsignori, Very Reverend 
 and Reverend Fathers : 
 
 "We have come here to-day to celebrate with joy the 
 installation of one of our own priests as Archbishop of our 
 own diocese. We are proud of our diocese; we are proud 
 of our priests; we are especially proud to-day of our Arch- 
 bishop. We are proud of him and rejoice that he is our Arch- 
 bishop, because we know him; because we know that he is 
 worthy; because he has been tried, right here in our midst, 
 and has not been found wanting. Ever since his ordination, 
 he has labored in this diocese, both as priest and Bishop, and 
 his record is unblemished. He has been a true priest. He has 
 been a true Bishop. We know that he will be a true Arch- 
 bishop. 
 
 "Whilst we are proud of our Archbishop, I do not think 
 he is a bit proud of himself. He is an humble man. He is 
 a man of retiring disposition. He never sought honors. When 
 this See was made vacant by the death of our late lamented 
 Archbishop, he announced: 'I would not move hand or foot 
 to become Archbishop of Philadelphia.' Neither did he. The 
 office came to him honorably, honestly, justly. It came to him 
 in response to the prayers of the orphans, the Sisters, the 
 priests both secular and regular. They stormed heaven with 
 their prayers, and the Holy Ghost inspired our Holy Father 
 to appoint the right man to the right place. I know at least 
 one good priest who, after the death of our late Archbishop, 
 inserted immediately in the Canon of the Mass, 'Antistite 
 Nostro Edmundo,' that the Holy Ghost, as he said, might 
 
 * It is unfortunate that we cannot give here all the responses to the toasts. 
 It has been impossible to secure them, however, as some of the speakers had only 
 notes and no stenographic reporter was present, either at this dinner or at the 
 one following the ceremony of investiture with the Pallium.
 
 Toasts at Overbrook 45 
 
 make no mistake as to what he wanted. He continued using 
 it during the interregnum. He still uses it, and we hope he 
 will not have to change it for many years. As a consequence 
 of the response to these prayers, our faith in the Holy Ghost 
 has been strengthened ; our love for our Holy Father has been 
 greatly increased. We always loved that great Pontiff who, 
 though a prisoner in the Vatican, so nobly and so courageously 
 defends the Church against her enemies. To-day we have 
 an additional reason for loving him, because he recognized the 
 just claims of the priests and people of this diocese, of the 
 Bishops of the province, of the Archbishops of the country, 
 and appointed him whom we honor to-day as our Archbishop. 
 Long may that great Pontiff live! May he see the years of 
 Peter! May God bless him! It is with sentiments of love 
 and loyalty that I propose the first toast, 'Our Holy Father.' 
 
 "We have with us to-day the distinguished representative 
 of our Holy Father, His Excellency the Most Rev. Diomede 
 Falconio. We rejoice at his presence. The wisdom and pru- 
 dence with which he has managed the ecclesiastical affairs of 
 the country have endeared him to every priest, Bishop and 
 Archbishop in these United States. This diocese is much in- 
 debted to him. We wish to express to him to-day our deep 
 sense of gratitude and appreciation. I am, therefore, but 
 voicing the sentiment of the entire diocese when I assure Your 
 Excellency that we are delighted to have you respond to the 
 toast 'Our Holy Father.' " 
 
 OUR ARCHBISHOP. 
 
 "It requires but few words to introduce the next toast, 
 'Our Archbishop.' He is well known to every one of us; in 
 fact, he is one of ourselves. He has filled almost every posi- 
 tion of great or little importance in the diocese. He was as- 
 sistant, pastor, Vicar General, Bishop, and now he is our Arch- 
 bishop. In every position he was known as the priest's friend. 
 His brother priests were always dear to his heart. Whenever 
 he could do anything for them, spiritually or temporally,
 
 46 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 whether they were high or low, pastor or assistant, he was 
 sure to do it. All we ask of you, Archbishop, is to continue 
 to be the priest's friend. You have the best wishes of every 
 priest in the diocese. Not one of them but said to-day : 'God 
 bless our new Archbishop.' I repeat it and I know that it will 
 find an echo in every heart. God bless you and guide you, and 
 give you health and strength to serve, for many years, your 
 faithful, devoted priests and people. It is with heartfelt joy 
 I propose this toast, 'Our Archbishop.' ' 
 
 THE RIGHT REVEREND SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 
 
 "The Province of Philadelphia comprises the entire State 
 of Pennsylvania. It has five distinguished Bishops. They are 
 distinguished for their learning, their piety and their zeal for 
 the advancement of our holy religion. They have all done 
 great work. They will continue this work in harmony with 
 our new Archbishop. They are all on friendly terms with 
 their Metropolitan. 
 
 "We heard the senior Bishop of the province this morning. 
 We were all delighted with his sermon. In the name of the 
 priests of the diocese, I thank him for the kind words he said 
 about our Archbishop. So pleased were we that we would 
 like to hear him again. I, therefore, propose the health of 
 the Suffragan Bishops, and ask the Right Rev. Michael J. 
 Hoban, Bishop of Scranton, to respond." 
 
 THE DIOCESAN PRIESTS. 
 
 "I am requested to couple with this toast, 'Our Seminary.' 
 "The priests of this diocese live in peace and harmony, 
 united in one great family, loyal and obedient to one father, 
 our Archbishop. This is due especially to the fact that we are 
 all the children of one mother, our Alma Mater, the Seminary 
 of St. Charles Borromeo. We are proud of our Seminary. 
 It is not surpassed by any other institution of its kind in the 
 United States. We are proud of her faculty. They are 
 learned, loyal and devoted to their work; and, as far as we 
 know, and we have been watching them carefully, there is not
 
 Toasts at Overbrook 47 
 
 a Modernist amongst them. If I may be permitted to particu- 
 larize, I would say that we are especially proud of that learned 
 but humble professor who, for so many years, has been the 
 Moderator of our Diocesan Conferences, Dr. Luke V. McCabe, 
 and of that other learned and hard-working professor who has 
 brought honor to the Seminary and the Diocese, by the publi- 
 cation of his excellent American Ecclesiastical Review, Dr. 
 Herman J. Heuser. Since I am mentioning names, I might 
 say that we are pleased to have with us to-day a former rector 
 of the Seminary. Your applause makes it unnecessary for 
 me to name the distinguished Bishop of Erie. 
 
 "We have a warm spot in our hearts for the good rector 
 of the Seminary. During the three years of his incumbency 
 he has been doing things. He has given a homelike appear- 
 ance to the Seminary. He has given a cordial welcome to 
 every priest who has come within these walls. He has super- 
 vised the construction of the library building, which is a lasting 
 monument to our former great Archbishop, Patrick John Ryan. 
 He has endeavored to make the Seminary what it should be, 
 a family of which the rector is the father. It is but proper 
 that the Very Rev. Dr. Henry T. Drumgoole should respond 
 to the toast, 'The Diocesan Priests.' " 
 
 Doctor Drumgoole, Rector of the Seminary, responded 
 as follows: 
 
 "In speaking for the priests of the Diocese and our 
 Seminary, I am forcibly reminded of the teaching of an old 
 and revered professor of the Seminary, who inculcated on 
 his students the lesson that, on great occasions, the words of 
 the speaker should be brief, alleging that the day itself and 
 the liturgy with which the Church invests her ceremonial 
 speak in sufficiently ample and eloquent act. If, therefore, 
 my words are brief, it is only in obedience to the conviction 
 that the outpouring of the Clergy and the general pleasure 
 with which the elevation of your Grace has been received, 
 the ceremonies which but a few hours ago we witnessed in 
 the Cathedral Church of our Diocese all tell, first to Arch-
 
 48 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 bishop Prendergast himself, and then to the world, the rev- 
 erent congratulations we would offer your Grace, and the 
 thankful gratitude we return to God in acknowledgment of 
 the gift He has made to us, in answer to our prayers of many 
 days for a worthy successor to the great Prelate He recently 
 called to his reward. 
 
 "Your Clergy, Most Reverend Archbishop, have given 
 evidence of the great pleasure which your appointment has 
 brought to them. We would now assure you of our confidence 
 in your fatherly care, of our cooperation in all your efforts, 
 and of the appreciation we have of the great burdens that are 
 settled upon your shoulders. Some here present have known 
 you through all the years of your dedication to God; many, 
 too, have received the sacerdotal ordination from your hands. 
 You have assured us to-day of your kindly disposition towards 
 every priest of your Diocese. On behalf of the Clergy, may I 
 express our deep confidence in your paternal interest for 
 everything that can touch the well-being of your Priests? 
 Your many years as Vicar-General and Auxiliary Bishop of 
 this Diocese give us an earnest of just and kindly treatment 
 and cooperation. We fully appreciate the immense burdens 
 which God has now laid in a particular manner upon your 
 shoulders, and we are heartily anxious to do our share in 
 sweetening the yoke and lightening the burdens of your great 
 archiepiscopal office and duty. You have known the Clergy 
 of this Diocese for many years. You know of their priestly 
 spirit, their earnest zeal for God's glory and the salvation of 
 the souls committed, through the Bishop, to their care. You 
 are aware of how quietly and thoroughly they have done God's 
 work in the administration of the Sacraments, in the educa- 
 tion of the children, and in the building of churches and 
 schools. Let this knowledge, Most Reverend Archbishop, 
 to-day give you hope that through the years of your adminis- 
 tration, which we beg God may be many, you will find a loyal 
 and efficient Clergy ever ready, ever prompt, ever willing, to 
 carry forward whatever improvement may seem wise for the 
 good of religion in your Diocese.
 
 Toasts at Overbrook 49 
 
 "It is a proud boast of our Seminary that it has educated 
 a body of Clergy who are ready for every need in the field 
 of God's growing harvest; men who, by the memory of the 
 lessons learned in their Alma Mater, are held together in one 
 great brotherly spirit; a body always deeply attached to the 
 Holy See of Rome, and who have known no other will in their 
 priestly lives than the will of God as expressed to them 
 through the Pope and their Bishop. The hope of the Seminary 
 is that through whatever advance may be made, the deep 
 religious spirit, the deep loyal spirit, the great efficiency shown 
 by the men who have gone forth from her in former days may 
 always be preserved if not increased. Your Grace's interest 
 in the Seminary during the past years gives us promise that 
 now, as Archbishop, your thought and care and desire will 
 make for everything that can advance the efficiency of the 
 Seminary and the happiness and perfection of its students. 
 
 "In the name of the Priests of the Diocese and in the 
 name of the students of St. Charles may I reverently pledge 
 your Grace our best efforts through the years of our service, 
 and our prayers to God for His blessing on your and our labor 
 through all the years to come. In your coat of arms I see a 
 star, which makes me think of one who this day is looking 
 out from the blue of heaven on her son, and thanking God 
 for His goodness; one who is proud, not merely that her son 
 has been raised to the great archiepiscopal dignity, but be- 
 cause he has proved himself faithful in the years that are 
 passed. And I am thinking of that great Mother of us all, 
 who is pleading with her Son that your years as head of this 
 Diocese, and as His immediate representative to your priests 
 and people, may draw blessings upon yourself and upon those 
 committed to your care. May her guiding star ever give di- 
 rective light to your advancing steps, and may it shed lustre 
 on your own soul and on the souls of your Clergy and people. 
 At our ordination we placed our hands within the palms of 
 the ordaining prelate and promised reverence and obedience 
 to him, and to his successor, in all our labors. To-day we 
 place our hands within your fatherly embrace and renew our
 
 50 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 fealty to God and to you, His representative. May the motto 
 you have chosen find realization in your every act; and may 
 each one of us, under your leadership, move forward with 
 that prayer on his lips, with that wish in his soul, and with 
 a firm confidence of realization in act that always and every- 
 where his heart's desire may be 'Ut Sim Fidelis.' " 
 
 THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS. 
 
 "What I have said of the diocesan I can repeat of the 
 regular clergy. We are all one. We make no distinctions. 
 This, I believe, was the spirit from the very beginning of this 
 diocese. I am informed that at one time there lived at old St. 
 Joseph's, Willing's Alley, diocesan priests, Jesuits, Dominicans, 
 Augustinians, all under one roof and all working harmoniously 
 for the salvation of souls. This was back in the pioneer days 
 of the diocese. The same spirit exists to-day. We live in 
 brotherly love. On this principle not only our city, but our 
 diocese, was founded. May it ever continue so! May we 
 never see the day when the bonds that unite diocesan and 
 regular priests may be severed ! May they continue, as in the 
 past, united, working together harmoniously for the advance- 
 ment of our holy religion ! 
 
 "I am pleased to ask one of the Executive Committee, a 
 member of the first religious Order that settled in Philadelphia, 
 to respond to the toast, 'The Religious Orders' the Rev. 
 Charles W. Lyons, S. J. He has been but a short time with 
 us, but long enough to have gained the esteem of every priest 
 in the diocese." 
 
 Father Lyons, S. J., President of St. Joseph's College, 
 responded as follows: 
 
 "They tell us, Your Grace, that the wondrous beauty and 
 the marvelous power we find everywhere manifested in ma- 
 terial nature is the resultant, not of the coalescing together of 
 similar, but of dissimilar elements; and the loveliness of the 
 garden is born as well of the violet and the lily as of the rose. 
 
 "They tell us that this great masterpiece we call man is 
 also a composite the blending together of spirit and matter, 
 the unification of body and soul, the intertwining of faculties
 
 Toasts at Overbrook 51 
 
 that differ as will from intellect, and senses that vary as eye 
 and tongue and ear and hand. 
 
 "In the great spiritual life within us also, Your Grace, 
 there is a weld, we are told, of gifts as varied as they are 
 numbered faith uniting with knowledge, theory with prac- 
 tice and speculation with fact. 
 
 "Thus God formed material nature, thus He designed 
 our bodies, thus He embellishes our souls. And the Church 
 of God that great human and Divine Institution that 
 sprang from the eternal Father, through His only-begotten 
 Son and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit partakes also, in 
 a measure at least, Your Grace, of this mode of composition 
 that God seems to have followed in the formation of all other 
 creatures here below. She, too, has within her corporate 
 being members varied as they are numbered. She has her 
 glorious hierarchy the bishops of the Church, the legitimate 
 successors of the Apostles, the rulers of the people. She has 
 that magnificent stalwart body, the secular clergy, the yeomen, 
 I might say, of the Church, who bear the heats and the bur- 
 den of the day, who watch and care for the flock, guide them 
 and guard them through dangers, and as the Good Shepherd, 
 their Master, bring them back to the Fold should the allure- 
 ments of other pastures lead them astray. And of these, the 
 secular clergy, if you will pardon the digression, Your Grace, 
 I have met no better than those in this great Archdiocese, 
 whom God, in His infinite wisdom, has seen fit to entrust to 
 your archiepiscopal care. 
 
 "But, as in an army, there are auxiliaries those who 
 fight in the vanguard, those who watch in the citadels, those 
 who attend in distress and heal the wounds and make good 
 the deficiencies ; so also in the Church, the army of the Lord, 
 there are as auxiliaries the religious and the regular clergy 
 the black-garbed missioner that carries the Gospel even to 
 the utmost confines of the world, the cloistered pleader that 
 watches and prays that good may come upon our people, the 
 preacher and the friar, the hermit and the monk, each per- 
 forming according to his vocation the duties humble or great
 
 52 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 which have been assigned to him, in the spirit of faith and 
 obedience to the will of God. 
 
 "Thus Christ instituted the Church, and thus under the 
 Divine Providence it has grown, and nowhere, Your Grace, is 
 the Church in this respect seen to flourish more perfectly than 
 here in this great Archdiocese that has been so happily en- 
 trusted to your care. Here the successors of the great 
 Augustine, here the disciples of the learned Liguori, here the 
 followers of the saintly Vincent de Paul, here those who 
 in the inspiration of the Holy Spirit bear His holy Name, 
 here the children of La Salle, and the sons of Loyola all unite 
 with the secular clergy of the diocese to prosecute in harmony 
 under your care the kingdom which Christ came on earth to 
 found. 
 
 "In their name, therefore, as well as in the name of the 
 sweet, holy Sisters that teach your little children, that care 
 for your orphans, that nurse your sick, that whisper to the 
 waifs and to the wayward ones that they gather to their 
 bosoms the sweet mercy and saving hope and charity of their 
 Master, our Lord Jesus Christ, that tell old age of the world 
 to come, even as they minister to their comfort here below 
 in their name, over two thousand five hundred holy women 
 and one hundred and twenty consecrated religious men, I give 
 you greeting, I pledge you loyalty, I tender to you warmest 
 love." 
 
 ARCHBISHOP RYAN. 
 
 "It would not be fitting to close this celebration without 
 another toast, which is not on the list it is to the memory of 
 our late Archbishop. We all loved that great and good man 
 who, for more than twenty-five years, presided over the des- 
 tinies of this diocese. We still love him. I therefore ask all 
 to stand, and drink in silence, to the memory of our former 
 great Archbishop, Patrick John Ryan." 
 
 Among the earliest official acts of the Most Rev. Arch- 
 bishop were the appointments of two Vicars General of the 
 archdiocese, the Right Rev. Monsignor John J. McCort and 
 the Rev. James F. Trainor. The further announcement 
 was made of the appointment of the Rev. Charles F. Kavanagh
 
 The Bull of Appointment 53 
 
 as Chancellor of the Diocese, and of Monsignor James P. 
 Turner, D. D., to the rectorship of the Church of the Nativity, 
 to succeed the late Monsignor James F. Loughlin, D. D., Mon- 
 signor Turner's predecessor in the Chancellorship of the Arch- 
 diocese. 
 
 The Bull naming Archbishop Prendergast as head of the 
 Archdiocese of Philadelphia was read publicly in the Cathe- 
 dral, on July 30, the Sunday following the installation, by the 
 Right Rev. Monsignor James P. Turner, D. D., in both Latin 
 and English. 
 
 The translation is as follows : 
 "Pius, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God, to the Clergy 
 
 and People of the Metropolitan Church of Philadelphia, 
 
 health and apostolic benediction. 
 
 "To-day, with the advice of our venerable brothers, the 
 Cardinals of Holy Roman Church, we have transferred, 
 in virtue of our apostolic authority, to the Metropolitan Church 
 of Philadelphia, bereft of its pastor, our venerable brother, 
 Edmond Francis Prendergast, heretofore Titular Bishop of 
 Scillio: absolving him from the obligations by which he is 
 bound to the titular See of Scillio, we have placed him at the 
 head of the Metropolitan Church of Philadelphia as its Arch- 
 bishop and pastor. 
 
 "For this reason we oblige and we exhort you that, re- 
 ceiving him devotedly and treating with due honors the Arch- 
 bishop-elect Edmond Francis as the father of your souls, you 
 give due obedience to his directions and precepts, so that 
 he may rejoice to have found in you devoted children and that 
 you may exult to have found in him a benevolent father. We 
 wish in the meantime, and we command that it be the care 
 and the duty of the ordinary at this moment ruling your dio- 
 cese, that this our Bull be publicly read from the pulpit in the 
 Metropolitan Church on the first feast day or day of precept 
 after this Bull has been received. 
 
 "Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, in the year of our Lord 
 1911, the 29th day of May, and the eighth year of our Pon- 
 tificate."
 
 CHAPTER III 
 
 CONFERRING OF THE SACRED PALLIUM. 
 
 Fleece of the lambs, bless'd at St. Agnes' shrine, 
 
 (Her fair basilica in ancient Rome!) 
 
 'Twas deftly woven free from shears and comb 
 Into a soft white web with crosses fine. 
 Thro' the long night of shadow or of shine, 
 
 It lay upon Apostle Peter's tomb, 
 Till Holy Father, by the Will Divine, 
 
 Speeded it hither thro' the winter's gloom. 
 
 Badge of the Pastor Bonus Shepherd strong! 
 
 Bearing His sheep (cross-mark'd) to Calvary's Rood, 
 
 Whereon for them, His life was sacrific'd, 
 Oh ! may His Grace of Philadelphia long 
 
 His Master's symbol bear with power endued, 
 To serve, like Him, till death, the sheep of Christ! 
 ELEANOR C. DONNELLY. 
 
 (Inscribed with profound respect to His Grace the Most Rev. Edmond 
 F. Prendergast, D.D., on the coming occasion of his 
 solemn investiture, January 31, 1912.) 
 
 A T a meeting of the priests held in the Cathedral Chapel, in 
 ^^ January, 1912, the following committees were appointed 
 to take charge of the celebration in connection with the con- 
 ferring of the Pallium on Archbishop Prendergast : 
 
 Reception The Rev. Daniel O'Connor, chairman; the 
 Rev. Charles F. Kavanagh, secretary; the Right Rev. Mon- 
 signors John J. McCort, V. G., George Bornemann, William 
 Kieran, D. D., James P. Turner, D. D., James P. Sinnott, 
 Nevin F. Fisher, Philip R. McDevitt ; the Very Revs. James F. 
 Trainor, V. G., Henry T. Drumgoole, LL. D., Joseph F. 
 O'Keefe, V. F., Peter Masson, V. F., M. J. Geraghty, D. D.,
 
 Committees of Clergy for Investiture 55 
 
 O. S. A., Patrick McHale, C. M., the Revs. James Timmins, 
 P. J. Dailey, John J. Ward, Gerald P. Coghlan, Henry Stom- 
 mel, James Nash, M. C. Donovan, James Regnery, Matthew A. 
 Hand, Hugh J. Dugan, James C. Monahan, LL. D., Antonio 
 Isoleri, M. J. Crane, Samuel B. Spalding, Francis J. McGovern, 
 G. Kraus, Charles W. Lyons, S. J., C. F. Kavanagh, M. A. 
 Kopytkiewicz, Walter P. Gough, Francis P. Fitzmaurice, 
 Eugene Murphy, Luke V. McCabe, John F. Graham, Thomas 
 F. Shannon, Fenton J. Fitzpatrick, George B. Hespelein, C. 
 SS. R., C. J. Plunkett, C. S. Sp., Joseph J. Kaulakis. 
 
 Dinner The Very Rev. James F. Trainor, V. G., the 
 Right Rev. Monsignor Nevin F. Fisher, the Revs. P. J. Dailey, 
 M. J. Crane, Francis J. Clark, M. J. Rafferty, James McGev- 
 eran, and the Very Rev. Henry T. Drumgoole, LL. D. 
 
 Ceremonies The Right Rev. Monsignor John J. McCort, 
 V. G., the Revs. Charles F. Kavanagh, John F. McQuade, 
 Francis J. Sheehan and Denis A. Corbett. 
 
 Cathedral Decorations and Seating The Revs. William J. 
 Higgins, S. T. L., Charles F. Kavanagh, W. J. Walsh. 
 
 Music The Very Rev. Joseph F. O'Keefe, V. F., the 
 Revs. Hugh T. Henry, LL. D., Litt. D., William J. Higgins, 
 S. T. L. 
 
 Invitations The Right Rev. Monsignor John J. McCort, 
 V. G., the Very Rev. James F. Trainor, V. G., the Revs. 
 Charles F. Kavanagh, Daniel O'Connor, P. J. Dailey, W. J. 
 Walsh, Gerald P. Coghlan. 
 
 The installation ceremonies were observed in midsummer 
 of 1911, and six months later, in midwinter of 1912, on the
 
 56 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 last day of January, the Sacred Pallium was conferred upon the 
 Archbishop. The scene was changed indeed, changed from 
 equatorial heat to Arctic cold, as is the extreme way of our 
 boundless climate. The winter of 1911-12 was the longest and 
 severest in the memory of the living. From the beginning of 
 the year the streets and sidewalks had been sleeted with an 
 icy sheathing smoother than glass. It was hardly possible to 
 retain a foothold on the slippery pavements, and walking had 
 become so perilous that the hospitals were kept constantly busy 
 attending to the sufferings of fallen humanity in the accident 
 wards. For this reason the outdoor procession was eliminated, 
 but all the other rites of the solemn investiture were fulfilled 
 with due splendor of ceremonial. 
 
 It was a glorious week for Catholic Philadelphia ; indeed, 
 Philadelphians of "all shades of belief" appeared to be alive 
 to the importance of the occasion, proud of the supreme dignity 
 to be bestowed upon the Archbishop, and animated with the 
 interest of true hospitality in welcoming to the old capital of 
 the United States the many guests of high degree who had 
 come to Philadelphia to honor their Mother Church and their 
 brother churchman. 
 
 The newspapers devoted whole pages to the preliminary 
 and final details of the great event. Despite the dangers of 
 the icy streets, the railway stations were crowded, and every 
 one of the distinguished visitors was greeted with an ovation. 
 For the first time in history, Philadelphia had the privilege 
 of welcoming two Princes of the Church, besides a host of 
 Bishops and Monsignori the elect of the oldest dynasty on 
 earth, the only enduring dynasty, the immortal Royal House 
 whose founder was Jesus, of the line of David. 
 
 The first to arrive was His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, 
 Archbishop of Baltimore, and long-time friend of Philadelphia 
 and all that Philadelphia represents in the honorable ascend- 
 ancy of national life. On Tuesday morning, January 3Oth, the 
 eve of Archbishop Prendergast's supreme day, a delegation
 
 Cardinals Gibbons and Farley 57 
 
 of Philadelphia priests Monsignor McCort, V. G., the Very 
 Rev. James F. Trainer, V. G., the Very Rev. H. T. Drumgoole, 
 LL. D., the Very Rev. Peter Masson, V. F., and the Revs. 
 Charles Lyons, S. J., P. J. Dailey, John J. Ward, Matthew 
 Hand, Denis Broughal, James T. Higgins, M. J. Crane trav- 
 eled to Baltimore for the purpose of escorting the venerable 
 Prince of the American Church to this city. The delegation 
 returned late in the afternoon with His Eminence, who was 
 accompanied by the Right Rev. O. B. Corrigan, Auxiliary 
 Bishop of Baltimore. During their stay in Philadelphia these 
 prelates were the guests of our Most Reverend Archbishop. 
 
 His Eminence Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York, 
 arrived on Wednesday morning. He, too, had a committee of 
 Philadelphia clergymen to escort him from New York to this 
 city. The delegation included the Right Rev. Mgrs. James P. 
 Sinnott, William Kieran, D. D., and the Revs. James T. Hig- 
 gins, Joseph F. O'Keefe, Michael Donovan, Walter P. Gough 
 and F. P. Fitzmaurice. In the party were also Auxiliary 
 Bishop Cusack, of New York, and Monsignor Joseph F. 
 Mooney, P. A., V. G. Cardinal Farley, his suite and his escort 
 were met at Broad Street Station by the Revs. William P. 
 Masterson and Eugene Murphy and Walter George Smith and 
 James J. Ryan, both Papal Knights of St. Gregory, who con- 
 veyed the visitors to the Archiepiscopal residence. 
 
 The Cathedral was a paradise of light and color and fra- 
 grance that bleak January morning. Thousands of tiny elec- 
 tric lamps, their glass bulbs tinted with gold or silver symbolic 
 of glory and purity were arranged in graceful festoons 
 throughout the Cathedral ; the massive pillars were crowned 
 with circles of light ; electric coronals flashed from the ceiling, 
 and a ring of radiance encircled the base of the dome. Golden 
 lamps and bulbs in the form of pears and oranges radiated 
 light from the foliage of fruit trees. The illuminated pillars 
 were spiraled with running vines. The pulpit was draped with 
 smilax and wild honeysuckle. But the chief glory of floral and
 
 58 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 electrical beauty was centered in the main altar, where, beneath 
 the glorious sunburst of golden lights, blossomed a sweet 
 garden of resurrection lilies and of azaleas among the branch- 
 ings palms of triumph, "ad majorem dei gloriam." 
 
 The body of the churchmen gathered for the ceremony 
 was magnificently representative of Catholic Unity. Not di- 
 versity of race alone, but even diversity of ritual under Pon- 
 tifical rule, was eloquent testimony of the immeasurable height 
 and breadth of the Church of the ages. The names of the 
 Bishops alone form an international roll-call : Bishop McDon- 
 ell and Bishop Mundelein, of Brooklyn; Bishop McFaul, of 
 Trenton; Bishop Shanahan, of Harrisburg; Bishop O'Connor, 
 of Newark; Bishop Canevin, of Pittsburgh; Bishop Cusack, 
 of New York ; Bishop Hickey, of Rochester ; Bishop Walsh, of 
 Portland, Maine; Bishop Ortynsky, of the Ruthenians of the 
 United States ; Bishop Corrigan, of Baltimore ; Bishop Carroll, 
 of Nueva Segovia, Philippine Islands; Bishop O'Gorman, of 
 Sierra Leone, Africa; Abbot Obrecht, Abbot of Gethsemane 
 Trappist Abbey, Kentucky, and Chor-Bishop Yazbek, of the 
 Syro-Maronites of the United States. 
 
 Two of the Bishops just named, although Americans of 
 Irish ancestry, preside over Asiatic and African peoples. Rep- 
 resentatives of eleven religious orders of men were in attend- 
 ance Trappists, Dominicans, Augustinians, Benedictines, 
 Jesuits, Holy Ghost Fathers, Redemptorists, Passionists, Vin- 
 centians, Capuchins and Sulpicians. Five hundred priests were 
 accommodated in the sanctuary and in the transept. Dele- 
 gations from all the Sisterhoods of the Archdiocese occupied 
 pews in the side aisles. 
 
 The ceremonies opened with the procession, which, in the 
 usual order "the last shall be first" began with the young 
 theological students from the Diocesan Seminary of St. 
 Charles Borromeo, followed by the priests, Monsignori and 
 Bishops, and terminating with the two Cardinal Princes and 
 the Archbishop. The line, as it filed down the left aisle, across
 
 Mass of Investiture 59 
 
 the nave and up the right aisle, was a moving rainbow of color, 
 in which the rich violet of the Bishops and Monsignori pre- 
 dominated, until their Eminences, with the Metropolitan of 
 Philadelphia, passing down the center aisle, brought up the 
 rear of the procession with an inspiring glow of the princely 
 scarlet worn by the long line of Princes of the Church Eternal 
 through all the centuries since the foundation of the Sacred 
 College. The "Cardinal red," typifying the wearer's willing- 
 ness to shed his lifeblood for his faith, was all the more im- 
 pressive because the color of the Eminentissimi is so seldom 
 seen in our gray old city. 
 
 The services began with Solemn Pontifical Mass, cele- 
 brated by the Right Rev. John E. Fitzmaurice, D. D., Bishop 
 of Erie. The Right Rev. Mgr. John J. McCort, V. G., was 
 assistant priest ; the Rev. P. J. Dailey, rector of the Annuncia- 
 tion, deacon; the Rev. John J. Ward, rector of the Sacred 
 Heart, sub-deacon ; the Rev. Francis J. Sheehan and the Rev. 
 Denis A. Corbett, both of the Seminary, masters of ceremonies, 
 while the Very Rev. Charles F. Kavanagh, Chancellor, and the 
 Rev. John F. McQuade, rector of St. Stephen's, of the Com- 
 mittee on Ceremonies, gave valuable assistance without the 
 sanctuary. 
 
 The chaplains to Cardinal Gibbons were the Right Rev. 
 Monsignors William Kieran, D. D., and Nevin F. Fisher ; chap- 
 lains to Cardinal Farley, the Right Rev. Monsignors James P. 
 Sinnott and Philip R. McDevitt ; chaplains to the Archbishop, 
 the Very Rev. James F. Trainor, V. G., and the Rev. Daniel 
 O'Connor. 
 
 The minor offices of the Mass were filled by seminarians 
 from Overbrook. The assistant masters of ceremonies were 
 Edward Gallagher and Thomas F. McNally ; the archiepiscopal 
 cross-bearer, the Rev. John McMenamin; processional cross- 
 bearer, Joseph McDowell ; acolytes, Edwin Byrne and Philip 
 Donohue ; thurif er, Eugene McGuinness ; incense-bearer, Nich- 
 olas Travo ; book-bearer for the celebrant of the Mass, Dennis
 
 60 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 Reardon; mitre-bearer for the celebrant, Charles McGinley; 
 crosier-bearer for Archbishop Prendergast, Anthony Flynn; 
 book and candle-bearers for Cardinal Gibbons, George Petro 
 and John Lorenz; book and candle-bearers for Cardinal Far- 
 ley, James Campbell and Edward Stapleton; masters of the 
 choir, Joseph Everling and John Feeser ; train-bearer for Car- 
 dinal Gibbons, James Heir; train-bearer for Cardinal Farley, 
 Joseph Smith; train-bearer for Archbishop Prendergast, 
 Charles McCaffrey; train-bearer for Bishop Fitzmaurice, 
 Vincent Campbell. 
 
 The sermon was preached by the Right Reverend John 
 Francis Regis Canevin, Bishop of Pittsburgh, who is an earnest 
 and forceful speaker with a naturally distinct and musical 
 voice. He is the author of two doctrinal works which have 
 gone through several editions since their publication a few 
 years ago. His direct, logical style, and his unerring sense of 
 the right word in the right place, give a permanent literary 
 value to his discourses. 
 
 THE PALLIUM A SYMBOL OF UNITY AND AUTHORITY. 
 
 I am the Good Shepherd; and I know Mine and Mine know Me. 
 As the Father knoweth Me, and I know the Father; and I lay down 
 My life for My sheep. And other sheep I have, that are not of this 
 fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and 
 there shall be one fold and one Shepherd. St. John x, 14-16. 
 
 "That you may the better understand and appreciate the 
 meaning of the ceremony which we are witnessing in this ven- 
 erable Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, let me observe that 
 Jesus Christ came into this world as the Good Shepherd to 
 save souls until the end of time, and to communicate to men all 
 the lights and helps necessary for their salvation. He was 
 not to remain upon earth in visible human form all days, but 
 He chose twelve of His disciples, whom He called Apostles, 
 and He gave to them all the power which He as man had 
 received from His Father. 'As the Father hath sent Me, I 
 also send you.' 'Go and teach all nations.' 'I am with you
 
 Sermon on the Pallium 61 
 
 all days, even to the consummation of the world.' The con- 
 tinuous presence and action of the God-Man in His Church 
 presupposes the permanence of the Apostles in the world. He 
 gave them power to preach the Gospel to every creature, to 
 teach all nations, to offer up the sacrifice of His body and blood, 
 to forgive sins. In a word, He gave to His Apostles all the 
 powers of His priesthood. That priesthood means the con- 
 tinual kingdom and ministry of Christ upon the earth, not only 
 spiritual, but also external and visible. The sheep and lambs 
 must always have a fold and a shepherd. He who is God as 
 well as man chose men to be the instruments of salvation to 
 other men ; to be His ministers of grace, His teachers of faith, 
 His legislators, governors and judges, His representatives in the 
 kingdom purchased by His blood. 'Go and teach,' He said; 
 'he who heareth you heareth Me.' 'Make disciples of all na- 
 tions.' 'I am with you all days, as long as the world shall 
 last.' He commissioned them to communicate the same 
 powers to others 'to ordain priests in every city' so that 
 there might be a perpetual succession in the Apostolate and 
 a permanent priesthood in the world. 
 
 "The Apostles did communicate these sacred powers to 
 others who were to assist and succeed them in the pastoral 
 office, but in different degree. To some they gave the pleni- 
 tude of the priesthood and pastoral powers which they had 
 received from Christ, and these are called Bishops. To 
 others they communicated only part of their sacerdotal powers 
 that they might offer the Holy Sacrifice of the New Law, ad- 
 minister the sacraments, except Confirmation and Orders, 
 preach the Word of God and assist the Bishop from whom they 
 received jurisdiction and to whom they were subject in the 
 exercise of their ministry. These are the priests of the 
 Church. Others were to assist the priests, and they are the 
 deacons and sub-deacons. These degrees of priesthood and 
 power are called Holy Orders, because those who receive them 
 dedicate themselves entirely to the service of God and His
 
 62 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 Church. Besides these degrees of the priesthood, there are 
 four minor or lesser orders which concern the inferior offices 
 and services of the Church. These four are called the acolyte, 
 the exorcist, the lector and the doorkeeper. 
 
 THE APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION. 
 
 "The Apostles formed the groundwork and pillars on 
 which the Church was to rest, and after Christ's departure 
 from the earth the Apostles, with His assistance and under 
 the guidance of the Holy Spirit, propagated the Church, 
 preached His doctrine, ruled His people and dispensed the 
 mysteries of salvation. Their office, their spirit, their power 
 must abide in the Church all days. They must act in the 
 Church all days. They must live in their successors. The 
 apostolate was a living organism, one corporate body, and 
 the organic bond that linked together all primitive Christian 
 congregations or churches was the apostolate founded by 
 Christ with Peter at its head. This apostolate, Christ de- 
 clared, was to last all days and teach all nations and be the 
 very visible presence, authority and ministry of God to all 
 men. 'He who heareth you heareth Me.' 'Behold I am 
 with you all days.' In the permanence of the apostolate 
 and in the apostolic succession of Bishops, validly ordained 
 and rightly sent, Christ provides and transmits from age to 
 age His priesthood and with it His divine plan of salvation. 
 St. Paul solemnly declares to the successors of the Apostles 
 among the Ephesians that they are depositories of apostolic 
 doctrine and that they have been appointed by the Holy 
 Ghost. 'For I have not spared to declare unto you all the 
 counsel of God.' 
 
 " 'Take heed to yourselves and to the whole flock, wherein 
 the Holy Ghost hath placed you Bishops to rule the Church 
 of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood.' In 
 the first Epistle to Timothy, St. Paul charges him to exercise 
 discretion in selecting priests and Bishops, and in the Epistle
 
 Episcopate of Divine Origin 63 
 
 to Titus he enumerates the necessary qualifications for a 
 priest and Bishop. 
 
 "Clement of Rome, one of the earliest successors of St. 
 Peter, sums up the meaning and importance of apostolic suc- 
 cession by pointing out that 'Christ was sent by God the 
 Father, the Apostles by Christ and the Bishops by the Apos- 
 tles.' St. Ignatius the Martyr, disciple of the Apostles, 
 speaking of the respect and obedience which all owe to epis- 
 copal authority, says : 'Reverence your Bishop as Christ Him- 
 self, like as the blessed Apostles have commanded us for who 
 is the Bishop but he who has all power and principality over 
 all?' 'It becomes you to obey your Bishop, whether you be 
 priest, deacon or laic for as our Lord does nothing without 
 His Father, so neither ought you without your Bishop.' 
 
 EPISCOPATE OF DIVINE ORIGIN. 
 
 "The Bishop is, therefore, the representative of Christ's 
 apostolate, who possesses the fullness of the priesthood to 
 rule a diocese as its chief pastor. The episcopate of the Cath- 
 olic Church can be traced back in an unbroken line to its 
 divine origin. History testifies that the Bishops of the Cath- 
 olic Church are the only successors of the Apostles. During 
 the first three centuries the entire religious life of the diocese 
 centered around the person of the Bishop. Priests and dea- 
 cons were his assistants and worked under his immediate 
 direction. Then parishes were gradually formed and priests 
 as pastors were entrusted with many of the duties which the 
 Bishops of the primitive Church had reserved to themselves, 
 so that the Bishop might devote himself to the exercise of 
 supreme direction of pastors and people, and to the supervision 
 of the mort important affairs of his growing diocese and the 
 expanding Church. The ordinary jurisdiction of the Bishop 
 in his diocese is of divine origin as well as the power of the 
 order, and he has the right and duty to enact laws and to 
 prescribe regulations and to direct the faithful in the path of 
 salvation by word and example.
 
 64 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 "The Bishop is bound to preserve true faith and pure 
 morals among the people, by his own sanctity, by prayer, by 
 good example, by preaching, by celebrating Mass for his flock 
 on all Sundays and greater festivals, by daily solicitude for 
 souls and the upbuilding of the Church in his diocese. He is 
 bound to take special care for the Christian education of 
 youth, for the sanctity and security of the Christian home, 
 for the strict observance of rule in religious communities ; 
 above all, for the discreet selection and thorough training of 
 seminarians and for the spiritual life of his priests, whom 
 he must watch with apostolic vigilance, counsel with wisdom 
 and rule with justice and charity. 
 
 "From Bishop to Bishop has been passed on the fullness 
 of the priesthood which Christ gave to His Apostles. In due 
 obedience and relation to Christ and to one another each 
 Apostle sets up his chair of teaching, his altar of sacrifice and 
 ministry of grace on some spot where his clergy might be 
 formed around him and his flock might gather at his feet. 
 The divisions of the land began to be named after the 
 cathedrals or churches of the Bishop's chair. The history of 
 Christianity, its struggles and triumphs throughout the Chris- 
 tian ages, has been enacted around the Bishop's chair. The 
 cathedral was the center of religion and civilization when 
 nations of the modern world were emerging from barbarism. 
 The men who first attacked and overthrew the rooted powers 
 of heathen philosophy and pagan worship were Bishops or the 
 representatives of Bishops. They refuted false teachers, con- 
 demned heresy, Christianized savage hordes, founded schools 
 and watched over the cradle of civilization in every nation that 
 has been converted from barbarism to Christianity. 
 
 "The Church of Christ is not a disorderly number of 
 independent societies, a shapeless and headless multitude of 
 sects incapable of unity or combined action. The Church is 
 one. The strong, mighty, divinely constituted bond which 
 holds together the particular Bishops, dioceses, parishes and
 
 Sermon by Bishop Canevin 65 
 
 missions of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church 
 through all the revolutions and vicissitudes of time is the liv- 
 ing Rock of Peter. In him the Universal Church has a vis- 
 ible, infallible head appointed by Jesus Christ, true God and 
 true Man, to be His Vicar upon earth, to hold the keys of the 
 kingdom of heaven, to confirm his brethren, to rule the whole 
 flock and be the supreme shepherd of the one fold. He has 
 the primacy, not of rank or honor only, but of authority and 
 jurisdiction over the whole Church, pastors and people, and to 
 him all Bishops must be united by the apostolic chain of unity 
 of faith, unity of teaching, unity of obedience, unity of priest- 
 hood, unity of worship and unity of sacramental ministration. 
 "From this same Vicar of Jesus Christ seated in the 
 chair of Peter, from this divinely constituted center of truth 
 and law, comes the delegated authority with which a Bishop 
 is vested to-day and by which the power and prerogatives 
 of a Bishop are extended into the dignity and rights of an 
 Archbishop. To-day he is officially and publicly invested 
 with a symbol of authority and the insignia of an office 
 which places him in the Senate of fourteen Archbishops of 
 the United States, to continue the work which his illus- 
 trious and saintly predecessors in this Metropolitan See have 
 handed down to him. 
 
 RANK AND AUTHORITY OF THE METROPOLITAN. 
 "By divine right the episcopate is equal in all Bishops, 
 save only the jurisdiction of Peter, who is the center of unity 
 and the visible headship of authority in the Church of Christ 
 on earth. An Archbishop is a Bishop who governs a diocese 
 of his own and at the same time presides over the Bishops 
 of a certain district called a province. The archiepiscopal 
 province over which the Most Reverend Edmond F. Pren- 
 dergast presides by the favor of Rome comprises the State 
 of Pennsylvania, with its five suffragan Bishops of Erie, 
 Scranton, Harrisburg, Altoona and Pittsburgh, and a Catho- 
 lic population of 1,540,000.
 
 66 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 "The religious development of this great ecclesiastical 
 province since its formation in 1875 has been marvelous. 
 Year after year new congregations are formed, new churches, 
 schools, convents and institutions of charity arise on every 
 side, and it may be truly said that in the devotedness of its 
 clergy, the fervor of its religious communities, the piety and 
 generosity of its faithful children; that in practical faith, in 
 staunch loyalty and humble obedience to the Apostolic See, 
 the Catholics of this ecclesiastical province are worthy to be 
 ranked with the best Christians of any age or any country in 
 the history of the Church. 
 
 "The rights and dignity which distinguish a Metropolitan, 
 or Archbishop, and give him special authority in his province 
 and rank and precedence over other Bishops are concessions 
 made by the Bishop of Rome, the successor of St. Peter, 
 in order that the unity of the visible Church may be more 
 evident, its interests better protected, its laws more firmly 
 administered and its government more securely established 
 according to the conditions of time and place. 
 
 "Metropolitan Bishops are mentioned as a well-known 
 institution by the Council of Nice in the year 325. The 
 seventh canon of the Council of Antioch, held in the year 341, 
 is a classical passage. It reads : 'The Bishops of every prov- 
 ince must be aware that the Bishop presiding in the metropo- 
 lis has charge of the whole province.' 
 
 "The rank and authority of the Metropolitan and the 
 term Archbishop were defined clearly in the fifth and sixth 
 centuries, and in the sixteenth century the Council of Trent 
 described still more fully the rights of an Archbishop and 
 his duties towards the suffragan Bishops and the suffragan 
 dioceses of his province. 
 
 THE PALLIUM. 
 
 "The pallium which is to-day placed upon the shoulders 
 of the Metropolitan of Philadelphia comes from the hands 
 of the Bishop of Bishops who feeds the whole flock of the
 
 Meaning of the Pallium 67 
 
 Divine Shepherd, governs the Universal Church and confirms 
 his brethren who are appointed by the Holy Ghost to rule the 
 Church of God. 
 
 "The pallium is a circular woolen band about two inches 
 wide, ornamented with six crosses, having two pendants, one 
 hanging down in front and one behind. It is worn on the 
 shoulders over the chasuble on certain great festivals and in 
 solemn ceremonies. It is a symbol of Peter's headship, a 
 sign of power, authority and mission which Peter received 
 from Christ the Supreme Shepherd. The material woolen 
 band is nothing; what it symbolizes is exalted and holy. The 
 flag of our country, however small or commonplace the ma- 
 terial, is to us the symbol of the noblest political power; the 
 pallium, insignificant as it may appear to others, is to Catho- 
 lics the emblem of the greatest spiritual power in the world. 
 Without it the prelate of Philadelphia is the Bishop, with it 
 he is the Archbishop, and the sign of Peter's world jurisdiction 
 rests on his shoulders, the light of Rome's sovereign rule 
 gleams along his path. 
 
 "Every year on January 21 st, the feast of St. Agnes, the 
 fair and graceful virgin martyr of fourteen years, in the beau- 
 tiful church which bears her name on the Nomentan Way, 
 outside the city of Rome, High Mass is followed by a sol- 
 emn ceremony which attracts Romans and sojourners in Rome 
 of every nation under heaven. It is the blessing by the abbot 
 of the canons regular of the Lateran of two spotless lambs, 
 emblems of innocence and sacrifice, which are laid upon the 
 high altar. 
 
 "The blessing finished, they are taken by the master of 
 ceremonies and two canons of the Basilica of St. John Lat- 
 eran and presented to the Pope. They are given into the 
 care of the nuns of St. Cecilia, Trastevere, till the time for 
 shearing. When shorn the white fleece is wrought into pal- 
 liums, which are blessed by the Sovereign Pontiff on the eve 
 of the feast of SS. Peter and Paul and then placed in an
 
 68 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 urn upon the tomb of the chief of the Apostles, in the con- 
 fession beneath the vast and wondrous dome of the basilica 
 which bears his name. These are sent by the head shepherd 
 of the Universal Church to Patriarchs, Primates and Arch- 
 bishops, and all such are bound within three months after 
 their appointment to supplicate the pallium from the Holy 
 See, so that the world may recognize in them a visible witness 
 to that divine mark of unity of doctrine and discipline with 
 which Jesus Christ sealed His Church. 
 
 "The wearing of the pallium goes back to the early cen- 
 turies of the Church. Its origin is traced to a stole or mantle 
 worn by the Popes to indicate the office and jurisdiction of 
 the Supreme Pastor. Mention is made of it as early as the 
 first half of the fourth century, when Pope Marcus gave the 
 Bishop of Ostia the right to wear it, because, as St. Augustine 
 testifies, the Bishop of Ostia had the right of consecrating the 
 Pope in case he was not a Bishop at the time of his election 
 to the Papacy. 
 
 "In the sixth century Pope Pelagius sent the pallium to 
 the Archbishop of Aries, in what is now France, 'that he might 
 hold the place of the first priest in Gaul.' Gregory the Great 
 sent the pallium to St. Augustine of Canterbury with these 
 words : 'We grant you the use of the pallium, so that you may 
 ordain twelve Bishops who shall be subject to your jurisdic- 
 tion.' For one thousand years, in unbroken lineage, from St. 
 Augustine in the sixth century to Cardinal Pole in the sixteenth 
 century, every Archbishop in England wore the pallium which 
 came from the 'body of Peter.' 
 
 "That the See of Canterbury was purely Roman for a 
 thousand years, from the time of Augustine to that of War- 
 ham, would be as easy to show as that William the Conqueror 
 won the Battle of Hastings. That every Archbishop of Eng- 
 land, Ireland and Scotland received the pallium from Rome 
 and 'held all Roman doctrine' from the time of their first 
 Apostles to 1534 is not disputed even by Protestant historians.
 
 A Personal Tribute 69 
 
 There are speculations indulged in by some writers as to what 
 may have been the relations of pre-Augustine Christianity in 
 England to Rome, but there can be no serious dispute as to 
 what actually was believed by all Christians in England from 
 St. Augustine the first to Archbishop Warham, the last Cath- 
 olic Archbishop of Canterbury, before the fall of Cranmer. 
 'What should be my relations with Gaul and Britain?' in- 
 quired St. Augustine of Pope St. Gregory the Great. St. 
 Gregory answered : 'We have given you no authority over the 
 Bishops of Gaul, because from ancient times the Bishops of 
 Aries have received the pallium from our predecessors, but 
 we commit all the Bishops of Britain to your charge, that the 
 ignorant may be instructed, the weak confirmed by exhortation, 
 the perverse converted by authority.' 
 
 "The same is true of the Metropolitans of every country 
 in the whole world. The cords of the pallium have bound 
 the episcopate and the Church to the throne of the Fisherman. 
 
 "From the same apostolic source was the pallium con- 
 ferred on Archbishop Carroll in 1808 by Pope Pius VII, and 
 from the same imperishable chair of Peter, bright in the glow- 
 ing fire of the loving, energetic soul of Pius X, comes the 
 pallium to Philadelphia to link the present with the age-chain 
 which stretches back to him to whom Christ declared : 'Simon, 
 Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may 
 sift you as wheat; but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith 
 fail not, and thou being once converted, confirm thy breth- 
 ren.' (Luke xxii, 31-32.) 
 
 A PERSONAL TRIBUTE. 
 
 "It would be a trespass upon your time and patience and 
 distasteful to the judgment and feelings of the beloved prelate 
 whom the Church so specially honors to-day, did I attempt to 
 dwell upon his personal characteristics and virtues which you 
 know far better than I can describe them. You, my brethren 
 of the clergy and laity, have known, respected, loved him for 
 many years as an edifying priest, a zealous and wise pastor,
 
 70 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 a kind neighbor, a loyal and tender-hearted friend. The 
 honors and responsibilities which have been laid upon him 
 in later years have come because it was your wish and his 
 obedience. His good sense and his long experience in ecclesi- 
 astical affairs would teach him that the place of authority in 
 the kingdom of the Cross is ever beset with difficulties and 
 surrounded by anxious cares which no man with a proper 
 sense of his own limitations can view without humility and 
 shrinking fear. The man would often hesitate and turn away, 
 but the Bishop has trust in more than human strength when 
 duty bids him labor on as a good soldier of Christ. Then 
 he says with St. Ambrose: 'Pondus quod portare non valeo, 
 deponere timeo' (The burden which is too great for me, I 
 fear to lay down). He took not this upon himself, but was 
 called by God as Aaron was. 
 
 "The pallium to you, Most Reverend Father, is the sym- 
 bol of unity, of authority, of power, of episcopal virtue and 
 the love of souls. It bids you, 'after the example of the Good 
 Shepherd, to be watchful in the custody of the flock, to be vig- 
 ilant and circumspect, lest any fall into the jaws of the wolf ; 
 to be strict in discipline, seeking out that which is lost, bring- 
 ing back that which is astray, binding up that which is wounded 
 and guarding that which is sound.' Such are the words of the 
 Vicar of Christ blessing the pallium and praying that it might 
 bring to you a double portion of the apostolic spirit and always 
 signify the bond and pledge of charity which holds you in 
 perfect union with Christ and with Rome. 
 
 "From your suffragan Bishops, from your priests, from 
 your religious communities of men and women, from the 
 whole body of the people, goes up a fervent prayer that God 
 who places the pallium upon your shoulders may strengthen 
 by His power, direct by His wisdom and by His love pre- 
 serve you through many years to rule the Church of Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 "'And may the God of peace, who brought again from
 
 Address by Cardinal Gibbons 71 
 
 the dead the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 in the blood of the everlasting testament, fit you in all good- 
 ness, that you may do His will; doing in you that which is 
 well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is 
 glory forever and ever. Amen.' " (Heb. xiii, 20-21.) 
 
 For the first time in local history two American Cardinals 
 had met in the same sanctuary. And, if this were not honor 
 enough for the Church of Philadelphia and its beloved Met- 
 ropolitan, there were pride and gratitude overflowing when the 
 more venerable of the two Princes of the Church, the univer- 
 sally beloved Archbishop of Baltimore, before discharging the 
 solemn function for which he came, and acting spontaneously 
 and apart from the customary procedure, felicitated His Grace 
 of Philadelphia in terms of affection and admiration that were 
 heard with visible emotion by the thousands assembled in the 
 vast Cathedral. 
 
 Cardinal Gibbons, standing at the throne on the Gospel 
 side, addressed the Archbishop, speaking in a kindly, fatherly 
 manner, low and sweet. 
 
 "MOST REVEREND DEAR ARCHBISHOP: 
 
 "It is a circumstance worthy of remark that of the seven 
 prelates who have presided over the See of Philadelphia since 
 its establishment one hundred years ago, your Grace is the 
 first and only one who was ordained for this diocese, and who 
 has exercised the sacred ministry in it without interruption 
 since your ordination in 1865. 
 
 "You can, therefore, say with all confidence, in the lan- 
 guage of the Apostle of the Gentiles to the Corinthians, that 
 you have no need of letters of commendation to the faithful 
 under your charge. Your life and your example is your best 
 letter of commendation. It is an open book which all may 
 read. For you do not come as a stranger to be tried ; but you 
 present yourself as an elder brother whose merits have been 
 already tested and approved by your clergy and people.
 
 72 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 "You can truly apply to yourself the words of the Roman 
 poet : 'Quaenam regio in terris nostri non plena laboris ?' What 
 part of this great archdiocese has not experienced the fruit 
 of my labors? 
 
 "I venture to say that there is scarcely a parish in this 
 diocese, no matter how new and insignificant, which you have 
 not visited more than once since your consecration as Aux- 
 iliary Bishop fifteen years ago, nor is there a diocesan priest 
 with whom you are not personally acquainted. 
 
 "And of the numerous churches and rectories, schools and 
 academies, asylums and hospitals which have been constructed 
 during that period, there is scarcely any that was planned and 
 inaugurated without your mature counsel and co-operation. 
 
 "I need hardly say in this presence how much you were 
 admired, esteemed and loved by your venerable predecessor. 
 He frequently spoke to myself in terms of praise of you. 
 He had unbounded confidence in your ripe judgment, integ- 
 rity of character and in your loyalty to his person. He 
 leaned on you as on an impregnable rock. And your un- 
 swerving devotion to him contributed in no small measure 
 to his peace and happiness and to the prolongation of his 
 valuable life. 
 
 "And those who were intimate with both of you know 
 full well that the late Archbishop's affection for you was 
 cordially reciprocated on your part. Had it pleased Al- 
 mighty God, gladly would you have continued to abide with 
 him in a subordinate capacity as his Auxiliary Bishop, not 
 only for twice fifteen years more, but even during the re- 
 mainder of your life. 
 
 "And this confidence which the late Archbishop reposed 
 in you is shared by the clergy and people, so that unbounded 
 was their joy when, by the grace of God and the favor of 
 the Apostolic See, you were called to rule this great and 
 flourishing Archdiocese. 
 
 "I congratulate you, Most Reverend friend, that though 
 you have already spent nearly forty-seven years in the active
 
 "The Holy Father" 73 
 
 ministry, your physical and mental powers are unimpaired. 
 The best wish I can express in your behalf on this solemn 
 occasion is that, when you lay aside your staff of authority, 
 you may, like your predecessor, leave behind you the fragrant 
 memory of a life well spent in the service of your Master." 
 
 In the afternoon the visiting dignitaries and a large num- 
 ber of priests were entertained at a private dinner in the 
 Palm Room of the Bellevue- Stratford Hotel. The Toast- 
 master was the Very Reverend James F. Trainor, one of the 
 two Vicars General appointed by his Grace after his installa- 
 tion. The following are the toasts, as proposed by Monsignor 
 Trainor : 
 
 THE HOLY FATHER. 
 
 "For the second time in six months, we have come to- 
 gether to celebrate with fitting joy the election of one of our 
 own priests to be Archbishop of our own Diocese. The 
 first meeting, the Installation, was what is commonly called 
 'a family gathering.' I assure you it was a happy family. 
 The children of our Most Reverend Archbishop assembled 
 around him ; joyfully paid homage to him ; thanked God that 
 they were blessed by having over them a ruler whom they 
 knew ; whom, in the school of long experience, they had 
 learned to love and to trust. 
 
 "To-day, to our second meeting, the conferring of the 
 Pallium, we decided to invite a few friends and neighbors. 
 We are pleased to find that nearly all came. In the name of 
 His Grace and the priests of the Diocese, I say you are wel- 
 come. The priests of Philadelphia were always noted for 
 their hospitality. This hospitality should never grow cold 
 under the leadership of Archbishop Prendergast. Besides, 
 we wish to show our friends and neighbors how much we 
 appreciate our new Archbishop. We want them to rejoice 
 with us, because we have the ruler who can be truly said to 
 be the universal choice of both priests and people of this 
 Diocese.
 
 74 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 "When on the twenty-sixth day of last July we assisted 
 at the ceremony of his Installation, we had great hopes, but 
 no fears. To-day, after six months, we can say, in truth, our 
 estimate of Archbishop Prendergast was correct ; all our hopes 
 have been realized. 'He has done all things well.' We then 
 knew him as a good priest and as a good Bishop, but now 
 we know him as a good and great Archbishop. We thank 
 God for all His blessings. 
 
 "After God, we turn to-day to Our Holy Father, to whom 
 we are deeply indebted. To him, as grateful children, we 
 give our first thoughts, and with the most profound respect 
 propose him as our first toast. He has no more devoted chil- 
 dren than the priests and people of this diocese. They yield 
 to none in their love for the great Pontiff who guards so well 
 and so courageously the interests of our holy Religion. May 
 God bless him! May He give him health and strength to 
 reign for many years, even to the years of Peter, to govern 
 the Church as in the past, with love, with wisdom, with 
 firmness. 
 
 "I propose the first toast, 'Our Holy Father.' 
 
 "We are delighted to have with us to-day our most dis- 
 tinguished and beloved neighbor and friend, His Eminence 
 James Cardinal Gibbons. He was a friend of our late la- 
 mented Archbishop, Patrick John Ryan. He is a friend of 
 our present Archbishop, and I can assure him that not only 
 does His Grace appreciate, but also the priests of this diocese 
 appreciate the friendship of the illustrious Cardinal. 
 
 "There are two or three other Cardinals now accredited 
 to this country. Some say there ought to be more, at least one 
 more. But I can say without fear of causing trouble in the 
 Apostolic College that there is one Cardinal who has the hearts 
 of the entire people of the country; who is loved and revered 
 by high and low, rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant. There 
 is one Cardinal who for more than three decades has been the 
 shining light of Catholicity in these United States, and that
 
 "Our New Cardinals" 75 
 
 Cardinal is His Eminence James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop 
 of Baltimore. I ask him, the best-known and the best-loved 
 citizen of the country, to respond to the toast, 'Our Holy 
 Father/ " 
 
 OUR NEW CARDINALS. 
 
 "We are more than pleased to have with us to-day our 
 good friend and neighbor, His Eminence John Cardinal Far- 
 ley, Archbishop of New York. He was often with us before, 
 and we appreciated his visits; but this is the first time we 
 have had the pleasure of seeing him as a Prince of the Church. 
 We feel greatly honored by his visit to-day. I can assure 
 him that there are no priests in this broad land who congratu- 
 late him with more sincerity than the priests of the Archdio- 
 cese of Philadelphia. We always admired the great church- 
 man who, for so many years, has been prominently associated 
 with the ecclesiastical affairs of the Archdiocese of New York. 
 The receptions that the people of that great city, irrespective 
 of creed, have been giving him during the past week are the 
 best indications of his merits. We believe, with his own peo- 
 ple, that he deserved the honor conferred on him by our Holy 
 Father, Pius X. 
 
 "We send our congratulations also to the other two 
 Cardinals accredited to this country, His Eminence Diomede 
 Cardinal Falconio, whose nine years' service as Delegate Apos- 
 tolic endeared him to the entire hierarchy of the country; and 
 to His Eminence William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of 
 Boston. We send him greetings. We wish him success for 
 his reception to-morrow. 
 
 "I ask His Eminence John Cardinal Farley to respond 
 to the toast 'Our New Cardinals.' " 
 
 OUR ARCHBISHOP. 
 
 "The subject of our next toast requires few words 
 of introduction. He has spent the best part of his life right 
 here in our midst. Almost every one present has, at some 
 time, met him. But many of you have not met him since he
 
 76 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 was made Archbishop. You may, therefore, be anxious to 
 know how he stands in his new position, socially as well as 
 officially. I assure you there is no change. He is just the 
 same. He has the same big, noble, generous heart as Arch- 
 bishop that he had as priest and as Bishop, and no one entered 
 his former home at St. Malachy's without realizing the noble- 
 ness of his hospitality. You may expect the same reception 
 when you call at his new home on Logan Square. 
 
 "Officially I have been more or less intimately connected 
 with Archbishop Prendergast's administration for the past 
 six months. I know many things about him and his work, 
 but I am not allowed to tell. However, as I have charge of 
 things here, and no one is allowed to speak out of his turn, 
 I might take advantage of this opportunity to tell some things 
 that I have learned from my association with Archbishop 
 Prendergast. The first thing that I learned is that, if he con- 
 tinues to live and rule as conscientiously as he has during the 
 past six months, there is no doubt but that he will save his 
 soul. The second thing I have learned is that the keynote 
 of his administration is 'the square deal' for both priest and 
 people; that his first thought is the glory of God, the exalta- 
 tion of our holy Religion, the salvation of the people. What 
 more could any one ask? 
 
 "I assure Your Grace that your devoted priests ask 
 nothing more of you. To-day they renew their homage. 
 They promise fidelity. They pray God to spare you for many 
 years, to continue the work so auspiciously begun. In the 
 name of the priests of the Diocese, I propose the health of 
 'Our Archbishop.' " 
 
 ADDRESS OF ARCHBISHOP PRENDERGAST AT THE BELLEVUE- 
 
 STRATFORD, JANUARY 31, 1912. 
 
 "It would be impossible for me to put in words my feel- 
 ings of gratitude for the honor I have received to-day. The 
 Sacred Pallium which was laid on the tomb of St. Peter, and 
 was sent by the glorious and beloved successor of St. Peter,
 
 Address by His Grace 77 
 
 was conferred on me by His Eminence James Cardinal Gib- 
 bons, to invest me with the plenitude of pontifical authority 
 to rule over this diocese. 
 
 "From my heart I thank the Holy Father. I promise him 
 obedience and loyalty. To the best of my ability I will ever 
 be his loving, humble servant, anxious to know his will, and 
 prompt to put his wishes into effect, and, as far as in me lies, 
 to preserve and foster in this diocese among priests and peo- 
 ple the enthusiastic devotion to the Holy See which is charac- 
 teristic of the Church in Philadelphia. 
 
 "I most cordially thank your Eminence for the great 
 honor you have done the diocese in being present and officiat- 
 ing at to-day's ceremony. We know that you have always 
 been friendly to Philadelphia, and we are conscious in par- 
 ticular of the mutual esteem and love that bound you and my 
 predecessor so closely in all the years of his benign sway over 
 this See. I also wish to say that I am grateful for your in- 
 variable kindness to myself. You have the admiration and 
 affection of all our clergy, and they thank you for your pres- 
 ence with us on this occasion. 
 
 "Indeed, we must feel profoundly grateful for another 
 reason. For there is one here who came at so much inconveni- 
 ence to himself, who, at the close of a series of joyful and 
 glorious celebrations and receptions, and after attending an 
 unique demonstration of esteem and affection of the most dis- 
 tinguished non-Catholic citizens of the Empire State, gra- 
 ciously left home at an early hour this morning to honor us 
 with his presence. It would have been a sore disappointment 
 to all the diocese if he had not come, and still we were rea- 
 sonable enough to admit that we had no right to expect that 
 he would make so great a sacrifice on our behalf. And now 
 we say from our hearts, we thank you and bid your Eminence 
 a thousand welcomes on your first visit to us as a Prince of 
 the Church John Cardinal Farley. 
 
 "I thank you, Right Reverend Bishops, for leaving your
 
 78 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 homes in this inclement season to give dignity to this cere- 
 mony by your distinguished presence. I cannot now express 
 our obligations to each of you individually, nor speak of 
 the many who are unavoidably absent and who have sent 
 their kind messages of regret. But, to one and all this 
 diocese is deeply indebted. The same I say to all our guests 
 to the Right Reverend Prelates, the Very Reverend and 
 Reverend Fathers who have accepted our invitations. 
 
 "There is nothing that I can add to what I have said 
 on many occasions to you, my own priests. The Sacred 
 Pallium binds us perhaps closer together; at least it brings 
 home to you and to me the fact that death alone can sep- 
 arate us. As you well know, I am not insensible to all your 
 kindness. I appreciate all that you have done, and, while 
 life lasts, I can never forget it. But it seems to me that, 
 both at the ceremonies in the Cathedral and here, surrounded 
 by so many dignitaries in this splendid hall, I feel like one 
 in a dream, like one looking at a beautiful and cherished 
 picture. But thoughts will come that cast, as it were, som- 
 ber shadows across the picture. Never before did I realize 
 so keenly the dignity and responsibility of the Archbishop of 
 this diocese, great in material resources, in spiritual develop- 
 ment, and important, too, because of the respect which it has 
 from thousands who do not admit the jurisdiction of its 
 Prelate. Moreover, my sense of responsibility is increased 
 when I remember the illustrious men who preceded me the 
 learned Kenrick, the saintly Neumann, the princely, zealous, 
 far-seeing Wood; the amiable, witty, eloquent Patrick John 
 Ryan. And I say to myself: Are you fit to be Archbishop 
 of Philadelphia, are you worthy to wear the mantle of these 
 great men? Truth compels me to answer, No; emphatic- 
 ally no. 
 
 "But the pain caused by this admission is softened by the 
 reflection that I did not seek the position, and when God ele- 
 vates a man to any dignity He gives him the help to fulfill
 
 Address by His Grace 79 
 
 his duties worthily. I remember, too, that neither learning, 
 nor saintliness, nor business ability, nor charm of personality 
 and eloquence would avail much in the administration of a 
 diocese if its chief were not seconded and supported by an able 
 and zealous body of priests. The pioneers who helped to 
 build up this diocese are long since gone to their reward. 
 How many, even of those who did such noble work in our 
 own times, have we seen borne to the grave? We have not 
 the same men, but we have a body of priests with the same 
 unity among themselves, the same loyalty and obedience to 
 their archbishop, the same fidelity and generosity. The 
 spirit of Kenrick, its first Rector, hovers over St. Charles 
 Seminary in 1912 as in 1832. That fruitful, faithful Alma 
 Mater shelters to-day within her walls the largest number of 
 students in her history. The seminarians of to-day will take 
 their place to-morrow in the ranks of the clergy with the 
 determination, not only to preach and follow the doctrines 
 of the Church, but to preserve and perpetuate the traditions 
 of our noble diocese. 
 
 "Why not, then, drive away those dark shadows that mar 
 the brightness of this beautiful scene and take up with con- 
 fidence the work committed to me by the Holy See? Am I 
 presumptuous in indulging the hope that, with God's blessing, 
 during my administration the glory of this diocese may not 
 be dimmed, nor its fame tarnished?" 
 
 THE EPISCOPACY. 
 
 "As His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons has to leave us, and 
 he is desirous of hearing Bishop McFaul, I call upon the elo- 
 quent Bishop of Trenton immediately to respond to the toast 
 'The Episcopacy.' " 
 
 THE CLERGY. 
 
 "The subject of our next toast is an extensive and im- 
 portant one. It embraces the entire country. It includes 
 every priest, both diocesan and regular. As we look out 
 over this broad land, what an army of devoted priests do
 
 8o Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 we behold fighting under the banner of Christ ! There is not 
 a section of the country where this army is not advancing, 
 marching shoulder to shoulder, to new conquests for Christ 
 and Christ's Church. 
 
 "We are proud, and justly proud, of the clergy of to-day 
 and of their work. But as we look back into the last cen- 
 tury, are not our hearts filled with admiration for the good 
 old priests who kept the faith alive in the people, when to be 
 a Catholic meant to be despised and persecuted? They were 
 giants of faith in those days. They were the watchmen who 
 stood on the walls of the city, when all was dark and drear 
 within; and, when asked: 'Watchman! What of the night?' 
 made answer, 'Lo ! the dawn is breaking.' And it was break- 
 ing, and did break into the glory of the Church of this coun- 
 try to-day. All honor to those good old priests, whose names 
 we should hold in benediction! 
 
 "While we are proud of the achievements of the priest- 
 hood of the past and of the present, we can look forward 
 with hope to the future. The Seminaries of the country are 
 keeping pace with the times, and every year hundreds of 
 young priests go forth from their walls, prepared with piety 
 and learning to continue the work. They have done great 
 work in the past. They will continue this work in the future. 
 
 "We are pleased to have with us to-day the Very Rev- 
 erend Rector of our Seminary. He succeeds a long line of dis- 
 tinguished Rectors the great Archbishop Francis Patrick 
 Kenrick, Bishop O'Connor, Bishop O'Hara, Monsignor Cor- 
 coran, Monsignor Garvey, and the two young ex-Rectors, 
 Monsignor Kieran and Bishop Fitzmaurice, of Erie. The 
 present Rector is endeavoring to keep up the high standard 
 established by his predecessors. He has already done good 
 work for the Seminary. Whilst in his hands we need have 
 no fear for the future. I ask the Very Reverend Rector, 
 Henry T. Drumgoole, to respond to the toast 'The Clergy.' '
 
 CHAPTER IV 
 
 RECEPTION TO THE ARCHBISHOP BY THE 
 CATHOLIC LAYMEN OF THE DIOCESE. 
 
 HT HE official reception given to the Archbishop by the Cath- 
 olic laymen of the diocese took the form of a banquet 
 one of those grand dinner demonstrations which are so much 
 in vogue. By request of His Grace, this function was post- 
 poned until Thursday, February ist, the day after the solemn 
 conferring of the Pallium, so that the visiting churchmen 
 might share with the new Metropolitan of Philadelphia the 
 hospitality of the Catholic men of his See. The arrangements 
 for the celebration were in the hands of the Philadelphia 
 Chapter of the Knights of Columbus. 
 
 Seated between His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His 
 Honor Mayor Blankenburg, Archbishop Prendergast was the 
 center of a notable assemblage of dignitaries, priests and lay- 
 men, in Horticultural Hall. Covers were laid for nearly four 
 hundred guests, and the character of the gathering and the 
 nature of the utterances in response to the several toasts of 
 the evening made the event memorable not only as a striking 
 tribute of loyalty and love to the chief shepherd of the Arch- 
 diocese, but also as the occasion of an authoritative public 
 exposition of the Catholic ideal of citizenship that should prove 
 a source of inspiration to the Catholic body and an aid in 
 what the Most Rev. Archbishop described as "the important 
 work of preserving and continuing that good-will, that har- 
 mony, that neighborly feeling which exists between us and 
 those who are not of our faith." 
 
 The banquet hall presented a splendid spectacle. For 
 the guests in general, among whom there were many priests, 
 sixty small tables were arranged in the body of the hall. 
 Facing these, at a long table extending the full width of the
 
 82 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 auditorium, and with a great bank of tropical plants and flowers 
 in the background, were His Grace and the toastmaster and 
 the special guests. These included, in addition to Cardinal 
 Gibbons and Mayor Blankenburg, the Right Rev. John E. Fitz- 
 maurice, D. D., Bishop of Erie; the Right Rev. James A. 
 McFaul, D. D., Bishop of Trenton; the Right Rev. James J. 
 Carroll, D. D., Bishop of Nueva Segovia, P. I.; the Right 
 Rev. Leo Haid, D. D., O. S. B., Vicar Apostolic of North 
 Carolina; the Right Rev. O. B. Corrigan, D. D., Auxiliary 
 Bishop of Baltimore; the Right Rev. S. S. Ortynsky, D. D., 
 Greek Catholic Bishop for the United States; the Right Rev. 
 Edmond M. Obrecht, O. C. R., Abbot of Gethsemane, Ken- 
 tucky ; the Right Rev. Mgr. John J. McCort, V. G., the Very 
 Rev. James F. Trainor, V. G., the Very Rev. Patrick McHale, 
 C. M., the Rev. P. C. Gavan, chancellor, Baltimore; Justice 
 Victor J. Dowling, New York ; the Hon. Joseph F. Lamorelle, 
 judge of the Orphans' Court; James J. Walsh, K. C. St. G., 
 M. D., LL. D., the Hon. Michael J. Ryan, City Solicitor ; the 
 Hon. John E. Reyburn, former Mayor of Philadelphia ; James 
 A. Flaherty, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus ; 
 Anthony A. Hirst, James J. Ryan, William F. Harrity, Philip 
 A. Hart, Michael J. McEnery. 
 
 The Hon. John K. Tener, Governor of Pennsylvania, was 
 to have been present to respond to the toast, "The Keystone 
 State," but pressing official business detained him at Harris- 
 burg, and he sent a telegram expressing his regret, which 
 was read by the toastmaster, William A. Hayes, Esq., chair- 
 man of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Knights of Columbus. 
 
 THE CARDINAL'S ADDRESS. 
 
 Desiring to retire early, His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons, 
 whose name headed the list of speakers, was introduced before 
 the scheduled time for responses to toasts. It was not his 
 custom, His Eminence said, to attend night gatherings, but 
 when an affair was given in honor of one whom he respected 
 so much as he did Archbishop Prendergast, and when it was
 
 Cardinal's Address at Laymen's Banquet 83, 
 
 given under the auspices of such a splendid body as the 
 Knights of Columbus, he felt that he could not refuse to attend. 
 "I honor the Knights of Columbus," the Cardinal con- 
 tinued, "and am jealous of their good name, their integrity 
 and their honor. Whoever touches them touches the apple of 
 my eye. They are a body of the best Catholic laymen, to whom 
 is entrusted the honor of the Church. There is a disposition 
 in some parts to be hypercritical. It may be that the Knights 
 have had an unworthy member here and there. But there was 
 a Lucifer among the angels and a Judas among the Apostles." 
 
 The commendatory remarks on the Knights of Columbus 
 carried His Eminence into the general theme of the necessity 
 of co-operation by all Catholics in the work of government. 
 "There are two great principles taught the Catholics of this 
 country, and those we must live up to the love of God and 
 the love for our country. You must be always ready to assist 
 the officials of the Government in your country. Your Presi- 
 dent, your Governor and your Mayor they must all receive 
 your help and assistance. 
 
 "Not your condemnation or criticism when they are doing 
 their duty, but your helping hand. No member of the Knights 
 of Columbus should be an idle spectator of the fight for the 
 better government in this country. It should be our part to 
 help that Government to carry out to the best of its ability the 
 wonderful destiny in store for it." 
 
 Speaking of men whom he has known, His Eminence 
 paid a remarkable tribute to Samuel Randall, the former 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. "He was a man 
 who did his duty as he saw it, and not along the rigid lines of 
 partisanship. Chosen again and again by both parties to hold 
 the supreme office in that body, even though he was a Demo- 
 crat, he rigidly and impartially ruled that body of men, and 
 so should all of you go into politics. Do as you know to be 
 right, and not as your party dictates.
 
 84 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 "Before I leave you I wish to impress this thought upon 
 your minds, and also to congratulate you upon your new Arch- 
 bishop, and the new Archbishop upon having such men as you 
 in his flock." 
 
 ARCHBISHOP PRENDERGAST. 
 
 When the guest of the evening was presented, the entire 
 assemblage rose with His Grace. There was vigorous and 
 prolonged applause, after which, the company being again 
 seated, the Archbishop said: 
 
 "Although my name is not mentioned on the program 
 as one of the speakers, I beg leave to say a few words to show 
 my appreciation of the honor done to me this evening, and 
 of the importance which I attach to this assemblage of so many 
 of my strongest and best helpers in the great work which has 
 been committed to my charge. 
 
 "I know that the clergy, regular and diocesan, are well 
 disposed; the religious, Brothers and Sisters in charge of the 
 schools and the various charities of the diocese have pro- 
 fessed their loyalty and obedience, and I have confidence in 
 their ability and zeal. But the assistance of priests and re- 
 ligious would avail little if I could not rely on the sympathy 
 and co-operation of the laity. There never was a doubt in my 
 mind, and my faith is confirmed by long experience, that the 
 faithful of this diocese are united with their priests and Arch- 
 bishop and can be counted upon for every good work. And 
 yet to-night, surrounded as I am by representative men in 
 numbers, limited only by the capacity of this splendid hall, 
 I feel encouraged to take up the work of my beloved prede- 
 cessor of blessed memory with more confidence to labor, not 
 alone for the spiritual interests of our people, the Christian 
 education of their children, but, what is of vast importance, 
 for the general welfare and harmony of the community in 
 which we live, and for reverence and respect for our civil 
 rulers in city and state and national government. Catholics 
 are taught to look upon their lawful rulers as the representa-
 
 His Grace's Address at Laymen's Banquet 85 
 
 tives of the power of God. And here, at least, where such 
 good feeling exists between us and our non-Catholic fellow- 
 citizens, it is not too much to claim that, as a body, we can 
 be relied upon to support every measure intended for the 
 moral betterment of the whole community, as well as to secure 
 the material advancement of our great city. 
 
 "In my personal capacity I am insignificant in this great 
 work, but as Archbishop of Philadelphia, having the help of so 
 large a body of citizens, I may indulge the hope that the cause 
 of religion and piety and Christian education and the good will 
 and harmony between us and those who are not of our faith 
 may not be diminished, but will increase and grow stronger 
 during our administration. 
 
 "I beg to acknowledge my gratitude to the society under 
 whose auspices this magnificent tribute of the laity is tendered 
 to me. It is not necessary to add any words of praise to the 
 encouragement of our Holy Father Pius X, and of the many 
 Archbishops and Bishops of the United States in their com- 
 mendation of this society, which now numbers two hundred 
 and fifty thousand prominent Catholic gentlemen. This shows 
 the confidence of the authorities of the Church, who intrust 
 to such a degree the glory and honor of the Catholic name 
 to you, her Catholic knights. You will always deserve it if 
 you are true to your principles, for you profess unity with 
 your ecclesiastical superiors and the unquestioning obedience 
 of faithful children to Holy Mother Church. 
 
 "May this spirit of loyal service ever animate you, and 
 may you have an abiding realization of the power for good 
 there is in a zealous, upright laity, united in mind and in heart 
 ever and always with your priests and your Archbishop." 
 
 MAYOR BLANKENBURG "THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE." 
 Vigorous applause greeted Mayor Blankenburg when he 
 rose to respond to the toast, "The City of Brotherly Love." In 
 the course of a speech marked by much feeling and earnestness, 
 His Honor said :
 
 86 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 "I accepted with the greatest pleasure the invitation ex- 
 tended to me to be your guest here this evening. When my 
 friend, Michael J. Ryan, came to me and asked me to be pres- 
 ent, I did not even look at my engagement book, but I said to 
 him : 'Certainly I will be with you,' and here I am, represent- 
 ing by the will of the people this great, beloved city of ours, 
 of which the toastmaster has so eloquently spoken. 
 
 "Philadelphia is no mean city; it is a City of Brotherly 
 Love. Brotherly love is one of the great tenets that should 
 carry us through life wherever we may be, wherever our home 
 may be, and this brotherly love is best exemplified by a gather- 
 ing of this character, where those of different religious views 
 assemble under the same roof and extend to each other the 
 hand of brotherhood. It is this hand of brotherhood that has 
 carried our country, our State and our city through many, 
 many difficult times ; this hand of brotherhood that has taught 
 us that we must as children of one God stand together to do 
 His work as He bids us. 
 
 "I was deeply touched by the gracious remarks of His 
 Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. His words made an impression 
 upon me that I shall carry with me through the four years of 
 my term of office and to the end of my days, because he 
 sounded the true note the note that tells us we must not only 
 obey the spiritual guide and the spiritual government, but we 
 must also obey the temporal power as it is given and as we 
 find it; and this temporal power in a small way has come to 
 me in the city of Philadelphia as the greatest and most sacred 
 charge that can be given to man. 
 
 "I acknowledge, and I am glad to say, gentlemen, I was 
 not elected on any religious tenet, nor on any political party 
 issues. It is the people of Philadelphia who elected the Mayor 
 of the city and the City Solicitor. Neither he nor I are bound 
 by party ties. We received our mandate from the people 
 regardless of party, regardless of religion, regardless of con- 
 dition in life, and I know that he as well as myself will try
 
 Address of Mayor of Philadelphia 87 
 
 to do our full duty. If we do this, what a glorious future there 
 is before us in our beloved Philadelphia. 
 
 "It has often been said that it is impossible to carry on 
 any government without partisan lines. We shall demonstrate 
 to you, gentlemen, if a kind Providence permits, that the gov- 
 ernment of municipalities can be carried on most effectively 
 for the welfare of all the people by eliminating party lines in 
 every instance. We have tried to do so; we shall continue to 
 do so, and with the support of the men who are assembled in 
 this hall to-night I have no fear for the future. 
 
 "As far as the office itself is concerned, there are many 
 perplexing conditions and circumstances surrounding us, but 
 I have great faith in that kind Providence that leads the hand 
 of man, and I feel serene in conducting the affairs of the city 
 because I know what my desire is, and that is to give you 
 good government in every sense of the word. 
 
 "His Eminence, in his very happy remarks, spoke of one 
 of the late Speakers of the House of Representatives who was 
 a Democrat. I knew Samuel J. Randall well, and no man ad- 
 mired him more than I did, but it was not Samuel Randall, the 
 Democrat, that did his duty as a Democrat; he did his duty 
 as a citizen, and for that reason both parties united time and 
 time again to return him to Congress, where he was one of the 
 shining lights. That shows to us that we ought to eliminate 
 partisanship. We are the children of one God, and as children 
 of one God we ought to see at all times that we, as children, 
 do the will of the Father. And the will of the Father is so 
 clearly expressed that all His children know it. So if we only 
 have courage and strength and earnestness of purpose, we can 
 accomplish that for which we are destined in this world 
 faith, hope and charity. And charity, they say, is the greatest 
 of all ; the charity which is bestowed on those in distress in 
 Philadelphia; the charity that always stretches out a helping 
 hand to the poor ; that charity is also one of the guiding stars 
 of our life.
 
 88 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 "I remember twenty years ago, when the ship 'Indiana' 
 was sent to Russia with thirty thousand barrels of flour for 
 the starving peasants of Russia. I was selected by my prede- 
 cessor, the Hon. Edwin S. Stuart, to go to Russia and there 
 distribute this cargo of flour to the starving people of that 
 country. I did not recognize religion; I did not recognize 
 position ; everybody was alike to me, and while on that mission 
 of mercy I met a man of the city of Saratoff, Russia, who 
 gave to me one of the most beautiful examples of charity that 
 I ever found anywhere. There was a Roman Catholic Bishop 
 in the city of Saratoff. He had perhaps the largest diocese 
 of any Bishop in the whole Church. It comprised the whole 
 of the eastern part of that vast empire and the whole of Siberia. 
 I never found a more congenial and pleasant man. He had 
 a brother living in Kansas whom he wanted to visit. He had 
 a leave of absence and had saved out of his small salary 
 enough to make that journey, and when I asked him whether 
 he would go the next year to see the great exposition in the 
 city of Chicago, commemorating the discovery of America, he 
 smilingly replied: 'I intended to go, but I cannot do so now.' 
 I said: 'Why, your Excellency?' 'Because all the money I 
 had saved for this trip I had to use to feed the hungry and 
 to help those in distress.' There was a man who had for years 
 saved of his scant allowance to make this journey, but charity 
 above all, and he gave to the poor rather than that he himself 
 might enjoy a journey to this country, which he was so anxious 
 to see. It impressed me deeply, and I shall never forget that 
 tall, magnificent man, standing six feet four in his stocking 
 feet. He had a benign countenance, and every look of his 
 showed what kind of a man he was. That is the kind of 
 charity we ought to follow, that we ought always to make 
 part of our life. 
 
 "As I have said, I ask all of you to support me in the 
 arduous task before me. If you do and I know you will, 
 because it is not only for the interest of yourselves and your
 
 "Philadelphia's Sons from Afar" 89 
 
 families, but the interest of the whole community I shall give 
 you an administration that will make Philadelphia known 
 among the municipalities of this country, that will make the 
 people of other municipalities look to Philadelphia and see 
 what can be done when there is an earnest will. 
 
 "I can conclude only with these words: Let all of us in 
 all of our efforts work for the glory of God and in the service 
 of man." 
 
 BISHOP CARROLL "PHILADELPHIA'S SONS FROM AFAR." 
 
 Rising to the toast, "Philadelphia's Sons From Afar," the 
 Right Rev. James J. Carroll, D. D., Bishop of Nueva Segovia, 
 Philippine Islands, who was formerly a member of the faculty 
 of the Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo, at Overbrook, ex- 
 plained that only at noon of that day had he learned that he 
 was down for an address. An old friend had taken that 
 liberty with his name, and for the sake of auld lang syne he 
 would, though unprepared, say a few words to the toast, 
 "Philadelphia's Sons From Afar." 
 
 "I do not know with clearness what the title of the toast 
 signifies, but, as I am a Bishop of the Philippine Islands and 
 not so well acquainted with the Church in any other part of 
 the world, I presume your distinguished toastmaster intended 
 that I should say a few words about those distant islands. 
 I will tell you, gentlemen, and I hope you will pardon me for 
 saying it, that there is a great need of enlightenment in the 
 United States with regard to that particular country. When 
 Spain ceased to have possession of those islands, the Holy See 
 thought it was best to appoint American Bishops, and the 
 American Government thought so, too, and naturally. I do 
 not think any man in this audience can ever appreciate what 
 is the meaning of the union of Church and State, and especially 
 what it means when they are separated after three hundred 
 years of union. They are interlaced and intertwined. What 
 belongs to one belongs to the other. The American Govern- 
 ment, after three centuries of this union of Church and State
 
 90 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 in the Philippines, says : 'We must cut asunder the bond that 
 has bound these two forces together.' Of course, the Ameri- 
 can Government was right, but in so doing there was forced 
 upon the State and there was forced upon the Church an 
 immensity of difficult problems. Now, who is going to settle 
 those problems ? Is the foreign Bishop to settle such problems ? 
 Impossible. It was determined to send American Bishops to 
 those distant shores, in order that the authorities at Washing- 
 ton might treat with them with greater facility and also with 
 greater success. 
 
 "So, in the year 1903, while that distinguished gentleman 
 and great churchman, Bishop Dougherty, who is now laboring 
 in those distant islands, was sitting in his room in St. Charles' 
 Seminary, Overbrook, the news was suddenly wafted across 
 the ocean that he was called upon to leave his home and his 
 country to go to those distant islands. That telegram de- 
 clared that he was made Bishop of Nueva Segovia. Now, 
 Nueva Segovia at that time meant nothing whatever to him. 
 He did not even know in what part of the islands it was. He 
 went to a gentleman in the Seminary who is celebrated as a 
 student of geography, and he looked up the map. He could 
 not find any Nueva Segovia. 'Doctor Dougherty,' said this 
 gentleman, 'the diocese to which you are assigned must be a 
 most insignificant place, because it is not even on the map.' 
 Archbishop Ryan, who was at the Seminary at the time, said : 
 'I want you to make up your mind, and I want you to do it 
 with all speed, because Rome is waiting. You, as an obedient 
 son of the Church, ought to accept. You are not commanded 
 to accept; Rome won't force you to accept; but I think as a 
 churchman you ought to go.' Doctor Dougherty was big 
 enough and great enough to reply: 'I don't know where I am 
 going, but because Rome has said so I will go.' He went over 
 to Rome and was consecrated there. Rome had information 
 from that little diocese. Rome said to him, among other 
 things: 'Your seminary is dismantled; its students are all
 
 "Philadelphia's Sons from Afar" 91 
 
 scattered we know not where, and, therefore, in the very be- 
 ginning of your administration, you must take with you, in 
 order to open that seminary, trained priests to the Philippine 
 Islands.' 
 
 "He returned to Philadelphia, that Philadelphia which 
 has been so often and so meritoriously praised to-night 
 looked around the diocese and said to the priests of Phila- 
 delphia: 'I want helpers; I cannot promise you anything be- 
 cause I do not know what is before us.' Gentlemen, I hope 
 you will not think that I am praising myself. God forbid 
 it! But as I am called upon to talk I must tell the facts. 
 He came back to Philadelphia and he met a lot of friends 
 and fellow-priests, and he said to them: 'Come with me; 
 let us go out in the name of God and let us do what we 
 can for the faith which is perishing in the distant possessions 
 of our country.' And those whom he asked said: 'Yes, we 
 will go with you, and we will do the best we can to re-estab- 
 lish that faith.' And so the priests of this grand old Diocese 
 of Philadelphia said: 'We will go with you.' And they did 
 go with him, out to that distant part of the world. Every 
 man of these except one had in his veins the blood which 
 comes from that dear old country across the sea that has 
 never yet refused to make a sacrifice when the good of 
 Mother Church has demanded it. Every one of these but one 
 felt coursing through his veins that pure Celtic blood, and 
 they felt then an inspiration when they thought of the mis- 
 sionaries of the long ago, when they thought of the deeds of 
 the centuries, long passed away, when those grand old 
 missionaries took into their hands the banner of Christ our 
 Lord and brought it to distant lands, sacrificed their home 
 and their country and poured out their blood like water in 
 order that the faith might be borne there. 
 
 "So these men finally arrived in the Philippine Islands. 
 Everything was strange. They knew not even the language 
 of the people. What could be done by such men? We had
 
 92 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 there a great leader, and his words always were, 'Let us wait ; 
 nothing will be lost by waiting.' Finally we got up to our 
 diocese where we were to live, and there we found things 
 in ruins. The rain came down into our rooms. The Cathe- 
 dral we found with its roof falling in. The seminary chapel 
 had been a stable used by American troops. The college for 
 girls was in a terrible condition also. Gentlemen, there wasn't 
 one dollar there to begin that work, and there was this fine 
 young American Bishop confronted with such a problem 
 as that. Then he looked over his diocese and he found that 
 a dreadful schism had broken out, and he had to grapple 
 with that. I tell you, gentlemen, in honor of that man who 
 is over there, on more than one occasion he has gone into 
 places and we feared he would never get out of them and 
 all for the sake of the Church of Christ. He labored away 
 and gradually began to learn the Spanish language, in order 
 that he might communicate with the priests, and that he might 
 at least communicate with the cultured part of his people. 
 After awhile he began to understand in some degree the sit- 
 uation. Things began to get better. He labored and labored 
 and labored, and finally God blessed his efforts. That dio- 
 cese to-day, after having been so barren, after having been so 
 neglected and after such a length of time, is a diocese that, 
 at least from a Philadelphia standpoint, is in a flourishing 
 condition. 
 
 "There is an immense mountainous district there that had 
 been somewhat evangelized by Spanish missionaries. They 
 all had to flee, and when we went over there there wasn't 
 one of them left, there wasn't one priest in all that vast dis- 
 trict. Often have I ridden through that country, if I may 
 speak of myself, and looked through churches falling into 
 decay, and not one there to save them. How often I had 
 seen the people there wandering like sheep without a shep- 
 herd, and there was no hope of a shepherd to save that peo- 
 ple. But at last this man took hold of that situation also.
 
 "Philadelphia's Sons from Afar" 93 
 
 He called in men from another country, because the Ameri- 
 cans have not turned to a missionary life; he called them in, 
 and now I thank God to-night for it there is not a single 
 mission in that diocese that I can recall that was spiritually 
 governed by the Spaniards where there is not one under my 
 jurisdiction doing missionary work. And not only that, but 
 the American Bishops have pushed out farther into the for- 
 e.t, and they will soon, with God's help, have missions even 
 back in the confines of those mountainous districts that have 
 not been reached by the Spanish Bishops and Spanish priests. 
 
 "For your edification I shall now mention one incident to 
 show you what sacrifices are being made for the Faith in 
 those islands. When the old missions were quite well looked 
 after, there came to me the thought that Sisters would be of 
 great service in the training of the daughters of the savages. 
 Not long thereafter I received information that it was not 
 improbable that a certain Order of Belgian Sisters would 
 soon offer their services' to me. In a short while the Supe- 
 rior and Foundress of that Order wrote asking permission to 
 enter the Diocese of Nueva Segovia, to instruct the poor 
 children, and, as far as possible, to receive them gratis as 
 boarders. This Superior promised to build the schools and 
 convents necessary for such work, and furthermore said she 
 would defray all expenses of this enterprise without asking 
 one dollar from the Bishop. You may be sure such a mag- 
 nanimous offer was quickly and gratefully accepted. They 
 began their labors in the lowlands, where there are many of 
 the conveniences of civilization. They were immediately and 
 marvelously successful. 
 
 "Their zeal was not satisfied. They started out for the 
 high and remote mountains where the savages live. Seven 
 days it took them to reach their new home, as they had to 
 be carried in chairs, a slow and tiresome way of traveling, 
 adopted by those who cannot or will not ride horses. 
 
 "There are those Sisters living away up in the mountains
 
 94 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 among savages, where food is scarce, monotonous, and dear, 
 where sociability is impossible, where their labors are hard, 
 trying, and thankless. And remember they are ladies, gentle, 
 refined, and cultured. They have no human consolation to 
 look for, no earthly reward to expect. The Lord and the 
 Lord only is their portion and their inheritance, gentlemen. 
 "Before taking my seat, I wish to give expression to a 
 thought which has just come to my mind. I have seen, in 
 various parts of the world, illustrations of the greatness and 
 goodness of the Church, and the efficacy of the grace she dis- 
 penses. I have seen her chastening and elevating influence 
 shed even on savage tribes. Here is the thought I wish to 
 express, namely, the world cannot get along without that 
 Church, and without divine grace. Hence, I say, God help 
 Philadelphia, which has been so admirably spoken of to-night, 
 and God help these United States of America, a great and 
 beautiful country, if you pluck religion from the hearts of the 
 people." 
 
 DR. JAMES J. WALSH "PHILADELPHIA IN THE NATION AND 
 THE CHURCH." 
 
 Dr. James J. Walsh, dean of Fordham University School 
 of Medicine, said in part: 
 
 "I feel that there is an excellent reason why a New York 
 layman should be present at this celebration in honor of the 
 investiture of your new Archbishop with the Pallium. We 
 are yet in the midst of the celebrations for our new Cardinal 
 in New York, celebrations that have deservedly attracted the 
 attention of the country. We New Yorkers, however, must 
 not forget that at the beginnings of our Catholicity we were 
 only an outlying mission of the Philadelphia parish, our few 
 Catholics being visited, consoled, administered to by Father 
 Farmer. Our New York Archdiocese largely exceeds in its 
 Catholic population the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, but that 
 has been in great measure due to the adventitious circum- 
 stance that New York was the port of entry for foreign im-
 
 "Philadelphia in the Nation and the Church 95 
 
 migration, the landing place of hundreds of thousands of 
 Catholic foreigners. Philadelphia from the beginning has 
 been the center of Catholic influence, the model and the in- 
 spiration of Catholic activity. 
 
 "It was here that freedom of worship under William 
 Penn was for the first time so far extended in colonial Amer- 
 ica that a Catholic church might exist without secrecy, that 
 its religious services might be attended without penalties and 
 its pastors might perform all their duties and even receive 
 converts without let or hindrance. It was in Philadelphia that 
 the members of the Continental Congress assembled from all 
 the various colonies for the first time and had the oppor- 
 tunity to meet and converse with their fellow-Catholics, to 
 know that Catholic services were openly conducted and to 
 learn that the old prejudices with regard to them must be 
 exaggerations of feelings produced by the sedulous fostering 
 of calumnies deliberately published in order to blacken the 
 old Church and keep people from sympathy with her. Phila- 
 delphia was the cradle of religious liberty for this country. 
 
 "It is difficult enough to understand, even with all our 
 study, just how that religious liberty came to be incorporated 
 into the organic constitution of the country. Above all, it is 
 difficult to understand how Catholics came in for their share 
 of it. But we know that the Catholic Church in Philadel- 
 phia numbered among its members many thoroughly educated, 
 tactful, intelligent, courteous gentlemen. And in old St. 
 Mary's and St. Joseph's, as we know, for all important events 
 in the history of the Revolution there were held patriotic 
 services, at which the Spanish and French Ambassadors, with 
 their suites, were in attendance, as well as the French and 
 other foreign officers of the army. This had much to do with 
 the gradual breaking down of prejudice, the recognition of 
 the fact that here was an important body of citizens whose 
 faith must be respected, whose patriotism was undoubted, 
 whose helpfulness had been thoroughly proved, and who must 
 be looked upon as brothers.
 
 96 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 "It was here that the first Catholic publishing house, that 
 of Matthew Carey, was built up. Some of the funds for 
 that purpose were provided, it is said, by personages no less 
 than Washington and Lafayette, who felt sincerely how much 
 such an institution would mean for the education of the 
 country and, above all, for the reconciliation of bitter intol- 
 erance. It was here that the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick 
 first called into prominence how much the Irish had done 
 in the Revolution, and as the name of Irish came to be asso- 
 ciated with Catholic in the minds of our countrymen, this, too, 
 had its effect in lessening misunderstandings that we had 
 done better never to have imported from the Old World. 
 
 "What was in those pioneer days true of the leadership 
 of Philadelphia in Catholic affairs of national importance has 
 been true ever since. There was much of prejudice that had 
 to be overcome. There was here, as in Boston, a great up- 
 rising against the Catholic Church. It was one of those bit- 
 ter incidents that promised to place a stigma on the fair fame 
 of Philadelphia, but has eventually proved to be a salutary les- 
 son from the past to warn us how much prejudice and intol- 
 erance can carry even intelligent people into the commission 
 of acts for which they shall be thoroughly ashamed in the 
 after time. 
 
 "In spite of a thoroughgoing conservatism that has be- 
 come a byword because people failed properly to understand 
 it, in spite of a dyed-in-the-wool Protestantism in most of its 
 people, in spite of the Know-nothingism of the middle of the 
 nineteenth century, Catholicity in Philadelphia has continued 
 to make giant strides. It was here that a parish school sys- 
 tem well deserving that name which I think should be given to 
 our schools, namely, the Catholic public schools, was organized 
 as a model for other cities. Even in my time, not so many 
 years ago, there were Catholics who made little of what our 
 Catholic public schools were and are doing. I should like to 
 show them the report of the Philadelphia Catholic public
 
 A Tribute from New York 97 
 
 schools and bring them close to some of the work of these 
 schools. The impression is abroad that, of course, it must 
 be quite impossible for the Catholic Church to compete with 
 the public schools, since, after all, the public schools have 
 command of an almost unlimited supply of money, while the 
 Catholic schools are supported by voluntary subscriptions and 
 by a body of citizens who are, after all, the poorest of all 
 when their average wealth is compared. Those who think 
 thus forget entirely the real meaning of education. It is not 
 an institution that makes education, as Cardinal Newman so 
 emphatically declared, but the good will, the genuine interest 
 and the devotion of the teachers. It is men and women, and 
 not money, that make education. Thanks to the Catholic 
 spirit, we have such men and women in a wonderful degree, 
 and nowhere has their influence been felt so thoroughly in 
 education as here in Philadelphia. Any one who knows the 
 situation as it is, knows now, that in spite of supposed finan- 
 cial handicaps we are actually giving a better, a more solid, 
 a more practical, a more thorough education in our Catholic 
 public schools at the present moment than is given in the sec- 
 ular public schools. Nowhere can this be better appreciated 
 than right here in Philadelphia. 
 
 "In the higher Catholic education Philadelphia has been 
 just as much of a model; witness the Catholic High School 
 for Boys, the first free high school for Catholic boys in the 
 United States. And now again, see Philadelphia leading the 
 way for the rest of the country in the High School Centers 
 for Catholic Girls, who will have their own splendid school 
 when the next scholastic term begins. Take the great Over- 
 brook Seminary, which for so many years has been a model 
 of such institutions, the nursing mother of many generations 
 of zealous, deeply educated, profoundly spiritual priests, ex- 
 amples of what the Catholic spirit of the Philadelphia Arch- 
 diocese is. In education, in charity, in the various phases of 
 helpfulness for those who need it, Philadelphia has been
 
 98 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 indeed a leader, and has amply justified her history from the 
 very beginning. 
 
 "It is to this great Archdiocese that is given an Archbishop 
 full of health and strength and zeal, and who is now receiving 
 the pallium that represents the direct connection with that 
 seat of all Catholic jurisdiction, zeal, inspiration and apos- 
 tolic Catholicity. No wonder, then, that we should be ready 
 to look forward fondly, brightly, hopefully, enthusiastically 
 to the future. It is a great big Archdiocese, and it needed a 
 great big man, and you have him; and he has a great big 
 heart, and there is no doubt of his thorough capacity to go 
 on with the work before him, following in the footsteps of the 
 well-loved Archbishop Ryan, whom we loved and who 
 loved and leaned on your new Archbishop, for the dead Arch- 
 bishop knew the worth of the new Archbishop better than 
 any one else. Literally are the words of the Scriptures filled : 
 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant; thou hast been 
 faithful over a few things, now I will place thee over many/ 
 The future of the Philadelphia Archdiocese is assured. What 
 it will mean for Catholicity in America one may be permitted 
 to prophesy, for history has a way of repeating itself. Un- 
 doubtedly Philadelphia, the cradle of American liberty, and 
 at the same time the cradle of religious liberty, will hold her 
 place as the leader, the inspiration, the model of that glorious 
 development of Catholicity that we look for so confidently 
 in this century. The new Archbishop of Philadelphia will 
 stand for much in that, and therefore we are proud to hail 
 him as the well-chosen ruler of a great Archdiocese." 
 
 THE VERY REV. JAMES F. TRAINOR, V. G. "OUR ARCHBISHOP 
 
 AND THE CATHOLIC CLERGY OF PHILADELPHIA/' 
 "I have been asked by the good toastmaster to speak 
 for the Catholic Clergy of Philadelphia. It is a big and im- 
 portant subject; a subject that I, as a member of that dis- 
 tinguished body, am proud to speak of. But, I assure you, 
 if they were here and had the opportunity, there is not one
 
 "The Catholic Clergy of Philadelphia" 99 
 
 of them but could speak for himself. And if we believe in 
 that axiom, 'Actions speak louder than words,' the Catholic 
 Clergy of Philadelphia have been speaking for themselves 
 pretty loudly for many years. They have done good and 
 great work in and for Philadelphia. They represent one hun- 
 dred and one Catholic churches within the city limits a 
 mighty power for good. They build their churches; they 
 build their schools; they instruct their children; they teach 
 their people the laws of God, without making much ado about 
 it, without interfering with any one else. In a word, they 
 mind their own business, and I can tell you, if you do not 
 know it already, it is sometimes no easy job. 
 
 "They are a law-abiding body of men. They give very 
 little trouble to His Grace. You might have noticed that he has 
 very few gray hairs. His predecessor, though eighty years 
 old, had none at all. This speaks for itself. I can go further 
 and say that though they may sometimes give a little trouble 
 to His Grace, they give no trouble at all to His Honor, the 
 Mayor. They are a peaceable body of citizens, and teach 
 their people to Le the same. But you know all these things. 
 I am only rehearsing them for you. 
 
 "I presume that you would like to hear something that 
 you did not know before; some inside information, as it is 
 called. There are many interesting things that I could tell 
 you. But from a Catholic Priest, speaking for the Catholic 
 Clergy of Philadelphia, I think the most interesting informa- 
 tion I could give you this evening would be how and why 
 one of ourselves, a priest of the Archdiocese, became Arch- 
 bishop of Philadelphia. I will tell you, in the first place, 
 the Catholic Clergy of Philadelphia, being a law-abiding, sen- 
 sible, conservative body of men, are, therefore, men of great 
 influence. They had known Archbishop Prendergast for many 
 years, both as Priest and Bishop. They had been associated 
 with him in various ways. He was connected with all the re- 
 ligious, charitable and benevolent organizations of the diocese.
 
 ioo Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 They recognized in him all the qualities that go to make up a 
 great and good churchman honesty of purpose, devotion to 
 duty, firmness of character, quiet dignity. All these qualities 
 Archbishop Prendergast possessed in a marked degree. So 
 they wanted him, and they got him, for their Archbishop. 
 
 "Moreover, the people wanted him. The priests and the 
 people are generally together. There was no exception in 
 this case. And why should the people not want him? He 
 was one of the people. He came up from the people. His 
 sympathies were always with the people. They saw him in 
 every position in the diocese as assistant, as pastor, as Vicar 
 General, as Bishop. In all these positions he was publicly 
 before them, and he was ever the same, humble, unassuming 
 ecclesiastic of unblemished character. The people, therefore, 
 wanted him, and when the people want a man, either in 
 Church or State, they generally get him. 
 
 "Finally, Archbishop Prendergast was for eighteen years 
 chief adviser to one of the greatest Archbishops this country 
 ever produced. You all knew him. You all loved him. You 
 could not help but love him the gentle, the kind, the elo- 
 quent Patrick John Ryan. With his dying lips that great 
 man, knowing the necessities of the Archdiocese, knowing 
 the qualifications of his assistant, said: 'The man that should 
 succeed me, the man that deserves to succeed me, the man 
 best qualified to succeed me, is my faithful Auxiliary, Bishop 
 Prendergast.' 
 
 "The Clergy of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, the lay- 
 men of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, require no higher 
 recommendation than the words of their former illustrious 
 Archbishop. His words were prophetic. When we assisted 
 at Archbishop Prendergast's installation, six months ago, we 
 knew him as a good priest and a good bishop, but now we know 
 him as a good and great Archbishop. He has been tried 
 and not found wanting. He has done all things well. Both
 
 "The Catholic Laity of Philadelphia" 101 
 
 priests and people acknowledge that he is the right man in 
 the right place. 
 
 "Catholic laymen of Philadelphia, you have reason to 
 be proud to-night. The Catholic Clergy of Philadelphia con- 
 gratulate you. You have come up to the full measure of 
 your duty. You show due appreciation of the blessings 
 heaven has conferred on you. I speak for the priests; you 
 speak for the people; and you have spoken eloquently and 
 strongly. As I look out over this vast audience, the pick 
 of the Catholic laymen of Philadelphia, brought here under 
 the auspices of that great society of Catholics, the Knights 
 of Columbus; when I hear the sentiments expressed, I feel 
 that I can speak for you as well as for the Clergy of Phila- 
 delphia, when I promise to His Grace, in their name and now 
 also in your name, fidelity, loyalty, love." 
 
 JAMES A. FLAHERTY, ESQ. "OUR ARCHBISHOP AND THE 
 CATHOLIC LAITY OF PHILADELPHIA." 
 
 The concluding toast was responded to by James A. 
 Flaherty, LL. D., Supreme Knight of the Knights of Colum- 
 bus, who said: 
 
 "What shall I say that shall be fitting on this happy oc- 
 casion ? The very natural suggestion given by the title of the 
 toast to which I am privileged to respond on the part of the 
 laity of Philadelphia at a time when we are celebrating the 
 conferring of the sacred Pallium on our honored guest and 
 spiritual ruler is loyalty, loyalty, loyalty. 
 
 "We rejoiced indeed when a few months since the good 
 tidings reached us from Rome that the Venerable Prisoner 
 of the Vatican, our gloriously reigning Sovereign Pontiff, 
 Pope Pius X, had given us for our new Archbishop our 
 own true, tried and faithful Auxiliary Bishop, God's minister 
 among us for forty-seven fruitful years. This public dem- 
 onstration of joy, however, was postponed until this evening, 
 when we are privileged to greet and hail our chief whilst still 
 fresh from the solemn ceremony by which he was clothed
 
 IO2 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 with full archiepiscopal power and jurisdiction. By the 
 sacred Pallium straight from the shrine of Blessed Peter, the 
 first Pope, sent hither by St. Peter's successor in a direct 
 and continuous line, our Archbishop has received on his 
 shoulders the official seal which stamps him as our shepherd 
 and by which he claims our loyalty. This loyalty we pledge 
 to him without stint, unswervingly, gladly and whole-heart- 
 edly, most cheerfully and affectionately. We accord it to 
 him right willingly, as is the duty of every faithful Catholic, 
 but this duty becomes all the easier and pleasanter when the 
 appointed one is taken from the ranks of our own and is 
 one who has walked so long, so well and so deservingly in 
 our midst; when he is one whom his own have raised grad- 
 ually through the long years of service from one post of 
 honor among them to another post of honor a rare standard 
 indeed by which to measure any man's merit; and especially 
 when he is one whom our late venerated Archbishop called to 
 his side for counsel, support and aid in the responsible gov- 
 ernment of the great Metropolitan See of Philadelphia. 
 
 "If loyalty is easy in such case, if it is spontaneous 
 towards such a leader, is it any wonder? Nay, it is enthusi- 
 astic, for such a one inspires and compels it. We are for- 
 tunate, indeed, in such a leader, and from our hearts we thank 
 the priests who chose him, we thank the Pope for appointing 
 him, and we thank the eminent churchmen who have come 
 to assist us in doing him honor and witnessing this demon- 
 stration of our loyalty to him this pledge of our love for him 
 on the threshold of his assumption of full archiepiscopal pow- 
 ers and responsibilities in the guidance of the Metropolitan 
 Church of Philadelphia. 
 
 "We laymen of Philadelphia on this occasion wish to 
 proclaim our admiration for the zealous and devoted body of 
 the clergy of the archdiocese and to join with them in the 
 expression, as voiced so eloquently by the learned Vicar Gen- 
 eral Trainor but a few moments since, of our filial attachment 
 to His Grace the Most Rev. Edmond F. Prendergast, Arch- 
 bishop of Philadelphia ; of our steadfast devotion to the Pope 
 of Rome, Christ's Vicar on earth, and of our undying hom- 
 age to the faith of our fathers, the Holy Catholic Church es- 
 tablished by God Himself."
 
 CHAPTER V 
 
 CELEBRATION BY THE PUPILS OF THE PARISH 
 SCHOOLS IN HONOR OF THE ARCHBISHOP. 
 
 QN THURSDAY morning, i February, the Cathedral was 
 again filled to the doors, when religious exercises in 
 honor of the conferring of the Sacred Pallium were held for 
 the pupils of the parish schools of the Archdiocese. In Feb- 
 ruary of 1911 the boys and girls had been gathered in the 
 same place, their bright school banners swathed in mourning 
 and their young hearts heavy with sorrow as they gazed upon 
 the throne left vacant by the death of the lamented Archbishop 
 Ryan. This February they were consoled and rejoiced in 
 beholding in "his old, accustomed place" no stranger, but the 
 best friend of their best friend. 
 
 Despite the cold weather, the icy pavements and the more 
 or less interrupted car service, the school children began to 
 arrive as early as 9 o'clock, and long before 10 even the del- 
 egations from the country and from the outlying suburban 
 districts had taken the places assigned to them in the Cathedral. 
 
 The delegations present represented only 7 per cent, of 
 each school, yet, after all the seats had been filled and the 
 sanctuary space crowded to its utmost capacity, the throng 
 overflowed into the aisles. Each school division carried 
 American and Papal flags, besides the individual banners of 
 the school or teaching order. Many flags were of white satin, 
 gold-fringed and bearing the portrait of Archbishop Prender- 
 gast. The children of Mount Carmel bore the brown ban- 
 ner of the scapular and wore long shoulder ribbons of brown 
 and white. Nearly all the school children had rosettes or 
 other badges of intertwined white-and-gold and red-white- 
 and-blue, together with a medallion portrait of His Grace.
 
 iO4 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 It was an international gathering of children all Ameri- 
 cans, though many still foreign in appearance. The real 
 Simon-pure Americans were represented by the Indian girls 
 from Mother Katharine Drexel's school, at Cornwells; the 
 Afro- American children, gayest of the gay, marched joyously 
 under the banner of St. Peter Claver, and, for the rest, all 
 were as proudly American and as loyally Catholic as the pen- 
 nants they bore, although feature and language differentiated 
 Teuton from Celt, Slav from Latin. 
 
 As they waited in reverent silence for the ceremonies to 
 begin, their appreciative young eyes took in every detail of the 
 marvelous electrical and floral decorations. Recalling the sad 
 day of loss a year before, and contrasting its gloom with the 
 heavenly radiance of this new day, the young worshipers must 
 have realized that the two occasions were as far and as 
 near as Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Death and winter 
 seemed to have passed; the vast Cathedral was no longer a 
 tomb, but a garden, into which had come springtime and resur- 
 rection. 
 
 ADDRESS TO THE ARCHBISHOP. 
 
 Following the chanting of the "Ecce Sacerdos" by the 
 congregation in unison, an address to the Most Reverend 
 Archbishop, which was written by Joseph F. Green, of the 
 Roman Catholic High School, was read by Thomas J. Ryan, 
 of the same school. 
 
 "MOST REVEREND ARCHBISHOP: 
 
 "Upon this memorable occasion the pupils of the Cath- 
 olic schools throughout the city join in cordial congratulation 
 to your Grace. The mysterious symbol (the holy pallium) 
 with which your Grace has been invested aids to impress upon 
 our young minds and hearts the tender and affectionate re- 
 lation in which we stand to you. And as with your shep- 
 herd's crook you guard watchfully and lovingly the sheep of
 
 Address by the Pupils of the Catholic Schools 105 
 
 the flock, with even a tenderer care and solicitude you 
 protect the lambs, else so helpless and defenceless. 
 
 "It is peculiarly appropriate that these sentiments should 
 come from us, students of the Catholic schools, which have 
 prospered so much under the beneficent regime of your Grace 
 and of your predecessor, the late lamented Archbishop Ryan. 
 
 "Under the wise administration of these two noble men 
 the schools have made great strides. To the widespread rep- 
 utation attained by these schools as splendid institutions for 
 moral development have been added secular honors of the 
 highest degree, as attested by notable recent achievements, 
 when in many public competitions for scholastic triumphs our 
 boys came off with colors flying. 
 
 "It is fitting, therefore, that we of all others should re- 
 joice with Archbishop Prendergast on his added dignities. 
 For many years he has been with us, offering words of en- 
 couragement and cheerfully bearing his many burdens. We 
 have seen in him one who, gentle towards the weak, is fear- 
 less and resolute towards all the powers of evil 'Justum et 
 tenacem propositi virum.' Well may he be assured that he 
 has earned the fullest measure of our love and respect. 
 
 "As a testimonial of our reverential regard we have as- 
 sembled here to-day. When we gaze around this magnificent 
 Cathedral 
 
 the high embowed roof, 
 With antique pillars massy proof, 
 And storied windows richly (light, 
 
 we feel the inspiration of this glorious occasion and the wis- 
 dom of our Holy Father, who advanced to the supreme eleva- 
 tion our tried and true defender and loyal champion, and 
 now has placed upon his shoulders the holy pallium. The 
 labors of his high office do not dismay one who, faithful, in- 
 trepid, forceful, has long learned
 
 io6 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 To scorn delights and live laborious days. 
 
 "Upon this happy and memorable day, your Grace, we, 
 your children in Christ, unitedly pray for your continued 
 health and heavenly support and entreat that you will extend 
 to us, now as hereafter, your archiepiscopal blessing." 
 
 The children then rose and chanted fervently: "Domine 
 salvum fac Patrem Nostrum, Edmundum; et exaudi nos in 
 die qua invocaverimus Te." 
 
 THE ARCHBISHOP TO THE CHILDREN. 
 In a brief speech, simple yet eloquent, His Grace thanked 
 the children for their demonstration of love and reverence. 
 He was proud of their numbers and of the fact that so many 
 different nationalities were united in their American Catho- 
 licity. Although the congregation present was made up of 
 but a small percentage of attendance from each school, the 
 total representation was so large that it taxed the capacity of 
 the vast Cathedral. It was a splendid showing of work ac- 
 complished, and of assurance for the future; a triumph for 
 Church and State alike, since all these boys and girls were 
 taught to be good citizens as well as good Christians. His 
 Grace gave due credit for this magnificent work of religious 
 education to the late Archbishop Ryan, to the Right Rev. 
 Superintendent of Schools, Mgr. Philip R. McDevitt; to the 
 people who had made so many sacrifices of comfort in order 
 to found and maintain the parochial schools, to the priests 
 who had worked so incessantly under the double burden of 
 church building and school building, to the devoted religious 
 teachers who had given all they possessed, their very lives, 
 that the children might have the benefit of Christian educa- 
 tion. He urged his young hearers to be grateful for the 
 blessings bestowed upon them through the zealous labors of 
 prelates, priests, teachers and parents. He said that the 
 future was in their hands, and he was sure that they would 
 carry on the glorious work in the time to come.
 
 The Friend of the Children 107 
 
 In conclusion, the Archbishop told the children that he 
 was not only their Archbishop, but their friend. He invited 
 them to come to him whenever they felt that they needed a 
 friend, and he prayed God to bless them. 
 
 The now familiar "Hymn for the Pope," the words of 
 which were written by the Rev. Hugh T. Henry, Litt. D., and 
 the music by the Rev. Dr. Henry G. Ganss, was sung by the 
 children, directed by the reverend author, who also led in the 
 singing of the "O Salutaris" and "Tantum Ergo" preceding the 
 Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament by His Grace. 
 
 His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons was present, accompanied 
 by the Rev. P. C. Gavan, chancellor of the Archdiocese of 
 Baltimore. There was a large representation of the diocesan 
 clergy, among them the Right Rev. Monsignor McDevitt, su- 
 perintendent of parish schools. Many nuns of the various 
 teaching orders were present in charge of their pupils. The 
 Christian Brothers were with the boys under their charge. 
 
 As the Cardinal, the Archbishop and the clergy left the 
 sanctuary following benediction, Doctor Henry conducted the 
 children in the finale, the singing of the "Te Deum."
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 I 
 PRESS COMMENT. 
 
 The news of the Archbishop's appointment was made the 
 subject of editorials in every daily paper in Philadelphia. As 
 The Catholic Standard and Times, the official organ of the 
 Archdiocese, appreciatively noted, "It would be difficult to 
 find any ground of complaint on the score of taste or want 
 of appreciation, in the expressions of approval of the choice 
 of a new Archbishop for Philadelphia just made by His Holi- 
 ness Pope Pius X. All opinions delivered are marked by a 
 decorum of language and a transparent sincerity in spirit that 
 speak volumes for the impression made even on the non- 
 Catholic and secular mind of the Archdiocese by familiarity 
 with the daily life of the new incumbent during the long 
 period of his sojourn here in the midst of the whole people 
 and in the observant public eye. It is a tribute that reflects 
 much credit on the daily press." 
 
 These editorial expressions serve to show how cordially 
 and how impartially Archbishop Prendergast was made wel- 
 come to his own city and by his own city. 
 
 FROM THE "PUBLIC LEDGER." 
 
 "The promotion of Bishop Prendergast to metropolitan 
 rank, by his selection by the Pope to be Archbishop of Phila- 
 delphia in succession to the late Archbishop Ryan, will be 
 heartily welcomed by the Catholics of this city not only as a 
 part of their filial duty and respect to the head of their Church, 
 but as a happy realization of their hopes and expectations. 
 For nearly forty years pastor and Bishop in Philadelphia, the 
 new head of the Archdiocese has acquired a familiarity with
 
 Comment by the Press of the City 109 
 
 the flock over which he has been called to preside as shep- 
 herd such as few others could have had, and in that long 
 service he has won the respect and affection of his colleagues 
 and his people. His early appointment to the rectorship of 
 one of the most important of the city parishes, his later call 
 to the duties and responsibilities of the vicar generalship and 
 his selection fourteen years ago as auxiliary to Archbishop 
 Ryan, all attest the high estimation in which he has been held 
 in his own Church, and his recent service as administrator 
 plainly pointed to him as the logical successor to the dignity 
 and responsibility of the archiepiscopal office. 
 
 "It is especially fortunate for the Catholic Church in 
 Philadelphia that the direction of its affairs thus remains in 
 the hands of one of its own sons, and that there has been no 
 interregnum in which it has been compelled to look to other 
 dioceses for the performance of necessary episcopal func- 
 tions. Bishop Prendergast has already received his Church's 
 commission, and while the formalities of his installation as 
 Archbishop and the conferring of the pallium are essential 
 to his enjoyment of the fullness of the metropolitical office, no 
 local need will suffer pending their performance. The chief 
 pastorship thus passes naturally and harmoniously to an ec- 
 clesiastic who knows and loves his people and is known and 
 loved by them." 
 
 FROM "THE PRESS/' 
 
 "In the life of a city like Philadelphia the heads of its 
 great communions play an important part, which renders the 
 selection of each of weight and consequence to the city as 
 a whole. The great archiepiscopal See of the Catholic Church, 
 of which Philadelphia is, after all, but a part, has had for a 
 generation those at its head who played their conspicuous 
 part in the moral leadership of the community. 
 
 "Archbishop Prendergast, whose appointment is just an- 
 nounced, has passed all his priesthood, save a brief span at
 
 no Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 Bristol and Allentown, in this city. He comes to his See 
 with a minute personal knowledge of all its operations such 
 as few Archbishops possess. He knows every priest. He is 
 familiar with every parish. The temporalities of the diocese 
 have been long in his charge. His high administrative skill 
 has been tested and proved during sixteen years, in which 
 as Vicar General and Auxiliary Bishop he has superintended 
 the multifarious works of charity and the wide field of edu- 
 cation carried on in Philadelphia by the Church. 
 
 "These great labors he has discharged with vigor, with 
 firmness and with even temper, and unfailing amiability and 
 devotion such as make him beloved by his charge and respected 
 by the city. His poise, his judgment, his wide knowledge and 
 his executive ability, already known and recorded by his work, 
 attest the wisdom of his selection and certainty of his worthily 
 succeeding those who have presided over this diocese as 
 Bishops and Archbishops for one hundred and three years. 
 
 "The charge imposed on him by it is tremendous, so ex- 
 tensive are the bounds of his rule, so multifarious its tem- 
 poral interests and so wide its spiritual influences. He will 
 meet this charge, we may be well assured, with the dignity 
 that befits his new and great office, but first of all he will be 
 the faithful shepherd of his flock. 
 
 "Irrespective of sect or creed, the citizens of Philadelphia 
 will extend welcome and felicitations to His Grace of Phil- 
 adelphia." 
 
 FROM THE "PHILADELPHIA RECORD." 
 "Philadelphia Catholics will receive with great satisfac- 
 tion the announcement that the Pope has advanced Bishop 
 Prendergast to be Archbishop. The Bishop has been a rector 
 here for many years; for more than ten years he has been 
 Auxiliary Bishop, and he was the unanimous choice of the 
 consul tors for the succession. It is gratifying that among 
 the local clergy the Pope found a man worthy to be the head 
 of this Archdiocese, and that Bishop Prendergast was so
 
 Comment by the Press of the City in 
 
 strongly recommended to Rome by the local Catholic author- 
 ities shows the high respect in which he is held where so much 
 of his life has been spent, and where his faithfulness and abil- 
 ity in the discharge of arduous and delicate responsibilities 
 are so thoroughly known." 
 
 FROM THE "EVENING BULLETIN." 
 
 "The appointment of Bishop Prendergast to succeed 
 Archbishop Ryan as head of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia 
 doubtless enables the existing administration and policy of the 
 Church in this city and the rest of the Archdiocese to be main- 
 tained with the least possible degree of change, friction or 
 disturbance. 
 
 "The new Archbishop has spent the greater portion of 
 his life in and about Philadelphia. No one has probably a 
 more intimate knowledge of the affairs of the Church here 
 than he has, and for many years his close relation to the 
 great Archbishop who passed away last winter gave him 
 every opportunity to become familiar with both the temporal 
 and ecclesiastical duties that are now about to be imposed 
 upon himself. 
 
 "Archbishop Prendergast will begin these in the enjoy- 
 ment of the personal respect and goodwill of both the Cath- 
 olic clergy and laity, and the successful manner in which he 
 co-operated with Archbishop Ryan goes far to denote wisdom 
 in the making of this appointment. There can be no better 
 wish for him to-day from the citizens of Philadelphia, as re- 
 gards his relations to the whole community as a moral teacher 
 and a guide in public causes, than their hope that he will 
 follow closely in the footsteps of his sagacious and venerated 
 predecessor." 
 
 FROM THE "EVENING TELEGRAPH." 
 "The members of the Roman Catholic communion of this 
 Archdiocese are to be heartily congratulated on the selection 
 of the Right Reverend Edmond F. Prendergast as the spir-
 
 ii2 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 itual and temporal head of its affairs, in succession to the late 
 and greatly loved Archbishop. The selection has the appro- 
 priateness of logical succession, and while it was not neces- 
 sarily anticipated by Doctor Prendergast, it is natural to sup- 
 pose that he will be highly gratified at his elevation to the 
 archiepiscopate. Likewise is the selection seemly from the 
 practical point of view, since the new Archbishop has, as 
 Bishop, had a valuable experience in conducting diocesan af- 
 fairs, a training in administration that fits him admirably for 
 the cognate duties and tasks that he must now accomplish. 
 
 "The Most Reverend Edmond F. Prendergast, as we must 
 now nominate him, in accordance with his exalted style and 
 title, is noted for profound religious feeling and marked per- 
 sonal piety. He brings holiness of thought and action and life 
 to a sanctified calling. His career and temperament denote 
 that he will be a spiritual rather than a theological ecclesias- 
 tic, if we may so differentiate. His history as a prelate is 
 warrant for such an interpretation of the tendency of his 
 coming episcopate." 
 
 The official organ of the Archdiocese, The Catholic 
 Standard and Times, voiced the feelings of all Philadelphia 
 Catholics in a leading article on the appointment of the new 
 Archbishop : 
 
 "Almighty God has been pleased to listen to the prayers 
 of the Catholic people of Philadelphia, and through the mouth 
 of His Holiness Pope Pius X responds to their fervent sup- 
 plications in regard to the Archbishopric. He has raised the 
 much-loved Edmond Francis Prendergast, late Auxiliary 
 Bishop, to the dignity of the episcopal head of this great 
 Archdiocese, and the gracious act has been received with the 
 heartiest rejoicing by the flock who have been long hoping 
 that such would be indeed the outcome of the deliberations 
 over the choice of a successor to the rarely gifted Archbishop 
 Ryan.
 
 The Official Organ of the Diocese 113 
 
 "Some of the local secular papers pointed out a few 
 weeks ago, when speculating over the probable outcome, that 
 the choice that has been made would be the logical one, under 
 all the circumstances. Bishop Prendergast's long familiarity 
 with the conditions and the needs of the Archdiocese gave 
 him a distinct advantage over all other possible claimants. 
 His personal qualifications, though differing considerably from 
 those of the late Archbishop, are not less potent a factor in 
 the probabilities of his making a most successful ruler over the 
 See of Philadelphia. 
 
 "It has been our own privilege to be in close personal 
 touch with Archbishop Prendergast, off and on, for well nigh 
 fifteen years, as Chairman of the Board of Directors of this 
 journal. Therefore we are well aware of his strong aver- 
 sion in regard to any personal references, and so out of defer- 
 ence to his sensibilities in this matter we shall make no blazon 
 of his virtues and his natural endowments. These have been 
 weighed and found sufficient, and more than sufficient, in the 
 highest quarter, and Philadelphia Catholics are proud to wel- 
 come the new Archbishop to a throne made illustrious and 
 blessed by the graces and the genius of a Kenrick, a Neu- 
 mann, a Wood and a Ryan. We praise God that such a 
 choice has been made, and we may be permitted to add the 
 humble hope that his years of honor in the service of the 
 great Archdiocese may be many and fruitful of splendid re- 
 sults for the Church and the city at large. 
 
 "Tipperary is again honored in the bestowal of the pas- 
 toral staff. Archbishop Prendergast hails from the same 
 county as his lamented predecessor, and he comes of one of 
 those Irish families whose high ambition it is to give numerous 
 sons and daughters to the service of God. Two brothers and 
 three uncles of His Grace joined the ranks of the priesthood; 
 one of his two sisters in religion is head of a religious house 
 in Ireland which is distinguished for its beneficent work in 
 connection with social uplift and religious training. The
 
 ii4 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 ancient Anglo-Norman family, now indeed more Irish than 
 the native Milesians, have for centuries resided in the whole- 
 some atmosphere of the sunny South, redolent as it is with 
 memories of saints, of martyrs, of stout warriors and erudite 
 scholars and sages. There were saints in the beautiful vales 
 of Tipperary even before the coming of Patrick. Cashel and 
 Emly record the mission work of St. Ailbe, a precursor of the 
 master missionary; and in the dark and sanguinary centuries 
 of the Penal Age the green moss of the Aherlow Glens was 
 often incarnadined with the lifeblood of priest and peasant 
 who stole forth in secret to worship the God whose name they 
 blessed even while dying for His glory on the hillsides of their 
 own land. Like the gens Fitzgerald, the house of Prendergast 
 long ago incorporated itself with the Irish stock, in faith, in 
 blood, in aspiration, in chivalry, and became, like other grand 
 old Norman strains, 'kindly Irish of the Irish, neither Saxon 
 nor Italian,' whose motto might fittingly be 'Quis separabit?' 
 
 "No prelate could possibly be more prized by his clergy 
 than our new one is. He is in all his intercourse with them 
 the same kindly, unostentatious Irish gentleman, cordial in 
 spirit of true Christian fellowship, with manly camaraderie 
 laboring zealously for the interests of the poor and the train- 
 ing of the little children whom he loves as tenderly as did 
 the whole-souled, genial predecessor whom they all so fondly 
 cherish in their young memories as a glorified benefactor and 
 sympathizer one as innocent in heart as they themselves. 
 
 "The new Archbishop will prize the prayers of these in- 
 nocent ones, as did his dear friend and predecessor. He asks 
 naught from all his flock now, indeed, but their prayers that 
 he may be sustained to fulfill the grave responsibility which is 
 henceforth his. These one and all will say, as we now say, 
 God save our new Archbishop! Amen." 
 
 Nor was the feeling of gratification in His Grace's 
 appointment confined to the papers of his own city. From 
 the various published tributes, the following are culled to
 
 Comment by the Catholic Press 115 
 
 serve as an example of the national good-will towards the 
 successor of Archbishop Ryan. 
 
 The dean of the American Catholic press, the Rev. D. S. 
 Phelan, D. D., editor of the Western Watchman, St. Louis, 
 Mo., wrote: "No appointment has been made by Rome in 
 recent years that has given so deep and general satisfaction 
 as the naming of Bishop Prendergast to the See of Philadel- 
 phia. It was a gracious thing to do, and was as fitting as it 
 was gracious." The Pittsburgh Observer: "Felicitations to 
 the great and good Archbishop Prendergast, of Philadelphia, 
 who is now our Most Reverend Metropolitan. Ad multos 
 annos !" The Catholic Universe, Cleveland: "The selection 
 of Bishop Prendergast to succeed the lamented Archbishop 
 Ryan is welcomed not only by the clergy and people of that 
 metropolitan archdiocese, but by those who know him beyond 
 Philadelphia." The Boston Pilot: "The Pilot extends its 
 felicitations to the Most Rev. Edmond Prendergast, recently 
 nominated Archbishop of Philadelphia. The new Archbishop 
 is everywhere acknowledged as a man of extreme modesty 
 and amiability. The great gifts of learning and administra- 
 tive ability which influenced his election he has always kept 
 in the background, preferring to work quietly in his appointed 
 tasks. His election will be welcomed by the clergy and laity 
 of Piladelphia."
 
 II 
 
 THE ARMS OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF 
 PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 The escutcheon of His Grace the Archbishop of Philadel- 
 phia is blazoned as follows: Impaled arms. Dexter, Argent, 
 on a pile throughout azure a star in chief of the field, over all 
 on a fess sable three plates each charged with a cross gules 
 (See of Philadelphia). Sinister, Gules, a saltire vair between 
 four roses argent (Prendergast). 
 
 In designing the diocesan "impalement" I have been gov- 
 erned by the following considerations : the Archdiocese is con- 
 terminous with the State of Pennsylvania, and has as its chief 
 Patron Our Lady. The official heraldry of the State, with its 
 ship, plough, and sheaves of wheat, presents little that can 
 be used with advantage on an ecclesiastical escutcheon. The 
 sheaves may, to be sure, have an interesting ecclesiastical sig- 
 nificance, but it would be tedious to enumerate the various 
 State seals on which sheaves appear, and they cannot there- 
 fore be regarded as an identifying mark peculiar to Pennsyl- 
 vania. Ships, ploughs, and "garbs" run riot on the seals of 
 the American States. Oregon has all three, as have Arkansas 
 and Tennessee, the ship, however, in these last two cases be- 
 coming some form of steamboat. An heraldic designer finally 
 turns from these marine-agricultural compositions in despair, 
 and reverts, whenever he can, to earlier heraldic data. For- 
 tunately, in the case of Pennsylvania, such exist in the very 
 simple and beautiful arms of the First Proprietor, William 
 Penn: Argent on a fess sable three plates (i. e., on a silver 
 shield a broad, black, horizontal stripe decorated with three
 
 The Arms of His Grace 117 
 
 silver discs). Colonial State documents were sealed with 
 these arms ; and we may properly, in our present use of them, 
 regard them as having a "territorial" significance similar to 
 that which the arms of Lord Baltimore have now officially 
 acquired. 
 
 It seemed to me, therefore, expedient to use these Penn 
 arms as a basis for the arms of the See, with such modifica- 
 tions or additions as should appropriately "difference" the new 
 coat from the original and prevent it from infringing upon the 
 rights of the present bearers of that coat. The first "differ- 
 ence" involved the addition of a "charge" representing Our 
 Lady. Several choices were possible here, as always, to a 
 herald desiring, as he should, to avoid an actual representa- 
 tion of Our Lady. Among others, the rose, the lily of the 
 valley, the paradisal palm branch, and the star suggested them- 
 selves. The star, however, seemed the best of these, in the 
 present case, as also in the arms of the Cardinal, because in 
 addition to being one of the titles and attributes of Our Lady, 
 it is also the official symbol of an American State, and the 
 See is, territorially, conterminous with the State. To intro- 
 duce this silver star on the silver shield required the introduc- 
 tion also of some additional colored "ordinary" or "subor- 
 dinary" as a grammatical background. It could not well be 
 placed upon the black f ess without unpleasantly cluttering that 
 ordinary with too many small charges. One might, of course, 
 have used a "canton" (a small square in the upper angle of 
 the shield), but the "pile" lent itself far more pleasantly to the 
 composition of the whole, streaming down the shield like a 
 pennon from above. And azure was the natural color for this 
 pennon, the color in which the painters robe Our Lady, and the 
 color of the sky in which the stars of the American constella- 
 tion appear. Finally, there remained the three silver plates of 
 Penn to be, so to speak, "Catholicized" by marking them with 
 three red crosses, in honor of the Blessed Trinity and of our 
 holy Faith. The result is a coat markedly differenced from
 
 n8 Archbishop Prendergast 
 
 the original, and significant of the Catholic Church in the 
 State of Pennsylvania, under the protection of Our Lady. 
 
 For the personal impalement, the Archbishop desired to 
 honor both his paternal and maternal forebears, Prendergast 
 and Carey. Of the three Prendergast coats recorded by 
 Burke, all bear a saltire : the diagonal cross which, in silver on 
 a blue ground, is the herald's cross of St. Andrew, and in sil- 
 ver on a red ground, that of St. Patrick. One of the three 
 Prendergast saltires, that of the English family, is of silver; 
 the other two are of "vair," anciently a fur of dignity, from 
 the bluish-gray squirrel with white belly, the heraldic repre- 
 sentation of which rapidly crystallized into alternate bell- 
 shaped panes of blue and silver. (Rietstap gives the coat of 
 Prendergast of Gort, whose Irish baronetcy was extinct in 
 1760, as having a saltire "vairy" of blue and gold.) Again 
 two of the three coats have in the angles four "trefoils," or 
 shamrocks. 
 
 The Carey heraldry is equally interesting. The earliest 
 coat is probably that of Adam de Karry, Lord of Castle Karry, 
 co. Somerset, 1198: Argent on a bend sable three roses of the 
 field. With a single exception, all of the many English and 
 Irish Careys and Carys recorded by Burke, including the Lords 
 Falkland, continue these roses in their heraldry. And it is 
 interesting to note that in the case of one Carey family, where 
 the roses do not appear upon the shield itself, a wolf which 
 forms the crest holds in his mouth a flowering rose-branch. 
 
 We have then the saltire of vair as indicative of the Pren- 
 dergasts, and the silver of white roses of the Careys. The 
 resulting combination gives us a new coat, peculiarly appro- 
 priate to His Grace, which does not conflict with the rights of 
 the heads of any of the Prendergast and Carey families. To 
 an ecclesiastical herald who did not know the origin of the 
 new coat a combination of existing family charges and 
 colors the saltire partly of silver on a red field might indi- 
 cate simply a special devotion to St. Patrick, the roses a de-
 
 The Arms of His Grace 119 
 
 votion to Our Lady, and the whole combination of "red, white, 
 and blue" a laudable patriotism. But all this, it should be 
 remembered, is quite an accidental result and not the outcome 
 of the underlying purpose of the combination: it is none the 
 less a pleasant result, however fortuitous, and one which gives 
 to His Grace's shield an added and not unwelcome significance. 
 From The Ecclesiastical Review, September, 1911. 
 
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 Rev. Abt, Charles A. 
 Rev. Atteni, Thomas 
 Rev. Assman, Joseph A. 
 Rev. Antill, E. A., CM. 
 Rev. Allen, E. J., CM. 
 
 Rt. Rev. Mgr. Bornemann, George, 
 
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 Rev. Brady, Francis A. 
 Rev. Brady, Francis 
 Rev. Broughal, Denis J. 
 Rev. Bowen, Hugh J. 
 Rev. Bradley, Michael A. 
 Rev. Barrington, William R. 
 Rev. Baransky, Emil 
 Rev. Bruni, Cosmas 
 Rev. Baker, Henry W. 
 Rev. Buckley, Thomas P. 
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 Rev. Branton, Richard J. 
 Rev. Boylan, James A., D.D. 
 Rev. Bornemann, Charles J. 
 Rev. Brennan, Thomas C. 
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 Rev. Bradley, John E. 
 Rev. Bennett, Michael A. 
 Rev. Burke, John F. 
 Rev. Brady, John T. 
 Rev. Brady, Michael J. 
 Rev. Bajor, Michael 
 Rev. Buettner, August 
 Rev. Bowles, Charles E. 
 
 Rev. Bourne, James F. 
 
 Rev. Barile, Placidus M., D.D. 
 
 Rev. Bradley, Francis P. 
 
 Rev. Bierschmidt, John B., C.SS.R. 
 
 Rev. Breihof, Sebastian, C.SS.R. 
 
 Rev. Burke, B., CM. 
 
 Rev. Burgess, Joseph, C.S.Sp. 
 
 Rev. Brown, Albert G., S.J. 
 
 Rev. Bartolozzi, E., D.D., O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Baldicinni, Fiorinzo, O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Byrne, Michael F., S.J. 
 
 Rev. Baker, C. J., O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Bonanni, Agostino, Ph.D., 
 
 O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Branton, Charles A., O.S.A. 
 Rev. Bartalonica, Antonio, O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Coghlan, Gerald P. 
 Rev. Cowley, Richard F. 
 Rev. Cavanaugh, John E. 
 Rev. Crowley, John T. 
 Rev. Crane, Michael J. 
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 Rev. Carey, John C. 
 Rev. Connor, Henry I. 
 Rev. Carton, James J. 
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 Rev. Clark, Francis J. 
 Rev. Corbett, Denis A. 
 Rev. Conway, Bernard J. 
 Rev. Corley, Michael J.
 
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 Rev. Coleman, Martin J. 
 
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 Rev. Coghlan, Denis A. 
 
 Rev. Coakley, James E. 
 
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 Rev. Crane, Michael A. 
 
 Rev. Cowl, Maurice F. 
 
 Rev. Coonahan, Daniel S. 
 
 Rev. Conway, Francis J. 
 
 Rev. Crossen, John M. 
 
 Rev. Carr, John J. 
 
 Rev. Carr, Simon J., Ph.D. 
 
 Rev. Corrigan, Joseph M., D.D. 
 
 Rev. Caine, Augustine 
 
 Rev. Conway, Henry T., O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Cerruti, John, O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Coyle, William H., S.J. 
 
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 Rev. Canas, Antonio, C.M. 
 
 Rev. Corcoran, Matthew J., O.S.A, 
 
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 Rev. Connor, H. J., C.M. 
 
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 Rev. Dargis, Vincent 
 Rev. Dudzik, John 
 
 Rev. Durczki, Michael 
 
 Rev. Degnan, George P. 
 
 Rev. Drobel, William J. 
 
 Rev. Dever, Daniel A., D.D. 
 
 Rev. Dabrowski, John 
 
 Very Rev. Drumgoole, Henry T., 
 
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 Rev. Duffy, James J. 
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 Rev. Dever, Stephen P., D.D. 
 Rev. Dooley, John J. 
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 Rev. Donnelly, Francis J. 
 Rev. Dale, Hugh J. 
 Rev. Dean, James J., O.S.A. 
 Very Rev. Drennan, M. A., C.M. 
 Very Rev. Dohan, Edward G., 
 
 O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Dressmann, Henry, C.SS.R. 
 Rev. Driscoll, F. A., O.S.A. 
 Rev. Davey, Charles, S.J. 
 Rev. Devir, John H., O.S.A. 
 Rev. Daly, John A., O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Englert, George, C.SS.R. 
 
 Rev. Fitzmaurice, Francis P. 
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 Rev. Flanagan, James M.
 
 Rev. Fogarty, Patrick F. 
 
 Rt. Rev. Mgr. Fisher, Nevin F. 
 
 Rev. Fekula, John 
 
 Rev. Farrell, William C. 
 
 Rev. Fahey, Lawrence A. 
 
 Rev. Fleming, P. J. 
 
 Rev. Fiorillo, Louis 
 
 Rev. Fitzpatrick, Fenton J. 
 
 Rev. Farrelly, Thomas J. 
 
 Rev. Fleming, John C. 
 
 Rev. Fitzmaurice, Edmund, D.D. 
 
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 Rev. Fitzgerald, William A. 
 
 Rev. Fasig, Scott A. 
 
 Rev. Fitzgerald, Maurice A. 
 
 Rev. Fleming, Andrew J. 
 
 Rev. Flood, Francis J. 
 
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 Rev. Fitzgibbon, David J., C.S.Sp. 
 
 Rev. Gazdzik, Joseph 
 
 Rev. Greensill, John J. 
 
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 Rev. Grace, William P. 
 
 Rev. Garrigan, William J., D.D. 
 
 Rev. Gallagher, James A. 
 
 Rev. Gallagher, Patrick J. 
 
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 Rev. Graham, James J. 
 
 Rev. Gaffney, Thomas L. 
 
 Rev. Gaughan, William F. 
 
 Rev. Greene, John P. 
 
 Rev. Gallen, Joseph A. 
 
 Rev. Gromoll, Otho C. 
 
 Rev. Gibbons, James J. 
 
 Very Rev. Geraghty, Martin J., 
 
 D.D., O.S.A. 
 
 Very Rev. Grein, Peter, C.SS.R. 
 Rev. Gallagher, H. A., O.S.A. 
 Rev. Griffin, John, C.S.Sp. 
 Rev. Guldner, Benedict, S.J. 
 Rev. Gavin, Alphonsus, C.S.Sp. 
 Rev. Ginard, G., C.M. 
 Rev. Gallagher, Edward F., S.J. 
 
 Rev. Gately, Michael J. 
 
 Rev. Gough, Walter P. 
 
 Rev. Gormley, Michael H. 
 
 Rev. Gallagher, Bernard F. 
 
 Rev. Gantert, Henry A. 
 
 Rev. Graham, John F. 
 
 Rev. Glogowski, George, C.M. 
 
 Rev. Gavin, James H. 
 
 Rev. Grenbowski, Thomas 
 
 Rev. Grzywocz, Francis 
 
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 Rev. Gherardelli, F. 
 
 Rev. Godrycz, Jno. A., D.D., Ph.D. 
 
 Rev. Guzik, Paul J. 
 
 Rev. Gudowski, Peter 
 
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 Rev. Hargadon, F. B., S.J. 
 Rev. Hickey, James J., O.S.A. 
 Rev. Hartnett, J. A., C.M. 
 
 Rev. Isoleri, Antonio 
 Rev. Januskiewicz, Mark 
 
 Right Rev. Mgr. Kieran, William, 
 
 D.D. 
 
 Rev. Korves, Bernard 
 Rev. Kopytkiewicz, Marian A. 
 Rev. Kraus, Gabriel 
 Rev. Kiernan, John F. 
 Rev. Kaulakis, Joseph J. 
 Rev. Kelly, William T. 
 
 Rev. Kirlin, Joseph L. J. 
 
 Rev. Kane, James J. 
 
 Rev. Koos, Anthony M. 
 
 Rev. Keegan, Miles A. 
 
 Rev. Kaminsky, Andrew J. 
 
 Rev. Kopytkiewicz, M. F. 
 
 Rev. Kaminsky, Albinus J. 
 
 Rev. Korves, Albert M. 
 
 Rev. Kucharic, Emeric 
 
 Rev. Kloucheck, Ladislas, Ph.D. 
 
 Rev. Kuczynski, Joseph 
 
 Rev. Kasparek, Joseph 
 
 Rev. Kovacs, Von, L. 
 
 Rt. Rev. Mgr. Kavanagh, Chas. F. 
 
 Rev. Keelan, Edward J. 
 
 Rev. Kealy, Thomas J. 
 
 Rev. Kelly, Joseph A. 
 
 Rev. Kehoe, Daniel J., D.D. 
 
 Rev. Koenes, H. 
 
 Rev. Kelly, Richard F. 
 
 Rev. Kinslow, Charles J. 
 
 Rev. Keogh, John W. 
 
 Rev. Kane, Francis J. 
 
 Rev. Kelly, Eugene 
 
 Rev. Kelly, Joseph S. 
 
 Rev. Kuczynski, August 
 
 Rev. Killian, William N. L. 
 
 Rev. Kennedy, John F., O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Kelly, P. H., S.J. 
 
 Rev. Longinus, Frederick W. 
 
 Rev. Lynch, John F. 
 
 Rev. Larkin, Thomas J. 
 
 Rev. Lewicky, Leo 
 
 Rev. Landolfi, A. 
 
 Rev. Lisicky, Paul J. 
 
 Rev. Lallou, William J. 
 
 Rev. Lyng, Edward J. 
 
 Rev. Leahy, Cornelius X. 
 
 Rev. Leahy, John P. 
 
 Rev. Lyons, Charles W., S.J.
 
 Rev. Lavizeri, S., C.M. 
 Rev. Leibfritz, John B., C.SS.R. 
 Rev. Lennon, R. A., C.M. 
 Rev. Lyden, A. V., C.M. 
 Rev. Likly, W. E., C.M. 
 Rev. Lynch, J., C.M. 
 
 Rev. Masterson, William P. 
 
 Rev. Muldowney, John P. 
 
 Rev. Mullin, James A. 
 
 Rev. Malusecki, Adalbert 
 
 Rev. Markee, Francis J. 
 
 Rev. Monahan, James C, LL.D. 
 
 Rev. Misteli, Aloysius 
 
 Rev. Morrissey, Daniel A. 
 
 Rev. Motley, William A. 
 
 Rev. Michel, George 
 
 Rev. Monkiewicz, M. M. 
 
 Rev. Mullin, Charles J. 
 
 Rev. Murphy, Eugene 
 
 Rev. Milukas, Anthony M. 
 
 Rev. Mitro, Michael 
 
 Rev. Moore, Thomas F. 
 
 Rev. Monville, Joseph P. 
 
 Rev. Matera, Joseph C. 
 
 Rev. Marchetti, Eugene 
 
 Rev. Michetti, Peter 
 
 Very Rev. Masson, Peter, V.F. 
 
 Rev. Melley, Denis J. 
 
 Rev. Mellon, P. J. 
 
 Rev. Meres, Martin 
 
 Rev. Martyak, Gabriel 
 
 Rev. Mihaly, John 
 
 Rev. Murphy, Joseph E. 
 
 Rev. Magtiire, John D., Ph.D. 
 
 Rev. Murphy, Daniel J. 
 
 Rev. Mealy, John P. 
 
 Rev. Munday, Peter J. 
 
 Rev. Murphy, Joseph J. f D.D. 
 
 Rev. Moore, John L. 
 
 Rev. Murphy, Edward J. F. 
 
 Rev. Mahon, Joseph A. 
 
 Rev. Munyon, David C. 
 
 Rev. Moran, John J. 
 
 Rev. Maguire, William P. 
 
 Rev. Murphy, Joseph A. 
 
 Rev. Moran, Richard W. 
 
 Rev. Maginn, Francis P. 
 
 Rev. Mullin, Philip J. 
 
 Rev. Murphy, John H. 
 
 Rev. Munley, Michael E. 
 
 Rev. Martin, John H. 
 
 Rev. Mickun, John 
 
 Rev. Manning, Sylvester P. 
 
 Rev. Montague, George Thos. 
 
 Rev. Mellon, John J. 
 
 Rev. Middleton, Thos. C, D.D., 
 
 O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Murphy, Michael J., O.S.A. 
 Rev. Muck, Michael, C.SS.R. 
 Rev. Murtaugh, Edw. A., O.S.A. 
 Rev. Maddock, W. M., C.M. 
 Rev. Montiani, P., C.M. 
 Rev. Murphy, Daniel J., O.S.A. 
 Rev. Moran, K. P., C.M. 
 Rev. Maher, J. J., C.M. 
 Rev. Moakley, James I., S.J. 
 Rev. Medina, John F., O.S.A. 
 Rev. Molloy, Thomas, C.S.Sp. 
 Rev. Marabottini, Passido, O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. McDermott, Daniel I. 
 
 Rev. McCullough, Peter 
 
 Rev. McGeveran, James 
 
 Very Rev. McGovern, Francis J., 
 
 V.F. 
 
 Rev. McEnroe, Peter C. 
 Rev. McGettigan, Hugh J. 
 Rt. Rev. Mgr. McCort, John J., 
 
 V.G. 
 
 Rev. McCue, Andrew J. 
 Rev. McCarty, Thomas S.
 
 Rev. McArdle, Francis J. 
 Rev. McCabe, Michael J. 
 Rev. McLoughlin, James C. 
 Rev. MacAran, James J. 
 Rev. McHugh, James A. 
 Rev. McConnon, James C. 
 Rev. McGinley, Daniel L. 
 Rev. McCaffrey, William J. 
 Rev. McQuade, John F. 
 Rev. McNeely, R. 
 Rev. McCallen, William J. 
 Rev. McCabe, Luke V., D.D., 
 
 LL.D. 
 
 Rt. Rev. Mgr. McDevitt, Philip R. 
 Rev. McNamee, Charles A. 
 Rev. McMahon, William J. 
 Rev. McCullougti, Joseph A. 
 Rev. McCloy, James F. 
 Rev. McGettigan, Daniel I. 
 Rev. McCloskey, James P. J. 
 Rev. McKenna, Bernard A. 
 Rev. McBride, Patrick A. 
 Rev. McKay, Alexander, D.D. 
 Rev. McGinniss, Bernard J. 
 Rev. McDermott, Joseph P., D.D. 
 Rev. McLoughlin, William V. 
 Rev. McGarrity, William J. 
 Rev. McShain, Joseph M. 
 Rev. McManus, Arthur 
 Rev. McGarrity, Peter J. 
 Rev. McGarry, Joseph B. 
 Rev. McShain, William J. 
 Rev. McCarthy, John J. 
 Rev. McSorley, Michael J. 
 Rev. MacGinley, Leo P., D.D. 
 Rev. McNally, William P. 
 Rev. McGinnis, Patrick H. 
 Rev. McMahon, John J. 
 Rev. McHugh, John P. 
 Rev. McMahon, John J. 
 Rev. McMenamin, John J. 
 
 Rev. McCann, John E. 
 Rev. McGarvey, William I. 
 Rev. McDonald, Joseph A. 
 Rev. McShea, John B. 
 Rev. McCauley, F., C.M. 
 Rev. McNamara, Theo. M., S.J. 
 Very Rev. McHale, Patrick, C.M. 
 Rev. McGowan, J. F., O.S.A. 
 Rev. McKenna, C. J., O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Nash, James 
 
 Rev. Nevin, Jeremiah D. 
 
 Rev. Norton, Lemuel B. 
 
 Rev. Novorolsky, Joseph 
 
 Rev. Naylon, Henry A. 
 
 Rev. Neuenhaus, John 
 
 Rev. Nagle, Joseph F. 
 
 Rev. Nugent, John A., O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Nusstein, Aegedius, C.SS.R. 
 
 Rev. Noel, M. A., S.J. 
 
 Rev. O'Connor, Daniel 
 
 Very Rev. O'Keefe, Jos. F., V.F. 
 
 Rev. O'Reilly, James 
 
 Rt. Rev. Ortynsky, Sorter S., D.D. 
 
 Rev. Oziminski, Joseph 
 
 Rev. Orlando, Anthony 
 
 Rev. O'Connell, Joseph J. 
 
 Rev. Orum, J. A. 
 
 Rev. Olesinski, S. M. 
 
 Rev. Orum, Zachery 
 
 Rev. O'Connor, Joseph L. 
 
 Rev. O'Donnell, Edward N. 
 
 Rev. O'Donnell, William A. 
 
 Rev. O'Neill, Patrick F. 
 
 Rev. O'Neill, Cornelius J. 
 
 Rev. O'Neill, John F. 
 
 Rev. O'Hara, Joseph M. 
 
 Rev. O'Brien, Joseph A. 
 
 Rev. Orr, George E. 
 
 Rev. Obelenicz, Paul
 
 Rev. O'Shea, Edmond I. 
 Rev. O'Harra, John, SJ. 
 Rev. O'Mahony, D. J., O.S.A. 
 Rev. O'Donnell, Bernard J., O.S.A. 
 Rev. O'Kane, Michael A., SJ. 
 Rev. O'Connor, Patrick, C.S.Sp. 
 Rev. O'Gorman, William J., SJ. 
 Rev. O'Reilly, Joseph P., SJ. 
 
 Rev. Philipps, Bernard 
 
 Rev. Parker, James P. 
 
 Rev. Poremba, Joseph 
 
 Rev. Piro, Andrew 
 
 Rev. Pillarella, Pietro 
 
 Rev. Pachucki, M. S. 
 
 Rev. Plappert, Joseph I. 
 
 Rev. Pantienius, Simon 
 
 Rev. Ploszaj, James L. 
 
 Rev. Pospech, Joseph 
 
 Rev. Patterson, Cornelius F. 
 
 Rev. Purtell, Francis J. 
 
 Rev. Phelan, Richard P. 
 
 Rev. Phelan, John C. 
 
 Very Rev. Phelan, Eugene, C.S.Sp. 
 
 Rev. Plunkett, Chris. J., C.S.Sp. 
 
 Rev. Parke, Thomas, C.S.Sp. 
 
 Rev. Prendergast, Jeremiah, SJ. 
 
 Rev. Quinn, Peter A. 
 Rev. Quinn, Francis A., D.D. 
 Rev. Quill, Patrick H., SJ. 
 Rev. Quigley, William J., SJ. 
 
 Rev. Rufe, Aug. H. 
 Rev. Rooney, John J. 
 Rev. Ryan, Peter J. 
 Rev. Rafferty, Michael J. 
 Rev. Ryan, Thomas F. 
 Rev. Regnery, Francis 
 Rev. Ravnikar, F. H. 
 Rev. Regnery, James 
 
 Rev. Ratz, John M. 
 Rev. Rahilly, Edward J. 
 Rev. Ratto, Joseph W., D.D. 
 Rev. Read, Hugh P. 
 Rev. Ratti, Michael 
 Rev. Reing, Michael V. 
 Rev. Rosazkowski, Henry 
 Rev. Reese, Aloysius R. 
 Rev. Riddle, Robert T. 
 Rev. Regan, Daniel D., O.S.A. 
 Rev. Reid, Thomas A., SJ. 
 Rev. Rumbach, August, C.S.Sp. 
 Rev. Riley, James A., C.S.Sp. 
 Rev. Ryan, Michael A., O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Stommel, Henry 
 
 Rev. Strahan, Joseph A. 
 
 Very Rev. Spalding, Samuel B., 
 
 V.F. 
 Rt. Rev. Mgr. Sinnott, James P. 
 
 Rev. Seimetz, John A. 
 Rev. Sauers, Charles I. 
 Rev. Shannon, Thomas F. 
 Rev. Scully, Michael G. 
 Rev. Scherf, Aloysius F. 
 Rev. Smith, James J. 
 Rev. Strnad, Francis 
 Rev. Sommer, Bernard 
 Rev. Sulek, Albert 
 Rev. Scialabba, Antonio 
 Rev. Sheridan, William C. 
 Rev. Schaefer, Joseph R. 
 Rev. Schade, Joseph I. 
 Rev. Stachowicz, Louis A. 
 Rev. Suster, Oscar 
 Rev. Suck, Theodore 
 Rev. Smith, Stephen J. 
 Rev. Schulte, Augustin J. 
 Rev. Siegfried, Francis P. 
 Rev. Sheehan, Francis J.
 
 Rev. Stauss, Gustav 
 
 Rev. Sullivan, William M. 
 
 Rev. Stapleton, Elmer M. 
 
 Rev. Sheehan, Thomas T. 
 
 Rev. Shay, George W. 
 
 Rev. Scanlon, Joseph J. 
 
 Rev. Schuyler, Henry C, S.T.L. 
 
 Rev. Smith, Joseph P. 
 
 Rev. Stapleton, Thomas W. 
 
 Rev. Sweeney, Joseph V. 
 
 Rev. Steinhagen, Henry J. 
 
 Rev. Sullivan, Thomas J. 
 
 Rev. Scallabrella, Dan'l A., O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Skelly, Joseph, C.M. 
 
 Rev. Sheehan, John T., O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Schagemann, Joseph, C.SS.R. 
 
 Rev. Schmitt, Aloysius, C.S.Sp. 
 
 Rev. Smith, Benedict J., SJ. 
 
 Rev. Schroeffel, John J., C.S.Sp. 
 
 Rev. Sedgwick, C, C.M. 
 
 Rev. Sullivan, M. A., O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Stinson, William F., SJ. 
 
 Rev. Schickling, R., C.M. 
 
 Very Rev. Trainor, James F., V.G. 
 
 Rev. Toomey, John J. 
 
 Rev. Travi, Lambert, D.D. 
 
 Rt. Rev. Mgr. Turner, James P., 
 
 D.D. 
 
 Rev. Timmins, James 
 Rev. Tomiak, Benedict 
 Rev. Taszkunas, Ladislaus 
 Rev. Timmins, Joseph F. 
 Rev. Trimble, Hugh A. 
 Rev. Thompson, Robert J. 
 Rev. Thompson, John P. 
 Rev. Trawniczeke, Francis, C.M. 
 Rev. Tynan, James J. 
 Rev. Tyzynski, C., C.M. 
 Rev. Thiesen, Theodore 
 Rev. Taborski, Francis 
 Rev. Tuohey, John M. 
 Rev. Tourscher, Francis E., D.D., 
 
 O.SA. 
 
 Rev. Tracy, Robert J., S. J. 
 Rev. Tregesser, James, C.SS.R. 
 
 Rev. Urban, Henry, C.SS.R. 
 
 Rev. Vychodil, Aloysius J. 
 
 Rev. Veralli, Vitus N. 
 
 Rev. Vitt, John C. 
 
 Rev. Vlossak, Francis C. 
 
 Rev. Vasey, Nicholas J., O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Viger, Amedee J., O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Wall, Lawrence J. 
 Rev. Wolf, George J. 
 Rev. Ward, John J. 
 Rev. Walsh, John J. 
 Rev. Werner, Edward G. 
 Rev. Whalen, Patrick M. 
 Rev. Wierzynski, Leon 
 Rev. Wilson, James J. 
 Rev. Wachter, William A. 
 Rev. Welsh, Alfred C. 
 Rev. Wastl, Francis X. 
 Rev. Wroblewski, Alfred 
 Rev. Whittaker, Joseph A. 
 Rev. Ward, Francis M. 
 Rev. Walsh, W. J. 
 Rev. Wheeler, John J. 
 Rev. Walsh, John W. 
 Rev. Walsh, Maurice A. 
 Rev. Williams, James M. 
 Rev. Winter, Joseph A. 
 Rev. Waszyca, Arnold 
 Rev. Walsh, John F. X. 
 Rev. Wolfe, Joseph L. 
 Rev. Woloshtak, John 
 Rev. Wissel, Joseph, C.SS.R. 
 Rev. Weber, Louis S., SJ. 
 Rev. Will, Michael C, CSS.R. 
 Rev. Walsh, John P. M., SJ. 
 Rev. Wrenn, Thomas, C.S.Sp. 
 Rev. Whelan, John A., O.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Zboyovski, John 
 Rev. Zeller, Anthony J. 
 
 Rt. Rev. Yazbek, Joseph
 
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