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Fig�£res in Consecration _c_r_'Vi_c€_s �
Exterior View of St, Patrick's Church
Main Entrance to St. Patrick's Church
Reu, John F. DeGroote, C. S. C., Pastor
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Rev. wtuuo« F. Minnick, G. S. C., Assistant Pastor
FOREWORD
The fruition of more than fifty years of sacrifice and
labor on the part of the Fathers of Holy Cross was given
visible expression on Sunday, May 8th, 1920, in St. Pat­
rick's Church, when distinguished prelates, priests and
parishioners gathered around the noble altars of the
newly consecrated edifice to assist at the Solemn Ponti­
fical Mass of Thanksgiving.
His Excellency, The Most Rev. John Bonzano, D. D.,
Apostolic Delegate to the United States, celebrated the
Mass as a fitting climax to the ceremony of Consecration
which took place on the preceding day.
By this consecration the church has been lifted into a
higher order. It has been set apart in perpetuity for the
worship of God, and belongs exclusively to Him. It may
never be alienated, bartered or sold. It may never again
be used for profane purposes.
The story of the work of the priests of Holy Cross goes
back to 1854. In 1858 at the request of Rt. Rev. J. H.
Luers, D. D., then Bishop of the Diocese of Vincennes, the
Rev. Thomas Carroll, C. S. C., came as the first resident
pastor to minister to the Catholics of South Bend, and
gathered the nucleus of the great éongregation of today.
In the years that have intervened, St. Patrick's has been
worthy of the apostolic spirit of the priests and the people
who founded it. It has become the great center of Catholic
devotion and has been the inspiration of thousands of
holy lives. Its consecration sets the seal of annointing on
their labors and gives an earnest of the fruitfulness that
lies ahead.
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Complete Program
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 7
OFFICE OF MARTYRS
Rev. wm. R. Connor, C. S. C., Presiding; wm, F. Munn+ck , C. S. C.; \\'m .. J.
Burke, C. S. C.; .Iarnes .J. O'Br-ien, C. S. c.. Leo Hci ser, C. S. C.;
Cornelius Huger-tv, C. S. C.; Stanislaus Sza mcck í , C. S. C.
SATURDAY, MAY 8
7:00 A. M.
CONSECRATION OF ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH AND ALTARS
CHURCH AND MAIN ALTAR
Right Rev. Herman Joseph Alerding, D. n., Bishop of Fort Wnyu«
ALTAR OF THE BLESSED VIHGIN MARY
Right Rev. Peter .J. Muldoon, D. D., Bishop of Roc1dol'd
ALTAR OF ST. JOSEPH
Right Rev .• Joseph S. Glass, C. M., D. D., Bishop of Salt Lake
3:00 P. M.
PUBLIC RE.CEPTION
Guest of Honor: His Excellency Most Hev .. Tohn Bo nza no, n. I).
Apostol ic Delegate to the United States
Guests: Clergy and Catholics of South Bend, Indiana
SUNDAY, MAY 9
10:30 A. M.
Pontifical Mass
Celebrant, Most Rev. John Bonzano, D. D.
Sermon
The Very Hev. Andrew Morrissey, C. S. C., D. D.
Provincial of the Holy Cross Congregation
3:00 P. M.
A parade of the children of Parochial Schools was reviewed by His Excel­
lency, the Apostolic Delegate, The Right Rev. Bishops and
Clcrgv , from the balcony of the Oliver Hotel
7:30 P. M.
Pontifical Vespers
Celebrant, Right Hev .• Joseph S. Glass. C. M .. D. D.
Sermon, The Right Rev. Peter .T. Muldoon, D. D.
MONDAY, MAY 10
9:00 A. M.
Pontifical Requiem Mass for the Deceased Pastors and Members \
of St. Patrick's Congregation
Celebrant, Right Rev. Michael .J. Gallagher, D. D.
Sermon, Rev .• Tames A. Burns, C. S. C., Ph. D.
7:30 P. M.
HOLY CROSS CELEBRATION
Solemn Vespers
Celebrant, Very Rev. Andrew Mo rr-í ssev, C. S. C., n. D.
Sermon, Rev. Patrick .J. Ca r ro l l , C. S. C.
Hev. \Villiam R. Connor, C. S. C., Maste)' of Ceremonies
Rev. Wíf l ínm Minnick, C. S. C., Assistant Master of Ceremonies
Program of Music
SUNDAY MORNING
ST. PATRICK'S MIXED CHOIR Presented
Mass in A. Op. 126 by Rhcinbcrgcr
.John .J. Becker, Director
Mrs. Farabaugh, OrfJanist
PHOGHAM
Ecce Sucer-dos Magnus
Hehle
Male Choir
Vidi Aquam
Gregorian
Mixed Choir
Introit
Tozer
Boy Choir
Kvrie
Glor-ia
Hhcinberger
- Hhei nberger
Mixed Choir
Gradual
- Tozer
Boy Choir
Credo
- Hheinberger
Mixed Choir
Offertory
Loxhai
Boy Choir
Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus Dei
Rheinberger
Hhei nberger
Rhei nberger
Mixed Choir
Communion
Tozer
Boy Choir
Postlude for Organ
Selected
Mrs. Farabaugh
SUNDAY EVENING
Prelude for Organ
Jubilate Deo -
Labitskv
Loxhai
Boy Choir
O Bone Jesu
Panis Angelleus
Ave Verum
Palestrina
Franck
- . Bueh
Benediction
"Praise Ye the Father"
- Congregation
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MONDAY MORNING
The music for the Requiem High Mass and the Absolution were
Gregor-ian, with the following exceptions:
Gradual and 'Tract
Sequence, Dies Trae
H. M. Si lhv
Male Quartet
Mendelssohn
Offertory
Benedictus
R. M. Silby
Motet, Domine, Non sum dignus -
.J. Miter-rer
MONDAY EVENING
The Second Vespers of the Invention of the Holy Cross
Dells in adjutorium -
R. M. Silby
Antiphons and Hymn, Gregorian according to the
Solemn version
First Psalm-Mode 7
R. M. Silby
Second Psalm-Mode 3
Thi rd Psalm-Mode 1 -
Fourth Psalm-Mode 7
Fifth Psalm-Mode 8
Gregorian
- Gregorian
L. P. Manzetti
Gregorian
Vexilla Regis
Magnificat-Mode 2
Regina Coeli
Gregorian
- R. M. Silby
Lotti
Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament
o Salutaris
G.Ett
Tauturn Ergo -
Gregorian
Christus Vi ncct
L. P. Manzetti
Holy Cross Seminary Choir
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Historical
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Story of St. Patrick's Church
As early as 1854 six German Catholic families moved from
Ohio and located on farms in Greene Township. At that time
about fifty Irish Catholic families had their homes on the
west bank of the St. Joseph River, near South Bend. Once a
month, on a week day, the Rev. Richard Meagher, C. S. C., visited
these German families. This was in the year 1857 when Father
Mager was pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Mishawaka. The Mass
was then celebrated in the Metzger home, a log house which is
still standing in Greene Township, better known as the Log Town
Hoa d. It was a great day for the little congregation, when on
occasions Father Mager would bring the choir from Mishawaka
and High Mass would be sung.
In those early days, when priests were few and the flock was
scattered, it sometimes happened that even the monthly Mass had
to be dispensed with. On such days the Catholic settlers would
attend Mass at Notre Dame. It was a strong faith that possessed
these early German and Irish families, and often they trudged
nine long miles fasting, that they might hear Mass and receive
Holy Communion. In fact, the families both in the country and
in the town looked upon Notre Dame as their parish church. St.
Alexis' Chapel, now known as St. Joseph's Church, was only
occasionally attended. They were fortunate, too, in having as
their spiritual guide the Very Hev. Father Sarin. He it was who
consoled them in those days which knew so many trials. He
loved to instruct the children, and traces of his saintly influence
may still be found in the lives of those whom God has spared to
form the golden link that binds the present to the hallowed past.
In 1858 the Rev. Thomas Carroll, C. S. C., was appointed to
minister to the people and at once set about the organization of
what now forms St. Patrick's parish. During the interval that
elapsed between Father Carroll's appointment and the erection
of a church, services were held in the home of Thomas Murphy
who then lived on the southeast corner of Monroe and William
Streets. Father Carroll had no residence of his own. He made
his home with Thomas Murp h y, residing a part of the time with
Timothy Sullivan. It was in the latter's house that he gave
instructions to those preparing for their first Holy Communion.
Father Carroll's great concern was to provide a church for
the people. His labors and the help given him by his parishoners
reveal the strong spirit of faith that animated the founders of this
parish. The only employment open to the men at this time was
in the construction of the :\'li�higan Southern & Northern Indiana
Hai lw av, nnw kI1O\\'11 dJ the L. S. lX .M. :>. Ha i lw ay. :\lost of t he
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Catholics i Il the town were engaged in this labor. They l'ccci ved
hut seventy-five cents a day and only held their positions during
the summer months. Desp ite these trying conditions, a self­
imposed tax was levied every pay day on all the men of the new
parish. The number of hours in the work day was a very uncer­
tain thing, and oftentimes night was falling before the laborers
returned home. Welcome as would have been a rest after the
busy day, the men tarried at home only long enough for the even­
ing meal. Then from all sides could be seen men winding their
ways to the site selected for their church. This was the common
occurrence when they succeeded in returning from their work
before eight o'clock. With picks a n d shovels they came to dig
the foundation of the church. They worked on, long into the
night, happy in their task of love. The children who were too
young to engage in the work added their mite by carrying the
lanterns for their fathers and brothers. And what further added
to the real charm of the scene was the constant presence of their
new pastor, Father Carroll, whom they had already learned to
love. He was ever present at the gatherings, not as an overseer, but
as one of the laborers. Thus would they gather night after night,
and the hearty laugh that 'was heard at times above the thud of
the grub-hoe showed how hearts may he light when the hand,
though tired, is laboring for God.
When the excavation was completed, Father Carroll was
determined that no time should be lost in pushing on the work.
He at once walked to Log Town where lived five or six German
Catholic families. It was six miles distant and the roads almost
impassible. He arrived at the home of Maximilian Konzen, just
as they were preparing for supper. He made known his m is­
sion,-that he had to have a load of stone that evening. On
account of the lateness of the hour Mr. Konzen protested. But
Father Carroll was insistent, saying that the masons had to begin
their work in the morning. Mr. Konzen consented, and he and
his boys, together w ith Father Carroll, loaded the wagon, hitched
the oxen, and started for the church lot where they arrived at
midnight. The timber for the new church was hauled over the
same road, but for a greater distance, from the sawmill close to
where North Liberty now stands. In this work Mr. Konzen was
assisted by the Metzger, Goodman, Meyers and Stoltz families, alsu
by Thomas aIHI Samuel Byerley. The last named gentleman did
much to help the infant parish by his interest and generosity.
Many a time, before the days of St. Patrick's, did the Catholics,
who lived on Sumption Prairie, journey to the Byerley home there
to find a wagon waiting to bring them to Mass at Notre Dame.
There were living at this time on the Michigan road, south, a
number of Irish families who took a notable part in the beginning
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of the parish. Mention should be made of Wi lliuin and Michael
Donovan, Michael Gallagher, Patrick and Michael Cooney. The
foundation of the church was laid by Michael Touhey and James
Ledwick. We should also keep treasured in St. Patrick's early
roll of honor, the names of Joseph Martin, John Fitzer, James
Smith, Peter Fury, John Quinlan, Dennis Clifford, Dennis Guil­
foyle, James McNamara, Jeremiah Drew, Patrick O'Brien, John
Treanor, John Hagerty, and the CoquilJard family.
The times immediately preceding the establishment of the
parish were epoch making days in the history of the country,
and here, as elsewhere, the community was affected. There was
a number of young unmarried men who responded to the call from
Pike's Peak, and later the louder call of battle drew many from
these parts. Time has been unsparing in blotting from the mem­
ory names that should live in the hearts of the people of this
parish. Thomas Byerley, Peter Fury, Michael Cooney, John
Ftitzer-, Jeremiah Drew and Patrick O'Brien are the only ones
left living to tell us of those strenuous days. The names mentioned
are familiar ones indeed, and no doubt there are others who
should be given credit for what they did. The ladies, especially,
should not be overlooked. They were always enthusiastic in their
support. 'Ve might mention the Coquillard girls, :VII's. John
Hooper, Mrs, Frank Vallaire, Mrs. Catherine Cummings, Bridget
O'Dea the first priest's housekeeper, Mary and Ellen O'Brien, who
later took up the work of teaching catechism, also a Miss Julia
Barnard, the first organist, and likewise her successor, Mrs.
Patrick O'Brien, who is still living in the parish. This list would
be incomplete without the name of Mrs. Henrietta Byerley, wife
of Samuel Byerley, a woman of superior qualities of heart and
mind. She was familiar with many of the European languages.
Oftentimes she acted as an interpreter for those, who, not know­
ing English or French, wished to make their confessions, think­
ing nothing of accompanying them to and from Notre Dame. Her
home was open to all. Kind, sympathetic, and charitable, her
name shall ever be held in grateful benediction.
As was said, the work of organization took place in 1858.
In the following year Father Carroll built the first church, a small
brick structure 60 x 30 feet, with a seating capacity of 350 per­
sons. Naturally enough the choosing of a name for the new
church was a question of great moment. The congregation was a
mixed one, and all had a right to be heard. The question seemed
to be settled, almost providentially. The main entrance had been
completed, and yet the church knew no name. It was not long so,
for those passing the new structure a few days later noticed
chiseled in a sand stone which was placed above the arch of the
main entrance; the name. "St.. Patrick's Church." There was. no
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one to question the wisdom of the selection, nor were inquiries
carried too far as to who had placed the stone above the door.
The furnishing of the church itself called forth a new show of
generosity on the part of the parishioners. Note might be made
of the gift of Mrs. Timothy Sullivan who contributed the first
sanctuary carpet and candlesticks used in the church.
In order to pay for this church, which cost fourteen thousand
dollars, Father Carroll collected money throughout the country,
but principally in New Orleans. In a later year, during the pas­
torate of the Rev. Peter P. Cooney, C. S. C., thirty-six feet were
added to the length of this building and a wing was built 50 x 32
feet, which served for some years as a school, and then as a place
of worship for the Polish people, until they were able to provide
a church for themselves. At this time all the Catholics on the
west side of St. Joseph River, about 1,250 souls, worshipped in St.
Patrick's Church.
The present property of St. Patrick's parish, which was pur­
chased dur-ing the pastorates of the Rev. Fathers D. J. Hagerty, C.
S. C., and John W. Clark, C. S. C., for seven thousand two hun­
dred dollars, extends from Taylor street through to Scott Street,
400 feet. It has a frontage on Taylor Street of 140 feet and 100
feet on Scott Street.
THE PRESENT CHURCH
The corner stone of the present church, which is the second
of St. Patrick's Parish, was laid in 1886, and the structure was
completed the following year, 1887, during the pastorate of the
Hev. D. J. Hagerty, C. S. C. The church, which has a seating
capacity of 800, is of Gothic architecture and is richly frescoed in
cream arid gold. The pews and confessionals are of oak; the
three altars, the brass and marble communion railing, and the
pulpit are all Gothic in style to harmonize with the architecture of
the building. The church cost about thirty-seven thousand dol­
lars, which money was raised by monthly collections. The
furnishings are mostly donations, and are valued approximately
at eight thousand dollars. Since the completion of this church
many improvements have been made to beautify the grounds:­
over a thousand feet of cement walks have been made, and an iron
fence of 140 feet has been built on Taylor Street.
THE SCHOOL
The new St. Patrick's School which was built in 1898, by the
Hev . .J. 'N. Clark, C. S. C., has dimensions 54 x 83 feet, and has
three large dass rooms which can accommodate one hundred and
lifty children. The building also. contains a large auditorium, a
large society rooru, and a wr-]] furnished gymnasium. The 'whole
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structure, which cost fourteen thousand dollars, is being paid for
by subscriptions and monthly collections. This school is for the
boys only, who are taught by the Sisters of Holy Cross. There
are eight grades, at the completion of which the pupils are
admitted to Notre Dame and South Bend public High School with­
out further examination. Attached to St. Patrick's Parish is St.
Joseph's Academy, conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Cross,
which serves also as a parochial school for the girls. This prop­
erty belongs to the Sisters, and was built at the request of Bishop
Luers, in 1866, during the pastorate of the Rev. Peter P. Cooney,
C. S. C. The Sisters of Holy Cross who teach in South Bend, all
reside at St. Joseph's Academy ..
THE PAROCHIAL RESIDENCE.
The construction of the first Parochial Residence, which was
situated on Division Street, next to the old church, was begun by
Father Carroll, and completed in 1865 by the Rev. William Corby,
C. S. C. This residence, which was considered a very fine house
at that time, cost eight thousand dollars, which sum was collected
by Father Corby. The present Parochial Residence was built in
1892, by the Rev. D. J. Spillard, C. S. C., �t a cost of seven thou­
sand five hundred dollars. It was situated on Taylor Street,
adjoining St. Patrick's Church. The value of the entire' church
property is estimated at seventy-five thousand dollars. The pres­
ent debt of the parish, which is on the school building only,
amounts to six thousand dollars.
THE SOCIETIES OF ST. PATRICK'S Crruncrr.
In 1866, the Rev. Peter P. Cooney, C. S. C., organized the
Children of Mary and the Holy Rosary Societies, which latter was
canonically established as the Living Rosary Society in 1892 by
the Rev. D. J. Spillard, C. S. C. The present pastor, the Rev. John
F. DeGroote, C. S. C., organized the St. Cecilians as a church
society in 1901. It is composed of girls up to seventeen years of
age, who have received their first holy communion, and from its
members is formed the junior choir. At the age of seventeen the
members of the St. Cecilians enter the Society of the Children of
Mary. Father DeGroote also organized the Holy Name Society in
1904, and in 1905 the St. Vincent de Paul Conference. The object
of the last Society is to provide for the poor wherever they are
found. The number of souls in the parish is at present about
twelve hundred and eighty-two. From St. Patrick's have come
three priests-two are members of a religious community-and
at present four of its members are students of theology. Five of
the young ladies of the parish have donned the holy habit of
religion. The parish has no missions or stations.
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Consecration Services
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Opening Vespers
The services of the consecration began Friday evening, May
7th, with the chanting of the Vespers of the Martyrs, within the
sanctuary of the church.
The Rev. William R. Connor, C. S. C., who acted as Master
. of Ceremonies at all services, presided at the Vespers. Father
Connor was assisted by Rev. Wm. Menneck, C. S. C.; Rev. Wm.
Burke, C. S. C.; Rev. James J. O'Brien, C. S. C.; Rev. Leo. Heiser,
C. S. C.; Rev. Cornelius Hagerty, C. S. C.; Rev. Staneslaus Szam­
ecki, C. S. C.
CONSECRATION OF CHURCH AND ALTARS
Many local and visiting priests assisted at the beautiful cere­
mony of consecrating the Church and Altars, which began at
seven o'clock, Saturday morning, continuing till nearly eleven,
when Solemn High Mass was celebrated by Rev. George Finnegan,
C. S. C., Rector of Holy Cross Seminary, Notre Dame. The Rev.
James O'Brien, C. S. C., was archdeacon; Rev. William R. Con­
nor, C. S. C., Master of ceremonies. Ten seminarians from Notre
Dame assisted as chanters. The consecration ceremony proper
was private, after which the church was open for attendance at
the Solemn Mass.
RECEPTION TO THE ApOSTOLIC DELEGATE
The Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Bonzana, reached here
from Plymouth at three-thirty, when he was met by a reception
committee of citizens, parish priests, and Right Rev. Herman
Joseph Alerding, bishop of Fort Wayne, Right Rev. Peter J. Mul­
doon, D. D., bishop of Rockford, and Right Rev. Joseph S. Glass,
C. M. D. D., bishop of Salt Lake City.
South Bend's welcome to the Apostolic Delegate opened by
the simultaneous blowing of all factory whistles and the ringing
of church bells. It was also the signal for the mammoth parade
to proceed on its line of march. Hundreds of business houses
and homes were adorned with American flags and bunting in the
papal colors. Thousands of citizens wore tiny flags and ribbon
bows of the yellow and white. The coming of the representative
of Pope Benedict XV was an occasion of intense interest and an
immense concourse of people blocked the streets along. the line
of march.
Archbishop Bonzano rode in the carriage used by General
Grant while he was President of the United States. The landau,
which is now in possession of the Studebaker Corporation, was
drawn by four black horses. Accompanying the distinguished
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Bishop Glass
Exterior of -Cliurcli
Recep tioti Committee
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guest were Rt. Rev. Bishop Alerding, Rev. John F. DeGroote, C.
S. C., pastor of St. Patrick's, and Mayor Carson.
Immediately following in autos were: Rt. Rev. Bishop Mul­
doon of Rockford, Ill.; Rt. Rev. Bishop Glass, of SaIt Lake City;
Very Rev. Andrew Morrissey, C. S. C., of Notre Dame, Provincial
of the Congregation of Holy Cross. Very Rev. James Burns, C. S.
C., president of Notre Dame, Rev. John Delaunay, C. S. C., who
accompanied His Excellency from Washington, Rev. William R.
Connor, C. S. C., of St. Mary's, Notre Dame, and others of the
local and visiting cler-gy. These members of the parade escorted
the Apostolic Delegate to the reviewing stand in front of St. Joseph
Academy where the twenty-five hundred marchers were reviewed.
The Parade was led by Grand Marshal John A. Grief and his aides,
Michael Rosinski and John C. Hiss. Members of St. Stephen's
Parish composed the first division in the parade. The second
division was from St. Patrick's Parish and had the largest repre­
sentation of all, there being four hundred six men from this con­
gregation. The service flag of the parish was carried in the
march. Next in line was St. Mary's, and in this division marched
the Catholic Knights in uniform.
St. Stanislaus' Parish was well represented and there were
three hundred marchers from St. Joseph's. The men of Sacred
Heart Parish were led by the LaPorte City Band. St. Adalbert's
Parish was led by a mounted guard followed by the Polish Falcon
Band. Sprinkled in the parade were various uniforms and ban­
ners, symbols handed down to their bearers through many years
of tradition. There were many veterans of the World War in
American uniform. A few of the marchers revealed by their
sky-blue uniform that they had served in the allied armies under
the Polish colors. The rear of the long parade was brought up
by two hundred and eighty youths in Boy Scout uniforms. After
the parade, when the marchers from St. Patrick's had disbanded,
hundreds hurried back toward the reviewing stand to witness
the rest of the procession as there was no countermarching. When
the last Parish division filed past, prelates and priests made their
way from the reviewing stand to St. Patrick's rectory. His Excel­
lency and others paused to speak a word of congratulation to the
various groups of men.
PONTIFICAL MASS.
The events of Sunday made the day a most memorable one.
rI For the first time in the history of the Fort Wayne Diocese, an
apostolic delegate pontificated at solemn High Mass when Mon­
signor Bonzano was celebrant at the morning service, and irn­
parted the papal blessing. Promptly at ten-thirty o'clock the
impressive procession, led by the surp liced boys' choir and com-
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Main Altar
Interior of Church
His Excellency in Grant's Landau
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posed of the Delegate, the visiting bishops and priests, moved
from St. Joseph's Academy and entered the church. Then fol­
lowed the solemn and beautiful ceremonies of the pontifical high
Mass. The sanctuary, marvelously beautiful with the main altar
of marble and onyx garlanded with red roses, was completely
filled by the visiting celebrities and priests. Boy choristers,
ranged on a platform near the communion railing, were heard
at the Introit, Gradual, Offertory and Communion. Archbishop
Bonzano was seated on a throne to the left of the sanctuary
and Right Rev. Bishop Aler di ng to the right. The officiating
prelate was attended by Very Rev. James Burns, C. S. C., Arch­
priest; Rev. Anthony Zubowicz, C. S. C., and Rev. P. J. Carroll,
C. S. C., South Bend Pastors, deacons of honor; Rev. Leo Heiser,
C. S. C., and Rev. Cornelius Hagerty, C. S. C., of Notre Dame)
deacon and sub-deacon of the Mass; Rev. Wi lliam R. Connor,
C. S. C., of St. Mary's, Notre Dame, Master of ceremonies;
Rev. Louis A. Moench, rector of St. Joseph's, Mishawaka, and
Rev. Joseph Scherer; C. S. C.; pastor of St. Mary's Church,
South Bend, were deacons of honor to Bishop Aler di n g; Rev.
Daniel Spillard, C. S. C.; and Rev. John Osadnik, deacons of
honor to Bishop Glass; Hev. Roman Marci niak, C. S. C., and
Rev. A. Schokaert, deacons of honor to Bishop Muldoon.
An elaborate musical program was rendered by St. Patrick's
Mixed Choir, under the direction of Professor John .I. Becker, Mrs.
G. A. Farabaugh presiding at the organ. Rheinberger's Mass in
A. Op. 126 -was sung. The program is as follows:
"Ecce Sacerdos Magnus," RehIe, by the Mixed Choir; "Vidi
Aquam," Gregorian, Mixed Choir; -"Introit," Tozer, Bo-ys' Choir ;
"Kyrie" and "Gloria," Rheinberger, Mixed Choir; "Gradual,"
Tozer, Boys' Choir; "Credo," Rheinberger, Mixed Choir; "Offer­
tory," Loxhai, Boys' Choir; "Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus
Dei," Rheinberger, Mixed Choir; "Communion," Tozer, Boys'
Choir; Postlude for Organ, selected, Mrs. Farabaugh.
The sermon on this occasion was preached by Very Hev.
Andrew Morrissey, C. S. C., of Notre Dame, Provincial of the
Congregation of Holy Cross and one of the foremost educators in
America .. "Christ in His Church" was the theme of his scholarly
discourse in which he spoke of the significance of the consecra­
tion and the power of the Church in the world. He outlined
briefly the growth of the church since the day of Pentecost and
pointed with pride to its achievements through its nineteen hun­
dred years of labor in all corners of the earth. He praised the
unflagging zeal of the Saints and Martyrs of the ages who fastened
the foundations of the Faith in the face of terrific opposition and
persecution. He spoke of the sacrifices of the members of St.
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Clül dren's Parade
Bishop Muldoon and Bishop Glass
Head of Parade (Wayne St.)
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Patrick's Parish, both living and dead, whose devotion to their
faith made possible the consecration of such a beautiful temple
of worship.
"The Church's one Foundution is Jesus Christ," Father Mor­
rissey declared, "and her doctr-ines are open to the scrutiny of the
world. Though centuries have come and gone its fundamental
principles and ordinances have remained unchanged and its pro­
tecting arms have encircled the earth."
During the course of the announcements, Father DeGroote
took the opportunity to thank the members of his parish for the
generosity which had made the beautifying of the church a
reality. Their support during his twenty-one years as priest of
the parish had been all that any pastor could desire, he declared.
He took occasion to express his gratitude to the' Apostolic Dele­
gate and the visiting bishops and distinguished clergymen for
the honor of their presence at the consecration.
At the conclusion of his remarks, Father DeGroote read to his
parishioners a leiter of congratulation and commendation from
His Holiness, Pope Benedict XV. The epistle, dated from the
Vatican April 3, was a splendid tribute to Father DeGroote's
arduous devotion to the work of St. Patrick's parish and the
visible result of his leadership. The Pope also took occasion to
commend the work of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, in the
following words:
"This solemnity is not merely a local religious celebration.
It is also a commemoration of the apostolic work to which with
exemplary abnegation and indefatigable generosity, the Congre­
gation of Holy Cross has for long years been devoting itself in
the Middle West, where, to say nothing of the great University of
Notre Dame it has founded and developed flourishing parishes
among them the parish of St. Patrick's, the direction of which
during the last twenty-one years has been confided to the wise,
active and beneficient care of your pastoral zeal, Reverend Father
DeGroote."
THE BANQUET.
At one o'clock a dinner at the Oliver Hotel was given in honor
of His Excellency, the Most Reverend Joh n Bonzano, and to the
Right Reverend Bishops and clergy attending the solemn conse­
cration. It was given under the auspices of the South Bend
Council of the Knights of Columbus.
The principal speaker was Monsignor Bonzano. Owing to
the fact that the school children had already formed in parade
outside the hotel, his speech and all the others were necessarily
brief. The Monsignor praised the splendid spirit and the public
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Bishop Glass Congratulating
Father DeGroote
Marshal of Parade and Aids
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display of faith shown by the men who paraded Saturday. His
subject was "The Holy Father," and he told his auditors how day
and night Pope Benedict was praying, working and planning for
the relief and consolation of the devastated European countries,
giving equal attention to the mighty and the humble.
Overcome with emotion, he declared he had forgotten the
speech he had prepared for the occasion, then spoke intimately
and encouragingly of the strong faith and devotion with which
the community was imbued.
He drew a burst of spontaneous applause when he declared
that after an eight year residence in America he was at heart an
American. The Monsignor speaks with a decided Italian accent
but has such perfect enunciation that his words were easily
understood. Quiet, mild-mannered and dignified, he was greeted
with applause which lasted for several minutes, by the guests
who stood at their places.
The Right Rev. Joseph S. Glass, the first speaker on the pro­
gram, condensed his speech on "America" to an impromptu toast
lasting less than ten minutes. His opinion, he said, was that
America was a providential nation, and that God i ncendcd it to
be so. That it is and always should be the greatest nation on the
face of the earth. As proof of the greatness of America, he
pointed to the fact that the best people of all the other nations
come to America to live.
He declared that the greatest gift a Catholic could give to
the United States was to be true to his faith. "This," he said,
"will do more to neutralize the social unrest than any other
thing."
William A. Melnerney in a few brief remarks paid tribute to
the Priests of the Holy Cross, and in particular to the pastor of
St. Patrick's, Rev. John F. DeGroote, whose labors as parish priest
for a score of years were rewarded by the consecration of one
of the most beautifully decorated churches in the middle west.
He said that the celebration was due mainly to the efforts of
Father DeGroote, whose genius for organization was acknowl­
edged by all South Bend. Mr. McInerney declared that he would
like to speak longer, but owing to the fact that four or five of his
children were outside waiting in line, he thought it best to be
brief.
Very Rev. Andrew Morrissey said that he knew of no other
body of clergy and laymen whose loyalty was so pronounced as
those over whom he had the honor to have some jurisdiction.
G. A. Farabaugh acted as toastmaster, and the Harry Geiss
Orchestra played during the dinner.
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His Excellency Entering the Rectory
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CHILI>HEN'S PAIL\DE.
Iuuuedi atelv following the banquet the children from the
parochial schools passed before the reviewing stand oll' the
second floor of the Oliver Hotel, where thc Papal Delegate, thc
Hight Hev. Bishops and the priests of all the South Bend parishes
were assembled. More than four thousand school children were
in line, one of the most imposing spectacles of its kind ever wit­
nessed in South Bend. Dressed uniformly and marching to the
martial music of half a dozen bands, the children with their
gold and white ribbons presentcd an interesting picture.
The children of St. Patrick's Parochial School headed the
parade, followed by those of St. Joseph's Academy, St. Joseph's,
St. Hedwigc's, St. Mar-y's, St. Cassimer's, St. Stanislaus', Sacred
Heart, St. Stephen's, and St. Adelbert's.
As they passed the reviewing stand the command, "Eyes
right" was given and a sea of young faces looked up toward the
stand where the priests doffed their hats in recognition of them.
They then escorted His Excellency from the hotel to the residence
of Father DeGroote. Thousands of spectators cheered the chil­
dren during their short march. Service men and school teachers
acted as marshals of the parade.
SOLEMN V ESPEHS.
The finale of the day's celebration, Solemn Vespers, took
place at seven forty-five. Bishop Glass was celebrant and Hev.
William F. Minnick and Rev. William Burke were deacon and sub­
deacon respectively. Rev. James J. O'Brien and Rev. Joseph Sulzer
were the deacons of honor. Right Rev. Herman Joseph Alereling
assisted in the sanctuary. Rev. 'William Connor was master of
ceremonies, being assisted in the sanctuary by the seminarians
from Holy Cross Seminary.
This service was featured by an excellent musical program
by the mixed choir and several selections by the Boys' Choir. At
the close of the Benediction the congregation sang, "Praise' ye
the Father."
Following the vespers Ht. Hev. Bishop Muldoon delivered
the sermon, taking as a general topic, "We have an altar," and
explaining the significance of Catholic practice. He traced the
history of sacrifice from the biblical times of the old testament
down to the present time. He said that the preachers of the
Catholic Church were and always have been, preaching the one
message of ".I l'SUS Christ and Him crucified."
Continuing, the Bishop showed the need of religion in this
country since only sixty }>erc(,l1t of the people of Amer í cu a\'(�
professing an;: 1 eIigious belief.
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He showed how it is possible for every preacher of the
Catholic Faith to stand up and say to the people, "You can't cast
aside your wife and take another. If you do you are practising
polygamy. If you leave your wife and take another you are
committing a grave offense against God." To the wage earner:
"Give a fair day's work to your employer." To the employer:
"You must give more than a minimum wage, in the words of the
encyllical of Pope Leo XIII, you must give a decent wage. You
cannot throttle the preachers of justice, and the justice of men
should be spoken of freely and without control."
The Bishop in concluding said, "What is to become of Amer­
ica with her luxury, theaters, magazines and dancing? The only
remedy is the preaching of the gospel which teaches the glory
and strength of Jesus Christ."
PONTIFICAL REQUIEM MÀss.
Celebration of Pontifical Requiem Mass by Rt. Rev. Michael
Gallagher, Bishop of the Diocese of Detroit, an eloquent pane­
gyric by Rev. James A. Burns, C. S. C., and the rendition of a
Gregorian Chant Mass by the Holy Cross Seminary Choir from
Notre Dame, opened the third day's program attendant on the
consecration. The impressive service at nine o'clock was attended
by a congregation that filled the sacred edifice. Reverend John
F. De'Grootc, C. S. C., the Hector, was assistant priest at the pon­
tifical Mass; Rev. Charles Fischer and Rev. James O'Brien, C. S.
C., deacons of honor; Rev. William Minnick, C. S. C., deacon of
the Mass; Rev. Stanislaus Scamecki, sub-deacon; Rev. William
H. Connor, C. S. C., master of ceremonies.
The music for the Hequiem High Mass and absolution was
Gregorian, with the exceptions: "Gradual and Tract," R. M. Si lby ;
"Sequence, Dies Irae," Male Quartet ; "Offertory," Mendelssohn;
"Benedictus," H. M. Silby; Motet, "Non Sum Di gnus," J. Miterrer.
The sennon on this occasion was preached by the Rev. James
A. Burns, C. S. C., the distinguished President of Notre Dame
University. Father Burns' eloquent sennon will be found else­
where in this volume.
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Holy Cross Night
Holy Cross celebration followed by Solem n Vespers con­
e luded the program of services attendant on the consecration of
the church.
He v. Patrick .J. Carroll, C. S. C., Pastor of St. Joseph's Church,
gave an outline of the work and accomplishments of the early
missionaries and the establishment of the Congregation of the
Holy Cross in this part of the country. Father Carroll's sermon
will he found on page--.
The V cry Hev. Andrew Morrissey was celebrant at Solemn
Vespers and Benediction. Hev. William Lennartz, C. S. C., was
deacon, and Hev. George Finnegan, C. S. C., sub-deacon. In
the sanctuary was Rt. Hev. Bishop of this Diocese, attended by
Rev. William Burke of St. .Joseph's Church. Rev. Wm. R. Con­
no!', C. S. C., acted as Master of Ceremonies, and Hev. William
Mi n n i ck, C. S. C., was assistant Master of Ceremonies.
The choir of the Holy Cross Seminary which consists of
eighty-four voices, under the direction of Rev. Charles J. Mar­
shall, C. S. C., presented a program which included Sixteenth
Century as well as modern church music. Twenty-four voices
sang in the four-part male choir, and two unison choirs of thirty
voices each, chanted the Psalms.
The program of music was as follows: "Deus in adjutorium,"
H. M. Si lby ; Antiphons and Hymn, Gregorian according to the
Solemn Version, First Pslarn, Mode Seven, R. M. Silby; Second
Psalm, Mode Three, Gregorian; Third Psalm, Mode One, Greg­
orian; Fourth Psalm, Mode Seven, L. P. Manzetti; Fifth Psalm,
Mode Eight, Gregorian; "VexilIa Regis," Gregorian; "Magnificat,"
Mode Two, H. M. Silby ; "Regina Coeli," Lotti.
Tributes and Appreciations
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DJ SUA SANTITA
OAL VATICANO. 5 AP ril 1920
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DA C"ITARSI NELLA RISPOSTA
Dear Reverenâ Father,
The Holy Father has learned with lively satisfac�
tian that on the eIghth day of May next, in the presence
of Monsignor, the Apostolic Delegate at Washington, the
parish church of St. Patrick will be consecrated by your
venerable Bishop, Mgr. AlerdIng.
Th 1 S SO lemn I'ty I S not me rely a local r-e L Lg.i ous
celebratIon It is also a commemoration of the apos­
tOlIC work to whIch� WIth exemplary abnegation and in­
defatIgable generosIty. the Congregation of Holy Cross
has for long years been devoting itself in the Middle West.
whcrc--to säy n o t.h i ng of the great Universi ty of Notre
Dame-It has founded and developed flourishing parishes
and among them the pariSh of St. Patrick. the direction
of which durIng the past twenty-one years has been con­
fIded to the wise. active, and beneficient care of your
pastoral zeal
HIS HolIness accordIngly rejOICeS at this opportu­
nIty of cordIally congratulating, not only your vener­
able Bishop and yourself, Reverend Father, but �ll
those who have contributed to the erection and comple­
tion of St. Patrick's Church, and He is pleased to l�arn
that the solemnity of the occasion wIll be enhanced by
the presence thereat of several eminent prelates.
Ardently desirous of a brIlliant future for St.
Fatrlck's parish, as for the different works dependent
thereon. the Holy Father sends from His inmost heart His
specIal ApostolIc BleSSIng to you, Reverend Father, to
all your co-laborers, to all the members of your soci­
eties, to all the teachers and pupils of your school,
and to all your parIshioners, as a pledge of heavenly
favors and the prosperity of all your pious activities.
In acqu�ttIng myself of the agreeable duty of
makIng known to you the mind of His Holiness in this
matter, I profit by the occaSIon to proffer my own warm
cong�atulations, and to assure you of my deeply reli­
Œious sentiments In your regard.
P. CARDINAL GASPARRI.
To
The Rev. Father De Groote, C.S.C.,
?�stor of St. Patrick's Parish,
South Bend, Indiana.
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N ew Rahnen t >:<
HEV. P. J. CARROLL, C. S. C.
A bygone Celtic saint I love
Made books in magicwise;
A brown-robed monk of Italy
Brought angels from the skies.
And some men write their dreams in song,
Some carve them into stone;
And some will clasp a string and wake
The magic of a tone.
This dream: a temple touched by time,
\Vhere millions down the years
Sought comfort in their sorrowing
And soothing in their tears.
'Tis clothed as with a raiment new,
This cherished thing grown old:
The worn-out robes of yester year
Are changed to robes of gold!
o some men set their dreams to song,
Some work them into clay,
And some will make an ancient thing
The glory of today!
*Written for the occasion of the Consecration of St. Patrick's
Church.
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A Word of Thanks *
REV . JOHN F. DEGROOTE, C. S. C.
First, of all, all honor and glory to Almighty God, Who has
enabled us to continue this work and bring it to a successful con­
clusion. "Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain
who build it."
Next, our gratitude is due to St. Patrick, under whose protec­
tion this congregation has been placed.
I thank your Excellency for honoring us today by your pres­
ence. Among the many duties of your exalted office you spare
time to put your seal and your blessing on our work. Through
you, the representative of Pope Benedict XV, I return profound­
est gratitude to Our Holy Father for his personal message con­
veying his greetings to us and bestowing the Apostolic blessing.
I thank the Rt. Rev. Bishop of the Diocese for consecrating
the church and the main altar and for his presence among us. Also
Rt. Rev. Bishops Muldoon, Glass, and Gallagher, not only for hav­
ing kindly conented to take part in the ceremonies of the three
days, but also for the generous sentiments that prompted them
to come from such great distances.
I thank Very Rev. Father Morrissey for his very able and
impressive sermon, and the Rev. Fathers for coming here today
from their many and important duties in their own churches, to
honor us with their presence.
I thank our guests and friends from outside the parish, and
in particular our non-catholic friends who have come here at
great inconvenience to themselves to witness the successful
crowning of our labors.
Above all I tender my grateful appreciation to the members
of this congregation of St. Patrick's whose self-sacrifice and gen­
erosity made this event possible. I can assure the Rt. Rev. Bishop
that nowhere in the diocese is there a more loyal parish than this
of St. Patrick's.
"This is the day the Lord has made, let us exult and rejoice
therein."
*Delivered on Sunday, May 8, just before the Sermon of the
Consecration.
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His Excellency Leaving Rectory
Sanctuary Choir
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The Catholic Pioneers of
South Bend *
"Let us praise men of renown, and our fathers in their gen­
eration. These are men of mercy, whose godly deeds have not
failed. Good things continue with their seed, their posterity are
an holy inheritance, and their seed hath stood in the covenants.
'Their children for their sakes remain forever; their seed and their
glory shall not be forsaken."-Eccilis.
This solemn requiem service reminds us of one of the most
consoling teachings of our Holy Faith: the dead, although they
be taken from our sight, are not separated from us forever nor
altogether. They continue to belong to the one True Church,
and through their union with that Church remain united to us,
and thus we may aid them by our prayers. Every time the
holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered the Church recalls the mem­
ory of her departed ones; and so, in the midst of this celebra­
tion, it is fitting that our thoughts and our charity should go
out more abundantly towards those members of this congrega­
tion who have "gone before us with the sign of Faith and rest
in the sleep of peace."
But if the first purpose of this requiem service is to remind
us of what we may do for the departed by our prayers another
and not less important purpose is, to remind us of what those
departed members, especially the early members of the parish,
have done for us. Looking back sixty years we can see great
changes. The parish has grown; in numbers and in influence it
has multiplied itself over and over; from it have sprung, directly
or indirectly, all the other Catholic parishes of the city. If we
look at the matter rightly, however, we shall see that what the
parish is today, in numbers, in material resources, in inner
spiritual force, and all the work it is doing-religious, social,
educational-is but the outgrowth and development of what was
implanted here in the beginning. It is the story of the mustard
seed over again-the tiny seed springing up in the earth and
growing greater and greater until at length it becomes a mighty
tree in whose branches the birds of the air build their nests.
The thought of the deceased members and benefactors of this
congregation carries us back to the time when there were only
a few log cabins huddled together in the great bend of the St.
Joseph River, which has given the city its name, with a few
farm clearings in - the country round about. The first historic
"Delivered at the Memorial Mass, Monday, May 10, 1920, by
the Rev. James A. Burns, C. S. C., President of the University of
Notre Dame.
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< Reviewing Stand
Bishops Alerdinq, Muldoon and Glass Leaving Church After Pontifical Mass
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references we have to the ministry of souls here go back to the
year 1835. Chicago was then a litt le struggling town; and there
were only three priests in the diocese of Vincennes, comprising all
Indiana and the eastern half of Illinois. The church in America
was, however, quick to realize the possibi lities of the future;
and in the year 1834, Simon Gabriel Bruté had been appointed
Bishop of Vincennes. This learned and saintly prelate, who had
been driven from France many years before by the great Revolu­
tion, immediately set about visiting the scattered sheep of his
immense pastoral charge, and thus we find him, after a horse­
back ride of hundreds of miles, reaching this place where he
found, even at that early date, a few Catholic families. That was
in 1835, and this is the first historic record we have of Catholic
services or ministrations in South Bend. But we may believe
that, even before Bishop Bruté, these few Catholic families were
visited by Father Badin, the first priest ordained in the United
States, who was stationed at Fort St. Joseph, near Notre Dame,
between 1830 and 1834, and who from that ancient mission cen­
ter travelled all through northern Indiana and southern Michigan,
ministering to the widely scattered Catholics. It is morally cer­
tain that Father Badin came here again and again. We may then
safely add the name of Father Badin to that of the great Bishop
Bruté, and say that these two men were the pioneer shepherds
of this flock, the men who implanted here the tiny mustard seed
of faith, as they did in so many other places in the Middle West,
the men whose names it is fitting for the people of the parish to
recall on a day like this and to hand down in grateful remem­
brance to their children.
It is good to remember that there were Catholics here-both
priest and bishop here-long before there was an organized
parish, and that the Catholic Church was here before this town
had a corporate existence. For many years, however, the mem­
bers of the church must have been very few. It was not until
about 1849 that the first real influx of Catholics came. The
Michigan Central and the Lake Shore roads were being built at
the time, and these two great arteries of commerce and travel,
attracting the stream of immigration that naturally tended to stop
and spread itself over the seaboard states, drew thousands of
immigrants to the farms and little rising settlements of the West.
These early Catholic settlers were practically all either Irish or
Germans. They were poor and glad to get work of any kind,
and the work that they engaged in was of the hardest and the
roughest sort-out on the railroad tracks as section hands or
day-laborers in the grimy shops and tiny industries of the grow­
ing towns. They had, as a rule, little social standing or influ­
ence in their community; but those men and womcn had that
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which was more precious than riches and more ennobling than
any social stan di ng : they had the spirit of the Faith, coming
down to them through centuries of purest and strongest Catholic
ancestry; and that spirit of faith) enwrapped in their poverty
and obscurity, like seed in a rough but fertile soil, was destined)
in God's Providence, to bloom forth into the mighty growth of
the Church Catholic and Universal that we see today in this great
Middle West.
The beginnings of organized parish life in South Bend really
date from this period, although a permanent pastor was not
appointed until some nine years later. South Bend was fortunate
in its proximity to Notre Dame. From this time onward we find
that the priests of Notre Dame came regularly to minister to the
infant church, and among them Father Sorin, himself, the
founder of Notre Dame, who is, therefore, rightly to be recorded
as one of the pioneer priests of this parish. The first church
of the parish dates from. the year 1858, when Father Thomas
Carroll was appointed as the first resident pastor. It was a
small brick building and stood on Division Street. It was after­
ward enlarged during the pastorate of Father Cooney. The first
church cost fourteen thousan d dollars. This seems a mere trifle
now, but what an appalling debt it must have appeared in those
days! A subscription to the new church from men who were
getting no more than a dollar a day, with their newly erected or
newly-purchased homes to be paid for and their growing families
to be supported, meant the most keenly felt personal sacrifices in
behalf of religion, sacrifices the extent of which we today are little
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able to realize. And tradition tells us that these noble pioneers of
the Faith, not content with giving their five dollars or their
one dollar, as the case might be, wou ld go down to Division
Street after their hard day's work of twelve hours, and labor
by the light of lanterns far into the night at the laying of the
foundations or the erecting of the walls of the new building. It
was out of such dispositions on the part of both clergy and laitv
that the spiritual edifice of Catholicity in South Bend took its
rise.
I have said that St. Patrick's parish, large and prosperous as
it is today is only a development of that little parish of sixty years
ago. Let me call your attention to a few broad facts which
illustrate this, and which show that the blessing of God has rested
with a peculiar fullness upon the life and work of the pioneer
Catholics of this congregation.
A fact that is especially significant of the spirit of Faith
which was so strong in the early days, is, that of the fifteen souls
from this parish who have been consecrated to the service of
God, the larger number have been related in some way to the
pioneer families. Again, the two oldest societies in the parish,
the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary and the Children of Mary,
both estsablished in 18ßß, and both still strong and flourishing,
have been, I might say, the parent societies of all the religious
organizations in the parish. A glance at the membership of the
numerous societies of toda v will show that the greater portion
of those who have been m�st active and influential in them, are
connected in some way with the devoted men and women who
constituted the early membership of the two pioneer religious
societies.
The life and work of the parish illustrates this same feature
of continuity and development. From the time 6f the appoint­
ment of the first resident priest down to the present, St. Patrick's
has had eleven pastors. Several of these were here but a few
months, while awaiting the appointment of a permanent pastor.
All of these eleven priests have belonged to the Congregation
of the Holy Cross. Some of them were very remarkable men;
all of them were fervent and zealous priests, devoted ministers
of God to the people of this parish. First among them was
Father Thomas Carroll, who built the pioneer. church, a man of
deepest faith and piety, who in his last years, as an everlasting
memorial of his devotion to the Mother of God, enriched Notre
Dame with her Grotto of Lourdes. Conspicuous among them I
might mention Fathers Cooney and Corby, famous war chap­
lains, one of whom became, after leaving this parish, a celebrated
missionary, and the other President of the University of Notre
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might mention also, Father Daniel Sp i llar d , who has filled various
important positions in the establishments of the Congregation;
Father Dennis Hagerty, who labored here for ten years and more,
and whose labors culminated so happily in the erection of this
present beautiful and impressive church; Father .lo hn Clarke, a
man as sweet and gentle on the human side as he was replete
with spiritual power and unction in his sacred ministrations, a
man, too, of the ripest scholarship, whose sermons are still re­
membered for their theological thoroughness and telling elo­
quence. Finally I must not forbear to mention-for it is only
just that I should do so-the present pastor, who came here a
young priest, full of zeal and energy, and whose many faithful
years among you have led up to these hallowed days, so glorious
for the parish, when this splendid temple, entirely free from debt,
adorned and beautified by its marble altars and pulpit and many
other artistic objects, is consecrated) solemnly and irrevocably,
to the worship of God.
It is in the field of education, however, that we find the con­
tinuous development of parish life and spirit especially evident.
St. Patrick's is justly proud of its system of schools, with the fine
moderly equipped school buildings, offering opportunity for the
education of both boys and girls, and entirely supported by the
voluntary contributions of the people of the parish. I know that
the present pastor has had very much to do with all this. It is but
a slight recognition of the value of his work to say that no priest
in the diocese has labored harder or more successfully than he
for the advancement of parish education. But we must not for­
get, on an occasion like this, how much of the result here again
flows to us out of the past, from the devoted educational efforts
of the priests, the Sisters and the Brothers, and the laity of
by-gone years.
Almost from the beginning, this parish has been blessed by
the teaching of the Brothers and the Sisters of the Holy Cross.
Their work began in the most humble way. Two frame cottages
with their bare walls, and some rude benches-such was prac­
tically all the equipment there was to start with. But the teachers
made up for whatever else was lacking. Gentle and refined by
nature, their souls were aglow with love and zeal for the divine
interests, while their minds were stored with wisdom and care­
fully trained in the art of inspiring others with the love of wisdom
and knowledge. Such has been, in general, the character of the
teachers who have molded the minds and hearts of the generations
of this mother parish. It was only natural that, with such teachers,
the school should be popular and should expand and enlarge
until, in time, from those poor and bare beginnings there should be
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evolved the two splendid institutions of which the parish is
today s� justly proud.
The names of Sisters Ambrose, Claudine and DePazzi, of
Brothers Benjamin, Theogene, Urban, Immanuel, as well as of
many other Sisters and Brothers who were their co-laborers or
the inheritors of their blessed tasks, are still gratefully recalled
among the people. Many of these devoted teachers have gone to
their eternal reward. But, "Their godly deeds have not failed."
These hundreds of children who now tax the capacity of the
classrooms and the schools to the full are the living evidences of
the fruitfulness of their work. And if St. Patrick's Parish is able
today to point confidently and proudly to its school system ; if it
can be said that the priests and the people of this parish are
united today as never before in support and defense of the Catholic
school, is it not because the generations of today have themselves
been trained in Catholic schools? Is it not because the pioneer
priests and people of the parish insisted upon the necessity of
Catholic education for their children ?-because they adopted as
an educational motto the principle that there should be a Catholic
training for every Catholic child and youth, through schools of
every kind, up to and including the university?
History, my dear brethren, is full of lessons, and the truly wise
are those who have learned to reverence its voice and read aright
its lessons. The history of this parish has its lessons for us of
this generation-lessons of supreme devotion to the Faith, taught
us by great priests like Bruté and Badin, Sorin and Carroll, who
labored so heroically to establish the Faith here; lessons of solid
Christian virtue that shine out in the devoted men and women
who gathered about these pioneer priests; lessons of unflinching
self-sacrifice in the cause of Christian education, given us by
those good Brothers and Sisters; lessons of a most practical char­
acter that impress themselves upon us, as we read over the annals
of the parish, as to the mutual love and esteem that ought ever to
animate pastor and people in their mutual relations.
It is good for us, at a time like this, to pause and listen to
these lessons, to gather up the scattered traditions, to record the
names and labors of those who have notably helped to make the
parish what it is, for the information and instruction of after gen­
erations. Sixty years is a long time measured by the life of a
man; but it is only as the briefest interval in the life of the Church
of God. After its solemn consecration, St. Patrick's parish may
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well feel itself to be no longer young; and yet it is, doubtless,
in only the earlier period of its history. In place of the few
families that formed the parish of Father Carroll, there are now
in the nine parishes of this city that arc historically connected
with this mother church, not less than five thousand families;
and in place of the two original parish schools with one hundred
children or so, there are now nine well-equipped parish schools
besides St. Joseph's Academy, counting altogether about four
thousand pupils and one hundred teachers. It has been a won­
derful, a blessed growth. But it is altogether likely that the
future will witness an even greater and more rapid growth than
such figures indicate; for these broad fertile states of the
Mississippi Valley seem destined to form, in the providence of
God, the very heart of this vast republic, and to become the
theater of its niost important developments.
May the future of St. Patrick's Parish-this is the wish that
I would frame for it-be worthy of that past which we today
commemorate; may its priests be ministers of God who will be
worthy to have their names recorded with the names of the
great priests of its past history; may its people be worthy descend­
ants, in spirit if not in flesh and blood, of the greater-hearted men
and women who laid the foundations of the parish; and may the
souls of all whom we commemorate this morning make inter­
cession with God, in return for our prayers, that this parish may
ever continue to be, as it has been in the past, a fruitful portion
of the vineyard of the Great Master, "a holy inheritance," whose
children may remain forever, and whose seed and glory may
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Planting the Seed"
REV. P. J. CARROLL, c. S. C.
On this Holy Cross night I am asked to record for you the
story of the early Catholic Missions of Northern Indiana and
Southern Michigan. It is a long and very noble tale. There is
nothing in all romance to more quickly awaken imagination, to
more ardently fire the emotions than the story of the Catholic
Missionaries who Christianized this country that lies all about
us.
The record takes us back to Allouez. This brave priest
crossed Lake Michigan from Green Bay in 1680, rowed up the
St. Joseph River, and about a half mile south of Niles erected
a little fort on the hill overlooking the gliding waters. Some
distance away he built a log chapel and a cabin. After a service
of ten years among the Indians he died in the summer of 1690.
Today his bones rest above the river along which he journeyed
so often, some short distance south of Niles.
Nearly two centuries later, in 1830, Father Badin came from
Kentucky, and pitched his camp near St. Mary's Lake at Notre
Dame. The noble speech of Chief Pokagan to Father Gabriel
Richard, Vicar General of Cincinnati, which secured the services
of Father Badin for the St. Joseph district is a touching appeal.
"My Father," said he, "I come to implore you to send us .a Black
Robe to instruct us in the word of God. We still preserve the
manner of prayer which was taught to our ancestors by the Black
Robe who resided at St. Joseph." He then recited the Our Father
and the Hail Mary, which his ancestors had been taught two
centuries before. Thus had they kept green the memory of
Allouez in the heart of Pokagan,
Father Badin labored along the St. Joseph for three years,
after which he went to Cincinnati and later to Kentucky. He was
followed by Father DeSeille, in 1832.
This gentle priest served the Indians for about three years.
The unvarnished record of his death still catches the heart. He
was alone except for his few Christian Indians. The wilderness
lay about him-the wilderness of those by-gone forests and far­
stretching fields. When he knew he was dying he dragged him­
self to the altar of the cabin chapel, administered to himself his
last Holy Communion. He was dead just six days when the mis­
sionary nearest him arrived to administer the last Sacraments.
In the spring of 1838 the government expelled all Pottawat­
tomie Indians of the St. Joseph district to the western line of the
* Dehvered, Holy Cross Night, l\Ionday, May 10, 1lJ20.
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state of Missouri. It was such an exile as the Israelites expe­
rienced when they were driven to their Egyptian bondage. We
have our own vision of these poor creatures sent from their
native hunting grounds, from the fields over which the solemn
forests sent long shadows-fields where the Black Hobe assem­
bled them morning and evening for prayer. They were carted
over the prairies of Illinois, through Iowa, Missouri, on to the
verge of Kansas, where their long journey ended. There were
sighs and lamentings but one comfort remained, the Black Robe
was with them in the person of Father Petit, the saintly De­
Seille's successor.
Father Petit had been laboring with them in 1838 when the
order of their banishment came. Like the true shepherd who
does not flee from the flock when the wolf comes, this noble priest
wrenched an unwilling consent from his bishop at Vincennes,
and conducted, as the chronicler puts it, "his dear Indians" to the
Osage River where he handed them into the keeping of Father
Hoeken who was to be the Black Robe of the Pottawattomies in
their new home.
Father Petit never saw the country around the St. Joseph
River any more. Worn from the long journey and heartbroken
for the loss of his Pottawattomies he died in St. Louis, February
10, 183H. "Greater love than this no man hath than that a man
lay down his life for his sheep." Fittingly three of these brave
men-Badin, DeSeille and Petit, sleep at Notre Dame; and
Allouez, a figure seen through the mist of long years sleeps some­
where beside the swift current of the river which his presence
blessed.
And now comes Edward Sorin and his kindred spirits of
November 26, 1842. When he arrived the snow lay thick upon
the land, the waters everywhere were in the grip of the ice. The
guiding hand of the Queen of Heaven Herself, to whom he was
so devoted, must have brought this enthusiastic young French
priest to the fields in which Badin, DeSeille and Petit labored.
The log chapel, on the altar of which DeSeille died, still remained.
The little room in which he ministered to his meager physical
wants, remained also. Father Sorin speaks of them with tender­
ness.
Let us see for a moment the prospect that greeted Sorin.
There were about twenty Catholic families with some Indians
that remained after the expulsion, scattered within a radius of
eight or ten miles. In all, the population of South Bend num­
bered one thousand people. In addition Bertrand, Niles, Lowell
and Mishawaka were all included in the missionary territory of
Notre Dame Du Lac. One does not like to recall these things
now, but one must record the gray as well as the gold in the
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picture. The six or eight Protestant pulpits that represented
South Bend and Mishawaka in those days, gave no hospitable
greeting to Sorin arid his band. They declared he was to get
one hundred thousand dollars from the Pope for the conquest
of this section of Indiana and added it would be useless for him
to attempt building a college as it would be burned to the ground
before completed. "See how these Christians love one another."
The missions attended by Father Sorin and his priests in
those early days are about as follows:
Notre Dame, (then commonly called S1. Mary's of the Lake),
Bertrand, Niles, I ... owell, South Bend, Mishawaka, Goshen, Plym­
outh, Berrien, LaPorte, Michigan City, Kalamazoo, S1. Joseph,
S1. John's and Constantine.
Notre Dame, as stated, numbered when Father Sorin came,
about twenty Catholic families-Indians and whites. The first
church, built of logs, by the Catholic men of the settlement, was
finished March 19, 1843. The first church to be consecrated was
on the first Sunday in November, 1849. Bishop Vande Weld of
Chicago, and Bishop DeLaHailandiere of Vincennes, were present
and took part in the ceremony. It is recorded, too, that Bishop
De La Hailandiere gave Confirmation in Goshen to seven persons
on the following Tuesday, and to twenty in Mishawaka on
Wednesday.
Bertrand, when Father Sorin first came, had about six Cath­
olic families. Tradition has it that the place was once a thriving
town; but this must have been before the coming of Father Sorin,
because in his memoirs he speaks of Niles and Mishawaka as
the centers of promise. To this little settlement the Sisters of
Holy Cross came j n 1 S44, where they opened an academy which
for many years was the headquarters of the entire sisterhood
until the establishment of the present S1. Mary's College. A sub­
stantial brick church was also erected in Bertrand. Some years
ago, after it had been allowed to fall into ruins, this church was
torn down and altogether dismantled. Of a summer day if one
has the time and the mood, one may still see below the tall
grasses the crosses in the old cemetery at Bertrand that mark
where rest the ashes of the forgotten Catholic dead.
In 1S50 a church was built in Niles. Father Sorin writes of
Niles as a very promising town, with a Catholic population in
1850 of perhaps sixty souls. Like all the other surrounding towns
it was at first attended by a non-resident priest from the Lake.
The town of Lowell was founded by Samuel Cottrell some
time around 1835. There were about two hundred people in
this mission in the year 1855-nearly all of them Catholics. Land
was given by the founder of Lowell in 1849 for a church and
school. In 184£l FaJIH>r Surin built the church which also served
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as a school. For many years a priest went down from the Lake
every Sunday to Lowell, where he said Mass at nine o'clock.
South Bend was founded by Alexis Coquillard in 1836. When
Father Sorin arrived here in 1842, on his great spiritual auven­
ture, the town, as stated, had a population of about a thousand
people. Like the other towns round about us South Bend was
for many years a station attended from the Lake. Before the
arri val of Father Sorin a priest from Chicago visited the place
two or three times a year. South Bend was visited once a week
from 1854 to 1857 by Father Maher, a Holy Cross priest who said
Mass for the settlers west of the river wherever and whenever
possible. In 1858 under the direction of Rev. Thomas Carroll,
there was begun the organization of St. Patrick's parish. Until
the erection of the first St. Patrick's Church in 1859, Mass was
said in the homes of the members of the congregation. This
present church was completed in 1887.
In 1848 Father Sorin bought church property for the
Catholics of Mishawaka for six hundred dollars. Probably thirty
families would be a reasonable estimate for the number of wor­
shippers at this time. Seven years later, however,-in 1855-we
note that a frame church and a parsonage were erected at the
cost of thirteen hundred dollars. In this year, too, we learn
that three Sisters of Holy Cross taught in their Academy forty
girls from Mishawaka and nearby cities.
In the early days of the Notre Dame religious colony, Goshen,
another of the Lake Missions, had a population of two hundred
souls with probably twenty Catholics all. told.
Plymouth had a total of some six Catholic families; Berrien,
where a priest said Mass occasionally, had only three.
LaPorte was a station attended by the Priests of Holy Cross
since 1842. In 1855, we are told, it took one hour to reach the
place by train. In this year after many attempts and failures, a
church was built and a Sisters' school opened with an attendance
of eighty children, one-half of whom were Protestants.
Michigan City was provided with a Catholic Church as early
as 1841, by Father De St. Palais, who later became bishop. In
1854 a priest's house was built. The Brothers of the Holy Cross
went there in 1852, and opened a high school; but in 1854 they
were replaced by the Holy Cross Sisters. In 1856 there were
two hundred Catholics in Michigan City, and ninety children
attending a Catholic school.
Kalamazoo, on the arrival of Father Sorin or shortly after­
ward, had a population of twelve hundred, one hundred of whom
were Catholics. A priest went there from the Lake to attend to
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the spiritual wants of these people many of whom were Indians,
with a dozen or so scattered whites. The way of travel was
primitive-ox teams, horseback, sleigh or farm wagon.
St. Joseph is also mentioned as one of the missions of the
Lake priests. Many a time these hardy spiritual pioneers were
rowed down the St. Joseph River from Bertrand by Indians in
their canoes to minister to the wants of the Catholics down there
by Lake Michigan.
Constantine, a small mission of some twelve families, is
recorded in the Memoirs, but there is no mention of just where
this station lay.
St. John's was a prosperous German settlement eighty miles
southwest of Notre Dame. A log church was erected there with
two additions at the end of this church containing apartments
for Priests, Brothers and Sisters who lived there. In 1852 a
school was erected for small children. In all, some one hundred
and eighty pupils were taught at _ St. Johns.
In the early days the Lake priests attended these missions
from the central mission at St. Mary's of the Lake. The Memoirs
speak of the ordination of Father Shortes and Father Schilling
in 1850, by the Bishop of Detroit. Father Schilling was sent
to the German parish at St. John's, and Father Shortes was a sort
of general missionary attending a number of stations. Among
the other priests who labored hereabout in those early days we
find the names of Fathers Cointet, Gonesse, Boroux, Curley. Fathers
Curley and Cointet were carried away in death by the disastrous
and mysterious cholera of 1854.
As belonging to a somewhat later date we may add the names
of Father Granger,-the apostle of the confessional-Letourneau,
who labored at Assumption School for some years, Carroll, the
first pastor of this church, Father Peter Lauth, and Father Maher;
also Fathers Gillen, Cooney, Corby, James Dillon, Carrier, who
besides their missionary labors, served as army chaplains dur­
ing the Civil War. There are other names of a later day, but
these pass beyond the scope of tonight's story.
And now, as the figures pass before us in review, out of the
mists of a more than half-forgotten past, there comes to us of
Catholic faith the quickerrings of gratitude and happiness; grati­
tude for service in sowing the seed, happ i nees for the fruition
of the harvest. Allouez and Badin, Def.eSei lle and Petit, Sorin,
Granger, Coi ntet, Boroux, Curley, and all the others: they are a
noble company who have left their landmarks here upon the
plains. They sowed the seed some of whose harvest we of today
are reaping. Theirs is a brave tale, reading which we take
fresh heart to bear up and carryon God's work for the little-
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while yet it is given us to labor. Somewhere their spirits hover
within this consecrated church, on this night set apart to speak
gratefully of their memories. They will be happy with us here.
The log cabin has been transmuted to marble and hrass; the
rough plans to graceful lines and subdued tones. "\\T e of the family
of Holy Cross-Fathers, Brothers, Sisters-who have labored
along the years together salute these our brave brothers of the
past. You of St. Patriek's Parish-Father DeGroote and his peo­
ple-bid them welcome to this noble church which, in a sense,
is set down here to their memory. And all the people of i hi s
eity who have been spiritually fostered and instructed by priests
of Holy Cross, share in the welcome of the priests and people of
this parish.
Eaeh man that does a good thing does it for his day and
days that follow. This is true of Father Badin; this is true of
Father Sorin. This is also true of Father DeGroote. He has
multiplied and enriched what he found here. Not only he arid
you of today will enjoy this chureh beautified to the glory of
God, but future pastors and future members of St. Patrick's
will enjoy it also.
Whatever is done is done for God. Men and women arc
but instruments in the accomplishment of the divine plan. In
the work of Allouez, Badin, and Sorin, in the work of this splen­
did church-God is everything, man nothing.
"Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed Nomine tuo da glor iam.':
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A Gothic GeITl
MAny F. NIXON BOULET
It is about sixty years since the inception of St. Patrick's
church, at South Bend, Indiana, and those who 'gaze today upon
the completed structure find it diflicult to believe that scarcely
more than a half century ago were laid the foundations of this
Gothic gem. The embryonic St. Patrick's, which was built of
brick by the toil of a handful of working men, working at the
church, often, far i nto the night (after their day's work was com­
pleted) under the guidance of their heroic pastor, Father Carroll,
seated only three hundred and fifty people.
Today, embowered in trees, a handsome stone structure raises
its Gothic towers against heaven's blue, fitting monument to the
zeal and heroism of the fervid souls who labored toward the ful­
fillment of this dream in stone, and one feels that upon the. portal
of the church should be carved:
"I was built in the sweat of the brows of men who
loved God, and who brought here their best that they
might do honor to Him with all the beauty and treasure
that lav in their hands."
Entering the dim portals of St. Patrick's, beneath the seal of
the "C. S. C." one pauses' in wonder at the beauty of the interior.
Have we been transported to some Old World shrine cradling
the prayers of the Ages? Mernor y flames in visions of St. Ghedule
in beautiful Brussels, to the Cathedral of Beauvais, beloved of f'air
France, to the church of San Juan de Los Reyes, of Toledo in
sunny Spain, beside the tawny Tagus banks-churches of the per­
fect Gothic type, for such is St. Patrick's, with the aspiring spirit
of the Free Goth in every line of its beautiful architecture.
There is an old world beauty within the quiet aisles, a rev­
erent spirit, a hush of prayer and sanctity, and when the church
is ablaze with lights and decked with flowers, the fragrance of the
myriad blossoms mingling with the scent of incense on the air,
it is as if one gazed upon some old world religious festival, from
the days when religion meant something to the people, when "Our
Gent lye Ladye Marye" was every knight's ideal, and when
"Art was still religion
With a simple, reverent heart."
A great writer upon the art of architecture tells us that "In
the entire field of architectural history there is no style which is
the equal of the Gothic. Egyptian buildings may impress the
beholder with their size and color, Grecian temples with the per­
fection of their proportions and the pure beauty of their sculp­
tures, Roman monuments with their lavish decoration and tre-
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mendous daring of their builders, but in none of them is there a
fraction of the emotional power which lies in the Gothic cathe­
dral. Gothic architecture is the very embodiment in stone and
glass of all that is noblest in human faith-the concrete expres­
sion of the hopes and fears of Christianity."
Born in France, Gothic architecture has the rare combination
of grace, lightness and deep religious feeling, so indicative of the
Freneh nature.
The time has passed when things Gothic spelled "Barbar­
ian" to the world, and the term Gothic as applied to architecture
become synonomous with symmetry as idealized in the ribbed
vault, the flying buttress, the mullion or "tracery" of the windows
-the sailent points of the Gothic style, although the pointed arch
has grown to be considered always as indicative of the Gothic
touch.
Writing of a Gothic cathedral, Lowell says,
"The Gereian gluts me with its perfectness,
Unanswerable as Euclid, self-contained,
The one thing finished in this hasty world­
But ah! the Gothic, this that never ends,
Still climbing, luring fancy still to climb,
Graceful, grotesque, with ever new surprise
Of hazardous caprices, sure to please,
Heavy as nightmare, airy-light as fern,
Imagination's very self in stone!"
This, indeed, is what the Gothic style is in reality, men's
dreams, thoughts, imaginings, perpetuated in stone, their very
prayers ensconed in marble pure as the mountain snows.
The new tendency of the Gothic architecture is, therefore, to
lead the mind upward, and in St. Patrick's church one feels this
instincti vely, for, from the dark wainscoating, in its tones of soft
terra cotta, the walls seem almost to float heavenward, melting
into the arches of the roof, interlacing like forest boughs of leafy
woodland glade. Romanticists tell us that Gothic architecture
originated in a "desire to reproduce the natural naves of the
forest, and the columns of a Gothic structure follow the lines of
the loft trees which stretched their brances up and toward each
other until they join," and the arches of St. Patrick's interior, like
forest aisles, seem instinct with life and emotion.
The pointed arches blend into the groined ceiling of the
purest Gothic style, walls and ceiling in soft hues of creamy tan,
bordered in touches of gray-green, rose, blue, and gold delicate
as the fragile blooms of some old mediaeval garden, the entire
e010r scheme blending in artistic consonance.
Everywhere is perfect taste displayed, a sort of joyous har­
mony commingled with the reverent calm of the quiet aisles, and
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even the little cherube peering down from the interstices of the
window arches seem to smile down upon the worshippers at the
Stations of the Cross below, and yet there is in their sweet and
childish eyes a faint wonderment, as if they asked of the souls
beneath:
"Are ye fair
Eternally, who enter in this house?"
Not the least remarkable of the accessories of the church
are the "Stations," set in frame of Gothic style, blending in tone
with the walls and keeping in concord the eternal harmonies of
the interior. The sculptured frames are like miniature cathe­
drals, with pinnacled tops, the central one terminating in a
cross, offset with ornamentations of flowers and fruits. The sta­
tions are in very high relief, each scene from the Passion depicted
with rare art by artists of the Daprato Statuary Company, and
they are not only artistic repr-esentations of the great scenes
depicted, but they are full of religious significance and replete
with devotion.
Studying individual Stations, one is struck with the individu­
ality of the types displayed. Careful study has portrayed these
figures, so different and so perfectly in keeping, as for instance,
in the Third Station where "Jesus Falls for the First Time," we
see the prostrate figure of the Lord of men, crushed beneath the
weight of His Cross, the delicate face bruised and bleeding under
His Crown of Thorns. In strong contrast are the figures of the
Roman Centurian, virile, handsome, pittiless, the two Jews, one,
evidently a Rabbi, a touch of pity upon his fine old face, the
other, hard and 'unbelieving, and the henchman of the law, bru­
tal and degraded, merely executing the centurian's stern com­
mands regardless of the suffering inflicted. All the figures rep-­
resented are characteristic of the age and the type, and each
shows the artist's genius and originality, as well as his careful
attention to details.
Suspended from the ceiling of the church as magnificent can­
delabra of gleaming gold and shining crystal in perfect harmony
with the interior, wrought skillfully in Gothic style, and executed
with the touch of a Benvenuto Cellini, that mediaeval master cis­
tellatura, whose work today is still treasured in Italian cathedrals
and churches. These works of art as well as all the beautiful
marble work, and the remodeling of St. Patrick's church are the
products of the ateliers of Daprato Statuary Company, those true
lovers of Christian art in whose studios work seems ever to be
done Call more.
In all the perfection of detail and artistic beauty of this mod­
ern church interior, the practical has by no means been for-
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gotten. The dark craven oak of the pews, commodious and
comfortable, is in keeping with the rubber-tiled 11001' covering,
soft hued as the walls, modest looking and very soft to the tread,
the latest thing in sanitation, as elegant and far more comfortable
and suited to our climate, than the marble tiles of ancient days.
The pulpit of the church is of rare Carrara marble, in chaste
design and from it one pictures a Saint Bernard or Saint Anthony,
preaching in silver-tongued eloquence, sermons of wondrous
power, inspired by so perfect a setting, and heard to the farthest
corner of the edifice, since the scoustics are so perfect that the
slightest whisper may be herd all over the building. The design
is as pure Gothic as pervades the rest of the building, simple and
artistic, with a three columnar base rising from a plain standard
to delicately chiselled pillars, which broaden to support the pul­
pit. This has mullioned panels in Gothic arches, surmounted by
a hand of carved acanthus leaves and scrolls, deeply cut and very
charming in contrast to the plain marble band, with polished sur­
face, surmounting the top. The sounding-board above is carved
with Dove, rays of light irradiating from it, symbolizing the Holy
Spirit and His illuminating power.
Interesting and beautiful as are the many accessories of this
interior, perfect in style as are its Gothic arches and mullioned
windows and frescoed ceilings, St. Patrick's is a perfect example
of Catholic architecture, since in it everything culminates in and
all is subservient to the altar.
The color scheme of the church is most harmonious in its
tones of cream and white and faintest rose like the blush of dawn,
yea, past it all the eye instinctively seeks the sanctuary, glowing
in "sunlit windows storied light," beyond long rows of carven
pews, dark and impressive, past the gleaming gold of the sanc­
tuary rails, with its wondrous workmanship, to the recess where,
in purest Carrara and creamy onyx, the High Altar-The Holy of
Holies-rears its Gothic pinnacles heavenward.
Recessed against a background of rose, upon which are
panels surmounted with paintings of the Doctors of the Church:
St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, St.
Gregory and St. Alphonsus Liguori. The sanctuary is lighted .hy
six lancet windows, where in splendid hues of rose and gold,
emerald and crimson and sapphire, loft and granel.
"Dedicated shapes of saints and kings
Look down benightly grave and seem to say,
'Ve co me and go incessant; we remain,
Safe in the hallowed quiet of the past;
Be reverent, ve who flit and are forgot,
Of faith so nobly realized as this'."
Beneath the glow of the stained windows, the altars of St.
Patrick's seem the perfection of beauty a lli ed to worship, each
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delicate detail appealing to the artistic sense and calculated to
raise men's thought's heavenward.
The side altars are deeply recessed and cleverly designed so
as to show the remarkable mura] paintings on the walls above.
These paintings are done by the well-known artist, Mr. Ber­
nard MeIlerio, and arc in softly harmonious hues blending well
with the color scheme of the interior. Above the Blessed Virgin's
altar is él painting of St. Dominic kneeling before Our Lady of
the Rosary, the picture exquisitely painted and portraying the
scene with taste and devotion.
Above the altar of St. Joseph the scene is the sweet and
simple one where the Boy Christ walks His adoring parents. Each
picture is painted with a loving touch of an Angelico or a Sasso­
ferrato, the tender smile of Our Lady, the gentle pride of St.
Joseph, the gracious, thoughtful Boy, Our Lord, all bringing to the
onlooker in a dear reality, the humble home of the carpenter who
dignified labor in all purity and holiness, midst the lilies of
Nazareth. Against the painting the statute of St. Joseph rises in
marble purity, one of the most representations ever chiselled of
the Foster-Father of Our Lord.
'Vith his sheaf of snowy lilies in one hand, his carpenter's
rule in the other, his sandalled feet toil-worn and weary, his broad
brow worn and furrowed with care, the "dear Guardian of Mary"
stands as a model of all Fatherhood, wise and kindly, simple and
strong.
The statue of Our Lady of Grace at the other side altar rises
from its shrine of snow-peaked marble, a simple and natural
figure modestly robed in graceful draperies. Crushing the ser­
pent beneath her foot Our Lady stands with hands outstretched
in welcome, with eyes downcast and soft hair parted above a
broad and innocent brow.
"Wide despread,
Madonna-wise on either side her head,"
a half-smile, touching and sweet, upon her mobile lips.
A third remarkable statue of St. Patrick's is that of the
Sacred Head of Jesus which stands upon a marble pedestal, and
is a rare gem of art, indicative of the genius of the sculptor. One
hand of the Sacred figure is outstretched, as if to show the world
the welcoming attitude of the Heart to which the other hand
points. The figure is one of virile manhood, the face a marvel­
lous conception of God and man, thoughtful, wise and strong, yet
loving and tender, pleading yet reproachful as if the divine lips
were saying, "Oh man, who gazost at Me-this poor Heart broke
for you-Come you not to Me to comfort Me with your love T"
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A writer has said that the "first principles of church dec­
oration is that the artistic treatment of a church interior must
depend not upon the taste or wealth of a congregation, but upon
the nature of the visible methods of worship," and the altars of
a Catholic church being the main factor in the worship, should,
of necessity, be the most carefully considered of any of the
decorative portions of the church.
Elegant and in keeping are the side altars with their œsthetic
statues and delicate carvings, it is in the main altar that the prin­
cipal interest lies. The altar, which was given in memory of
Mrs. Mary C. Gehring, is no empirical effort of a would-be imitator
of the Mediœval Gothic, but the finished work of a genious lover
of his art, thoroughly embued with the possibilities of his subject
and putting into every stroke of his chisel, a loving thought, an
earnest care.
Made in the Ateliers of the Daprato Statuary Company, by
one of their most talented artists, the design of pure Gothic, in
marble and onyx, is wrought out in finished style the minutest
detail. The imprint of the Holy Trinity is here seem symbol­
ically, for there are three divisions to the altar, three steps lead
to the lower panel, three shelves mark the central portion, three
arches are panelled above and below and there are three pinnaeles
to crown the topmost elevation.
At the base of the altar a deeply carved basso relieuo portrays
the touching scene of The Last Supper, at the dramatic moment
when Judas Iscariot has tipped over the salt cellar- (In olden
days no one could injure a person with whom he had eaten salt)
-as Our Lord answered the searching question of the Beloved
Disciple, "Lord, which one of us shall betray Thee?" The face
and figure of Christ are remarkably chiselled and the varying
emotions displayed on the faces of the disciples show the pene­
tration and discernment of the artist as well as his ability.
At either side of the central carving are onyx pillars, between
them graceful and elegant carvings of wheat and grapes, symbol­
izing the bread and wine which typify the Body and Blood of Our
Lord, commemorating the sacrifice of Calvary, renewed daily
upon the pure marble of the altar.
The middle portion of the altar is plain in design as if to
emphasize the Golden Door in the center, behind whose gleam­
ing panels lies the hidden Divinity of the altar; the tabernacle is
exquisitely carved and the door, with its shimmering golden chal­
ice in repousse work, surrounded by delicately twined trefoil, is
a triumph in goldsmith's art, upon which a follower of Cellini
would have spent a decade.
At either side of the tabernacle stands two beautiful angel
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figures in snowy, floating draperies, one of the "angel of Praise,"
the other "The Angel of Benediction," each portraying in delicate
touches the different metiers of the "ministers of Grace."
Above all these artistic touches of deep religious significance
the altar rises into three pinnacles like the frostwork spires of Old
French cathedrals, each tiny spire terminating in a snowy {leur­
de-lis, the carvings vigorous yet charmingly graceful and delicate,
and seeming to spring heavenward almost as if instinct with life,
the central one culminating in a beautiful marble cross at the
apex, a fitting emblem to draw men's eyes and thoughts heaven­
ward.
Mr. Cram, in his wonderful book, the "Gothic Quest," says
that "Art is the symbolic expression of otherwise inexpressible
ideas," and if this is true, the makers of St. Patrick's with all its
artistic completeness and perfections, evince true religious art,
in its highest sense in "Beauty-serene, supreme and final," from
portal to High Altar Cross lifting men's souls above the sordid
things of earth and .grunti ng them a foretaste of the final vision of
the All-Beautiful.
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Con tribu tions
List of those who co ntr i huted to the heuut i f'y í ng or the Church:
M.\I� ALTAR-In Memory of :VII's. :VIary C. Gehring, donated hy .Io h n .J.
Gehring and Bel'JHHlette Gehring.
ALTAH OF THE BLESSED VIHGI�-Ill :VI('mory of. Patrick O'Briell, do­
uutcd by Mrs. Ma t í l du O'Brien and Family.
ALTAH OF ST. ,JOSEPH-In Memory of the Coquillard Family, donated hy
Member-s of the Coquillarù Famil y.
STATUE OF THE SACHED HEAHT-In Memory of the �ohile Family,
donated hy the Xo hi l e Family.
A JE,YELEJ)-(JOLD TABEHNACLE KEY-In :\fel11ory of George E. and
�Iary V. Clu rkc, donated hy Miss Agatha Clu rkc.
Frank Tocpp , Miles O'Br ien , .John .J. O'Brien, .John B. \\'e])er, I. 'V. Lower,
Ad ie Wí l l s, Edmund Wi l l s , Frank :VIajor, Mrs. Maud Coquillard, Mrs. :\lartha
S. Chepoton.
Nicholas Fel tí s, Lucius H. Miller, Frunk Yu r sdo rf'cr-, Thomas Kerns, Frank
Kelly, O. A. Clark, Dl' .. J. B. Bertcl í ng, Vitus .Io ncs, Ella O'Dea, .Ie n n y Mo rl ev,
Wm, A. McInerny, G. A. Farabaugh, L. A. Mc Ga nn , Jo seph :VI. Stephenson,
Charles Scnr ich , Alexis Coquillard, D. 1.. Guilfoyle, Mrs. Cecelia Meeker, Alex
HupeI, Leo J. \Vills, Robert 1.. Green, Mrs. Salem Towne .
. John A. Knuf'cr, Jucob Kerner, Patrick O'SIH'a, Hlchn rd Keegan, Harry
Wal tcrs, Nicho lus Schilling, Paul Bcroth, Charles Hagerty, Dr. John A.
Stocck l ev, Mrs. Mary Sheek y, Mrs. Hose Butler, Francis HO�'e, :VIrs. H. :VI.
Crockett, Frnncts .J. Vu rp í l lu t, Mrs. Mary V. Mu lf on , Marie Votyku, :\lrs. No ra
Hagerty, Mr s. Catherine Twol1ley, Ernest :VlcErlainc, Mrs. Bridget Hagerty,
.Io scp h Donu hu e, Mrs. O. Hu pe l.
.Junior 1I()1�' Name Society, Stu nl ey Kochu no ws k i , :Vlolly Shcekcy, :\Iargard
Quinlan, Mrs. M. B('HZ, Harry Wood, Mr s , :VIarin Ne ml th , Edward Dish, John
Hayes, �lrs. Fl'an(_'('s Butterworth, Mí sse s Murphy, H. 1,. Gu th r i e , Mrs. A. C.
Osbor-ne, Helen Schabel, .lu mcs Tracy, .John Cu nn l nghu ur, .lo h n Heu noe, Micluu-l
Cal non, Lloyd Metca íf', T. A. Hines, By ron Cruge-r, Arthur Swo r th, Wi l l in m
Ph i stc r, Fru nk Murphy, Geo¡'ge Mc ßr idc, Adolph Mohn n , Mr's. FI()I'('llC(� 1)Pc],(·!"
.John Dempsey, D .. J. Cashman, Mrs. El izubcth Sch lu mu n , :vlt's, 'I'he rcsu Vah l er t,
Auna Lovett, Eucharistic Guild, Frank .J. Mu nn , :VIi'S. :Vlary E. Dorian, :\ll's .
. Julia Carroll, Catholic Order of Foresters, Edward Ki rch myr-r, (;(,ol'ge Ki rclr­
myel', Jerry H. McCarthy, John Herzog, E. Il. :VlcCartin .
.:\1rs. P. Casey, Anthony Miller, Joseph Biltz, .John Fr ltxcr, Ln w rencr- Lune,
:Vlamie Brady, .John Buckley, \Villiam Ducy, :Vlrs. :\Iary Scully, Thomas Garrity,
Nell Heiser, Mrs. Honora Toull('�', John T. Mc Cu rth y, Mrs. B. H. Myers. .
TIH'l'eSa Moss iman, Sarah O'Neill, Mrs. -'lary Hn rdcu, Mrs. A. Solari, .J. A .
. Johnson, Mrs. M. C. Luugcubuhu, Charles Schubert, Charles Weutlund, Mrs.
Mary Nn sh, Joseph Huber, Andrew Seigel, .:\il·S. Mary Archu mbr-nu lt, .Iohn
Voelkel'S, Joseph Heiter, Mrs. Charles Drain, Jucoh Fischer, Mrs. E. Henson,
Mr-s .• J. Olson, Wí l l lam M. Downs, John Hauh, Mr», L. Hhodc, Mrs. G. Gordv,
John Heil, John Tob in, B. Lahey, Peter Metzger, Isn hel Ic Egan, Joseph Calla­
han, Wi l l inrn Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Loomis, Mrs. "ïll ium Bunhury, Mrs. Rich­
ard Mu inch, Mrs. Mary Flanagan, E .. J. Huber, Mrs, Anna Wahlen, Edward
Peterson, Gco rge Collins, .John .J. Marcus, Ma rton ::\ladcloll, .Iohn .M. Cooney,
John Mcl ner-nv, John .J. Murphy, Mrs. Christine McCluuc, . Mlchacl Touhey, Mrs.
F. H. Hoherts, Mrs. C. E. Lr-ntz , Ja mes E. Cauley, EI izubeth Butler, Miss DOll­
OYHn, Thomas Miller.
Bolser Benner, William Foley, F .. J. Hyde, .Mrs. Kalt· W{'rulz, :\Irs. .J.
Heiser, Mildred '\'�'ek) .Jospph Il.u+zvr, P. Murphv , (athl:'rinf \\'yl'k) (;eorgr
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Schu ng, Beatrice Marry, Mrs. lVI. A. Lewis, T. E. McErlaine, Thomas Cosgrove,
John Ritchie, Margaret Murphy, Ma rt ln Ga r sk i , Ethel Sweetland, Ella Brady,
Agnes Auer, Clara Auer, .John McCa rthv, Mrs. Mary Pagl c, Fred Schurnuchcr,
.Iohu A. Bauer, Haymond Huher, Charles Ko wa l sk í , Harold Miller, Mrs .. \. M.
Sweetland, Mrs. Wi l l ium Crahill, Auna Lyons, George Pelticr, Lena Wer-ntz,
Mrs. Josephine De Hyck e, Elizabeth Brady, Anna Brady, Gertrude Baumgartner,
Verena Baumgartner, Margaret Blake, Clara Bognar, Mary Casey, Anna Casey,
Catherine Casey, Mary Certie, Catherine Certie, Josephine Decker, Bertha De­
Chant, Helen Du rnbauch, Bertha F'rt tzer , Helen Fury, Margaret Gill, Catherine
Guthrie, Clara Hoose, Mary Hagerty, Theresa Jahn, Hose Lewis, Eleanore Lewis,
Mary McInerny, Agnes Murphy, Loretta Murphy, Genevieve Murphy, Charlotte
Meyer, Otillie Myers, Theresa Myers, Cecilia Ness, El iza hcth Rhodes, Gladys
Sousley, Mary Schei vi ll e, Mary Sullivan, Catherine Su l l i vn n , Nellie Touhey,
Margaret Vahlert, Mary Veneziana, Adelle win», Maud \\'ehcr, Lucile \Veher,
Bernice Code, Agnes Code, Mary Touhey, Mrs. Clem Weaver, Helen Kerr, Hazel
Turner, Grace Vermet, George McCarthy, Sr.
The f'ol l o wí ng rendered very generous per sonu l service:
A. \V. Peltz, Peter Fl a ry, O. \V. Pí e rcc, H. Mik e sel l , George Peltier, Louis
Howard, Peter Powers, Hay Powers, Edwn rd Chi rhea rt, Henry Zeiger, Anthony
Mí l Ier , Charles \\'entland, Edward Everett and son, Hubert Barnard, Hiram
Bishop, Dell Thompson, Frank Yarsdorfer, Richard Koega n, Otto Berndt,
George Sumption, August Landgraf. Louis Landry, Thomas Cosgrove, Joh n
Gilmartin, John J. Murphy, Martin Gartska, Michael Calnon, Joseph Reiter,
Kenneth Reiter, Arthur M. Rivard, Jerry Voelkel'S, Charles Schubert, Wí l l iarn
McQuaid, A. Seifert, Frank Schmitt, Fred Bishop, Charles Burwell, Martin
Meyers, Joseph Biltz, Vivian Fitzgerald, Martin Beach, Frank Vennet, Wi l l iarn
Kelly, Wi l l iam Smith, James Tracey, A. \V. Fortier, Don Bishop, Leo Donahue,
B. Donahue, G. Donahue.
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