Rt. Rev. Bernard J. McQuaid, D. D.

Ogdensburg.

Rt. Rev. P. A. Ludden, D. D.

Syracuse.

Rt. Rev. Chas. E. McDonnell, D. D. Rt. Rev. Henry Gabriels, D. D.
Brooklyn.
Rochester.

Rt. Rev. James A. McFaul, D. D. Rt. Rev. Thos, M. A. Burke, D. D.

RT. REV. MGR. JOSEPH F. MOONEY, V. G.

none the less effective. Circumstances and time altered the vantage ground, but did not impede the constructive effort. There was, so to speak, a change of base, but the operations toward healthier conditions and development went on apace under the gentle, though masterful sway of the saintly John McCloskey. One marvels. surveying the scene, although no unusual effort seems visible, at the steady, onward trend of ecclesiastical affairs, under the administration of the first Cardinal of the Western Hemisphere. And yet behind the shifting scenes of this panorama of incoming and domestic population which those years witnessed, there were ever present a firm hand and clear perception, a scholarly direction and administrative tact that are unsurpassed in the chroni

cle of Catholic regime in this country. The rapid increase of the faithful, necessitating the foundation of churches, schools and institutions of every charitable type, found a zealous custodian on the watch towers of Israel, who before he passed to his reward thought it prudent to ask for a coadjutor, to assist him in his declining years and ease his decrepit shoulders of the mighty burden that rested upon them. When the venerable prelate gave up his soul to God, October 10, 1885, his successor had already secured intimate knowledge of the ramifications of the archdiocese. The twelve years of his actual incumbency have been memorable, and the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of his Episcopate, invites a brief sketch of the outlines of his eventful life.

Most Reverend Michael Augustine Corrigan, D. D., at his birth in Newark, N. J., on August 13th, 1840, was under the spiritual jurisdiction of the Archbishopric of New York. His first years of academic training were spent at St. Mary's College, Wilmington, after which he passed to Mt. St. Mary's, Emmetsburg, graduating thence with high honors in 1859. He had the distinction to be the first student to enter the North American College, Rome, directly from the States: the other "twelve American Apostles," as they are called in College parlance, having been drafted from the College of the Propaganda, to begin the muster roll of the infant institution. Standing out in bold relief as the "bambino," the photograph of the original group shows his smiling face among such well-known ecclesiastical figures as Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco, Bishop Northrup of Charleston, Mgr. Seton of New Jersey, Dr. Edward McGlynn and Dr. Reuben Parsons of New York. He was ordained by Cardinal Patrizi on September 19, 1863, and returned a year later to his diocese, having gained the doctor's degree as a fitting finale to his theological course of painstaking

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study. His unquestioned ability was soon recognized, and in 1864, Dr. Corrigan was called to fill the chair of Dogmatic Theology and Sacred Scripture in the diocesan seminary at Seton Hall, South Orange, over which presided the present veteran Bishop of Rochester, Right Reverend Bernard. McQuaid, D. D. On the appointment of that prelate in 1868 to the above See, Dr. Corrigan took up the Presidency of Seton Hall and with able and progressive spirit guided its destinies until 1876, placing both seminary and college on a footing equal to any of its sister diocesan institutions of the country.

When the Most Rev. James Roosevel: Bayley, D. D., was promoted to the Archiepiscopal See of Baltimore, Dr. Corrigan was appointed his successor, by Pius IX., on March 3, and was consecrated Bishop of Newark, May 4, 1873, by Cardinal, then Archbishop, McCloskey. Less than ten years had elapsed from the date of his

ordination to the priesthood, when Dr. Corrigan received his first mitre, a fact sufficient in itself as strong testimony of his sterling worth and deserts. as an ecclesiastic. Further regard was shown him by the Holy See when he was preconized titular Archbishop of Petra, on September 26, 1880, and appointed coadjutor to the Cardinal Archbishop of New York, with the right of succession. The five intervening years between his appointment and the death of His Eminence, gave ample time to the coadjutor to survey the archdiocese, and when on October 10, 1885, he took possession of his new charge, it was not as a stranger in a strange land, but as a well-equipped official, who grasped the reins of power and knew well his opportunities and possibilities. Seven years, passed in the administration of the diocese of Newark, had marked His Grace as an easy wearer of the purple, for he placed himself in that saving category wherein, as St. Paul advised Timothy, he "Let no man despise his youth." Though youthful in years, the Episcopate seemed to have been his rightful heritage, wherein he proved a shining "example of the faithful in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, and in that prudence and modesty," that behooveth a bishop, and which well enabled him then, as now, "to rule his own house" without the unsolicited advice of meddling interferers. In practising these virtues of a bishop after the Apostle's heart, one readily see how His Grace rapidly grew in satisfaction to the public view and became, in due time, one of the foremost in the Hierarchy of the United States.

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