Lives of the Deceased Bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, Volume 1

Richard Henry Clarke

P. O'Shea, 1872 - Catholic Church in the United States

Contents

• PAGE: 13
• Right Rev Juan Juarez Bishop of Rio de las Palmas Florida: 21
• Most Rev John Carroll First Archbishop of Baltimore: 32
• Most Rev Luis Penalver y Cardenas First Bishop of New: 114
• Right Rev Francis Porro Second Bishop of New Orleans: 139
• Most Rev Louis de Cheverus First Bishop of Boston after: 164
• Right Rev Michael Egan First Bishop of Philadelphia: 185
• Right Rev John Connelly Second Bishop of New York: 192
• Most Rev William Louis Dubourg Third Bishop of New: 205
• Most Rev Ambrose Maréchal Third Archbishop of Baltimore: 239
• Right Rev John Baptist David Coadjutor Bishop of Bardstown: 256
• Right Rev Patrick Kelly First Bishop of Richmond afterwards: 268
• Right Rev Henry Conwell Second Bishop of Philadelphia: 310
• Right Rev Edward D Fenwick First Bishop of Cincinnati: 328
• Right Rev Joseph Rosati Coadjutor Bishop of New Orleans: 353
• Right Rev Benedict Joseph Fenwick Second Bishop of Boston: 374
• Right Rev John Dubois Third Bishop of New York: 414
• Right Rev Michael Portier First Bishop of Mobile: 438
• Most Rev James Whitfield Fourth Archbishop of Baltimore: 456
• Most Rev Francis Patrick Kenrick Third Bishop of Philadel: 473
• Right Rev Leo Raymond de Neckere Fourth Bishop of: 518

Popular passages

Page ix - And duty ; zeal and duty are not slow, But on occasion's forelock watchful wait : They themselves rather are occasion best ; Zeal of thy father's house, duty to free Thy country from her Heathen servitude.

Page 59 - I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality. And I presume that your fellow-citizens will not forget the patriotic part which you took in the accomplishment of their revolution, and the establishment of their government ; or, the important assistance which they received from a nation in which the Roman Catholic faith is professed.

Page 45 - Nor can we suppress our astonishment that a British Parliament should ever consent to establish in that country a religion that has deluged your island in blood, and dispersed impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder, and rebellion through every part of the world.

Page 335 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...

Page 46 - We are too well acquainted with the liberality of sentiment distinguishing your nation, to imagine that difference of religion will prejudice you against a hearty amity with us.

Page 15 - But when I older grew, Joining a corsair's crew, O'er the dark sea I flew With the marauders. Wild was the life we led; Many the souls that sped, Many the hearts that bled, By our stern orders.

Page 57 - ... under your auspicious conduct; rights rendered more dear to us by the remembrance of former hardships. When we pray for the preservation of them, where they have been granted, and expect the full extension of them from the justice of those States, which still restrict them, when we solicit the protection of Heaven over our common country, we neither omit, nor can omit, recommending your preservation to the singular care of Divine Providence; because we conceive that no human means are so available...

Page 56 - We have been long impatient to testify our joy, and unbounded confidence in your being called, by an Unanimous Vote, to the first Station of a country, in which that unanimity could not have been obtained without the previous merit of unexampled services, of eminent wisdom and unblemished virtue. Our congratulations have not reached you sooner, because our scattered situation prevented our communication, and the collecting of those sentiments which warmed every breast.

Page 351 - I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice, which the Lord, the just judge, will render to me in that day : and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming.

Page 112 - The Archbishop's patriotism was as decided as his piety. He ranked and voted with the Federal party — yet he entertained no predilection for Great Britain or her government He loved republicanism; and so far preferred his own country, that if ever he could be excited to impatience, or irritated, nothing would have that effect more certainly, than the expression of the slightest preference, by any American friend, of foreign institutions or measures. He had joined, with heart and judgment, in the...

Bibliographic information

• Title: Lives of the Deceased Bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, Volume 1; Lives of the Deceased Bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, Richard Henry Clarke
• Author: Richard Henry Clarke
• Publisher: P. O'Shea, 1872
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: Sep 20, 2005