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Show t- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- -4- 4- 4- 4- I TlrstCburcblnOgden i Contributed. In '96 Bishop Scanlan was appointed Bishop of Laranda and Vicar Apostolic j of Utah and five counties of Nevada, j The appointment of Vicars Apostolic in ! missionary countries like the United I States is very common precedence, and is done because ecclesiastical regime ! may not be thoroughly organized as j required by canon law. In this case the territory assigned to the Vicar Apostolic is under the immediate juris-, juris-, diction of the propaganda. This is in i conformity with canon law, since dio-' dio-' ceses in the course of formation fall I under the management of the propa-! propa-! ganda. Vicar Apostolic possesses the ! plenitude of the Episcopal power, viz., 1 the power cf order and of jurisdiction, but for a bishop a special church, l named the cathedral. Is set apart. This j is done by the Holy Father, who alone can erect a church into a cathedral, and designates the limits of a diocese. A bishop must reside in - his diocese. With these two exceptions a Vie-ar Ape'jstolic and Bishop are identical. In the Vicar Apostolic of Utah and Nevada became the Bishop of Salt lake. his diocese embracing the same territory that the Vicarate Apostolic did prior to the change. In "87 a special decree from Rome came to Bishop 'Scanlan segregating Utah from the Province of St. Louis and making it one of the suffragan dioe-eses of San Francisco. The portion of the flock of Christ assigned to Bishop Scanlan are the entire' faithful throughout his diocese, dio-cese, priests and poople, who are subject sub-ject to his jurisdiction, anel for whose spiritual welfare he is ever solicitous. The state of the church in the out missions mis-sions will be now briefly reviewed for the benefit of some future historian.. OGDEN AND CORINNK. "Nrhe first place in Utah, outside erf' SaltN.Laku, honored with a resident Catholic pastor was Corinna IrrlSTl' Rev. P. J. Dowling received his appointment ap-pointment from: Archbishop Allemany. In the early '70s, before railroad communication com-munication was made with Montana, Corinne was a shippingtlepot for Idaho Ida-ho and Montana. At jrhis early period it waa on& of Utah's liveliest and most thrifty cities. To meet the wishes of the then resident .Catholics of the place, Father Dowling1" was sent, from San Francisco. Stfon after the opening of the Utah Northern railway Corinne was partially abandoned. Many of the Catholics left; his congregation had dwindled down to a few families, and Father Dowling returned to San Fran-ci" Fran-ci" early in 1873. OGDEN. Services were - held in Ogden by Father Walsh. The old baptismal register reg-ister kept by himin early days shows the baptism -of Fannie McGulre, whose parents then.resided in Ogden, on January Jan-uary 5, 1S73. At this early period, and for some years afterwards, Michael, jonn, ejnaries anei jjoiiiiiwciv .muvjmic Mrs. Brown, their sister, and their aged and respected parents, together with Richard Delaney, were the embryo em-bryo of the future congregation. Later Anthony Hassett with his family, and Pat McCormick and family came to Ogdetn as employees of the Union Pacific, Pa-cific, and from the beginning became practical members who willingly lent their influence and substantial aid towards to-wards every Catholic enterprise in the place. The mustard seed, small indeed in the beginning, took deep root and steadily increased down through the years, and whilst Ogden continues the great railroad center of the intermountain intermoun-tain region, its Catholic population is-sure is-sure to grow and the church's prosperity prosper-ity is insured. T'ln 1873 and up to '78. when St. Joseph's Jo-seph's church was completed, a priest visited Ogden once a month, celebrating celebrat-ing masses Sundays in the old Liberal Institute. April 2fS, 1875, the lot on which the present church edifice stands was purchased. pur-chased. May 1, 187, the work of construction con-struction began,. The following year, 77 r.n Raatw Sundav. it was opened for public service. On the completion of the church it was deemed advisable to open a school for the Catholic children chil-dren of Ogden. F. B. Devoto, a graduate gradu-ate of Notre Dame University, was engaged en-gaged for this purpose, and he taught school in the church from Easter, '77, to June 20, 78. On the 5th of October, 1879, Most Rev. J. S. Allemany of San Francisco solemnly dedicated the church to St. Joseph. The first solemn high mass in Ogden was celebrated on the occasion. Very Rev. L. Scanlan, V. F., was celebrant, Rev. P. M. Smith acting rector deacon, and Rev. D. Kie-ly Kie-ly sub-deacon. SACRED HEART ACADEMY. The large attendance at the school, which was conducted in the church, was an encouragement to Father Scanlan Scan-lan to still further the ends of Catholic education in Ogden, which bad grown from a country village to a large sized and prosperous city. With this end in view he purchased, on the 6th of May, 1873, the corner lot on which, the old Sacred Heart Academy is at present The corner was then a swamp, being fnuch lower than the street grade. The first work to be done was to fill it up. Then work of filling up began June 3 of the same year. Plans and specifications specifi-cations for a new- building were drawn the same month. The rock basement I was completed on tne mn aay 01 juiy, and the following day. before a large concourse of people, the cornerstone was laid by Very Rev. L. Scanlan, w ho, on the occasion, preached on the necessity ne-cessity and advantages of Christian education. The music on the occasion Was supplied by a choir from Salt Lake. The building was ready for occupancy oc-cupancy by tbe middle of the following follow-ing September, and on the 17th of the same month, nine Sister of the Holy Cross commenced their labors, having on the opening day forty pupils in attendance. at-tendance. Their work continued In the old Sacred Heart Academy for about eleven years. Up to and including a part of the year 1S83, the priest officiating officiat-ing in Ogden had no parochial residence. resi-dence. He stayed in the Sacristy. In 1882 the lot in the rear of the church -n nnrfh.nispil tnr a. home. Tn Oe'tober of that year the erection of a pastoral residence was begun and completed the following May. Here Rev. P. M. Cush-nahan Cush-nahan resided for six years. Long before be-fore this date it was apparent that the old St. Joseph's church was too small, and a it could not be enlarged, because of the smallness of the lot, it was deemed better and wiser to secure plenty ground. With this end in view, in 1S89, the large lot, in which the present pres-ent beautiful rock church is being erected, was purchased. The same year, '89, the old residence was sold and the present residence erected. With the completion of the new church the Catholics of Ogden will be well provided pro-vided for, and can justly boast of their church and schools. ST. JOSEPH'S SCHOOL. In the old. Sacred Heart Academy : ":'. ".':' .'fi::.v-.-s?p'i;c;rrr : -. 7--? -m - - - --.--.- the attendance Was so large that accommodations ac-commodations couTil not be made- for the many applicants. In K-d it wa deemed advisable to extend its- Ih-Id o labors. For this purpose a now huild-j huild-j ing was designed and erected in thd rear of the Academy. Fnm the beginning be-ginning it had been anel is still ust.'d for a parochial school. ST. LAWRENCE? HOSPITAL. In 1SS7 the Union Pacific, railway wishing to establish a hospital in Ogden Og-den for its employees, applied to St. Mary's, Notre Dame, for Sisters who would take charge of the same-. The invitation was accepted, and en the 10th of August of the same year four Sisters of tho Holy Cross, commenced! their lalors in a building- rented for that purpeis- by the railrouel authorities. authori-ties. The hospital, after the ordinary ef the dio ese, was called St. La.w-re-nce's hospital. Its work, of labor a- for years confined to the employees oC the Union Pacific: railway. After som years it wa-si deeimod expedient by th manageiment of the Southern Pacifie. railway to avail themselves of tho advantages ad-vantages of so useful an institution for its employees needing medical or surgical sur-gical aid. and' who lived in Utah or thi eastern part of Nevada. S;icramentoi was tho nearest point where: otherwise thoy could he treated. By a maituat agreement of both railroad coinrwinieu the employees of the Southern Paoitio were admitted to St. Lawrence's hospital. hos-pital. The edd rented, building soon became be-came too small to accommodate thei employees of Indh raiLroadsc To facilitate facil-itate and extejnd its sphere of useful- I ness a new hospital building was crex-t- etl adjacent t the old one. In this new, building were large, well-ventilatet and commodious dormitori'-s, private rooms for patients, operating; rooms ' and all modern conveniences. It was built on the. most approved plan ami was. though small, a model building. Its life, depending on the idiosyncrasies of railroad directors, was not of long duration. Writh the changes that took place in segregating the Oregon Short Line from the parent trunk road, the ,Unien Pacific, in '97. St. Iawrene-o'sj hospital closed its doors on May 1, 1S9S. and has remained closed sincej that date. NEW SACRED HEART ACADEMY. In the arly '90s it was found that the old Sacred Heart Academy, evem with the addition of St. Joseph's school, was) too small and the grounds not sufficiently suffi-ciently ample for recreation purposes of the boarde-rs. A half block ef five acres was secured on the bench, which gave a commanding view of the city and entire valley. Accessible by elec-rtic elec-rtic cars and away from the bustle rf the city, it was the ideal place of Ogden Og-den for a boareling school. Being s decideel. plans for the future Sacred Heart Academy were drawn on a large-scale. large-scale. The building proper was soon commenceel, and in September, '9', school was- opened in the new bacreit Heart Academy. A better equipped school, with its corps of efficient tea.ch-ers, tea.ch-ers, is not west of the Rooky mountains. moun-tains. In every department it holds thi front rank, turning out each year up-to-date graduates'.. Since '73 Corinne was vL-iteiel periodically period-ically by the priests' of Salt Lake anel Ogden. In '92, when large tracts of land were being sold, it was hoped there would be some Catholic settlers. Dr. F. E. Roach, one of the most prominent prom-inent citizensi of the- place, w-rote Bishop Scanlan asking that a priest be sent there permanently. To encourage the few Catholic families of the place, his lordship complied with, the request. A temporary chapel was provided, anrt for six months the mission, abaneloned in '73, was continued. As the main sup- port of the mission was borna by Dr. Roach, and that the time) for a permanent perma-nent pastor had not yet come, the mission mis-sion was closed. At pre-sent it ia visited vis-ited twice annually by the priest who has charge cf the Southern Pacific railroad. y (To be continued.) |