| Show t tI s I ttY rJ ii iiI ij 7 I r br t t j C 1 9 I i F Fu u i N 9 I ij f fj 1 g j jj p fi j t I I otI i 3 r I I 7 tt t i I r tt b 4 M W t 16 A f f ft i I t m ft I 1 1 t I IC Ii 1 V II T k s C I i ld i jk t t 3 Aj 4 Xi i ii i i 1 f io f 4 MF Mb l 1 If w iB a T u c cw i i S t k kt a w a E lt K x t b i Right Reverend Laurence Scanlan Bishop of Salt Lake Continued from Page 12 The hunch of St Mary lary Magdalen cm be regarded as the parent tOt tono of these institutions and when you ou ask us ua for a l story of St Marys larys we g give e eIt It to you ou as a work of the dear old harsh h which we are very ery proud St Mary l founded in 1 1870 rep go a 1 valuE of all in all dr LL t Iro lo fross hospital 1880 r represent present representing presenting ing a crater sum All Hallows college named fter tIll the institution in ht Dublin lows 11 rl J i my education and tt lt a e cost ost of nf in 1886 The TheIr Ir KIrns St Ann Anns asylum the ther r result n 0 a generous of Ind nd tin th r recently built Judge Miners ore rore e l 4 to In which the church of ct I Marc Magdalen lil dalen has during the past palt paste e U contributed over for fore forI I e ere lon con of our new cathedral Vicar Apostolic In 1 hihn directing the studies t I All AI college he was appoint appointed ed cd tr apostolic of and the astern nar part of Nevada f art His new ap ointment l required rl that hE be named t r some defunct diocese In Asia or ns as ast t is termed canonically In paribus In so was as nam named d as bishop of Lalanda n which title he retained till t cis apostolic was elevated to th dignity of the diocese of Salt Lal Lake Cathedral Is Broached The bishop in modest wey attrib tt i all these financial conquests for h and religion of St S1 Marys larys o 11 th the church itself When did you OU first conceive the idea f the nl n vv cathedral herth aftEr I was ordained bishop mt 01 June 9 4 1857 It was some time be before fore orf I pr rented the idea to m my congre ailon But I held heid It always dear to tol tome me l as u the proper culmination of my mr lies lir work and the bEginning of a new lies for fer my dear parish of St Mary Maryi i On the first or of Jul July 1899 1539 I lade nade it the feature fentuM of m my sermon I Ido Ido do not know what I said I hardly dared dard hope for success q but the result was blond beyond my wildest hopes We VI broke ground on the Fourth of July with subscribed We Ve kept at work continuously from then on until now with the exception of four breaks of two months each when we were out or fUnds Luckily we were able to place these times in the middle of f the vinter when the mortar would be apt to freezE anyway anway The corner stone was laid on July 22 1900 the feast day dayt I t I cf r St lary Magdalen Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco delivered the dedicatory address Since then day by lay 11 I have watched the structure rise ric I It 11 Is my lift lifes work and m my hopes hODes and I heart have been In its progress There Thereas has as not been on an n accident or a mistake I I The original conception or of Architect i c U N Neuhausen which Is thirteenth century Romanesque has been followed through to the end He is by the way waya a member of m my congregation These men are also in my Darl parish h Foreman A MacCullen n who also did the stone I I setting etting on the cit city and count county building William McNulty the plasterer and St Marys Is the largest plastering job ever done In the state and John Con Conro Conroy 1 I ro roy the efficient foreman of oC my stone stonecutters cutters As to the faithful men under them Jt It has never been m my habit In the employment to ask a mans creed or politics Cathedral Organ 1 I Today thE work is practically done We are taking down the last ot of the scaffolding in the interior of the church and will begin next week to put in the remainder ot of the bas which rep represent represent resent the stations of the cross I have received word that the Kimball compa company ny of Chicago will have our or organ organ gan done by the first of next May It will be built and shipped here In sections sec sections The work ot of putting It up will I require but a few days The order has I I I just gone forward for the three altar altar which Miss OMeara has given us This marks the completion of the church I will give The Herald a picture of the altars because I think they are the most beautiful ones I have seen There will be three ot of them The altars of the Savior of Joseph and ot of Mary They I are all to bo be cut of Carrara marble the only deviation being the crucifix upon which our Lord Is suffering his last agonies This will be of brass The figure of the Savior on the cross Is sur surrounded surrounded rounded by statues of the tour four evangel evangelists It will take about ten months to Complete the work upon them I hope to fix the dedication of the cathedral on the of Tune June next the feast da day of Mary Magdalen eight years ears beyond the day upon which the corner stone was laid To this end I have prayed and worked When the cathedral ot of St Mary Magdalen is dedicated then I Ican Ican can say with old Simon rectum Lord now thy servant can depart In peace Tho bishop was asked about the ring he wore It is an old amethyst set squarely In gold He told rile me ft was the gift o of Bishop croak of Cashel in Ireland Ca Cashel shel h hg said Is the old seat of the kings ot of Munster near which I WY WYborn wee born and Foe I b he my 1117 lopes hopes high for a return to the old to n from which L went down to Dublin to school almost halt half a century ago The chance did not come until after I had become the consecrated of Salt Lake I met Bishop Croake and he gave me the ring the being the sign of the episcopacy He said that he was tas not a Munster man him himself himself self so that I was the only native who was a bishop and rightfully should take the ring to my western fold and wear U it It had belonged to four of his pre predecessors predecessors who had been the spiritual h heads ads of the community in which my ancestors lived worshiped and died The ring Is hundred years old m |
