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Show J The Bishop of Boise. SOME years ago it was the writer's . pleasure to listen to an evening discourse delivered by the Bishon I , of Boise in St. Mary's in this city. If memory be, urged to fix the season of Bishop Clorieux's visit at the time, it yields to the odor of lilacs and the early ear-ly roses which come with life month of May. It dwells upon a group of children in white before the statue of the Virgin in our little church. Youthful Youth-ful voices are lifted in hymns of praise, and ' w hen at last their Queen is crowned, their jubilee of song has ceased, wo look to the main altar, and there at .the railing. ..stands Bishop Glorieux. His face as radiant as those of the children before him. For awhile ! he is in his native Belgium as he speaks to them and the congregation present.. Then he is in New York, out in the far west,.' back again ! and over ihe neas to the Eternal City. At every j point- in his running discourse some fact in religion was brought out that we never heard treated just exactly in that style, and it seemed so original, so devoid of studied effect in description, descrip-tion, 'so entertaining and instructive, that the memory of-that vesper discourse dis-course Is as fragrant as the May blossoms blos-soms on the altar of the Blessed Virgin. Vir-gin. One day last week a special mass was sung in the little cathedral of St. John at Boise. Seventeen years ago on that day BislKip A.- J. Ulorieux began be-gan his labors in the capital of Idaho, in charge of a diocese embracing the whole of that state. At St. Joseph's school for boys and at St. Teresa's academy' for girls, exercises were held in honor of the event. At each place the love and veneration the students held for Bishop Glorieux were strik-ingly strik-ingly in evidence. j The Capital News of Boise, noting the event, also gives a brief account of the bishop's work in Idaho, together with a few facts prior to his missionary labors in that state. Bishop Glorieux, the News says, is a native of Belgium. He took a collegiate course at Cour-trai, Cour-trai, and afterwards prepared, for the priesthood," graduating in theology in 18C7. Being ordained, he came to America Amer-ica and located in Oregon, where he entered upon missionary work, being first located,, at Roseburg. .Ka iwas transferred to Oregon ''City, 'and then to French Prairie. In 1S71 he wts made president of St. Michael's college in Portland, where he acquitted himself with such ability that in 1SS4 he was appointed vicar apostolic of Idaho, the Catholic interests of this state having been under the care of the archbishop of Oregon. Bishop Glorieux was consecrated con-secrated in Baltimore in April, ISS3, by his eminence. Cardinal Gibbons. He immediately came to Idaho, where he has remained since, and has been an incessant toiler in the vineyard of the Master. When he took charge there were not more than 2,500 members of the church in the state and now the number exceeds ex-ceeds 15,000. There were ten church edifices, now there are forty-eight. He found but one school, now there are four flourishing institutions of learning. learn-ing. There are three hospitals, one each at Wallace, Lewiston and Boise. The Catholic church in Idaho has felt the impulse of Bishop Glorieux's consecrated life, and Boise has been especially favored. The church has been benefited by his residence here, and he has been largely instrumental in the building of St. Teresa's academy, acad-emy, St. Joseph's school and St. Al- phonsus' hospital. Not only as a devout churchman, but as a partrotic citizen, devoted to his country and its flag, is his life lifted far above the commonplace. |