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Show THE CHURCH IN CALIFORNIA PAST AND PRESENT. i I " n '- r " JLr ' I t x i FATHER dUNIPERO SERRA, Franciscan Who Planted the Gross in California. A -H?V. A - I . ; - " i i . ' v - - v - -. ' . t ' ''" '.& :-:-v', ''.ii;;:-:';fi.s -.y . ' v" A - A - '-ff II s vk v1 Ak& jA Aik It-. A 'XgWV ZHV i MOST REV. PATRICK W. RIORDAN, Archbishop of San Francisco. STORY Or CALIFORNIA ' THE STORY OP THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Early V.issionary Labors Recalled Ihroug'i Jubilee Celebration of San Lrancisco Archdiocese Arch-diocese -from Serra to Riordan. "Mote, than any p.iri !' tin- l.'r.i'cd State.." writes Jooph (d.-asou in the preface to tl"' arehdioeesan juhilee number of ihe Sun Franeisci Monitor, "mnv than perhap- a:; mhrr ri.nntry in the world, the siory of ( 'a i i r" j? nia !'..:- been the sto-v of the Catholie ehun-h. a fu"t thai wn- fore'-d upon the attention o! the whole world by tit." late Pioin Funud eae at The Hague eoiirt ot arbitration. "lleuse tlie trolden jubilee of the establishment of the archdiocese of San Fraueisro ha- a more than ordinary signiieauee for the- Cali fornian. t whether Catholie or no, though naturally that sig-nifieance sig-nifieance is appreciated more by the children of thrt church. By this celebration wcare led unconsciously unconscious-ly to east a retrospect upon the days thai, are ut . for we are living u the heritaae 1. ft by those who are dead and gone. And we know, further, that through their work, conjointly with our own. alone can the possibilities of the future be measured, t'ali- fornia was first the missionary field, hitherto un-j un-j tilled, of the Franciscan friar; afterwards, or even I contemporaneous with this, the broad, unbounded t range of the lavish and independent Spanish and I Mexican cattle king-; later the fighting ground of i the frontiersman and the American desperado; Income In-come then by the discovery by Marshall on Sutter (.'reek one vast mining camp, t which flocked, tho ambitious adcnturers of the world, whose only thought was to amass wealth and leave as soon as: possible: finally appreciated for its unrivalled fertility fer-tility and excellent commercial position, and in consequence settled by the families, who. with their children, make the population of the state today. The effect of these rapid transitions, not, we may say, through the century and more that have pased since Junipero Serra and his faithful band of friars began the evangelization of the country, but during the last fifty years alone, has left an indelible in-delible mark on the. inhabitants, native and imnd- : grant. , j "For two years did the United States and Mex- j ico lock themselves in conflict before the Amer- j iean possession of California was acknowledged in J f the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in February, Febru-ary, JS4S. One month later gold was discovered by Marshall, and the exciting news was sent to all quarters of the globe. Little did the old padres dream that the name of their cherished California would be heralded far and wide as the El Dorado of the world. If Junipero Serra were raised from his grave in Carmelo he would not believe his eyes had lie seen the motley multitude pouring in by mountain moun-tain pass and Golden ('ate. These were th day--of gold, the era of the '49er, when the population increased in-creased so rapidly that a bishop was sent at once to organize the church of the country, and California was admitted to the sisterhood of siates in 1350." THE BEGINNING. The cradling of the faith in California was the work of two men, for though they were years apart, both started at the beginning. So thrf-gencrosity of Mr. Frank Sullivan provided that entering th vestibule' of the old cathedral one sees today facing each other in painted glass on either side the features fea-tures of Junipero Serra. the apostle of the romantie age of the California missions, and of Archbishop Alemany, the apostle of the more strenuous days of gbl. It is an oft-told story how. bent on schemes ot l colonization and conversion. Portola with a -few Spanish soldiers, and the venerable Junipero Serra. with his band of Fransican missionaries, started i in 1709 to explore this vast region, of which nothing was known except its poetic name of California. Th padres blessed God. for they saw the harvest of soul to be gathered among the dusky inhabitants of thi fair coastland. Within a few years the Indian. : tribes were won over. Massive mission establishments establish-ments were successively erected and-the music of these mission bells was heard from Sonoma to San Diego. After Mexican independence came the secularization se-cularization of the prosperous mis-ions, with iti accompaniment of confiscation and squandering. Untold harm was wrought upon the Indian neophytes neo-phytes who were not yet civilized enough to thrown upon their own resources as citizens. Th decay of the missions meant the destruction of religious re-ligious life, not only among the Indians, but amon the colonists as well. In 1S;JG the Mexican govevmnent decided tr t hand over the dying church of California to it first bishop. Fr. Francisco Garcia Diego y Moreno, a Mexican, was consecrated in October, 1840. He was at that time president of the Franciscan um-. um-. sions in California. All the fair promises of tho Mexican government to him were broken. . I he Tious Fund for the support of the missions was soon confiscated, and no interest paid, as promised at the time when the government appropriated it. During the period known as the "mission robber-' regime" the church suffered every indignity. In 1843 he issued a pastoral ordering his priests to keep out of politics lest their ourspok ;n sentiments should cause fresh trials. Pio Pico, while provn- ional governor of California, and having no author- ' ity to do so, sold at auction for a song half a dozen -j of the missions, whose rightful title in the church was onlv established in later days by the United States courts. The bishop founded the College of . Santa Ynez in the hope of gaining vocation to th ; priesthood to fill vacancies, for which recruits could . no longer be obtained from Mexico. But this, like ; every other effort to rehabilitate his wrecked diocese, dio-cese, proved in rain. In a country where the old missions had been the patrons of all he had to depend de-pend on voluntary contributions, and the prominent families of thaAhiy showed an absolute indifference indiffer-ence to church obligations and the bishop's au-tboritv. au-tboritv. Discouraged and heartbroken, on July 4. 1S45, the bishop wrote to Pio Pico stating h wuh of having a successor appointed for hnaseL, andl getting a new force of priests from Europe, tha , I I ' ' f i ' ! expenses to be paid from the Pious Fuud. His ' wis-hes, as usual, were not respected, and death ; noon brought its relief. The first bishop of the. Californias is buried in the sanctuary of the old minion church of Santa Barbara, which served as his cathedral. Father Oonzales Kubio, his vicar general, acted 'as administrator of the diocese during dur-ing the Mexican, war and after. During this interregnum gold was discovered and the few colonifcts from the states, brought here, by Fremont's official description of California, wore soon lost in the vast surge of g"ld-jeekors from all parts of the world. Among these Argonauts were many Catholics. Few of them were Spanish-speaking. Kveu before them there were many Irish colonists. col-onists. Don Timoteo Murphy of San Kafael came, here in lb'29. Martin Murphy at 60 years of age, like an old patriarch, piloted across the continent his prairie fcehoonerc:, and his colony of Murphys and Millers, in 1S4 f . That year the Sullivans and the Breens came. Other families had joined them later, and now from Santa Clara, north, these were re-enforced by a great army of adventuiT-rs for whom there was no religious jirovision. Letters : came to Bishop Hughes of Xew York and other eastern prelates, stating the lamentable condition of affairs. Home apprised of it hastened to find the right man to organize the church in the almost, fabulous land. Father Charles Montgomery of Kentucky Ken-tucky declined "the mitre offered. Fortunately, at j f this time in Home a general chapter of the Do minican order was being held, llepresenting his order in the United States was the young Spanish provincial, Joseph Sadoc Alemany, who had la bored for ten years in the missions of Kentucky nd Tennessee. As a Spaniard he would best meet the difficulties of the change of rule in California, and harmonize the old regime and the new. As enc with ten years' experi?nce in America, having a thorough knowledge of the laws and opinions of tne country, and counting among his faithful and admiring personal friends one of its more virile presidents, blunt old Andrew Jackson, he was ob-Tiously ob-Tiously the providentially sent man for the tryiug place. lie was consecrated in the Dominican church of the Minerva, Home, June o0, 3850. His first cere prompted him to visit the Irish seminaries and ask for helpers in his far-away mission. mis-sion. . He. could not get them, but it was on the seminaries pf Ireland that he confidently depended for the majority of the priests of his diocese for j years afterward. COMTKTO OF BISHOP ALEMANY. : Once arrived in America, he consulted Bishop Hughes of Xew York and Archbishop Fccleston of Baltimore, in order that he might acquire all their information regarding the difficulties of the church in California. This served to convince him of the gigantic task before him. It was consoling to him, therefore, to have as his shipmates on the way to California not only Father Vilarrasa and Mother I Goemaere, but also sterling Catholic laymen who !in after days proved his staunchest support. Mr. D. J. Oliver, afterwards made a Knight of the Order Or-der of St. Gregory by Pius IX, was among the lifelong friends made then, who later took a prominent prom-inent part in every work to build up the faith in ihis state. Dec. 7. 1S50, the bishop arrived in Sau Francisco. It was a strange community in which he found himself. All the tongues of the. world were- represented in the- mushroom town of fever- Iishly earnest gold-seekers, not one in twenty of whom had any intention of remaining after ho might make his "pile." But there was a manly spirit in the free and easy pioneer, and the Catho- Jies ot thorn determined to show their respect for the bishop in a public manner. Accordingly there was a grand reception tendered to the bishop Dec. 11. It took place in the humble school room in the Church of St. Francis, built by Father Langlois, There were no dress coats or other . superfluous super-fluous paraphernalia. But the welcome of these booted and rough-shirted pioneers was sincere, for they were men to 1hc core. Tohn MoGlynn, Captain Dennis McCarthy, Myles D. Sweeney and Dr. P. J. O'Brien acted as the commiltee for the people, not one-fourth one-fourth of whom were able to enter the little room. The address, which may be read in full in the files of ihe Alta California, breathed the dignified speech of fifty years ago. A purse of $1,350 was handed to Ihe bishop to defray his expenses in visiting at ! least, a part of his vast diocese, that extended from the Kocky mountains to the western sea. The response of the bishop was one long spoken of in San Francisco, for it made for himself an abiding home in the hearts of the people of California. f Besides the Mission Dolores, which was three miles from the town, there was only the primitive church of St. Francis in this hive of activitv. In Sacramento, which was the starting point of all miners, thre was a similar chajvl built by Father Anderson, but there was no one to attend it, as that good priest was carried off by the cholera two weeks before. The missions of San Rafael and San Jose had been sold by Pio Pico while governor. There were no oilier churches except the pueblo church of Sonoma in the north, where already the immigrant immi-grant population outnumbered the Spanish-speaking Catholics of the south, who were, if not well, at least better provided for. There were only two priests in San Francisco, lather Langlois and Father Croke. The bishop in after years used to tell laughingly the anxious demand de-mand of Father Langlois for the documentary proof of Lis (the bishop's) authority, but there was a reason, for an impostor had come iu 1859 and hoodwinked the people out of a large sum of money before he disappeared. Father Croke arrived from Paris in the middle of 1S50. He was on his way to the missions of Oregon, but. like all such priests. I had to come first to San Francisco and there await his chance to go north. The cholera broke out in San Francisco and he remained, working incessantly inces-santly among the sick and dying. He came from Pans in the soutane of the French able. and the pioneers' memory of his tireless zeal in this mot i u-rnme piague in tne History ot the citv always associated him with that picturesque garbin which he rushed afoot or galloped on his ever-saddled horse along the ungraded trails of early San Francisco. Fran-cisco. As the only English-speaking priest here at the lime. Father Croke had the privelege of presenting pre-senting Bishop Alemany to the people of his future metropolitan see. I In lbj2 the hierachy of the United States were to assemble in the first plenary council of Baltimore. Balti-more. Bishop Alemany made the long joumev there, and after he had expkined the whole situation, situa-tion, giving a clear exposition of the state of religion reli-gion in California, the council recommended the holy see to divide the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of v our state. 1 he old Mexican capital, Monterev, had lost its importance once the gold discoveries had massed the great population of invaders in the north, and the new town by the Golden Gate was I now ihe more important place. Accordingly the recommendations of the council were followed San Francisco was made a diocese and an archdiocese at the same time, and Monterey was given jurisdiction jurisdic-tion over the great territory south of Santa Cruz to the Mexican line. j FIFTY YEARS AGO. 1 The format trcntlation of Archbishop Alemanv II in the metropolitan sec of San Francisco took place July 29, ls5o. The reader may contrast, if he will find can, the conditions which faced the church fiftv years ago with those of today. From Santa Cruz to Oregon and from the ocean to the great divide were the mats of. the archdiocese. It was n almost half as krge again as France. And its citv -San 1 rancisco. now the proud metropolis of the I Ca5t Wltl1 lts 400' idwbiuat, its com- merce with the world and its magnificent buildings, was then little more than a struggling camp, with at most two or three substantial buildings. It is true it was better than it was in 1S49 but what with iiras and other devastation it was a sorry place at best. As a matter of fact the building of St. Mary's cathedral in 1854 not only gave the city a more finished fin-ished appearance than it ever hai before, but this and other Catholic constructions ensured its permanency, per-manency, when there was a tendency to make Be-nicia Be-nicia the great center of ihe coast. Many of the old landmarks of those early days have disappeared. The waters of the bay, which came iu a crescent curve from Telegraph to Kincon hills, and washed the shore at Montgomery street, are now half a mile removed. Meigg's wharf and the pleasure grounds leading thereto are things of the past. Xorth Beach is no longer the seat of ; fashion. The city hall and the great marts are far j removed from Washington and Kearny streets. The. j I old catliedral is no longer in the heart of popula- j tion. ( But, those were the conditions of the time j I when the archbishop took possession ot this see. Scarcely had the corner-stone of the old cathedral cathe-dral been laid when the archbishop commissioned Father Gallagher to bring the pallium from Kouie, and at the same time to secure priests and religious orders of women for the diocese. TVifh this object he traversed Furope in 1S54, and returned with a number of priests and seminarians, and also the pioneers of the Sisters of Mercy and the Presentation Presenta-tion . Xuus. The spirit of Know - noth-ingism, noth-ingism, dead as a political factor, was yet alive enough in certain individuals and in thc Bulletin-to Bulletin-to cause a snarl at their coining. But the public of San Francisco, when the great epidemics of smallpox and cholera tried men's souls, and selfish cowardice caused the abandonment even of the dying, found those same women heroines of the Lord; and 1 hey tried to forget their aspersions of the past. PIONEER NUN'S HONORED AS QUEENS. The story of every early institution, educational and charitable, was one of privation and suffering, patiently born?, and lster rewarded by Almighty God in the devolpment and ihe support of these same institutions. The spirit of co-operation shown in those early efforts was a credit to the times and a guarantee of the future that we" now look upon as the past. The best men in San Francisco Fran-cisco took off their coats, and with picks and shov- els worked hard at clearing the. sand hill for the asylum on Market street, built in 1354. This same spirit w.us not wanting in the building of later institutions, in-stitutions, such as the Lake convent in Oakland, and every rural parish proudly boasts the same manifestation of good will in these latter days. The chivalry that characterized the California pioneer in his dealings with women was emphasized empha-sized when it was a question of the first religious orders of women to work in our midst. Many a conversion was indirectly due to thir rmlJo "ex ample. These pioneer nuns nere honored as queens during their life and the largest funerals that this metropolis has ever witnessed were those in which the entire population, headed by the most prominent promi-nent people of the city followed their dead bodies to the grave. And it was rightly so. Sister Francis McLnms of the Sisters of Charity, Mother Baptist Ivussell of the Sisters of Mercy. Mother. Teresa Co-merford Co-merford of the Presentation Nuns, and the other pioneer religious were in every instance women to whom the church and the commonwealth, owed much. Each one of them is worthy of a biographv. The hardsmps of those early missions and missionaries mis-sionaries are apt to be overlooked by us in these days of more comfort and easy convevance. The epidemics of early San Francisco, its fires, its f am--me of 1S52, its commercial panic of 1854, with its sequel. of poverty, its recognition -of duelling its mob violence and defiance of constituted law and order, even to attempts upon churches, these and other causes m early San Francisco interfered with the work of the church and her bishop and priests. Outside the city mining was the great industry Ihe population followed every lead. And the priest followed the people. The strikes on the Frazer river and later m the Comstock caused an exodus in each instance greater than lately seen towards Tonopah because miners were virtually the entire population of those days. There were no railroads, and boats ascended the Sacramento river only ior a certain distance. It was principally a matter of the stage for men and women alike. Picturesque, dare-devil drivers with snwod-nff elirtn-,.v xi i . v.gm,, oiuujj. iu ineir ngnt boot tore along the rough mountain roads with these lumbering vehicles, whilethe timid held their breath or shut their eyes in anticipation of calamity. calami-ty. -I here was always posssibility of a "stand "up " Poetical bandits, as was Black Bart in a later decade de-cade and cut-throats like Vasquez, lay in wait for the stage at most unexpected times and places. But the respect that even these outlaws had for the Catholic priests and nuns invariablv led them to chi- : i"no.r?nSth 0USieS, regf diue their hagef annoying annoy-ing to the others less fortunate at the moment, but later admired. Sister Francis and Sister Scholas-tica Scholas-tica of the orphan asylum had more than one such experience. PRIESTS OF EARLY DAYS. Once a priest was located in the mountains he had simply made headquarters for himself, for his sphere of influence, to use a modern expression, extended ex-tended for often a radius of 100 to 200 miles Sick calls often meant days of muleback riding each way with the possibility of snow-blindness, loss of he trail and death from exposure. The late Father Walton of Grass alley ' twice; narrowlv escaped death in this way. ptu When the Grass Valley vicariate was formed, in 101, many of these more distant priests were brought back to the present diocese, just as was Salt0 Lake's f aCTa J ' Of the priesthood of that early day no word, rtf . 1 praise are too fulsome. The old typo is passing away and it wil be missed. Father Ga llagher Langlois, Magmm, Croke, Dalton, Cotter, Gibnc? Harrington, etc are no more, but the memor, of their zea -and self -sacrifice are no mean heritage to i our people. They live in their works which regain I here are not many living links to connect us with the early days of the archdiocese whose jubilee is now commemorated. Few indeed are left who were factors in the story of those by-gone days. One by one the pioneers, priests as well as lavn en. go to their well-earned rest. " Father King of OaSiff c golden jubilanan is the sole survivor of the reS Z Tl7n K IIe' F-tLer Crokr, w- 'ordaS for the Oregon mission, but after two rears' sen-ace sen-ace among the Chinook and in the Yakima w 1 e returned here in 185.5 and for the last, fortv-seven years has been a part of the diocesan history" Father Fath-er Pendergast, the venerable vicar general has be-ii constantly on duty in San Francisco for aWs forty-four years. Compared with these even Ya her Scanlan seems a late arrival. -Lamer . Archbishop Alemany. whose personalis served to inspire both priests and p,ople to their best efforts was a character urn rWt i.-. -r, . .ls Pride not only of the SpaSd ' bu Uf Z at man. " Soy Catalan, Tie would always sav. But cou pled with this spirit of the cabalerro was the humility hu-mility of the saint. He was considered one of Z finest horsemen of early California. He was a kiW in the saddle and only the breaking of It leg on one occasiondcd him to give tip his favorite moae ht wi ,A1Way51Smtt11' he was e evSi in his atest day and age never seemed to take away the briskness of his step. - With his hands tucked in his sleeves in a fashion of his own. he was a fa miliar sight as, pensively unmindful of ahin- but his thought, he walked with the step of a cadet through the crowded thoroughfares. Xo man ever knew children better, except it may have beeu Father Harrington. With a slight Spanish Span-ish accent which never left him, he used to draw out, in simple language for the children confirmed by him, a sweet little comparison between the humble hum-ble caterpillar, which is changed into the beautiful butterfly, and the change worked in themselves in confirmation, and the children always understood and never forgot it. Then, too, at the old cathedral when he would enter his confessional, the children would line up on either, side, in 'order that" the.v might individually gel th-.it kind word he knew so well how to give. He followed a beautiful old custom cus-tom still observed in Spanish counfies. On Hoi; Thursday afternoon -A-ith towel and basin he used ' to wash the feet of twelve altar boys, in imitation of" the Savior's action at the last supper. This would take place in a space b0t apart in the middle aisle of the old cathedral, and the edinice was always I ! erowdou. j His visitation of the distant parts of the dioeesc j wj;s always locked forward to with joy by the con-I con-I gregatiou, for the spirit of love seemed to exude j j from him. But the day was coming when the am- i ! bitiou to retire to a solitude and await in prayer 1 the end of his days, would overpower his love for j i active service that years had only whetted, j THE MODERN TRANSITION, j More than thirty years had our pioneer arch- bisliop labored for the welfare of the church. ' He j had spared himself in no way, but nowithstandhur his once wiry frame and the virile grit which never left him, he felt the pressure of his years upon his shoulders r.nd realized that his strength was not what it was in his prime. lie applied to Kome for a youthful helper, who would also succeed him, and the holy see. providing for the great future of San Francisoo,'gave him as his coadjutor in 1883 Most Bev. Patrick W. Riordau, who, as late rector of the parish of St. J ames, Chicago, was widely recognized . for an extraordinary executive ability, as well as for his deep scholarship. Diametrically opposed as the two prelates were in physique and disposition they were both consumed with a burning zeal for the advancement of religion. Xo stronger bond could have cemented the warm friendship that grew up between them. Together they went to the third plenary council of Baltimore. As the first council, in 1852, had by its recommendation recommen-dation to the see of St. Peter, made him archbishop of San Francisco, so this last council, in 18S4, witnessed wit-nessed his final public act in that capacity. His coadjutor co-adjutor also at that historical assembly, revealed to the hierarchy of America his comprehensive grasp of the present and the wonderful possibilities of his future, just as the young Athanasius did at the council of Xieea. Thus, with unuestioned confidence confi-dence in the coming welfare of the church in his beloved California, the old archbishop felt that he might resign his charge entirely to the care of the younger prelate. Dec. 28, 1884, he formally resigned the see of San 1 rancisco, bade an affectionate farewell to the loyal people among whom he had labored for thirty-four years, and retired to tlie meditative seclusion of a monastery of his white-robed order in the land of his birth. Archbishop Ptiordan, with whom his correspondence, cor-respondence, at once fatherly and brotherly, was. interrupted in-terrupted only by. death, knew the warm affection of the dead apostle for his native town of Vich, in Catalonia. There, in his personal meed of honor to the dead, he provided a resting place and an appropriate appro-priate monument for him who was responsible for the faith of California in Im A : . reer. 1 hough his remains are not iu our midst, his name and deeds, commemorated bv the tablets in the cathedral sanctuary, will live'forever as the ' precious heritage of his children in the faith. It is now twenty years since his successor entered en-tered upon the administration of the archdiocese of San rancisco. r Tt i$ a difficult matter in a briof sketch to dsenbe adequately a fraction of what he has done during these two decades towards the advancement ad-vancement of he church and her interests, and the promotiou of manly Catholic pride in the hearts of his people. . , . SUCCESSION IN SUFFRAGAN SEES. When Sau Francisco was made an Archdiocese and ishop Alemany was translated to that see, lit. Kev. . Ihaddeus Amat, a Lazarist, was made bishop of the old see of Monterey, with his residence resi-dence m Santa Barbara. After twenty years he asked for and received as his coadjutor and successor suc-cessor Bishop Francis Mora,. August 3, 1873. He in turn received a coadjutor, Rt. Rev. George j Montgomery, who. on the former's, wcot 1 departure for Spain, succeeded him May 6, 1S96. . when Bishop Montgomery became coadjutor archbishop arch-bishop of San Francisco last year, Et. Rev. Thomas Thom-as Conatv at that time rector of the Catholic university, uni-versity, Washington, was appointed bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles. The residence of the bishop has been in Los Angeles since 1800. Bishop Alemany, en route from Rome to his diocese of Monterey,, called at All Hallows college, Dublin, then in its youth of missionarv endeavor lie appealed for priests for his hard diocese but none were obtainable, as all the students had been assigned missions." In that difficulty the dean of the college, Father Eugene O'Connell. offered himself to go. His bishop gave him permission to work in California for three years. Here, after a short stay at old St. Francis', he was entrusted by Lishop. Alemany with the management of Ihe mission mis-sion and college of Santa Inez, established bv Bishop Garcia Diego through a land grant of the Mexican government. Returning to Ireland at the expiration of the time allotted, he was brought back to California in -18bl as the first Vicar Apostolic of Marvsville and seven years later was appointed bishop of the' dio- cese of Grass Valley,' with his. residence still in Marysvillc. The advance of years led him to ask for a coadjutor, and Father Patrick Manogue, a hard-working missionary of Xevada, who knew the hardships of the miner's lot from his personal experience, was appointed. Bishop O'Connell re- I signed in 1SS4 to close his days in Los Angeles, Z where he now lies buried, and Bishop Manoguo be- came the first bishop of Sacramento, the new sec of the diocese. There he built the massive ca- thedral that is the pride of the Capital City today. Rt. Rev. Thomas Grace, the present bishopof Sac- rameuto, was consecrated as his successor June 16, U. 13lH O j The Territory of Utah embraced in the original Q diocese of the Californias and afterwards divided X between those of Denver and San Francisco, would Q seem a field for the newly created diocese of Grass 8 alley. Instead, however, the Holy See committed 8 it, entirely to the administration of His Grace the X Archbishop of San Francisco, who sent there ear- O nest priests to build up the house of the Lord in the Mormon stronghold. Finally Rome made it an O independent Vicariate and the first occupant of 8 the see was the Rt. Rev. Lawrence Scanlan, who O is still remembered for his priestly labors in old 8 St. Patricks, San Francisco. He was consecrated Q June 2i) 1S87, and in 1891 Salt Lake was made a diocese having jurisdiction over the eastern half of Jsevada as well as Utah. X .1 . . X |