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Show . --f- ARCHBISHOP BOURGADE. On Wednesday last the old and time-honored time-honored See of Santa. Fe, City of Holy Faith, witnessed a ceremony of ecclesiastical ecclesi-astical splendor and magnificence. The occasion was the investiture of Most Bevcrend Archbishop Bourgade with the pallium. The Kight Reverend Bishop Matz of Denver conferred the pallium, and delivered de-livered a splendid sermon on the occasion. occa-sion. Priests were present from Colorado, Colo-rado, Arizona and New Mexico, and the occasion was one long to be remembered remem-bered in the annals of the province of Santa Fe. After the removal of Archbishop Chappello to New Orleans there was much speculation regarding the succes- j sinn in the See at Santa Fe. Rome, in its wisdom, selected Bishop Bourgade of Arizona, and that the choice was an eminently wise one all who are conversant conver-sant with the civil and ecclesiastical history of the Southwest readily recognize. recog-nize. , I The See of Sarta Fe is unlike any other ecclesiastical province in the j United States, and for its successful j ! administration, a man thoroughly im- I j bued with the ideas, habits and cus- toms of the people of New Mexico was 1 ; an essential. In Archbishop Bourgade such a man was found, and "all who j know him feel that his qualifications for his new position are so pronounced that splendid results are sure to attend his administration. New Mexico is entitled to statehood, and it is sincerely to be hoped that the peilitical combinations which have prevented pre-vented the fulfillment of the hopes and aspirations of the people of that territory terri-tory will soon so form themselves as to give to the people of New Mexico the privileges to which they are so justly entitled. In the preparation necessary for statehood. Archbishop Bourgade may be relied upon to be a wise leader of his people. Indeed, from every point of view a most successful administration is to be expected from the wise ecclesiastic upon whose shoulders Bishop Matz placed the pallium on Wednesday last. The Intermouny.ain Catholic extends to Archbishop Bourgade its best wishes for a successful administration in the See so wisely and worthily ruled by his predecessors, the saintly Lamy and the learned Chappello. To the priests and people of New Mexico it extends .Us heartiest felicitations on the good fortune for-tune which has come to them in the selection of Archbishop Bourgade. |