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Show &m &MKlmm Passes Jlmy. Archbishop Corrigan of New York Succumbs to Illness vyhich j Begun When He Met With Accident in Cathedral. , ' k' y ' f V ' ' ;. ., ' , - ' - v " , 1 - , - - - - ' J ' ' , " 1 T 1 ' f Si' . - f if ' ' ' ' r , MICHAEL ATguSTTCT - COERIGAU', AECHBISHOP OF NEW YORK. New fYork, May 5. Archbishop Cor- : rigan 'died atv H:20 o'clock tonight. Archbishop Corrigan's death, so far as the publi t was concerned, was unexpected. unex-pected. Although he was reported to have had relapse last night, his physicians phy-sicians ga,Ve out reassuring statements today. Father Curley, Archbishop Corrigan's Cor-rigan's Secretary, this morning said: "Ther js no truth in the report that the arcl ,hishop has sustained a relapse. There ifos been no retrogression. In fact, h i seems better today than yesterday.; yes-terday.; , This morning, when I saw him, hie said to me: "'IJfeel more cheerful than I have felt frr some time." course there is no denying that the archbishop is exceedingly weak. His ' weakness is the grave feature of the 'case. And it is true he does not regain his strength as we had hoped. Buft this morning he took his accus-toirned accus-toirned nourishment and seemed to be rejsting easily." .'It was undoubtedly the weakness referred re-ferred to which caused death after the f-risis of the pneumonia had passed. 'The archbishop was not strong physic-n'ly.' physic-n'ly.' and though his physicians tided ,him over the disease his constitution was not strong enough for him to recuperate. re-cuperate. SKETCH OF THE DEAD PRELATE. Michael Augustine Corrigan, successor succes-sor of Cardinal McCloskey as head of the great archdiocese of New York, was the youngest wearer of the purple when he was consecrated, bishop of Newark in 1873. He was born in that city sixty-two sixty-two years ago. At the wish of his mother he was sent to St. Mary's college col-lege at Wilmington, Del., then conducted con-ducted by Vicar General Reilly. From there he went to St. Mary's college at Emmettsburg, Md.. and at once took a leading place in his classes. In his junior year he made a tour of Europe with his sister, whose influence had much to do with his choice of the priesthood as a vocation. He was graduated in 185!) and soon after he sailed for Europe again with the intention of entering the North American college at Rome to study for the priesthood. He was one of the twelve students who entered when the college was opened. His progress was so rapid that as soon as the doors were thrown-open he won a number of medals in competition, free to the students stu-dents of the propaganda and the Irish and Greek colleges. ORDAINED IN 1S63. He was ordained Cardinal Patvizl in the Lateran Basilica on Sept. 19, 1863, a year before the close of his theological theologi-cal studies. In 1S64 the degree of doctor doc-tor of divinity was conferred upon him. When he returned to his native land a few months later Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, then bishop of Newark, New-ark, appointed hini professor of dogmatic dog-matic theology and sacred scripture at Seton Hall college. Soon after he was made vice president presi-dent of the college, and in 1S6S he suc- 1 ceeded Bishop McQuai as president. In March. 1873, he was made bishop of Newark upon the recommendation of j Bishop Bayley, who had been made I archbishop and transferred to the see J of Baltimore. I In September, 1SS0, Pope Leo elevated Bishop Corrigan to the office of coadjutor coad-jutor archbishop of the archdiocese of I New York with the right of succ--ion in the archiepiscopate to Cardinal McCloskey. Mc-Closkey. Upon the death of the latter prelate in 1SSS Dr. Corrigan was installed in-stalled archbishop. CONTEST WITH DR. M'GLYNN. The most stirring events in his career ca-reer have had to do with the campaign he instituted against the anti-poverty society in which the late Dr. McGlynn, then pastor of St. Stephen s in East Twenty-eighth street, was a conspicuous conspicu-ous figure. Dr. McGlynn was finally deprived of his pristly functions, and the Rev. Dr. Richard La lor Hurt-ell, who acted as his ecclesiastical attorney, attor-ney, was sent to Kingston. The agitation agita-tion while it lasted was acute, and the vast parish of St. Stephen's was disrupted. dis-rupted. But Dr. McGlynn acknowledged his faults in the end and was restored to the priesthood. When he died a few years ago he was the pastor of a church in Newburgh. Dr. Burtsell is still at Kingston, but he was recently restored to full favor by the archbishop, and is now the archbishop's personal representative repre-sentative in the immediate neighborhood neighbor-hood of his parish. Dr. Corrigan was accounted one of the most learned prelates of the church in this country. Under his administration administra-tion the diocese- has grown tremendously tremen-dously in influence and importance. |