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Show CATHOLIC COLONIZATION. Archbishop Ireland on the Fruitful-ness Fruitful-ness of the Work. In the course of the address by Archbishop Arch-bishop Ireland at the unveiling of the s'tatue cf Prince-Priest Gallitzin at Lo-retto, Lo-retto, His Grace said: , "Seme twenty-five years ago I undertook un-dertook to colonize we.-tern Minnesota. I brought there some 3.000 or 4,000 families. fami-lies. Today we have over twenty priests on those prairie land. The colonists that I brought there and the idea of that colonization came to me largely, Gallitzin, Gal-litzin, from, thy inspiration; and as I have read of Gallitzin's trials, I easily understood them, for human nature is much the same today or at least it was twenty years ago as it was with Gallitzin one hundred years ago. "It looked to me as though the whole stcry was reproduced. Even in the establishment es-tablishment by some of the colonists of a rival village, some of my colonists actually tried the same thing, ,only I did not have the patience with them that Gallitzin had with his, and I usually usu-ally ended the troubles much quicker than he did. Then, too, I had another advantage which Gallitzin had not. When they were too obstreperous I kept away, while Gallitzin lived right in Loretto and had to meet the frown every day, morning and evening. "I am sure that he must have said to them at times, as I often said to mine: 'I may as well permit you at once to curse me, for you will curse me whether I permit you or not, but I only announce to you that in five years you will be ble-ssing me.'j And true,-when I now go among them I sometimes ask: 'Where are those who -were scolding at my name? and they, say they are not to be found. "This idea of Catholic colonization is one of the most fruitful that ever descended de-scended to the minds'of Americans, and Gallitzin was the pioneer of it. "Then farewell to the statue of Gallitzin Gallit-zin for today, but the. memory of Gallitzin Gal-litzin shall ever live deeply in my heart. It is a precious day, this one on. which I am permitted to make my pilgrimage over these hills to seti the descendants of the old pioneers- cf the Alleghenies-and Alleghenies-and to witness tho generosity of. the children of Loretto in erecting this statue to one of the greatest men that the country of America, has ever seen, and one. of the greatest priests that the Catholic Church of America has-ever has-ever known." |