THE NEW CARDINALS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 107, 15 May 1875, Page 8

THE NEW CARDINALS.

AMERICA, ENGLAND, AND PRUSSIA HONOXTEED. A cable dispatch from Rome, specially to tlie 'New York Freeman's M^ i^T l^ 4. at a P^: c onsistory is appointed for Monday, March 15. And that, at this Consistory, along with Mgr. Ledochowski, Archbishop of Posen and Gniesen, in Prussia, M ff r. Deschamps, Archbishop of Mechlin, and Primate of Belgium Archbishop Manning, of Wesminster, Mgr. Bartolini, Archbishop of Sardinia, and Mgr. Giaunelli, Consultor of the Eoinan Court, His A corespondent who had an interview with Archbishop McCloskeymhis residence on Madisons Avenue, New York, oS rsnJ? SftK 8 ?? *"* GmCB , tf he had reason to credit the ITJf n Archbishop answered :—" I very much fear that it is a fact. On last Sunday I received a cable despatch from a friend ™™ c ' W ™° annou » c e d *> »c that the dignity was to be conferred upon me. The despatch was not from an official source, and so I do not consider the announcement as official, but—" and the Archbishop here paused for a moment, as if inwardly hoping that he might be mistaken, "it was from a source that I am vlry apprethTw f r nd . t0 A be Col^ ec^ * this matter - * leai-n also that Mr. McMasters to-day received a cable despatch from Eonie winch contains the same announcement as the despatch which I myself have received." SKETCH OF ABCHBISHOP M'CLOSKET. Archbishop John McCloskey, was born in Brooklyn, N V in the year 1810, and is therefore 65 years of age. He was ordained by Bishop Dubois in January, 1834, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, in New York, where he celebrated his first Mass. Ten years later he knelt at the same alter to receive from the hands of Bishop Hughes the consecration which made him Bishop of Axieren and coadjutor' of the officiating prelate. On the establishment of the Diocese of Albany, including all the State of New York lying north of forfcvtwo degrees north and east of the eastern line of Cayuga Tonipkins and Tioga counties, Bishop McCloskey was transferred to that See. He made St. Marys-one of the four Catholic churches of Albany — his cathedral. The diocese was very feeble, having only forty churches, some of them without clergymen, and the Catholic population was scattered over a large territory, and was for the most part poor and had to struggle against the prejudice of the surrounding people At an early moment the Bishop founded a female orphan" asylum in Troy, which he placed under the control of the Sisters of Charity. The year 1851 was marked by the opening of the Academy of St Joseph, m Troy, under the care of the Christian Brothers/and the establishment of anhospital by the Sisters of Charity, which has in a single year, received 789 patients. In 1852 a female seminary was founded in Albany by a colony of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, and m 1855 an academy for boys was opened at Utica, at a, cost of more than 17,000 dols. Bishop McCloskey-s term of service in the Albany diocese extended over a period of seventeen years, and during the whole time his labours were characterized byiunceasing earnestness, and everywhere crowned with more than the usual success. He left in the diocese 113 churches, eight chapels, fifty-four minor stations, eighty-five missionaries, three academies for boys and one for eirls bix orphan asylums, and fifteen parochial schools. Before his departure from Albany he was entertained by his clergy, when an^address was presented to him, with gifts, procured at an expense of 4,000 dols., consisting of his portrait and an archiepiscopal cross and ring. «*<-*«• The Governor of the State and a number of the leading citizens of Albany invited the bishop to a public dinner, which, however his engagements would not allow him to accept v , T^staUation of the Most Eev. Dr. McCloskey as the Archbishop of the Cathohc diocese of New York took plaSe on Sunday, August 21, 1864, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, bfefore a vast audience His labours as a priest and prelate of the Church have beei unceasrng, and of exceeding fruitfulness. He has reared monument after monument to the usefulness and honour of the Catholic Church, and yet so quietly and silently has it been done, that the toil of the brave hearted workman has been almost unnoticed! Besides a vast number of churches built in New York city and elsewhere in the archdiocese, the Archbishop has established a protectory for destitute children in Westchester, in which upwards of 1200 boys and 500 g^ls are cared for and educated; a foundW asylum in Sixty-eigth street, an asylum for deaf mutes at Fordham, "i"**"* <*irls attached to S Stephen s and St. Ann s Churches, homes for aged men and women and new orphans asylums outside of New York City. To direct these institutions and for the work of co-operation with the secular clergy nehashad establish communities of Dominicans, Franciscans Capuchins, Little Sisters of the Poor, German Ft25£TSSt a German hospital, French and charitable associations. He is nist now labouring strenuously to complete the new cathedral in New York, which was commenced by Archbishop Hughes, and for which the present prelate has given 10,000 dols. from his private puikp To procure material for the cathedral his Grace paid a visit to Koine in the year 1874. The elevation of Archbishop McCloskey to the Cardinalate does not necessitate the appointment of a new Archbishop. He Snbisho Carduwl Cullen ' have the double title Ca?duSSKETCH OF DB. MANNING. c The most Eer, Henry Edward Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, England, was lately summoned to Rome by his Holiness and the news of has promotion does not take the Catholic world by iurprise. "«**v «vnu u # The successor of the f among Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop

Manning, is a zealous champion of the faith which St. Augustine planted in England. e"°«"*o Archbishop Manning is the son of the late William Manning, I*k "'i a m , e^ hailt of London, who was at one time Governor ot the Bank of England. He was born in the year 1809, and is consequently, sixty-six years of age. He was educated at Harrow and Balml College, Oxford, having Mr. Gladstone for a fellow student during a portion of the scholastic period. Here the two distinguished minds were in free and friendly communion. YounoManning graduated Bachelor of Arts, in first class honours, in the year 1830. He was ordained in the Protestant Church ministry and became a Fellow of Merton College. Having served for some tew terms as one of the select preachers in the University of uxtord, he was appointed Vicar of Lavington and Graffham, Sussex This was i hi the year 1834. In the year 1840, he was made Archdeacon of Chichester. He came to ponder deeply on the subiect of of religion. In the year 1851, he resigned all preferment in the Established State Church and joined the Catholicfold. He entered £ P^esthood, and soon afteward became Superior of the Ecclesiastical Mission at Bayswater, entitled the Oblates of St. Charles Jiorroineo. He has been highly honoured by the Holy Father for his great works. The degree of D.D., has been conferred upon him a "i o^ - ™^ as also a PP oin ted to the offices of Provost of the Ai-chdiocese of Westminster, ProthonotaiyApostoUc and domestic pre^tetothePope When the great Cardinal Wiseman was removed l»y death, Sight Key. Dr. Manning was appointed Archbishop of Westminster. His Grace has been a most prolific -writer on Catholic subiects The revival and extension of the Catholic Church in Great Britain under his pastoral rule has been almost miraculous, iustifrino- the remark of Cardinal Wiseman when he said, " Augustine nmsthave planted the seed m congenial soil when the hacked, chared, and shootsL^tikT" tl>eeS produces such & een and .vigorous offr™ . C ?™ T OS 1 LBDOCHOWSKI, ARCHBISHOP OF POSEN. r>t™ * illustrious confessor, now in a Prussian dungeon at Otrowo for more than a year, is the eldest son of Count Joseph of Ledochowski, and was bom October 29, .1822, at the domain of Ledochow, in Gahcia. While in prison he has been repeatedly summoned to pay the income tax to.the State. His reply that he received no income since his imprisonment was answered a few weeks ago by the announcement that he nmst pay it out of his private fortune now remaining to him. Sacrificing to the caU of God his brilliant future as head of an illustrious family 'CountiLedochowsM began at Vienna his studied for the priesthood which he continued in 1847, at the AcadeiS Ecelesiastica, founded by Pope Pius IX., at Rome, with a viewof training young levites for the political and diplomatic missions of wie xioly feee. + +1 5 )l lT leav - n ? c Academia * he was sent to Madrid as secretary to the Nuncio in Spain, and subsequently discharged the important functions of Nuncio Apostolic in Brazil, Portugaf, Chili, and Belgium— m all these countries winning the esteem of the diplomatic corps. He was consecrated Bishop of Thebes in partibm infdeliwn November 3, 1861 5- and when the Archiepiscopal See of Gnesen aS PosenfeU vacant m 1864, the King of Prussia requested the appointment of the Nuncio at Brussels. The Metropolitan Chapter ti,Fv S t U J ead^ f* vvishes by placing his name first in See KnSiise^^ by ** ™ PrWnOtcd to He devoted himself to the affairs of his diocese, and avoided all mingling m external affairs. His visit to the Emperor William, at Versailles, ni^ IStt), however, led him to see that a struggle was imminent. His coui-se could not be doubtful. When the l™s against the freedom of the Church were proposed, he joined the other Prussian bishops m their remonstrances against them. The laws finally passed, May 11^12, 1873. opposition was "decided. They were laws which, as a Catholic Bishop, he could not obey The Government was resolved to teach the people one day to elect emperor and prince, by teaching them to elect pnests and bishops; and they may infer that then- right to elect civil magistrates is muoh clearer than any right to elect successors of the apostles of Christ. The Archbishop" joined the other archbishops and bishops in the protest of May 26, and, on his refusal to appear before a criminal court, was fined repeatedly till 5L * F° V ffi WaS - Sei l ed l^ ?e? e was then imprisoned at Ostrowo, where he still remains, to the disgrace of the Imperial Government of Prussia. Pope Pius IX., by a brief of November 3,1873 encouraged the illustrious confessor to constancy in tlie trial which he has to undergo. ffMW/U THE PEIMUTE OP BELGUUM Monsignor Descharnps, who is to receive a cardinal's hat according to report, is Archbishop of Mechlin, in addition to hfs prmmtial dignity. He is exceedingly popular as a clergyman and reformer , vigorous in health, and esteemed and beloved both by the members of the Court and the people of the kingdom. MONSIGNOR GIANNEI.LI. ° Is at present the Most Eev. Archbishop of Sardinia. He is an Italian by bn-th, an humble and zealous clergyman. MONSIGKTOR BABTOLINI. the Seo^atfof^Zr^a^ H6hold " ■**— »

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