Progress of the Catholic church in America and the great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893 .. . r at differenttimes by the assemblies of theclergy of France, and the phrase which fell from the lips of Fenelon onhis death-bed, at that moment when man no longer flatters; I know nothingmore venerable or more apostolical than the Congregation of St. Sulpice. The archbishop of Baltimore might now repose in his glorious age, andawait with security the moment when God should call him to the reward ofhis labors. He had commenced the ministry in America when Catholicitywas persecuted there, and a few
Progress of the Catholic church in America and the great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893 .. . r at differenttimes by the assemblies of theclergy of France, and the phrase which fell from the lips of Fenelon onhis death-bed, at that moment when man no longer flatters; I know nothingmore venerable or more apostolical than the Congregation of St. Sulpice. The archbishop of Baltimore might now repose in his glorious age, andawait with security the moment when God should call him to the reward ofhis labors. He had commenced the ministry in America when Catholicitywas persecuted there, and a few poor missionaries alone shared the toils andperils of the apostleship. He now beheld the United States an ecclesiasticalprovince, and in his own diocese he had established a seminary, colleges, andconvents; had created religious vocation, and founded a national , with its episcopal see, its convent and clergy, had also been addedto the United States, and was now confided to one of his clergy as its prelate. Yet the trials of the Church in Europe, the prolonged imprisonment of. RT. REV. JOHN CHEVERUS, FIRST BISHOP OFBOSTON. 78 THE COLUMBIAN JUBILEE. Pius VII, filled with bitterness the last years of the holy and aged Carroll lived long enough to see peace restored to the Church;and one of the first acts of the holy father, on returning to Rome in 1814, wasto name to the see of New York, vacant since the death of Bishop Concanen,Father John Connelly, of the Order of St. Dominic, prior of St. promotion completed the hierarchy of the United States. Soon after, thepatriarch of that Church, humbly begging to be laid on the ground to die,expired on the 3d of December, 1815, at the age of eighty, and his death waslamented, not only by Catholics, but also by the Protestants, who respectedand admired the archbishop, and mourned his death as a public loss. In person, Archbishop Carroll was commanding and dignified. Hisvoice was feeble, and
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