Progress of the Catholic church in America and the great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893 .. . nsecration at Rome, prepared to reach his see, wholly ignorant of whathe should find on his arrival in New York. It was, however, no easy matterthen to secure passage. Failing to find a ship at Leghorn, he proceeded toNaples; but the French, who had overrun Italy, detained him as a Britishsubject, and while thus thwarted and harassed, he suddenly fell sick anddied. Thus New York never beheld its first bishop. Then followed a long vacancy, highly prejudicial to the progress of theChurch, but a vaca
Progress of the Catholic church in America and the great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893 .. . nsecration at Rome, prepared to reach his see, wholly ignorant of whathe should find on his arrival in New York. It was, however, no easy matterthen to secure passage. Failing to find a ship at Leghorn, he proceeded toNaples; but the French, who had overrun Italy, detained him as a Britishsubject, and while thus thwarted and harassed, he suddenly fell sick anddied. Thus New York never beheld its first bishop. Then followed a long vacancy, highly prejudicial to the progress of theChurch, but a vacancy that European affairs caused. The successor of was torn from Rome, and held a prisoner in France. The Catholicworld knew not under what influence acts might be issued as his, that werereally the inventions of his enemies. The bishops in Ireland addressed a let-ter to the bishops of the United States to propose some settled line of actionin all cases where there was not evidence that the pope was a free agent. Meanwhile, the archbishop of Baltimore extended his care to the diocese. RT. REV. LUKE THE COLUMBIAN JUBILEE. of New York. When Father OBrien at last sank under his increasingyears, New York would have seen its Catholic population in a manner desti-tute had not the Jesuit fathers of Maryland come to their assistance. Kohlmann, a man of sound theological learning and great zeal,who died many years after at Rome, honored by the sovereign pontiffs, wasthe administrator of the diocese. With him were Rev. Benedict Fenwick,subsequently bishop of Boston, and Rev. Peter Malou, whose romantic lifewould form an interesting volume; for few who recollect this venerablepriest, in his day such a favorite with the young, knew that he had figuredin great political events, and in the struggle of Belgium for freedom had ledher armies. Under the impulse of these fathers a collegiate institution was opened, andcontinued for some years on the spot where the
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