Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . AD-MINISTRATION 1790-1800. APPOINTMENT OF A COAD-JUTOR. RT. ReV. L. GRAESSEL. Bishop Carroll felt that the condition of the Church inthe United States forbade any unnecessary delay in England ;and, decHning the kind and urgent invitations of old andvalued friends like Lord Arundell of Wardour and LordPetre, even one to revisit Lulworth Castle, the very thoughtof which filled his heart with holy and generous emotions,he embarked at Gravesend, on the 8th of October, in thesame vessel on which he had come to E
Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . AD-MINISTRATION 1790-1800. APPOINTMENT OF A COAD-JUTOR. RT. ReV. L. GRAESSEL. Bishop Carroll felt that the condition of the Church inthe United States forbade any unnecessary delay in England ;and, decHning the kind and urgent invitations of old andvalued friends like Lord Arundell of Wardour and LordPetre, even one to revisit Lulworth Castle, the very thoughtof which filled his heart with holy and generous emotions,he embarked at Gravesend, on the 8th of October, in thesame vessel on which he had come to England. After astormy and disagreeable passage he reached Baltimore on the7th of December. When the arrival of the ship was announced, a large body ofCatholics proceeded to the landing, and as soon as the Bishopdisembarked they escorted him to his house. The next Sun- Both while going and while returning Bishop Carroll had as fellowpassenger Dr. Madison, who went lo England to be consecrated byBishops of the Church of England as the Protestant Episcopal Bishop ofVirginia. 16* (369). BALTIMOfiE. (370) HIS INSTALLATION. 371 day St. Peters chuich was tlirouged. Five priests, with thetrustees of the church, received the Bishop of Baltimore atthe door, and escorted him to the Sanctuary, where he re-mained at the foot of the akar while the Te Deum was he was conducted to the pontifical throne, where hereceived the obeisance of the clergy and of some of the laity,who approached and kissed his ring. He then celebrated apontifical mass, in which he gave his solemn benediction andproclaimed indulgences in the form prescribed. In the address which he delivered on this occasion, afterhe showed how great and irrevocable the duties w^hich hadbeen imposed on him and the awful responsibility, he said : In this, my new station, if my life be not one continuedinstruction and example of virtue to the people committed tomy charge, it will become, in the sight of God, a life not onlyusele
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