. History of the Catholic Church in the United States. andSt. Josephs Orphan Asylum for girls was opened onWoodland Avenue, Cleveland. The next year theSisters of the Humility of Mary began their labors inthe diocese, and the Ursulines of Cleveland foundeda house at Tiffin. Under Mother Mary Joseph aprosperous convent and academy soon grew up, sus-tained by the public verdict as to their ability asteachers. On the 24th and 25th of September, 1863, Bishop Bishop Rappe, Pastoral, Oct. 28, 1858. Detroit Cath. Yii^dicator,Nov. 15, 1856. 558 THE CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. RapjDe again convened li
. History of the Catholic Church in the United States. andSt. Josephs Orphan Asylum for girls was opened onWoodland Avenue, Cleveland. The next year theSisters of the Humility of Mary began their labors inthe diocese, and the Ursulines of Cleveland foundeda house at Tiffin. Under Mother Mary Joseph aprosperous convent and academy soon grew up, sus-tained by the public verdict as to their ability asteachers. On the 24th and 25th of September, 1863, Bishop Bishop Rappe, Pastoral, Oct. 28, 1858. Detroit Cath. Yii^dicator,Nov. 15, 1856. 558 THE CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. RapjDe again convened liis clergy in a synod, and es-tablished a fund for infirm and disabled priests. In 1865, at the solicitation of many citizens of Cleve-land, Bishop Rappe opened the Charity Hosj)ital, thefirst institution of the kind in the city. Under thedirection of the devoted Sisters of Charity the institu-tion justified all the hopes entertained. When sum-moned to the second Plenary Council Bishop Rappecould feel that much had been accomplished in North-ern SEAL OF BISHOP KAPPE OF CLEVELAND. Houck, The Church in Northern Ohio and in the diocese of Cleve-land, New York, 1887, pp. 29, 202, 261, etc.; Detroit Vindicator, May,1854 ; Freemans Journal, Nov. 25, 1854 ; Metropolitan, vi., p. 136, etc.;Cath. Mirror, 1859 ; 1866, Bishop Rappe, circulars, Cath. Telegraph,Oct. 4, 1865. CHAPTER III. DIOCESE OF BAEDSTOWN AND LOUISVILLE, RT. KEY. MAETIN JOHN SPALDING, THIED BISHOP, 1863-1864. Although the residence of the Bishop had beentransferred to Louisville and it became the more im-portant see, it had no church worthy to be called aCathedral. The old parish church was small and frail,but as the lot was large the Catholics wished theCathedral to be erected there. The work was begunin 1849, Bishop Spalding subscribing ten thousanddollars. The plan adopted was that of a Gothic edi-fice, ninety feet by two hundred and ten, with a spirerising two hundred and eighty-five feet. The cornerstone was l
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