Progress of the Catholic church in America and the great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893 .. . CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN OF THE MAINE. 471 school he was sent to Manhattan College, whence, after the usual clas-sical course, he received his bachelors degree, and was graduated withthe class of 1883. He then elected to give himself to the service of thechurch, and being received as a diocesan student went to make histheological studies at St. Josephs Seminary, Troy. These were com-pleted in the subsequent four years, and he was ordained a priest byBishop McNeirney on Dec. 17, 1887. Archbishop Corrigan
Progress of the Catholic church in America and the great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893 .. . CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN OF THE MAINE. 471 school he was sent to Manhattan College, whence, after the usual clas-sical course, he received his bachelors degree, and was graduated withthe class of 1883. He then elected to give himself to the service of thechurch, and being received as a diocesan student went to make histheological studies at St. Josephs Seminary, Troy. These were com-pleted in the subsequent four years, and he was ordained a priest byBishop McNeirney on Dec. 17, 1887. Archbishop Corrigan thenassigned him for duty as an assistant to the Rev. Charles H. Colton,rector of St. Stephens Church, East Twenty-eighth Street, New YorkCity, where he remained until his appointment to the navy, March 25,1895. The Rev. Father Colton, when asked to say something about thefamous chaplains personality, answered : Well, there is nothing too good that you could say of him. Duringthe eight years he was with me here I found him an ideal priest. Iknow many young priests who have special characteris
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