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Leighton, R. V. O'Shau^nessy, and Arthur O'Connor Rome, he took his degree in theolo^ in 1899, and was

won militar^r crosses. Rev. E. M. Bray, D.D., did appointed professor of theology in the Vmoentian

heroic work in the Messina earthquake and was made Seminary at Barrens, Mo. In 1901 Dr. Glass was

a Cavalier by the King of Italy. The Catholic Truth sent by his community as president of St. Vincent's

Society Conference was held at Salford in 1916. The College and rector of St. Vincent's Church, Los

present bishop is Rt. Rev. Louis Charles Casartelli.b. Angeles, Cal., where he labored with success for four-

1852, consecrated 1903. The auxiliary bishop is Rt. teen years. He was appointed to the see of Salt Lake

Rev. John S.Vaughan, titular Bishop of Sebastopolis, 1 June, 1915; consecrated in St. Vincent's Church,

b. 1853, consecrated 1909. Statistics for the diocese Los Angeles, 24 August, and installed in the See of

are: 135 parishes, 134 churches, 12 chapels of ease, Salt Lake 1 September, 1915.

52 convent and private chapels, 18 institutions The new bishop found himself, with but seven

(chapels) where Mass is said, 1 abbey of Poor Clares, diocesan priests and a number of borrowed clergy,

44 convents for women. 289 secular priests, 86 in charge of the largest diocese in the United States,

regular priests (7 Benedictines, 8 Friars Mmor, embracing, according to the latest data, 167,657

7 Dominicans, 55 Jesuits, 5 Premonstratensians, square miles, including the entire State of Utah,

3 Servants of Mary, 1 Missionary Father of St. 84,990 square miles, and two-thirds of the State of

Joseph), 11 reli^ous congregations of men. 23 re- Nevada, 72,667 square miles. His first work was

li^ious congregations of women, 4 colleges for boys to get priests and to place them at strategic points,

with 1163 students, 14 colleges for girS with 2790 so that they could reach the scattered parishes and

students, 1 training school and hostel with an at- missions of the vast diocese. Nearly every known

tendance of 118, 141 elementary schools, 2 industrial language is spoken in the mining camps and sick

schools with 965 pupils. 5 rescue homes for children, calls of a hundred miles are a common occurrence.

3 homes for workmg girjs^ 1 hospital for men (Alexian The unsettled conditions of the mining industry made

Brothers' at Newton Heath, Manchester), 1 hos- it necessary to proceed with caution and deliberation,

pital for women (The Home, Whalley Range, Man- for a few months of depression often changed a thriv-

chester), 1 refuge. Ecclesiastical students attend ing j)arish into a deserted mining camp. In spite

St. Bede's College and Ushaw College. Most of the of many difficulties and a scarcity of resources, the

public institutions axlmit the ministr]^ of priests, bishop, with characteristic energy, augmented the

Practically all the institutions are aided by the clergy^ erected nine new parishes, of which three

Government, except Stonvhurst and a few convents, were in the episcopal city, and sent missioners to

The Government aids all the elementary schools, administer to the scattered Catholics in the remote

Loretto College for girls, St. Bede's College and parts of the diocese. The cathedral of the Mag-

Xaverian College for boys. The Priests' Eucharistic delaine was refurnished and decorated and made one

League and Lancashire Infirm Clergy Fund are of the most imposing churches in the intermountain

established among the cler^. There are seventeen section; valuable church property was acquired; and

associations among the laity. Catholic periodicals the Catholic people were orgamzed and mstructed.

are: The CathoUc Federationist, monthly organ The growth of the Church has been steady, but owing

of the Catholic Federation; ''The Harvest," monthly to the migratory habite of a large part of the mining

organ of the Catholic Protective and Rescue Society: population, largely immigrants from various parts

and the "Annual Diocesan Almanac and Directory.' of Europe, many of the smaller parishes are unstable

and temporary. At present, there are 29 priests

Salmas, (cf. C. E., XIII — 402c), a Chaldean see working m the diocese, and 12 ecclesiastical students

included in the ancient Archdiocese of Adhorbigan or in various seminaries. Salt Lake City has 5 parishes,

Adherbaidjan. The present biidiop is the Rt. Rev. 2 free grammar schools, St. Ann's Orphanage and

Pierre Aziz. b. at Mossul, 6 AprU, 1866, ordained in School, besides St. Maiy's Academy and Boarding

1890, elected 25 Jan., 1910, consecrated 15 Aug. fol- School. There are parochial schools at Ogden, lowing, published 30 Nov., 1911. During the war all Park City, and Eureka.

the villages in the diocese were devastateaand burned The Sisters of the Holy Cross have done pioneer

and many of the men were killed. At the time of the work in the dicoesc, having opened St. Mary's

Persian massacre in 1918, Bishop Aziz was deported Academy and Holy Cross Hospital in 1875, and the

by the Turks, but was providentially saved after hav- Sacred Heart Academy in Ogden in 1876. All these

ing been imprisoned for two months and endurine institutions have grown rapidly. The Holy Cross

great suffering. He arrived at Diabekir with several Sisters have charge of the day schools at Ogden, Park

priestsafterajoumeyof 50dayson foot. According City, and Eureka, and at the cathedral. Salt Lake,

to the statistics of 1920 the diocese conteined 10,460 In 1920, Bishop Glass invited the Daughters of

Chaldean Catholics, 24 secular priests. 33 churches Charity of St. Vincent to the diocese, and ^ve them

and chapels, 14 stations and 14 schools. charge of the large Catholic free school. Each vear

a grade is added to the curriculum, and the liigh Salt Lake, Diocese of (Lacub Salsis; cf. school will soon be completed. The Knighte of C. E., XIII — 404c), comprises territory' in Utsii and Columbus are well organized in the diocese and con- Nevada. The foundations of the Catholic Church in duct an evening trade school for ex-service men in the Diocese of Salt Lake were laid by the intrepid Salt Lake. The Catholic Women's League is one of missionary bishop, Rt. Rev. Lawrence Scanlan, D.D., the largest and most aggressive Catholic organiza- who was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Utah, 25 Janu- tions ol women in the West.. Their war record was ary, 1887, and first Bishop of Salt Lake, 25 January, conspicuous and they perform much charity and

1891, when the diocese was erected. Bishop Scanlan philanthropic work. The Siociety of St. Vincent de was an apostolic man, inured to the hardships of raul is organized in all the city parishes, and tiie Boy frontier mission life, and greatly beloved by all Scouts are well organized and doine eflficient work in classes. After forty-seven years of missionary toil some places. The vast deposits of iron and coal in he died 10 May, 1915. The second Bishop of Salt Utah mark the diocese as one of the future steel centers Lake J Rt. Rev. Joseph S. Glass, CM., D.D., was of the West. With the development of this industry bom m Bushnell, 111., 13 March, 1874, made his class- and the revival of copper and silver mining, an im- ical studies at St. Vincent's College, Los Angeles, Cal. mense increase of population is expected.

and his theological studies at St. Mary's Seminary,

Barrens, Mo., where he was ordained to the priest- Salta, Diocese op (Saltensis; cf. C. E., XIII-

hood, 15 August, 1897. After spending two years in 404a), in the northern j>art of the Eepuhbc of Ar-