Identifier: lifetimesofmostr00shea (find matches)
Title: Life and times of the Most Rev. John Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892
Subjects: Carroll, John, abp., 1735-1815. (from old catalog) Catholic Church
Publisher: New York, J.G. Shea
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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BOOK II>br>RT. REV. JOHN CARROLL, DD. BISCHOP OF BALTI-<BRO>MORE (1790–1808) — ADMINISTRATOR OF LOUISIANA>br>(1805–1812)—ARCHBISHOP OF BALTIMORE (1808—1815)

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CHAPTER I

RT. REV. JOHN CARROLL, DD. BISCHOP OF BALTIMORE—AD-
MINISTRATION 1790-1800. APPOINTMENT OF A COAD-
JUTOR. RT. REV. L. GRAESSEL.
Bishop Carroll felt that the condition of the Church in
the United States forbade any unnecessary delay in England ;
and, declning the kind and urgent invitations of old and
valued friends like Lord Arundell of Wardour and Lord
Petre, even one to revisit Lulworth Castle, the very thought
of which filled his heart with holy and generous emotions,
he embarked at Gravesend, on the 8th of October, in the
same vessel on which he had come to England. After a
stormy and disagreeable passage he reached Baltimore on the
7th of December.¹
When the arrival of the ship was announced, a large body of
Catholics proceeded to the landing, and as soon as the Bishop
disembarked they escorted him to his house. The next Sun-
¹Both while going and while returning Bishop Carroll had as fellow
passenger Dr. Madison, who went to England to be consecrated by
Bishops of the Church of England as the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of
Virginia.
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The Right Rev^dJohn
BISHOP OF BALTIMORE. (370)
HIS INSTALLATION. 371
day St. Peters church was throngged. Five priests, with the
trustees of the church, received the Bishop of Baltimore at
the door, and escorted him to the Sanctuary, where he re-
mained at the foot of the akar while the Te Deum was sung.
Then he was conducted to the pontifical throne, where he
received the obeisance of the clergy and of some of the laity,
who approached and kissed his ring. He then celebrated a
pontifical mass, in which he gave his solemn benediction and
proclaimed indulgences in the form prescribed.
In the address which he delivered on this occasion, after
he showed how great and irrevocable the duties which had
been imposed on him and the awful responsibility, he said :
In this, my new station, if my life be not one continued
instruction and example of virtue to the people committed to
my charge, it will become, in the sight of God, a life not only
useless, but even pernicious.
It is no longer enough for me to be inoffensive in my
conduct and regular in my manners.

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