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Sacramento Daily Record-Union February 28, 1895
Sacramento Daily Record-Union
February 28, 1895

	DEATH OF AN EMINENT PRELATE
Close of the Career of Bishop Patrick Manogue
After a Lingering Illness - Sketch of His Life and Religious Work - The Funeral 
Next Tuesday
   After a lingering illness, Bishop Patrick Manogue of the Sacramento Diocese 
of the Catholic Church passed away at an early hour yesterday morning. His 
death had been almost hourly anticipated some weeks past, though he was 
conscious to the last, and shortly before he died he gave instructions to 
Father Grace and the other clerical members of his household regarding affairs 
of the diocese.
  Rev. Father Grace had been unremitting in his attendance upon the Bishop, and 
was one of those present at the bedside of the dying prelate. The others were 
Vicar-General LYNCH, Fathers HUNT, KLYNE and WALSH, Miss Minnie FOGARTY, the 
Bishop’s niece, and Miss KELLY of Napa.
  It had been hoped that the beautiful chime of bells which Bishop Manogue 
recently had made in the East and presented to the Cathedral of the Holy 
Sacrament, as his personal gift, would be in position to ring out the “Angelus” 
before his death occurred, but this hope was not realized. The bells are nearly 
ready, however, and will probably be heard for the first time on Tuesday next, 
the day of the Bishop’s funeral.
  The death of Bishop Manogue was not announced at the Ash Wednesday services 
yesterday morning, as Rev. Father Grace, who officiated, was too deeply 
affected over the sad scene in the death-chamber which he had just left to 
perform his duty at the altar, to trust himself in an attempt to break the news 
to his congregation. It was, however, known to many of those who knelt and 
prayed in the early morning hours in the handsome Cathedral which their beloved 
Bishop erected here soon after taking up his residence in this city.
  Bishop Manogue leaves two married sisters, who reside in San Benito County, 
both of whom are well advanced in years. The husband of one died there a week 
ago.
  Ever since his coming to this city Bishop Manogue had enjoyed the respect of 
everyone, irrespective of religious belief, and to those to whom he was 
personally known he had endeared himself by his manliness, his piety, his 
charitableness and his liberality. Though resolute and unflinching in matters 
of faith, he always manifested a tender regard for the feelings of those who 
were not of his belief. He had encountered the rough edges of adversity in his 
youth, and by his long association with men in the humbler walks of life he had 
imbibed a degree of charitableness for the failings and weaknesses of human 
nature that many otherwise good men have never experienced.
 Bishop Manogue possessed in a high degree the attributes of a Christian 
leader. He had a nature as tender as that of a woman, a heart that beat with 
love for all of God’s children, a meek and humble spirit, combined with 
strength and determination in all things which he deemed necessary for the 
spiritual welfare of those intrusted to his charge.
  Though he had spared no necessary expense in the erection and embellishment 
of the handsome Cathedral that stands as a monument to his name, his last years 
were lived almost as plainly and unostentatiously as those he passed while 
laboring as a common miner. His apartments at the episcopal residence adjoining 
the Cathedral were plainly but comfortably furnished, and he was abstemious and 
self-denying in all things. His chief happiness seemed to come from his daily 
works of charity - in relieving distress and contributing to enterprises 
calculated to help humanity.
  In anticipation of the Bishop’s death steps had already been taken to prepare 
for his funeral, which will doubtless be a very imposing affair. It is expected 
that Archbishop RIORDAN of San Francisco will officiate, and that prominent 
Catholic clergymen from various parts of the state will be here to participate 
in the ceremony. The funeral will take place at 10 o’clock A.M. and the 
interment will be in St. Joseph’s Cemetery.
	AN ACTIVE LIFE
A Brief Outline of the Late Prelate’s Career
 In the “History of Sacramento County,” complied in 1890, appears the following 
biographical sketch of Bishop Manogue:
 “The great spiritual see over which this gentleman presided embraces the 
twenty-five northern and central counties of California and the whole of the 
western and most populous portion of the State of Nevada. It was practically 
created for him in 1886. For the laborious duties entailed upon the Bishop of a 
field so extensive and including the mining regions of the Sierra Nevada, 
probably no one could be better fitted than the affable Bishop Manogue, because 
of his life and training and his singularly clear judgement of human nature.
  “Patrick Manogue was born in the County of Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1831. At the 
city of Callan, in that county, he pursued his early studies and there resided 
until he left for America in 1849. After a few years spent in the Eastern 
States he continued his studies at the University of St. Mary’s of the Lake of 
Chicago. During the cholera epidemic in 1854 in that city he wore out his 
health in the arduous labors of the time, and for the purpose of recuperating 
he lived for fourteen months the hard life of a miner in Nevada County, in this 
State, learning by actual experience the privations and hardy pleasures of this 
rough but sturdy phase of human life.
 “In the address delivered by him at the laying of the corner-stone of the 
beautiful Cathedral in this city, he said he held a drill when at every strike 
of the hammer the fire flew form the flintlike quartz. Whenever hard work was 
to be done he referred to his associates in the mines to prove that he was 
ready to take a hand in its performance. Those were the days when the thrift, 
the brawn of the State was in the mountains.
  “He lived for three years in the mines, and then went to Paris, where, at the 
Seminary of St. Sulpice, he completed his studies in a course extending over 
four years, and in 1861 was ordained a priest by Cardinal MORLOT, his special 
mission being to work on the Pacific Coast.
  “While on his way to California he stopped in Virginia City, Nev., where he 
was appointed to the pastorate of the Catholic Church there. For twenty years 
thereafter he labored in that field for the good of souls, and during the last 
fifteen years of that period he was Vicar-General of the diocese of Nevada.
  “He erected the first Gothic building in Virginia City, costing $80,000. 
During his priesthood there he built three churches, a convent and a hospital 
at a total cost of about $300,000, all of which sum was collected by himself 
and every debt he had contracted was discharged. His residence in Virginia City 
is remembered with veneration, love and affection by everyone in that section, 
irrespective of sect of church, for the ready hand of Father Manogue had helped 
multitudes of people through seasons of distress and suffering.
  “In 1880 he was appointed Coadjutor to Bishop O’CONNELL of the Grass Valley 
Diocese, and four years later he succeeded that prelate, who, by reason of 
advancing years, was permitted to retire.
  “In 1886, owing to Bishop Manogue’s representations regarding the growing 
importance of Sacramento as the official head of the State and the distributing 
point of trade, Pope Leo XIII, decreed that thenceforth what had been known as 
the Catholic Diocese of Grass Valley should be known as the Diocese of 
California, with the seat of the Episcopate at Sacramento City.
  “At once he set about utilizing his rare combination of business 
qualifications and theological attainments to better the condition of the 
diocese under his charge.  Recognizing the necessity for a more representative 
house of worship than then existed, he bent his energies to the task of 
building a new edifice, and the result was the erection of the grand Cathedral 
of the Holy Sacrament at Eleventh and K streets, that is recognized as the 
finest church building west of the Missouri River. It was completed in 1889, 
and the dedication ceremony was probably the most elaborate of a religious 
character that had been witnessed in the State.”
  In addition to the stately Cathedral, Bishop Manogue erected a handsome 
residence on the same half-block, where he resided with Rev. Father Grace, 
pastor of the parish, and his assistant clergyman.
	A MAN OF NERVE
Incidents That Illustrate the Deceased’s Personal Courage.
  Several stories are told which illustrates the character of the deceased 
prelate. On one occasion Father Manogue had to make sick calls which compelled 
him to make long journeys to distant regions throughout Nevada, to Austin, 
Lander County, or Reese River, as it was then called, a distance of 180 miles, 
over rough roads and dreary deserts, often swept by wintry blasts and buried 
deep in snow. One such call was to prepare for his death a man condemned to be 
hanged. In the discharge of this office he discovered something meritorious in 
the man’s case, and plunging through wintry wastes on an errand of mercy, he 
procured a reprieve form Governor NYE, followed it up with a petition and other 
appeals, and by his zeal and influence ultimately secured the culprit’s 
liberation.
  He had frequently to go to Walker River and sometimes to Aurora, Esmeralda. 
On one occasion, arriving late at Wellington’s Station, Walker River, he had 
not other bed but the floor of the barroom, in the midst of a few dozen hard 
cases, teamsters, etc.
  Mrs. JOHNSON, proprietress of the house, accidentally discovering that a 
priest was occupying a portion of the floor with the teamsters, had her husband 
arise from bed and hunt up the clergyman, whom he found with his saddle for a 
pillow, but no covering or blankets. The kindly couple vacated their own bed 
for him.
  Johnson was subsequently the immediate cause of the organization of a 
vigilance committee which hanged three men. Father Manogue was in Austin when 
friends of the doomed men telegraphed for him to Virginia City. The dispatch 
was forwarded to him at 9 o’clock at night. He instantly arose, ordered his 
horse and prepared for the journey. He telegraphed to the President of the 
vigilance committee, asking him if he could get through before the appointed 
time, or the execution be postponed. The reply was “Impossible.” The dispatch 
from Aurora arrived in Austin about midnight, the office being kept open on 
account of the excitement. The pleasure of the hardship was denied him, and he 
was obliged reluctantly to send back his horse to the stable.
  Once, when on a sick call toward Pyramid Lake, a portion of the Truckee 
Meadows was flooded where the old road meandered. He kept on till he was 
equally distant from land on every side. Soon the horse began to swim, having 
lost footing, and few can imagine the horrors of that journey, it being late 
and dark. Wet as he was he had to go ten miles yet, notwithstanding the cold 
and his condition.
  At another time he had to ride twenty-five miles during the night to attend a 
dying lady. Having arrived at the house, the husband of the lady met him at the 
door, presenting a revolver, and swore all sorts of oaths that no )_____ priest 
should enter his house. After some parleying the cruel husband was on his back 
and the priest had possession of the revolver and full sway in the house, where 
he discharged his religious duties toward the dying woman.
  When Colonel O’CONNOR was deposed at Auburn by the English company who sent 
new officers to take charge of their imaginary mines in the Truckee Meadows, 
O’Connor opposed the new officers, receiving them only with shooting irons and 
hostile threats. Just after the scrimmage Father Manogue arrived and set to 
work to calm hostilities. Then the new officers repaired to Stone & Gate’s 
bridge of the Truckee, while the warlike Colonel paraded about Auburn looking 
for new victims, as he thought he had five of the Englishmen already silent 
from the affects of his ready revolver.
  Soon Father Manogue was riding through the Colonel’s hostile camp, and as 
soon aas the Colonel’s shotgun leveled at him. Being dark, the Colonel did not 
know him. After hearing the scream to halt or be shot the horse was soon reined 
up. O’Connor, under the influence of liquor and full of excitement, portrayed 
his encounter with the Englishmen and described where five lay dead. Father 
Manogue was invited to a glass of wine in the Colonel’s cottage, and, while 
sitting at the table, a dozen of rifles were leveled at the table by the 
Sheriff’s posse detailed to arrest the slaughterer of the Englishmen. O’Connor 
was determined not to be taken alive, but at the solicitation of Father Manogue 
he gave himself up provided the priest would accompany him. So the Colonel and 
Father Manogue rode on to Glendale by moonlight, surrounded on every side by 
rifles and glittering knives.
  How he saved O’Connor when the infuriated miners were preparing to hang him 
has been often told. He was the first to telegraph to Sharon on the trouble 
arising between the miners and Chinamen, and dictated the terms which were 
afterwards adopted.


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