GATHERED FRAGMENTS A Publication of The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania • Vol. XXVI, Fall 2016 Table of Contents • Vol. XXVI • Fall 2016 Pages Submission Guidelines, Membership Information, and Board of Directors ...................................................................3 Designing in God's Name: Architect Carlton Strong ...........................................................................................................4 A Pilgrimage to Europe ...........................................................................................................................................................29 Patterns of Harmony and Dissonance in the History of Roselia Foundling Asylum and Maternity Hospital ........................................................................................................................................34 The Bishops of Pittsburgh and St. Paul Seminary ..............................................................................................................40 Officials of St. Paul Seminary, Pittsburgh ............................................................................................................................42 Ordination in Rome .................................................................................................................................................................47 Ubi Episcopus: A Conversation with Donald Cardinal Wuerl in the Fiftieth Anniversary Year of St. Paul Seminary, Pittsburgh ..............................................................................48 History in Stone ........................................................................................................................................................................52 Byzantine Catholics in Western Pennsylvania ......................................................................................................................60 A Missioner’s Call – Sr. Maria del Rey Danforth, M.M. .....................................................................................................62 The Literary Works of Sr. Maria del Rey Danforth, M.M. ................................................................................................69 Maryknoll Mission Archives – Shepherding Maryknoll’s History through Time ...........................................................70 Cardinal Newman, the Pittsburgh Oratory, and the Institute for Newman Studies in Oakland .................................73 The Five Farina Brothers: Priests of the Diocese of Pittsburgh – Part II ......................................................................80 Mother Teresa of Kolkata: A Future Saint Visits Pittsburgh ............................................................................................86 Our Authors ..............................................................................................................................................................................94 News from The Catholic Historical Society .........................................................................................................................96 Submission Guidelines The Catholic Historical Society The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania solicits and of Western Pennsylvania welcomes items for Gathered Fragments addressing the culture and history of Catholicism in Western Pennsylvania. 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Rates for subscriptions are currently: $100 for sustaining members, $35 for institutional Kathleen M. Washy members, $35 for individual members, and $15 for religious order men and religious order women. The Society also welcomes donations to complete research, as well as to support publishing and preservation projects in local Church history. Cover Photo The cover photo is of the relief in the sanctuary of Sacred Heart Church in Shadyside. This relief was designed to depict all of the trades involved with the construction of the church. Architect Carlton Strong is depicted within this relief. Source: Kathleen Washy. © 2016 by The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania 3 Sketch of Sacred Heart Church Nave. Source: A Sermon in Sculptured Stone and Jeweled Glass, Sacred Heart Church, by Maria Thecla Hisrich and John M. Unger (Pittsburgh: The Church, 1976) 4 Designing In God's Name: Architect Carlton Strong Kathleen M. Washy “The Church of God is likened to an ark or ship, because she saves us from the deluge. She is the Gate of heaven, because through her portal all who are redeemed must pass....” – Carlton Strong, 19141 Part 1: Biography Julia moved her family from apartment to apartment within the city “Take a box of Mother Sills of Buffalo.9 Sea-sick Remedy, which you can get in New York, in case you For his early years of education, Strong attended Buffalo Public need it,” advised architect Carlton Schools and at the end of his education, he went to Canada and Strong in his 1925 article “Upon briefly attended the high school at the College of Ottawa, which was Going Abroad.” Having recently run by Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a male Catholic returned from a 10,000 mile religious order.10 Like other aspiring architects of the time, Strong tour of five European countries, became an apprentice in order to learn how to design buildings. he wrote this article in order to Returning to Buffalo in 1886 at age 17, he found a position as an encourage “real students of Ar- apprentice draftsman for English-born architect Richard A. Waite. chitecture” to visit Europe. Pro- In the early 1870s, Waite had set up his Buffalo office and he was viding practical counsel to these well established by the time he took on Strong. 11 In the year before “students”, Strong gave advice on he hired Strong, Waite was contracted to design the Ontario Legisla- Carlton Strong everything from booking passage tive Building, a project of a certain magnitude, and the newly hired Source: History of Sacred Heart Church, 12 Pittsburgh, 1872-1944, by Mary Zoe on a steamer to doing laundry Strong prepared the framing plans for it. (Pittsburgh: Sacred Heart Church, 1944) while overseas. Brimming full of born enthusiasm from his recent travels abroad, he had to curtail his 2 article as “the space at the disposal of the Editor limits [his] song.” At the time, Strong was working on the design of Sacred Heart Church in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood. With the intent to study the “world’s finest church edifices,” Strong had travelled to Europe the previous fall in the company of Father Thomas Coakley, George Sotter, Patrick F. Gallagher, and Michael F. McNulty – Sacred Heart’s pastor, stained glass designer, general contractor, and church committee member.3 Together, these five men were the public face of the planning for a new church but out of all of The Art Alliance Advertisement them, it was the architect, Carlton Strong, with the final vision as he Source: 1889 Buffalo City Directory reportedly had an entirely free hand in the design of the church.4 After serving two years as an apprentice, Strong decided to strike Considered a historic site today, Sacred Heart was the pinnacle of out on his own. On July 9, 1888, 19-year-old Strong opened his own Strong’s career, which was formed from a lifetime of liturgical, architectural office in Buffalo.13 Not long after, he and artist Charles ecclesiastical, and architectural studies. W. Bradley entered into what would be the short-lived collaboration Bradley & Strong, proprietors of The Art Alliance.14 Strong dreamed Foundations of growing the Alliance through the establishment of a “Co- On March 23, 1869, Thomas Willet Carlton Strong was born in Operative Allied Art Institute,” which