BISHOP N. C. MATZr DIES THURSDAY MORNING Expires Just As Sister, Mrs, Mayers, Arrives Here From Indiana BBHOP MATZ ASKED Pray for the Get Your Next- H e a d o f De n v e r d io c e s e LAST AUGUST T H A T Success of the DoorNeighbor HAS HOLY, p e a c e f u l END; COADJUTOR BISHOP Catholic Press to Subscribe BE NAMED FOR STATE ARCHBISHOP J. B. PITAVAL OF SANTE FE CAME WEDNESDAY Death May Hasten Announce­ ment of New Head of Diocese.' Two Sisters, Hospital Chaplain and Nuns CHOICE IS BELIEVED MADE With Our Ordinary as Death Arrives But Utmost Secrecy Prevails Among Authorities as to FUNERAL WILL BE HELD MONDAY His Identity. VOL. XIII. NO. 1. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1917. $2 PER YEAR. It has lioen known for some time in Denver that a coadjutor bishop was to The Rt. Rev. Nicholas C. Matz, D. D., bishop of Denver, died be named here. Bishop Matz himself this morning (Thursday) at St. Anthony's ho.spital, at 8:15, asked for one last August, and the clergy M'ith him, at the time, tvere his ttvo sisters, Miss Elizabeth Matz, and laity have been expecting some word from Rome ever since. There have been his housekeeper, and Mrs. Mary Maj^ens, of Connersville, Ind., many rumors, but all seemed without who had arrived in DenVer only at 7 :20 this morning, and who foundation. New rules for the naming of M as hurried by motor from the train to the hospital by the Rev. bishops were promulgated last year, and the selection of tlie names was left to the Garrett J. Burke. The bi.shop had been ill for two years, and his. bishops of the province. It Is known that serious sickness began on Monday of last week. He rallied then, a meeting was held several months ago when the bishops made their choice. Who filtho it was thought that he Avould be dead before his sister he is, nobody outside the bishops them­ Elizabeth reached his side. ^Late in the Aveek he had another selves and their superiors knows. The sinking siKill, and he becante Avorse on Sunday. On Monday, bishops are put under the strictest se­ crecy in a matter of this kind. Since his jihysician. Dr. McKlveen, felt sure that he would not surviA'e their meeting, rumors have died down, the day. HoAvever, the bishop lived and became a little better on for everybody who knew the rules of the Tuesday, Avhile there Avas Quite an improA’einent on Wednesday. Church realized that it was next door to impossible for the information to leak On ThursdaA', the bishop Avas considerably AA’eakcr. The end, out. Avhen it did come, arrived rather unexpectedly. Whether the. death of Bishop Matz Archbishop Pitaval of Santa Fc ar­ Matz, is buried in Denver. His father, will result in ‘another postponement re­ rived in Denver yesterday morning and -Antoine, is buried in Europe. mains to be seen. Probably the clergy­ immediately went to the hospital. The When the bishop died, besides his two man named as coadjutor will now be­ bishop recognized him. The archbishop sisters. Father Sweeney, chaplain of the come the bishop of Denver. There is no Avas on his way to the hospital this hospital, and some of the Poor Sisters way of knowing positively when he will iiiorning when the bishop die<i. Many of St. Francis of the Perpetual Adora­ ■ be chosen. The death of Bishop Matz of the priests of the city and some of tion were with him. The bishop was will likely accelerate his naming. The the sisters called on the bishop within given Holy Viaticum at 1 o’clock this first indication of who he is will likely morning by Father Sweeney. come when the Associated or United the last few days. He recognized them and gave them his blessing. He received (Ceyitfhued on Page 4, Column 2.) Press wires Hash the news from Rome, the last rites of the Church last week, the day the appointment is announced. and also obtained all possible spiritual There has been some talk about a di­ MODERN IGNATIUS NEEDED, vision of the diocese, with a Western consolation this week. His final hours Slope city as the new see. This report were most edifying. DECLARES FATHER MANNEK has received no official verification. “ Tell the priests,’’ he said to one of the clergymen near him, “ that I am the Tlie romantic life of St. Ignatius of LIFE OF BISHOP MATZ. enemy of none.” Loyola was beautifully described by the Rev. E. J. Mannix at the solemn high Bom in Alsace-Lorraine. The Cathedral eliimes tolled the an- nouneement of his death to the people mass in the Sacred Heart church last The Rt. Rev. Nicholas Chrysostom Sunday morning to mark the feast of Matz was born April (1, 1860, at Munster, of Denver this morning. The funeral will be held Monday morning at 10, the saint, and it was shown that the Lorraine, France. His native land later times of Ignatius resembled our own in passed under G<>rman domination. with pontificirf mass at the Cathedf-al. Archbishop Pitaval will he the celebrant, many ways. The need of a modern Ig­ He came as a young man to America, natius Ix>yola, a mighty general in the and studied in Ohio. He was ordained and Bishop .1. Henry. Tihen of Lincoln, Neh., will preach. cause of CTirist, was shown. Tlie sermon in Denver on May 31, 1874, by the Rt. follows. Rev. Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, first It is known that a number of bishops bishop of Denver, whom he later suc­ and practically all the priests of the ceeded. Bishop Machebeuf, on a visit to "Digitus Dei hie est”—“ The Finger of Denver diocese, with a number from God is here.” (Exodus viii, 19.) the East, when he was on his way to other dioceses, will attend. Interment France in 1869, busied himself trying to will be made in Mount Olivet cemeterv, Little did the French storming party get priests for this wild Western coun­ l^nvor, where tlic first bishop of Denver realize what a lucky shot it fired that try. He conferred the diaconate on a lies. Bjshop Matz's mother, Elizalmth memorable 20th day of May, 1521, when it struck down, from the ramparts of Pam­ plona, that finely fighting Spanish cava­ lier, standing so defiantly in the breach of the wall to defend it. As epoch mak­ ing in the world's history as the first volley aimed at the Minute Men of Lex­ ington and Concord, or the iron hail which fell upon Fort Sumpti-r, or any other shot ever fired in all the history of all the wars of humanity, was that iron c.annon ball which tore the left calf and broke the right leg of that young Spanish officer, 30 years of ago, on that Whit-Monday morning of the sixteenth century. For, with it went tumbling down from the lieights in mangled, bleed­ ing flesh and bone a vain, polished dandy of the Spanish court of Ferdinand and Isabella, to rise soon after a sojdicr of Clirist, enrolled now under the banner of the Naz-arene; a general of a company of Jesus; a defender of the faith against the soon-onrushing tides of the so-called Reformation; a saint of God—Ignatius of Loyola, whose feast we celebrate this morning. Indeed, the report of that shot has been beard around the earth, until even today, in the twentietli century, the (liristian world is filled with its echoes and re-eehoings. For “their sound has gone forth into all the world and their M i words unto the very end of the earth.” To recall the salient f<>atures of this romantic, majestic and saintly life is the purpose today of the celebration in this Denver manifestation of his still breath­ ing spirit. And we. do this stingy honor to his name not only because it is worthy of all such, and more, hut, and especially, for onr own personal devotion and edifi­ cation, since, as we all know, “ Ijongiim est iter per praecepta, breve ot efiicax jier cxenipla”—I.ong is the way to sanc­ tity by precept but short and effacacioiis liy example.” Or, as the Greek sages would have it: “ Precept teaches hut ex­ ample ilraws.” “Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sub­ lime. aud, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.” In the year when Ignatius—or, rather, “Enico” or “ Inigo,” as he was known in lioyhood (he having taken the name of 'Tgnatin.s” later from the 'aintly bishop of Antioch)—was born, the world needed him badly. For the times were pregnant with great things, both goorl and evil. AVitliin just one year from that date, a certain Columbus was to weigh anchor in a nearby harbor, “to sail on and on” until he landed in a new world. Across the French frontier in Germany another certain prccix-ions nine-year-old boy was at the time attending his grammar school RT. REV. NH'HOLAS CHRV SOSTOM ilATZ, D.D., 8ECOX D BISHOP OF DENVER. and learning his Catechism—the same number of young ecclesiastics at Cincin-: got such a scare that he left the semin­ is now pastor. He finished tlie church , While in Georgetown, his lord.ship had hern gigantic. .An idea of the progress Catechism he was soon to repudiate.