The life of the Most Rev. M.J. Spalding, D.D., archbishop of Baltimore

CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Ancestry — Parentage — Birth — Early Education, 11 CHAPTER II. Professor at St. Mary's College — Enters the Seminary at Bardstown — Is Sent to Rome, 23 CHAPTER III. Student Life in Rome, 36 CHAPTER IV. Last Year in Rome — Public Defence of Theses for the Doctor's Cap, 45 CHAPTER V. Ordained Priest — Returns Home — I s made Pastor of the Cathedral in Bardstown — Professor in the Seminary — The "Minerva," 61 CHAPTER VI. The "Catholic Advocate" — Religious Journalism — Efforts to Extend its Influence, 71 CHAPTER VII. President of St. Joseph's College — Pastor of St. Peter's Church, in Lexington — Diocese of Nashville, 83 CHAPTER VIII. Dr. Spalding is appointed Vicar-General — The Louisville "League" — His Labors as a Lecturer and Preacher, 95 CHAPTER IX. Popular Objections to the Church — Dr. Spalding's Manner of Answering them, 106 CHAPTER X. Appointed Bishop of Lengone, in Part. Infid., and Coadjutor of Bishop Flaget — Death of Bishop Flaget — State of the Diocese at the Time of Dr. Spalding's Consecration, 118 CHAPTER XI. State of the Diocese, continued — Bishop Spalding's first Visitation — The Early Catholics of Kentucky, 131 CHAPTER XII. Retreat of the Clergy — Building of the Cathedral in Louisville — Division of the Diocese — The First Plenary Council of Baltimore — Desire to secure the Services of a teaching Brotherhood 144 CHAPTER XIII. Visit to Europe — The Xaverian Brothers — The American College at Louvain, 155 CHAPTER XIV. Religion and Nationalism — The Know-Nothing Conspiracy — "Bloody Monday," 174 CHAPTER XV. The "Miscellanea" — Controversy with Professor Morse, 185 CHAPTER XVI. The Provincial Councils of Cincinnati — The Common-School System, 200 CHAPTER XVII. Diocesan Affairs — Traits of Character — Correspondence with Archbishop Kenrick, 210 CHAPTER XVIII. History of the Reformation — Views on the Duties of Ecclesiastics in their Relations with the State — Episcopal Labors, 230 CHAPTER XIX. The Civil War and the Church In Kentucky