Mount St Joseph High School - Mount Tower Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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... X X X X X X' Nr X X X X X X X X X x X x ! X' I I X f ff f f I, X , , ff X X X On Iuly 7, 1806, the cornerstone of the Cathe- dral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was laid by Bishop Iohn Carroll, at a time when more than half of the Catholics in the United States lived in Maryland and when Bishop Carroll's diocese included the whole country. Pope Pius XI made the Cathedral a minor basilica in 1936. Seven provincial and three plenary councils have been held in Balti- more, the primatial see of the Catholic Church in America. Archbishop Michael I. Curley is the tenth in line of notable bishops who have guided the diocese: Iohn Carroll, Leonard Neale, Ambrose Mcrrechal, Iames Whitfield, Samuel Eccleston, Francis Patrick Kendrick, Iohn Spaulding, Iames Roosevelt Bayley, and Iames Cardinal Gibbons. The remains of nine of them rest in the crypt. . - EF Designed by Henry Latrobe on the traditional temple-rotunda plan, it is a' massive granite structure, Roman, with cruciform plan and low central dome. The decorations are Italian Renaissance. The high altar is a gift of the priests of Marseilles to Archbishop Marechal. Paintings in the church include Baron de Steu- ben's picture of Louis IX burying his plague stricken soldiers before Tunis in 1270, the gift of Louis XVIII: and Baron Pierre Narcisse Guerin's The Descent from the Cross, the gift of Charles X. Valued possessions of the church are a mon- strance given by Pope Leo XIII to Cardinal Gibbons, a gold chalice made in Rome, and two tower bells cast in Lyons, France, in l830, and given to Archbishop Marechal. The Cathedral is the pulse of Catholicism in Baltimore. Vigorous and energetic, Archbishop Curley has done much for his diocese and his inspirational leadership has meant much to its religious life. The Baltimore Catholic Review, diocesan newspaper edited by Vincent de Paul Fitzpatrick, keeps Catholics abreast of the times and presents to them the Catholic side of the news. Various charitable organizations care for the city's poor and needy. Catholic educa- tion flourishes.

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jj .mpg ln the Civil War, though the state re- mained in the Union, the sympathy of the citizens was largely with the South. Thus it was that the first blood shed in the Civil War was spilled in Baltimore in an attack by the people on Massachusetts soldiers marching to the protection of Washington. Bloodiest battle of the War was that of Antietam. The result Was really a defeat for both sides but it helped convince Eng- land not to give further aid to the South. The Barbara Fritchien incident which occasioned Whittier's poem carne about when the 96-year-old woman waved en- thusiastically as Iackson's troops entered Frederick. ln the Spanish-American War the cruiser Dixie, manned by Maryland Naval Militia, anchored off the fort of Ponce and demanded its surrender. Upon the fort's refusal, the Maryland marines and sailors, by the old game of bluff, captured Ponce Without losing a man or firing a shot.