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 — State of the Diocese of Louisville — Bishop Spalding is appointed to the See of Baltimore, 244 CHAPTER XX. Archbishop Spalding takes Possession of His New Charge — Summary of Important Facts in the History of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 257 CHAPTER XXI. Archbishop Spalding's First Works in the Diocese of Baltimore — The Syllabus — The Sixth Synod of Baltimore — Correspondence on Various Subjects, 269 CHAPTER XXII. The Suffering People of the South — The Diocese of Charleston — The Catholic Protectory — Sermon at the University of Notre Dame, 285 CHAPTER XXIII. The Second Plenary Council of Baltimore, 298 CHAPTER XXIV. Second Plenary Council of Baltimore, continued — Appointment of Bishops — Parochial Rights — Catholic University, 310 CHAPTER XXV. The Past, the Present, and the Future, 321 CHAPTER XXVI. The Emancipated Slaves — The Catholic Publication Society — The Centenary of the Martyrdom of Sr. Peter, 337 CHAPTER XXVII. Travels in Europe — Ireland — Progress of the Church in the Archdiocese of Baltimore — The American College in Rome, 350 CHAPTER XXVIII. The Dangers that Threaten the Destruction of our Free Institutions — The Remedy — The Craving for Sensuous Indulgence, 362 CHAPTER XXIX. Death of the Very Rev. B. J. Spalding — Visitation of the Diocese — The Little Sisters of the Poor — The Vatican Council, 374 CHAPTER XXX. The Vatican Council — The Postulatum of Archbishop Spalding — Letter to Bishop Dupanloup, 387 CHAPTER XXXI. The Definition of Papal Infallibility not only Opportune, but Necessary — Devotion of the American Church to the Holy See, 404 CHAPTER XXXII. The Manner in which the Discussions of the Vatican Council were Conducted — The Infallibility of the Pope — Liberty and Liberalism — Tour in Switzerland, 416 CHAPTER XXXIII. The Sacrilegious Invasion of Rome — Archbishop Spalding Returns Home — His Reception in Baltimore and Washington City — A Retrospect, 430 CHAPTER XXXIV. Last Illness and Death of Archbishop Spalding, 449 Index, 461 Digitized by Google.

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