IRELAND, Archbishop John
Description:
Oil on canvas, 57” x 40”, signed lower right ‘A. Muller-Ury 1897’. Standing at the corner of a wall, a pillared jamb offering a vista into a church building, presumably the cathedral in St. Paul.
Location:
Archdiocesan Archives, Archdiocese of Saint Paul & Minneapolis.
John Ireland was born in Ireland on September 11, 1838, and came to America as a boy. He was educated at the Cathedral School at St. Paul, and then studied Theology in France. In 1901 he took his doctorate in Theology at Yale, and became a priest in December 1861. He became Bishop of St. Paul on July 31, 1884 and was created Archbishop on May 15, 1888. He died on September 25, 1918. He wrote a book called The Church and Modern Society.
Bibliography:
College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, Archbishop Ireland, Two Appreciations, 1948
James Humphrey Moynihan, The Life of Archbishop John Ireland, 1953.
