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<\/a>Bishop of Peoria 1909-1929
Edward M. Dunne, the second bishop of Peoria, was born into an Irish family that traced its history back to the 12th century.
From his early boyhood in Chicago, and all through his student years at Holy Name Parish, St. Ignatius College, Niagara University, and later in Belgium and in Rome, his training was always directed toward the priesthood.
And when, in September 1909, he was consecrated bishop of Peoria, succeeding Archbishop John Lancaster Spalding, there were those who said, “I could have told you so.”
His life, it has recorded, was a lesson in persistent endeavor. He worked in Chicago parishes and in the ethnic neighborhoods where his knowledge of Latin, English, Italian, Polish, modern Greek and French were valuable, and where his gift for music was recognized.
He gained many distinctions and a reputation for hard work, all of which served to influence Archbishop James E. Quigley of Chicago who chose him be chancellor of his diocese, a post he held until his appointment to Peoria.<\/p><\/div>\n
Click for \u00a0\u00a0Full Text of Edmund M. Dunne”s Memoir of his time at Holy Guardian Angel Italian Church in Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Memoir of Zi Prete—Bishop Edmund Dunne 1914 of his time at Holy Guardian Angel Italian Parish ca 1900 \u00a0—below is a link to the full text. \u00a0Beneath that link is the foreword and table of contents imperfectly scanned of one … Continue reading MEMOIRS OF ZI PRETE\r\n\r\nEDMUND M. DUNNE, D.D. \r\nBishop of Peoria\r\nCopyright, 1914\r\n\r\nFOREWORD \r\nThe present booklet treats o\u00a3 a few doctrinal \r\npoints unavoidably omitted in a former tract \r\nbearing the tit\u00ede of \" Polemic Chat.\" When \r\nthese Memoirs began to appear ser\u00edally in the \r\n.Peoria Cathedral Calendar, a friendly critic \r\nremarked : \" The Bishop is utilizing his paro- \r\nchial experiences among the Italians ' to point a \r\nmoral and adom a tale.'\" Precisely. Our \r\nchief aim in the present chronology of events is \r\n>^ to instruct the people, \"to preach the word in \r\n0> season and out of season, reproving, entreating, \r\nrebuking in all patience and doctrine.\" \r\n\r\nSeveral anachronisms as well as changes in \r\nthe names and occupations of the characters h\u00e1ve \r\nbeen purposely introduced, so that the ingenuity \r\nof even a Sherlock Holmes might be baffled \r\nshould he attempt to identify them with certain \r\nindividuals of the Italian colony. \r\n\r\nSome may deem Pasqualino too clever for his \r\ntender age. Unusquisque abundat sensu suo. \r\nPlease consider, friendly or hostile reader, as \r\nthe \u010dase may be, that our youthful polemist had \r\ncompleted three years of classics with unusual \r\nsuccess before encountering his adversary. The \r\n\r\nFOREWORD \r\n\r\nchildren of sunny Italy develop m\u00fach earlier \r\nthan those of northern climes. Youthf ul prodi- \r\ngies bud f orth occas\u00edonally in the realm of litera- \r\nt\u00fare, poetry, painting, music and mathematics. \r\nWhy should they not blossom also in the field of \r\npolemics? Besides, were Pasqualino a youth of \r\nmediocre talent, his utterances would not be \r\nworth recording. At any rate it is \u00fapon them \r\nand not \u00fapon his personality that we wish to \r\nf ocus your attention. \r\n\r\nPasqualino's father represents indeed no par- \r\nticular individual, but rather the composite em- \r\nbodiment of reprehensible traits which Zi Pre' \r\nhad ample occasion to reprove among the mal\u00e9 \r\nmembers of his flock. The exemplary Christian \r\nvirtues of the mother h\u00e1ve not been overdrawn. \r\nThe most elabor\u00e1te portrayal of maternal solici- \r\ntude and self-sacrifice falls, as a gener\u00e1l rule, \r\nimmeasurably below the reality. \r\n\r\nThe tactics of Evangelical zealots to wrest \r\nItalian children from the One True Fold, are \r\nmelancholy facts familiar to the hundred or \r\nmore Sunday School teachers of Guardian Angel \r\nMission. The conversion of the proselytizer, \r\nhis subsequent public reparation and edifying \r\ndeath are true in every detail. \r\n\r\nThe Author. \r\n\r\nCONTENTS \r\n\r\nCHAPTER PAGE \r\n\r\nI Italian Quarter I \r\n\r\nII Italian Customs 13 \r\n\r\nIII Proselytizers 19 \r\n\r\nIV Pasquaulino 28 \r\n\r\nV Early Training 39 \r\n\r\nVI MlSNOMER FOR A SCHOOL 49 \r\n\r\nVII CONFIRMATION 6o \r\n\r\nVIII ScHooL Days 72 \r\n\r\nIX At THE Zoo 82 \r\n\r\nX PSEUDO REFORMERS ........ 92 \r\n\r\nXI UnITY 102 \r\n\r\nXII Sanctity 109 \r\n\r\nXIII Catholicity 118 \r\n\r\nXIV ArosTouaTY 125 \r\n\r\nXV ViSIBLE HeAD OP THE ChURCH .... I33 \r\n\r\nXVI Infalubility 143 \r\n\r\nXVII Veneration of Sacred I maces . . . .152 \r\n\r\nXVIII Veneration of Relics and Invocation of \r\n\r\nSaints 162 \r\n\r\nXIX Extr\u00e9me Unction 171 \r\n\r\nXX Indulgences 178 \r\n\r\nXXI PURGATORY l8s \r\n\r\nXXII Immaculate Conception 194 \r\n\r\nXXIII The. Rosary 205 \r\n\r\nXXIV Fasting and Abstinence 212 \r\n\r\nXXV Christian Ethics 220 \r\n\r\nXXVI The Awakening 231 \r\n\r\nMEMOIRS OF ZI PRETE\r\n\r\nCHAPTER I \r\n\r\nITALIAN QUARTER \r\n\r\nON the south side of Forquer Street, Chi- \r\ncago, and nearly midway between Des- \r\nplaines and Halsted, there stands an unpreten- \r\ntious brick structure with a Romanesque faQade \r\nsurmounted by a Roman cross. It is the Chiesa \r\ndel\u013eAngelo Custode. The mellow tints of sea \r\nand sky in the decoration of the interior f rom \r\nvestibule to sanctuary are unmistakably Italian. \r\nThe stained-glass windows of St. Michael, St. \r\nRaphaely and of the Guardian Angel, carry the \r\nthoughts of the onlooker back to the basilicas \r\nof Rome and Florence and cause him to murmur \r\nthe names of Italian masters. The statues of \r\nSan Vito, Rocco, Lucia, and Sebastiano, recall \r\nvividly to mind those Christian martyrs espe- \r\ncially dear to the Italian heart, while Raphae\u013es \r\nMadonna delia Sedia tenderly clasping her Di- \r\n\r\nM<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"