“There should be no one who, entering the cathedral, is not able to say . . . ‘it is mine.’”
– Archbishop John Ireland (1838-1918)
‘It is your home’
Rector: Preserving, celebrating cathedral honors its legacy
Ahead of Mass, unfair criticism, but real problems
Sound issue mars cathedral’s first days
First-person memory of the first Mass at the cathedral
“Was at the cathedral yesterday morning at quarter to six for six o’clock Mass. It looks fine, and when the sun came in through the Summit Avenue windows, it was grand. The archbishop read Mass and he looked ten years younger.”
— John McCormack, from a March 29, 1915, letter to his business partner John Clark (corrected punctuation and spelling)
