Spalding, Right Rev. Martin John

D.D., Roman Catholic; b. in Marion County, Ky., May 23, 1810; d. at Baltimore, Md., Feb. 7, 1872. He graduated at St. Mary's College, Lebanon, Ky., 1826; studied theology, and completed his course in the Propaganda College in Rome, where he was ordained priest Aug. 13, 1834. He was pastor of the cathedral at Bards town, Ky., 1834-38, 1841- 48; president of St. Joseph's Theological Seminary, Bards town, 1838-40; pastor of St. Peter's Church, Lexington, Ky., 1840-41; coadjutor bishop of Louisville, Ky., 1848-50; bishop, 1850-54; archbishop of Baltimore from 1864 till his death. He founded The Catholic Advocate, Louisville, in February, 1835, and was connected with it until 1858; The Louisville Guardian in 1858; was main promoter of the Catholic Publication Society and Catholic World, both New-York City. While coadjutor bishop, he established a colony of Trappist monks at Gethsemane, near Bards town, Ky., and a house of Magdalens in connection with the Convent of the Good Shepherd. While bishop of Louisville he built a magnificent cathedral in that city. He was at the First Plenary Council of Baltimore, May, 1852, and succe fully advocated the erection of the see of Coving ton. In November, 1852, he obtained in Belgium Xaverian Brothers for the parochial schools of Louisville, Ky., and and sisters to instruct deaf-mutes. In 1855 he had a famous debate with George D. Prentice of the Louisville Journal, upon the Know-nothing Movement. Bishop Spalding was the author of D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation reviewed, Baltimore, 1844, 2d ed. London, 1846, Dublin, 1848 (subsequently enlarged and re-i ued as History of the Protestant Reformation in Germany and Switzerland, and in England, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, France, and Northern Europe, Louisville, 1860, 2 vols., Sth ed. Baltimore, 1875); Sketches of the Early Catholic Mi ions in Kentucky, 1787- 1827, Louisville, 1846; Lectures on the General Evidences of Catholicity, 1847, 6th ed. Baltimore, 1866 Life, Times, and Character of the Right Rev. B. J. Flaget, Louisville, 1852; Miscellanea: comprising Reviews, Lectures; and E ays on Historical, Theological, and Miscellaneous Subjects, Louisville, 1855, London, 1855, 6th ed. Baltimore, 1866; Papal Lnfallibility, Baltimore, 1870; edited, with introduction and notes, Abbe J. E. Dana's, General History of the Catholic Church, New York, 1865-66, 4 vols.; and was a frequent contributor to religious periodicals. *