Think Pioneer Day is only for the Latter-day Saints? There are actually fairly significant Catholic connections to the Utah holiday.
This Salt Lake Tribune photo shows Catholic Bishop Duane G. Hunt, left, with President George Albert Smith, leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, center, and Mahonri Young, monument sculptor, at the July 1947 dedication of the statute at what is now This Is the Place Heritage Park.For many years, I thought Catholics had no role in the Days of ‘47, the annual Utah celebration of the Mormon pioneers’ arrival in the Salt Lake Valley.
, Lawrence Scanlan, died on May 10, 1915, the Intermountain Catholic noted, “His relations with Brigham Young were always cordial and pleasant, and no antagonism between the bishop and any of the successors of Brigham Young has ever arisen.”My friend Utah historianScanlan arrived in Utah in 1873. Young died four years later in 1877.
Perhaps it is this cordial demeanor that earned Scanlan an invitation to participate in the Days of ‘47 ceremonies dedicating the famous statue of Brigham Young in downtown Salt Lake City. The event occurred in July 1897, on the 50th anniversary of Young’s arrival. I have found no specific reports of what Scanlan said in his benediction, and newspaper accounts simply report the fact that he gave it. According to Dwyer’s article, however, Scanlan “referred with no little feeling to Young’s personal benevolence toward him and his fellow Catholics in the days when the church was struggling to obtain a footing in Utah.”This Salt Lake Tribune illustration shows the 1897 dedication of the Brigham Young statue in downtown Salt Lake City.
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