1895 Extract from the "Garden of Olives" All for Jesus

^{Translated and compiled from approved sources by the Very Rev. Joseph Rainer Rector of the Provincial Seminary of St. Frances of Sales Near Milwaukee, Wis.  Diederich-Schaefer Co. Milwaukee, Wis.  Imprimatur Michael Augustine Archbishop of New York}

Corrigan was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of New York on October 1, 1880, with the titular see of Petra, and succeeded to the archbishopric on October 10, 1885, serving as archbishop until his death. He is interred in the crypt under the altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Within the American hierarchy, he was the closest supporter of the Pope Leo XIII on Testem Benevolentiae.