New Denver Priest Is Descendantof Indian Chief
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NEW DENVER PRIEST IS DESCENDANTOF INDIAN CHIEF INSTAUATION OF B lS iP Y E i ORDINMION ClASS SUNDRY DEFINITELY SET, JULY 1 6 ; AT CATHEDRAL HERE IS TO CONSECRATION NEXT WEEK 3 —........................... ■ iiiiiii 1 Six Clergymen Going From Denver to Cincinnati Eight Men to Be Raised to Sacerdotal Rank by Ceremonies / Bishop Tihen who married a French girl. A daugh The installation of the Most Rev, 1400 Central avenue, Middletown, The eight members of the class to be ordained to the holy priesthood at ter of the union, great-grandmother Urban J. Vehr, J.C.L., D.D., as Ohio, where for a time Bishop Vehr of Father Kessler, born in 1791, lived Bishop of Denver, will occur Thurs was an assistant pastor, has written the Cathedral, Denver, Sunday, June 7, present an array of talent and a for 114 years, seeing all of one and day morning, July 16. The definite to The Register: “ I hope the people The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register and The Register. parts of two other centuries before of Denver will like their new Bishop. diversity of makeup of exceptional date was announced this week by We' Have A bo Our Own Extensive Special Service, the K. of C. Service, the Central Verein Service, the death. The family strain is strongly We of Holy Trinity parish, Middle- interest. There are three Colorado the Most Rev. Bishop J. Henry Tihen, Fides Service and the California Catholic Press Service French, as the family names, Mareau town, loved him.” Her report agrees natives, one of whom, the Rev. Clar D.D., administrator of the diocese, and Latourelle, the latter the maiden perfectly with that sent to The Reg ence E. Kessler of Sacred Heart par who at the request of Bishop Vehr name of Father Kessler’s mother, sig set the date. The Register last week ister by the pastor of Holy Trinity VOL. XXVI. No. 42. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1931. $2.00 PER YEAR ish, carries the blood of the Red man announced the installation would parish, the Rev. James F. McNary. in his veins; another, the Rev. Roche nify. Knopke, O.F.M., of St. Elizabeth’s Studied in Denver likely occur in the week beginning Archbishop Joha T. McNicholas of Father Kessler ■was born in Sacred )uly 12. parish, made his studies away from Cincinnati, who is to consecrate Denver but is coming back to his Heart parish, Denver, his parents Bishop Vehr will be consecrated in Bishop Vehr, is one of the most out home town to be ordained; the third being Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Kessler St. Peter’s Cathedral, Cincinnati, standing prelates in America. He is the Rev. John F. Wogan of the of 2931 High street. He was grad next tyij^nesday morning, at 10 was born in Ireland in 1877 and was Cathedral parish. The Rev. Henry uated from Sacred Heart grade and o’clock. The following Denver fo u g h t to the United States in 1881. Ford, who will serve in the Diocese high schools and attended Regis col clergymen will attend; Bishop J. Educated at St. Joseph’s college, i of Denver, was a business man of lege for a short time. He entered Henry Tihen, the Rev. Hugh L. Mc- Philadelphia; St. Rose’s college, unusual ability before studying for St. Thomas’ seminary in 1925 ard Menamin, rector of the Cathedral; Springfield, Ky.;‘ St. Joseph’s col the priesthood. Others include the made all his studies for .the priesthood the Rev. Robert M. Hennessy, C.M., lege, Somerset, Ohio, and Minerva Rev. Charles Schpeider, well known there. His first Low Mass v/ill bo and the Rev. Ralph A. Bayard. C.M., university, Rome (where in 1904 he If for his musical ability, and the Rev. said at St. Joseph’s hospital, Denver, S.T.L., of the faculty of St. Thomas’ was given the degree of Lector of Thomas Leon Aumais of Canada, who Monday morning, June 8. He v/ill seminary: the Very Rev. A. A. Sacred Theology), he earned the studied a year in St. Thomas’ sem celebrate his first Solemn Mass at St. Breen, S.,|., president of Regis col rare degree Master of Sacred Theol- inary to familiarize himself with the Ignatius Loyola church, Denver, Sun lege; and the Rev. Matthew Smith, ogy in 1917. He was ordained to the English language. Two men are to day, June 14, at 10:30 o’clock. The editor of The Register. Bishop priesthood in 1901 and before his be ordained for the Monterey-Fresno Rev. Terence Devlin, S.J., pastor of Tihen will leave for Cincinnati Sun consecration as a Bishop served as diocese, California— the Rev. James Sacred Heart-Loyola parish, will be day afternoon. Father McMenamin a teacher and pastor and for eight .-Si'' Dowling and the Rev. A. L. the archpriest and will deliver the has already left for the East, having years as national director of the Holy Dundas. The Most Rev. Bishop J. sermon. 'The Rev. James P. Flanagan, driven by automobile and intending Name society, editing The Holy Name Henry Tihen will confer Holy Orders pastor of St. Mary Magdalene’s par to visit in Philadelphia before going Journal. This society, with a mem ID members of the class at a Mass ish, Denver, ■will be the deacon of to Cincinnati. bership exceeding, 1,250,000, greatly beginning at 10 o’clock Sunday. the Mass; the Rev. Hubert Newell, thrived under his direction. He was Bishop Vehr has just attained his I It seems particularly appropriate Walsenburg, subdeacon, and the Rev. fortieth birthday anniversary. The conseccated Bishop of Duluth, Sept. / \ that the ordinaition class in this great Francis P. Cav/ley, St. Philomena’s great majority pf the Bishops named 8, 1918, and appointed Archbishop city of the West should number one parish, Denver, master of ceremonies. I \ in their late thirties or of Cincinnati in 1925. His regime whose ancestry, in part at least, is Father Wogan early forties. Every report received at Cincinnati has been conspicuous Indian. Father Kessler’s great-great ' The Rev. John Wogan was born from Ohio .about the new Bishop b? in a number of ways, but chiefly be grandfather was Chief Big Ox at Aspen, Colorado. His mother, Denver indicates that the diocese has cause of the great progress, made in Walkee, leader of a tribe in Canada, (Continued on Page 4) been blessed in the man chosen to Catholic education. It is expected guide its destinies. Mary Maher of (Continued on Page 10) .ORDINATION CLASS, 1931, , ST THOMAS SEMINARY, DENVER. .COUDRAI®-;;f,;.if>5?,“. Herbert Fairall Is Orator for Regis Three Denver Girls, One Convert, Top row, left to right: The Rev. James H. Cann, the Rev. John F. Wogan, the Rev. Michael E. Fleming, the Rev. Henry Ford, the Rev. Thomas L. Afimais and the Rev. Albert L. Dundas. Bottom row: The Rev. George J. Windsor, the Rev. Clarence E. Kessler, the Rev. Charles M. Schneider, the Rev. James G. Dowling, the Rev. Commencement on Sunday Night Thompson L. Marcero and the Rev. Philip J. Cassidy.— 0. Carlton Byers studio photos. ____ Win St. Mary’s-of-Woods Degrees The commencement exercises of Recessional ................ Regis orchestra Regis college will be held in the col (Musical direction. Rev. Andrew S. Three Denver girls are among the rora, the college literary magazine, lege auditorium this Sunday evening Dimichino, S.J.) graduates of the College of St.' and she is a ipember of the literary at 8:15 o’clock. Herbert Fairall, for The forty-second annual elocution Mary-of-the-Woods in Indiana this staff of The Bugle Call, a magazine Golden Jubilee of Fr. Cbrysostom, IISTEING IN mer state 'treasurer of Colorado and contest, presented last Sunday eve year. They are Miss Emma Dunn, published by the journalism depart well known in business and political ning by the college students, proved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph ment of the college in the interests Ordination day on Sunday, Conse circles of Denver, ■will address the to be one of the finest in the long Dunn of 1072 Pennsylvania street; of the Missionary Sisters of Provi cration day on Wednesday! Eight graduates. A “ Review of the Year” history o f these contests. In spirit Miss Mary O’Connor, daughter of dence at Kaifeng, China. Miss Dunn young men * will kneel before the will be read by the president, the with old traditions, the program this Dr. and Mrs. Thomas (PConnor, 525 plans to entSr the social service field Silver One of Father N. Bertrand Bishop of Bosana, our belored retir Very Rev. A. A. Breen, S.J., and year was chosen from among the Circle drive, and- Miss Charlotte and expects to work in Denver. ing Ordinary, on Sunday and receive the valedictory of the class of 1931 prize-winning pieces of by-gone days. Snell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Les Miss O’Connor’s college career the imposition of hands through will be 'given by John Stanko of Sterling, deacon; the lifev. E. J. John Dandrow spoke “ The Black has paralleled Miss Dunn’s closely. Two important jubilees will be cel which the grace of the Holy Ghost Pueblo. lie Snell of 930 Downing street. Verscbcaaghln of Brighton, -subd^a- Horse and His Rider,” a scene from Commencement exercises o f the She has majored in history and ebrated in Colorado next week— the ■a^ir come upon them, making them The program follows: con, and the Rev.