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NEW PRIEST SAYS MASS IN ROOM OF DYING RISHOP FULL PLANS OF Contents Copyrighted— Permission to Reproduce Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue PRELATE GIVEN POPE’S BIRTHDAY COMMUNION BY FESTIVAL GIVEN FR. VANDEGAER Bishop in Letter Sets Forth What Is to Be Done Former St. Thomas’ Seminarian Principal in ’ in Churches of Denver Diocese Scene at Bedside of Head of Bishop Urban J. Vehr, D. D., this week announced the Alexandria Diocese diocesan plans for the celebration of the Holy Father’s 75th birthday anniversary May 31. These plans, briefly forecast 9ne of the most touching incidents in the history of the > in The Register last Thursday, are set forth in detail in the fol- Church in America occurred last Saturday at Shreveport, Louisiana, when a man just ordained from St. Thomas’ semi - lowing pastoral sent to the priests: Tht National Catholic Welfare Conference Newt Serrice Suppliei The Denver Catholic Heaiater and The Reciater. We Have Also Oor Reverend dear Father and Beloved We rejoice that Almighty God has Own Extensive Special Service, the K. of C. Service, the Central Verein Service, the Fidei Serrice and the California Catholic Frees Service nary, Denver, celebrated Mass in the room where his Bishop, of the Laity: spared the Holy Father to the Church the Most Rev. Cornelius Van de Ven of Alexandria, Louisiana, Our Holy Father, Pope Pius XI, and to the world, and we pray for VOL. XXVII. No. 39. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, MAY 12,1932. $2.00 PER YEAR lay dying. The Bishop died Sunday night. The story, told in a wdll celebrate the seventy-fifth an hjm length of years to fill the Di dispatch to-The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, follows: niversary of his birth on Tuesday, vine mission entnisted to his care. In Shreveport, La., May 7.— A touch op, and again after Mass was called May 31. This event will be prayer that union of prayer extending First Mass to Be Offered May 13 on New Seminary Altar ing ceremony took place Saturday to the bedside to receive congratula fully commemorated throughout the throughout the world on his ‘anni morning at a local sanitarium, where tions of the Bishop, who for the past world by loyal Catholics who love to versary day, we ask that in every Bishop Cornelius Van de Ven of ten years had watched over him as look to the Pope of Rome as the church of the diocese, where pos Alexandria, for whose recovery hope he prepared for the ministry. visible representative of Christ on sible,. a Mass of thanksgiving be of is abandoned, is a patient. Bishop Van. de Ven died at the earth and the head of the Church fered on Tuesday, May 31, in grati The Rev. J. C. Vandegaer of Schumpert sanatorium, Shreveport, that He established. tude to Almighty God for the bless Many, who was ordained to the ings given the Church through the at 11 o’clock Sunday night. He un History will write of Pius XI as priesthood last Thursday at Lafay Vicar of Christ, and that some pray ette by the Bishop of Lafayette, said derwent an operation April 26. He one of the great Pontiffs of all times. was born in Oirschot, Holland, June ers be said after Mass for the inten his second Mass in the room of the He is a fearless leader of thought tion of the Holy Father. We urge 16, 1865, and was educated in Bois- as evidenced in his letters and En- ailing prelate. He was assisted by his le-Duc, that country. He was or our Catholic people to receive Holy brother, the Very Rev. N. F. Van [ cyclicals, giving to the world definite dained there" in 1890 and came to Communion at the Mass on Tuesday degaer of Monroe, and the Very Rev. ‘ ‘ moral principles of action and a the United States that same year, for the same intention. J. V. Plauche, Chancellor to the Christian solution of so many of the joining the Archdiocese of New Or A solemn service of Thanksgiving, Bishop. The Bishop, although very complex problems of the day. His leans. He was consecrated Bishop including a sermon and the singing weak, followed the ceremonies courageous messages are sympathet- of Natchitoches, La., November 30, of the Te Deum, will be held in the closely. [Jcally awaited by thoughtful men all 1904, the see being changed to Cathedral on Tuesday evening. May Ever since his illness. Bishop Van over the world. Alexandria August 6, 1910. He be 31, at 7:45 o’clock. This will be the de Ven had been worrying about came an assistant at the Pontifical Pope Pius XI has been the out official diocesan celebration .o f the the ordination of Father Vandegaer, throne November 12, 1929. The standing dynamic leader of mission anniversary of the Holy Father, and and had said he must get well by diocese has 49,325 Catholics. Lvvork in the Church at a time when we invite as many of the priests and May 22, the date for the ordination, If organized religion and its definite people who can attend to do so. but as he grew weaker, it was ■ necessity in the lives of men are mini In the churches outside of the city thought advisable to advance the Priest, Colorado Native, mized or ridiculed. The Holy Father of Denver, we ask that a similar eve date and to ask the Bishop of Lafay Drowns in Seattle Lake I has taken a special interest in the ning service be conducted wherever ette to ordain the young priest so I'seminaries of the world and in the possible. that he could say Mass before the Seattle.— The Rev. Paul J. I preparation of young men for the Kindly read this letter at all the Bishop’s death. Le Blanc, S.S., -Wai drowned iservice of the altar. In fact, his Masses on Sunday, May 29. When Father Vandegaer returned May 2 in Lake Washington. i feaseless activity has been extended Faithfully yours, from Many, where he had said his He wai stationed at St. Ed ■to all the needs of the universal first Mass, tears were in the eyes of ward’s seminary. Father Le + URBAN J. VEHR, Blanc was born in Holyoke, Church. Bishop of Denver. all assembled in the sick room as the newly-ordained priest extended Colo., in 1898. He made his hia hands in Benediction over his theological studies at St. Pat dying superior. rick’s seminary, Menlo Park, At the Mass, Father Vandegaer Calif., and the Sulpician semi [Register Subscription Day in gave Holy Communion to the Bish nary, Washington, D. C. Denver Churches This Sunday Nine Will Be Ordained The Register asks its readers in only with us but with all publica j Denver and suburbs to be generous tions. There has been almost no re I Sunday, when the annual subscrip- duction in printing costs; and, fur Priests Here on May 21 jtion collection will be taken up. Noth- thermore, we want none, if it has to |ing is asked of the unemployed, the come by adding to hard times through Class Notable for Sets of Brothers Who Are Giving -ick, religious or others who find it reduction of printers’ wages. Our IVery difficult to give: but we feel that work is perfectly solvent. We are Work to Church Others will do their' b ^ . Outside in good business condition. But or 5 . I-' Denver and suburbs, subscribers pay dinary prudence demands that no Eight students of St. Thomas’ Wogan is one of two children born I $2 a year for The Denver Catholic stone be left unturned to keep things seminary will be ordained priests to Mrs. Wogan. The other son is 'Register and The Register, and so that way. We pve so much and The molt magnificent altar in Colorado, the $15,000 gift of the ion of a Methodiit clergyman, Paul Mayo, also a priest. He is Father John Saturday, May 21, by Bishop Urban l^far as possible we ask that this ask so little that our margin is al ii ready for uie at St. Thomai’ leminary, Denver. 'Ilie firit Man will be offered on it Friday morning. May 13, Wogan, present assistant at Annun standard be adhered to by Denver ways small, even under the best con by the Rt. Rev. Moniignor Joieph Boietti, Ph.D., chancellor of the Denver dioceie, a friend of the Mayo and J. Vehr, D.D., at the Cathedral, Den ciation church, Denver. givers. If they cannot give this ditions. Reed familiei. The altar ii in memory of Margery Reed Mayo, who wai a convert to the Catholic Church and ver. Four of the newly-ordained much, let them give what they can. You know what The Regster has a daughter of Vemer Z. Reed, mnltimillionaire, who alio died a Catholic. Artiiti, brought here from Chicago for $fill serve in the Denver diocese. Of Another son which the mother parish of the diocese is giving this If they can give more, let them d(jne. You know how, despite the the purpoie, finiihed the letting up of the altar thii week. The temporary altar ii being removed. these four, three are local young [do so. year is the Rev. William J. Kelly, natural isolation of Denver, it has The picturei ihow the entire altar and alio the center portion. Owing to the preience of the temporary men. It is a striking coincidence We feel that we have a right to son of Mr. and Mrs.