Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1937 (2)

HAPPY THRONG GREET PRELATE

I SAN DIEGO'S OWN BISHOP GREETE'D BY THRONG HERE ! 1

Then, e»actly at the appointed 1 hour for the delayed train, it ar- 1 sp:~:iib;:~.t~f inc~u:e~r~tM::~ I Rev. Charles Hubert LeBlond, th rived and as one concerted move- ment, the entire group rushed to-

1 , To that 1 :e~~;~:~:e~ame those who, in humble guise, were the followers of those to whom the ' Master, 1500 years before, ha_d given I Hi~ command to spread His :,vord. Witlun some 30 years after d1scov- I ery of America by Columbus, a Kino, had walked across the desert Jesuit priest, the famous Father 1 , northern M~xico, and ha':1 pene- trated mto tne state of Arizona as the Grand Canyon. His that we know now as Sonora, far as

Bishop of St. Joseph, Mo_., h M s 11 Very Re. v. osep . u 1van, the s J .

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train. Bi.shop Buddy appeared in M., Marist Seminary, Brookland,

the doorway, clothed in the robes of his office, took one step down a nd hesitated, looking down and smiling at his new flock. They th ey had pictured him in their mind's eye. For a breathless mo- ment only the Spanish music of the band was heard, then every- smiled back fo h · t • r e was JUS as

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dron, director of the St. Colum-1 D. C., the Very Rev. Paul P. Wal- ban's Foreign Mission Society, St. I Columbian Nebraska· the Right Rev. Philip Ruggle, 0. S. B., Ab- ' . . ' '

Pioneers and Babes in Arms Arrive Early to Await Arrival Tuesday

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bot of Conception Abbey, Concep- 1 A Catholic bishop came to town brother Jesuits conceived and built

tion Mo. and five St. Joseph pas- I yesterday.,

. . those structures which today are famous throughout the world as the I has come to San Diego, but some- Missions. The first and greatest of It wasn t the first time a bishop .

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these was at Tucson. Others, built through Lower Califorma. Then the Jesuits were taken from their work, in a barren lan<:1, v.:ere strung

mid-w. est that held up their spe- one talked at once.

Rev. Charles Nowland, the Rev. r· Diego'.s own bishop-and, I'm not ~peaking of creeds now, Im speak- P. 0 Connor, the Rev. Camlll Ma- 1mg of people. , .

cial train for two hours at Kan-

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rosz, 0. F. M., and the Rev, Fa- I The Most Rev. Ch~les Francis and the brothers of the order of St. , Buddy'. D. D., first bi_shop of. the Dominic took up where the follow- I new diocese of San Diego, arrived ers of Ignatius Loyola had left off, here from St. J~seph, Mo., at 10:15 and after the Dominicans came the With Bishop Buddy as he step- I y~sterday m~rnmg over th~ San gray-clad sons of St. Francis, the the1· Ma1Ton of Liberty, Mo. .Boarded Train

sas City, the Most Rev. Charles walked slowly among the people Francis Buddy, D. D., first Bishop toward the waiting car that was

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of San Diego, arrived in his sec

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o'clock Tuesday home

in Pt. Loma, where he

morning to be greeted by a great would presently celebrate his first

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Diego and Arizona Eastern railway. He was greeted at the Union sta- tion by a throng. It was a cosmo-

little man of Assisi who had pre- sented the world with a new con- cept of the Christ-like life. Out of Lower California there gray robes with an ulcer on his leg. Slowly and painfully this man, one Junipero Serra, walked ~cross the expanse of water which later was to be called the Harbor of the Sun. A little way behind the Harbor

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ped from the tram was the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John M. Hegarty, v.

crowd awaiting him at the Union

ass in his diocese in the presence

station. It was a typical San Di- of his family, a few priests, and F ego morning that the new prelate two Sisters of Mercy. He repeat- ·•. accompanied by two car loads of ed over and over again, ..God

and a party of San Diego politan audience. Men a~d women priests who had boarded the tralI'. at San Ysidro and accompanied keepers were there. Men of prom- to the bishop. Merchants and shop- inence in business, social an<:I po- the bishop and his party to the

. of wealth came to pay their respects walked a Franciscan-a priest in

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clergy friends relatives and form-

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er parishione;·s, found on his ar- with you,'' as he was esqorted I ·t

ltt1cal l!fe greete~ the new bishop. deserts and the hills, until one day But is was the _frmge ?f the crowd he rested on the shores of a blue

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through , I crowded about him many thrilled I On the tram also was a delega- tion of Knights of Columbus who the crowd. Children ' Cl y. . th t th '

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that was most mtere~tmg. From all walks of life they came. Those who have known heartaches,

heavens, blessing with its warmth the new resident of San Diego, his frie n cts who travelled so many miles to see him. installed and those who would number the~

a ey were among the few I who were able to get close enough drove to him to kiss his ring.

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th e disaster, distress crowded in to get of the Sun Padre Serra visioned a glimp_se of the man_ they kne~ by and built probably the most his- bishop's

to Jacumba early 111

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train and be among the first to Im. Members of. th e de~e- gat1on were Grand Krught W1l- h. .

reputat10n as theu friend. Mexicans and Indians broke through the lines

toric series of buildings in the his- tory of the world - the California

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sun always shine like this in San gre~t

to greet their new chief. A Mex- Missions. They stretched from San ican orchestra serenaded him. A Diego to San Francisco, and some of ~h~m were almost t_oo great in their mfluence and their value for the modern mind to conceive. But the first of these, the mother house, river-the house that we now know as Mission San Diego de Alcala. Missions Rise, Fall The Missions rose and fell. The Juan Capistrano and of San Luis is going to like him. The Ma,ster's Word Two thousand years ago 1:he Mas- ter of Men called around Him those support. There was a publican and whom He had summoned to His glories of Sart Diego and of San I a ohvsician and a fisherman, an_d ' Rey and of Nuestra Senora, Reina there was also one who was to turn de Los Angeles, and of Purissima 1 that they had given to civilization teaching and baptizing in the name and Christianity had a firm founda- f of the Father, and of the Son, and tion in the ambitions and the work I of the Holy Ghost, and behold, I of Father Serra. I , traitor to Him. · To these the Master said: "Go ye forth into all nations, . and of Santa Barbara and of San Francisco, faded away, but the start junction, the small group of h!s Charles F. Buddy begins his direc- injunction. One went to Gree~e, Padre Serra's city as another of another to Egypt. and so the seeds scendents of the apostles who shall of Christianity were sown. 1 carry on the Master's work, until, as Nations rose and fell. The glory He has said, a consummation of another to Rome, one to Syria, that continuing link of the de- of Greece departed. The might and the world. power of Rome faded. Th': .Huns and the Goths and the V1s1goths San Diego, arrived here yesterday, known fastnesses of the north. Out took on the added glory of those of these, tl1e new kingdoms of Eu- 1 cities which have been designated rope were welded. Art and litera- by the Roman Catholic church as ture and architecture sprung from the cathedral cities of her bishops. on a new aspect, and the entire bishop of San Diego this morning course of the world was changed. tat 10:30 at St. Joseph's cathedral. In Italy a lone man walked about the streets with his son, a little boy. Bishop Buddy, the first bishop of and, with his coming, San Diego I pomed over Europe from the un- a new creation. Civilization took He will be enthroned as the first out to pat the curly head. Right then we knew the sublime charac- teristics of Bishop Buddy. San Diego was in the valley of the San Diego am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world." finished and, according to His ~- followers started to carry out His And through him the injunction of the Master, laid down two thou- this morning when the Most Rev. tion of the work of the church in Time passed, the Master's work is sand years ago, comes to a fruition

selves among his frie n ct.c; of th e Diego?"

Soon he reached his car and I liam Mahedy; Dr. W. J. O'Brien, N~gro_ boy bowe

future. ·

A feeling of excitement and ex- pectancy hung in th e air-a feel- ing that had been mounting since last election day, November 3,

was gone, and it was not until: then that the great throng real-

degree; M. D. Goodbody, past

ized that others had arrived with grand knight; C. P. Hebert, past

grand knight

and Joe Green the transp01,tat10n , . '

the bishop from the middle west.

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when word was flashed to San 'They had been so intent on every c a1r~an of Diego that Father Buddy of St. move of the bishop that they en- committee for the @Y.

Joseph,·Missouri, had been chosen

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untenated see of San Diego. From group of clergy and laymen and week to week during those three women who filled two special cars. months, San Diego heard from

their new

Family Present

the middle-west of

leader. They saw his picture and heard from former st. Joseph res-

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idents of his work and friendships brat er an there. Everything they saw and those

SIS ers were among I to arrive on the special

heard, pleased them. They got train. They included Dr. Edward up early Tuesday morning to be P. Buddy and Mrs. Buddy of St.

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present at the train to catch the Louis;

Sister Mary Magdalen,

very first glimpse of the First superior iOf Sacred Heart Aca- Bishop of San Diego and to wel- demy, Ogden, Utah; Mrs. Cecile come him by their presence' there. B. Danduarant of 8t - Joseph, ,Mo., Some of them went to Mass and and Mrs. Daniel J. Redmond of communion first for their new Laurelton, Long Island, New York. bishop's intentions, as did the Our Other relatives inclu e an unc e, Lady of Guadalupe parishioners, James R. Farrell, an aunt, Mrs. and some of them were present at Pauline A. Goldsmith, his niece, d d l

eight-thirty, without

breakfast, Miss Ann Elizabeth Dandurant.

that they might not be too late and his cousins, Mr. a nd Mrs.

in case the train came In early. A Mexican band, dressed as the

. John A. McGee, all of St. Joseph. Other st. Joseph laym€'n in the

early Dons, was present to wel- party included come with their music the advent general agent

John Goodrich, the Chicago,

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The man held to a strange theory- a theory that the world was round and that across the wild waste of ocean there might be other and small ships he made the most ad- venturous journey that man had ever made, and when he gave thanks to God on the island of San Salvador, he had given to the world not only a new continent, but a new undiscovered lands. With three

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of their bishop. Old Mexican wo- Rock Island and Pacific Railway men, who had lived in the history Co., who provided the private car of San Diego were present with for the bishop's party, Mrs. Good- 1 black mantillas over their heads. rich and their son, John Goodrich, 1 Indians from the back country Jr., and Mrs. M. P. Lawler, Miss were there to report his arrival Martha A. Kennedy, Bishop Bud- catholics and non-Catholics, busi- sonal representative of the mayo1 · ness men and professional men, of st. Joseph, Mo.; Mrs. E. Gray I housewives and children in 1arge Powell, Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Stack, numbers. Americans who had and Mrs Elizabeth Immenschueh. spent but a short time in San Di- 1 Among those from outs!de the I ego, and native sons and daugh- city of st. Joseph who arrived on, ters who had, like the Mexican the special train were Dr. and j women, lived the historv of the Mrs. E. Schoetz and Mrs. C. Ham- Church in San Diego. There were buechen, all of Belleville, Ill. pa1ishioners there who helped back to their people. dy's secretary; Dr. and Mrs. H. 1 American people were there ·too. Will Elders; W. J. McGinnis, per- ,

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the Rev. Father Ubach build St. Joseph's Cathedral back in the . 80's. They talked about these things as they stood about in lit- tle groups waiting for their bish- op, hardly noticing the passing of