Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1937 (3)

fathers bm 1 tem in Califorma. I was here th e Indians learned to labor, to plant and to reap the golden harve_st·. Other mL ions followed the build– ing of San Diego de Alcala 8:nd the conquest by Christian love mstead of by the sword began. But human hearts are about the same whe th er they beat in the breast of tI;e sav– age or the civilized man. Incited by mob psychology to an uprising, the Indians attacked 1he mission NoY. 4, l 1775, and it was here that the first blood of a martyr to the cause of Christianity in California was spilled. Father Luis Jayme was killed as he went out unarmed to reason with the attackers. Today he lies buried beneath the altar of the Old Mission, beside the graYes ?f five other priests who gave their lives in the early labors of the church in California. Indians Converted The missions flourished and t~e Indians were converted to Chris– tianity. But soon the course of Em– pire surged westward and a r~st– less people began to carve a nat:on out of the wilderness. After be!ng under three flags, the Spai:ush, Mexican and the Bear flag, Califor– nia finally became a part of _the United States. In the course of ti~,e the physical work of the Francis– cans became absorbed by the de– velopment of a new era and the walls of the Old Mission crumbled into dust. The Indians were placed on reservations. Ranchos of .the Spanish Dons became American farms. Railroads spanned the con– tinent and people began to forget the heritage of generations. Not so with the public-spirited people of San Diego, however. Under the leadership of Archbishop John J. Cantwell, D. D., of the archdiocese of Los Angeles, who was the:i Bishop of Los Angeles and San Di– ego, Albert V. Mayrhofer began so– licitation of funds to restore the old mission. Restoration was accom– plished by the whole-heart~d coop– eration. of citizens of San Diego and elsewhere in the state. Today the old mission bells again ring out over Mission valley and beside the Mission there has been erected a home and school for the care of children by the Sisters of Nazareth, a fitting monument to the ch_anty of the Franciscans who established the Mission 168 years ago. For their efforts in the restoration of the Mission, Mr. and Mrs. Mayr– hofer were made Knight and Lady of the Holy Sepulcher by the Su– preme Pontiff in Rome. Ask Priest's Body Descendants and last remnants of Indian tribes are to be found today on the reservations of San Diego county. They will have a part in the ceremonies for Bishop Buddy. Un– der the care of Father Francis Dil– lon of El Cajon, they continue their worship in a little chapel bidden away in the hills. For 25 years the late Father Eu– gene La Pointe cared for the spir– itual needs of the Indians on the reservation. On foot he traveled the trails of the reservation, cared for the sick and fed the hungry. When he passed to his reward a few years ago and was about to be buried in Holy Cross cemetery at San Diego, a delegation of Indians called upon the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John M. Hegarty and asked for the body of their padre that it might be taken back to his people for burial. Today the body rests in a grave beside the chapel in the silence of the hills of the back country. This is but a chapter in the life of the church in San Diego. It is fitting that the first mass to be celebrated in San Diego by Bishop Buddy will be at St. .Joseph's cathedral. This historic edifice was the first church built in San Diego following the Franciscan era. Its first pastor was the late Father D. Ubach, the "Father Gaspara 1 ' of Helen Hunt Jackson's famous novel "Ramona." During the progress of time, the church has also grown until today there are 73 parishes in the new diocese, 32 of them being in San Diego city and county. Many mag– nificent churches, schools and hos– pitals are here, Mercy hospital be– ing one of the finest-equipped insti– tutions in California. 'i'Vhile Bishop Buddy comes to a diocese rich in tradition and glorious in history of the past, he also will find here a progressive community, alive to modern needs and enthusiastic in its reception of the new episcopal see. e fir- rr ga

lsan Diego Awaits Impressive Ceremony

For Bishop Buddy's Installation Rites

Age-Old Customs Followed In Catholic Ritual In Cathedral Ritual that has not changed since the days when early Chris– tians were burned at the stake in Rome will be followed Wednesday when the Most Rev. Charles Fran– cis Buddy is ins ta 11 e d in St. Joseph's Cathedral as first Bishop of the newly-created Diocese of San Diego. Many relics of an era of re– ligious intolerance will figure in the colorful ceremony when Bish– op Buddy mounts the throne of black walnut carved by a Pasa– dena artisan for his occupancy as supreme teacher of his flock in San Diego, Imperial, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Among them are the candles which will light his way to the seat of his Episcopal See. They were used originally because it was safe to hold such ceremonies only at night for fear all par– ticipants would be massacred. Symbol of Rank The cope which the Bishop will wear is the lineal de.~cendant of the raincoat worn by earlier bL~hops because many such instal– lation ceremonies were, of neces– sity. held outdoors in some glen hidden bv trees, or in a field far from prying eyes. The Bishop's crozier, one of the symbols of his rank. was original– ly adapted from the shepherd's staff, the significance of which , was readily grasped by the agri– cultural people who formed the earliest Christian congregations. The significance of these and many other symbols used in the ceremony has been lost sight of by the layman in this age of elec– tric light, radio and religious free– dom; but the Roman Catholic Ghurch has preserved them all in memory of its earliest struggles. Rehearse Three Weeks Similarly, the installation cere– mony itself has remained un– changed through the centuries. Every word spoken Wednesday, every step taken by the more than score of active participants in the ceremony has a meaning which 1 has never bean lost sight of by the bishop for years before his own consecration as a bishop. Bishop Buddy was ordained _to the priesthood Sept. 19, 1914, m St. John's Lateran cathedral, Rome, where he studied for five years. A native of St. Joseph, Mo., he re– turned to his home city a year after ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Jan. 30 (A. P.)-Bishop Charles F. Buddy, accompanied by Bishop C. H. LeBlond and 23 other persons, will leave in a special railroad car tomorrow for San Diego where the Rt, Rev. Buddy will be consecrated Wednesday as the first bishop of the new San Diego diocese of the Catholic church. The local party of churchmen and relatives will be joined at Topeka by another special c3:r from St. Louis. In the St. Loms party will be the very ~ev. John Sullivan, S. M., Washmgton, D. c., provincial of the congreg!1• tion of marists, and Dr. Edwm P. Buddy of St. Louis, a brother ordination l;!nd bas spent all of his priestly life in that city, in the same parish at the same cathedral where he fir;t became assistant pastor. At the time of his elevation to the bishopric he was a member of the city health board of St. Joseph, which position he resigned a few days ago. 1 of the bishop.

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Above is shown the elaboratel c:-.rved throne which The Most Rev. Charles Francis Buddy, bishop of the newly created diocese of San Diego, will mount Wednesday at installation ceremonies in St. Joseph's Cathedral. Food for Hungry I

Kindly, Loveable Thus there comes to San Diego as I its first bishop this kindly, loveable man, to take up his labors in a 1 place rich in the history of his church. He comes here 395 years after Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the daunt– less Portuguese navigator, who, (Sept. 28, 1542) under the flag of Spain, sailed into San Diego bay and anchored his wooden vessel in the Harbor of the Sun. Cabrillo, the discoverer of the bay, named it San Miguel. Sixty years later, on Nov. 12, 1602, Sebastian Viscaino, also under the flag of Spain, s-ailed into the harbor and renamed it San Diego. It was here that the first mass was celebrated in California by Carmelite fathers from the ship. It was a mass of requiem for soldiers of Spain who had died on board the vessel. and were bu~·ied near Ballast Point, where the Catholic Daughters of America and Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West re– cently erected a marker in memory of that first mass. One hundred sixty-seven years after the celebration of the first mass the wandering gray-robed San Franciscans under the leadership of Father .Junipero Serra came to San Diego, July 1, 1769, in the name of the king of Spain to colonize and to Christianize the nomadic Indians who roamed the hills and valleys of tlris semi-tropical paradise. First of Missions San Diego de Alcala, the first of a string of California missions, was established at Presidio hill over– loeking the bay. Later it was moved to its present site in Mission valley. It was here that the Franciscan

Bishqp Buddy came into national prominence in 1931 when hungry men, women and children were walking the streets of his home city. He opened St. Vincent's cafe– teria, where he fed the poor for three years until the project was taken over by the federal govern– ment. The cafeteria was a public eating house for those without money, regardless of race, color or creed. A chapel was opened near by for transient worshipers. More than 96,000 people were cared for in ~ cafeteria during its three years of operation under the leadership of Father Buddy. Bishop Buddy is the son of the late Charles A. Buddy, a commission broker in wholesale fruit.q, and the late Annie Farrel Buddy. '1'he Most Rev. John J. Glennon, archbishop of St. Louis, gave an in– sight into the life of Bishop Buddy when at the recent consecration of the bishop, Archbishop Glennon said: "Bishop Buddy has heard the poor crying for bread and he gen– erously answered them. He has comforted the anguished heart of many who broke under the burden of depression and helped them to a better day. Their tears and their prayers will follow him. As he looks to his new home in the Golden West he has much to con– sole him."