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PIUS XI eopn of PEACE, Pope of the Missions, Pope of Catholic Action, Pius XI, your I memory lives and you live with it. In every bleeding heart yearning for peace, lost now in this mad world, in every heart that burns to shed its light of faith far and wide to the ends of earth, to illumine the darkness of ignorance, in every heart that seeks to bring Christianity to this pagan civilization, a small bit of the essence of you, your life and teachings, is buried. From lowly birth, through your trying life, to your death in the midst of a wave of hate sweeping over the world you so loved, never once did you lose heart, never once did you cease to strive to effect a salutary change in the lives of your fellows; and all races, creeds, and colors you considered such. You were born Ambrose Damien Achille Ratti, son of a silk manufacturer, at Desio, a little hamlet of beautiful Italy in 1857; and your priestly uncle, Don Ratti, soon saw your natant possibilities, and aided in your education for the priesthood. You rose rapidly, Achille Ratti; when but twenty-two you were ordained; in one short year you received three degrees in Philosophy. Theology, and Canon Law. Soon you became a Doctor of the Ambrosian library, where your life was filled with intense piety and difficult labor. Nor all this time did you neglect your physical training; your exploits, as an Alpine climber, rank with those of the most famous experts of this dangerous sport. After becoming Prefect of the Ambrosian, you were made Vice-Prefect of the Vatican library, whence you published many, many learned volumes of an historical and religious nature. In 1907 you were raised to the rank of a Monsignor. When the cruel World War broke out you left your post as Prefect to become Apostolic Visitor to Poland and Lithuania. Upward, ever upward! Next you were decreed Archbishop of Milan; a short step led you to the honor of a Cardinalship and in 1922. though you deemed yourself unworthy, the supreme honor and the supremely difficult position of the Papacy was yours. You have done much, Pius XI; the Lateran treaty; encyclicals on education, marriage, social reform; the foundation of native clergies in mission lands; the messages of peace; all are remembered, all live on, though your body, too exhausted, too weak to contain the mighty struggles of your brilliant mind, too weak to bear the sorrows of your beneficent heart, has left us, and your spirit is in its merited rest. To Pius XI, athlete, student, man of God, we dedicate this humble effort, the Arete, senior annual of the class of 1940 of Aquinas Institute. May his eternal spirit lead the hearts of these lonely young men now leaving forever the soul-embracing refuge of this institution, along a path of life which will lead, ever straight and sure. Homeward. May this poor Italian priest guide us from our moment of departure to the time of our arrival in the land where Glory breathes, waiting, all tender, all loving, all joyous, to comfort and heal the wounds received along the way. May his love for the missions, his regard for suffering mankind, his desire for Peace live on in our hearts and in our posterity and, in doing so, effect a great revolution of love throughout the entire earth. AQUINAS INSTITUTE
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THE ARETE The Most Reverend James E. Kearney, D.D. Our Bishop
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