Bishop Duffy High School - Rapideer Yearbook (Niagara Falls, NY)

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Y THEY Took The First Steps. . . And Guided Uur Faltering Feet Our Teachers are 'lhe Oblafes of Sainf Francis de Sales. Sainf Francis de Sales. as you know. is a Docfor of fhe Church. renowned direcfor of souls who founded fhe Order of fhe Visifafion. His premafure deafh in 1622 pre- venfed his proposed founding of a sociefy of priesfs fo carry on his work. ln 1870. however. 'lhe Visifandines communicafed 'lheir Salesian herifage fo a group of priesfs and lay brofhers, when Mofher Mary de Sales Chappuis prevailed upon fhe Very Reverend Louis Brisson, a Diocesan Seminary pro- fessor and chaplain al' fhe Visifafion in Troyes, fo found a congregafion ded- icafed fo perpefuafing fhe spirif and docfrine of Sainf Francis de Sales. The principal work of 'lhe de Sales Oblafes is in fhe field of educafion in dioce- san high schools. Af fhe presenf fime fhey are esfablished in Wilmingfon, Lockporf, Royal Oak, Toledo, Erie, Philadelphia and Niagara Falls. STX gs m, fr 5 NS . ' Marg... X3 tif? ' . Tl.. L

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Of 0ur Way We had 'rhe privilege of a visif from The Maior Supernors Mos? Reverend Domenico Balducelln Superior General fhe of our Obla+e Fafhers. Reading from lefl fo righf The Very Reverend William Buckley Provincial and +he Very Very Reverend J. Francis Tucker, Councillor General fhe We conarafulale Falher George A. Mahoney, Q.S.F.S., 'rhe Reclor of our School on +he occasion ol fhe Twenlyrfilfh Anniversary ol his ordinalion fo fhe priesr- hood. l-le was ordained in lhe Basilica of Sl. John Laleran on Holy Salurday, April ll, R925 by Cardinal Pallica and cele- oralea his l5rs+ Mass in S+. Suzafna 3 Church in Fame on Easler Sunday, April IZ, l925. On his relorn lo fhe Uniled Slafes, he :erved as lnslreclof a+ +he Sal- esianurn and Nadheasf Cafholic l-ligh Schooit ana in I93l was apoainled Reclar ci +he Saleliamrn. From I943 +o l949 he heaaea 'he Oooh? Connrnwify in Philadel- ohia. Thiuah he hai been wflh ul only one -,eaf Fafhef Mahoney has endeared him- iell To a.