Georgetown University - Ye Domesday Booke Yearbook (Georgetown, DC)

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The 1947 Edition of DOMESDAY BGOKE T ublifhed by the Senior Class of GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY + +i- + -f-+ Washington, D.C. -f-t + tt-h

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a M olemn Pontifical Mass in St. Patrick ' s Cathedral, New York City, on November 24, 7946, commemorating the Tercentennary of the North American Martyrs. Francis Cardinal Spellman presiding, and Bishop J. Francis A. Mclntyre, celebrant, before a congregation of 3 00.

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FOREWORD HE theme of this first post-war edition of Ye Domesday Booke was spontaneously prompted by the Tercentennary of the North American Martyrs : and the dedication was affectionately inspired by the supreme sacrifice of Georgetown ' s heroic war dead. Though the lives of these two valiant groups were snuffed out on sacrificial altars widely separated in time and space, their hearts were consumed with a common love of mankind, inherited of God, and rooted in eternity. In this sense, all were martyrs, for all laid down their lives, that others might live — some in time upon earth, some for eternity with God. In the soil of America, thus consecrated with the blood of Isaac Jogues and his companions, was sown the seed, whence sprang the enduring faith of millions: in the soil of th is and other lands, hallowed with the blood of our honored war dead, God grant that the seed sown for the permanent peace of the world may yet ripen unto fruition. CHARLES J. FOLEY, S.J. Moderator