Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW ОВ CHRIST (From the French of Louis Veuillot) “Му pen place here, close by my side, Lay on my breast the cross, my pride, Let this book at my feet be hid, And gently close the coffin-lid. “Then, when the last sad rite is sped, Тће rood uplift above my head. If on my grave a stone there be, Let it read: 'I believed, I зее.” “If aught ye speak, say but: “Не sleeps, His work is done, no watch he Кеерв:” Or rather say: “Тһе Light has beamed, He sees at last all he had dreamed.’ “Т hope in Christ; 'mid toil and strife I ne'er denied His Law in life: On Judgment Day, He will not shame Before His Sire to own my name. 11 THE LAST WISHES OF A SOLDIER GEORGE FAIRFAX.

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а, 99. Ф. Ф. Solemn Requiem Wass FOR Deceased Members of the Staff and Students of Lopola College IN THE (ollege (| [баре Thursday, Mobember 12, 1914, at 8.30 o'clock “Blessed are the Dead who die in tbe Lord,” Lopola College Dead Rev. Peter Cassidy, S.J. Jan. 19, '02 Rev. Код. Lachapelle, S.J. Feb. 19, 701 Rey. John Connolly, S.J. Nov. 16, '11 Rev. Gregory O'Bryan, S.J. June 6, '07 Rev. William Doherty, S.J. Mar. 3, '07 Rev. Eugene Schmidt, S.J. Мау 21, '04 Rev. Joseph Grenier, S.J. May 4, 713 Rev. Lactance Sigouin, S.J. Mar. 29, 798 Rev. Peter Hamel, S.J. June 6, '05 Rev. Adrian Turgeon, S.J. Sept, 8, '12 Rev. Benj. Hazelton, S.J. Sept. 1, '08 Rev. Francis Coll, S.J. Jan. 12, 700 Rev. Victor Hudon, S.J. Oct. 4, 713 Rev. George Brown, S.J. Dec. 7, 701 Rev. George Kenny, S.J. Sept. 26, 712 Mr. Cuthbert Udall July 5,71 Acton, William Condon, Leo Monk, Henry Armstrong, Lawrence Daly, George O'Brien, Richard Baxter, Quigg Doran, Francis Page, Severin Blanchard, George Farrell, Edward Perodeau, Charles Brady, Terence Hooper, James Poupore, Leo Brown, Henry Keyes, Michael Rolland, Wilfrid Burke, John Marson, Robert Rousseau, Henry Cagney, Clarence Marson, Walter Ryan, Francis Caveny, Martin Morgan, Henry Shallow, Arthur Chevalier, Jacques McGee, James Smith, Charles Cloran, Edward McGoldrick, John Tate, Louis Requiescant ín Pace

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12 LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW id SM 122 77221200 Є тө 2220 шиш FIRST RECTOR OF LOYOLA MMS eS nudam Cat Cm NUNC NR COLLIER DICIAMO RICE Ё—- Father Gregory O'Bryan, S.J., was born in Halifax in 1858 and received his primary education in his native city. He studied for a time at the Grand Seminary in Montreal, and entered the Jesuits’ at the age of twenty-one. After his novitiate, a term of teaching at Saint Mary's College, in Montreal, and a course of philosophy, at Stonyhurst, England, he was sent to Manitoba to work in the College at St. Boniface, which had just been handed over to his Order. His theological studies in Milltown Park, near Dublin, was followed by his ordination to priesthood. It was in Ireland that he began his missionary work. After another year, in Roehampton, near London, he returned to Can- ada, in 1892. The young priest then entered upon that remarkable missionary career which embraced almost the whole of Canada, Newfoundland, and the Northern States. “There are few Catholic centers of any importance,’’ says а bio- grapher, “іп which he has not preached, few religious communities to whom he has not given retreats. Besides this he was frequently called upon to give diocesan retreats to the clergy. Everywhere was felt the influence of his strong and forceful personality. His deep and earnest conviction made itself felt in every effort of his eloquence, in every flight of that natural gift of oratory which ranked him among the foremost of our Canadian missionaries. Не brought the truths of Faith home to his hearers by the power of his fearless manhood, as well as by his compelling words. The pith of Father O'Bryan's messages to his hearers ever showed plainly that he was impatient of half- heartedness in the service of God, of shallowness and insincerity. His style of preaching was free from sensationalism and founded on common sense and solid reasoning. “Іп all his discourses, says one of the leading Catholic journals, “there was a profoundity of thought, a degree of learning, and a rare power of expression—may we not call it a heart language?—which went straight, as the arrow from the bow, from soul to soul, beseeching love for the Crucified. There was a masculine strength and directness in it which did not, however, detract from beauty of diction, or flashes of poetic thought. He owed to his Celtic origin, no less than to the polish of his training, a grace of нас always harmoniously and aptly applied. The conspicious note of Father O'Bryan's missionary labors, and it may be said of his life, was forgetfulness of self. He it was who always chose the most arduous duties, who, after a day of indescribable fatigue, rose to say the earliest Mass next morning, or to hear confessions. Не did not spare himself, but he was ever full of thoughtful consideration for others, a quality which was manifested even to his last hour.