Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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Т © УО КА COLLEGE Ж ЕУ ГЕ 7 Sault-au-Récollet. He was survived by two sisters residing in Baltimore, the last of an unusually happy and united family, two members of which were distinguished Religious of the Sacred Heart. To sum up in an adequate manner such a life and such a personality within these brief limits is simply an impossibility. His eminent perfection in the thorny path of religious life is, so to say, the secret of the cloister. He was, above all, saintly in the highest degree, completely detached from the world, freed from everything that was petty or narrow or ignoble, embracing all men, as it were, in the brotherhood of charity, seeing good everywhere, trusting and believing. His love of poverty was so great and he was so completely mortified that he possessed absolutely nothing. It was touchingly related to the writer that when a souvenir of him was asked for after his death, nothing could be found but a cheap picture of St. Thomas Aquinas, . and the notes of his last sermons, written on the backs of envelopes already used and on the wrappers of newspapers. Нів brethren could tell many a tale of the profound humility which made him as simple as a child; the perfect sincerity of speech and purpose, which would not lend itself to the most trifling deception; the obedience which caused him to obey the rules of his Order exactly and entirely; the large-hearted charity and kindliness of heart, which caused him to abound in sympathy for those who were in affliction, and which endeared him to numberless friends, despite his quiet reserve and apparent austerity of manner and his almost mystical piety. А staunch, loyal and appreciative friend, Father Doherty was broadly tolerant of the weaknesses of others. Stern only to himself, he was a foe to all scrupulosity, doubt or fear, or whatsoever might keep souls from a filial love for God and confidence in His all-embracing mercy. This quality, combined with his knowledge of theology in its innermost intricacies, made the lamented priest an ideal confessor and a master in the spiritual life. He wanted his penitents to be cheerful, courageous, and to walk in the sunshine of the children of God. | Father Doherty was always the refined, the polished, the courtly gentleman, familiar with the ways of men, adapting himself to their various grades, and expressing himself with the utmost purity of diction and with a charming accent. Many, like the present writer, in deploring his death with deep and heart-felt sorrow, in offering a fervent (though it may seem superfluous) prayer for his soul, feel intimately convinced that their loss, and the irreparable loss to the Order which he adorned, is indeed his gain. Аз far as our limited human judgment can understand the Mysterious Beyond, the Gates of Heaven must have opened very wide, indeed, to receive the soul that was called so suddenly hence. Should any rust of earth, however, remain, the Promoters and Associates of the League of the Sacred Heart, whom he so zealously and so ably directed will feel it their privilege to offer up a heart-felt prayer for his soul's repose, asking that he who showed so many others the way may hasten to his own Eternal Home. 'They that are learned shall shine as the brightness of the firmament: and they that instruct many to justice shall shine as stars to all eternity. ANNA T. SADLIER. — Canadian Messenger, Мау, 1907.

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6 EOVIOLA COLLEGE REVIEW versity. Їп 1899 he was named rector of Loyola College in Montreal, whence ill-health compelled him to withdraw. Many of his later years were spent in missionary work in Canada and in the United States. Applying all his noble faculties to this strenuous and fruitful apostolate, he reaped such a harvest as shall be known only on the great day of reckoning. While attached to the church of the Gésu, in Montreal, he acted as Local Director of the League of the Sacred Heart for three years and became in that way especially endeared to both Promoters and Associates. Many of us recall the beautiful and practical instructions he was accustomed to give at the monthly meetings of the League, either on the [ntention of the month or on some special devotion, such as that to the Sacred Heart, to St. Joseph or to the Holy Souls. Some of his sayings at these meetings remain fresh and vivid in the memory of his hearers to this day; for this master of spirituality and of the deep and hidden things of God had the peculiar gift of throwing new light on old familiar points of doctrine. His sermons at the early Masses in the Gésu, his retreats given to the English-speaking women of Montreal, were always practical, sympathetic, original and deeply spiritual. Father Doherty's style of oratory and his method of development, particularly in his controversial sermons and in his discussion of doctrinal points, delighted the cultured and the learned. The modulation of his voice, the force and elegance of diction, the high and sustained thought, the direct and masterly reasoning, the depth and the solidity of his learning had a special charm. А leading secular newspaper declared him to have been one of the most learned men of Canada. This was absolutely true, for his stores of knowledge covered a wide area. In literature, in rhetoric, in the sciences he wasa master. An expert in philosophy, a physicist, a chemist, an architect, and excellent mechanic, he was competent to teach and direct men in almost every department of human endeavour. He was an accomplished musician of rare skill and technique. and possessed a baritone voice which was often heard to advantage in the church services. The death of this distinguished priest would have been in one less pre- pared appallingly sudden; to him it was the swift passage into that life which he had often and so beautifully represented to others, and to union with the Master whom he had served with such perfection. He had apparently re- covered from an attack of La Grippe, and was about to resume the course of evening lectures which had been temporarily interrupted. On Sunday morning, March 2rd, 1907, he said mass, entered the confessional, and remained there during part of the following mass, when it was announced that he was going to preach in the evening. Half an hour later he was seized with a violent pain in the chest and went to the College infirmary. But the end had come. There was barely time to give him the last absolution before he had passed away. The announcement of his sudden death was received with a profound and thrilling emotion by the large congregation. Father Doherty's funeral, simple, touching and absolutely poor, as is the rule of his Order, took place on Tuesday, March 5th, the ceremony being attended by the Archbishop and Coadjutor Bishop of Montreal, by members of the reverend clergy and by a vast concourse of the laity, Catholic and non- Catholic. His mortal remains were laid to rest in the Jesuit cemetery at

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А. M. D. 6. Solemn Requiem Mass for Dereased Members nf the Staff and Students of Loyola College in the College Chapel Friday, November 12, 1915, at 8.30 o’rlock “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.” Loyola College Bead Rey. Peter Cassidy, S.J. Jan. 19, '02 Rev. George Kenny, S.J. Sept. 26, 712 Rev. John Connolly, S.J. Nov. 16, 711 Rev. Rod. Lachapelle, S.J. Feb. 19, '01 Rev. William Doherty, S.J. Mar. 3, '07 Rev. Gregory O' Bryan, S.J. June 6, '07 Rev. Martin Fox, S.J. July 27, 715 Rev. Eugene Schmidt, S.J. May 21, 704 Rev. Joseph Grenier, S.J. Мау 4, 713 Rev. Lactance Sigouin, S.J. Mar. 29, '98 Pev. Peter Hamel, S.J. June 6, 705 Rev. Adrian Turgeon, S.J. Sept. 8, 712 Rev. Benj. Hazelton, S.J. Sept. 1, '08 Rev. Francis Coll, S.J. Jan. 12, '00 Rev. Victor Hudon, S.J. Oct. 42743 Rev. George Brown, S.J. Dec. 7, 701 Mr. Cuthbert Udall, July 5,711 Acton, William Condon, Leo Monk, Henry Armstrong, Lawrence Daly, George O’Brien, Richard Baxter, Quigg Doran, Francis Pagé, Severin Blanchard, George Farrell, Edward Pérodeau, 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 Rennirarant in Pare