Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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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

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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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LO QUE COLLEGE CR EV TES 9 Ju Memoriam REV. MARTIN FOX, S.J. Аз a former member of our teaching staff, Father Fox, who died on July 27th, 1915, in St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Boniface, Manitoba, will be known to many of the friends of the College and to all of our old students. He was born in Souffl enheim, Lower Rhine, in the diocese of Strasburg, May 4th, 1859. When still in his early boyhood he came to Canada and was educated at the College of the Basilian Fathers in Toronto. At the age of twenty-one he entered the Society of Jesus at Sault-au-Récollet. After completing his preliminary studies, and teaching for four years as a scholastic, he was sent to St. Beuno's, North Wales, for his first and second years of Theology. Thence he returned to Montreal to continue his studies and was ordained July 29th, 1894. Four years after his ordination he came to Loyola and remained until 1912, when he was sent to the mission at Sault Ste-Marie, Ontario. The following year he was transferred to 5t. Boniface, and during the last two years of his life was Professor of Philosophy, and Examiner in the University of Manitoba. His death came rather as a shock. His health had always been good, and in spite of the fact that towards the end of April he had to be removed to the hospital, no one expected that the illness would be fatal. All who knew him would have predicted that he had many years of useful work yet before him. The special treatment, however, failed to restore him. Father Fox was a man of varied and solid learning. When a student at college he won high distinction by his general ability and in particular by his knowledge of the classics. Afterwards, as Professor of the Sciences, of Philos- ophy, and as Prefect of Studies, his work in the colleges of the Society was of inestimable value. Loyola owes him a special debt of gratitude for his pains- taking care in collecting and compiling the facts of our early history. This collection is the only detailed account we have of the foundation and first years, and will remain, we are sure, a memorial of his activities on behalf of the college. He was of a gentle and lovable character, and was greatly esteemed by all who knew him. Не endeared himself to the boys by the deep interest he took in each individual student, and by his untiring zeal for their welfare. Father Fox was fifty-six years old when he died, and had completed thirty-five years in the Society of Jesus. ОЁ this period he had spent no less than sixteen at the College. With Loyola his name will remain inseparably connected in the minds and hearts of hundreds of boys who have passed under his gentle supervision. - . ALUMNUS.