Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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Address all communications to: LoyOLA CoLLEGE REVIEW, SHERBROOKE STREET WEST, MONTREAL Price: Two DOLLARS THE Copy. 1951 MONTREAL, CANADA No. 37 Dedicattou Daring the past year, Montreal has been, indirectly, the recipient of one of the highest honours which the Catholic Church can bestow. For, on November 13, 1950, one of her earliest daughters, Marguerite Bourgeoys, was beatified and declared ‘'Blessed” by His Holiness, Pope Pius XII. Our city, in its infancy, was the breeding ground of many great and valiant souls. But of these numbers who laid the foundations of our country, there are few figures more outstanding, more heroic or more saintly than that of Mother Bourgeoys. Her life was an almost perfect combination of providential guidance and personal effort; of singleness of purpose together with absolute conformity to the Divine Will; of complete humility and magnificent courage. The fact of her leaving a safe and comfortable home in her native France to come to Canada, a frontier settlement in constant danger of annihilation by savage Indians, is in itself an indication of the spirit which sustained her in her later trials—the burning of the convent, the lack of workers, the poverty which she sought and accepted gladly, the rebuffs she met with in trying to establish an uncloistered order. How well she overcame these difficulties, and how wisely she was guided is manifested by the great work that has been done, and is being done by the order which she founded, the Congregation de Notre Dame. It is therefore with a sense of great honour and privilege that Loyola humbly dedicates her year book to the first Montrealer to be raised to the dignity of “Beata”. Blessed Marguerite Bourgeoys, Pray for us!

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REVEREND J. F. McCCarrFrey, S.J. — RECTOR — Loyola Graduate 1927 “In times of storm and stress, in moments of doubt and fear, other men may seek refuge elsewhere. Our strength is Christ. Let us build our lives, our characters, our hopes on Him. He will not fail us.”