Salesianum School - Salesian Yearbook (Wilmington, DE)

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e grass ggoez' I I Father Fromentin T IS with the deepest regret that the Grasshopper is forced to chronicle the departure from our midst of the much-loved Father Fromentin. Institutor and first Provincial of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales in America, Founder of the Salesianum in Wilmington with. all that the name entails, Father Fromentin has endeared himself to the hearts of all who knew him. He leaves a void in the hearts of us all that will endure a long time. While congratulating him upon the honor paid him by his nomination to the General Council of the Oblate Fathers, the Grasshopper is surely going to miss the Grand Old Man , who has proved himself a true Father to so many Salesianum boys. Ordained at Troyes, France, in 1886, Father Fromentin was so fired with missionary zeal that he immeditely requested to be sent to the Mis- sions in South Africa. There he labored among the Hottentots for eight years, bringing to those poor creatures not only the consolations of religion but the blessing also of industry and work taught by a most heroic example. So remarkable was this example that it Won the special approbation of the Holy See through the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda. Many a time we have heard the Boss tell how proud he was of the bricks he him- self made for Bishop Simon's Cathedral, at Pella, in Greater Namaqua- landg of the wonderful bread he baked in his own clay ovensg of the gardens he irrigated in the land of perpetual drought and famine and heat. Those days so filled with hardship and suffering, he has often declared, were the happiest days of his life. In 1894, Father Brisson, then Superior General of the Oblates, thought he saw an opening for his Congregation in the fertile land of the United States. He dispatched Father Fromentin, because of his knowledge of English, to New York, where he took up his post as Chaplain of the Sisters of the Divine Compassion at White Plains, just outside of the city. Here he remained for four years when, an emergency arising in Greece, he was forced to go to the land of the Classics as Professor of Mathematics. From Twenty-eight