Siena College - Saga Yearbook (Loudonville, NY)

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REV. CYPRIAN MENSING O.F.M., PhD. President of the C ollege 111 was in a large measure due to the foresight and initiative of Father Cyprian that Siena survived the first crucial period of establishment and growth. The constant development of the college from its early years is a tribute not only to his abilities as an educator but to his resolute leader- ship as the college President. The honor that Siena has won is a reHection of the great eHorts he has inspired. His quiet dignity, truly Franciscan, is symbolic of the achievement of the institution he heads.. As solicitous for the welfare of those who have left the college as he is diligent in securing for those still under him all that that a college can hope to give, F ather Cy rian typifies the sort of leader that the Church of Rome gives her Chifdren when a great work is to be done.

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APPROXIMATELY seven centuries ago, amid the turbulence 0f the warring fae- tions of Italy there was born to a noble family of Siena a Child who grew to man- hood and sainthood. This was he whom we know as St. Bernardine. He was born on the eighth of September in the year 1g80. ' i From earliest Childhood he had i111- pressed upon him the transitory nature of earthly values. At the tender age of six he had lost the loving care of fond par ents. Left an orphan he was reared in sympathetic kindness by pious aunts. At twenty-two years of age he disposed of his patrimony and entered the Franciscan Order, the better to obtain eternal treas- ure. To continue the missionary work he had begun, he refused three bishoPries at various times during his saintly life. OF SIENA Pa tron of the College Bernardine took as his shield the Holy Name of Jesus. With it he worked zealously to promote justice and peace among the contending Classes of his day. He urged men to replace the arms of warring parties with the insignia I H S. He advocated the pious and reverential use of the Holy Name as a powerful means of rekindling popular fervor and permanently establishing a peace based on the love of God and fellowman. Peace became his watehword as the Holy Name became his shield. Bernardines death occurred as he trava eled to a distant part of his native land to proclaim the message of peace that he had preached his life long. He died on the eve of the Ascension, the twentieth of May 1444. Six years later he was can- onized by P0pe Nicholas V. ST. BERNARDINE

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REV. RUDOLPH HARVEY, O.F.M., PH.D. Dean of Arts DR. JOHN P. NICHOL Dean Of Science REV. FINTAN CROWLEY, OEM: Dean of Studies REV. EDMUND CHRISTY, QFM. Dean of Discipline DR. JOSEPH BUFF 10 Dean of Business