St Francis Minor Seminary - Via Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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UHbLSOZU deHhmw .Ammm PRESENT SEMINARY 1931 Ton. . a

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SAINT FRANCIS SBMINARY REMEMBRANCES,, ' OF MONSIGNOR RAINER

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...... os Estis Sal Terrae Seventy-five years of training for the priesthood of the Catholic Church-how much of life, recorded fully only in heaven,s book of good and holy deeds, is contained in these few words. Behind them lies the fascinating story of that band of brave and daring pioneers who ventured forth with naught but daring in their hearts to build for God a seminary for the education of His elect. In Him they placed their trust. They were not confounded. Through Him they did the mighty things that today give glory to His name. Gone they are, these apostolic men, but their work remains. It lives on in the lives and work of the well-nigh seventeen hundred priests who, young and buoyant, charged with the power of God, sailied forth from the oldest Seminary of the Northwest into the realm of the world to do battle with the powers of darkness. Out they went into the wide and fertile expanses of the Mississippi Valley, into the far-Hung prairies of the West, into the smoke- begrimed cities of the East, into the untrodden forests of the North, into the hills and lowlands of the South. They came to build schools and churches indeed, but still more, lives for God. Into their work they put the spirit of St. Francis de Salese-the spirit of culture and holiness of life. They were to their Hock, even as was he, salt of the earth. For, deeply engraven into their hearts was the motto of their Alma MatereVos extis :al terrae. They touched the earth and it brought forth bloom and fruit. We glory in the achievements of our alumni. We feel honored in the honor they have brought to the Church. It is meet that we pay them our heartfelt tribute of admiration and affection. It is meet, too, that we give our tribute of honor to the members of the faculty of our beloved Alma Mater, who for nearly four score years gave unstintediy of the riches of their talents that worthy priests might be raised to the altars of the Church. To them, as also to the rectors of the Seminary, characterized now by indefatigable energy and boundless zeal, now by high learning and deep piety, now by benignant generosity and fatherly soiicitude, we offer our homage of esteem and veneration. May our Seminary prosper under the heavenly patronage of St. Francis de Sales and the rich blessings of the great High Priest, Jesus Christ, Our Lord. A. J. MUENCH, Rector. iiiiii i Q ......