St Leo University - Golden Legend Yearbook (St Leo, FL)

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HARJY to If iw ,, V W NM vm ,R kr Father Damian says Goodby . . . and Brother Joseph . . . and Father juan 42 if if r ,Cllr qw , A,a r ' it 1 4' ,,,,1v1 f 4, ' ff' gg, x ,N 5' J, i ': 5 . ar i- 'a v .14 IT Mrs. Corrigan, Brother Iiugends Sister crI'LlCi.l liiirthle, 08.11, now 1:-llhfl' D-IUWN AVI'-'Vis f'U ' tht' 'I' mother, speaks for him. He was in lioliviii with the Poor Cflares, ffl away at the time.

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ADIOQ as photograph by Jack Ramsdell, courtesy of the Sl. Petersburg Timer Brother Eugene Corrigan, O.S.B., Father Damian DuQuesnay, O.S.B., Father juan Lopez, O.S.B., and Brother Joseph St. Pierre, O.S.B., in front of the abbey church as they leave on April 10 to establish a Benedictine foundation at Sumampa, Santiago del Estero, Argentina. Brother Eugene has a knowledge of farming and citrus culture, Father Damian was abbey prior and headed the biology department of Saint Leo College, Father Juan speaks Spanish fluently and organized the Missionary Apostolate for Latin America at Saint Leo, Brother joseph is a carpenter with a knowledge of several other trades. The St. Petersburg Times of May 11 featured the departure of the four monks in its Religious News Section. It was photographed by jack Ramsdell and written by Elizabeth Whitney, religious news edi- tor. Television station WTVT, Tampa, covered the Benedictines' departure on May 10. Joe Lough- lin, director of news and public affairs, and Earl Wells, cameraman, spent the day at Saint Leo filming the feature for the station's half-hour program, Irzrighl. Quoting from the Times, Yesterday four monks from Saint Leo Abbey near Dade City left the security of their monastic life in Pasco County's rolling citrus country for a life of deprivation, loneliness and extreme physical hardship. They go in response to a decree from Pope john XXIII who asked all religious of America 'to help save the church in Latin America from the forces of atheistic communismf The monks of Saint Leo will do it the hard way. They go to Sumampa where the nearest town is 200 miles away and the closest main road is 25 miles away. There is.severe water shortage and prac- tically no electricity or plumbing. One of the first tasks will be the renewal and renovation of the sanctuary of Our Lady of Con- solation of Sumampa, a place of veneration and pilgrimage since Spanish colonial days of 1630. As- sisting the poor people of the area will be another major task, made more difficult by the fact that the area is so sparsely populated that it averages one person per square mile. Father Damian estimates that the new mission will have to be subsidized by the home abbey here for a number of years before it can be self-sustaining. , zo

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Joe Loughlin interviews Abbot Marion V 0 ii iWA4ll'Vf41lR xi M ' 5'?:2F 1: 121' 1 - , Z 1 s 2 3 L' Z Zi 1 t 1-v 4 - r- - of W Televising the departure . K ,A . faqs 1 '? The family says goodby to their four brothers S? . in the monastic refectory , , - X WW? f' , Brother Oblate jean waves au voir. Mother Mary Loretto, O.S.F., and Brother joseph . -,. -.- . .... .. -...........-...t.....,..,......,.......,.-,...........,1j....-......,...1,n...- --..--Y-E-il--WL, -1-f-----.Y