St Thomas High School - Aquin Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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I3 LVESTU DIIJIIESE IIENTENNII-1L RHYMOND McBR1DF 1947 rnarks the cornpletron o 100 years of Catholrcrty rn the area of the drcce e of Galves ton The Senror Class of thr year wrshe to felrcrtate Most Rev C E By ne D D therr present Brshop He has labored long and hard to rnsure that the progre o the next 100 years wrll be as great as that of the frrst The followrng rs a brre ketch o the progress o the drocese The Very Rev Iohn Trrnrnon CM was the frrst prefect after the entrre state of Texas was desrgnated as a Prefecture Rpostolrc rn 1889 Havrng been erected to a Vrcarrate Rpostolrc the state became a drocese wrth Brshop lohn Mary Odrn CM as the frrst Grdrnary Varrous orders of prrests carne from the our corners of the earth to help rn the newly ounded mrssronary work The Vrncentron were the frrst to corne The Rro Grande Valley Was worked by the Oblates vho carfre at the request of the Brshop Brshop Odrn on berng trans e reel to the Plrcheprscopal See of New Orleans was suc ceeded by Claude Mary Duburs C M By 1874 the growth o the church rn the drocese was uffrcrent to fustrfy the separa tron of a large area rn the South whrch became the Drocese of Corpus Chrrstr Brshop Duburs kept hrs trtle untrl 1892 ond three years afterwards he dred rn France Succeedrng Brshop Dubur x a Br hop Nrcholas H Gallaghe the frrst natrve Hmerrcan to occupy the see On Rprrl 30 1882 he was consecrated Brshop Gallagher rs especrally dear to the colored people of the drocese for under hrrn therr cau e was frrst taken up by the foundrng of Holy Rosary Parrsh rn Galve ton In 1890 the drocese o Dallas wa formol drrrrrnrshrng agarn the terrrtory of the Gal veston See The Fathers of St Basrl began a school rn Waco and next came to Houston ID 1900 to establrsh and conduct our Hrgh School Ddrrng the next year and for a decade thereafter they took cha ge of the newly e tablrshed emrnary at La Porte wh1ch occupres the srte o the orrner Sylvan Beach surnrner re ort P1 great rgure arose rn the drocese rn the person o Father lames M Krrwrn who drd much to allevrate the sufferrngs and hardsrrp rncurred by the 1900 storm and under hrs gurdance the state of normalcy was soon resur red Qfter the death of Brshop Gallagher rn 1918 our beloved and venerable Brshop Chrrs topher E Byrne who came to us from St Lours Mrssourr was consecrated by the late Iohn ardrnal Glennon on Nov 10 1918 and Jas enthroned rn the Cathedral of Galveston Under hrs rule the drocese ha undergone a great charn of progressron he holds hrs sceptre over orne two hundred frfty frve thousand Catholrcs ln 1928 he asked the Basrlran Fathers to take charge of the St Plnne s Parrsh rn Houston whrch rs today one of the frnest rn the drocese lr 1935 the Ba rlran also undertook rnrssronary work among the rural Mexr cans throughout a vast area South and West of Houston wrth headquarters at Rosenberg Today the dro ese rncludes parrshes nrr srons cnapels hosprtals hrgh schools elementary schools orphanages horne for the aged and a protectrve rn trtutron But all thrs rs not enough Our Brshop has hrs eyes on the future Vast sums must strll be expended rn order to marntarn and further Chrrsts vork rn the drocese and vocatrons to the prresthood and the relrgrous state rrust be fostered Under the leadershrp of Brshop Byrne we shall shoulder the task , f Y I . . . . F - . . ss f . . . f s f f - ' I I f . f 3 9 , n n -11 A . . , . g F i , - , f 1 . , , D . . , . - , f . s , . , . s 'f s s 1 r, . . . C . , s s , . O . . , 1 . . - , f Q M, r s . S 1 . - 1 1 1 , ' v I - . 1 ' - - '-1 ' 1 rw - U - if 1 4 1 1 1' ' - , . O . . Q . I O D I C 1 Q 1 1 -- 1 , - U . . Q, 1 I , , r. . V I , . . M Z K g . .

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