St Thomas Military Academy - Kaydet Yearbook (Mendota Heights, MN)

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 THE MOST REVEREND JOHN GREGORY MURRAY, S.T.D. Archbishop of St. Paul Under the paternal control and direction of His Excellency, Archbishop Murray, St. Thomas Military Academy has made great progress in the fulfillment of Catholic ideals in educa- tion. Barn February 2, 1877, in Waterbury, Connecticut, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1900 at Louvain, Belgium. He was consecrated titular bishop of Flavias and auxiliary bishop of Hartford in 1920. Having been transferred to the see of Portland, Maine, in 1928, he was subsequently raised to the Archbishopric of St. Paul, October 29, 1931, being installed at the Cathedral of St. Paul, January 27, 1932. Since that time his apostolic charity and sympathy have endeared him completely to the people of the North- west, to those both in his fold and out of his fold. For his extraordinarily kind and personal interest in us and our future, we cadets of St. Thomas wish to assure our beloved shepherd. Archbishop Murray, of our sincere and unending loyalty to him as followers of Christ.

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. ... on a Saturday afternoon when the air is crisp, and the leaves are turning brown, the cadets march to victory on the gridiron of O'Shaughnessy Field . . . . . . . the Armory honeycombed with blaring bassoons, the rhythmic tramp of feet, the ranting of embryo thespians, the milling of cadets in the book store, the eagle's nest, the chow line, the Dean's well-worn carpet, et cetera, et cetera . . . .

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THE MOST REVEREND JAMES J. BYRNE, S.T.D. Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul The event of greatest importance to men of St. Thomas in 1947 was the consecration last July of His Excellency, Bishop James Byrne, older brother of our own two Academy in- structors, Lieutenants Robert and Thomas Byrne. Bishop Byrne was the second St. Paul native in the city's history to be elevated to the episcopate. Born in 1907, he received Holy Orders in 1933 with the first class ordained by Archbishop Murray in St. Paul Cathedral. After four years' study at Louvain he received his Doctor's Degree in Sacred Theology. From 1941 to 1945 he was Dean of the College of St. Thom- as. From 1945 until the time of his elevation to the episco- pacy he was professor of Dogmatic Theology at St. Paul Seminary. Pictured with Bishop Byrne at the left is the Most Reverend Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, who officiated as the consecrating bishop. -