University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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tie ye Presidents 1877—1952 leak F. Dooley, S.J. “illiam F. Doran, S.J. . John P. McNichols, S.J. ev. Albert A. Poetker, S.J. . Rev. Charles A. Cloud, S.J. . Rev. William J. Millor, S.J. . Rev. Celestin J. Steiner, S.J.

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Chapel McNichols Hall Just when Europe was in the midst of great strife during the Protestant Revolt of the 16th century, St. Ignatius Loyola gathered around him a number of clerics with like ideals, and they formed a homogeneous society at Paris, in 1534. Pope Paul III officially recognized them as the Society of Jesus in the year 1540. In subsequent years the Jesuits began to “preach to all nations,” coming to what is now the United States before the end of the sixteenth century. The “Black Robes” first made their appearance in the Great Lakes region before 1650, and came to Detroit for a time in the early eighteenth century. They returned in 1877 to establish the institution now known as the University of Detroit.

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etroit has always held the necessity of a firm his belief shapes every hour spent by youthful members of the University family on or off campus. ST. JOHN BERCHMANS, ST. SUANISEAUS KOST KAGAN D 3 Fo ALOY- SIUS GONZAGA, patron saints of youth, symbolize this firm belief. Realizing their vocations early in youth, these saints entered the Jesuit order, and subsequently served brief but intensely holy lives of service to God. When the time for the decision came, the choice lay between God and the world. They chose God. So, too, must we lead exemplary lives, be it in a lay calling or religious life. Floreat, Crescat. —s =