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ARTICLE ONE OF THE GENERAL RULE.

“All Christian young men who desire to unite in a communion of
prayers and a participation of the same works of charity, may become
members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, wherever they may
happen to reside.”

This article recalls to mind that the Society of St. Vincent de Paul
has been founded by young men and for them; it is with a view of pre-
serving them from the dangers of every kind that surround them at the
commencement of their career that Conferences have been organized;
and if, at a later time, men of more advanced age have come to join
themselves to them, and to bring to them the tribute of their experi-
ence, we should not be less mindful of the original aim of the Society,
and we should seek, as much as possible, to attract to it young men,
those especially who, far from their own families, have need of being
surrounded by a pious circle to make them persevere in good.

It is, also, to be remarked that the primary object which the So-
ciety proposes to its members, is their own edification. If they meet
together, if they visit the poor, the first object is to make each other
better by a union in prayer. The aim of the Conferences is not, then,
philanthropy, the alleviation, very praiseworthy no doubt, but purely
human, of the sufferings of the poor; their aim is zeal for the salvation
of souls, and in particular for the souls of the members themselves.
This is a point which must never be lost sight of, for numerous conse-
quences spring from it, especially in the selection of the works to be
undertaken by Conferences, which ought all to tend towards the sancti-
fication of the members engaged in them.

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they are the principal means made use of to attain that object. There
are some associations which are conducive to the sanctification of those
engaged in them, as pious congregations, by their frequent and pro-
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Orders. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has not so high an aim; it
does not aspire to be a congregation, a confraternity, a Third Order;

it is no more than a pious assembly of Christians living in the world,

and desiring to put their purity under the shelter of charity. To ask

more for it, would be to pervert its character and its institution. (From
the Manual of the Society.)
From Father Nugent’s Address at the Golden Jubilee Celebration

Fidelity to a few fundamental principles gave life to the St. Vin-
cent de Paul Society in the beginning. This same fidelity is the cause
of its life and vigor to-day, and so long as this fidelity continues the
Society will live, grow and flourish. Let me formulate a few of those
principles: First, the primary end or object of the Society is the spirit-
ual welfare of its members. Second, as a means to this end, the first
and principal work of this Society is the visitation and relief of the
poor; but no work of charity is foreign to its scope. Third, material
relief given to the poor must always be accompanied by kindness and
sympathy, and the “alms of good advice.” Fourth, no initiation fee is
expected or accepted, and no assessments are levied on the members.
Fifth, there are no salaried officers; the services of the members in
visiting the poor or in any other work of the Society are given gratis.
Sixth, politics and personal business affairs are rigidly excluded from
their meetings.

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years has been the guide to success for this great Society and the
guardian of its spirit and life.

It cannot be too clearly understood that the principal end of the
St. Vincent de Paul Society is the sanctification and salvati
own members.

The service of the poor is but a means to this end

* * * And, allow me to repeat it, the first and primary’ object of
your membership is your own spiritual welfare. You get no return in
the temporal order and you expect none, but you look for and expect a
return in an order infinitely higher than that represented by dollars and
cents. Instead of a temporal reward you may sometimes receive in-
gratitude and abuse in return for your charity, but so much the greater
will your wages be before God if you continue to return good for evil.
Remember also that the visitation and relief of the poor is but a means
to an end. As the attainment of that end is to you of the highest im-
portance, you ought to love the poor very tenderly, if for no other rea-
son, at least for this, they afford you the means to attain this end.Golien Jubilee Celebration

OF THE

Particular Council of New Orleans

Surety of St. Winrent de Paul

The celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the organization of
the Particular Council of New Orleans, Society of St. Vincent de Paul,
was almost exclusively religious in its character.

As the most important preparatory part of the event the members
were in Retreat Wednesday, October 20th, Thursday, 21st, and Friday,
22nd, the public services being held at 7:30 P. M. ea ch day in the
Church of the Immaculate Conception. These services consisted of the
recitation of the Rosary, Sermon and Benediction of the Blessed Sacra-
ment. The sermons were preached by the Spiritual Director of the
Council, Very Rev. Emile Mattern, S. J., Rector of the Church and
President of the College. The attendance of men was much greater
than at any previous Retreat, the Church being fairly well filled every
night.

Dawn of Sunday, October 24th, ushered in what proved to be

throughout a typical New Orleans Indian Summer Day. At 7 o'clock

that morning His Grace, Most Reverend J. H. Blenk, S. M., Archbi shop
of New Orelans, celebrated Mass in his Cathedral for the Vincentian
Brotherhood. Some six hundred members of the Society received Holy

Communion from the hands of His Grace and those of
T. Meerschaert, Bishop of NS eeNicadh and Right Rev. Edwarc A
Bishop of Mobile, who assisted him in baal niste rine the Holy Sacra-
ment. ,

At 7 o’clock in the evening of the same day the vener ae Cathedral
was filled with a congregation consisting of members and friends of the
Society and the ladies of their families. The interior of oie Church
was beautifully decorated with festoons representing the Papal colors
and those of the Archbishop of New Orleans, interspersed with Ameri-
can flags. The Altars were resplendent with lights and the Sanctuary,
crowded with ecclesiastics in the brilliant vestments of their respective
positions, presented a scene of surpassing splendor.

Most Rev. J. H. BLeEnNK, Archbishop of New Orleans, was attended by
Very Rev. Peter Scotti, Chancellor of the Archdiocese and
Very Rev. J. B. Bogaerts, Rector of St. Ann’s Church;

RiegHt Rey. THos. Hesxiin, Bishop of Natchez, was attended by Rev. T.
J. Fitzgerald, Rector of St. Patrick’s and Rev. W. J. B.
Vincent, Rector of the Holy Rosary;

Ricgut Rey. T. MEERSCHAERT, Bishop of Oklahoma, was attended by Rev.
J. B. Prim, Rector of Holy Trinity, and Rev. John A. Fran-
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Chas. Brockmeier, Rector of St. Francis of Assisi, and Very
Rev. J. J. O’Rourke, C. S. C., Rector of the Church of the
Sacred Heart of Jesus;

Riaut Rey. CorNELIUS VAN DE VEN, Bishop of Natchitoches, was at-
tended by Rev. J. F. Lambert, Rector of the Church of Our
Lady of Good Counsel, and Rev. J. F. Prim, Rector of Ma-
ter Dolorosa.

Ricut Rev. J. M. Lavat, Rector of the Cathedral and Vicar General, was
attended by his assistants in the Cathedral, Fathers Heffer-
nan, Cabanel and Vigliero.

Besides the priests mentioned above, some forty clergymen were
present, the Jesuit, Lazarist, Redemptorist, Holy Cross and Benedictine
Orders each being represented by several of their members.

The addresses of the evening, which are published in full in other
parts of this volume, were delivered in the following order:—
Reveronp A. M. Barprer, Rector of the Church of St. Vincent de Paul,

on the “History of the Society;”

VrERY REVEREND T. J. WELDON, C. M., Spiritual Director of the Superior
Council and Rector of St. Joseph’s Church, read Father
Nugent’s address on the “Object and Spirit of the Society;”

Rieut Rey. T. MEERSCHAERT, Bishop of Oklahoma, read letters from
Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, and Monsieur
Paul Calon, President-General of the Society, adding his
personal congratulations;

Most Rey. J. H. BLENK, Archbishop of New Orleans, closed with a most
soul-stirring address expressive of his admiration for the
Principles and Rules of the Society, and his earnest wish
that the Vincentian Brotherhood be extended far and wide
throughout the province of New Orleans, in its primitive
spirit of piety, simplicity and brotherly love.

Having concluded his eloquent address, Archbishop Blenk gave
the Papal Benediction from the pulpit. He then descended to the Altar
and was joined by the four Suffragan Bishops who were present, all
uniting in giving their Episcopal blessing at the same time to the
kneeling congregation. Solemn Benediction of the most Blessed Sacra-
ment was given by Bishop Heslin, assisted by Father Raynal, as Dea-
con, and Father Fitzgerald, as Sub-Deacon, and the services concluded
with the singing of “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name,” the entire con-
gregation uniting their voices with those of the Clergy and the Choir.

The music both at the morning and evening services, was especially
appropriate to the occasion and exceedingly beautiful and impressive,
the Cathedral Choir, under the leadership of Mrs. Theresa Cannon
Buckley, being reinforced by several of the best local artists.

Only one feature of the celebration was of a material character and
that was the presentation to the Council, by friends of the Society, of a
Golden Jubilee purse amounting to $3,017.60.

Many telegrams and letters of congratulation were received from
Councils, Clergymen and individual Vincentians throughout the United
States for which the Council of New Orleans is deeply grateful.

4ADDRESS OF
Reverend A. HM. Barbier
Rector of the Church of St. Vincent de Paul

On the History of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul

“The charity of God is poured forth in our hearts by the Holy
Ghost, who is given to us.” (Rom. Ch. 5.)

Your Grace, Your Lordships, Monsignori, Right Rev. and Rev. Fathers,
and Dearly Beloved Brethren:

I am taking the place here to-night of one whose voice, more pow-
erful and eloquent, has been hushed forever, whose sudden and unex-
pected demise is still fresh in our memory—I mean the Very Rev.
Canon Peter Massardier, late pastor of St. Theresa’s Church—who was
to have spoken this evening on the history of the Society of St. Vincent
de Paul. Whatever be my insufficiency for the task, I shall, however,
endeavor to replace the zealous and venerable deceased.

Hvery man has within him a conscience, and that conscience bears
testimony evermore to truth and goodness. The conscience that God
has put in the soul of every man has always paid the same tribute to
the truth, has always bestowed the same loyal recognition upon what-
ever is good and charitable. This law of conscience is the supreme law
of man. Hence we may say that God has sowed good seed in our na-
tures. “The charity of God is poured forth in our hearts.”

Now, this good seed that God has planted in this world, received its
last planting from the right hand of Jesus Christ. “The Sower who
went out to sow His seed.” And it is the same good seed of good works
that the Church cast upon the field of human life over nineteen hun-
dred years ago! And ever since, this good seed has grown, spread and
produced abundant fruits.

Taking alone the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, whose Golden
Jubilee of its New Orleans Particular Council we celebrate to-day, from
its humble beginning up to its present flourishing condition, not only
here in New Orleans, but throughout the whole world, we have a con-
vincing proof of God’s blessings upon this noble, praiseworthy, sublime
work of charity towards the poor.

My task being to give you a brief history of the Society in Europe
and specially here in New Orleans, I ask you to be indulgent towards
me on account of the dryness of my subject, although it speaks most
eloquently for itself.

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul was founded in 1833 by a few
young men from different parts of France attending the School of Law
in Paris. They belonged to a debating society composed of students

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in their attacks on the Church. These Catholic young men used to
answer them with ability and eloquence, and the struggles sustained in
defence of their common faith, rapidly developed intimate friendly re-
lations between these youths who had not previously known each other.
After one of these acrimonious debates, Frederic Ozanam, who is gen-
erally considered the founder of the Society, said to his companions:
“Tow sad it is to see Catholics, to see our Holy Mother, the Church,
thus attacked, ridiculed and calumniated! Let us, of course, remain
in the breach to face the attacks, but do you not feel like me, the desire,
the necessity of having another Society consisting exclusively of Chris-
tian friends and wholly devoted to charity? Does it not seem to be
time to join action to words and to affirm by works the vitality of our
faith?’ And these stirring words, dear friends, were the seed from
which sprang the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a God-inspired Society
among the numerous others that have sprung up on the fertile soil of
Catholic France. The rapid increase in the membership of the Confer-
ence and in the number and extent of its works of mercy soon necessi-
tated the establishment of branches or Conferences in other parts of
Paris. Thence, the Society spread to neighboring cities and districts
and to adjacent countries, and it now has branches all over the world.
It is estimated that the Society is composed of 7,000 Conferences, 120,000
active members, and 100,000 honorary members. The amount of cash
distributed annually among the poor is $2,200,000.00, besides large
amounts of clothing, etc.

How was it introduced in New Orleans? This is a most interesting
question, because our rejoicing to-night is over the planting and growth
of the Society in our beloved city.

As a young man, the late W. B. Lancaster (later a distinguished
lawyer in this city, where he remained many years) spent several years
in Paris, where he joined the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. In the
Spring of 1852, he came to New Orleans, bringing copies of the Manual
and the Rules which he gave to Father Delacroix, then Pastor of St.
Patrick’s Church, who, later in that year, founded St. Patrick’s Confer-
ence, which was the first organized in this city. Four years later, in
1856, the second Conference was established at St. Mary’s (Arch-
bishop’s) Church.

In the winter of 1858-59, the Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the
two Conferences met and organized the Particular Council of New Or-
leans, which was officially recognized and aggregated by the Council
General in Paris in October 1859, which is the event we now celebrate.

It may be of interest to many among you to know the names of the
first Board of the Particular Council fifty years ago. It was consti-
tuted as follows: Spiritual Director, Rev. C. Delacroix: President, Amil-
car Fortier; First Vice-President, James J. Tarleton: Second Vice-Presi-
dent, Victor Sere; Secretary, Alfred Damarin; Treasurer, Henry Archi-
nard.

Our records show that in 1860 the following Conferences were act-

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Yively engaged in the work of our Society in New Orleans: St. Patrick’s,
St. Mary’s, Annunciation’s, St. Joseph’s, St. Ann’s, St. Stephens’. And
here allow me to mention the name of Dr. Emile Doumeing, president
of the Annunciation’s Conference, the third Conference in New Orleans,
who on March 24d, 1862, was selected as president of the Particular Coun-
cil, in which position he served faithfully for nearly thirty-three years,
dying on Jan. 18, 1895, at the age of 60 years and 3 months. The funeral
Services were held in this cathedral and His Grace, the saintly Arch-
bishop Janssens, preached the funeral oration, from a synopsis of which
the following extract is taken: ‘“‘He was the Christian physician in the
highest and best sense of the word, moved for the care of the soul as
well as for the alleviation of bodily ills. Ever patient, ever true, ever
solicitous, he shrank not, when duty required, to remind his patients
that the body is mortal but the soul is immortal.’ Such were the ster-
ling and Christian qualities of this noble gentleman.

But the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, like other worthy undertak-
ings, had to have its own difficulties and trials. At the very outset of
the Civil War, many of the young men belonging to the Conferences
enlisted in the Confederate Army; seven of one Conference alone, going
to the front. As the war continued, others followed rapidly, the deple-
tion in Conferences’ ranks almost causing the suspension of some of
them. As an example of devotedness to this worthy cause, let me re-
call the name of the late Patrick Rowan who, as the single member of
St. Patrick’s Conference, in 1861-62, as regularly as Sunday came, wend-
ed his way from St. Patrick’s Church, where he always attended Mass, to
the Brother’s School on Foucher street, and there alone called the meet-
ing to order, said the usual prayers of the Society, made the usual re-
ports, passed the hat around, made the usual collection and performed
the work of keeping the records while the other members were absent
in the service of their country. Correspondence with the General
Council in Paris was resumed upon the reception of a letter from New
Orleans under date of April 22, 1863. In 1867, there were nine Confer-
ences in New Orleans. To those already mentioned we may add St.
Vincent de Paul’s, St. Peter’s and Paul’s, and St. John the Baptist’s.

The Particular Council is also the medium through which are dis-
tributed special donations, such as the splendid contribution of an
anonymous benefactor who has given a thousand dollars or more, each
winter, for the past eight years, to supply wood and coal to deserving
poor families. Another feature of the Particular Council’s work is the
collation (which is unique to New Orleans) given between the Mass and
the meeting, on the four festivals of the Society. Itisa meeting of old
friends and an hour spent pleasantly and profitably. Finally I should
not pass under silence “St. Anthony’s Bread,” a devotion established in
St. Augustine’s Parish in 1895; a devotion which caused the Spiritual
Director of the Superior Council, Very Rev. Father Nugent, to say on
July 19th, 1896: “When it was first brought to my notice, I had fears
that the other works of the Society might be neglected. Like St. Vin-
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visits to the poor are greatly increased instead of diminishing, I am
convinced, and henceforth I am a strong advocate for spreading that
special work.” And that work has given bread to the poor of this city
to the amount of $164,077.00 since 1895.

Such have been some of the works of the Particular Council of New
Orleans whose Golden Jubilee we celebrate to-day. The good seed has
grown and produced abundant fruits, for to-day nearly every parish
has a Conference, there being twenty-eight Conferences in the city.
That the work of the Society has been done systematically and zealously
is proved by the following statistics for the past ten years, during which
346,221 visits were made to the poor, and a disbursement of $250,635.98
in their behalf. So, the Particular Council of New Orleans may look
back to-day, with a certain sentiment of pride and satisfaction, upon its
fifty years of works of charity and Christianity. Who could count the
number of sufferings relieved, of sorrows soothed, of aching hearts as-
suaged, of souls enlightened, encouraged and brought back to the love
of their God and Savior!

Now, dearly beloved Brethren, with this brief sketch of the origin
of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, of its introduction in New Or-
leans, of its spread in our beloved city, its special works and its strength
at the present time, our hearts should go up to God with sentiments of
gratitude and love! Oh! yes, among the constant, heroic acts of New
Orleans’ Catholic sons, we must surely rank the silent devotedness of
the noble members of St. Vincent de Paul’s Society! It is true that
they seek no public honors, no public notoriety, but are content to give
a part of their lives, day after day, year after year, to the service of the
poor, the sick and the abandoned. They are ever ready to hasten to
the assistance of the weak and helpless; and I must add that in their
crusade against poverty, misery, they make known also the Christian
faith. Yes, dear Vincentians, onward! onward! in your march in be-
half of God’s poor! The music that should cheer you on is the chorus
of gratitude from the poor, the sick, the forsaken, to whom you have
ministered. Your victory, your reward, is the consciousness of God’s
work accomplished with courage and perseverance. Your splendid work
of fifty years shows a magnificent record to be well proud of. And I
feel confident that blessed with the Papal blessing, enlightened and sup-
ported by the beloved and devoted Chief Pastor of this portion of
Christ’s flock, His Grace Archbishop Blenk, and guided and assisted by
your worthy and zealous President; our Society of St. Vincent de Paul is
bound to continue and increase its mission of Charity and Catholicity
among the poor, ad multos annos.Hery Rev. H. U. Nugent's Address

ON THE

Object and Spirit of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Read by Urry Rev. T. J. Weldon, C. A.

You are aware that, like Father Barbier, I am only a substitute,
and yet scarcely so, since I am strengthened by the very words of him
whose absence here to-night is regretted by all. Father Nugent, who
has a warm place in your hearts and in whose heart you also have a
warm place, has forwarded his written words, carefully prepared for
this occasion, and which, after careful reading, I would consider little
short of a crime to do other than to give you word for word what he
had prepared to speak himself here to-night. It is worthy of the occa-
sion, and, I think after you have heard me read his own words you will
say that I am correct in supposing and believing that you would be very
much disappointed in being deprived of what I consider a rich treat.
So I will try and forget myself and let you imagine that you are listen-
ing to Father Nugent.

Father Weldon then read the following address prepared by Father
Nugent:

Father Nugent’s Address

I have been requested to speak at this golden jubilee celebration on
“The Object and Spirit of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.” In ac-
knewledging my appreciation of this honor, bestowed upon me by my
former associate Vincentians in this city, I may truly say that it would
have been easy to find one better fitted for the important task, but not
easy to find anyone who would attempt it with more earnestness and
holy enthusiasm than I. Wretched, indeed, would I be if the day ever
comes when the name of St. Vincent de Paul will not be music to my
ears and inspiration to my heart and mind; and unfortunate must my
memory become when I can cease to admire and love the spirit and
deeds of this noble Society, which I was witness of in the happy four
years, from 1893 to 1897, when I was Pastor of St. Joseph’s Church and
Spiritual Director of the Superior Council of New Orleans. This cele-
bration awakens in me sacred recollections, and though to mingle in it
I have had to travel a thousand miles and overcome many obstacles, yet
much more than this would seem trivial in comparison with the privi-
lege that is mine this evening.

I pray that the Holy Ghost, who called the St. Vincent de Paul So-
ciety into existence and who is its life and its principal director, may
give me words suitable to my subject and to this occasion; and may the
same Holy Spirit give force to my feeble accents, that they may not be
mere sounds, but efficacious help to the spread and the promotion of
this, our greatest Society of Charity.

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It is nearly eighty years since a pure-souled, bright-minded young
Frenchman named Frederic Ozanam came from his native city of
Lyons and matriculated as a student of law in the University of Paris.
This brilliant youth soon became the leader and moving spirit of a gal-
axy of Catholic students in the university. The chief object of their
union was, in the beginning, to defend their religion against the slurs
and calumnies that were frequently poured upon it from free-thinking
professors and scoffing students. They addressed the professors in
writing and met the students in debate, and in both fields their defense

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(Gz principles: First, the primary end or object of the Society is the spirit-
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it visiuine the poor or in any other work of the Society are given gratis.
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"TS years has been the guide to success for this great Society and the
be guardian of its spirit and life.

10It cannot be too clearly understood that the principal end of the
St. Vincent de Paul Society is the sanctification and salvation of its
own members.

The service of the poor is but a means to this end. When a man
becomes a member he should be convinced that the chief beneficiaries
of his services and alms are not the poor, but himself and his own fam-
ily. When St. Vincent de Paul went about among the poor of Paris
300 years ago, when he relieved their necessities and formed those great
armies and institutions of charity that still exist, he did not look on
himself as a benefactor and the poor as beneficiaries. His view was
exactly the reverse of this. In the poor and suffering he saw the af-
flicted members of Jesus Christ, and in being allowed to serve them he
felt himself honored as though he had served the Son of God. St. Vin-
cent felt that he needed the poor more than the poor needed him. He
considered it the privilege of his life to serve the poor, because he kept
in view those precious words of our Savior: “As long as you did it to
the least of these, my brethren, you did it to me.” When he gave bread
to the poor he felt that they honored him in accepting what he offered,
for ‘I was hungry and you gave me to eat.” And in the instruction
and formation of his spiritual children St. Vincent reiterated and in-
sisted that they were the servants of the poor, and that this title was
the highest honor they could ever aspire to. And if the white cornet
of the Sister of Charity is venerated everywhere, by men of all re-
ligions and of no religion as a symbol of practical charity which the
world cannot even copy, it is because the heart beneath it beats in union
with the spirit of St. Vincent and because that consecrated soul is true
to her title, “servant of the poor.”

Let us look at Frederic Ozanam, the founder of your Society, as a
typical Vincentian. He was one of the brightest minds that France
produced during the last century. He was admired and loved by such
men as Ampere, Lamartine and Lacordaire. Ampere said of him that,
if he had devoted himself to science, he would have been one of the
greatest mathematicians of the age. Ozanam was a poor man. He
never possessed riches and did not want to. He never was in want
himself, and he always had something to spare for the poor. His visits
to the homes of the needy were made, as far as possible, as he knew St.
Vincent de Paul would have made them. His manner was kind, affable
and cheerful. He felt a real esteem for the poor, and he showed it in
his behavior toward them. He sat down in the humble abodes and
made himself at home with them. He spoke to them about the differ-
ent members of the family, about their employment, their likes and dis-
likes, their trials and consolations. He studied how to interest the poor
and gain their confidence. The result was that the poor loved him, and
when he had taken his departure from their homes he was pursued by
the prayers and blessings of those into whose lives he had brought so
much sunshine. His visits were welcome, not so much for the material
assistance he brought to the poor, as for the consolations he seemed to
bestow upon every one. He was careful not to offend the sensitive poor,

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and he made them feel that they were doing him a favor, instead of him
doing them one. His suggestions were about improving their condi-
tions, and his showing of ways and means for doing this were, perhaps,
the most valuable features of his visits. He inquired into the spiritual
life of the members of the family, and if any of them had been neglect-
ing the sacraments or mass on Sundays, he secured a change and even
accompanied them himself to the church. Wherever it could be done,
he showed poor people how to become self-supporting, and thus he
raised up many a dependent family to a condition of self-reliance—a
far greater favor than any mere almsgiving could be.

The method of the St. Vincent de Paul Society is the method of
Ozanam animated by the spirit of St. Vincent. There is no other
method or spirit by which it can live and work.

Other organizations may succeed in charitable work by some other
method or spirit; but, gentlemen, your organization cannot. For you
there is only one way to success, and that is the way of St. Vincent, ap-
plied by Ozanam to the Society of which you are members.

And, allow me to repeat it, the first and primary object of your
membership is your own spiritual welfare. You get no return in the
temporal order and you expect none, but you look for and expect a re-
turn in an order infinitely higher than that represented by dollars and
cents. Instead of a temporal reward you may sometimes receive in-
gratitude and abuse in return for your charity, but so much the greater
will your wages be before God if you continue to return good for evil.
Remember also that the visitation and relief of the poor is but a means
to an end. As the attainment of that end is to you of the highest im-
portance, you ought to love the poor very tenderly, if for no other rea-
son, at least for this, they afford you the means to attain this end.

The St. Vincent de Paul Society owing to the condition required for
membership in it, will always be a select body, and its roster can
never be expected to be very large. There are not many, even among
our Catholic men, who want to engage in the self-denying hard work
of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, in which there is no self-seeking, no
advertising and no temporal gain. Most of our Catholic men are too
much taken up with the temporal and the natural to have much time
left for the spiritual and supernatural. They think that if they go to
mass on Sunday, say their night and morning prayers and go to the
Sacraments occasionally they do enough. Drudgery, in visiting the
hovels of the poor, in all kinds of weather, sometimes late at night, and
often without even thanks from those whom they help, is a work of
Supererogation which they do not aspire to. If all Christians reasoned
this way the poor, to whom Jesus Christ gave the greater part of his
attention while on earth, would soon be forgotten.

Another reason why the membership is smaller than it should be is
that the Society is not properly understood. Many, even of the clergy,
fail to grasp the real object of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Surely
there is no society that is calculated to do so much good to our Catholic
men. They meet every week; they contribute what they like and no one

12knows how much or how little they give. Like Ozanam and his com-
panions, they place their faith under the protection of their charity.
They go, two by two, to visit the homes of the poor to relieve their
wants. They go to holy communion in a body four times a year. They
are a power in the hands of the zealous pastor, who will co-operate with
them and use them for promoting the works of religion among the
people of his parish.

There are pastors to whom their Conferences are as their right
hand. The larger the Conference the better it pleases the pastor, be-
cause then more men of his parish are reaping for themselves and their
families the blessing of God always showered upon those who relieve
the deserving poor.

The number of fraudulent beggars who impose on the charitable
priest is greatly diminshed by the prudent visiting and investigation of
the Conference man. In a hundred ways that time does not permit
even the mention of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul is a great in-
strument for good in the hands of a pastor who knows how to direct
and make use of it.

And there is a larger field for the Society than that which they
cover, when they seek out the worthy poor and relieve them. No at-
tentive student of what is called the Social Problem in this country to-
day can fail to be impressed with the growing unrest of the masses of
the people, and the tendency toward change, if not toward revolution.
The long pending strife between labor and capital is apparently not
nearing a settlement. Poverty and suffering, in spite of the general
prosperity of the land, are increasing rather than diminishing. Com-
mercialism and competitive industry tend, more and more, to reduce
all things, even human live and human rights, to a mere material
standard. Industrial progress is forming and increasing vast centers
of population, in which life physical and moral, degenerates and be-
comes a menace to the highest interests of humanity. Laborers are
forced into conditions and surroundings where the home is undermined,
where childhood is dwarfed and perverted and corrupted in mind and
body as well as in conscience. In such kinds of life, to which so large
a percentage of our people are perforce condemned, antisocial moods
and thoughts are inevitable. To the poor laborer it must appear that
the pagan ideal, in which many lived for the few, prevails and grows,
while the Christian conception of the brotherhood of the race and the
right of equal opportunity dwindles daily and disappears.

No wonder socialism is growing among the poorer classes; no won-
der so many are seen marching in procession where the red flag of an-
archy leads the way.

And let us not be so blind as to deny that recruits to the ranks of
socialism and anarchy come largely from men and women who ought
to be Catholics, but who join their fellows in shouting not only “Down
with the State,” but “Down with the Church” as well. Under the spell
of the turbulent orator and the turbulent tract and newspaper, they are
easily made to believe that the Church is in league with the State and

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the money power, in oppressing the poor; and her destruction means a
ereat step onward toward their emancipation. To illustrate, take up
your daily paper, every day for the last week, and read of the meetings
held and protests made in different parts of Europe and this country as
a result of the execution in Spain of a revolutionary leader. Without

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that the loudest protests come from countries that are accounted, and
ought to be, Catholic. From these we hear, in fiercest tones, after
“Down with Alfonso,” they cry, “Down with the Vatican.”

Now, you and I know what these deluded people do not know, but
which we should be anxious to teach them, that the Catholic Church is
to-day, what she has always been, the strongest and most devoted friend
of the poor that the world has ever known. But how bring this truth
home to the toiling masses, and how keep it impressed upon them?
The priest from the altar cannot do it, because even many among the
Catholics do not come to mass, some from lack of faith which in them
was never strong; others for lack of decent clothes, their pride prevent-
ing them from coming out in rags. And in our large city parishes,
where the poor in great numbers are huddled together, no pastor, were
he even a Vincent de Paul, can reach more than a small percentage of
the poor in their homes. And even if he had the time he will meet

many cases where he can do but little good, either because the people’s

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religion has grown cold, or because they suspect that the priest is col-

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The conditions in congested sections of our large cities seem to de-

mand a kind of lay priesthood if we are to keep the Church in touch
with the poor.

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Christ, and the application of these principles to social life forms the
only adequate solution of the vexed and difficult social problem. The
members go about like our Savior himself, doing good among the poor,
regardless of race or creed or color. Their chief aim is not the giving
of material alms, but the cheering up and encouragement of the poor,
by sympathetic kindness, by distributing good literature and by the
alms of good advice.”

It is to be regretted that this army of willing workers in the
Church, this strong auxiliary to the hierarchy and clergy, is not being
utilized to near the extent it might be in the cause of charity and re-
ligion. It appears to be just the force that is needed, in our present
conditions, to bring the influence of the true faith down to masses of
the poor, who else will never feel it. For just as the multitudes in
Catholic countries of Europe are to-day being marshaled against the
Church by irreligious leaders, so may it be in our own country at no
distant period of time. It seems that such a calamity could be averted
if the Society of St. Vincent de Paul were encouraged as it should be
and utilized as it might be.ADDRESS OF
Right Rev. Thenphile Moersrhaert, B. B,
Bishop of Oklahoma

AND LETTERS FROM

Bis Eminence Cardinal Gibhons, Archbishop of Baltimore
and Monsieur Paul Calon, President-General of the Society

I have been requested not to preach a sermon but simply to read to
you two letters, one from the President-General of the Society of St.
Vincent de Paul in Paris, the successor of Frederick Ozanam, and the
other a letter from His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, so well known and
beloved in this city of New Orleans. The letter of the President Gen-
eral is as follows:

Paris, July 26, 1909.
To the President of the Particular Council of New Orleans, Society St.
Vincent de Paul, New Orleans:

Sir and Dear Brother—Just now, when the Particular Council of
New Orleans is preparing to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its es-
tablishment, the General Council, rejoicing with you in this auspicious
hour, begs to extend to you and also to your confreres, its most loving
greetings and hearty congratulations.

In your city, where the Catholic faith is so profound, where high
and generous resolves always find favorable soil for manifestation, our
Society has not ceased to develop itself and its works have grown as
the material, moral and religious needs of the working people have ex-
tended and multiplied.

We know how much we are indebted for these splendid results to
the wise and prudent principles which were engrafted upon the Society
by the Council of New Orleans. We also know what powerful protec-
tion our Conferences have always found in the prelates who have suc-
cessively filled the Archepiscopal See of New Orleans, and what kindly
support they have received in the various parishes. The General Coun-
cil is one with you, in sentiments of reverential gratitude to His Grace,
Monseigneur Blenk, and the members of the diocesan clergy and re-
ligious congregations, for the interest which they have deigned to take
in the progress and development of our works.

We likewise desire to express our grateful acknowledgments to the
benefactors whose kind co-operation has never been wanting in your
charitable undertakings; to the one who, for eight years, has generously
furnished each of your poor families with fuel for the winter; and to
those whose faithful and earnest assistance enabled you to establish
upon such a secure basis your great and beautiful work of the Sea-
men’s Haven.

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Our confreres in New Orleans have always shown themselves deeply
imbued with the spirit of our Society and attached to its rules and tra-
ditions. The constant increase in the numbers of those present at the
Quarterly General Communions and meetings, of those making visita-
tions among the poor families, as well as in the results of collections
at the weekly meetings, are most consoling proofs of the eagerness
with which all seek to discharge faithfully and promptly all their du-
ties toward the poor and their other obligations as Vincentians. This
zeal has borne precious fruit, and it is only necessary to refer to the
table of comparative statistics of these latter years to form an idea of
the importance of the work which has been accomplished by our So-
ciety in New Orleans, and the enthusiasm, generosity and charity of
which it has been the occasion among the Catholic population. This
strong and prosperous condition of our Society, so grateful to our
hearts, is due, in a large measure, to the zeal and charity of those con-
freres who long ago labored with such assiduity and devotion to estab-
lish the work of St. Vincent de Paul in New Orleans, and is also a pledge
of the results which it will be possible for you to reach in the future.

The members of the Conferences will find in the memorable feast
which you are celebrating a powerful inspiration to future effort, and
their hearts will be lifted in gratitude to that Divine Providence which
has never ceased to protect our Society; we have cause for rejoicing,
that despite the many difficulties and trials which it met with in the
first years of its foundation in your city, it has attained there the mag-
nificent growth and development which command to-day our attention
and admiration and are a source of edification and inspiration to all.

Again extending to you and all our dear confreres the most affec-
tionate greetings of the Council General, I remain, sir and dear brother,
with sentiments of the highest esteem,

Devotedly yours, P. CALON,
President-General.

And this is the letter of Cardinal Gibbons:

Cardinal’s Residence, Baltimore, Md.
Oct. 19, 1909.
President Particular Council of St. Vincent de Paul’s Society of New
Orleans, La.:

My Dear Sir—I beg to offer to all the members of the St. Vincent
de Paul Society in New Orleans my sincerest congratulations for the
golden jubilee of your Particular Council, which will be celebrated on
Sunday, the 24th of this month. The great and good work done by the
Society of St. Vincent de Paul throughout the entire world for the alle-
viation of suffering humanity is such as to elicit the praise and com-
mendation of all, and this applies especially to the Particular Council
of New Orleans, which, during its fifty years of existence, has done so
much in promoting the spiritual and material welfare of those who are
not blessed with an abundance of this world’s goods.

May God continue to bless your good and noble work, and may the

16faithful, by their generous contributions, assist you in the accomplish-
ment of your mission. Most faithfully yours in Xts.,

J. CARD. GIBBONS,
Archbishop of Baltimore.

Dear Brothers of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul: You have re-
ceived the congratulations and best wishes from one across the waters,
the successor of Frederic Ozanam, where the spirit has continued to
exist and where there is so much need of that charity. You have also
received congratulations and best wishes from the highest prelate here
in America, our beloved Cardinal; and to these congratulations and
felicitations and those which will be expressed to you in a few moments
by our beloved Archbishop, I add my own congratulations and felicita-
tions. This grand assemblage reminds me of the assemblage of forty
and more years ago when we used to assemble all the councils of the
Province of little Belgium, where the Conference of our college was
in the first rank. It reminds me of those beautiful days, and of those
who formed the Conferences, those fellow students, capable of taking
the greatest place in the Church or the country, faithful indeed to those
lessons of charity, because they had been put in practice every week
when they went around to visit the sick. It was not simply material
assistance, it was the word of compassion, the word of sympathy, the
word of encouragement which went out to the poor, and which they
appreciate far more than the material help extended to them, for possi-
bly the material help would bring humiliation; but the word of charity,
the word of consolation, the word of Christian friendship, lifted them
up and made them thank God for such friends. Therefore I congratu-
late you; and, as you have heard from the paper just read you are to be
congratulated, for it is said that the poor are friends of Christ, and the
friends of the poor are the friends of Christ, and those who do good to
the poor do it to Christ Himself. This is so true that we will be judged
according to our works of mercy, spiritual and corporal, and it is also
true that what we do for the least of these suffering creatures we do
for Christ Himself. Therefore I say again, you are to be congratulated
for the noble work you have done, work done with a true and large
heart. You have been congratulated by your President-General for two
things, the work you have done for the seamen and your quarterly com-
munions; but, my dear friends, if he could only have seen the view, the
stirring example you gave this morning when nearly a thousand strong
vou received Holy Communion at the hands of your noble Archbishop
ad the two Bishops invited by him to help him, his congratulations
would have been much greater. Yes, beloved Christians, the Church is
strong inthelifeof those men, and it will grow stronger, because they
know the right way of uniting both spiritual and corporal works. It wasa
consolation to us to see those advanced in years, those bowed down with
years of faithful work done from the beginning for God’s aes It was
inspiring to see men in the strength of their TAuHOOd coming — to
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not carried away by the indifference of the religion of our day, but
entering that true path of Christian charity, and aspiring to do that
good work, the work of God, the work of His Church, thereby uplifting
themselves and others. Therefore, my friends, I say with all my heart,
I congratulate you, and you have my best wishes for the future. Goon
in that noble spirit; go on with that noble charity, remembering that
what you do for the poor you do for the Blessed Saviour Himself; for
bear in mind, it is not the poor but yourselves who receive the greatest
reward. Go on therefore, my friends, with your noble mission, as by
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It is no less than a striking coincidence that every one of us who
entered this pulpit to-night delivered the message of another. You
have so far been privileged, indeed, but I think the highest privilege is
yet to come. However great and good Father Massardier was, and
however much his heart burned with charity in unison with the Chris-
tian hearts of his brother Vincentians, however vigorous and penetrat-
ing may have been to-night the words of that worthy son of St. Vincent,
our friend of long ago, Father Nugent, and however cheering and
comforting the warm praises of our brother, the Bishop of Oklahoma,
I know and feel that your hearts are ready to be thrilled by the mes-
sage I bring to you from him who is the good, the great, the loving
Father of us all: it is Pius X, now gloriously reigning and governing
the Church of God, who shall speak to you as he spoke to me on the
memorable occasion when, with all the enthusiasm of my heart and
all the affection that I bear my sons, the Vincentians, I laid before him
the noble, splendid work they are doing in this city, in this diocese,
nay, throughout this great Province of New Orleans. Oh, how re
joiced he was in his heart! ‘“That,”’ said he, “is the method of mani-
festing the spirit of St. Vincent de Paul and of the great founder,
Ozanam; that is the direct way of reaching down into the hearts of
God’s people and, with irresistible force, drawing them to the altar of
God to receive the blessings of the Divine Redeemer. Oh, how delight-
ed I am that in your great country, in that land where the Church is so
blessed and so free to carry on the divine mission entrusted to her by
Him who is ‘The one Healer of the Nations,’ how delighted I am that
your spiritual sons have taken up and are carrying on, in the spirit of
Christ and of His Church, the divine work of attending to the wants of
God’s lowly poor.” I went on to explain and told him that I had been
asked, and that I wished also in my own name, to put the request, that
he include in his intentions the prayer to Heaven that the Conferences
of St. Vincent de Paul might be extended more and more throughout
the world. He said: “That has always been my prayer; you need not
ask this of me, as there is nothing that I desire more ardently and
fervently; there is nothing that I pray for more constantly, than the
spread of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, carrying to ihe end of the
world the spirit of Ozanam and of the great apostle of charity, St. Vin-
cent de Paul which, in turn, is the salf-same spirit of our Divine Sa-
viour.” Then bidding me wait a moment, he rose from the table at
which he was sitting, approached a desk resting against the wall near-
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may be that what you have just said to me is embodied here—it is the
address I made to the members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul on
the occasion of my jubilee—take it with you.” I said, “I shall, and be-
cause it was given into my hands by your sacred hands, it will become
one of the treasures of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.” ‘‘And then,”
he went on, “you will give my apostolic blessing to all, and to those
that will have gone to confession, a plenary indulgence. Tell them
that I love them. Tell them that the blessing is for them, for their
poor and for their families, and that the desire of my heart in their
regard is that they remain faithful, that they grow strong and give
glory evermore to the great Lord of Heaven.”

It seems to me, then, that it must be for you a special delight to
listen to the words of our great Pontiff. You will see how they reach
down to the depths and soar to the heights and take in the length and
the breadth of the work of St. Vincent de Paul.

His Grace then read the Holy Father’s address as follows:

If one may say of all the Saints who have finished their
mortal course that they still live in the memory of men by
the brilliant example of their virtues and by the works
which they have founded, we may justly and solemnly
claim this honor for Saint Vincent de Paul. For he lives
in the Society of the Priests of the Mission, who are
modelled in his school, in the incomparable Daughters of
Charity, whom he founded, not to mention so many other
institutions of charity which owe their origin to him.
Finally, he lives again in the wonderful Society which a
century and a half after his death was placed under his
patronage, which has adopted his name, which is inspired
by his faith, his charity, and his apostolic spirit:—a new
generation, a posterity unhoped for, but numerous as the
sands of the sea, which everywhere brings forth the
choicest fruits of benediction.

We greet you, well beloved sons of the Conferences of
Saint Vincent de Paul. We give you thanks for the joy
you afford Our heart, not only on account of the good wish-
es which you offer on this occasion of Our sacredotal
jubilee, but also on account of the conquests of your zeal
and of the abundant harvest of the works of your charity.
The grain of mustard seed, sown in 1833 by Frederic Oza-
nam, has grown to a gigantic tree, which spreads its
branches over the whole world, and, after seventy-six
years, the Conferences of Saint Vincent de Paul now flour-
ish in France, in Italy, in Belgium, in Holland, in Switzer-
land, in Great Britain and Ireland, in both North and South
America, in Canada and in Australia; it penetrates even
into Russian Poland and Belgian Congo; it has become the

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We rejoice with you, well beloved sons, over this mar-
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We exhort you to be above all, men of that charity which
is exercised through faith. In your good works always
seek your inspiration at the foot of the altar. If each day
you raise your hands to God in the homage of prayer be-
fore you lower them to solace human misery, they will be
strong to bring to God the souls which have lost all mem-
ory of heaven. Your beneficence ought not to be merely
human, but Christian, which sees in the poor something
sacred, not only the image, but the very person of our
Lord Jesus Christ. He tells us this Himself, by reminding
us in the Holy Gospel that He will thus address those on
His right hand:

“Come ye blessed of my Father, possess the kingdom
prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For
I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and
you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me
in; naked and you clothed me; sick and you visited me; I
was in prison and you came to me.” Then shall the just
answer him: “Lord, when did we see thee a stranger,
and took thee in, or naked and clothed thee? Or when did
we see thee sick or in prison and come to thee?’ And Jesus
will answer them: “Amen, I say to you, as long as you did
it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.”

Therefore, it is our Saviour Jesus Christ whom you
visit and help in the poor. True, you will sometimes find
in your charitable visits all physical and moral sufferings
combined; you will meet unfortunate creatures, a prey to
the still worse suggestions of irreligion, unhappy slaves of
sin, buried in corruption and vice, who are wilfully ex-
communicated, for whom there is no faith, no church, no
sacraments. But do not fear, the holy angels will accom-
pany you in your visits to these haunts of misery, and
among these poor creatures, deep though their degrada-
tion be, you will have the joy to find in some of them hid-
den treasures, precious remnants of a good, natural dispo-
sition, happy tendencies towards virtue, the living impres-
sion of the character received in holy baptism, traces of
religion and faith, which, thanks to your patient charity,
will be to you more than the hope, the certainty of their
salvation.

When our Lord Jesus Christ sent His apostles to
preach the Gospel, He at the same time entrusted to the
seventy-two disciples the care of the sick and the duty of
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The Society of St. Vincent de Paul responds admirably to
this design of our divine Saviour for the conversion of the
world. If the apostle, invested with the priestly character,
has the duty of teaching the doctrines of the faith and of
confirming them by the exercise of a marvellous charity,
he finds in the lay apostle of the simple faithful, a powerful
aid which prepares his way, and, by the alleviation of the
corporal miseries of the afflicted opens their souls to the
evangelical truths.

Indeed, while the evil spirit inspires so many unhappy
sinners not only with distrust, but hatred of the priest, and,
by wiles worthy of Satan, prevents them from meeting this
messenger of God, thus closing to the priest all access to
their souls, nevertheless the sons of St. Vincent de Paul,
without the dress, but clothed with the spirit of the apostle,
are willingly received by such people, and, after the way
has been prepared by such admirable precursors, the
priest enters without obstacle. Thus in a short time the
sons of St. Vincent de Paul, by their visits to the homes
of the poor, produce in a parish fruits which could be
obtainable only after long years by the untiring zeal of
the pastor. The baptism and confirmation of children and
adults, the legitimation of scandalous unions by holy mar-
riage, the abjuration of heretics, the conversion of sinners,
the frequent use of the Sacraments of Penance and Holy
Eucharist, the building of churches, the founding of Chris-
tian schools—all these, well beloved sons, are the fruits
which, through the grace of God, are produced by your
labors.

Indeed, the benediction which the august Pontiff Pius
IX, of holy memory, on the 5th of January, 1855, bestowed
on your first General Assembly, over which He presided
and in which your pious and pacific militia received an
authorized mission, a solemn sanction, an authentic conse-
cration, has brought forth wonders, the history of which is
written with golden letters in the records of the Christian
apostleship. May the Lord, through Our blessing fortified
by His, graciously perpetuate these marvels, and may He
in view of such an abundant harvest, thanks to your zeal,
deign to multiply the number of laborers in the mystic field
of the Church. May you, joyfully returning at the end of
your labors, and, repeating with the seventy-two disciples:
“Lord behold, the devils also are subject to us;” hear the
word of our divine Master: “Rejoice not in this that the
evil spirits are subject unto you, but rejoice in this that
your names are written in heaven. Gaudete quod nomina
vestra scripta sunt in coelis.”

In addressing these wishes to your Cardinal Protector

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het handto your President-General, to all here present, to your
brethren over the whole world, to your families and theirs,
to your poor, and to all your charitable works, We accord
you, from the fulness of Our heart, the Apostolic Bene-
diction.

I have one word more to add, and it is that in this Archdiocese
and in this Province, you may continue your magnificent work
—that you may continue to wipe away the tears from the
weeping eyes of Jesus Christ—that you may continue to satisfy the
hunger of His Divine Heart for the souls which He redeemed with His
Precious Blood. After what I have read to you, I need not thank you
—earthly thanks are indeed idle when there is question of divinely
beautiful works. Look to God for your thanks. Yet, in the name of
those hundreds, and thousands and millions who, during the last fifty
years, have been brought near to God and have found solace in all that
misery and want inflicted on them, I thank you.

One word of encouragement: remember that your work is done and
must be done in such a way that its influence may go out unto all, that
its worth may reach up to the throne of God and draw upon earth into
the hearts of men the fire of divine love and the brightness of divine
truth into their minds, so that God’s eternal laws of justice and of
charity, known and revered, may reign in the world and banish there-
from all the evils of spiritual rebellion and corruption that threaten toa
engulf it. There is a mighty struggle going on to-day in our country.
Treason stalks boldly in the land. Men’s minds and men’s hearts are
turned away from their high destiny and would be distorted by the
hell-born malice of men who have prostituted to this one purpose the
blessed gift of their superior intelligence. Our country must be saved
from that act of treason against God by which the heart, instead of
loving God, hates Him, and the mind, instead of admiring the goodness
and bountifulness of the Creator, would do all in its power to wipe out
all knowledge of Him in the universe and deny His very existence.

Great, then, is your work, and greatly and urgently is it needed in
this city and in this Province. Let then your hearts beat in unison
with the heart of God. Let your minds illumine other minds. Let
your wills, nourished and strengthened with the Bread of the strong,
be omnipotent with the will of Jesus Christ for the extension of the
Kingdom of God, and the destruction of those influences that would
make our life a living hell, a universal revolt against Almighty God.
Great, then, is your mission, and I thank God that I have such noble
and true sons of Holy Mother Church to work with me and my clergy.
I thank God that amidst the trials that are mine, amidst the awful
burning coals that are thrown upon my heart, I can think with com-
fort and with gratitude to heaven of my sons who are true, in whose
hearts the love of God and that of their fellow-beings is one steady
glow, the one constant power making them more and more like unto
their brother, Jesus Christ. Go on, then; let the past fifty years of
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multiplied; make our young people learn from you the greatest among
the great lessons of earth, that “to serve God is to reign. To do the
will of God and to befriend His poor, is to be great with the greatness
of God, is to be good with the goodness of the blood of Jesus Christ, is
to bear the consecration of true apostles of charity.

Right Reverend Brothers in the Hierarchy: You have been for
many years the friends of the Conferences of St. Vincent de Paul. I
know that it was not easy for you to remain away from your pressing
duties at home: yet, when I asked you to remain, you graciously con-
sented to do so, and in the name of my dear Vincentians, I thank you.
May God make good to you the splendor and magnificence your pres-
ence has conferred upon our ceremonies to-day.

I wish that all my sons in the clergy were here. I tell this to you
that are here, and I hope it may go out to all, that it is my desire, it is
my prayer that the Conferences of St. Vincent de Paul receive every
kindly encouragement, every sympathetic support, every word that you
can say in their behalf so that they may go on with their work, and, as
they spread in the last fifty years, they may spread a hundredfold in
the next fifty years; and when, at the end of that time, the Church, as
indestructible and conquering as in the past, shall have borne down
and overridden the present destructive influences of evil, the world
may recognize that amongst her bravest, noblest and most devoted de-
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Golden Jubilee Celebration

Adopted by the Council at its November Meeting

The Particular Council of New Orleans, Society of St. Vincent de
Paul, fully realizing the splendid success of its Golden Jubilee celebra-
tion at the Cathedral, Sunday, October 24th, 1909, and desiring to place
formally on record its high appreciation of the influences which most
contributed to that success, hereby tenders its sincere thanks

TO His Grace, Most Revd. J. H. Blenk, S. M., D. D., Archbishop of
New Orleans, who, from the inception of our preparations assisted us in
exciting the enthusiasm of our members and friends by promising to
make the event one of great ecclesiastical splendor, and who fulfilled
that promise by ensuring the attendance of a number of his Suffragan
Bishops at the ceremonies. Never before, in this city, did an Arch-
bishop and two Bishops administer the Sacrament of Holy Hucharist at
the same Mass, and never was presented the solemn spectacle of an
Archbishop and four Bishops, all standing at the high altar, simultan-
eously, as with one movement and one voice, giving their blessing to
a devoutly kneeling multitude of earnest Catholics:

TO Right Reverend Theophile Meerschaert, D. D., Bishop of Okla-
homa, and Right Reverend Edward P. Allen, D. D., Bishop of Mobile,
for assisting Archbishop Blenk in administering Holy Communion in
the morning and for attending the evening services, and to Right Rev-
erend Thomas Heslin, Bishop of Natchez and Right Reverend Cornelius
Van de Ven, Bishop of Natchitoches, who also took part in the evening
celebration:

TO Right Reverend J. M. Laval, for the cordial manner in which he
placed the Cathedral at our disposal, for his earnest co-operation
throughout, and for his generosity in donating the collection of the
evening:

TO the Jesuit Fathers of the Church of the Immaculate Concep-
tion for their long continued kindness in giving their services and the
use of their beautiful church for our Annual Retreats; particularly for
the one just closed which constituted the most important preliminary
and preparatory part of our Jubilee celebration; especially to Very Rev-
erend Emile Mattern, S. J., Spiritual Director of the Council, for the
deep interest he has always displayed in its welfare and for his eloquent
and practical sermons during the Retreat:

TO the Reverend Clergy generally who, by their presence in such
large numbers, proved their interest in our works and added greatly to
the solemnity and splendor of the occasion:

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of the Vincentian Brotherhood, who prepared the most admirable Ad-
dress on the “Object and Spirit of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.”
and, though seriously ill, traveled a thousand miles South from St.
Louis in the vain hope that in our milder climate he would recover suf-
ficiently to speak:

TO Very Reverend T. J. Weldon, C. M., Spiritual Director of the
Superior Council, for his regular attendance and excellent discourses at
our General Meetings during the past eight years, and for his eloquent
reading of Father Nugent’s Address at the celebration in the Cathedral:

TO Reverend A. M. Barbier, Rector of St. Vincent de Paul’s Church,
who, with self-sacrificing zeal, having only a few days for the study of
his subject, accepted our invitation to assume the task assigned to our
lamented friend, Very Rev. P. M. L. Massardier, and delivered a most
eloquent address, giving a complete and accurate “History of the So-
ciety”:

TO Mrs. Theresa Cannon Buckley and her choir for the impressive
and beautiful music rendered both morning and evening:

TO the generous friends of the Society who contributed over $3,000
to our Treasury as a Golden Jubilee souvenir. Their liberality enables
us to liquidate all our floating debt and provide an adequate supply of
books, literature of the Brotherhood and other material things long
needed and very necessary to a proper development of the Society and
its works:

TO the Press for kindly notices and reports, especially to the Morn-
ing Star for its splendid Golden Jubilee Edition which gave a most com-
plete report of the celebration, illustrated with excellent photographs of
the illustrious prelates who took part and of some of the members who
established the Society in New Orleans and guided it in its early days,
and who have all long since gone to their heavenly homes:

We also wish to assure His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, personally
known by most of us and admired and loved by all, that his kind letter
of congratulation will always be cherished as one of the richest me-
mentoes of this memorable event.

In conclusion, with hearts overflowing with sentiments of filial love
too profound for words to express, and oppressed by the weight of the
great honor conferred, we ask on bended knees that our Holy Father,
Pope Piux X, accept our sincere homage and most fervent thanks for

he affectionate greetings sent to us by our dear Archbishop together
with His Apostolic Benediction on the occasion of our Golden Jubilee.

In the midst of our preparations for the Jubilee our hearts were
Saddened by the almost sudden death of the Very Reverend P. M. L.
Massardier, Canon of the Cathedral and Rector of St. Theresa’s Church.
Revered and admired throughout the Archdiocese for his piety, learning
and eloquence, he was loved as a father and friend by the people of St.
Theresa’s Parish whom he had served with self-sacrificing zeal for over

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28a generation. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul ever found in him a
powerful advocate who preached by example even more forcefully than
through the eloquent words which fell from his lips, for he regularly
visited the poor in their own homes, he attended all the weekly meetings
of his Conference and, as often as his priestly duties permitted, he was
present at the General Quarterly meetings of the Society. As a touch-
ing and final evidence of his deep interest we here record the fact that
Father Massardier was overcome by his last illness while engaged in
the preparation of an address on the History of the Society of St. Vin-
cent de Paul which he was to deliver at our Golden Jubilee celebration.
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Special Works of the Particular Council

| St. Vincent Home for Destitute Boys

The first special work of the Particular Council of New Orleans
was the “St. Vincent Home for Destitute Boys,” organized in 1866 and
carried on for fourteen years, during which time over 800 boys were
cared for, educated, taught trades, and thoroughly instructed in re-
ligion. This work was discontinued because the necessity of providing
for its maintenance created too large a tax upon the resources of the
Council, whose income fluctuated with the ebb and flow of prosperity in
the city; the demands of the institution being largest when distress was
who were relieved by the Conferences that
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greatest among the poor
had to furnish the Council with its revenue.
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fatigably for its welfare during its continuance,
edifying Vincentian devotedness to the work.

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Christian morality, and instructing them in Catholic doctrine.
of the first band of teachers have passed to their eternal reward, but
the few who are left to celebrate this grand day can give an interesting
account of how they took charge of classes of ten or twelve boys and
by patience and perseverance taught them everything from how to
make the Sign of the Cross to the last preparation for Holy Commun-
ion. The boys that showed good dispositions were encouraged, and as
soon as possible were taken out and put to work, and many of them

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opportunity for such efficient work as was done between 1871 and 1880
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ided a Chaplain for this work, and for many
years the visiting Vincentians have been ably assisted in the work of
teaching Catechism by the Sisters of Mercy.

The work of the prisons was gradually enlarged to include the
visiting of the Parish Prison and the Police Jail, in both of which the
Society has furnished a chapel where Mass is offered on Sunday by a
Lazarist Father, and the inmates are visited and looked after by volun-
teers from the Conferences of the Immaculate Conception, St. Theresa,
St. Stephen, St. Augustine, and Holy Name, ably assisted by the Sisters
of Mercy.

The records of the Society, published yearly, contain frequent ac-
counts of hardened criminals in these prisons yielding to the kind in-
fluence of the visitors, and approaching the Sacraments at Christmas
and Haster; and on those rare and tragic occasions when some poor
wretch looks his last on the world with the hangman’s noose around
his neck, it invariably happens that the victim of the law’s vengeance
has knelt at the feet of a Catholic priest before paying his awful pen-
alty, brought there by the grace of Almighty God, sent him through
the Vincentians who carry on this noble work.

Patronage of Newsboys

In the year 1879 the Particular Council established a work called
the “Patronage of the Newsboys,” for the education and religious train-
ing of the lads who run the streets selling the daily papers. The in-
ception of this work was made possible by the co-operation of the
Jesuit Fathers, and the name of Father McHlligott, S. J., who has gone
to his eternal reward, will long be cherished and venerated by the com-
mittee charged with the inauguration of the work and their associates
in the Society. It was to his zeal and untiring efforts as its first Chap-
lain the Patronage was indebted for the vigorous start the Society was
able to give it, the energy of which grew and increased during the
years that followed.

The Council continued the Patronage for fifteen years, and then
surrendered it to the Sisters of Mercy, who, under the direction and
with the active co-operation of their noble-hearted Superior, the la-
mented Mother Mary Austin Carroll, had labored most assidu-
ously with the members of the Society in the class room and the chapel.
Before retiring from the management of the work the Society had the
great satisfaction of locating it in its own home, a very valuable pro-
perty in Baronne street, where the Sisters established a community for
the care and development of the work.

During the fifteen years the Society had charge of the Patronage,
its night classes were attended by as many as one hundred and fifty
boys each year. Mass was said for them every Sunday and Holy Day
of Obligation in the chapel, and the records show over 5,000 Confes-
sions heard, more than 2,000 Communions received, and about 250 first
Communions and the same number of Confirmations.

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Chinchuba Deaf-Mute Institute

In our annual report for 1902 to the Council General was chron-
icled the inauguration of the Special Work of “Chinchuba Deaf-Mute

Institute” in the following words:

“Your attention is especially directed to the report of a Committee
appointed to assist the Asylum for deaf-mute children at Chinchuba.
This institution, established a few years ago under control of School
Sisters of Notre Dame, had derived its principal support through the
charity and zeal of the late Father Mignot, Rector of the Cathedral in
his city. Failing health necessitated an absolute abandonment of all
earthly matters some months before his most edifying death, and for a
time there was great danger that the Asylum, deprived of its best
friend, would have to be closed and about forty poor little deaf-mutes
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collecting the funds

most zealous members undertook the task of
necessary to provide food for all the inmates for a year, and asked that
his work be placed under the patronage of the Society and that other
members be associated with him in attending to the welfare of the
institution. We are most happy to feel justified in saying that not only
has the promised work of rescue been promptly and fully executed,
thus guaranteeing the continuance of this noble institution for at least
another year, but we have every reason to believe that the same charity
and zeal which saved it once will gradually but surely find the ways
and means to ensure its life through this generation at least.”

The work has been faithfully carried on by the devoted Sisters of
Notre Dame under the spiritual direction of Rev. Bede Maler, O. S. B.,
Chaplain.

The institute at the close of 1908 contained thirty deaf-mutes,
twelve boys and eighteen girls, whose material wants have been pro-
vided for by the Committee in charge of the work. The reports for
the time it has been in charge of the Society show an outlay of $5,000
for provisions alone, but the list of donations in kind and benefactions
of money for the development and.’wmprovement of the estate, which
resulted from the untiring energy of the many friends that have been
won for it by its Vincentian patrons, would fill many pages.

To give an idea of what the charity of educating this afflicted por-
tion of humanity means, to stimulate the zeal of all who are co-operat-
ing in the blessed work and to enlist the sympathy of new friends we
here append the following remarks from the official report of the Insti-
tute, published recently:

“There is scarcely a class of human society whose mental condition
is so peculiar, so disadvantageous and so pitiful, as that of the deaf-
mute. Blindness is indeed a great affliction, but the condition of the
blind man is not one of isolation as that of the deaf-mute. By the
gifts of speech and hearing the former is brought into direct contact
with the surrounding world; conversation, literary and musical pleas-
ures, intellectual research, political and social excitement—all these

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32things lie within his reach. The deaf mute is a stranger to them all.
While the blind gropes in physical night, the deaf-mute sits in intel-
lectual darkness, whereby his affliction becomes one of the most ap-
palling in the catalogue of human woes. The calamity does not consist
merely in the exclusion of sound, but rather in the complete exclusion
of all information, instruction and ideas which are conveyed to the
mind by means of sound. Whilst we can acquire and advance in
knowledge by speech, hearing and reading, the deaf-mute is deprived
of all knowledge, and is of himself unable to better his condition. He
can not inform himself, as he has no language; conversation tells him
nothing, because he does not hear; books teach him nothing; he can
not read, so that his position in society must forever remain a very in-
ferior one, being that of one who can neither read, nor write, nor hear,
nor speak, who can not ask you for information when he wants it, and
could not understand you if you wished to give it to him.”

St. Vincent’s Seamen’s Haven

The last special work undertaken by the Particular Council was
founded in October 1903, under the above title, for the purpose of pro-
viding a place where all seafaring men coming to this port could find
relaxation and recreation surrounded by influences conducive to their
moral and intellectual improvement. Prior to the inception of this
work by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Rev. John J. Matthews, C.
SS. R., during his many years of active work in St. Alphonsus Parish,
where he earned a high reputation for energy and zeal, had devoted
much time and attention to the spiritual welfare of sailors, visiting
them on board ship and leading many to their religious duties. In
course of time, Father Matthews’ name and influence came to be known
and respected all along our great river front, and when the Haven
Committee found that the most suitable site obtainable for the pro-
posed work was located in the Redemptorists’ Parish, they found the
Rector, Very Rev. A. Guendling, C. SS. R., very much in sympathy with
the undertaking and with his approval Very Rev. Daniel Mullane, C.
SS. R., Provincial of the Order, who was in the city at the time, ap-
pointed Father Matthews Chaplain of the work. When the Haven
was ready to open its doors, Very Rev. Ferreol Girardey, C. SS.
R., had assumed the Rectorship of the Redemptorist Congregations,
and true to his former record of long years of devoted interest in Vin-
centian work as Spiritual Director of St. Alphonsus Conference, he im-
mediately attached himself to the new undertaking and honored the
Committee in charge by attending its monthly meetings and assisting
the members in every possible way during the term of his incumbency.

The site selected for the Haven consisted of a single brick build-
ing, three stories high, fronting on the river and known as No. 2057
©choupitoulas Street, which was leased for one year. The work he-
came at once exceedingly popular among those for whose benefit it was
undertaken, and also among the numerous friends that watched its
development. Within a few months the need for more room and better

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ors that came to the Haven spurred the Society on to the acquisition of
another building, and at the same time a generous friend proposed the
purchase of a suitable location, offering to lend the necessary amount
of money without interest. The Society was fortunately favored at
this juncture by an offer from the owner of the house we occupied to
sell it and its counterpart immediately adjoining, for three thousand
dollars, which was at once accepted.

Thus it happened that within a year of its inauguration the Haven
was permanently located in its own home in the spot selected at the
start and proven by experience as the most suitable site for this par-
ticular kind of work. The newly acquired buildings were at once re-
modeled to suit the purposes of the Haven, the ground floors were con-
verted into billiard, game and reading rooms; the second floors were
made into one large hall capable of accommodating 500 persons, with a
stage for performances, and the third floor provided comfortable ac-
commodation for the janitor.

The third and final chapter of the evolution of the Haven records
the rounding out and full development of the work by the purchase of
the property at the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Josephine Streets for
$3,400. The building on this property being of the same dimensions
as those on our first purchase, gave us a uniform front and provided
space for a Chapel and accommodations for a Chaplain’s residence.
All necessary alterations and improvements were accomplished during
the early part of 1909, and thus our Jubilee event found the Haven
property consisting of three three-story brick buildings forming the
lower corner of Tchoupitoulas and Josephine Streets, with a front on
Tchoupitoulas Street of 70 feet and a depth of 92 feet. The location is
admirable for the work, being on the immediate Mississippi River
front, in a neighborhood where many of the large vessels are moored,
and having excellent street car facilities in the Jackson Avenue and
Tchoupitoulas Street lines.

The total cost of the three buildings was $6,400.00 and the amount
expended in alterations and improvements was $3,000.00, making a
total investment of $9,400.00. Of this amount the Council received
$3,000.00 from Mr. John T. Gibbons, who has been an active Vincentian
for over fifty years.

Mr. Gibbons loaned the Society $3,000.00 without interest to enable
it to make the first purchase, and when it was found that the Haven
was to become a permanent institution he converted his generous loan
into a munificent donation. Another large contribution to the purchase
price of the Haven came in the shape of a legacy from Captain Michael
J. Griffin, who died June 4, 1905, and left the Society a piece of pro-
perty, No. 2400 Dryades Street, which was sold for $2,750.00, and the
proceeds invested in the Haven property, as it was learned from friends
of the testator that he had manifested great interest in the work.

The St. Vincent’s Seamen’s Haven, as completed, consists of a very
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devoted; commodious and comfortable club quarters, consisting of read-
ing and recreation rooms, occupying the whole ground floor space of the
other buildings, furnished with tables, chairs, billiard table and an
organ, and an assembly hall, over the club, with the same floor space,
containing a stage for performances and furnishing seating capacity
for five hundred guests.

The upper floors of the corner building are fitted up as a home for
the Seamen’s Chaplain, with all the modern improvements necessary to
make it comfortable.

The Club rooms are open every day from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m,, and
all seamen are welcome to every privilege, as guests of the Haven, with
full liberty to enjoy all its advantages, the free use of the daily papers
always on file, current magazines, the library, the billiard table, vari-
ous games and the delights of the organ. The rooms are heated in
winter, ventilated in summer, also well lighted at night, and every
attention given to secure order and quiet.

The fact that all these comforts and facilities for recreation are
appreciated and much sought after is evidenced by the Seamen’s regis-
ter, which shows an attendance of 13,500 sailors up to date, to which
must be added the many who failed to record their attendance.

The hall is used every Wednesday during nine months of the year,
principally for concerts, with occasional nights given to lectures or
recitations and music, while during the Lenten season religious dis-
courses and sacred music prevail. These weekly affairs are managed
by the different Conferences of the city, each vieing with the other in
furnishing high-grade talent for the vocal and instrumental selections
that are presented, and also in the financial results of the performances.
Sailors are admitted free to all entertainments, but a charge of ten
cents is exacted of other visitors and some Conferences realize as much
as fifty or sixty dollars from the sale of tickets, and thus the weekly
events provide great pleasure for the seamen and a much-needed reve-
nue for the Haven.

The hall is furnished with a first-class piano, purchased for the
Haven by the Society and its friends, and it naturally follows that with
a high-grade instrument and performers of fine ability, the music is of
a character to attract and retain continuous patronage from the wards
and patrons of the institution.

The spiritual welfare of the seamen was undertaken by Father
Matthews, C. SS. R., the first Chaplain of the Haven, who labored most
energetically at a work for which he was especially qualified by tem-
perament and inclination. The Society will ever hold this good
Father’s memory in the highest esteem, remembering the valuable aid
he gave it in the trying days of founding and developing a work that
was dear to his heart, and it gives us great pleasure to be able to state
that his zeal and energy among the seamen produced very consoling
results, as is shown by the record of those who received the Sacrament
of Penance, the number gradually and steadily growing till it reached
one year the high total of 2,700. He continued his work as Chaplain

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till the Spring of 1907, when he was sent to other fields of labor, and
the regrets and prayers of his “Dear Sailor Boys” were most sincere
and fervent as they felt keenly the loss of a loving father and devoted
friend.

Father Matthews was succeeded by Father Joseph Moye, C. SS. R.,
who labored most earnestly along the lines laid down by his prede-
cessor till the close of the year 1908. Father Moye had many parish
duties to perform, but he utilized every opportunity to further the
spiritual interests of the seamen, and was engaged in the undertaking
of providing the Haven with a small Chapel where he could offer the
Holy Sacrifice for his sailor flock on special occasions, when the crown-
ing event of its history occurred and St. Vincent’s Seamen’s Haven was
created a Mission with a permanent Chaplain.

In our Annual Report for 1907 it is stated that “through the efforts
of Father Moye we now have an altar erected in the Haven. It was
kindly donated by the Redemptorist Fathers at the request of our Chap-
lain and we expect in a short time to be able to announce that Mass
will be offered at the Haven every Sunday morning.”

Before the announcement could be made His Grace, Most Reverend
James H. Blenk, advised the Council that he had concluded to honor
the work with a high mark of his appreciation and would at an early
date designate one of his priests as permanent Chaplain.

In compliance with this promise, the Archbishop appointed Rev.
Raymond Carra Chaplain of St. Vincent’s Seamen’s Haven in Decem-
ber, 1908, and authorized him to erect a Chapel for Divine worship on
the premises and celebrate Holy Mass there daily.

Father Carra took charge at once and entered immediately and
energetically on the discharge of his new duties. Soon after this ap-
pointment the Council, having been favored with the opportunity to
secure the corner building, the Reverend Father’s first work of great
importance was the most pleasing one of planhing and erecting St.
Vincent’s Chapel therein, and the result is a beautiful testimonial to
his good judgment and energy as well as to the charity of the host of
generous friends of the Haven among the reverend clergy, the sister-
hood and the laity of the city, who contributed articles of devotion,
statuary, pictures, necessary accessories and contributions of money.

St. Vincent’s Chapel was solemnly dedicated to Divine Worship on
Sunday, February 21st, 1909, by our beloved Archbishop, Most. Rev.
James H. Blenk, assisted by a number of distinguished clergymen of
the city. We here reproduce the beautifully graphic description of the
dedication ceremonies published by The Morning Star, in its issue of
February 27th, 1909:

“An event of interest to every port and every clime was the dedi-
cation on Sunday last of the new Chapel at St. Vincent’s Seamen’s
Haven. Under the protecting power of the Cross of Christ, the Haven
rests, and at its side now stands the Chapel, whence the blessed word
of the living God will be given to refresh the soul of the seafaring man.
Fiere he will find peace and rest; here will the lesson be brought home

36to his heart that God loves him and cares for him; that His voice
speaks in the winds that blow, His beauty is reflected in the sun day by
day and in the moon and stars by night; His majesty moves on the
deep, and changes not as the seasons dawn and fade, for He is ‘the
Same yesterday, to-day and forever,’ and in ‘His works they may read,
indeed, the lesson of their own eternity.’

“In words that will ever remian imprinted on the hearts of all who
heard them His Grace, Most Reverend Archbishop Blenk, emphasized
this fact of the eternal love of God as he blessed the Chapel on Sunday
last, and, deducing his lesson from the Gospel and epistle of the day,
he told how love of God had made this Haven possible, through the
work of the Sons of St. Vincent de Paul.

“He said, too, that, though on the occasion of this dedication there
were many present who were good landsmen, yet was the Chapel to be
in very truth the sailor’s church, consecrated to work among them,
opened for the sole purpose of making them better men and bringing
them nearer to God, despite the storms that beset their pathways, and
the reefs and rocks that would turn the good vessel of their souls from
anchoring in its true harbor.

“Very sweet and fresh the Chapel looked on Sunday last, when for
the first time it was thrown open to the sailors, and one glance within
showed what a labor of love had been this work of properly equipping
this sacred spot. While everything bore the stamp of truest simplicity,
there was, nevertheless, a beauty, a grace that characterizes the Catho-
lic sanctuary, and that sense of majesty which impresses even those
not of the faith, when in a temple where abides the real presence of the
living God. As the Sacred Host was consecrated on that snow-white
altar for the first time, and Jesus took up His permanent abode in the
tabernacle, the little sanctuary lamp was lit, and here, day by day and
night after night, it will stand as a sentinel telling the wanderers from
many climes that Jesus, the Living God, dwells here, and in His heart
alone will they find comfort and peace.

“The dedication ceremonies were simple, but impressive, The
Chapel was filled with a large delegation of the Society of St. Vincent
de Paul, under whose auspices the Haven is conducted; the Seamen’s
Haven Circle of St. Margaret’s Daughters, who have organized to help
the work, and a number of sailors, to whom the Haven is a refuge and
benediction. At 11 o’clock the procession of Bishop and priests and
acolytes passed down the aisle to the sanctuary, and His Grace, Most.
Rey. James H. Blenk, formally blessed and dedicated the Chapel to its
noble purposes. Immediately after the dedication a Solemn High Mass
was offered, the celebrant being Rev. Raymond Carra, the devoted resi-
dent Chaplain of the Haven, assisted by Rev. Leslie J. Kavanaugh as
deacon and Rev. J. B. Jeanmard as sub-deacon. Rev. Father Moye, C.
SS. R., acted as master of ceremonies. The Archbishop presided at the
Mass. His Grace was attended by Very Rev. Thos. J. Weldon, C. M.,
Rector of St. Joseph’s Church. The choir was composed of the boys
from the parochial school of Our Lady of Lourdes, and the splendid

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Sisters of Christian Charity in charge of the school.”
Every Sunday Mass is celebrated in the Chapel at ten o’clock for
sailors and such friends of the Haven as may choose to visit it at that,
hour to encourage Father Carra and assist him in influencing his con-
tinually changing congregation with the moral support of their pres-
. ence and also by taking part in the congregational singing that con-
tributes so greatly to the devotional character of the solemn celebra-
tion.
It is our sincere wish and earnest prayer that this special work,
the last achievement of our first fifty years of Vincentian life, will flour-
ish and develop to such an extent, keeping pace with the inevitable
growth of our city and the rapidly increasing enlargement of our ship-
ping interests, that its influence will exert a lasting effect on the moral
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In casting up the pious customs that have grown into the life of
our Vincentian existence of fifty years there is none more consoling to
the memory of our members than the truly devotional one of kneeling
in loving adoration before the Blessed Sacrament during the silent
hours of Holy Thursday night. It is certainly a grand tribute to the
love of our revered predecessors for the Adorable Prisoner of the Taber-
nacle to record the fact in our jubilee pages, that they rooted this great
devotion so firmly in the hearts of their associates that the holy prac-
tice has become an integral part of the life of our best and most vigor-
ous Conferences. These annual vigils with our dear Lord on the night
of His agony and prayer in Gethsemane are the mile-stones of the
faithful Vincention in his passage through life and if faithfully perse-
vered in will unerringly guide him to the only reward he looks for, the
eternal vigil with the Divine Master in heaven.

In order to stimulate zeal in the continued practice of this most
edifying devotion in the Conferences that so faithfully adhere to it,
and to encourage its adoption by new Conferences, we reproduce a
letter from a former Spiritual Director of the Superior Council, which
explains the pious custom so clearly and exhorts its observance so
earnestly that little can be added by the Society, and we earnestly
urge our brethren to carefully read and consider it.

Soriety of St. Vinrent de Paul
Superior Council

Circumscription of New Orleans
New ORLEANS, La., March 23d, 1896.
To the Conferences of the New Orleans Circumscription:

GENTLEMEN—In the name of the Superior Council of New Orleans,
I beg your attention to the following letter:

The increase of members in the Vincentian ranks throughout the
South, the new Conferences being formed and old ones revived, are en-
couraging facts for which we cannot be too devoutly grateful to Al-
mighty God to whom we owe them.

But while we rejoice in this air of prosperity that pervades our
dear Society, it becomes us to be solicitous lest the spirit languish
while the body grows strong.

It is of the highest importance that the members individually, as
well as the different Conferences, should be animated with a desire to
grow, more and more, in the spirit that should animate us if we are to
succeed in the important works in which we are engaged.

A special occasion, well calculated to enliven our zeal, is almost
upon us. Holy Thursday night has long been observed by our principal

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that night the members form themselves into a guard of honor around
the Repository of their Parish Church. As the still hours pass on, and the
world around them is wrapped in slumber, a devoted little band of Vin-
centians may be seen, sometimes kneeling in prayerful adoration before
the Tabernacle, then making together the Way of the Cross and again
listening to the reading of the Passion of our Lord from the New Testa-
nent or of selections from St. Ligouri’s “Visits to the Blessed Sacra-
ment.” At certain hours fresh bands of adorers come in according to
previous appointment and replace those who have preceded them. Thus
all the members come in turn and each spends a part of the night, or
all of it, if he choose, before our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.

A schedule assigning the time for each member is previously made

out by the President of the Conference, and read in the last preceding

meeting, or hung in the Church or other place where all can see it.
Some of our Conferences have not yet adopted this beautiful cus-
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it on the approaching Holy Thursday, that this letter is written. Where
the membership is small, some of the young men of the parish might
be induced to eaanie yate with the members of the Conference; and, be-
sides the blessings this exercise will be certain to bring on them per-
sonally, there is reason ao hope that they may thus be drawn nearer to
us, and finally seek admission to our ranks.

Of course the Pastor must, in every case, be consulted, and his ap-
proval secured. This approval you will find in nearly every case to be
given, not only willingly, but cheerfully.

Please give this your favorable consideration at your next meet-
ing, and we feel certain that Good Friday morning will bring to the
members of your Conference the joyful consolation of having imbibed
a new impulse for the work of St. Vincent de Paul, an impulse drawn
from the same source whence that great Apostle of Charity received his
strength and his success.

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those graces and blessings which He who dwells with us in the great
Sacrament of His love, never fails to shower on those who labor for His
beloved poor.

In the love of our Lord and the spirit of St. Vincent de Paul.
Very sincerely yours,

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This is not a special work of our Society, but a special devotion
that has grown up in our city, under the fostering care of the Society,
from an humble beginning in 1895 to the magnificent proportions that
excite our wonder and fill our hearts with gratitude to God in this our
year of jubilee rejoicing.

In the report of our Superior Council for the year 1896 the follow-
ing article on the appearance and rapid growth of this marvellous
devotion was printed and we feel confident that its reproduction here
is not only timely but highly appropriate.

“The frequent mention of ‘St. Anthony’s Bread’ in this Annual Re-
port makes appropriate a few words of explanation about this import-
ant element in our work.

The history of St. Anthony of Padua is well known. He was born
in Portugal near the end of the twelfth century, but became famous
as a Franciscan monk, in Italy. He was remarkable for his eloquence
and sanctity, but especially for the miracles he performed. He was
truly a wonder-worker, and one must go back and make a study of the
faith and circumstances of his time, to rightly appreciate the power
that he wielded and the work he performed.

But great as was his fame during life, it has grown still greater
since his death, and St. Anthony is to-day invoked, the world over,
with the greatest confidence, for favors of various kinds, but especially
for the recovery of things lost. To the Saint’s popularity, in this last
named particular, is due the origin of “St. Anthony’s Bread.”

Less than ten years ago a pious lady named Mille. Louise Bauffier
kept a little store in the city of Toulon, France. One morning, when
she went to unlock the front door, she discovered that the key was
gone. Search for it was made, but without success, and a locksmith
was called, who brought a bunch of keys and with them tried to unlock
the door. He failed of success after trying every key he had several
times, and declared that nothing could be done but force the door open.
He was making ready for this operation when the owner seemed to
hear a voice saying to her: “If you promise a little bread to St. An-
thony for his poor, perhaps he will open your door without breaking
it.’ She accepted the proposal, made the promise, and then requested
the locksmith to try his keys again. He did so, and the first one he
tried opened the lock, as though it were made for that purpose.

This little incident begins the history of “St. Anthony’s Bread,”
which since has spread through different parts of France and Hurope.
In this city the devotion appears to have sprung spontaneously from
the piety of some good souls in the Parish of St. Augustine. In the
early part of 1895, upon opening the regular “Poor Box” in the church,
a dozen or more bread tickets were found, wrapped in a piece of paper
on which these words were written: “Bread of St. Anthony—pray for

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o>the giver.” Continuing to find bread tickets thus dedicated in the box
| | every week, study was made of the origin of the work, and finally under
i the direction of the zealous pastor, Very Rev. Joseph Subileau, the de-
| votion was inaugurated in the Parish. In 1895 St. Augustine’s Confer-
ence alone distributed 30,438 loaves of bread. Since then the devotion
has found its way into nearly every church of our city where a Confer-
ence exists.
The method of devotion is soon described. A statue or picture of
St. Anthony is placed in some suitable spot in the church, and near it
a box to receive petitions and offerings. The petitions are written
somewhat in this form: “O Blessed St. Anthony! obtain the favor I
so earnestly desire, if it be the holy will of God, and I will give for the
purchase of bread for Thy poor——.” Here the petitioner inserts the
exact amount according to his or her means and good will. As soon as
the favor is granted the stipulated sum must be deposited in the box
‘ intended for offerings.
It is remarkable what a hold this devotion has taken on our people.
The best evidence of this fact is given in the amount of money depos-
ited in return for favors received. One Conference has taken in during

the year from “St. Anthony’s Bread” alone, $2126.87, and the entire
/ receipts for all Conferences which have St. Anthony boxes amount to
t 5394.

; “St. Anthony’s Bread” was, until quite recently, regarded by many
ie of our Conferences with misgiving. It was looked on by some as a fad
‘ that would soon disappear. Others feared its influence would eventu-
\ ally hurt the Society, by making the members less liberal, and perhaps

less zealous in visiting the poor in their homes. This latter effect
would, of course, be a dire disaster. But we are glad to be able to
state that the closest study of the work reveals no such dangerous
tendency. The contrary seems to be true. Wherever the St. Anthony’s
Fund exists there seems to be an increase instead of a diminution in

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y thony’s box, in this year of dull business and widespread suffering
$ among the poor, seems to have acted as a stimulus to the members,
é and made them more liberal with their pruses and more zealous in
A their service of the poor.
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oC the purchase of bread; others allow themselves the liberty of using
R it in the general relief of the poor, unless the person making his offer-
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ing specially directs that his share shall be used in buying bread, or for
some specified purpose. Little printed folders are always left beside
the statue or picture, explaining the devotion and how the funds are

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A used. These folders also have appropriate prayers to St. Anthony.

i! The blessing of a statue of St. Anthony is generally made the occa-
K sion of a celebration in the parish where it takes place. A sermon is
tw preached and the other Conferences of the city are invited to be
Ei present.

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nent feature in our Society’s work in New Orleans. It certainly places
in our hands a fund with which our work can be greatly extended, and
untold good accomplished among the poor. It brings the great St.
Anthony out in a new light and allies his name with that of our glori-
ous patron, St. Vincent de Paul. The necessities of the richer and middle
classes have become the means of bringing relief to the needs of the
poor. The prayer of the one, in his own behalf, is granted, and in pay-
ing the tax he imposes on himself therefor, he realizes that he but
hands over the amount to relieve his needy brother. St. Anthony hears
and grants the prayer of him who asks in faith and in the spirit of gen-
erosity, and St. Vincent pleads the cause of the needy as a strong rea-
son for Padua’s wonder-worker to use his power with God, and use it
quickly. May it not be that this new movement which unites so admir-
ably true devotion to practical charity, is destined to grow and increase
until the barriers which now separate the rich from the poor shall dis-
appear, and the bonds that unite them shall grow stronger. When the
wealthy worldling shall learn to seek release from his misfortune by
kneeling to implore the intercession of a saint whose services he stands
ready to acknowledge, by an offer of part of his wealth, and when the
poor shall be brought to realize that the material assistance he re-
ceives is an offering of gratitude from his rich neighbor whose prayer
God has heard, and when both shall grow in the knowledge and love
of God, as represented in St. Anthony of Padua and St. Vincent de Paul,
then will the much vexed and difficult “social problem” be nearer a so-
lution than ever before, and the world and Heaven be the gainers
through “St. Anthony Bread” for the Poor.”

If the intervention of the “Wonder-worker of Padua” called forth
this expression of feelings in the second year of his co-operation in
our Vincentian work, where can we find suitable language with which to
record the sentiments that have grown from year to year at the amaz-
ing prodigality of this generous provider for the poor of St. Vincent de
Paul. The first year’s offerings of dear St. Anthony were $1184.58, the
amount realized in 1908 was $15,125.89, and the total from 1895 to 1908
reaches the princely sum of $164,077.82.

In the words of our lamented brother of saintly memory, Charles
L. Rivet, the President of St. Augustine Conference, which was hon-
ored as the birth-place of this devotion in our midst, used by him at
the close of all his reports to give expression to his wonder and grati-
tude at the ever increasing results of this new manifestation of Divine
Providence, “Glory be to God and Gratitude to St. Anthony.”

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Surivty of St. Vincent de Paul

As it was Constituted at the time of its Aggregation, October, 1859

Spiritual Director...... ard Wie Sake decree pl chs at Me Very. Rev. J. Hayden, C. M.
PT OSILOULD eyo do 0), a tase ORY Boe dal View a we, ak we hte aioe Amilcar Fortier.
irsy ViGG-Presinlene :¢ och ae tui be be ws les ears James J. Tarleton.
HOCOEG: ViGe- President. is iii oa ds od tie web Victor Sere
PVCLOLAOM ct ae Mat \ikid 1 dies ciel ee suhacaralea te eoehereel Alfred Damarin.
MV CASURER eee ks oid big he Wig’ ibcace o°R ha Dain Siena Henry Archinard.
ST. PATRICK CONFERENCE.

President ....... CS Wah, Wtemeuh se boa kV cg Sees tuner’ ie B. Lancaster.
Vice-President ........... Peete PEE wi Wade eR EP RSE.

ST. MARY CONFERENCE.
WOGIECTIL 1.68 aaG Sauk « bam bandos ghd so poe b oe DRLDDIE BIenvent,
WiiGe-EMESMIOUE te ee hls eek ks bus Wo cer be eee Charles A. Maurian.

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The Particular Council of New Orleans
Suriety of St. Vinrent de Haul

As it was Constituted at the time of its Incorporation, Feb. 24, 1866

Spiritual Directorva.sis 6250s i arbi cee Giatama we Very Rev. J. Hayden, C. M.
PROB E Ce NaN NON: es fo ba e vinkis ware ek 6 che Fikes EK. Doumei ing.
rst: MaiCePrestdent. Wicks Pedile eis . BiGk cult Pe Bienvenu.
MOCONM) VIGC-PTCSIG OIE soc Cariie oie bcd dae es He P. Scanlan.
OGY AU me ee ly vad ok tir ee ee F’. A. Mader,
OCCT OR CN Sigs Neh AL ee aus a Fa Wm. Hart.
ST. PATRICK CONFERENCE.
SIEM Ee cee Ay eee WOE Oe es Se Geo. W. Byrne.
Hanse) VICE PVOSIGONGY. oced cl ob vee leon. | Patrick Rowan.
Pechnd Vice-President .3 0), oe es oe Thomas Biggins.
ST. MARY CONFERENCE.
POG ia le Ie yi. ood Sota ky Gustave Collignon.
BPEL V IGOR GSIION Bale 's ce peace £4 aie gc Oe oa ad Armand Pitot, Sr.
MeeOnd. VICEPTESIOENb, yinss feces een ce. Chas. A. Maurian.
ST. JOSEPH CONFERENCE.
SUC Ret bye d nec. wai ey pir eke (ak John McC Arey -
Reh Vice Premiiuntics eel uy. ee Thos. O'Neil, § Sr,
mevdnd Vice-President, oo oe la James O’Dowd.
ANNUNCIATION CONFERENCE.
President Bi escuitiecnay sass: j +eeeeee-.-Hmile Doumeing.
Vice-President’ ....... Smee dha i A ee he a J. J. HE. Planchard.
ST. ANN CONFERENCE.
BA CEE, PN aii eu Oia lle oh ee dees td Alfred Delery.
First Vice-President..... (Ais PS Hews Ck ss +Aug. Tumoine,
me COHd Vice-President. is iccsc varie, ed, Paul Surgi.“eon So TT Be
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The Particular Council of New Orleans
Soriety of St. Winrent de Baul

As it was Constituted at the time of its Golden Jubilee Celebration
October 24, 1909

Spiritual DIVOCLOPE Ge rot aa in eke. a Very Rev. EH. Mattern, S. J.
President S pgatqic a SiGe bie iat 8, Spee Conk Ge aE Thomas G. Rapier.
W tee PVGRIIeNt os ee oe oa he ee John A. Grehan.
TRCAMUITER Sete ae bar a ee ee P. J. Gillen.
MIGUICEAIY (seu bis duis 'o od doled ene wuweuels Hp ATHSOn“ Owen
ASSisteant, BSCrELAI hi 68 i otic sk cc he ak ss eer J. Bo Bassicn.
OD ALOGIAIN Gia ee sy wile sg Pe an ace. kya ee IE ee ecler,
ST. PATRICK CONFERENCE.
PHCSIMOUT cs eae? cekus Feed ob ae Eee Oe eS J. J. Murray.
NIGE-ETOSIGCRE was cls eee den fas Fak J. S. Keily.
ST. JOSEPH CONFERENCE.
PHESIQGRE. sil oe oa hae ee se Oe eile eae P. E. Burke.
Hirst ViGG-Presigeme 77 a sa a) oe wh eae Pe Vie Toye
Second Viee- Presiden... 2. Sess ieewie eek T..P: Connolly.
ANNUNCIATION CONFERENCE.
PrEsigOnt Qi fies brs 8 ek 2 oo ee A. J<iFlotte;
NICE Presigea ty wavs oy Fe i al ane eee J; J. Carreras:
SS. PETER AND PAUL CONFERENCE.
PYESIOONT« vos sc x os ea ek i a eee G. L. Bernoudy.
VICeG=-Presigdent ces eo er ore ees A. C. Williams.
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CONFERENCE.
President: 4.246 Fa Sr es a eae ie eee P. J. Gillen.
ViCGGsPresidenyd 2 25 Sa walk tee ed bod eed, Saas W. V. Pettigrew.
ST. ALPHONSUS CONFERENCE.
PFOSIGOGDE (4 ob se cs bey ecw slate ew Wis eel bre eles Ws EK. P. Foley.
Hirst-Vice-Presidi@nt. 6 a5 kee Se oa Side ee os P. J. Kennedy.
Sseond . Vice-Presidents &o sie. hack ete Jno. McMahon.
ST. THERESA CONFERENCH.
Precvdent...< ss Gass hea bw eden vate B eye eee le enciaes R. H. Bartley.
Puirst: “Vice-PresidGnys 225 ace ccc sees eee cus Ne J: Nutter.
Sdegnd) Vice-President. 24 os pew ices eases J. A. Oulliber.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL CONFERENCE. &
PLCRIOCIE ois os sa ee ae a as beds hers ace Dwice John L. Grashoff.
WiGe-PresidGnt yu. pe deaca eed awh eal caw as sabes Ed. I. Mahoney.
ST. MICHAEL CONFERENCE.
IPHESHUCIME fo ee alas donc aw svcd os ecore ees nee se ess J.J. Haggerty.
WiC PTOBIGEDD. Fick ons Vee eV cae eee heb aes Joseph Conroy.
ST, STEPHEN CONFERENCE.
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PPPOSIGGIE o. Lae Sas se Kivi tine eo es id aie Joseph P. Buckley.

VICGPKESIUCING.; Ge pica. sc sve yk tee we 8 sea we J. ©. Finney, Jr.

OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL CONFERENCE.
Wm. Wild.

Prosigentst. bv ies Wi ee ee ae ow Ee a's
WIiGGEEPOSIGelit oa Gok ea cv avic de ae wtene 0 ste doe pis C. J. Becker.

ST, LOUIS (CATHEDRAL) CONFERENCE.
IBPOSIOCNE 6. .¥ ips ae ew cee Oa ehh Vee Sass Lawrence Fabacher.
IWViIGGsRRESICONL. s.7. 6 eee k since don oO eee,» ewan o Leonard Robin.

HOLY NAME OF JESUS CONFERENCE.
PRESIGOUL 5 oy Sak ces cen d 4 bw WS BR wiede a ald o's! t G. W. Young.
Name RO STUCIIL |e. wise Wa a be binieiie eee 4 otha whee J. J. McLoughlin.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI CONFERENCE.
reo fos hb neha oe Neta New i Ses eek ket H. R. Streck.
WA GOsIeTORIIIONIL 2 @ vce oe Wid.o tix pares ible so aoe ols H. W. Nebe.

ST. ROSE DE LIMA CONFERENCE.
IPTCSIMOMt. Se ace oes ced coe be owe e ERG ees Paul Capdevielle.
Gt VaAGer FOSIGGRE «ys ics bra 6S os Ab oir oi pee Theo. Soniat du Fossat.
SOCOUG! WiGGrETOSIGONG 4.x occ cies 2 cos bro ooo ore H. C.. Doize.
ST. BONIFACHK CONFERENCE.
PROSUOOCIGs - siece 0c co eek Bieve: ak Bie Ee tbelilatat ok Po, Obllvicr.
ViAIGOsEROSTO CINE cs tues aes 4 acre bac ok Soe Peter Faneca.
ST. ANN CONFERENCE.

PPOGIQE DL iis uate uc ie 0.5 ey SOs & Ow be win Reis G. R. Bernard.
WACO TROSTOOM Lea © aise holes ais 56 Gow bak echw bia ek Jos. Garcia.

OUR LADY OF THE SACRED HEART CONFERENCE.
President Vey ehD ois sg Ow Ola eS Oe OR DR Aw ke Louis Abadie.
WAGCrE TEGIGCHL Cena s soos awl outers ea x ae URS Raymond De Lord.

HOLY NAME OF MARY CONFERENCE.
PERE STONE shee aa a ela aise i's ck cds bc oo lew ad A. J. Haaser:
WIG TESHO CHM oC 5s 5 fed 16 6ie cee tio bina d chelale hae Henry Ormond.
MATER DOLOROSA CONFERENCE.
OSI or an eee Ga Chloe ke ow E ess P. J. Miller.
WIGEEEROSIGOINE 2) 5 SG% oa kate ev eteale) 86404 be J. J. Cummings.

ST. AUGUSTINE (JUVENILE) CONFERENCE.
President Res Sei Coie era RRR De ae ls wie EF. J. Oechmichen.
WHC -ETOSIGONG (ee ere oe os va i Leth John Augustin.

: ST. JOSEPH CONFERENCE, GRETNA, LA.
President cr wee babs OW. yew 50 ON al ed 85 ee 8 James P. Morgan.
WICCSETEMNCOE eee tea cu oe kad Crozat Olivier.OUR LADY OF LOURDES CONFERENCE.

POR ICCIE a ss Soars a dah ciated vie wget eee NN OWN: :
Viee-President (353) gy 5 a ee Jules A. Cie
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY CONFERENCE.

President wished eyes ecahecey elsiedal avcreid & fain) oe cree a Pee din Rorstalle
Vice-President) 2 a Louis Bouchez.
ST. MAURICE CONFERENCE.
Président’ 2624.5 01 fF eo a POG. Cavaroe.
NIGEPNGSICERT (eo ee O. S. Livaudais.

Special Works of the Particular Council
PRISONS, ETC.

Chairman ia dh weed Gin poe seein pele eee) he ae Jos. P. Buckley.
NVICGQNGICNISH pices es ct Se oe Jos. Schoebel.
LIBRARIES.
CHAM INAN os 4 ine ge be alee kee ek T. P. Thompson.
MICO Ae WOIPWIOA © oy er ee ele is Benj. Crump.
ST. VINCENT’S SEAMEN’S HAVEN.

CROAT: Ge ia on Sakae a es ae Hy BP. Poley.

Vice Chsaivitane’ os ie ae aces ee Harry McEnerny.
CHINCHUBA DEAF MUTE INSTITUTE.

CHAIpITA RS os os oii ilies ae ea ee Lawrence Fabacher.

ae : Jos. P. Buckley

Vice-Chalrmen sy 3s 64 os ln s pid ek eke J. W. Fairfax.

The Superior Council of New Orleans was created by the Council-
General in Paris in August, 1869, and was given jurisdiction over the
entire Ecclesiastical Province of New Orleans, which includes the
States of Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama,
and a small section of Northwest Florida. To complete the Official
Record of the Society in New Orleans at the time of its Golden Jubilee
the roster is here given of the

SUPERIOR COUNCIL OF NEW ORLEANS, SOCIETY OF ST. VIN-
CENT DE PAUL.

Spiritus, WIMOC OU. ie ws es ee rene Very Rev. T. J. Weldon, C. M.
PYCSIGGHE 40 cies oo ee aie ee ee ae oe Thos. G. Rapier.
ViIGB-PresigeGnt i055 fees oan oe eles was caren 4 John A. Grehan.
DVOSRSUTOU G8 aoa a cea oe oe tee celia eisca Peter J. Gillen.
SGGCOLAEY oun std i Cas ae cia dislei sere a 22s J. B. Bassich.
Assistant SGCretary :. . <. ce oe css oe o's sos Allison Owen.
CUGEOGIAD, fii 8s oes ae eta tigen ce esas M. E. Lecler.
COUNCILLORS.
John T. Gibbons, Geo. W. Young, J. Hy. Lafaye,
TT, Py Thempson, John Lynch, Benj. Crump,
Chas. A. Maurian, A. L. Gaudin, John F. Couret.
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