Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1937 (3)

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·-- - Great Crowd Is Present For Benediction Feast of Mexico's Patroness Is Occasion for Solemn Celebration With a sol~mn procession of the l Blessed Sacrament and Benedic- 1 tion given by His Excellency, the Most Rev. Bishop Buddy, a Novena in honor of Our Lady of Guada- lupe, was closed in the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe h ere, last Sunday at 7 p. m. Deacons of honor t o His Excel- lency were the Very Rev. William Kelly, O .S .A., and the Rev. Thomas J . McNamara. The Masters of Ceremonies were the Rev. Francis C. Ott and the Rev. M. J . O'Connor. P1•esent, also, were the Very Rev. F. A. Wekenman, Rev. Da- l mian Gobeo, A .R., pastor; Rev. Vito Pilolla and Rev. John Pur- cell. The impressive procession, in which 2,500 participated, was fea- tured by the recitation of the Ros- ary by the people under the direc- tion of Father Gobea and by the priests under the direction of I Father Wekenman. After each 1 mystery, hymns in honor of the Blessed Sacrament and the Bless- ed Virgin Mary were sung by the Mexican Societies and children of the parish. The Rev. Ramon Guerras, C.M. F., of the Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Plaza, Los Angeles, 1 preached the sermon.

ee uesday The Golden Jubilee of the Rev. El Crntro the next year by Bishop ·priest, and a resourceful business Ccnaty and, ,vith the latter town man. He combines all the quali- as his place of residence. minis- ties necessary and desirable in a tue1 to the spiritual needs of the pioneer priest and here in the lit- Catholic people of Imperial Val- tle town of Brawley with only a ley for several years small number of Catholics he has Fra1 cis Burelbach's ordination to the Holy Priesthood will be mark- ed at Nazareth House. :Mission

Valley, San Diego, Tuesday, De- crmber 21, at 10 o'clock wtth a Solemn Pontifical Mass to be cele- brated by His Excellency, the Most c Rev. Charles Francis Buddy. D.D. Deacon and Subdeacon of the Ma~s wilJ be the Rev. Francis C. Ott and the Very Rev. F. A. Wek- enman, respectively. Deacons of Honor to His Ex- cellency, Bishop Buddy, will be the Very Rev. Vincent J. Shepherd and the Rev. John Cotter. The Masters of Ceremonies will be the Rev. M. J. O'Connor and the Rev. William Clavin. The Archpriest will be the Right Rev. John M. Hegarty. I Impaired health constrained Father Burelbach to transfer from the Archdiocese of Chicago to California in the year 1908. He was assigned to the Pastorate of

App inted Pastor of Brawley a erected one of the finest churches pie of years later, he !mmedi- in Southern California ... dedi- , 1• et his hand to the bujlding cated last Sunday, April 20, 1913." ew parochial church. Soon thereafter Father Burel- the occasion cf its declica- bach turned his attention to the

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the T1dmgs, i%ue of April lus CJ~ "Into this fruitful rnlley a few years ago Rev F. Burelbach ... cPme for a change cf climate. It goes without saying that he found it, but he found something else; he found the need ot active occu- pat on for a nature that never could be idle. and he offered his services to the Rt. Rev. Bishop in the cause of our holy religion.

construction of a school for the children of the Valley tov:n, and,. after nine years of fruitful labors, he was transferred in 1918 to the Pastorate of Gonzales. California. Next year found him Director of a school for boys at Watsonville, in which position he remained until 1921. After a brief period as Pastor of Hanford, he was given charge of Holy Family Church. Orange, where he remained until his re- tirement in 1924. He moved to his present resi- dence at Nazareth House in 1935.

Rev. Francfr Burelbach ----- --- Father Burelbach is a man who never could live in any community without impressing himself upon it as a strnng factor for good. an indefatiguable worker, a zealous - - - -

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