Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1936-37 (1)

Prelate Re s i g n s From Health Board __

WELCOME! By the San Diego Chamber of Commerce

IN CONSILIO SANCTORUM

The business community of San Diego joins the citi- Bishop Buddy Recommends zens of this city in welcoming to the cradle of west coast Chang-es in Fina] Paper to Christianity, The Most Rev. Charle_s Francis Bud?Y· Health Commission J Like all of those :who have ~chie~ed outstand!ng sue- -- lcess by virtue of then· leadership, Bishop Buddy s deeds ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 20 . -In h_ave preceded his ar~-ival and impressed the civic and so- tendering his resignition as a c1al leaders of San Diego. member of the city board of It is the happy privilege of this organization to ex- health late yesterday, the Very press on behalf of the business interests of this com- Rev. Charles F. Buddy, who to- . ' . • • f th 't' · ·t l morrow will be consecrated bish- mumty, its appreciat10n o e recogm 1011 given 1 W 1~n op of San Diego, Calif., informed such an able and capable leader was chosen to serve m Mayor Phil J. Welch thai the gen- this community. San Diego's first Bishop of the Diocese of San Diego

THE NEW BISHOP'S MOTTO "Deus, qui glorificatur in Consilio Sanctorum." "God, who is glorified in the Assembly of the Saints." (Psalm 88.8) Bishop Buddy comes from the Diocese of St. Joseph in the Province of St. Louis. He was born on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. The Diocese of San Diego is in the Province of Los Angeles. Hence the appropriateness of the motto: the assembly of the Saints-In Consilio Sanctorum.

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the is assured of every c.ooperat10n that t ose activ~ m usi- ness and civic life in San Diego can extend to him. Our

The Patron of the City of San Diego is St. Didacus different health units of the city.

(San Diego ), a Spanish Franciscan Lay Brother (1463). Franciscan Fathers under the leadership of Junipero Se-

Father Buddy, rector of st. Jo- effort will be to reflect the traditional hospitality of the seph's ca th edral, praised th e per- west which was planted in this area when the first per-

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. sonnel of the health department rra, O.F.M., began t heir zealous apostolate m Callforma I and declared that the mayor has manent commumty was esta 1s 1e Y ra umpero at San Diego, July 1, 1769. had the best interests of the city Serra in 1769. ' •

at heart and has fully co-operated with every move forward that could insure the health of the citi- zens. Spending Enough Now "My contention is, however, that the city is now spending more than sufficient money for public health work, but with the anti- quated system and the lack of co- ordination the best results are not obtainable," Father Buddy wrnte in his letter of resignation. In support of his contentions, the priest presented the mayor with memoranda and recommen- dations in regard to the health de- partment. For one thing, Father Buddy points out, the city health depart- ment should employ a competent chemist in its laboratory. At the present time it i.'.: necessary to send 'to Krlnsas City for some chemical analyses. Many chemical analyses that should be made are not being done because the city laboratory is not equipped to han- dle them, Father Buddy stated. Need Clinic Doctor The retiring board of health members wrote that there should be employed in the city laboratory a medical clinic laboratory direc- tor, veterinary field inspectors and a clinical laboratory technician, in addition to a chemist. Under the present setup the vet- erinary field inspectors are com- petent and that department of the city laboratory appears to have been efficiently handled during the past, Father Buddy said. The priest said that the labora- tory should be equipped to handle / a number of tests ranging from complete bloom examinations to 1 analyses of gravel, cement and other building materials. Bishop-elect Buddy expressed regret in leaving his work with the board of health, saying it has proved both interesting and in- structive.

This motto is also adopted in affectionate tribute to the memory of the beloved and saintly Bishop Francis Gilfillan, third Bishop of St. Joseph.

BUDDY EXERPTS

The Most Rev. Charles Francis Buddy, D.D., bishop of San Diego, will celebrate the pontifical Mass on Christmas morning at 5 o'clock in St. Joseph's Cathedral in St. Joseph, Mo. The. first Mass cele- brated by the new prelate was a Requiem Mass on Tues.day morn- ing in memory of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Buddy. * * * Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, appstolic delegate to the United States, who was pre- vented from. attending the conse- 1 cration of Bishop Buddy because of illness, is reported recovering from an attack of pneumonia. He is in a hospital in Washington, D. C. The reception plam1ed in his honor at St. Joseph, Mo., for last Sunday was cancelled. * * * Dom Gregory Huegle, Benedic- tine monk who played the organ and directed the abbey choir in chanting the Consecration Mass on Monday is a musician of na- tional note. He is the editor, of The Caecilia, a monthly magazine I devoted to Catholic Church music, 1 published in Boston, Mass., as well as a regular contributor to thE' Catholic Choirmaster, the official organ of the St. Gregory Society of America. The Benedictines sing the Gregorian chants daily in their abbey church and give to it a fullness of tone that is seldom heard. * * ,;: Some one hundred nuns of var- ious orders were served dinner in the Cathedral convent at ~t. Jo- seph Monday following the cere- monies, the Benedictine Sisters acting as hostesses. * * * Two secretarial staffs were kept

PERSONAL ARMS: In The Bishop's personal in- signia, the "field" or background consists of six hori- zontal stripes of red and green, which composed of the I Borromeo Arms (Saint Charles Borromeo being the Bishop's baptismal patron and also the patron of his father). The Borromeo Coat of Arms consists simply of six horizontal stripes witl1a single silver diagonal stripe superimposed-called in heraldry a "bend." For this sil- ver "bend" has been substituted a silver carpenter's square to represent St. Joseph under whose patronage the Cathedral Church of the New Diocese will be placed. ·In recognition of the fact that St. Didacus was a Franciscan, ancl also because the sons of St. Francis were among the first missionaries to preach the Gospel in Cali- fornia, St. Francis is represented in the shield, symbolized by his pierced hands, which bore the sacred stigmata. By a coincidence which now seems providential, Bishop Buddy was born on the feast of St. Francis. This saint is also his second baptismal patron. The Arms of the Far- re'll Family (the Bishop's mother, Annie Farrell Buddy) are very simple-a gold lion on a green background. This has been abbreviated to a gold lion's head.

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