Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1936-37 (1)

PA.GE.~ TTRY GREETS FIRST S. D. BISHOP

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back to the the Dons greeted the Most Rev. Charles F. Buddy, D.D., bishop of San Diego, when he arrived at Santa Fe sta- tion this morning. Music was played by a Mexican band under the leadership of Rev. Damian Gobeo, A. R., pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe church ht>re. The delegation of San Diegans, including Mayor Percy Benbough, Frank B. Dorsey, San Diego & Ari- zona railway; Rt. Rev. Msgr. John H. Hegarty, St. Joseph's church; Rev. John B. Cotter, St. John's church, and Albert V. Mayrhofer, K.C.H.S., boarded the bishop's train at San Ysidro and accompa- nied him in. Children from St. Joseph's pa- rochial school and other schools as well as several hundreds of San Diegans were present to greet their first bishop. Because of Bishop Buddy's na- tionally known friendship for the poor, pompous ceremony was aban- doned. Taken to Temporary Home Upon the arrival of the train, Mayrhofer and George Ryan escort- ed the bishop to his temporary home at Pt. Loma. Joseph Green, with his taxicabs, had escorted the balance of the party to their hotels, where reservations had been pro- vided. In the evening the archbishops and bishops will be entertained at a dinenr at Hotel del Coronado and the priests will be entertained at a dinner at Hotel El Cortez. Laymen accompanying the bishop will be taken care of by the chamber of commerce, headed by Arnold Klaus. During the afternoon Mayrhofer was to take Bishop Buddy to the place where the first mass was cele- brated in California at Ballast point, where the Catholic Daughters of America have erected a tablet in memory of that first mass. Other historical places also were to be visited by the bishop. The bishop will be enthroned to- morrow morning at 10:30 at St.. Joseph's cathedral as the first bishop of the diocese of San Diego, the continuity of Catholic history which began when Cabrillo sailed into San Diego harbor 395 years ago. days of

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BISH.OP. B~DDY S. 0. WELCOMES BISHOP BUDDY Happy Throng Hears Pre- late Praise City Bishop Charles Francis Buddy's entrance into his newly-created diocese of San Diego at 10: 15 th;s morning furnished a striking il- lustration of the power of a sym- pathetic personality to turn strangers into friends through the alchemy of personal charm. The welcome became a triumph for the bishop as a man. rather than a high-ranking prelate, from the instant he turned his first en- I Earl Zal1m. Sun staff photographer, B "candid cameras," the ishop's ar- rival-Page 4. gaging smile upon the six or seven hundred members of his flock who crowded eagerly toward the special car on which he and his party made the trip to this city from St. j It was very easy to forget His ExceUency's rank as a bishop and to thmk -of h1!11 as ma: 1 who fed Joseph, Mo.

!\lost Rev. Charles F. Buddy, D. D., left, and Rt. Rev. John M. Hegarty, right.-(Photo by George Booher, Evening Tribune staff photographer). _ (Continued from Page 1) The bLsh?P, wearing th_e purple 1 yard walk to the car the bishop feriola of hJS rank, a flowmg cape, and his escorts halted-once wl_len and his mitre paused on an UPI?er the bishop blessed the ci:owd, first step as the cro_wd clapped with in Latin and then with t~e SU?J?le pleasure. Standmg_ there, lookin_g words, spoken with the s1mphc1ty far younger than his 48 years, his of deep sincerity: pace. Spontaneous joy seemed to have the crowd in its grip and people crowded around him with laughter in their eyes as well as on

their lips.

'God Bless You All'

glasses twinkling in the sunshine, the bishop removed his mitre, as a bishop's headpiece is called, dis- closing beneath it a zuchetta, Ol'

The bishop himself sounded the true note of the occasion when, as he emerged into Broadway, he ex- "Isn't this beautiful! Sunshine and joy and happiness!" The crowd was in festive mood pulled in an hour and a half be- claimed: even before the bishop's train

"God bless you all!" In the party that detrained with

the bishop was a Catholic sister skull cap, of the same light purple. whose white crested head dress On his breast glittered a pectoral drew many eyes and whose placidly cross of gold and jewels. Within it smiling face brought an expression was enclos~d a relic o~ the True of pleasure to all who saw her fa~e. cross, a gift to the bishop from This was Sister Magdalen, superior Rt. Rev. Philip Ruggie, abbot of of the Holy Cross sisterhood at Conception Abbey, Conception, Ogden, Utah. She is a sister of Mo., a member of the party of a the new bishop and came here with score or mere who traveled here his party to attend tomon-oW's with the bishop. ceremony. Jewels Family Gift The scene at the station was re- The jewels in the cross were a peated in miniature, minus the gift from the bishop's brother and confusion of the arrival, at the sister-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. Ed- bishop's temporary home. Hardly wa1·d P. Buddy, of st. Louis, who had he been installed there before have also come here to attend to- friends-laymen and churchmen motTow's enthronement ceremony of high rank-began to arrive to in St. Joseph's Cathedral. welcome him to his new domain. When the bishop was finally able 'Gifts of flowers arrived even be- to set foot on the platform Msgr. fore the guests, whose gay talk John M. Hegarty, pastor of St. Jo- suggested a family reunion. seph's, took up his place at the Retires To Chapel bishop's elbow and began slowly once he had greeted his callers piloting him toward the waiting the bishop retired to a chapel on car which took him to his tern- an upper floor of the lovely, ram- porary home ~t Tivoli and Guizot- bling stucco house, where he wi11 sts, Sunset Cliffs. Iive for the next three months, to Half a dozen times In the 100- make his devotions.

hind schedule. its gaiety sustained the poor of his native city durmg I by the spirited playing of Mexican the dark days of the depression as and Spanish airs by a Mexican he passed inch ?Y inch thro~gh I orchestra furnished for the oc- the _crowd pressmg aroun~ ~im, casion by Father Damian Gobea seekmg to kiss his bishops nng. of our Lady of Guadalupe Mexican The bishop's pi:ogress fro~ the church. step of the San Diego and An~ona Lo k y Tha y Eatern train on which he arrived O s ounger n ears to the curbstone outside the As the seven-coach train slid to station. where he entered the a stop those on the platform limousine that carried him to his caught sight of a card in the temporary residence on Po~i;t window of the middle car read- Loma was of necessity at a snail s ing "Bishop Charles F. Buddy and Party" and made a concerted ad- vance toward the still-closed Turn to Pare '-· Col. 2.

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doors. By the time a porter open- ed them a wall of humans was pressed so closely against the car that 110 one could have descended

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Tentative plans have been made for Bishop Buddy to establish his permanent San Diego residence In a house off Massachusetts-st on University Heights, overlooking Mission Valley.