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THE '•■ SOUTH	V	V*	^	•^tCO'i^atcIiez	’	Centennial	Editioifj-r-y
CATHOLIC ACTION OF
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'^jiBy/. Sisters of St. Joseph*
St. Joseph Academy
Opened 185'5::>
>. Sf^suters^Tst^jose^finSiy Modest Bay St. Louis Frame Cottage, Where St. Joseph Sisters inSidS^ .■ ^t^Q'^’Rii+oiiv nactnf nf Our T.arlv Began Labors, Has Developed Into Widely Known Modern to«um ,
Academy for Young Girls on Mississippi Coast
was erected. Roman in architecture, this two-story brick building music and science degymnasium and audi-
e$'S..'’,Buteux, pastor of Our Lady ; d^.jneji- Gulf, who had gone to t ;|!faiice for' the sole purpose of ob-f raining': Sisters for his parish, f B^fter-.'a . tiresome-voyage of 41 tmys m 'a sailing-vessel, and a few ■ pays.'spent in New Orleans, they took ^ possession of their new home. .Father Buteux comments favorably on the coincidence of their'arrival on the feast of. the iyiagi. He says, “Will not the Sisters themselves be the star which. .VfilV’lead souls to Jesus Christ?” iy/On the next flay, Sunday, January;.?, 1855, Bishop Van do Velde ■ ffirmallyV installed the Sisters of jSt. Joseph of Bourg in their new mission and first foundation in America.-
i 'In a modest frame cottage, the Sistersbegan their missionary i .work.,. Hardships, sufferingsl and privations, .were their daily fare.
These' held no terrors for the val-ight missionaries, but only served td,? increase -their z.eal. They op-- ened'-’-a-,^little school which was almost? immediately filled. One sm.alljroom served the triple purpose of classroom, dining room and kitchen.
.’> More Workers Sought ’ There was so much to be done that the- Sisters did not suffice for
the iwork, vand so our three .pion- ________________
!' eet;i Sisters earnestly begged help
'ffam (‘'-’’France/' Father Buteux Indian.
From a very modest beginning, St. Joseph’s has grown to the status of a high school, accredited^ by the state of Mississippi and by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Her' daughters, now very numerous, are all proud to be children of this grand institution.
Father Aloise’s Brand New Suit Goes Unadmired
Father Aloise Van Waesberghq.. in his early years in the diocest'l back in the 80s, had charge of some of the poor, difficult missions back'of the Gulf coast. In those days the purchasing of new suit of clothes was almost an event of a lifetime. On' one occasion, however, Father Aloise had been fortunate enough to gather enough funds to fit himself out in a nevv suit, and, arrayed in all his finery, >; he decided that he would mount his horse and go out to visit one '
_______________________________________________________________________________________of his confreres of the clergy Jiv-”-
ing some miles back in the woods/,J
help, 'they had as many as 45 boarders. This liated with the Catholic univer-.He had'traveled quite some dis-.’n
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Facade of ihe imposing:, new St. Joseph academy building at the Bay which has replaced the former school, destroyed by fire. The school is one of the outstanding educational ccnters of the state.
With God’s
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firei*.~at£iArs'.'and-'-from*There^ad-	In ' 1857^'Mons^gneur Blanc Ule legislature of Mississippi.	annex on the‘church property to able, but on this-occasion he no-
. d%sed.; a ^letter . to'Mother , St. Bishop of ’ New Orleans, invited As time went on, the' various accommodate the increased en- ticed that it was very deep, and/
I p|aude,. the'mother-general. With the Sisters of St. Joseph to es- works progressed, new buildings rollment. ,	.	.fearing leqt he spoil his new suit.
■; thea'cleverness'of an apostle, he	tablish'a house in New Orleans,	had to be added and more land	On	the	occasion	of	the	diamond	of clothes, he dismounted,	took off.x
*■ ■ ^acf-.thd^'letter,' counter-signed by	Mother Eulalia whose health :'was	purchased. The Sisters of St. Jos-	jubilee,	St.	Joseph’s'Memorial	hall	his new clothes, wrapped	them in >
^ ithe^Cure'.'of Ars. '	''	not the best at Bay St. Louis was	eph, as true educators, kept	a bundle and placed them under , ;
l^^ervSf. Claude did not re-	transferred to New Orleans and	abreast of the times in methods
j,- i fuse? forgive her daughters,. only	became the first superior, there.1	and in material. Then, on the
it 1 sfigjifound-’difficulty in' choosing	This division left both houses in-	night of November 16, 1907, fire
' : from^'s'a'.many' volunteers. She	need of workers.' The indefatiga-	completely destroyed all their
Wished jtd accept for. this farraway ble Father Buteux, that same year,' -buildings. In the morning, noth-*• missipn;! only great 'and magnani-	visited France to explain the dis-	ing but smouldering ruins re-
" mous^sp'uls; capable of great sac-	tress at Bay St- Louis due to a	mained of the school built at tty:
Good Looks Were No Part of Bishop
his arm, remounted his horse and started across the stream. But ilL fortune seemed to be with him,',4 that day, for in the middle of the.vVI stream the horse stumbled, and' ''gf
Prmmmptlf Father Aloise in righting him re-®	r	leased	his grip upon his -suit -of
irificesA AVlieir-she thought that lack of sufficient staff. Five more cost of so much labor and sacri- Bishop Elder is said to have of- £lothe?1’ ?Pd so?n the/+£adu 9unlc'va i She f ahadV found religious of this’Sisters were sent to America.	fices. In a few hours the work ten remarked that the members of m*nea]*J the .waters of the bayou. -«W
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f i-jesourfiesfvand the work was en- The French flag floating ovejr their North BeacH Boulevard and con- him that one day while he was fat er td come <*own to see him. ■J ; latgediJ^'A boarding . sc’- ----- ’	..............................	’	’----- ----------- 	...
-.. - ~	.	------= school was home afforded protection, But food tinued the school session. The next waiting for a train at a railroad The father came—a man of gigan- c
'added,,;.''Multiple labors claimed	was scarce and difficult to obtain,	year, the new and greater St. Jos-	station in a small country town a J.‘.c ProP°ftlons-	Father Aloise told	i
■..tfhs'-deyotedness- of the Sisters at	At times, corn meal was the only	eph’s was built, a three-story	saiior boy approached him, hand- J}im of his	predicament and asked	;a
jt,the^samev time to catechize the	food of the Sisters.	•	brick building Romanesque in	ed h[m aypo^et knife and said to,h.ln?.	* chnrtw
, young,:and.old,-to take care of the	Shortly after the war, in 1866,	style.	him' “Mister, this belongs to you.” clothes for	him.	The man shortly
to- reach- the idolatrous	the academy was flourishing and	-In 1923 the academy was affi-	Bishop Elder looked at him—and '^72
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Tpo the .Diocese of •Natchez'on Completing One' Hundred Years of , 1. Service —from a Fellow
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Mississip.pi 'and
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at the knife—and dis-
ond-best suits of overalls, which
Diocesan Shield
claimed all ownership in the ar-	*
tide. The sailor boy; however,	’	visit,.,
insisted that it ^belonged to him,1 0 ? -ren' and finally he" explained that,--quite some time' before,,his mates? aboard the ship had presented the ■ knife to him as being the ugliest *? man they had ever seen, with the In the shield of.the Diocese of * instructions that, should'he ever Natchez which is found on the'i see anyone uglier than himself^ he cover of this Centennial edition ' should present it- to thaf person: the wavy line (the'heraldic con-and now the sailor boy presented vention for water) dividing the;;, it to Bishop. Elder. ^\.	-. . \ shield into two parts and the blue-J
----’—o—4—. ■	-	' coloring beneath it are an abstract^
7207 CHILDREN GIVE	representation ■ of the . Mississippi--
SEE HIGH PERCENTAGE .river. As the-token of' the Nat-vi In the Diocese of Natchez, ac- ,.chez Indians was the sun, an her-v'3 cording to ' the 1937 Directory," aldlc > sun is placed in the chief ya there are 7207 children in the pa-rCUpper"part) to represent Natchez.;.'? rochial schools, out of a total CathX’.In"order to. distinguish the Chris-' j
olic population of 35,638, Or about'''tiall'3Natchez from the, pagan Nftt-20 per cent of the entire popula-y'chez ,'ofy the Indians, the sun is' tion. This is one: of the highest/charged with the (cross'* of oUr ' percentages of .children in'the pa*'faith. Thus onithe shield is rep-''^ ''rochial schools of the dioceses of resented in heraldic form Natchez, ? the United'States. '	•	^	.	Mississippi.
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