CENTENNIAL CITATIONS
Supplement to THE RECORD
VOLUME 70
COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1957
NUMBER 9
THE MOST REVEREND PETER W. BARTHOLOME, D.D. Bom; Bellechester, Minnesota, 2 April 1893; Education: Campion College, Prairie du Chien, B.A.; Saint Paul Seminary; Apoll-linare University, Rome; Priestly Work: Curate, Saint John's Church, Rochester; Professor, Latin, Greek, Philosophy, Saint Mary's College, Winona; Chaplain, Sisters of Saint Francis Motherhouse, Rochester; Pastor, Saint John's Church, Cafe* donio; Diocesan Director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine; State Chaplain, Knights of Columbus; Pastor, Saint John's Church, Rochester; Appointed Titular Bishop of Lete and Coadjutor Bishop of Saint Cloud cum jure succession'!*, 6 December 1941; Consecrated Bishop, 3 March 1942; Bishop of Saint Cloud, 31 May 1953; Assistant at the Papal Throne, 23 July 1954; President, National Catholic Rural Life Conference, 1956; Episcopal Moderator, Family Ufe Bureau, National Catholic Welfare Conference; Author: The land and the Spirit; Renewal Pledge of Married Coupies.
PETER WILLIAM BARTHOLOME—successor of the apostles, doctor of divinity, we salute you.
Most Reverend Bishop, our Watchful Shepherd, whom the Holy Spirit has placed to rule the sheep of Christ's fold in the Diocese of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, you have with zeal and wisdom governed the flock committed to your care. While striving always to deepen the religious understanding and the spirituality of the faithful, you continue to foster much needed Catholic education on all levels. You were the guiding spirit in the establishment on these grounds of Saint John's Seminary of the Diocese of Saint Cloud. In this way you provide another opportunity for Minnesota's monastery and the faithful clergy and laity of this diocese to cooperate in the advancement of the Kingdom of God. You are known far and wide for your deep interest in the problems of God's people on the land, whose welfare you signally promoted as President of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference. You are a farseeing pioneer in America in sponsoring Marriage Preparation Courses throughout this Diocese. Equally as significant in its long term effects on the spirit of Catholicism in our nation is your consistent labor for the sanctification of married life, not only locally but also nationally, as Moderator of the Family Life Bureau of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. You have been elevated for these outstanding merits to Assistant at the Pontifical Throne by Pope Pius XII.
For these reasons the faculty and student community of St. John's University, in academic session on the occasion of its first century, takes great pleasure and pride in presenting this centennial citation to His Excellency, the Most Reverend Peter William Bartholome, Bishop of Saint Cloud.
LEO FERDINAND DWORSCHAK—bishop, administrator, devoted alumnus, we salute you.
Your Alma Mater honors you as a distinguished son, the only bishop to have taken the whole of his minor and major seminary education at St. John's Abbey. Your seminary years, years of high academic achievement, were promise of the positions of authority to which you were raised. Having served as Chancellor and Vicar General of the Diocese of Fargo for eleven years, you were consecrated Titular Bishop of Tium and named Coadjutor Bishop of Rapid City, and then Auxiliary Bishop of Fargo. The office of bishop is preeminently that of bringing the Word of God to the People of God. That the Word of God might be preacjied with dignity and effectiveness the careful preparation of sermons has ever been a matter of great concern to you. You have labored in collaboration with and under the mandate of the Most Reverend Aloysius J. Muench, Archbishop-Bishop of Fargo and Apostolic Nuncio to Germany. In your capacity as auxiliary bishop. You brought the intensity of prayer and dedication to the Diocese of Fargo by establishing the cloistered Car-melities at Wahpeton. You built a composite of buildings for the Newman Foundation at the University of North Dakota. You convened and presided over the Second Synod of the Diocese and published its decrees in impressive format. You initiated a bulletin for the clergy so that more direct contact is possible between bishop and priests. You organized the youth of the diocese so as to secure their efforts for Catholic Action and to insure a Catholic atmosphere for their social and educational enterprises. You instituted a diocesan program of music which, through trained personnel, coordinates the musical-liturgical activities of the diocese and promotes congregational participation in worship. During your eleven years in the episcopate you have continued Archbishop Muench's apostolic work among the migratory Mexican workers. You have shown an interest in the new American ritual and have taken an active part in the International Congress of Pastoral Liturgy at Assisi; you have seen vocations to the priesthood double in ten years; and have expanded the educational facilities through the erection of inter-parish high schools.
The faculty and student community of St. John's, in academic session on the occasion of its first century, takes joy in recognizing your contribution to Church and country by awarding you a centennial citation.
THE MOST REVEREND LEO F. DWORSCHAK '26, D.D. Bornt Independence, Wisconsin, 6 April 1900; Education: Saint Aloysius Grade School, Arcadia, Wisconsin; Saint John's Preparatory School; Saint John's University, B.A.; Saint John's Seminary; Positions Held: Curate, Saint Anthony's Church, Fargo; Secretary to the Bishop of Fargo; Chancellor of the Fargo Diocese; Vicar General of the Fargo Diocese; Coadjutor Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota; Auxiliary Bishop of Fargo Diocese; Diocesan Administrator in the absence of the Most Reverend Aloysius J. Muench, Archbishop-Bishop of Fargo, Apostolic Nuncio to Germany; Honorsi Appointed Titular Bishop of Tium, 22 June 1946; Consecrated Bishop, 22 August 1946.
MOTHER MARY R1CHARDA PETERS, O.S.B., Ph.D. Bom: Minneapolis, 2 October 1895; Education: Saint Joseph's Grade School, Minneapolis; Saint Benedict's Academy, Saint Joseph; College of Saint Benedict, B.A.; University of Notre Dame, M.A.; Catholic University of America, Ph.D.; Positions Held: Principal, Saint Cloud Cathedral High School; Dean of Residence, College of Saint Benedict; Prioress, Convent of Saint Benedict; President, College of Saint Benedict; Mother President, Congregation of Saint Benedict; Affiliation: American Psychological Association; American Catholic Psychological Association.
MARY RICHARDA PETERS—educator, administrator, mother superior, we salute you.
As President of the College of St. Benedict, twice principal of St. Cloud Cathedral High School, former teacher and Dean of Residence of St. Benedict's College, she has given proof of high and versatile talent in the areas of psychology and education; she has won the admiration of students and the confidence of her associates, so as to become the leader of a sister institution, which itself is leading other institutions in frontline contemporary movements of religion and culture and is sponsoring a program of integration to guide the rising spirit of our times.
As Prioress of the Convent of St. Benedict and Mother President of the Congregation of St. Benedict, we honor her today as the symbol of dedicated womanhood so vital in the Christian concept of society, as one who embodies the authority and vision that animate thousands of hearts and hands of Sisters in religion, a symbol of all those pledged to personal perfection and the welfare of others in the apostolates of education, care of the sick? aged and children, of spreading the light of Christianity East and West among the four colors of the human race.
Our Centennial would be incomplete without paying eminent tribute to our great Twin Sister Institution in its Centennial Year. To Mother Richarda Peters we express our undisguised fraternal esteem and gratitude, hoping that by honoring the mother we reach the children, for a century of unwavering loyalty, for so easily and graciously matching our sacrificial efforts of worship and work with abundant light and devotion, for the humble, heroic epic of lighting the candle of culture, in our great country.
For these reasons the faculty and student community of St. John's University, in academic session on the occasion of its first century, takes joy in awarding you a centennial citation.
[HOMAS LEO KEAVENY—churchman, educator, civic leader, we salute you.
With your educational achievements you have brought honor to your relatives and "riends, to your paternal home, to St. Lawrence College where you did your preparatory education, to St. Paul Seminary where you studied for the priesthood, to the Catholic University of America where you did your graduate work culminating in the doctorate.
Through careful planning, self-sacrificing effort, and energetic leadership you have pro-noted secondary education as superintendent of St. Cloud's Cathedral High School, and as liocesan director of schools. Throughout Minnesota, Catholic high schools have benefited jy your generous effort as president of their association. In the Secondary School Depart-nent of the National Catholic Educational Association as an active member as well as ihairman and vice-president you have advanced Christian ideals on the national level. And >eyond these educational achievements you have made a noteworthy cultural contribution o Central Minnesota by fostering drama through the Cathedra,] Players.
By your consecrated hands as priest, the diocese and the Church have been blessed by 'our efforts as chaplain at the State Reformatory in St. Clou'd, as rector of Holy Angels, ben the Cathedral of St. Cloud, as pastor of St. Henry in Perham, and of St. Mary in Little ?alls. Holy Mother Church has already recognized your contributions by naming you Knight if Saint John Lateran, and elevating you to the rank of Domestic Prelate.
You have honored this diocese; you have honored this state. Both the Catholic and civic ommunity of our region acknowledge a debt to you and are deeply grateful to you. For hese reasons the faculty and student community of St. John's University, in academic ession on the occasion of its first century, takes joy in awarding you a centennial citation.
THE RIGHT REVEREND T. LEO KEAVENY, Ph.D. Born: Hereford, Minnesota, 23 August 1894; Education: Tintah Public School; Saint Lawrence High School, Mount Calvary, Wisconsin; Saint Lawrence College; Saint Paul Seminary; Catholic University of America, M.A., Ph.D.; Fordham University, Columbia University; Positions Held: Instructor, Saint Cloud Cathedral High School; Instructor, Summer Sessions, Loyola University, Chicago, and Nazareth College, Kentucky; Professor of Education, College of Saint Benedict; Organizer and Director, Saint Cloud Cathedral Players; Superintendent, Saint Cloud Cathedral High School; Saint Cloud Diocesan Superiiw tendent of Schools; Chaplain, Minnesota State Reformatory, Saint Cloud; Rector, Saint Cloud Cathedral; Pastor, Church of Saint Henry, Perham/ Pastor, Saint Mary's Church, Little Falls; President, Catholic Secondary Schools of Minnesota; Chairman, Midwest Unit of Catholic Secondary Schools, NCEA; Vice-president, Catholic Secondary School Department, NCEA; Honorsi Knight of Saint John Lateran, First Class, 30 October 1950; Created a Domestic Prelate by Pope Pius XII, 19 February 1952.
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