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THE RECORD
Friday, June 14,1957
LUIGI GINO LIGUTTI—priest, author, propagandist for human welfare, we salute you.
Born in a rural home in the sunny valley of the Po, experiencing at first hand the strength-giving values of a home on the land, Monsignor Luigi Gino Ligutti has led a relentless crusade to extend the blessings of "space, light, and air" to the great masses of humanity. After an apprenticeship in a rural parish in the heartland of America, where he guided idle hands and unused resources to the building of productive homes on the land, Monsignor Ligutti expanded and applied this formula over and over again on a world-wide scale. Criss-crossing the globe from Santiago to Singapore in his capacity as Director of the Na-, tional Catholic Rural Life Conference and Permanent Observer with the Food and Agriculture Organization for the Holy See, it has been his unswerving aim to shake governments and social and religious leaders out of the apathy which would accept the status quo as divinely ordained and unchangeable. Anxious to promote the welfare of the common man wherever he be, Monsignor Ligutti has associated himself with worthwhile causes throughout the world—from the cooperative movement to the Technical Assistance Program. In all of his ceaseless travel and activity, it has been his constant aim to lift human families out of their suffering and despair by making it possible for them to own and manage intelligently a piece of the good earth which God has given for the support of all mankind.
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 recognizing the contribution of this great leader and churchman by awarding him a centennial citation.
THE RIGHT REVEREND LUIGI GINO LIGUTTI, LLD. Born:' Romans, Udine, Italy, 21 March 1895;. Education: Romans I ' Elementary School; Cividale and Udine Petit Seminary; Saint Ambrose College, B.A.; Saint Mary's Seminary, S.T.B.; Catholic University of America, M.A.; Positions Held: Pastor, Woodbine and Granger, Iowa; Instructor in Latin, Greek and History, Des Moines Catholic Academy; President, Executive Secretary, and now Executive Director of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference; Studied and Lectured on Cooperatives in Nova Scotia, Scandinavia, British Isles, Continental Europe, Mexico, South America, Australia, New Zealand; Member, War Relief Services Commission; Papal Observer, Fourth Session of FAO, Costa Rica FAO Institute; Consultant to ;he Director of the Technical Assistance Program, U.S. Department of State; Honors: Appointed Domestic Prelate by Pope Pius XI; LLD., Saint Ambrose College; LL.D., Loyola University; Author: Rural Roads to Security; and numerous articles on rural life.
THE RIGHT REVEREND MARTIN B. HELLRIEGEL, LH.D. Born: Heppenheim, Germany, 9 November 1890; Education: Heppenheim Lyceum; Saint Meinrad's Seminary; Kenrick Seminary; Studied Liturgy in Rome, Klosterneuberg, Maria Laach, Maredsous; Positions Held; Pastor, Church of the Holy Cross, St. Louis; Chaplain, Sisters of the Precious Blood, O'Fallon; Instructor, Saint Mary's Junior College; Lecturer, Pius X Summer School of Liturgy, Trapp Singing Camp, Notre Dame Summer School of Liturgy; Associate Editor of Worship; President, The Liturgical Conference; Honors: Doctor of Humane Letters, Saint Benedict's College, Atchison; Papal Chamberlain; Domestic Prelate; Author: The Holy Sacrifice; Vigilate at Orate; Maranatha Jesu; Good Friday; Veni Creator; Deo Gratias; and other litrugical booklets; Key to the Solution of the Social Question; The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass; Vine and Branches.
MARTIN BERNARD HELLRIEGEL—priest, prelate, liturgical pioneer, we salute you.
Catholic America has learned to esteem you for pioneering most zealously and successfully the ideals of pastoral liturgy enunciated by Popes Pius X, XI and XII. With profound gratitude Saint John's today hails you as a cherished friend and as the selfless and wise col-! laborator in its own parallel thirty years of effort to advance the liturgical apostolate. As a young seminarian in America, the spiritual legacy of your early home life in Heppenheim, Germany, stretch deeper roots in the congenial atmosphere of St. Meinrad's Abbey and Seminary, where, according to the Rule of St. Benedict, nothing was preferred to the Work of God. A mere four years after ordination, you were appointed chaplain of the Motherhouse of the Sisters of the Precious Blood in O'Fallon, Missouri. For twenty-two years you guided a program of Religious living and praying with the Church that became a model and inspiration for Religious communities of women throughout the United States. In the seventeen years of your pastorate at Holy Cross Church in St. Louis, your parish has become a place of pilgrimage for many hundreds of priests eager to learn how the principles of active and intelligent participation in the liturgy can be translated into action to the greatest spiritual profit of God's holy people. Through your books, your numerous pamphlets and articles, your retreats, your lectures at Universities.and summer schools, and above all through the preaching of your living example in prayer and the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice, you have attracted priests, Religious and laity, to the liturgical source of holiness. The Holy Father honored you by creating you a domestic prelate; your fellow liturgists gave evidence of their high regard by three times electing you president of the National Liturgical Conference.
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.
EDWARD JAMES DEVTTT—lawyer, judge, public servant, we salute you.
As an alumnus of Saint John's University you entered upon a career of public service that reflects the best traditions of your Church, your country, and your Alma Mater. Your diversified experience in the three branches of our tripartite governmental system as congressman, judge, and administrator, your constant preoccupation with the societal good, have set an enviable example, revealing the finest possibilities of a public career to a rising generation of young college men. Your energetic leadership as President of the Alumni Association for seven years did much to strengthen'this organization. You used this opportunity as a further means of expressing your personal devotion to Saint John's and to assist in perpetuating its ideals among the alumni. You distinguished yourself in the service of your country as a naval commander in the Second World War and were awarded the Purple Heart. Your activities in the field of politics have served to enoble the "art of the possible" without compromise of principle. This work of yours has underlined the dignity and need of that profession in any free system of government. In your present high trust as Federal District Judge you have won merited recognition for your wisdom and courage. You uphold not only constitutional rights but also Christian principles. You show warm human insight in respecting the sacred demands of justice and at the same time temper it with mercy. For your significant, valuable, and lasting service we are grateful. " The faculty and student community of Saint John's University, in academic session on the occasion of its first century, takes joy in recognizing this contribution by awarding you a centennial citation.
THE HONORABLE EDWARD J. DEVITT '32, LLB. Born: Saint Paul, Minnesota, 5 May 1911; Education: Saint John's Preparatory School; Saint John's University, B.A.; University of North Dakota Law School, LL.B.; University of North Dakota School of Commerce, B.S.C.; Positions Held: Instructor, University of North Dakota Law School; Instructor, Saint Paul School of Law; Intelligence Officer, United States Navy; National President, Saint John's Alumni Association; East Grand Forks Municipal Judge; Assistant Attorney General of Minnesota; Member of the Eightieth United States Congress; Ramsey County Probate Judge; United States District Court Judge, Minnesota.
THE HONORABLE EUGENE J. McCARTHY '35, M.A., M.C. Born: Watkins, Minnesota, 29 March 1916; Education: Saint John's University, B.A.; University of Minnesota, M.A.; Positions Held: Instructor, Public School System, North Dakota; Instructor, Public School System, Minnesota; Professor, Education and Economics, Saint John's University; Professor and Acting Chairman of the Department of Sociology, College of Saint Thomas; Civilian Technical Assistant,Military Intelligence Department, War Department; Member of United States Congress, Fourth District, Minnesota, 1949 to present.
EUGENE JOSEPH McCARTHY—teacher, congressman, political philosopher, we salute you.
Your distinguished career is well known: as a public school teacher; as a college professor; as a member of the United States House of Representatives, elected at the early age of 32 and serving continuously since 1948; as honored by your political party with membership on the Ways and Means Committee; as a writer of thoughtful articles on political thought; as a public speaker whose addresses combine ideas and pointed humor in such a way as to win vigorous approval equally at political rallies and at dignified academic gatherings.
We salute you for clarifying the position of the Catholic in politics. To those who content themselves simply with proclaiming lofty principles while denouncing all practical politics as dirty, you have given an example that a Christian scholar, wise in speculative virtue, can enter the area of rough and ready partisan politics and both be understood and be influential without compromising personal integrity. To others who would use the title ol Catholic as a cloak for their own righteousness and as a tool for gaining personal power you have shown the true obligation of the layman in politics. You have gone into the marketplace with courage, taken the principles of Natural Law, theology, the social encyclicals, and translated them into prudential policies for promoting the common good. To those who have created suspicion about the loyalty of Catholics to our form of government, you have demonstrated by your defense of the rights and liberty of all citizens and by your understanding of the mutual respect required by citizens in a pluralistic society that being an exemplary Catholic and an exemplary American statesman are complimentary and not conflicting positions. Finally, the example of your career has helped to strengthen confidence in the elective process, giving evidence that an intellectual leader of spiritual integrity car: merit the approval of the majority and giving witness of your deep conviction that the people can be trusted and that the people are worthy of trust.
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.
WILLIAM BUSCH—liturgist, professor, scholar, we salute you.
As a founding Father of the American liturgical movement, being the first-to speak out publicly and consistently in the St. Paul Bulletin, America, Commonweal, and other publications for the organization and promotion of the liturgical apostolate in the United States; founding associate editor of Orate Fratres, and esteemed advisor to the Liturgical Press since its founding in 1925; one of the foresighted organizers of the American National Liturgical Week in 1940 and since that time a discerning guide and member of the Liturgical Conference; tireless author and translator of numerous liturgical articles and books, which have significantly contributed to the spiritual literature of the English-speaking world, and have so enriched the souls of many; promoter of the lay apostolate; lecturer; by bringing an understanding of the liturgical life of the Church to every seminarian who has studied under you, to priests, sisters, and members of the laity, you have honored your archdiocese, the entire Catholic community throughout the English-speaking world, and placed all of us in your debt. You have been for a lifetime a far-seeing, zealous, and courageous pioneer in a difficult apostolate.
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.
THE REVEREND WILLIAM BUSCH, LM.H.Sc. Born: Red Wing Minnesota, 6 October 1882; Education; College of Sain1 Thomas; Saint Paul Seminary; University of Louvain, Licentiate in Moral and Historical Sciences; Positions Held: Professor os Church History and Liturgy, Saint Paul Seminary; Associatt Editor, Worship; Organizer and Member, The Liturgical Con ference; Translator of various Liturgical books and articles Author of numerous articles in Orafe Fratres (Worship).
