The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-10-10

aged 70 years, months and 16 days.
The funeral will take place at Stevensville
on Saturday, October 4, 1884, at l p. m, and
the many friends Of the deceased are invited
to DO present-Aissoulian, Sd.
The eminent pioneer Priest and Physician,
Rev. Anthony Ravalli, s. j., Is dead The
news of the deaih Of this jealous missionary
10 not unexpected by the large circle Of his
friends, who have known that he was con-
fined to bed Of sickness for the past four
years Coming to the mountains In 1874 he
was pre-eninently . pioneer priest, and
served at almost every mission in Oregon and
Montana in the double capacity Of Priest and
Physician for nearly forty years. 1t would
be impossible to describe or even TO imagine
the discomforts meekly borne and sacrifices
nohly made In the discharge of his mission
airy duties among the savages Of the Rocky
Mountains, when they had 10 shelter but the
rude lodge and their subsistence only berries,
wild meat and fish. His only mode of travel
in visiting distant tribes and performing per-
ilous journeys on sick calls, in the early days,
was on horseback, with an Indian guide and
pack animal to carry supplies and bedding
Thus provided he went from tribe to tribe,
carrying to individuals and communities the
consultations Of religion, and adm nistering
the remedies Of enlightened medical science
for the cure of their diseased and suffering
bodies. At the end of these lonely journeys,
made psrilous by swimming rivers, this I'M
selfish "Good Samaritan" rested his weary
limbs upon mother earth and dried his gar
ments by brush fire. Throughout the tribes
OF the Rocky Mountains the name Of Father
Ravalli was household word wherever pain
and suffering were scourge and penitent
suppliants sought dissolution from their sins.
While these heroic acts glorify his early Ia
bors among the Indians, his piety, example
and medical science have made glad the
homes Of the most heightened society in civ
ilized life. But the bright soul that guided
. Jealous Priest and ilumi mated the dirt-bs-
grimed lodges with the beams Of Christ's |
glory and salv ration is dimmed forever as to
this world and gone to its effulgence in an
other where day is eternal. Yes, Father Ra- |
valli Is dead and his soul has passed to its re-
ward He died at st. Mary's Mission, Mis- |
soula county, on Thursday, October 2, 1884.
Anthony Ravalli was born near Bologna,
Italy, on the 10th Of May, 1912, and entered |
tho Society Of Jesuits Noyember u, 1897 He |
was ordained priest probably in the year
1910, and to qualify himself for missionary
work ameng the North American Indians he |
studied medicine at the University Of Padua,
coming to the Mountains via Cape Horn,
touching at Rio Jansrio and Lima, South
America, and reaching Oregon in 1874. He
was accompanied to this country by Rev.
Father Gazzoli, and has been located at St.
Mary's Mission, near Stevensville, for the
last fifteen or twenty years, being at the time
Of his death over 72 years Of age. Resquiescat
IN pace-Hetead Herald.
There are hundreds Of people in Western
Montana whose blessings for good deeds have
gone forth upon the head of this coed man
and whose Drawers will rise in intercession |