Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-28
DIEDIN THE HARNESS.
Rev. Joseph Strub, Provincial of the
Society of the Holy Ghost
A LIFE OF WORK AND SUCCESS.
A Friend of Marshal Mcmahon, Soldier of
the Cross in Africa,
HIS GREAT WORK IN TWO CONTINENTS

Yesterday at las P. M. the Very Rev.
Joseph Strub, Provincial of the Society of
the Holy Ghost in America, died at the
Holy Ghost College, on Bluff street, after
an illness of eight days. Born November
l, 1888, in the diocese OF Strasburg, Alsace,
he pursued his studies in the seminary of
the same diocese with marked success.
Having finished his PHILOSOPHY, he left the
seminary with 13 other Levites, and in their
company, entered the scholasticate of the
Society of the Holy Ghost, about the year
1856
As a Scholastic his health failed, and he
asked as q favor 70 be sent out with band
of missionaries to the African mission.
Having despaired of recovering from his
illness he sought, as last consolation, the
privilege of dying in the land of the
heather. There, however, contrary to his
expectations, he recovered his health and
labored assiduously for six years, from 1857
to 1868, in the new and since fourishing and
important mission of Dakar, on the western
coast of the Dark Continent. 1t was there
that he was ordained priest on Holy Satur-
day, 1858. BY the Vicar Apostolic of Sene-
gambia, and be celebrated his first mass on
the Easter Sunday following. He made his
religious profession and he pronounced his
first VOWS in September, 1860.
ATTACKED BY FEVER.
AS Procurator of the Mission and Vicar
General Of Mgr. Kobes, the Vicar Apos.
tolic, his zeal and energy were untiring,
until at last he succumbed to violent at
tack of yellow fever This obliged him to
return to France in 1863, after having been
for the two preceding years Vice Superior
of the community of Dakar. When he had
recruited his health he received from the
Superior General of the society the import
ant post of Superior in the house at Marien-
thai, archdiocese of Cologne, in Germany.
After little while he was transferred to
the pilgrimage at Marienstadt where for
some years he directed a college, orphanage
and other various works of that cele-
brated monastery. During the Franco
Pruss1an war Father Strub was chosen
Chaplain-general of the French prisoners at
Mayenee. He was the intimate friend and
confdant of Marshal McMahon, and was
intrusted with the distribution OF the char
titles contributed for the relief of the French
prisoners. For services rendered to his
countrymen during that trying period he
was decorated by the Marshal President
with the large cross ofthe Legion of Honor.
After his return to Marienstadt he was ap-
pointed Provincial of the German Province
of the Holy Ghost, and filled that office with
rare ability until the expulsion of the re-
ligious orders from Germany in 1873 obliged
the Fathers of the Holy Ghost to dissolve
their communities in that country.
CAME HERE IN 1874.
In January, 1874, he came to the United
States where he has labored ever since. For
years ne administered the parish of St.
Mary's at Sharpsburg. Under his guidance
the Fathers of the HOLY Ghost have for these
many years worked we'll and successfully in
many different parts of the United States for
the glory of God and the salvation of souls
The Catholic College, inaugurated in 1873
on Wylie avenue, transferred in 1884 to
Bluff street, has since been successfully con-
Quoted under the auspices of the deceased.
Father Strub was a man of fine physique
and distinguished personal appearance, and
appeared to have constitution sufficient to
have carried him well up to the century
mark, but his work in a torrid cline was
doubtless heavy draft on vitality.