The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-03
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BUTTE, MONT.
His Many Years of Priesthood.

his many 4eaTS OF Pr1eSCnO0d.
The thirty-f1fth anniversary of the
priesthood of Father De Siere occurred
sunday and was the thirty-f1fth ami
versary of the first solemn mass pro-
nounced by him on his advent into
priesthood.
Father De Siere was born in 1S43 at
t4outhem, Flanders, and received his
education in the best schools and under
the leading masters of Belgium, having
attended the College of Furnes and the
seminary of Bruges. For twelve years
he was professor in the College of Dix
nude. He was assistant priest for
four years in Roulers, a prosperous
manufacturing city of $4,000 inhabit-
ants in Belgium. He spent four years
as pastor in Westende near Ostende.
In 1887 he came to America and took
the position of assistant priest at Deer
Lodge. From there he went to Ana
conda and was the first pastor of St
Paufs church at that place. About
ten years ago he came to Butte and
! Immediately took charge of st. Pat
rick church. which position he still
holds
Father De Siere is a great lover of
children, and his happiest hours are
spent with the little ones of his parish
of whom there are almost 4,O0O
When he came here there were two
priests in Silver Bow county, but the
membership of the church has so in
creased as to now require the work of
nine.
Earnest in his work, modest in his
conversation and gentle in his man
ners, Father De Siere has made friends
of all with whom he has come in con-
tact, and his love for and interest in
the children of his parish has endeared
them all to him.
At the church of the Sacred Heart
| services will be held on New Years
day in both the morning and evening.
In the morning Rev. Father Moskopp
of the Jesuit college of Spokane will
preach at 10 o'clock, and in the even
ing the Rev. Father Lishner. Maur-
list priest from Salt Lake City, will
deliver the sermon.
There has been practically no change
in the condition of Mrs. William A..
Clark, jr., for the past twenty-four
hours. She continues to hold her own,
and this is taken as a favorable sign.
That she withstood the operation so
well and has been resting a great deal
since augurs well for her ultimate re-
covery.
DIR. Perkins states that he feels very
much encouraged at the outlook.
Father English of St Mary's parish,
in Dublin gulch, while attending a sick
call on Sunday night. slipped and fell,
breaking his arm and otherwise bruis-
! ing his body.
He was taken to St James hospital,
I I1-lon &c mi 1rip of tn
and he is now resting comfortably His
injuries, while painful, are not serious,
but it will be some weeks before he will
be able to be about again, much to the
regret of his congregation.
o
Joe Walsh, a popular employee of
Cans & Klein's store, ruptured a blood
vessel in one of his legs while getting
out of bed a few days ago. Physicians
We're hastily summoned to stop the
flow of blood, as he was threatened
with bleeding to death.
Tim Mahoney,1 a pioneer prospector
and miner, whose home is in the Bull
northwest of here, was in the city re-
Gently.
The Young Ladies' sodality of the
/ Sacred Heart church attended the flu
neral service of Miss Mary Lynch on
Tuesday afternoon at o'clock at Sa-
cred Heart church, in a body.
]. S. Flanagan is slightly under the
weather and is more or less confined to
his room.
o. B. O'Bannon, pioneer of Mon