The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-22
CELEBRATE FEAST
OF ST. BENEDICT
The Founder of the Benedictine
Order of Monks
AN EULOGY Is DELIVERED
Rt. Rev. Abbot Bernard of St. Bernard
College Conducts PontificaI High
Mass-Address of the
Abbot.
AN EULOGY Is DELIVERED

St. Bernard College, March 21-CSpe-
cial THE feast of St. Benedict the foun-
der of the Denedlctine order of monks
was befittingiy observed here today \
solemn pontificial high mass was cele-
brated by the Rt Rev. Abbot Bernard
0. S. b., this morning at o'clock The
Rt. Rev. Abbot was escorted into the
chapel by procession made up of acoly-
ties and monks, the orchestra in the mean
time playing a slow march. The mass
was sung by the students choir in Gre
gorian chant and was rendered admir-
ably. The following assisted at the altar:
The Rev. Boniface. o. S. B.. as presbyter
assistens; the Rev. Albert, o. S. B., as
first assistant deacon; the Rev. Sebastian,
o. S. b, as second assistant deacon; the
Rev. Thomas, O. s. B., as deacon of mass;
the Rev. Edgar, o. s. B., as sub-deacon
of mass: the Revs. Lawrence O. S. B..
and Mathew. o. S. b, as ministri parati
EuIoey On Life.
At the gospel the Rt. Rev. Abbot de-
livered eulogy on the life of ST. Bene-
dict. He spoke as follows
''Sancti Pater Benedicte intercede pro
nobis"
THE Catholic church loves her saints
From the days of Peter, her supreme
ruler, down to that of Plus her present
one, the saints have been the theme Of
Thanksgiving, the burden of her song.
every day of the year. They are her
heroes. She loves them, procaims their
virtues, erects monuments to perpetuate
their memory and their name and calls
upon her children to come and admire, to
rise up" in their admiration and call
them blessed.
History loves to record and dwell on
the deeds and exploits of men who did
honor to the age in which they loved
and labored for the glory of their country
the advancement of society and the good
of their fellowmen. And the church OF
God, moved by similar feelings loves to
linger round the memory OF those of her
heroic children. who while living were
examples of every virtue, and when dead
were deemed worthy to be enrolled on
the calendar Of saints. In honor of these
she has instituted festivals; in reverence
for them she has dedicated chapels.
churches and affairs; In veneration to
them she has raised their bones and ashes
from the tomb to the altar; and in their
praise she hands their honored names
from generation to generation. This tri-
butte of love and veneration to her saints
the church pays with all the greater zeal,
that We her living children may by imi-
tating the lives and virtues of these
honored heroes of God become saints
ourselves.
Calls for Honor.
This morning she calls on us to do
honor to one Of her greatest and most
beloved saints: to one who has a special
claim on our love and devotion; one whose
mouth was Opened to WISDOM one
who looking well to the parth of his
house ate not his bread idle, and whose
children today In every land on the face
of the earth rise up to proclaim him
blessed and in union with us invoke her
paternal intercession before Gods throne
in their behalf.
II would ask you. my dear friends. to
come with me in spirit to a distant land
The name of the land is Italy. 1t Is the