The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-17
Lan Humble Frugal Simple Such Traits Were His Ln LeAuuy

Most Reverend John G. Mur- ray, archbishop of St Paul, de- livered a glowing tribute to the late Bishop John J. Milan in his eulogy at the Pontifical Requiem Mass at St Joseph's cathedral in Hartford this morn ing. A native of Waterbury, Archbishop Murray served as auxiliary bishop under the late prelate and was one of his clos est friends and associates.
 Archbishop Murray's eulosy was as follows:
 Carefully study to present myself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. rightly handling the word of truth" II Tim. II:XV.
 Your Eminence, Your Excel lencies, Right Reverend, Very Reverend and Reverend Fathers, dear Sisters, Beloved in Christ: : The text which II have just quoted from the second epistle of St Paul to Timothy, chapter second, verse fifteenth, is chosen not as theme for Eeulogy but rather as the motto of the noble prelate whose remains lie before the high-altar of this cathedral in which he was consecrated a bishop twenty-four years ago this month. Each incident in his life, each decision he made from childhood to death, each search ing of his own heart to weigh this world, each scrutiny of his every action seemed to have been subjected by him to the test which was given by the Apostle of the Gentiles to his beloved disciple: Carefully study to present myself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly hand ling the word of truth"
 COOPERATING MOTHER
 INSTRUCTED HIM
 In the early years spent on the shores of the majestic Atlan- tic where the Merrimac brings down thousands of rivulets from the snow-capped mountains to the sea, he learned the story of a Divine Providence sung by the ceaseless waves of the infinite ocean as he nestled in the lap of a God-fearing mother who looked upon him as a child of promise. The associations of his parish church made him con- scious of the grandeur of the di- vine priesthood. When the time came for him to begin his colle- giate studies, he went out from his own country to the distant , Province of Quebec where the traditions of a missionary race and a language rich in the liter ature of the Church opened his mind and heart to the appre- citation of the universal aposto- late to which he was called and fitted him to discharge that apostolate, with greater distinc- tion to himself and increased usefulness to the Church.
 When he was ready to enter the seminary he was assigned to an institution which had been founded on the banks of the Hudson through the combined efforts of the hierarchy in the provinces of New York and New England and had been staffed by scholars brought from Belgium, a country to which the greatest of modem missio ionaries, St Fran { cis Xavier, appealed for aid in his effort to win Asia to the standard of the cross. "Da mihi Belgas" was the cry which like- wise summoned the teachers to the srostrum in the old seminary of St Joseph at Troy. What an | impression they made upon their pupils was evident from the many anecdotes told with en- thusiasms and edification in the after years by those who had learned to admire the erudition and devotion of their tutors. When the seminary passed from It's original purpose to become the mother-h house of the Sisters Ol 6t JOSCRAA At " eAo VoAf 0SSSoo0<A preiate who became chairman of a committee of, the alumni of the institution to provide funds for the Identification of the sanc- tuary in which so many had learned to speak to God in the language of true disciples and had received the oils of ordina- ton to perpetuate His sacred ministry.
 \ FIRST ASSIGNMENT
 X 55 YEARS AGO
 Returning from the nursery of apostles to his native .archdio- cese, our young levite was as- signed to his first field In the vineyard of Christ fifty live yeafs ago last December. It was his good fortune to be associated with a man of God whose ideals and methods he always admired and emuluted in his own pastoral responsibilities. ppr'rs thes> 4III