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SACRED HEART PARISH, SPRINGFIELD, MO.
By The Rev. Father Daniel L. Healy. Rev. Father Francis O'Neill.
Complying with the urgently expressed wishes of special parochial dele- gations. Ilis Lordship, The Rt. Rev. John Joseph Hogan who had then, recently been translated from the diocese of St. Joseph, Missouri, to the newly-made diocese of Kansas City, Missouri, authorized the foundation of a second church, at Springfield, Missouri, and the organization of the new parish was intrusted to the Rev. Father Francis O'Neill, whose ordination had taken place on the second day of June, 1882, at Allegany, New York, The Rt. Rev. Bishop Ryan of Buffalo, pontificating.
Father O'Neill. the first appointee and pastor, had recently attained his twenty-second year, when raised to the sacerdotal dignity, and very shortly thereafter. the important undertaking of upbuilding a new parish, demanded his most persistent and self-consuming energies, as well as the heartiest co- operation of his parishioners, numbering approximately one hundred families.
Having no church edifice, wherein to worship, religious services were, for some time, both on Sundays and holydays, conducted at the neighboring residence of Mr. Cornelius Carr, and subsequently, during the erection of the church, primitively entitled St. Mary's, Rev. Father O'Neill availed himself of the ground-floor of the pastoral residence, where the faithful continued to assemble for divine service, on Sundays and other days of obligation, until the new church was ready for occupancy.
Possibly, the first cash contribution to the contemplated sacred edifice, was that of His Lordship. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Hogan, who having authorized the foundation. proved himself a zealous supporter of the noble undertaking, for whose accomplishment, meritorious, commendable efforts, persistent, arduous labors, and countless, generous sacrifices were continually cooperat- ing, but, alas! the holy temple, so recently erected, was inevitably doomed to unexpected, partial destruction.
According to Rev. Father O'Neill, November 4, 1884, two years after his arrival. must ever remain a memorable date, both in the annals of Spring- field, and in the archives of the new parish, for, at two o'clock P. M., Tues- day. November 4. 1884, an irresistible cyclone frightfully shattered the west wall of St. Mary's church, partially burying the tabernacle, demolishing upper portions of the side walls. uplifting and hurling the church roof to Locust street, and leaving an appalling wake of wreckage, destruction and death, to perpetuate its unannounced and unwelcome visitation.
The rebuilding of the church necessitated appeals to other cities, where Charity, with sympathetic encouragement, opened Her loving, consolatory
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hands, and pastor, friends and people were profoundly and gratefully re- joiced to witness the reconstruction of the recently seriously damaged St. Mary's church.
Pending the undoing of those cyclonic ravages in St. Mary's parish, Rev. Father O'Neill continued to reassemble his severely afflicted congregation. at the pastoral residence, for Sunday services, and, having expended several thousand dollars, collected here and elsewhere, in the noble work of recon- struction, the glorious occasion of re-entering the renovated church edifice arrived : thereafter, the parish, formerly called St. Mary's, was dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Rev. Father O'Neill's pastorate of the parish, formerly St. Mary's, sub- sequently, The Sacred Heart of Jesus, dated from November 1, 1882, and closed in February, 1887; he has, accordingly, devoted nearly a third of a century to the service of his Divine Master ; to the thirty-three years already accorded him, may Heaven graciously grant at least, two more decades, and may his many well-wishers, both clerical and laical, cocelebrate with Father O'Neill, his glorious, golden, sacerdotal jubilee.
The Very Rev. Father Francis Curran, Dean.
The last-named pastor, whose motherland was Old Erin, the world- renowned, "Isle of saints and scholars." having attained the very lofty goal of his noble, spiritual ambition, when the sacred priesthood was conferred on him, at St. Patrick's College, Carlow, Ireland. imitating countless thousands of his compatriots, sought, as the vineyard of his life work, the great and grand, but only partially developed. Commonweal of Missouri.
Arriving at Kansas City, Missouri, in the prime of his manhood, he was first assigned as assistant to the Rev. Father Bernard Donnelly, the famous priest pioneer of the then, unimportant Westport Landing, subse- quently .. Kansas City, Missouri, and presently, classifiable as one of the world's great metropolises.
From Kansas City, Missouri, Father Curran was appointed pastor of Hig- ginsville, Missouri, with attached out-missions, where he labored four years ; thence, recalled to the Cathedral of Kansas City, Missouri, he there served as assistant pastor to The Rt. Rev. John J. Hogan. D. D .: Father Curran's next appointment was to the Cathedral of St. Joseph, Missouri, where, after a pastorate of less than a twelve-month, he was designated as pastor of the Sacred Heart Church of Springfield, Missouri, in February, 1887, still con- tinuing under the jurisdiction of The Rt. Rev. Bishop Hogan.
For many years, Father Curran, unassisted, administered the Sacred Heart Parish; the church was enlarged, a school building erected, a parish auditorium was super-imposed. religious teachers were secured and installed ..
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and other, untold efforts for the spiritualizing of his congregation were fre- quently witnessed.
Rev. Father Curran was elevated to the dignity of Dean, and he con- tinued to spend himself in the service of his Godly Master; declining health, however. unfortunately necessitated the appointment of an assistant, and accordingly, to The Rev. Father T. J. Fortune, was committed the care of the Sacred Heart Parish, while Very Rev. Dean Curran sought, alas! un- successfully, to recuperate in the land of his birthi.
.A very notable and memorable event, in Dean Curran's life, during the assistantship of Rev. Father Fortune, was the solemnization of Very Rev. Father Curran's priestly, silver jubilee, in June, 1902: at this celebration, there were present the following Rt. Reverend. Very Reverend and Reverend clergymen : Rt. Rev. Jolin J. Glennon, Coadjutor Bishop of Kansas City. presently, the illustrious Archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri ; The Very Rev. Thomas F. Lillis, pastor of St. Patrick's church, actually the very successful Bishop of Kansas City Missouri: Very Rev. Dr. P. T. X. O'Reilly, who died two years ago, as chaplain of Elfindale, Missouri : The Very Rev. J. J. Lilly, Springfield, Missouri; The Very Rev. Father Hayden, Topeka, Kan- sas : Rev. M. J. O'Reilly, Joplin, Missouri ; Rev. Austin Hull, Galena, Kan- sas: Rev. Bernard McNamee. Peirce City. Missouri; Rev. Bernard Tell, Monett. Missouri ; Rev. Father Maurus, O. S. B., Springfield, Missouri ; Rev. J. M. Sheridan, Clinton, Missouri: Rev. Father Mclaughlin, Rolla. Mis- souri: Rev. Father Gilfillan, St. Louis, Missouri; Rev. P. O'Rourke, St. Louis, Missouri : Rev. Father Dooley, St. Louis, Missouri ; Rev. Father Head. St. Louis, Missouri : and a visiting priest from lowa and Rev. Father For- tune, assistant to Father Curran. The celebrant of the Mass was the jubilar- ian, Very Rev. Dean Curran : the deacon, Father O'Laughlin ; the sub-deacon, Father Head: and the culogist. Very Rev. Dr. O'Reilly, pastor New Cathe- dral. St. Louis, Missouri.
The infirmities, under which Father Curran labored. defied all efforts at successful treatment; again, the afflicted pastor sought relief in New Mexico and Ireland: here. the Rev. Father Curran underwent a serious, surgical operation which resulted in the temporary and encouraging better- ment of the priestly patient : shortly, thereafter. however, Father Curran was evidently hastening to the close of his sacerdotal career of twenty-seven years. The end came. on June 4. 1904. whilst Rev. Father Curran was visit- ing St. Louis, still persistently seeing that health restoration, unhappily not to be realized, and the lamented, departed pastor of the Sacred Heart Parish, was impressively consigned to mother-earth, in Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri. where his body awaits the eternal and universal, human awakening.
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Rev. Father James Ryan, Third Pastor.
Reluctantly and regretfully do I confess my inability to do more than partial justice to the subject of this biographical sketch, for many years, my friend, and for nearly a quarter of a century, a brother-priest, laboring in the same. spacious vineyard, under identical, episcopal jurisdiction.
Had it occurred to me, many years ago, during our earlier acquaintance- ship, that I should ever be appealed to, in order to perform the saddening duty of biographer to the lamented Father Ryan, an ample fund of pertinent in- formation, presently. easily adaptable, would be in my possession.
The good, unassuming. God-loving, soul-seeking Rev. Father Ryan, hav- ing received Holy Orders from the anointed hands of the Venerable Bishop Hogan, of blessed memory-now sleeping his long, last sleep, before the massive, bronzed, cemetery crucifix, in Mt. St. Mary's, Kansas City, Mis- souri, and there peacefully awaiting the archangelic trumpet's revivifying, resurrection-call, to the judgment, universal-labored for years, as pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Holden, Missouri, to which pastorate, there was at- tached an Out-Mission, at Black Water.
Here, the duties of his Divine calling necessitated considerable exposure, and entailed hardship of such a nature as possibly to impair, somewhat ma- terially, the health of Rev. Father Ryan. From Holden, Missouri, the Very Rev. Father Ryan, P. P., was transferred to the Sacred Heart Church, Springfield, Missouri, where he arrived about the eighth of September. 1904, shortly after the lamented death of Rev. Dean Curran, whom he succeeded in office, and whom he was destined, so shortly thereafter, untimely to follow into eternity.
During seven months only, the dear Rev. Father was pastor of the Sacred Heart Parish : for, having developed a severe chronic rheumatism at his previous pastorate, which, in unguarded moments of religious ardor and patriotic fervor, he estimated all too lightly, he fell an easy and all-unsus- pecting victim to that fatal malady, early in April, 1905.
Whilst the Right Rev. Bishop Hogan and Reverend clergy of Kansas City, Missouri, were assembled in the Cathedral of Kansas City, Missouri, Monday, April 10, 1905. rendering ecclesiastical, obsequial rites, to Rev. Father Prendergast, accidentally poisoned, in the South: the shocking mes- sage reached, before the close of the impressive ceremonies, that Rev. Father Ryan of Springfield, Missouri, had been called from earth.
Father Ryan's spiritual children. or parishioners, were awe-stricken, for, but little more than ten months previously. they were called upon to sac- rifice Very Rev. Dean Curran, namely, on June 4. 1904. and now, on April 10, 1905, they are again plunged into mourning, by the untimely demise of Rev. Father Ryan.
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Solemn, impressive, funeral ceremonies in the Sacred Heart Church, where Father Ryan had, so faithfully tended his flock, during his brief pas- torate, were conducted : many priests were present : the funeral oration was delivered by Very Rev. Father Walsh, LL. D., of Kansas City, Missouri; Right Rev. Bishop Lillis, Coadjutor, was in attendance, and the mortal re- mains of Rev. Father Ryan were tenderly conveyed to Kansas City, Missouri, and there, tearfully consigned to their last resting-place, in the clergy's lot, where so many brother-priests repose, surrounding, even in death, their de- parted, beloved Right Rev. Bishop John Hogan.
Do Thou, O, Christ! Whose bleeding hands Divine. Round sin-stained souls, redeemed, would gladly twine, Infuse men's hearts with blessings which e'er live, To all, bright crowns, and thrones eternal, give.
Rev. Father T. J. Fortune.
Rev. Father T. J. Fortune, one of the five assistants who labored in the Sacred Heart Parish, was ushered into life more than half a century ago, in the world-famed Green Isle of Erin. AAt an early age. he was enrolled as a pupil in the national schools, whence being graduated, he prosecuted, during a period of five years, the academic courses of St. Aidan's Academy, and the higher classical branches of St. Peter's College. Wexford, under the tutor- ship of Diocesan professors. Accordingly, fully equipped, he thence passed to a professor's chair at St. Joseph's College, Dublin, which he very creditably occupied for nearly a decade of years : blessed with a vocation to the priestly life, he entered the Dublin Seminary, where he completed his philosophical course, and, bidding farewell to Ireland, he entered the great Sulpician Col- lege of Paris, France, and therein finished his theological studies. Having been raised to the priesthood, by His Eminence Cardinal Richard, in Paris, chuiring 1896. Father Fortune was, shortly after assigned to the Cathedral of Roseau. British West Indies, at which post. he zealously labored for nearly three years. Appointed pastor at Montserrat. West Indies, in 1896, he erected St. Patrick's church and school, from both of which monuments of his pastoral efforts, declining health necessitated his regretted departure: his affiliation to the Diocese of Kansas City, Missouri, followed, and in April, 1902, owing to the impaired, physical condition of The Very Rev. Dean Cur- ran. Father Fortune was transferred from Kansas City, to Springfield, Mis- souri.
During a period of approximately eight months, Father Fortune either administered the parish, unaided, whilst Dean Curran vainly sought health restoration, at home and abroad, or. under the immediate supervision and direction of Father Curran. Notable among the occurrences of Father For-
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tune's administration, was the solemnly celebrated silver jubilee of the Very Rev. Father Curran, whose labors in the Sacred Heart parish had consumed more than one-half of his sacerdotal career. Father Fortune is still zeal- ously laboring in the Divine Master's vineyard, wherein, may he be graciously accorded many other fruitful years of highly meritorious stewardship.
Rev. Father Peter J. Kilkenny.
Rev. Father Peter J. Kilkenny, who succeeded to the position vacated by the former assistant, Rev. Father Fortune, and who similarly claims as his mother-land, the Innisfail of Destiny, when pondering the interval from infancy, traverses, in his retrospect, a period considerably less than forty years. Recalling his elementary education, he turns with pleasure to many happy days spent in Ireland's national schools, and he. with joy unalloyed, adverts to the several subsequent years devoted to classics, at Moyne, Ireland, under the very able tutorship of his Rev. Professors, Father Duffy and Father Brady, at his beloved Alma Mater, St. John's, Waterford.
After nearly twenty years spent in the wide domain of knowledge, he was, at the early age of twenty-three, elevated to the Sacerdotal dignity, in the famous Seminary of St. Mell's, Longford. Ireland, the ordaining prelate being the Most Rev. Dr. Sheehan. Arriving shortly thereafter. at Kansas City, Missouri, he was assigned, as assistant to The Very Rev. Father Walsh, L. L. D., and he underwent an excellent priestly tutelage, preparatorily to his transfer to the Sacred Heart church, Springfield Missouri, where, owing to the great physical debility of The Very Rev. Dean Curran, pastor, the paro- chial administration was practically reposed in Father Kilkenny.
The zealous and competent young assistant applied himself most com- mendably to the manifold duties of his priestly station, thereby greatly light- ening the burdens of the ailing pastor, when in Springfield, and leaving no reasonable grounds for undue concern when, seeking to regain the health seriously impaired. Dean Curran visited Mexico and Ireland, where a serious operation, resulting in wonderful, temporary improvement, was performed on The Very Rev. Father Curran, by the renowned specialist, Doctor Nixon. Quite recently, Father Kilkenny, being dangerously ill, accompanied by Very Rev. Father Sheridan, of this city, departed from his parish, at Monett, Missouri, and rushed to Chicago, for consultation with the world-famous Doctor Murphy; science, rest and a sojourn in Old Erin. have wrought wonderful, physical changes in the Rev. Saggarth, and both his friends and brother priests now entertain the well-founded hope that countless years of extraordinary usefulness are still awaiting Father Kilkenny in the Divine Master's vineyard.
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Rea. Father George Curry.
Rev. Father George Curry was born in Ireland, considerably more than two-score years ago, of devout Catholic parents, and he is one of a family of eleven children. of whom two became priests, and three dedicated themselves to God, in the religious state. Having finished his early education in Erin's national schools, he applied himself to the classics, in the Diocesan College, conducted by priests of the Diocese, at Ennis, Ireland; thence he passed to the seminary of All Hallows, Dublin, where, having completed his theologi- cal studies, he was ordained to the priesthood. in his twenty-fifth year, by Bishop Donnelly.
Having served as an assistant to the rector of the Cathedral, at Kansas City, Missouri, for two years. he was assigned, in like capacity, to the Sacred Heart church, Springfield, Missouri, in June, 1894: there he remained for about six months, largely sharing the pastoral burden which. Rev. Father Curran, owing to his protracted ill health, was unable, unassisted, to bear fully and satisfactorily. Father Curry is presently pastor of the Catholic church at Lexington, Missouri, a city famous for the glorious resistance of her dauntless Union defenders, during the_ Civil war : there, let us fondly cherish the hope, he will perform prodigies for The Master to Whom his life is dedicated.
Rev. Father William Vogel.
Rev. Father William Vogel, the fourth assistant, assigned by the Rt. Rev. John J. Hogan, 1). 1)., to the Sacred Heart church, was born in Colo- rado about thirty-seven years ago: moving to Missouri, in early childhood, he entered the parochial school, at Tipton. Missouri, conducted by the Sisters of St. Francis. Responsive to a Divine call. thereafter, he was enrolled as a pupil of St. Francis' College, Wisconsin, from which, having completed the prescribed classical course, he was admitted to the seminary similarly named, and there, zealously persevering and happily pursuing his divinity studies, he attained the imperishable goal of his laudable aspirations, the Holy Priest- hood, conferred by the Most Rev. Archbishop Messmer.
AAbout two months after his ordination. Father Vogel was appointed assistant to the lamented pastor. Rev. James Ryan, and conjointly with Father Ryan, he labored very zealously for the material and spiritual up- building of the Sacred Heart parish, recently bereaved of its pastor. The Very Rev. Dean Curran, and shortly, again the people were plunged into deepest mourning. by the untimely, unexpected death of Rev. Father Ryan, who, after approximately seven months of faithful, devoted, pastoral service, was divinely bidden to rest from his labors. For nearly three months subse- quent to Father Ryan's death. Father Vogel ably administered, pending the arrival of Rev. Father Healy. the recently twice-bereaved parish of the
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Sacred Heart. Father Vogel, still young, energetic and enthusiastic, is hap- pily sacrificing himself for the cause, in which his Divine Model was immo- lated, nearly twenty centuries, antecedently.
The Late Rev. John J. O'Reilly, the Fifth Assistant of The Sacred Heart Parishı.
Doubtless one of the most saddening occurrences, because, naturally, absolutely unexpected, was the untimely succumbing, as a typhoid victim, of the late Rev. John J. O'Reilly, in the fifteenth month of his sacerdotal career, far from home and relatives, life-long acquaintances and Ireland, his mother- land.
Despite the tenderest nursing, the closest, medical attention, the mani- fold well-wishes of sympathizing, newly-made friends, and the numberless prayers poured forth in behalf of the ailing Soggarth aroon, the dread dis- ease steadily, successfully and defiantly progressed and, about six o'clock, Monday evening. June 29th, the impress of demise, alas! most strikingly evi- dent. pointed deathward, the agony peacefully ending three hours subse- quently.
While Father O'Reilly lay lifeless at St. John's hospital, members of the Sacred Heart Parish were diligently engaged in draping for his obsequies, the sacred edifice, wherein the young priest had officiated so great a part of his short life.
Those who sympathetically viewed the procession from St. John's hos- pital, especially from the point of junction, at the corners of Locust and Washington avenues. where the robed altar boys, bearing crucifix and funeral torches, followed by delegations of boys and girls of the parish, all led by their tearful pastor, will, possibly never forget the deep emotions witnessed and. awakened, on that memorable occasion.
For nearly two days, the body of the dead assistant lay in state before the high altar ; many a tear was unconsciously shed, when the last glance at the dead priest's face was taken: night and day, unmistakable proofs of esteem for the departed, also of edifying devotion to God's anointed, were evinced by the many, many visitors to the afflicted church in mourning.
Watchers representing the different Catholic societies of the city, suc- ceeded one another, during the long hours of Tuesday and Wednesday nights, as prayerful guards of honor.
Meanwhile, many telegrams flashed in all directions, and two cable- grams apprised Ireland, that Springfield was faithful and sympathetic in these crucial hours of visitation and bereavement.
Beautiful floral offerings, some very costly, well-nigh hid from view, the handsomely mounted casket wherein reposed the young levite: even
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dear Off Freland provided one sincere mourier, an acquaintance of the broth- ers, sisters and parents of Father O'Reilly, and presumably, countless tears and numberless prayers ascended Heavenward from Erin's shores, as the second cablegram was due there, many hours before the interment.
Possibly, never in the history of Springfield, were there other exequial services as impressive as those witnessed on Thursday, July 2nd, whereat fifteen priests, ten sisters, thirteen altar boys and about four hundred and sixty-five otliers, among the latter His Honor, Mayor Ernst of Springfield, were present.
Kansas City furnished a delegation of five priests, St. Louis of one, Springfield four and other towns or cities their quota of five.
The celebrant was Rev. Father Cronin, then of Kansas City, many years a classmate of Father O'Reilly; the deacon was Father O'Sullivan of Kan- sas City ; the sub-deacon was Father Meany, the culogist, Very Rev. Father Walsh of Kansas City, who most eloquently and affectingly developed his very appropriately chosen text, "The Priesthood."
Midday still beheld the assembled congregation in the church ; the funeral cortege comprised over fifty vehicles preceded by a delegation of Catholic societies numbering fifty-six men and it was estimated as more than one- half mile in length.
At the grave, nature most appropriately mingled her pearly rain-drops with the tears of the mourners, who, with fervent prayers and heartfelt blessings, witnessed the consignment to mother-earth of Father John O'Reilly.
Tuesday night. July 7th, the Knights of Columbus of this city held a memorial service in honor of their dead brother, during which, eulogistic ad- dresses and musical numbers were rendered.
One week later, a joint memorial, to which all Catholics in the city were invited, was conducted at the Sacred Heart Hall. Addresses were made by Very Rev. Father Lilly, Father Healy, Mr. Thomas Welsh, D. D., Knights of Columbus, and D. E. Fitzgerald : vocal numbers were rendered by the choir, Mrs. James Quinn, the faithful, generous and devoted organist of the Sacred Heart church, competently accompanying, and two beautiful selec- tions by Miss Fay. organist, at the Immaculate Conception.
The sanctuary, church and facade thereof remained draped from June 30 to July 29, the month's-mind, whereat were present Rev. Father O'Reilly ; Very Rev. Father Lilly, celebrant; Rev. Father Rosch, deacon; Rev. Father Cronin, sub-deacon: Rev. Father Meany of Joplin, Rev. Father O'Connor of St. Louis, Mr. John Lavelle and Mr. Thomas Carney, ecclesiastical stu- dents, acolytes, several altar boys, the church choir and an appreciative and sympathetic congregation; the sermon, a most excellent one, was delivered by the venerable chaplain of the Visitation Convent, the eloquent and Rev. Doctor Father O'Reilly.
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