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Show Fi Valine to celebrate Gold Jubilee The Reverend J.H. Valine, O.P. will celebrate the golden gol-den jubilee of his ordination to the Holy Priesthood, on Friday, February 23, with a concelebrated mass of thanksgiving in St. Bridget's Catholic Church, in Milford. All his congregation and many friends are invited to celebrate this mass with him. Father Valine left the Azore Islands in 1906, and had a colorful career before arriving in Milford to establish estab-lish a church in 1947. Besides establishing the Milford Church, he made a 1 circuit through Southern Utah, establishing churches at Kanab and Pink Cliffs, outside Bryce Canyon. In 1975 he doated the Milford Church building to the Milford Mil-ford Golf Association, and began construction on a new church, which was dedicated in 1977. His colorful life has taken him from farmingontheMil-ford farmingontheMil-ford flat, to selling donuts, first to passengers on trains passing through Milford, and in local stores, to sales to tourists attending mass at Kanab and Pink Cliffs. He has made thousands of friends, both in and out of church circles, many who will be on hand February 23rd to help him celebrate. |