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Show FATHER FRANCIS OF ST, ELIZABETH ELIZA-BETH CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY. ANNIVER-SARY. (Denver News, Sept. 3.) At all of the manes said at St. Elizabeth's Eliza-beth's Church yesterday morning it was announced that next Sunday morning morn-ing a double feast would be held in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of th- arrival of the Francescan Fathers Fath-ers in America and in honor of the thirty-foirth anniversary of the first mass said by Father Francis, pastor of St. Elizabeth's, on the 9th of September, Sep-tember, 1SS6, in the grand old church at Fulda, Germany. Members of the choir will go in a body to 9 o'cioei: mass to offer up communion com-munion for Father Francis, after which breakfast will be served to them in the house adjoining the church. Later they j will sing at grand high mass, said at 10:30 a. m. by Father Francis for all of his friends. General thanksgiving will be held for tfie prosperity of the order. The strug gle of the Franciscan Fathers has been a long and bitter one, but their heroic efforts have been successful in the extreme. ex-treme. Sept. 9' 1875, soon after the Prussian Prus-sian government, confiscated the property prop-erty of the Franciscan order, Fathers Francis, Ferdinand and Gregory, accompanied ac-companied by three lay brothers, arrived ar-rived in America in search of a new home for the order. After traveling west as far ?.s Iowa in their futile search they returned enst and established, estab-lished, houses in New York and later in New Jersey. , In 18S4, when Bismarck made peace with Rome, all of the confiscated property prop-erty in Germany was returned to the order, and Fathers Ferdinand and Gregory returned to their native land, where the former died. Father Francis remained in America, and is truly the father of the order here. The Franciscan order now has sixteen six-teen houses, six In this country and ten in Europe, A large college is conducted conduct-ed in Holland, where students are educated edu-cated for the order. Aug. 16 last Father Francis conducted conduct-ed retreat service In the Franciscan Sisters Church at Dubuque, la., in honor of their silver anniversary, twenty-nine of the sisters present hav ing come over on the same steamer With him in 1875. St. Elizabeth received over $600 worth of. beautiful choir articles yesterday, presented by friends of the pastor. They will all be used in the services next Sunday. |