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Show Mgr. Stephen. The late director of the Catholic Indian In-dian missions bureau, the venerable Monsignor Stephan. had a varied career. ca-reer. Born in Germany of Greek father ar?d an Irish mother, he was educated fot the army, and had actually served a short time when he was afflicted with blindness, which lasted two years. Singularly, Sin-gularly, the desire to become a priest came to him with overwhelming force during those darkened years: and when in 1847 he was called to this country to attend his father's deathbed, he entered en-tered an American seminary, arid in due time was ordained. Then followed a long and creditable career as army chaplain in the civil war. and when peace was declared a longer career as missionary among the Indians. For many years he looked after their interests in-terests in Washington, but his duties lapsed and health failed when the government gov-ernment abandoned its ohJ and honorable honor-able policy of supporting Catholic Indian In-dian schools. Ave Maria. |