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Last year His Eminence George William Cardinal Mundelein, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, sent a message to His Beatitude Joseph Emanuel Thomas II. Patriarch of Babylon, Shepherd of Eastern Roman Catholics who worship under the Chaldean Rite. Would His ' Beatitude please send a priest to Chicago to minister to 150 Chaldean Rite Catholic families, refugees from Assyria and Mesopotamia and the largest group of their countrymen in the U. S.? In Mosul, Iraq the white-bearded Patriarch assented, chose his black-bearded onetime Vicar General, Rev. Francis Thomay. That 51-year-old cleric shaved off his whiskers, removed...
Although the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church is by far the largest, there are 18 others, each with distinctive customs and liturgies.* The background of the Chaldean Church winds back into earliest antiquity. The Chaldean Empire was the world's first, established after the Deluge by King Nemrud, grandson of Noah. A prophecy of Christ's coming was made by Daniel in Babylon, the Chaldean Empire's capital. When Wise Men Melchior, Gaspar and Balthasar - Chaldeans all - returned from their expedition to Bethlehem, they became, according to tradition, the first group to spread the Gospel...
...Chaldean Francis Thomay was born in Constantinople, educated by Lazarists and Jesuits. From his youth he saw many another Christian butchered by the Turks. Ordained and stationed in Mosul during the War, Father Thomay was put in charge of 200,000 Christians deported by the Turks from Armenia, Anatolia, Mesopotamia because he was the only priest in Mosul who could speak Turkish. By the end of the War, privation had reduced his charges to 10,000. As a result of the massacres and starvation in the Near East, the Chaldean Catholic Church lost six archbishops, 150 priests, almost...
...starving populations wherever he could, regardless of political boundaries. The League credited him with repatriating nearly half a million prisoners belonging to more than 30 different nations, of relieving "1,250,000 Greek, 1,000,000 Russian, 300,000 Armenian and some tens of thousands of Assyrian, Assyro-Chaldean, Bulgarian and Turkish refugees." When Death came for him suddenly in 1930 at 69, Fridtjof Nansen, tall and spare as ever but his hair snow white, was sitting in his garden, thinking thoughts that no biographer can ever tell...
...words he uttered today were to mark the birth of another generation." His somewhat startling fame soon attracted disciples, friends. Margaret Fuller came, then Thoreau; between them The Dial was published. For four years it printed their works, gave the U. S. its first taste of Oriental literature, the Chaldean Oracles. Confucius' Analects...