Word: sulpician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gabriel Richard, a priest of the teaching Sulpician Order, left his native France during the revolution, was sent to Illinois as a missionary, finally settled in Detroit in 1798. Arriving two years after the U. S. had annexed the Michigan territory, Father Richard was a leader of the village of less than 1,000 a year before its first merchant arrived. The priest brought Michigan its first piano, its first organ (whose pipes Indians stole, returned when they suspected the Great Spirit was angry), its first printing press on which he got out the territory's first newspaper...
Superior General of the Order of St. Sulpice, Father Jean Vedier visited the U. S. in 1923. Born of a modest family, he was a scholarly, obscure teacher until Pope Pius XI jumped him over innumerable bishops and made him Archbishop and Cardinal (TIME, Dec. 2, 1929). First Sulpician ever to get a red hat, Cardinal Verdier was invested by Pius XI in person. He is currently in the U. S. on a tour of Sulpician houses. Though fluent in French, German and Italian, he speaks little English, has for interpreter and traveling companion Very Rev. John F. Fenlon, superior...