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*FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Excerpt from The Reminiscences of a Texas Missionary In the month of March, , six Oblate Fathers and one Lay Brother.
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Their six-week circuits took them miles or more into the interior. The memory of Father Jean Baptiste Bretault is still revered by coastal ranch families between Brownsville and Kingsville.

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Another famous member of this group was Father Pierre Yves Keralum , missionary circuit-rider and architect. Oblates were involved in the tumultuous events of early Valley history: border lawlessness, civil wars in the United States and Mexico, yellow fever, and hurricanes. Seven died between and , leading Mazenod to exclaim, "Cruel Texas mission! In San Antonio became their Texas headquarters. With the advent of the railroads and the establishment of their own school for training priests in San Antonio, it was practical for Oblates to offer services after to seventeen counties of Central Texas, then to eight counties of north central Texas and fifteen counties of the Plains and Panhandle.

In and after ministry was accepted in eighteen counties between Houston, Austin, and Palestine. Peter Chapel Car , an oversized van with living facilities for two, that could be enlarged by a tent to become a chapel. Father Charles Taylor — organized the first farmworkers' union in Texas on November 10, , in Crystal City. The Catholic Workers Union, made up of Mexican-American laborers in Zavala and Dimmit counties, reached an agreement with local growers that recognized the right to a living wage and provided for children to be sent to school.

In Father Edward Bastien — organized the people of Zapata, when the townsite was about to be inundated by Falcon Lake, and insisted on a fair compensation for their homes.

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The federal government agreed to replacement value, thus making possible the reconstruction of the town. Father Antonio Gonzales b. Two days after the 10,person rally, Congress extended the minimum wage to farmworkers for the first time.


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In all, by the late s Oblates from the United States and eighteen foreign countries had served ninety-three Texas counties. The order numbered men, its peak, in Front hinge weak, text clean and bright. Plus many unpaginated advertisements.

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For superior he chose Father Jean-Marie Verdet, ordained only three years, with the other five priests ordained in February just prior to their departure and Brother Pierre Roudet having just made his profession in December. These seven men had a long and profound impact on the Oblate mission in Texas, where they all remained until their deaths. Four of them labored until the end of the century; two others ministered twenty and thirty years respectively. Since by that time there was a revolution taking place on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande which impacted the Texas side — an experience often repeated in future years — Bishop Odin had all the Oblates proceed initially to Galveston.

They arrived in May and dedicated themselves to studying English and Spanish while involving themselves in ministry. The young Oblates were inexperienced in running an educational institution and had limited English ability. In order to remedy these weaknesses other Oblates were sent from Canada, but one of the most capable, Father Jean-Marie Baudrand, died in an epidemic of yellow fever only a few months after his arrival in May When not teaching, Father Parisot engaged in long missionary visits of priestless areas of East Texas and western Louisiana, as well as tours extending to central Texas dedicated to collecting money and recruiting boarding students for the new college.

Furthermore, the Oblates found it very difficult to provide sufficient personnel who were both fluent in English and good teachers. In response Bishop Odin pleaded that Catholic education was indeed a missionary work within the context of United States society at that time. The Founder and his Council responded sympathetically, but concurred with their missionaries in Texas. In October the last two Oblates departed Galveston.

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A half-century of Mexican parish ministry When the Oblates returned to Galveston many decades later, in , it was due to their by then well-established reputation among the bishops of the Southwestern United States for ministry among those of Mexican origin. Patrick Church had started a school for the Mexicans in on Avenue H.

A new brick Mexican school was built on Avenue M in , and with the arrival of some refugee priests from Mexico the old wood-frame parish hall of St. Patrick was moved to the new school location to serve as the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe, served on Sundays by three Mexican priests in succession.

During the half-century the Oblates were in charge of the church and its missions, most of the time there was a long-term pastor: Father Paul Hally , Father Joseph Dwan , Father George Green , and Father Cornelius McNally In the early years the men of the parish were mostly laborers employed in unloading the banana boats arriving at Galveston.

Longtime devotional societies were the Guadalupanas and the Vasallos de Cristo Re. Father Hally managed to support the Sisters in the school and have a wood-frame rectory built, but only by taking no salary for himself and continuing to be heavily in debt. The following year the English and Spanish-speaking Catholics in Alvin, located midway between Galveston and Houston, and their chapel of St.