Codex Lethbridge
Transcription: 35
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The music at High Mass was grand. Three brass instruments accompanied the organ during mass; The N.W.M.P. band played three fine pieces before and after mass. The Church is beautifully decorated as usual.
April 2 [written in the back/right margin] Father VanTighem set out on a journey to day to Pincher Creek, with two four horse teams, kindly furnished by Capt. Sean from the N.W.M. Police.
The Sergt Major McDonnell accompanies the father. The father goes after a load of small pine trees to be planted around the Church in Lethbridge. Mr Beauvais an old friend of the missionary, residing near the rocky mountains, receives the Father with great courtesy and accompannies [sic] him to the foot Hills. On the 6th the Father returns to Lethbridge and immediately plants the little evergreen trees.
News from our good Bishop !! His Lordship will be in Calgary on the 10th of this month. All the Fathers are invited to go and meet Monseigneur at Calgary. In consequence father VanTighem leaves Lethbridge again, and proceeds to Calgary by McLeod.
There were fourteen Fathers to meet His Lordship whose health is very-much emproved [sic]. Monseigneur will go to St. Albert at once, and our Missions in this district will be visited by Him, in June only.
14th apr. [written in the back/right margin] Father VanTighem returns to MacLeod on the 14th apr. and on the same day, accompies [sic] Father Foisy to the Piegan Reserve to visit his brother; Frère Jean whom he has not met for almost a year.
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1894 [written in the top margin]
April /15/ [written in the front/left margin] Father VanTighem says High Mass at the Piegan Mission assisted by three little Indians only and one lady. This young lady is a protestant by name but Catholic in her heart, and every Sunday attend Holy Mass at the Cath. Mission although there is a minister and a ministress [sic], and some Sisters even, of the Anglican Church at the reserve. She will be received in the Church before long.
The father returns on the same day to MacLeod with his little nephew Joseph, and there conducts the evening service and addresses the congregation.
16th [written in the front/left margin] The next day, Capt. M.cDonnell kindly offers the father his fine team and in a few hours arrives home again.
During the father abscence [sic] from Lethbridge, Father Bourdeau from Brandon, remained at this Mission. Almost all our Slovack [sic] Catholic have departed from Lethbridge. Most of them had no work and the others, although they had work would not remain on account of the low salary.
May 21 [written in the front/left margin] Our children, twenty two in number, did their first communion yesterday. Trinity Sunday. Among them were, two Belgians
May 28 [written in the front/left margin] A dispatch from Calgary announces that His Lordship Bishop Grandin will visit Lethbridge on the 29th and administer the Sacrament of Confirmation on the first day of June.
June 2: [written in the front/left margin] His Lordship administered Confirmation to 32 people, and only remained two days in Lethbridge.
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The music at High Mass was grand. Three brass instruments accompanied the organ during mass; The N.W.M.P. band played three fine pieces before and after mass. The Church is beautifully decorated as usual.
April 2 [written in the back/right margin] Father VanTighem set out on a journey to day to Pincher Creek, with two four horse teams, kindly furnished by Capt. Sean from the N.W.M. Police.
The Sergt Major McDonnell accompanies the father. The father goes after a load of small pine trees to be planted around the Church in Lethbridge. Mr Beauvais an old friend of the missionary, residing near the rocky mountains, receives the Father with great courtesy and accompannies [sic] him to the foot Hills. On the 6th the Father returns to Lethbridge and immediately plants the little evergreen trees.
News from our good Bishop !! His Lordship will be in Calgary on the 10th of this month. All the Fathers are invited to go and meet Monseigneur at Calgary. In consequence father VanTighem leaves Lethbridge again, and proceeds to Calgary by McLeod.
There were fourteen Fathers to meet His Lordship whose health is very-much emproved [sic]. Monseigneur will go to St. Albert at once, and our Missions in this district will be visited by Him, in June only.
14th apr. [written in the back/right margin] Father VanTighem returns to MacLeod on the 14th apr. and on the same day, accompies [sic] Father Foisy to the Piegan Reserve to visit his brother; Frère Jean whom he has not met for almost a year.
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1894 [written in the top margin]
April /15/ [written in the front/left margin] Father VanTighem says High Mass at the Piegan Mission assisted by three little Indians only and one lady. This young lady is a protestant by name but Catholic in her heart, and every Sunday attend Holy Mass at the Cath. Mission although there is a minister and a ministress [sic], and some Sisters even, of the Anglican Church at the reserve. She will be received in the Church before long.
The father returns on the same day to MacLeod with his little nephew Joseph, and there conducts the evening service and addresses the congregation.
16th [written in the front/left margin] The next day, Capt. M.cDonnell kindly offers the father his fine team and in a few hours arrives home again.
During the father abscence [sic] from Lethbridge, Father Bourdeau from Brandon, remained at this Mission. Almost all our Slovack [sic] Catholic have departed from Lethbridge. Most of them had no work and the others, although they had work would not remain on account of the low salary.
May 21 [written in the front/left margin] Our children, twenty two in number, did their first communion yesterday. Trinity Sunday. Among them were, two Belgians
May 28 [written in the front/left margin] A dispatch from Calgary announces that His Lordship Bishop Grandin will visit Lethbridge on the 29th and administer the Sacrament of Confirmation on the first day of June.
June 2: [written in the front/left margin] His Lordship administered Confirmation to 32 people, and only remained two days in Lethbridge.
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