Chapter 1 – Years 1856 to 1880

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

- Psalm 100:4-5

“You, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him.

So your servant has found courage to pray to you.

- 1 Chronicles 17:25

Diocese of Milwaukee News Some Pioneer Families of Faith

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY FREE

Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them. The Lord your God, who is going before

you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, and in the desert. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”

- Deuteronomy 1:29-31

Civil War 1860 – 1865 Apache War 1861 – 1865 Sioux War 1862 – 1867

Civil War Veterans:

Over 575 frontiersmen from the villages of Fall River, Otsego, Hampden and Columbus fought in the Civil

War. They formed 22 separate company units, quite an undertaking for these fledgling communities.

THOSE IN AUTHORITY THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES

Live as freemen, yet not using your freedom as a cloak for malice but as servants of God.

Honor all men; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.

- 1 St. Peter 2:16-17

Presidents

Governors of Wisconsin Population

Columbus News

Catholic settlers, mostly Irish arrive in Columbus starting in the 1840’s

1^st passenger train arrives in Columbus. May 1857

Newspaper Columbus Reporter moved to Portage and becomes the Columbia County Reporter 1857

Kurth Brewery established 1859

Columbia Health Care Center in Wyocena, WI established 1860

Track between Columbus and Portage completed 1864

Columbus’s first lawyer becomes Assemblyman, Senator, Lt.Governor and then Governor of Wisconsin - James T. Lewis 1864

Columbus is one of the oldest and most prosperous towns in Columbia County and the county seat.

States admitted to the Union Diocese formed in United States of America

SAINTS AND MARTYRS

Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked.

None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

- Daniel 12:10

Martyrs

Saints

BUILDING UP THE BODY OF CHRIST WORLDWIDE

…In him the whole structure is closely fitted together and grows into a temple holy in the Lord;

in him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in the Spirit.

- Ephesians 2:21-22

ORDERS FORMED

Pope Pius IX approves the Sisters of the Christian Schools 1859

St. John Bosco forms the Salesian congregation 1859

Religious congregation Handmaids of Mary Serving the Sick receives diocesan approbation 1860

Founding of the Daughters of the Divine Will 1865

Founding of the Oblates of the Assumption 1865

Institute of the Daughters of Saint Anne, Mother of Mary Immaculate founded 1866

Founding of the Missionaries of Africa 1868

Founding of the German Center Party 1870

Founding of the Little Sisters of the Poor by Saint Teresa de Gesu, Jornet y Ibars 1872

Founding of the Association of Young Catholic Daughters of Mary and Saint Teresa of Jesus 1873

Founding of the Daughters of Charity of the Most Precious Blood, a congregation devoted to the care of orphans 1873

The Society of Mary, which combines education with missionary work 1873

Founding of the Servants of the Sacred Heart 1874

The Priestly Society of the Catholic Apostolate receives papal approval 1874

Episcopal approval of the Daughters of the Divine Will 1875

Founding of the Congregation of the Cross 1875

Founding of the Institute of Josephine Brothers 1876

Founding of the Institute of Sisters of the Immaculata 1876

Founding of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart 1877

Founding of the Oblates of St. Joseph 1878

Founding of the Oblates of the Sacred Heart 1878

Founding of the Sisters of Jesus, Mary and Joseph 1880

Founding of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart by Mother Cabrini 1880

DIOCESE FORMED

NEWS FROM THE VATICAN

Spanish Queen Isabella II ordered the Jesuits to take charge of all Catholic missions in Mindanaw and Sulu(Philipines) 1852

Bible translated into Tswana language 1857

American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX 1860

Pres. Abraham Lincoln sent Ambassador Archbishop Hughes to Rome for a Papal audience 1861

Catholic Jesuits opened missions in Tetuan (Zamboanga) and Isabela (Basilan) Philipines 1862

Blessed Anna Rosa Gattorno receives the hidden stigmata 1862

Pope Pius IX names Saint Peter of Alcantara as patron of Brazil 1862

Death of Cajetan Cardinal Bedini, papal diplomat to the United States 1864

First Catholic parish church for blacks in the United States dedicated at Baltimore, Maryland 1864

Pope Pius IX decreed that all Catholics were forbidden to take part in political life to usurping the Kingdom of Italy 1968

Vatican Council I Ecumenical Council publishes the dogmatic constitution Dei filius 1870

Saint Alphonsus Liguori proclaimed a Doctor of the Church 1871

Breakaway of the Old Catholics sect 1871

Destruction of Saint Genevieve 1871

Catholic Truth Society organized in Great Britain 1872

Beginning of Kulturkampf in Germany, Catholics were persecuted and Jesuits expelled in Germany 1872 ended in 1878

Pope Pius IX encyclical On the Church in Armenia published 1873

Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875

Archbishop John McCloskey of New York becomes the first American Cardinal 1875

St. Francis De Sales named Doctor of the Church 1877

Pope Leo XIII's encyclical, Inscrutabili dei consilio 1878

Pope Leo XIII issues the encyclical Aeterni patris, urging the study of "true" philosophy; this led to a revival of both Thomist

and Scholastic philosophy 1879

Victor Emmanuel II, seized the Papal States in 1859-1860 and renamed the Kingdom of Italy. Rome was chosen as its capital

in 1870. Pope Pius IX became "a prisoner of the Vatican," refusing to accept the Italian government's Law of Guarantees in

1871, which offered compensation in return for the Pope's disband of Temporal Power.

SIGHTINGS OF MARY AND OTHER SAINTS

Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Blessed art

thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb! And how have I deserved that the mother

of my Lord should come to me?…

-St. Luke 1:42-44

ADVANCEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL AND TRANSPORTATION

“All this”, David said, “I have in writing from the hand of the Lord upon me,

and he gave me understanding in all the details of the plan.”

- 1 Chronicles 28:19

Medical and Technology and Home Life

WORLD EVENTS

“Woe to the world because of scandals! For it must needs be that scandals come,

but woe to the man through whom scandal does come!

- St. Matthew 18:7

US EVENTS

Mormons walk across the Great Plains in Utah 1856 – 1860

John Brown, American abolitionist is hanged, 1859

Gold and silver rushes in Nevada and Colorado 1859

First Pony Express service begins in United States 1860

Civil War 1860 - 1865

Gold rush in Montana 1862

Battle of the Ironclad Ships 1862

The Homestead act promised free land to settlers in the West 1862

Morrill Act gave Federal land to support state agricultural and technical colleges 1862

Emancipation Proclamation issued 1863

The motto "In God We Trust" first appeared on U.S. coins - specifically, the bronze two-cent piece issued during the American Civil War. 1864

American Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery 1865

The Sultana, a ship explodes on the Mississippi River killing 1,653. 1865

President Lincoln Shot in office 1865

Reconstruction of the South is undertaken, by 1870 all states have rejoined the Union 1865 - 1877

First trans-Atlantic cable laid 1866

United States purchases Alaska from Russia 1867

Territory of Wyoming authorizes women to vote and hold office 1869

Under the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, Congress officially declared Christmas to be a national

holiday. 1870

Great Chicago Fire 1871

The Great Peshtigo Fire 1871

National Rifle Association founded to protect the 2^nd amendment “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms” 1871

Patrick Healy becomes president of Georgetown University, making him the first African American

president of a predominantly white university in the United States 1873

Michigan Supreme Court ruled that taxes could be collected to support public high schools 1874

Structural Steel Bridge built across Mississippi River at St. Louise, MO 1875

Gold Rush in South Dakota 1875

Battle of Little Big Horn, Custer’s last stand 1876

Great Railroad Strike of 1877 occurs

Chapter 2 - Years 1881 to 1906

And the gospel must first be preached to all the nations.

- St. Mark 13:10

He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor, his righteousness endures forever,

his horn will be lifted high in honor. – Psalm 112:9

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO WERE CAUGHT IN THE BOXER REBELLION

“I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin

has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with

my own eyes - I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!”

- Job 19:25-27

Martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion in China 1900

a) Martyrs of Shanxi, killed on July 9, 1900, who were Franciscan Friars Minor:

Blessed Gregory Grassi, Bishop,

Blessed Francis Fogolla, Bishop,

Blessed Elias Facchini, Priest,

Blessed Theodoric Balat, Priest,

Blessed Andrew Bauer, Religious

b) Martyrs of Southern Hunan, who were also Franciscan Friars Minor:

Blessed Anthony Fantosati, Bishop (martyred on July 7, 1900)

Blessed Joseph Mary Gambaro, Priest (martyred on July 7, 1900)

Blessed Cesidio Giacomantonio, Priest (martyred)

To the martyred Franciscans of the First Order were added seven Franciscan Missionaries of Mary,

of whom three were French, two Italian, one Belgian, and one Dutch:

Blessed Mary Hermina of Jesus (in saec: Irma Grivot),

Blessed Mary of Peace

Of the martyrs belonging to the Franciscan family, there were also eleven Secular Franciscans, all Chinese:

Blessed John Zhang Huan, seminarian,

Blessed Patrick Dong Bodi, seminarian,

Blessed John Wang Rui, seminarian,

Blessed Philip Zha

To these are joined a number of Chinese lay faithful:

Blessed James Yan Guodong, farmer,

Blessed James Zhao Quanxin, manservant,

Blessed Peter Wang Erman, cook.

Blessed Alberic Crescitelli, a priest of the Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions of Milan, who carried

out his ministry in Southern Shanxi and was martyred on 21 July 1900.

SAINTS AND MARTYRS

…”A people not mine I will call my people, and an unbeloved, beloved, and her who had not obtained mercy, one who has obtained mercy. And it shall be in the place where it was said to them:

you are not my people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.”

- Romans 9:25-26

Martyrs

Saints

BUILDING UP THE BODY OF CHRIST WORLDWIDE

“The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped.

My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. The Lord is the

strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one.

– Psalm 28:7-8

Congregations Founded:

Founding of the Apostolic Teaching Society in Rome by Father Francis Jordan which later becomes the Society

of the Divine Savior (Salvatorians) 1881

American Rescue Workers – 1884

Founding of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (Dehonians) 1888

Founding of the Pious Workers of Saint Joseph Calasanctius of the Mother of God 1889

Founding of the Biblical Institute of Jerusalem by the Dominicans 1889

Mother Katherine Drexel founded the Blessed Sacrament Sisters to teach Indians and Negroes. 1889

Founding of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Immaculate Conception 1890

Founding of the Congregation of the Daughters of Saint Camillus 1892

Founding of the Josephite Fathers in Baltimore, MD to conduct Negro Missions 1892

Founding of the Apostolate of the Cross 1895

Founding of the Congregation of Sisters of the Cross of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 1897

Founding of the Consolata Missionary Priests and Brothers 1901

Founding of the American Federation of Catholic Societies 1901

Founding of the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary 1905

Diocese Formed:

News from the Vatican:

Many miraculous cures continue to happen at Lourdes in France

St. Cyril of Jerusalem named Doctor of the Church 1882

Father Michael J. McGivney founds the Knights of Columbus in New Haven, CT 1882

Pope Leo XIII appoints the first Apostolic Delegate in the United States of America 1882

Feast of the Holy Family is instituted by Pope Leo XIII 1883

Pope Leo IXXX publishes his Papal Encyclical, Supremi Apostolatus Officio, on the Holy Rosary 1883

Disbanding of the Oblates of the Sacred Heart 1883

Pope Leo XIII issues his encyclical On Freemasonry 1884

The National Council of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), approve the Baltimore Catechism 1884

The Catholic Truth Society is reorganized. Their purpose is to spread information of the Faith among Catholics

and Protestants. The title, in the United States is the International Catholic Truth Society 1884

Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee 1885

Catholic University of America chartered in Washington, DC, USA 1887

Mercy Home for Boys and Girls founded in United States 1887

Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical on slavery in the missions 1890

St. John Damascene proclaimed Doctor of the Church 1890

First Black priest, Charles Randolph Uncles ordained in United States in Baltimore, Maryland 1891

Archbishop Francesco Satolli appointed as the Vatican's first Apostolic Delegate to the United States 1893

The Holy Shroud of Turin is exposed, a photograph is taken and found that the Shroud is a negative with the picture

of a human face more recognizable than the cloth itself or any positive print 1898

Pope Leo XIII promulgates the encyclical Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae, Concerning New Opinions, Virtue, Nature

and Grace, With Regard To Americanism - In the apostolic letter Testem benevolentiae, Pope Leo XIII condemned

the "heresy" of "Americanism," a doctrine which he regarded as an attempt by American Catholic clergy to reconcile Catholic teachings with modern thought and liberties 1899

St. Bede declared a Doctor of the Church 1899

St. Gemma Galgani begins to receive the stigmata 1899

BUILDING UP THE BODY OF CHRIST WORLDWIDE

Pope Leo XIII dedicates the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, as Prince and Lord of all, Catholics and non-Catholics, Christians and non-Christians 1899

Anti-cleric laws were passed in France 1901

Dr. Paul Vignon reads a paper before the Academie Des Sciences regarding the Holy Shroud of Turin explaining how a violent death could cause the image to be made naturally and was beyond the skill of any medieval forger 1901

Pope Leo XIII published the apostolic letter Vigilantiae, establishing the Pontifical Commission of Biblical Studies 1902

Encyclical On the Church in the US issued by Pope Leo XIII 1902

Mother Cabrini founds the Columbus Hospital in Chicago, IL 1902

King Edward VII of Great Britain visited Pope Leo XIII 1903

Pope St. Pius X suppressed the right of the secular governments to assert a veto during the Conclave 1904

The bronze statue Christ of the Andes, which lies on the border of Argentina and Chile in the Andes Mountains, was dedicated as a perpetual symbol of Peace between the two countries 1904

On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland, encyclical of Pope Saint Pius X published 1906

ADVANCEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL AND TRANSPORTATION

And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed in the newness of your mind,

that you may discern what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

- Romans 12:2

WORLD EVENTS

Le no one deceive himself. If any one of you thinks himself wise in this world, let him become a fool,

that he may come to be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.

- 1 Corinthians 3:18

THOSE IN AUTHORITY THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES

All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful, but not all things edify.

Let no one seek his own interests, but those of his neighbor.

- 1 Corinthians 10:23-24

Presidents:

Governors Population of Wisconsin

States admitted to the Union

UNITED STATES EVENT

“Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”

- 2 Corinthians 3:17

Chapter 3 – Years 1907 to 1930

Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

– Psalms 96:1-3

Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and

I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. – Psalm 23:6

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY FREE

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue

the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

- Psalm 82:3-4

Veterans of the WWI who gave their lives to keep us free

THOSE IN AUTHORITY THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so you will fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks

himself to be something, whereas he is nothing, he deceives himself.”

- Galations 6:2-3

Presidents:

Governors

States admitted to the Union Population of Wisconsin

Oklahoma is 46^th state – 1907 1910 – 2,333,860

New Mexico is 47^th state – 1912 1920 – 2,632,067

Arizona is 48^th state – 1912 1930 – 2,939,006

ADVANCEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL AND TRANSPORTATION

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights,

with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.

- St. James 1:17

SAINTS AND MARTYRS

Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren with me here greet you.

All the saints greet you, especially those of Ceasar’s household.

– Philippians 4:21-22

Martyrs

Saints

BUILDING UP THE BODY OF CHRIST WORLDWIDE

Do all things without murmuring and without questioning, so as to be blameless and guileless.

Children of God without blemish in the midst of a depraved and perverse generation.

For among these you shine like stars in the world.

- Philippians 2:14-15

Congregations Founded:

Founding of the Alliance of Love with the Heart of Jesus 1909

Organization of the Knights & Ladies of Saint Peter Claver in Mobile, Alabama, US 1909

American Catholic Weekly founded by the Jesuits at Fordham University 1909

Founding of the Consolata Missionary sisters

Papal approval of Sister Oblates of Saint Francis of Sales 1911

The Maryknoll Foreign Mission Society is founded 1911

Founding of the Apostolic League 1912

Formal incorporation of the Assembly of God church 1914

Founding of the Congregation of Missionaries of the Holy Spirit 1914

Founding of The Missionary Society of St. Columban 1918

Founding of Opus Dei by Blessed Josemaria Escriva 1928

Dioceses formed:

News from the Vatican:

Publication of the encyclical Pascendi dominici gregis, by Pope Saint Pius X condemming the modernist

movement within the various branches of Christendom, and establishing councils to combat these errors 1907

With the publication of the apostolic constitution Sapienti consilio, Pope Pius X caused the American Catholic Church to cease being a "missionary church" under the control of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide. Now, it

was a full-fledged member of the Roman Catholic Church. 1908

Tametsi enacted. The Council of Trent details what is the marriage contract, becomes Canon Law 1908

Quam singulari decree issued by the Vatican Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments; it recommends children be permitted to receive Holy Communion when they reach the "age of discretion" (i.e., about age 7) 1910

Promulgation of the encyclical Editae Saepe: On Saint Charles Borromeo by Pope Pius X 1910

Publication of the encyclical On Indians of South America by Pope Saint Pius X 1912

Pope St. Pius X initiated the revision of the Roman Missal 1914

Pope Benedict XV issues instruction of All Souls Day 1915

System of nominating Bishops in the United States is established 1916

Congregation for the Oriental Church is established and the Pontifical Oriental Institute is set up by the Pope 1917

Bethlehem assumed into the British Empire 1917

New Code of Canon Law gave diocesan bishop new powers and authority of his clergy and laity. 1917-1918

Saint Padre Pio receives the stigmata 1918

Declaration of Our Lady of Loreto as patron of aviators 1920

St. Ephrem the Syrian is named Doctor of the Church 1920

Pope Piux XI founds the Pontifical Institute of Archaeology and the Feast of Christ the King 1925

Pope Pius XI issues the documents Quas Primas and Vehementer exultamus hodie 1925

St. Peter Canisius declared a Doctor of the Church 1925

28^th International Eucharistic Congress held for the 1^st time in United States in Chicago, IL 1926

Our Lady of Victory, Lackawanna, New York, becomes the first US church consecrated a basilica 1926

St. John of the Cross proclaimed a Doctor of the Church 1926

Rediscovery of the relics of St. John Southworth 1927

St. Jerome Emiliani declared patron of orphans and abandoned children

Father Fulton J. Sheen begins his broadcasting career on WLWL radio in New York 1928

Vatican City made an independent state when the Lateran Treaty was signed 1929

US Archaeologist Wooley uncovers proof of Noah’s Ark dates to 4000 BC 1929

SIGHTINGS OF MARY AND OTHER SAINTS

And all who heard marveled at the things told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept in mind all

these words, pondering them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and

praising God for all that they had heard and seen, even as it was spoken to them.

- St. Luke 2:18-20

WORLD EVENTS

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be earthquakes

in various places, and famines. These things are the beginnings of sorrows.

– St. Mark 13:8

US EVENTS

"Uprising of Thirty Thousand" garment workers strike in NY City. After 14 weeks the workers win. Establishes the International Ladies Garment Workers Union 1909

Electric current for domestic use is standardized 1910

The Titanic sinks on maiden voyage killing 1518 passengers and crew 1912

Juliette Gordon Low founds the Girls Scouts in the US 1912

Federal Reserve System is created 1913

16th Amendment, giving Congress the power to tax personal incomes is adopted 1913

Panama Canal finished 1914

Hollywood, CA becomes center of motion picture production 1914

Congress passes resolution to celebrate Mother’s Day on 2^nd Sunday in May 1914

Federal Trade Commission is established 1914

The US purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark 1917

Smith-Hughes Act provided federal funds for vocational education below college level 1917

18^th Amendment is ratified prohibition 1919

Passage of child labor laws reduce child labor by 40% particularly in coal mining and canning

industries 1919

1^st municipal airport opens in Tucson AZ 1919

19^th Amendment, Women given the right to vote 1920

United States Supreme Court unanimously upholds 19th amendment, the woman's right to vote 1922

In an effort to counter the terrorist activities of the Ku Klux Klan, Governor John Calloway Walton placed Oklahoma under martial law 1923

United States Supreme Court declares the Oregon School Law of 1923 to be unconstitutional. The purpose of the law was to force Catholic children under 14 to attend public schools 1925

Scope Monkey Trial in Dayton, TN 1925

Execution of prisoner by gas chamber (state of Nevada) 1924

Walt Disney made 1^st animated sound film “Steamboat Willie” 1928

Hurricane and floods in Lake Okeechobee in Florida kill about 1800 people 1928

Stock Market Crash 1929

Great Depression starts 1929

Bishop Bernard Sheil of Chicago founds the Catholic Youth Organization CYO to promote

leadership 1930

Radio Astronomy (discovery of radio waves emanation from stars in outer space 1931

Chapter 4 – Years 1931 to 1956

My feet stand on level ground; in the great assembly I will praise the Lord. – Psalm 26:12

Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our maker, for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. – Psalm 95:6-7

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY FREE

“ Those who are wise will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by the

sword or be burned or captured or plundered.

- Daniel 11:33

Veterans of the WWII and Korean War - forever in our hearts for their sacrifice to bring peace to the world

USS Dorchester torpedoed by a German sub and went down with a loss of 600 lives, 4 of them chaplains, one a Catholic priest, who gave up their life jackets to shipmates; Congress afterwards marked the 3^rd of February "Four Chaplains Day" 1943

THOSE IN AUTHORITY THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES

The Lord will have compassion on Jacob; once again he will choose Israel and will settle them in

their own land. Aliens will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.

- Isaiah 14:1

Presidents:

Governors Population of Wisconsin

American News

First Friday Clubs are organized to encourage devotion to the most Sacred Heart of Jesus 1936

Release of “The Song of Bernadette,” film about St Bernadette Soubirous and Our Lady of Lourdes 1943

Some men of note where Fathers Aloisius Muench and Francis Haas, both social thinkers and members of the seminary faculty. Both men had national reputations as social thinkers and moved to national and international prominence. Haas would become a close advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt's administration and Muench

would have a distinguished career as Apostolic Nuncio to post-war Germany. 1944

Rev. James Keller, MM founds the Christopher Movement in the US. The movement tries to bring Christian principles to American public and private life 1946

Archbishop Ritter of St. Louis opens Parochial schools to Negroes 1947

The Everson Case. The US Supreme Court supported the use of tax funds to provide free bus transportation for parochial school children as a Constitutional right 1947

First group of displaced persons (refugees) from Europe, including many Catholics arrive in the US 1948

Santa Maria University of Ponce, Puerto Rico is the first Catholic University in Puerto Rico 1948

Catholics in US collected 5,000 pounds of clothing during Thanksgiving Week for relief in Korea 1950

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen is consecrated Bishop in Rome and begins his career as a Televangelists 1951

Sister Naya Pelagie becomes the 1^st native Eskimo Nun in the Community of the Grey Nuns of Nicolet 1951

Bishop Sheen receives the Look Television Award and an Emmy for “Life is Worth Living” TV show 1952

SAINTS AND MARTYRS

…For you are all the children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all you who

have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.

- Galatians 3:26-27

Martyrs

Saints

BUILDING UP THE BODY OF CHRIST WORLDWIDE

And they continued steadfastly in the teaching of the apostles and in the

communion of the breaking of the bread and in the prayers.

Acts 2:42

Congregations Formed:

Episcopal approval of the Society of Christian Doctrine in Malta 1932

Founding of Glenmary Home Missioners in US to establish the Catholic Church in small-town and

rural America 1939

Founding of Legionaries of Christ by Fr. Marcial Maciel

Christian Appalachian Project founded by Father Ralph Beiting to serve the people of Appalachia 1950

The Catholic Worker begins publication by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin 1933

Diocese Formed:

News from the Vatican:

Proclamation of Saint Robert Bellarmine as a Doctor of the Church 1931

Pope Pius XI installs a radio station in Vatican City, first Pontiff to use the radio for Pastoral purposes 1931

Holy Shroud of Turin is put on public display and photographed again ending all doubt 1931

St. Albert the Great is named Doctor of the Church, he was the teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas 1932

Pope Pius XI allows the Holy Shroud of Turin to be put on display again and is photographed holding a corner

of the Sacred Relic. 1933

Apparition of Our Lady of Knock receives approval 1936

Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State tours the US, visiting universities and the President 1936

Pope Pius XI founds the Pontifical Academy of Sciences 1936

Eucharistic Congress held in Manila in Philippine Islands 1937

The US Hierarchy was founded at Montezuma Seminary at Las Vegas, NM for the Mexican clergy 1937

Pope Pius XII issues his 5 Point Peace Plan as an effort to avoid WWII 1939

Miraculous cure of Mrs Georgina Grondin from a malignant tumor through the intercession of Saint Marcelino Champagnat 1939

Pope Pius XII announces that the Catholic Church would remain strictly neutral in the War, the Pope pleas for

peace and Rome is treated as an Open City because of the Pope’s effort for peace 1940

Miraculous cure of John Ranaivo from cerebrospinal meningitis through the intercession of Saint Marcelino Champagnat 1941

The New York Times reported that Pope Pius XII was “About the only Ruler left on the continent of Europe who dares to raise his voice at all …against Hitlerism.” 1941

Pope Pius XII denounced the exterminations of all races, mainly the Jews in Germany 1942

Pope Pius XII makes the Vatican an asylum for countless refugees, including Jews. 1943

Rome bombed and then occupied by Hitler 1943

Rome liberated by the Allies from the Nazis and Fascists. American troops play a key role in the liberation 1944

People of US collect 6,000,000 pounds of clothing for the people of Italy 1944

St. Anthony of Padua named Doctor of the Church 1946

Our Lady of Ghisalla given as patroness of cyclists 1949

Discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in Wadi Qumran written in Hebrew and Aramaic 1949

Pope Pius XII issues the Decree of Excommunication for all Communists 1949

St. John Baptist De La Salle named Heavenly Patron of school teachers 1950

Pope Pius XII proclaims the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary to be dogma 1950

The Vatican Order received approval to begin microfilming Vatican documents 1951

SIGHTINGS OF MARY AND OTHER SAINTS

And on the third day a wedding took place at Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Now Jesus too was invited to the marriage, and also his disciples. And the wine having run short, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “What wouldst thou have me do, woman? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the attendants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

- St. John 2:1-5

Marian Apparition. The Blessed Virgin Mary appears in Banneux, Belgium from November 29 to January 3. 1932 – 1933

During World War II, American fighter pilots reported they witnessed a large figure of a Franciscan priest appear in the sky. The pilots were flying over San Giovanni Rotondo, on a mission to bomb Axis Powers targets. The apparition of the Franciscan priest was Padre Pio of Pietralcino. He stood with out stretched arms, ordering the pilots to turn around. The attack mission was aborted. No bombs fell on that Catholic town that day. 1944

Beginning of the messages from Our Lady of All Nations 1945

The title Our Lady of All Nations refers to the Blessed Virgin Mary who appeared in a series of apparitions from 25 March 1945 through 31 May 1959, and a series of ecstatic Eucharistic experiences between July 1958 and May 1970.

The seer, Ida Peerdemen was an office worker with an industrial firm in Amsterdam, Holland who, while pious, had no history of mystical experiences and was subsequently subjected to a series of examinations to prove she was not delusional. The messages give instruction and advice to fight evil and assorted prophecies. Our Lady told her that the messages were intended for all the people of the world, and that instead of miracles to prove their authenticity, the truth of the revelancies and prophecies would prove themselves.

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…But he who has looked carefully into the perfect law of liberty and has remained in it, not

becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, shall be blessed in his deed.

- St. James 1:25

WORLD EVENTS

…And I saw, and behold, a pale-green horse, and he who was sitting on it – his name is Death, and

hell was following him. And there was given him power over the four parts of the earth, to kill

with sword, with famine, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

- Revelations 6:8

US EVENTS

Great Depression, many banks are closed and people are unemployed 1929 – 1941

Civilian Conservation Corp is formed by the government to put people to work 1933

Social Security Act passed 1935

The American Hierarchy protests the religious persecution in Mexico 1935

Hoover Dam is completed in Nevada 1936

Wisc experiences a heatwave, Madison hits 107 degrees, Wisconsin Dells hits 114 degrees July 13, 1936

New England hurricane in Northeastern US kills about 600 people 1938

NBC made 1^st regular telecasts in the US 1939

“Gone with the Wind” and “Wizard of Oz” are released 1939

Selective Service Act passed by US Congress (the draft) 1940

Pearl Harbor – The Day that will live in Infamy, US is attacked by Japan, enters WWII, December 7, 1941

First Atomic Reaction 1942

1^st GI Bill passed, granting funds to veterans to continue their education 1944

Rural Electrification Association brings electricity to the people living in rural America 1935

Babyboom started 1946 to 1964

Center for Disease Control established 1946

James Stewart stars in “It’s a Wonderful Life” 1946

“Diary of Anne Frank” is published 1947

Executive Order 9981 ends segregation in the United States Armed Forces 1948

1^st Cinemascope film “The Robe” is released 1950

1^st nationwide telecast in US features President Harry S. Truman 1951

First successful open heart surgery 1953

Regular color telecast for televisions begin 1953

United States president Eisenhower signs order adding "under God" to the Pledge of Allegience 1954

Pres Eisenhower initiates the Food for Peace Program to help feed a world in need. 1954

Veteran’s Day first celebrated in US 1954

Supreme Court rules that public schools segregated by race are unconstitutional 1954

Martin Luther King Jr. led black boycott of Montgomery’s segregated bus system 1955

US Supreme Court ordered Montgomery to provide equal, integrated seating on buses 1956

Disability coverage under Social Security established 1956

Chapter 5 - Years 1957 to 1981

Say to him: “Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!

- 1Samuel 25:6

“For where two or three are gathered together for my sake, there am I in the midst of them.”

- St. Matthew 18:20

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY FREE

He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

You give me your shield of victory; you stoop down to make me great.

- 2 Samuel 22:35-36

Veterans of the Vietnam War - those who would go to help our brothers in need, to stop

communism from spreading.

THOSE IN AUTHORITY THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES

Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the Lord your

God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly.

- Deuteronomy 16:18

Presidents:

Governors

States admitted to the Union Population of Wisconsin

Alaska is 49^th state – 1959 1960 – 3,951,777

Hawaii is 50^th state – 1959 1970 – 4,417,731

1980 – 4,705,767

Wisconsin and Area News

Milwaukee Braves win the world series defeating the New York Yankees 1957

Menominee Indian Reservation becomes Wisconsin’s 72^nd county 1961

Golden anniversary of St. Mary’s Hospital in Columbus, WI is celebrated. Father Nellen is chaplain 1963.

School compulsory attendance age is raised to 18 years 1965

Governor calls out the National Guard during civil rights demonstrations in Wauwatosa, WI 1966

Ban on colored oleomargarine is repealed 1967

Columbus builds a community hospital, St. Mary’s Hospital is closed and property sold. Later turned into the Santa Maria apartments. 1969

Several thousand welfare rights supporters led by Father James Groppi occupy the Assemby Chamber. Culmination of week-long march by welfare recipients protesting cuts in their living allowances 1969

Sterling Hall Bombing at UW – Madison kills researcher during Vietnam war protest 1970

Milwaukee Bucks win the National Basketball Association Championship 1971

Madison Experiences an ice storm losing power and shutting down business and schools 1975

Madison School District Teachers go on an extended strike February and March 1976

The whole country celebrates the United States 200^th birthday July 4, 1976

Fall River and Columbus set up a joint food pantry to help those in need 1981

SAINTS AND MARTYRS

Now we know that for those who love God all things work together unto good,

for those who, according to his purpose, are saints through his call.

- Romans 8:28

Martyrs

Saints

BUILDING UP THE BODY OF CHRIST WORLDWIDE

Do nothing out of contentiousness or out of vain glory, but in humility let each one regard the others

as his superiors, each one looking not to his own interests but to those of others.

- Philippians 2:3-4

Diocese formed:

News from the Vatican

United Church of Christ founded by ecumenical union of Congregationalists and Evangelical & Reformed, representing Calvinists and Lutherans 1957

Pope John XXIII announces his intention to hold the Vatican II Council 1959

Pope John XXIII publishes Sacerdotii Nostri Primordia: On Saint John Vianney 1959

Pope John XXIII publishes his first encyclical “On truth, unity & peace, in charity” 1959

The United Church of Christ issues their Statement of Faith 1959

BUILDING UP THE BODY OF CHRIST WORLDWIDE

And he said to them, “Go into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who

believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be condemned.

- St. Mark 16:15-16

News from the Vatican:

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is dedicated in Washington, DC 1959

Saint Louise de Marillac chosen patron of social workers by Blessed Pope John XXIII 1960

Saint Joseph added to the Canon of the Mass, the first alteration made to this canon since the 7^th century 1962

Saint Peter of Alcantara names as patron of Estremadura, Spain 1962

Second Vatican Council begins 1962

Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty 1963

Pope Paul VI makes a pilgrimage to the Holy Lands, becoming the first pope in 150 years to leave Italy while on the throne 1964

Pope Paul VI meets with Greek Ecumenical, Patriarch of Constantinople, Athenagoras I, 1^st meeting since 1439 1964

Miraculous cure of Mrs Maria Battaglia through the intercession of Blessed Tommaso Maria Fusco 1964

Roman Catholic Church in US changes from Latin to English in the Mass 1964

Pope Paul VI becomes first Pope to visit Western Hemisphere 1965

Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for the Crucifixion of Jesus 1965

Removal of Simon of Trent from the calendar 1965

Second Vatican Council closes 1965

Translation of the relics of St. John Baptist Rossi 1965

Publication of the Jerusalem Bible, a translation from original languages based on Bible de Jerusalem 1966

Publication of the Revised Standard Version Bible, Catholic Edition, a joint effort between Catholics and the

Church of England, a big step towards a common Catholic/Protestant Bible 1966

United States bishops end mandatory Friday abstinence from meat 1966

Bethlehem occupied by Israeli troops 1967

Pope Paul VI and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny confer @ the Vatican in the first meeting in history between a Roman Catholic pontiff and the head of a Communist state 1967

Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis Caelibatus 1967

Voice of the Martrys, Christian organization formed in the United States to combat communism and promote the

cause of the persecuted church 1967

Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota, Colombia; this is the first visit by a Pope to South America 1968

Pope Paul VI issues encyclical that continued church teachings prohibiting birth control 1968

Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis from space 1968

Declaration of Saint Catharine of Siena as a Doctor of the Church 1970

Declaration of Saint Teresa of Avila as a Doctor of the Church 1970

Publication of the Confraternity Version Bible, a new Catholic translation which began before 1939 as a translation

from the Vulgate, but ending up as a new translation from the Hebrew and Greek 1970

Publication of the New American Standard Bible, which updates the American Standard Version using recent

Hebrew and Greek textual discoveries 1971

Pope Paul VI encyclical To Honor Mary 1974

Miraculous cure of Brother Heriberto Weber Nellessen, in Uruguay through intercession of St Marcelino

Champagnat 1976

Pope Paul VI ends automatic excommunication of divorced American Catholics who remarry, a decree 1st imposed

by American Bishops in 1884 and only to the diocese of America 1977

Publication of the New International Version Bible, which used eclectic Greek and Massoretic Hebrew text, and

current English style 1978

Pope John Paul II is first pope to visit the White House 1979

Pope John Paul II’s first overseas trip as pope 1979

Work begins on the New King James Bible, a complete revision of 1611 Authorized Version, updating archaisms

and retaining style 1979

Mother Teresa of Calcutta is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1979

Pope John Paul II shot by Turkish terrorist 1981

SIGHTINGS OF MARY AND OTHER SAINTS

…And blessed is she who has believed, because the things promised her

by the Lord shall be accomplished.”

- St. Luke 1:45

In July the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Sister Agnes Sasagawa at Akita, Japan. Our Lady said, "Do not fear. Pray with fervor not only because of your sins, but in reparation for those of all men. The world today wounds the Sacred Heart of our Lord by its ingratitudes and injuries. The wounds of Mary are much deeper and more sorrowful than yours. Let us pray together in the Chapel."

In the last apparition Our lady said, "The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see Cardinals opposing Cardinals, and Bishops against Bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confrers. Churches and altars will be sacked. The Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord." 1973

On June 24, 1981 our Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to 6 children in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Hercegovina (Yugoslavia). She came with messages of Peace, Faith, Conversion, Prayer and Fasting. All this time, from the beginning of the apparitions up until today, there have only been five days when none of the children saw Our Lady. Our Lady didn't always appear in the same place either, nor to the same group, nor individuals, nor did her apparitions always last a specified period. Sometimes the apparitions lasted two minutes, sometimes an hour. Neither did Our Lady appear at the children's will. Sometimes they prayed and waited but Our Lady didn't appear until a little while afterwards, unexpectedly and unforewarned. And sometimes she appeared to one and not to the others. If she hadn't promised an appointed time, nobody knew when she would appear, or if she would appear. Neither did she appear always to just the aforesaid visionaries, but to others also of different age, stature, race, education and walks of life. All this suggests that the apparitions are not a product of the imagination. It depends neither on time nor place, nor desire nor the prayer of pilgrim or visionary, but moreover on the will of He who permits it.

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The Spirit of the Lord will come upon you in power, and you will prophesy with them; and

you will be changed into a different person. Once these signs are fulfilled,

do whatever your hand finds to do, for God is with you.

– 1Samuel 10:6-7

WORLD EVENTS

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or hunger,

or nakedness, or danger, or the sword? Even as it is written, “For thy sake we are put to death

all the day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.”

- Romans 8:35-36

UNITED STATES EVENTS

Chapter 6 - Years 1982 to 2006

They will tell of the power of your awesome works, and I will proclaim your great deeds. - Psalm 145:6

My eyes will be on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me;

he whose walk is blameless will minister to me.

- Psalm 101:6

DIOCESE AND AREA NEWS