Franciscan herald (1913 - 1940) . r Grass at Teutopo-lis, 111., on September 26,ended a long, useful, and edifyingreligious career. Almost yearlyfor the past five or six winters, asevere attack of la grippe threat-ened to carry him off; but eachtime his wonder-ful vitality beatback the foe andpostponed the dayhe would have sogladly last win-ter, at the ad-v a n c e d age ofseventy-eight, hisold enemy laidhim low, but wasonce more cheat-ed of his after suffer-ing a stroke ofparalysis lastJanuary, when allthought the endhad come, he ral-lied repeatedly,went about againt
Franciscan herald (1913 - 1940) . r Grass at Teutopo-lis, 111., on September 26,ended a long, useful, and edifyingreligious career. Almost yearlyfor the past five or six winters, asevere attack of la grippe threat-ened to carry him off; but eachtime his wonder-ful vitality beatback the foe andpostponed the dayhe would have sogladly last win-ter, at the ad-v a n c e d age ofseventy-eight, hisold enemy laidhim low, but wasonce more cheat-ed of his after suffer-ing a stroke ofparalysis lastJanuary, when allthought the endhad come, he ral-lied repeatedly,went about againtrying to makehimself useful,and only afternine months final-ly succumbed. The funeralservices wereheld in the collegechapel, Saturdaymorning, Sep-tember 28, theRev. Fr. Rector Philip officiating andthe Rev. FF. Giles and Joseph as-sisting as deacon and large gathering that attended,consisting of the students and thefriars of both the college and the lo-cal monastery, also conducted theearthlv remains of the beloved. Rel. Bro. Juniper, Brother to the vault in the conventgarden, where they repose besidethose of his former friend and con-frere Brother Conrad. Though un-known to the world, Brother Juni-per is entitled to a prominent placein the columns of the Herald forother reasons than the fact that hewas identifiedwith St. JosephsCollege for thepast seventeenyears. These lastyears were butthe mellow au-tumn days of alife of fifty gold-en years in theconvent, crownedat the last withthe silent splen-dors of that rose-ate sunset of life,rich with thepromise of acloudless morn,—a happv death. By birth a Ty-rolese, an Ameri-can by adoption;by profession areligious, and bychoice a lay broth-er; by trade atailor, by obedi-ence cook, infir-marian, catechist,gardener, sacris-tan, — anything;by nature smallof stature and un-pretending in appearance, BrotherJuniper became by the grace of Godand the practice of every virtue abeautiful character, of whom m
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