WANGANUI PRIESTS ORDAINED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 6

WANGANUI PRIESTS ORDAINED

r REV. FATHERS O'LEARY AND CAHILL I CEREMONY AT GREENMEADOWS | 1 1 Rev. Fathers C. O'Leary and .1. Ca- ’ hill, of Wanganui, were ordained i priests in the chapel of Marist 1 Fathers’ seminary, Greenmeadows, ( Napier, on Sunday morning when, in 1 the course of Holy Mass, priesthood J and subdeaconate orders were con- J ferred on 17 students who had taken ‘ the seven years’ course at the semin- J ary. 1 The Archbishop of Wellington and ( Metropolitan of New Zealand, Archbishop O’Shea, officiated at the ordina- , tion ceremony. He was assisted by / the Very Rev. Father Geaney, S.M., [ Provincial of the Marist Society c Order, and by the Very Rev. Father j Rasmussen, superior of the seminary, t At the end of the ceremony, the newly r ordained priests gave the blessing to \ relatives and friends. p Rew Father Cahill i.s an old boy of t the Marist Brothers’ School, Wanga- t nui. Both Rev. Father O’Leary and t he are former students of St. Pat- s rick’s College, Silverstream. h