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New Zealand Tablet, 22 January 1920, Page 35

Father Henry J. Wealing, S. J., a former Bostonian, and the first blind man in America to be ordained to the priesthood, has been transferred, recently to Boston College High School and the Church of the Immaculate Conception. , He has (says an exchange) committed two Masses to memory— votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin and the Mass of the Dead. He lost his eyesight during a chemistry explosion which : took ? place- in his ■ college course. He was ordained by special dispensation from ! the late Pope Pius X.