t eanc 0 VOL. 23, NO. 23
diocese of fall river
FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1979
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Pope Dedicates Church to Mary
Jubilee Journey Plans Complete
CZESTOCHOWA, .p 0 1and (NC) Pope John Paul II quickly set the tone of his trip to Poland by pleading for church freedom, declaring himself an apostle of the Slavic nations, and consecrating himself and the whole church to Mary. Wherever the Polish-born pope went in his native country thousands gathered along the streets to see him. Crowds swelled into the hundreds of thousands for outdoor Masses in Warsaw, Gniezno and Czestochowa. Millions _more, normally de-
Preparations are complete for the diocesan Jubilee Celebration Trip to Italy, a highlight of jubilee year observances. Seventy pilgrims will leave on Sunday for a 13-day tour ()f Milan, Florence, Venice and Rome. Buses will take them from Fall River and New Bedford to Logan airport in Boston, leaving at 6 p.m. from the Bristol Community College parking lot in Fall River and the St. Francis of Assisi parish lot in New Bedford. Arriving at Milan on Monday, the travelers will have the reTurn to Page Seven
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Father Daigle Funeral Friday
To Mark Jubilee In New Bedford
Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and priests of the diocese will concelebrate a funeral Mass at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Sacred Heart Church, North Attleboro, for Father George Daigle, its pastor for nine years, who died Monday at age 72. Born in St. Pamphile, Quebec in 1906, Father Daigle attended Blessed Sacrament grammar school in Fall River, then studied at Montreal College and St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. He was ordained .May 26, 1934 in St. Mary's Cathedral by the late Bishop James E. Cassidy. Father Daigle served as asso-
An enthusiastic committee is finalizing details for the New Bedford area celebration of the Fall River Diocesan Jubilee Anniversary, to be held on Saturday. This is the first of the area celebrations to be held throughout the diocese this year. The Fall River Diocese, founded by His Holiness, Pope Saint Pius X, was separated from the Diocese of Providence on March 12, 1904. The motto of its founder, "To Restore All Things in Christ," was chosen as the goal of Jubilee 75. Of particular- interest to the New Bedford area is the fact that the first Catholic parish Turn to Page Three
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MSGR. LESTER L. HULL, shown with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at a recent confirmation ceremony at Our Lady of the Isle parish, Nantucket, has announced his retirement, as has Father Lucien Madore. (Hardy Photo)
Msgr. Hull, Father Madore To Retire Two veteran priests have announced retirement from active ministry. Msgr. Lester L. Hull will retire from the pastorate 路of his路 native parish, Our Lady of the Isle, Nantucket, on June 27; and Father Lucien A. Madore will enter his "second retirement" June 22 as he leaves his post as director of Notre Dame
cenetery, Fall River. He is also buried from here," he declared. chaplain of Mt. St. Joseph He is the only native of NanSchool, Fall River. . tucket to have become pastor of Msgr. Hull said he would take its parish. The veteran pastor was born up residence in an uncle's Nantucket home. He noted that he on the island in 1907 and attendwas baptized, made his first com- ed Holy Cross College, 路Worcesmunion, was confirmed and said ter, before entering St. Bernard's his first Mass at Our Lady of Seminary, Rochester, N.Y. He the Isle. "God willing, I'll be Turn to Page' Seven
CHARISMATICS PRAISE GOD AT CATHEDRAL PRAYER MEETING ON PENTECOST SUNDAY