Coffey, Thomas J.

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The Linacre QuarterlyVolume 10 | Number 3 Article 12July 1942A Saint for DoctorsThomas J. CoffeyFollow this and additional works at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnqRecommended CitationCoffey, Thomas J. (1942) "A Saint for Doctors," The Linacre Quarterly: Vol. 10: No. 3, Article 12.Available at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnq/vol10/iss3/12THE LINACRE QUARTERLY mormng, l\Iay 17, u t Kenrick S~·1nin ttry, St. Louis, J\Ii ssouri. The meeting was preceded by n solpml High Mass in the large Sqninary ~hapel, at which the l{cL John J. 1\Iartin, c.::\1., Trea-surer of the Seminary, was cele-J:m'\nt. Father Martin was assist-ed by major and minor officers taken ft-om the student body. During the High Mass about sixty C1ttholic physicians, members of the Guild, received Holy Com-muniou . The student body of the Se1nin l1 ry chanted the High Mass in a tntly edifying manner and the wl10le ceremony was a deep inspir-ation to the Catholic physicians present. At the meeting of the Guild which was held after breakfast in the seminarians' refectory, the Hev. Jos. P. Donovan, C.l\1., J.C.D., was the genial and capable host to the gathering, taking the place of :Father O'Malley, who was absent on a preaching assign-ment at Baton Houge, La. Mon-signor Gruenewald had for the subject of his address "The Cath-olic Physicians' Guild on the March." Dr. Nicholas Feder, President of the Belleville Guild, also attended the St. Louis meeting. A SAINT FOR DOCTORS 'Thi~; would be just the year fot• onr American Catholic doctors to d10ose fot• heavenly patron of: their Medical Guilds (unless they ha ,.c already committed them-selves) u man of their own pro-fession aJ)d their own land. I re-fer, of course, to Saint Ilene Goupil, Sl.lrgeon-Saint, who at thirty-four, died for the Faith at Ossernenon, now Auriesville, I\. Y., midway between Amster-dam apd Fonda. This year we are celebrating the tercentenary of the doctor's heroic death at the hands pf the Mohawks on Septem-ber 261 1642. His bones, by the way, still lie buried somewhere in · the Hnvine at the Auriesville Shrine, placed there by the loving hn11ds pf his fathc1· in Christ and <'OIIl)lHIIion, Saint Isaac J ogul's. \\'e know about Saint HenC's JJJ('dieal skill fn>Jn the autograph ll<"<'Olltll of Saint. haac . \Vc ha\'l• the record, too, of his two years of hospital work at St. Joseph's, Quebec, and of his being replaced by a famous Orleans, France, doc-tot·, when he volunteered to go down to his death with Jogues in 1642. Surely he belongs, as their very own, to Arnerican doctors. The site of Doctor Goupil's martyrdom is now a National Shrine, a place of prayer and pil-gt·image in honor of the North American l\1 a r t y r s canonized June 29, 1930. Of these eight men, America's only canonized Saints, three, Isaac J ogue, Rene Goupil, John LaLande, died at Auriesville. Here, too, was born Kateri Tekakwitha, Indian maJ-dcn, who will probably this yetn he declared \'l'ncrahlc. Am·icsville, 1'\. Y. Tuo:\L\s ,J. CoFFEY, S . .T., Director, Sln·ine of the Nodh AttH•ri<"nll \Tarh-rs. 

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