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PAGE THRBE B•arishPast 100 Yeari4th PASTORThe Lote Rt. Re.. Msgr. J. B. HerbersFrancis Academy and the Xau*r High School became accredited about February 10. 1923.Father Warning celebrated his Silver Jubilee of Ordination on Tuesday. September 24. 3912 at St. Francis Parish. It was a great fes:;\e occasion, solemnly observed. srxaced by the presence of Archbasnop James J. Keane and a great concourse of Clergy. A banquet and two da:-s of program and musicals by St. Francis Choir and tfc*- Brothers of Mary, werethe highlights of the Jubilee-On December 3rd., the feast of St. Francis, 193^. the parish celebrated the 25th anniversary of his pastorate 13 their mid*:.In April 1931. after 25 years alt; Lhe sp!r.;u«tl guidance of tfi.s immense cong-eganoi. Father Warning cho?'- to resign at D:*ers\:lle and accepted a less ardlocs duty, as Chapter21 of Mount Su Francis. DubuqueThe Holy Father conferred on Father W«irn;ng the dignity or a Mon signor. and he was in testedIn the purple robes on December 17. 2934. at Mount St. Francis, by Archb.-shop Beckmann.Msgr. Warning celebrated his Golden Jubilee of his ordination on September 23, 1937, at Moant St. Francis. He sang a Solemn High Mass in the presence of Archbishop Beckman and a notable gathering of priests, sisiers and friends.* Msgr. Warning died at Mount S* Francis January in, 3939, and buried at Mount CalvaryCemetery- The Msgr. M. M. Hoff-m.i.i preached the sermon. Father Hoffman was an assistant to Msgr. Warning when he v.as in Dyers-tille.ihe Very Rev. J. B. Herbersin the fall of lS^I. on September 27. John Bernard Herbers \*as born to Bernard and Anna Herbers. staunch Catholic settlers on a farm homestead, north c£ NewVie iaa. low a.H1** cbrldhood days were happilypassed ia the sanctuary of home, where the loving: heart his mother and a prayerful fathi imbued him with high respect f religion. And through a father ld school-master, Jacob Merc 'be holy ideal of the pries tho* a as on the mind of the Ye voting John. His saintly paren wlt;rre later rewarded in the Joy giving two daughters to the reli tors life and one son as a Prie of Christ.John Herbers leeeived his ele: salary education in the parochl school at New Vienna. As a schc boy he devoioped a favorite plt; ime. reading good books and 5 suing his father on the farm.When almost nineteen years age. feeling drawn to the Chun 2e began bis high school studi •t St. Francis Seminary in M vaukee- The fall of the foilowi vear he attended Campion Hi School at Prairie dn Chien, W3 and then entered the diocesan 1 Joseph's (now Loras)'-College Dubuque, where he completed 1 high school and College cour. He received his degree of Bachel of Arts in June 1907.In September of the same ye John Herbers set sail for Euro] and spent four years in theotogi( studies at the University of F bourg, Switzerland, where he sti led with Catholic Students frlt; all over the world.Vacation time was devoted trate! in the European Countrli and the study of their languagi social education institutions, th« monuments of art and architectu: Summer courses were attended the school of social science Muenchen-Gladbach in. Germai As a member of the Univers: unit of St. Vincent de Paul Soc ty. he visited with council me bers, the poor at Lyons, Paris, a Cologne, which was a great soui of interest and information.On the morning of April 1, 39 as a purple mist veiled the moi tains of Switzerland. John H bers was ordained a priest by 1 Rev. Abbot of St. Maurice. T Rev. John B_ Herbers read ris fi:hoiy Mass on Passion Stinds April 1, 19IX In the Chapel of 1 Albertisum, Fribourg.Returning to America in i summer of 1921, Father Herbc celebrated his first solemn Hi Mass at St. Boniface Church August 15 of the same year.He began his priestly dudes assistant to the Rt. Rev. Ms Geo. W. Heer at St. Mary's Chur Dubuque. He had only been th* three weeks when he was appoi eJ to the faculty of Columbia C (Continued on Page 4-B)OAT T T'nr'T^
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