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Title: Souvenir year book and parish guide of the Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist ... Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Catholic Church - Arkansas - Hot Springs
Publisher: Good Shepherd's Convent,
Contributing Library: Catholic Theological Union
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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hebanquet, he received the sacraments of the dying. This hap-pened thus: Sunday, February the 20th, he went in an opencarriage from Stans to Buchs to a theatre and returned thesame way. It was very cold. Thus Deschwanden got pneu-monia, from which sickness he died February the 25th at 8:30p. m. There laid the great artist on his death bed, his handsfolded as in prayer, his face beautiful with a mild and friend-ly expression, without a trace of change, nothing but rest andpeace manifest. Whosoever saw the dead artist thus in hisdeath could not help wishing also to slumber one day so sweet-ly and happily. Monday, February 28th, the great man wasburied. Stans never had seen such a funeral. We cannot characterize this noble artist better than withthe last sentence of his testament written by his own hand:Finally I wish to all a confidential, joyful resignation intothe holy will of God, freedom from inordinate attachment toworldly goods, comfort and luxury, love for the poor, a liberal 61.
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o«PWo w ^ H .9 o tB H inH 62. and charitable behavior, the peace of God among men whichalone can render any temporal gain, free of all envy andquarreling and can make any loss and any sorrow merito-rious. The first great feast of St. Johns parish was the bless-ing of the bells, March the 7th, 1909, by the Rt. Rev. BishopJohn B. Morris, D. D., Bishop of Little Rock, our ordinary.The bells were named (1) Santa Maria, (2) S. Antonius, and(3) S. Joannes Baptista, and they were given by Mr. LouisBusch and Misses Bell, Clara and Bertha Busch, as a memorialof their parents, Jacob and Mary Busch, and their sister, OmaBusch. It was a beautiful feast. On that occasion the firstcollection for the new church of Saint John was taken up. The second red letter day of the parish came with thesecond visit of the Ordinary, October 10th, 1910. On thatday His Lordship gave the sacrament of confirmation for thefirst time in St. Johns church. There were over eighty per-sons confirmed. The ceremony took pl

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