Annals of St. Ann's Hermitage: 1932
January 21. The Canadian Brothers going to the Second Novitiate stop here en route; their confreres, returning, do the same in February.
February 24. Bro. Archange, Assistant for the Lamennais Brothers, visiting the establishments of their Institute in America, kindly comes to spend a day at St. Ann's Hermitage.
February 27. Bro. Paulin Alphonse dies in Manchester. He is buried in the Provincial House cemetery on the following Tuesday, March 2.
March 2. Rev. Father Tappin [sic], chaplain at Mt. St. Michael's in the Bronx, who had known the deceased well, comes with 4 Brothers and sings another service. After accompanying the mortal remains to the cemetery, they return immediately to New York.
March. This month the exercises of the month of St. Joseph take place as usual.
March 13. Five working Brothers from the Provincial House go see the Passion Play at the Passionist Fathers in Union City, N.J.
March 16. Feast of St. Heribert, Brother Director's patron. According to Brother's desires, nothing special is held anywhere; however, in the refectory Brother Procurator judges it proper to add a dessert and coffee.
March 17. Feast of St. Patrick. That evening after supper, the Juniors provide some entertainment.
March 19. High Mass and fervent Communion for the feast of St. Joseph. Recreation in the afternoon.
April 13. Bro. Jules Adrien, Provincial of Canada, Bro. Marie-Stratonique, Visitor, and Bro. Louis-Patrice, delegate, going to the General Chapter, spend two days with us.
April 24. Dear Bro. Henry Charles, Provincial, and Bro. Leo (Legontianus), delegate, leave for the Chapter which is scheduled to open in Grugliasco on May 16.
May 1. In its meeting on May 1 the local Council decided to hire Mr. Bogo, contractor, for a day, with his air drill to remove the boulder in the Scholasticate playground; this man asks $20 to drill; he brings the dynamite and blows up the holes; for these two items he charges $20.
Mid-May. A tank is installed in the Juniorate tower, to supply water to the dormitories, which don't have any when wanted. Capacity: 380 gallons. Cost: $13.
Mid-June. Since the city was having an embankment built along the Hudson River near our property, we took advantage of this situation to have a platform built to serve as diving place for the Scholastics during the summer. The company which was putting in the pilings offered to sink four trees [trunks] in the ground and tie them with beams for $47.
End of June. Since Mr. Bogo had removed only part of the boulder in the Scholasticate playground, Bro. Francis Xavier, professor, with the permission of the Director, arranged with Spoor & Lascher Company to provide a double drill for 2 days at $15 per day. The professor, helped by several young Brothers drilled more than 350 feet in two days. The Company supplied the dynamite and sent 2 experts to blow up the holes. There was some surprise when we received the bill which came to $82.50; but the boulder was completely broken up.
June 24. Return of the Brother Delegates from our province and Canada. The Brothers from Canada, accompanied by a French priest, are our guests for two days.
July 2. Dear Bro. Clement, Assistant, on his way to visiting the provinces of Australia and New Zealand, spends 5 days in our midst. By his interesting conferences he captures fully our young people's attention. As he leaves he says he was delighted and edified by his stay at St. Ann's Hermitage.
July 16-26. Retreat of the Novices and Postulants preached by Rev. Father Stephen F. McNamer, S.J. 10 Brothers make this retreat; 9 Novices make their First Vows and 12 Postulants take the Cassock.
15 Brothers having completed 27 days of retreat in Tyngsboro make Perpetual Profession here, at the same ceremony. Their retreat was preached by the Rev. Fathers John E. Welch, Thomas F. Barrett, & Daniel H. Sullivan, S.J.
July 27. BB. Gabriel Marie, Saintin & Paul Henri, en route to a family visit in France, stop here for two days.
August 5-12. First retreat preached by Rev. Father John W. Moran, S.J. 72 Brothers follow the exercises. Bro. Oswald makes his Vow of Stability.
August 17-24. 69 Brothers make the 4th and last retreat, preached by Rev. Father Ronald McDonald, S.J. Bro. Louis Viateur makes the Vow of Stability.
August 25-28. Rev. Father John Corbett, S.J., preaches the Juniors' retreat. On Sunday, closing day, 20 Juniors go to the Novitiate.
September. Before classes begin, the Scholastics paint all their rooms: dormitory, halls, classrooms.
This same month the interior of the stable is renovated. The old beamed floor is replaced by a cement one, the wooden shackles are replaced by others in wrought iron; cost: approximately $90-$100.
The House personnel is as follows:
Bro. Henry Charles, Prov.
Bro. Heribert, Dir.Gen.
Bro. Marie Anicetus, Prov.Econ.
Bro. Altin, S.D.
Bro. Paul Acyndinus, Local Econ.
Bro. Abelus, gardener
Bro. Louis Viateur, horticulturist
Bro. Edward Francis, farmer
Bro. Tarcisius, animals
Bro. Frederick Charles, tailor
Bro. Placid Robert, ass't tailor
Bro. Thomas Edmund, ass't tailor
Bro. Robert Francis, laundry
Bro. Mary Anthony, Chef
Bro. Louis Boniface, Ass't Chef
Bro. Anthony of Padua, Recruiter
In the Infirmary:
Bro. Victor Hilaire, Infirmarian
Bro. Felix Eugene, sick
Bro. Pierre Augustin, sick
Bro. Edmund Jude, sick
In the Scholasticate:
Bro. Adrian August, Master
Bro. Francis Xavier, Prof.
Bro. Francis Michael, Prof.
Bro. Francis Louis, Librarian
24 Scholastics
In the Novitiate:
Bro. Adolph Leo, Master
Bro. Leo Camille, Sub-Master
Bro. Marie Petrus, Prof
Bro. Edward Wilfrid, Prof
Bro. Louis Mary, Prefect
Bro. Daniel Andrew, cook
12 Novices and 24 Postulants
In the Juniorate:
Bro. John Philibert, Master
Bro. Marcel Henry, Sub-Master
Bro. Philippe Joseph, Teacher
Bro. Victor Ralph, Teacher
Bro. Owen Cuthbert, Teacher
Bro. John Patrick, Prefect
54 Juniors
End of September. One of the horses having been seriously burned on his flank and the veterinarian having decided that he would never again be able to work, the two horses are exchanged for two others. Cost: $250 minus $80 = $170.
October. For a long time the Brother in charge of the animals had asked, not without cause, that some improvements be made in the pigpen. During the month of October Bro. Altin, helped by a few Brothers, enlarged and modified the old chicken coop behind the barn. He turned it into a very convenient pigpen capable of holding 25 to 30 pigs at a time. Every day St. Francis Hospital sent down its kitchen swill which, added to that of our different houses, enabled us to feed from 20 to 30 animals.
The cost of the cement and wood needed comes to about $70 to $75.
October 20. The old dump truck, no longer any good for carrying the sand, rocks, etc. which we needed to carry, is sold for $50; it is replaced by another one, secondhand. Cost: $285.
October 26. The special Recollection recommended by dear Brother Assistant takes place in the afternoon: A Jesuit Father comes at 3:30 to give a sermon which is followed by Confessions.
December 20. 13 Graduates, 60 "Canctus" [Laudates?], costing $1.20 and $0.19 respectively, with 55 Masses for the feast of Christ the King and 55 others for the feast of the Sacred Heart, are ordered from Desclee & Cie in Belgium.
End of December. The ceremonies and Offices for Christmas and the New Year take place as usual.
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