November 10, 2017

From the Archives

First Mass in Brazil

This photograph was taken at an event honoring senior citizens at St. Gabriel Parish in Connersville in May 1981. Following Mass said by Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara, several priests served dinner to 300 seniors in attendance. The priests are, from left to right, Fathers Harold Knueven, Stephen Jarrell, Glenn O’Connor, Robert Mazzola, and Archbishop O’Meara. Seated in front of the priests are Mistress of Ceremonies Karolyn Buckler and Elizabeth Mazzola, the mother of Father Mazzola, who made the archbishop’s apron. This photo originally appeared in the Connersville News Examiner.

In this photo, Father Arthur Mooney celebrates his first Mass following his ordination on June 11, 1933, at Annunciation Church in Brazil. Father Mooney was a Brazil native born in 1907, and passed away in 1973. Records in the archdiocesan archives state the following about this day: “Arthur Mooney was ordained [on] June 6, 1933 and said his first Mass in Brazil [on] June 11, 1933. [Father] Anthony McLoughlin, then located at Assumption [Parish] in Evansville, came to St. Mary’s to take [Msgr. Augustine] Rawlinson to the celebration. Going to Brazil that Sunday morning, the car was wrecked.” As these priests appear in other photographs from that day, they must not have suffered serious injuries as a result of their car accident.
 

(Would you like to comment on or share information about this photo? Contact archdiocesan archivist Julie Motyka at 800-382-9836, ext. 1538; 317-236-1538; or by e-mail at jmotyka@archindy.org.)

 

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