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NEWSCLIPS
from the scrap books of
Virginia Day Fritscher

Jacksonville Journal and Courier, April 1938

Father Day’s First Mass Here
The First Sunday in May

John B. Day Will Be Ordained as Priest of Catholic Church

Jacksonville Young Man to Be Ordained April 24 at Springfield

John B. Day of this city, who is completing his studies at Ken-
rick seminary at St. Louis, will be ordained to the priesthood of
the Roman Catholic church Sunday, April 24, by His Excellency
Bishop James Griffin, D.D., Bishop of Springfield, in the Cathedral
of the Immaculate Conception.
Rev. Father Day will say his first solemn mass Sunday, May 1, at
10 a.m. at the Church of Our Saviour in Jacksonville, a ceremony
that will be largely attended by members of the parish and friends
of the young priest.
A dinner in his honor will be given at the Knights of Columbus
hall on East State Street immediately after his first solemn mass.
There will be a reception the same evening at the home of Father
Day’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. Day, at 517 South Church street.
Father Day will say a mass at Kampsville Monday, May 2, and
at Michael on Tuesday, May 3. He is a former resident of Calhoun
county and well known in those communities.
He will be the first priest from this parish to be ordained. A
number of relatives and friends will go to Springfield for the ordi-
nation service at the cathedral.
Father Day has many friends who have followed his progress