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Joseph Maria Cataldo was born on March 17, 1837 in Terracina, Sicily. He was the son of Antonio and Sebastiana (Borusso) Cataldo.
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Joseph Maria Cataldo was born on March 17, 1837 in Terracina, Sicily. He was the son of Antonio and Sebastiana (Borusso) Cataldo.
Having entered the Society of Jesus in Palermo, December 23, 1852, he was later a student of divinity in Louvain. In 1861 he petitioned the Jesuit general, Pierre-Jean Beckx, to be sent on the foreign missions, requesting at the same time to be allowed to continue his studies in some English-speaking house of his order.
He was accordingly assigned to the Jesuit province of Turin, to which were attached the two missions of California and the Rocky Mountains, and, after receiving the priesthood in Louvain, September 8, 1862, sailed for Boston, there to resume his studies in the Jesuit seminary of that city. Here the climate proved unfavorable to his uncertain health, and he then accompanied Father Sopranis, Jesuit Visitor in the United States, to California, where he arrived early in 1863. After teaching philosophy for a period at Santa Clara College, he was dispatched in 1865 to the Rocky Mountains, the general insisting that he be allowed to realize his expressed desire of becoming a missionary. In this capacity his first successes were with the Upper Spokane of eastern Washington; he laid the foundations of a mission among the former in the winter of 1866-67 and of one among the latter early in 1869. For sixteen years, 1877-93, Father Cataldo directed the entire Jesuit mission field of the Pacific Northwest as Superior of the Rocky Mountain Missions, which underwent notable expansion during his incumbency. He opened missions in 1885 in Alaska as well as among the Gros Ventres and Assiniboin, the Cheyenne, and the Blackfeet; in 1886 among the Crows; in 1890 among the Umatilla. He also provided the Arapahoe and the Okanagan with missionaries. Nor did he overlook the whites. He was, and this was an important factor in securing success for his missionary program, notably instrumental in securing coworkers to share his labors, a visit of his to Europe in the eighties netting eighteen recruits for the Rocky Mountain missions. Father Cataldo was of frail physique and precarious health. At Boston in his student days he was declared by physicians to be consumptive, but he lived to ninety-one, managing all along with remarkable success to meet the physical demands of an unusually strenuous missionary life. His capacity for the active ministry remained with him to the last. He entered at once with zest on the tasks of a mission designed to bring the unconverted remnant of that tribe into the Church. On Palm Sunday, standing on crutches, for he suffered from a broken hip, he addressed the Umatilla for a half-hour in their own language. At his Mass on Easter Sunday he collapsed, however, and on the morrow passed away. On that same day, as he lay on his deathbed, he heard the confessions of a group of Indians who had come to visit him.
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