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Camillus Paul Maes was the son of Jean Baptiste and Justine (Ghyoot) Maes. He was born on March 13, 1846, in Courtrai, Belgium, of a family which had furnished a number of priests to the diocese of Bruges.
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Camillus Paul Maes was the son of Jean Baptiste and Justine (Ghyoot) Maes. He was born on March 13, 1846, in Courtrai, Belgium, of a family which had furnished a number of priests to the diocese of Bruges.
Camillus was trained in the local preparatory school of St. Aloysius, in the College of St. Amandus, and in an architect's office.
Burning with missionary zeal, fostered by American bishops who were recruiting continuously in the Low Countries, he studied for the priesthood in the seminaries of Roulers and Bruges, and in the American College at Louvain.
Ordained at Mechlin, December 19, 1868, Maes took leave of his family and Bishop Faict, who grudgingly surrendered him to the diocese of Detroit. Maes was assigned to the mission of Mount Clemens as assistant to the dying Belgian pastor, Van Renterghem, whom he soon succeeded.
In building a school and caring for several hundred scattered families of various races, he found an opportunity for tactful leadership and practice in speaking French, German, Dutch, Flemish, and English. In 1871, he became assistant to Msgr. Edward Joos of St. Mary's Church at Monroe, Michigan.
Here he built St. John the BaptistChurch for English-speaking Catholics (1873); organized a model parish with a school, religious confraternities, and temperance society; and incidentally wrote a brochure, History of the Catholic Church in Monroe City and County.
In 1880, he was called to Detroit as secretary to Bishop Caspar H. Borgess. In this capacity, he improved diocesan finances, acted as theologian at synods, aided in the establishment of the House of the Good Shepherd, for which he acted as chaplain, arranged for a Flemish parish, established the Catholic Club, which was later imitated in other diocesan centers, and wrote a Life of Rev. Charles Nerinckx (1880).
Named bishop of Covington, Kentucky, he was consecrated by Archbishop W. H. Elder on January 25, 1885. Satolli's fourteen propositions, on the ground, that they undermined the effectiveness of the parochial system. In harmony with the Paulist idea, he promoted an Evangelist's Home in Richmond, Kentucky, as a center for missionaries to non-Catholics (1905).
With the opening of the Kentucky coal fields, he avoided a racial problem by providing Italian and Slavic laborers with priests of their own race. At the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore (1884), he challenged the hierarchy by a spirited advocacy of a national Catholic University.
When this university was established in Washington (1887), he acted as secretary and member of the board of trustees for a score of years, and ultimately bequeathed his library to the institution.
For racial reasons, he was not available for Cincinnati in 1907. He commenced the work, however, which his death soon ended.
Maes proved a constructive organizer. He cleared the diocese of a heavy debt; built, with the aid of James and Michael Walsh, philanthropists, a Gothic cathedral on the order of Notre Dame of Paris; established St. Elizabeth's Hospital under the Franciscan Sisters of Aix-la-Chapelle, whom he introduced into the diocese; and established about thirty parishes with chapels, an orphan asylum, a few academies, two homes for the aged, and a House of the Good Shepherd. He administered thirty-seven parochial schools, in which he was an ardent believer, brought the Sisters of Divine Providence from Lorraine (1888), and led an opposition to Archbishop Ireland's Faribault plan and Msgr. Nationally, he was prominent as a director of the Federation of Catholic Societies; as a governor of Father Francis C. Kelly's Extension Society; as a founder and director of the Priest's Eucharistic League, whose organ, Emmanuel, he established and edited (1895 - 1903); as permanent president of the various American Eucharistic congresses; as a leading delegate to the World Eucharistic congresses at Namur (1902), Metz (1907), Montreal (1910), and Vienna (1912); as chairman of a board of bishops for the American College, Louvain, which, on his advice, was constituted a part of the university; and as a promoter of the Catholic Encyclopedia, for which he wrote a few articles.
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An efficient, industrious man, Maes found time for many things; he preached well; published a number of sound pastorals of marked clarity and force; contributed twelve articles to the Flemish Rond den Heerd (1870 - 76), largely on Belgian life in America, a few articles to the Ecclesiastical Review, the Catholic World, the Children's Magazine, and the Christian Year, which he founded in 1912.
