{"id":1350,"date":"2015-03-05T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkpdefunts.smainternational.info\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2015-03-05T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T16:43:00","slug":"le-pere-claude-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"Le P\u00e8re Claude TAYLOR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Missions Africaines \u2013Province d’Irlande<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"TAYLOR<\/td>\nn\u00e9 le 25 juin 1895 \u00e0 Leeds
dans le dioc\u00e8se de Leeds, Angleterre
membre de la SMA le 15 novembre 1917
pr\u00eatre le 29 juin 1919
d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 8 avril 1958<\/td>\n		\n

1920 Cork, professeur et \u00e9conome
1921-1937 missionnaire aux Etats-Unis
East Saint-Louis
Cairo, sup\u00e9rieur depuis 1926
\u00e9diteur du magazine
1937-1938 secr\u00e9taire et \u00e9conome g\u00e9n\u00e9ral
1938-1958 missionnaire aux Etats-Unis
un es membres fondateurs de la Province<\/p>\n

d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 East Saint-Louis, USA, le 8 avril 1958,
\u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 63 ans<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

biographie en anglais \u00e0 la suite)<\/p>\n

Le p\u00e8re Claude TAYLOR (1895 – 1958)<\/p>\n

A East Saint-Louis, (U.S.A.), le 8 avril 1958, retour \u00e0 Dieu du p\u00e8re Claude Taylor, \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 63 ans.<\/p>\n

Claude Taylor naquit dans le dioc\u00e8se de Leeds (Angleterre), en 1895. Il fit ses \u00e9tudes dans nos maisons, \u00e9mit le serment en 1916 et fut ordonn\u00e9 pr\u00eatre en 1919. Ses sup\u00e9rieurs le destin\u00e8rent \u00e0 l’enseignement; il \u00e9tait en effet d’une intelligence sup\u00e9rieure. Mais l’homme propose et Dieu dispose. Apr\u00e8s un an pass\u00e9 \u00e0 Cork comme \u00e9conome du s\u00e9minaire, le p\u00e8re Taylor partait pour l’Am\u00e9rique. Missionnaire d’abord \u00e0 East Saint-Louis, il devenait sup\u00e9rieur de Cairo en 1926.<\/p>\n

En 1937, le p\u00e8re Slattery le choisit comme secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral et \u00e9conome g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, mais le p\u00e8re Taylor ne tarda pas \u00e0 retourner vers les Etats-Unis.<\/p>\n

Le p\u00e8re Taylor \u00e9tait un homme de volont\u00e9, m\u00e9thodique, prudent, tenace dans ce qu’il entreprenait. D’un caract\u00e8re r\u00e9serv\u00e9, cette r\u00e9serve l’a peut-\u00eatre emp\u00each\u00e9 de donner tout ce qu’il \u00e9tait capable de donner.<\/p>\n

Father Claude Manning TAYLOR (1895 – 1958)<\/p>\n

Claude Taylor was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, on July 25, l895. He died in St. Mary’s hospital, Broadway, East St. Louis, Illinois, USA, where he had been a patient for some months, on April 8, l958.<\/p>\n

Claude was one of three children born to Joseph Taylor of Yorkshire and Caroline Matilda (nee Hale) of Pontefract. Caroline\u2019s father, Abraham, was a school master. Joseph Taylor was a travelling photographer which may explain how his two sons came to study in the Society\u2019s secondary college in Cork. Mr. Taylor was the photographer who took many of the early group photographs now displayed in the headquarters of the Irish Province, at Blackrock Road, Cork. Claude followed his older brother Leo (later archbishop of Lagos) in his choice of vocation. He received his secondary education at St. Joseph’s college, Wilton, Cork (1909-1914), after which he entered the Society’s major seminary, at Blackrock Road. He was received as a member of the Society on November 15, 1917 and ordained a priest by Bishop John O’Gorman CSSp, vicar apostolic of Sierra Leone, in St. Joseph’s church, adjoining the seminary, on June 29, 1919. Ordained with him on that day were Michael McEniry, Patrick J. O’Connell, Jim Stanley, and Thomas Conway.<\/p>\n

Claude was never robust, indeed all through his life he had a tendency towards tuberculosis and at times the illness seemed on the point of developing. As he grew older he also suffered from a heart ailment. After ordination his superiors appointed him to teach in the Province’s seminary at Blackrock Road where there were 30 students studying theology. William Butler, the Provincial, was resident at Blackrock Road at that time. Michael Collins was house superior and also taught moral theology, liturgy and homiletics. Michael McCaffrey was spiritual director and professor of pastoral theology. Claude taught sacred scripture and music. In addition to his teaching duties he acted as seminary bursar and edited the Province’s journal the African Missionary. The AM was the oldest missionary magazine in Ireland, its first issue dating from January 1914. Claude edited six issue of the magazine during the course of 1920. The quality of his editorial work attracted the particular attention of a senior confr\u00e8re, Peter Harrington, who was resident in Blackrock Road during 1920. Peter was despatched to the USA early in 1921 to pioneer a mission to African-Americans. Gaining admission to the diocese of Bellville in Southern Illinois, he established the Province’s first American mission at East St. Louis. The parish, named after St. Augustine, served a population which was largely African-American. Shortly after his arrival in East St. Louis Peter decided to found a magazine promoting the aims of the Society in America. He applied to William Butler for Claude’s services. As a result, in the summer of 1921, Claude retired from his duties in Blackrock Road and sailed from Cobh on the liner, Carmania, on August 23. On arrival he took up residence with Peter Harrington and a second priest, Cornelius Murphy, at 1400 E. Broadway, East St. Louis, where the mission was situated. For the next two years he served as editor of the new magazine, entitled The Coloured Claim. This magazine quickly proved a success, building up a good circulation. However in July 1923 Claude fell ill and was compelled to enter a sanatorium and, with no one to replace him, the magazine lapsed.<\/p>\n

Claude spent eight months in the sanatorium. When he was discharged he re-joined Peter Harrington and Cornelius Murphy in St. Augustine’s, assisting in the parochial ministry. In 1928 Peter founded a second mission to the African-American community, named after St. Columba, in the town of Cairo, near East St. Louis. Claude was named pastor of this new mission, which was located at 412 Fourteenth Street. Single-handedly Claude ministered in this parish until 1937 when Maurice Slattery, the Superior General, chose him as secretary general and bursar general, to serve in Rome. However Claude was unhappy at the change to Rome and within a year he returned to the USA, to his old mission at Cairo. Despite Claude’s best efforts over the years, St. Columba’s was still a small parish, with 135 members, 20 catechumens and a meagre average of 2 marriages annually. The people, among whom he worked (Jim Stanley joined him as an assistant in 1939), were materially impoverished and had been spiritually neglected by the Church for decades. Claude’s work was in every sense as much primary evangelisation as that of his confr\u00e8res in Africa.<\/p>\n

In March 1941 an American Province of the Society was erected under the leadership of Ignace Lissner. Claude became a founding member of the new Province, and remained on in St. Columba’s where he was now assisted by Pat Fleming. In l949, when Peter Harrington became Provincial of the American Province, Claude succeeded him as pastor of St. Augustine’s where he was assisted by Jim Stanley and Michael (Ben) Burke. Claude was ill three months with heart disease before he died, but the end came rather unexpectedly. A requiem Mass was celebrated in St. Augustine’s at 8.30 am on the day of his burial. A solemn pontifical requiem was sung by Albert Zuroweste, Bishop of Belleville, at St. Henry’s church at 11 am. (St. Henry\u2019s church was chosen, rather than St. Augustine\u2019s, to accommodate the overflowing congregation) A colleague who attended Claude’s funeral wrote: ‘The day was bright and sunny the only contrast being the tear-filled eyes of his devoted flock and friends’. <\/p>\n

He is buried Mount Carmel cemetery, Broadway, East St. Louis, USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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