Ordained priests at St Michael's Cathedral
in Chatham, NB, (now Miramichi) on June 25/1933
From 1933 to 1937 he was pastor of the parish of
"Notre Dame du Sacré Coeur" of Bathurst
He was an army Chaplain during WW2
between the years 1940 to 1946
Then came to Campbellton where he was pastor
of the Saint Thomas Aquinas church from 1946-1953

In Campbellton was where he had his most famous book published
SCARLET DAWN
He tells the story of the
North Shore Regiment during the war years
The book, Scarlet Dawn has been re-printed many times
and is still available today. The name comes from his memories
while in Normandy, watching the sky light up from shell fire
from the Allied troops, during the famous Normandy Landing

He fought side by side with many of his friends, students
and neighbors
He would say "they were all kids and I was an old man at 34"
During the famous landing at Normandy, he bravely administered
the last rites to many of them

The church gave him the title of Monsignor in 1956

From 1953 to 1963, he was pastor at the St Mary's Church
in Newcastle, NB. At which time he retired after suffering
a heart attack. After his retirement, he did some oil paintings
from his memories during the war, he wrote some other stories
having in mind to get them published later

He was in Carpiquet France when he died on Sept. 13/1987
at age 82, attending the unveiling of a monument marking
a site in the Battle of Normandy

Of course when a person dies abroad its quite
a task to get their body back to Canada and his death
was no exception.

I had the pleasure of working with his niece
and met the Monsignor who was a very interesting
man to chat with. A Twenty One Gun Salute was fired
at his military funeral which was very well attended