Father Ryan of the South
Lovett, Howard Meriwether
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By HOWARD MERIWETHER LOVETT
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and that cause immortal in the pages of history; to...
...other American poet of his day...
...the spiritual-minded...
...Father Ryan ministered to the wounded...
...ist who left a brief but precious note on Father Ryan in the...
...glory without victory...
...He had in...
...and to...
...pathy to bring consolation from a great soul who had sorrowed...
...South...
...Father Ryan knew "life's uttermost extremes," and to full...
...tragic picture of the devotion of priest and nun on the battle...
...wrote as follows: "Father Ryan arrived at camp...
...and in hospital, but he gave vent to that "uncontrollable divine...
...eyes, folded the hands and whispered over the freshly dug...
...This was a notable achievement...
...of American letters...
...These cherished...
...Of distinguished presence was this chaplain in military cloak...
...baptismal name, Matthew...
...Entering the novitiate in 1854, he made his...
...no rest until he answered the final summons at the Fransiscan...
...years 1828 and 1838...
...a free lance...
...to have...
...Macon, Father Ryan was a frequent visitor at my grand...
...paper would give vent to his thoughts and feelings in verse...
...and baptism and that, during this early period of life, he was...
...days of his life...
...It had what was considered a vast circulation...
...Here in the parlor Father Ryan would say Mass...
...Father Ryan knew southern life in all its phases...
...been stricken with dengue fever...
...In 1885 he set out...
...Louis while Abram was a...
...He tells with trembling voice and tearful eyes how Father Ryan...
...perhaps say Mass in that city also, and take the train for the...
...sea retreat" he would give a sermon or lecture...
...Pennsylvania...
...Catholic family in the entire country...
...voiced for his people the true measure of their hero, Robert E...
...There were many activities in this life of one who went...
...caused him to give up the enterprise, and the paper passed into...
...This was the childhood...
...prophetic lines, The Conquered Banner...
...Augusta, Georgia, and Mobile, Alabama...
...The deep sincerity and emotion of these poems came...
...This was Father Ryan's achievement...
...try to raise funds for needy widows and orphans of the late con...
...Shielded by the talisman of...
...did not fall into the hands of federal troops having been pre...
...This Catholic weekly, with...
...went where few dared venture...
...As priest, poet and patriot, Father Ryan was known and...
...It was said that he seemed to revel in the occasion thus offered...
...time writing, hunting and rambling in the woods...
...At confirmation he...
...his black hair thrown back from a noble brow...
...stood by the bedside of the forsaken, spoke to them who were...
...his orderly...
...The...
...Ryan suffered and sorrowed with the South as patriot, and to...
...Father...
...seven months...
...The name of the...
...of health caused him to give up his pastoral charge and retire...
...Confederate soldier...
...A daughter, Ellenor, known in Religion...
...his name, classing him as merely Catholic or Civil War poet...
...and veneration during the years when the South felt other...
...There is not to be found a complete record of...
...books of history or novels in our library...
...the Sister of Mercy...
...He was al...
...Curiously, tradition adds to the...
...Ryan was baptized Matthew Abraham, and it is not improb...
...and hostess...
...from President Davis, went from Richmond to General Bragg's...
...United States but Canada and Mexico...
...unstinted service to humanity, working tirelessly as priest in...
...His orderly, dying...
...press throughout the country...
...Tipperary, Ireland, in 1828, and entered Saint Joseph's Com...
...fusion for his father was named Matthew...
...old tunes and improvising new ones...
...1862 for service as chaplain in the Confederate army...
...Sometimes...
...Many poems of the dear priest which...
...called The Banner of the South...
...In this service he...
...specifically the eleven states comprising the solid South...
...ecclesiastical studies were pursued at Niagara University, New...
...Patrick's Church, Augusta, Georgia, and his practical energies...
...This priest...
...Macon, who well remembers the visits of Father Ryan...
...Father Ryan was born of Irish parents, Matthew and Mary...
...had not seen each other since she had given him a pair of scapu...
...In the volume of his collected poems may...
...Then he would...
...A brief review of his career...
...delphia hospital, as he was in vigorous manhood: "A person of...
...The Ryan family removed to St...
Vol. 10 • September 1929 • No. 20
