Silver chalice with gold interior, inscribed on bottom "To Rev M.J. Dwyer" with gold communion plate, in brown case, circa 1918
Scope and Contents
The religious artifacts series contains religious items created by or associated with Notre Dame of Maryland University or the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1918
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is located at the Loyola Notre Dame Library. Contact Archives and Special Collections for more information.
This collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Michael J. Dwyer was fifty-four years old when he began his studies for the priesthood a few years after the death of his wife. He had been a frequent visitor to the church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Roxbury, Massachusetts and had friends among the Redemptorist priests there. This quotation from St. Clement, CSSR was on his ordination card: "What God wills, because God wills it; as long as God wills it."
Father Dwyer had been a practicing lawyer in Suffolk County, Boston, and a tenor singer with the Boston Opera Company. He had a daughter, Frances Dwyer, who had been a freshman at Notre Dame, 1910-11, and was called home at the death of her mother. Father Dwyer was first ordained in Rome in 1918. He served at a parish in Watervliette, New York. Later he became pastor of St. Ambrose Church in Latham, New York where his funeral Mass was offered. He served as a priest for twenty years.
Extent
From the Collection: 27.33 Cubic Feet (28 flat boxes, 13 oversize boxes, 5 records center boxes, one legal-sized document box, 8 oversize objects)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: Chinese
General
Top of base inscribed with "Moises, David Rex, Ysaya, Hieremia" on the base; Bottom inscribed with "To Rev. M.J. Dwyer at his ordination Rome June VII MCMXVIII, Rev. J.T. Creach, J.A. Dennison, J.C. Pelletier of Boston U.S.A." "First used at mass by his Holiness Benedict XV June XXVIII MCMXVII" "R.I.P Oct.3.1938 Presented to Sister M. Rosalinda S.S.N.D. in memory of Rev. Michael J. Dwyer." In brown octagonal leather case with green velvet lining and labeled "Ditta Brugo, Fabbrica Oggetti Sacried Argenterie via de Babuino-86 Roma" Case also contains a gold metal communion plate with IHS, a ring of thorns, and a heart and cross engraved on the bottom.
Repository Details
Part of the Notre Dame of Maryland University Archives Repository