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| <tab>Drawing on traditional Highland wordings for the text, Fr John prepared a Gaelic catechism, //An Teagaisg Chriosd// (Toronto, Printed by Nicholson & Co., 1871, pp. 44). | <tab>Drawing on traditional Highland wordings for the text, Fr John prepared a Gaelic catechism, //An Teagaisg Chriosd// (Toronto, Printed by Nicholson & Co., 1871, pp. 44). |
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| <tab>The great pioneer Bishop Macdonell (d. 1840) alone excepted, Fr Macdonald, the subject of the present sketch, is the best remembered Catholic clergyman in GC history. He was a stern priest with a magnetic personality, but it is probably impossible now to form an adequate view of why he seemed so important to the generation which knew him and to the generation or two that followed. A typescript history of St. Raphael’s, perhaps by Mgr Ewen J. Macdonald, and certainly preserved in his papers in the Ontario Archives, is valuable for the legend, the mystique, of this great pastor Fr John. The story of “Fr John’s Diary” has continued to sustain the legend. He was known for his wit as well as his piety. He was the brother of Fr Aeneas Macdonald and of Dr Roderick Mcdonald. See also Anna McGillis, possibly his mother. | <tab>The great pioneer Bishop Macdonell (d. 1840) alone excepted, Fr Macdonald, the subject of the present sketch, is the best remembered Catholic clergyman in GC history. He was a stern priest with a magnetic personality, but it is probably impossible now to form an adequate view of why he seemed so important to the generation which knew him and to the generation or two that followed. A typescript history of St. Raphael’s, perhaps by Mgr Ewen J. Macdonald, and certainly preserved in his papers in the Ontario Archives, is valuable for the legend, the mystique, of this great pastor Fr John. The story of “Fr John’s Diary” has continued to sustain the legend. He was known for his wit as well as his piety. He was the brother of Fr Aeneas Macdonald and of Dr Roderick Mcdonald. See also [[mcgillis_anna|Anna McGillis]], possibly his mother. |
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