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Death Comes. One morning, after a tinned-food breakfast, Constable Albert Chartrand died of a heart attack. To give him a Catholic burial, Sergeant Larsen and Constable Pat Hunt, dogmaster over the ship's twelve huskies, trekked 1,100 miles in two months to find a priest. Back with them to hold the funeral, over the vast distance where only six groups of white men had been in 110 years, came 37-year-old Father Gustav Henry of Brittany, a missionary to the Eskimos. Back, too, came scores of his converted Eskimos, to protect him from harm...
...Pond Inlet, they picked up Constable Jack Doyle to replace Chartrand...
...September 1942, the St. Roch, looking little the worse for wear, came down the coast past Labrador to Newfoundland. The crew had gained weight, and no man, except the dead Chartrand, had been ill of so much as a cold...
...Peter & Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis, Most Rev. Joseph Elmer Ritter, 42, was enthroned as bishop of that diocese, in which he had been auxiliary to the late, able Bishop Chartrand. In attendance were Most Rev. John Timothy McNicholas, Archbishop of Cincinnati, and some 150 bishops, priests and monsignori...
...Other well-known Midwestern prelates: Fort Wayne's Bishop John Francis Noll, influential editor of Our Sunday Visitor; Indianapolis' Bishop Joseph Chartrand, probably closer in contact with his flock than any other; Oklahoma City's Bishop Francis Clement Kelley, well-known in Washington and abroad...