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The Old Franciscan Missions Of California

CHAPTER XVII
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The Franciscan historian for California, Father Zephyrin Englehardt, has written a book entitled _The Holy Man of Santa Clara_, in which not only the life of Padre Catala is given, but the whole of the procedure necessary to convince the Church tribunal of his worth and sainthood.

The matter is not yet (1913) settled.
On the walls are some of the ancient paintings, one especially noteworthy.

It is of Christ multiplying the loaves and fishes (John vi.
II).

While it is not a great work of art, the benignity and sweetness of the Christ face redeem it from crudeness.

With upraised right hand he is blessing the loaves which rest in his left hand, while the boy with the fishes kneels reverently at his feet.
The University of Santa Clara is now rapidly erecting its new buildings, in a modified form of Mission architecture, to meet its enlarging needs The buildings, when completed, will present to the world a great institution of learning--the oldest west of the Rocky Mountains--well equipped in every department for the important labor in the education of the Catholic youth of California and the west that it has undertaken..


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