![]() ![]() With very little time beforehand to serve as a priest, Fr. Bishop John McNamara, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, was the minister of Tonsure and the ordaining prelate for all of the minor and major orders. At last, in the Chapel of the Sulpician Seminary in Washington, on May 4, 1933, Joseph Leonard White, joy-filled, was ordained a priest. Later that same June 1932, at the Cathedral of the Assumption in Baltimore, he was ordained a subdeacon a few months later in September, he was ordained a deacon, back in the National Shrine. Having received Tonsure in September 1929, and the first two minor orders in June, 1930, he found that further orders were delayed until June, 1932, when he received Exorcist and Acolyte at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, where he had also been tonsured and ordained Porter and Lector. As a result of this hiatus, Joe’s dates of steps towards ordination became crowded toward the end of his years at the Sulpician Seminary. He resisted going away from the seminary, did not like the sanatorium nor his stay there, and returned to the life of the seminary as soon as possible. In the midst of his major seminary years, ill with tuberculosis, Joseph White spent four months in a sanatorium for rest and treatment. Thus well- prepared, he spent the next four years, 1929-1933, in the formation program at the Sulpician Seminary and the degree program at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Charles College, where he spent the next six years before entering the Basselin College program for three years, 1926-1929, during which he acquired both the B.A. The following academic year, he began his seminary formation at St. Andrew’s and then the year 1919 –1920 in Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. Family relationships were complicated by multiple marriages and consequent siblings with only one parent in common – a subject which Joe White preferred to keep private or to share only with close friends.įrom 1922 to 1969, young Joe’s education was in a Catholic school: St. On September 13, 1905, Joseph Leonard White was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Frederick Herbert White and Rose Irene Gibbons. Joseph Leonard White was in character and personality more complicated than that, as his story reveals. His response, after a pause for reflection, was “I don’t know but if he wanted to, he did.” This anecdote expresses an attitude of will and determination which on first thought would be characteristic of Joe White, the name by which he was almost universally known, as if it were one word. Following the death of President Andrew Jackson, the old general’s house slave Alfred was asked whether he thought Jackson had gone to heaven.
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