Arizona Register
Friday, December 14, 1956
4 Franciscan Friars
To Be Priests Dec. 22
Largest Group of Phoenicians
Ever in One Ordination Class
Phoenix--Four Franciscans of this city will receive the sacrament of Holy Orders Dec. 22 at Old Mission, Santa Barbara, Calif., in what is believed to be the largest group of Phoenix candidates ever to become priests at one ordination.
Participants in the unique ordination are Father Keirnan Jay Kilroy, O.F.M.; Father Antonine Josephs Turner, Jr., O.F.M.; Father Barry Brunsman, O.F.M.; and Father Joel E. Scott, O.F.M.
Two of the future priests, Father Kiernan and Father Barry, were born on the same day of the same year, March 15, 1929. Father Barry was born in Phoenix and Father Kiernan in Chicago.
All First Solemn Masses of the newly ordained priests excepting that of Father Antonine Turner, will be sung in St. Mary's Church, Third Street and Monroe, in Phoenix beginning with Father Barry Brunsman's at noon on December 23, Father Kiernan Kilroy will celebrate his Mass at 9 o'clock, Dec. 25, and Father Joel Scott at noon on Sunday, Dec. 30. Father Antonine will sing his Mass at noon, Dec. 5, in St. Francis Xavier's Church, Phoenix.
At the First solemn Mass of Father Barry, Father Victor O.F.M., will be the archpriest. Father Blaise, O.F.M., will be deacon and Father Marcos, O.F.M. subdeacon.
Father Melvin, O.F.M. and Father Evan, O.F.M., (The rest is hard to read.)
Father Joel Scott
Father Joel E. Scott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Scott, 914 N. 6th Street, Phoenix, graduated from St. Mary's Grammar School in 1944, entered St. Anthony's Seminary, Santa Barbara, Calif., in August, 1944, and was graduated in June, 1949.
He studied philosophy at San Luis Rey Mission, Calif., and completed his theology in Old Mission, Santa Barbara, Calif.
He has a sister, Margaret Ellen, who is a postulant with the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters. His father, who was reared in Douglas, has been employed by the internal Revenue Service for the past 23 years. His mother was born in Bisbee. His parents moved to Phoenix in 1935.
A grandfather, Edward A. Scott, was a pioneer conductor on the Southern Pacific Railroad, and at the time of his death in 1949, was the oldest member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen in Arizona.
A native of Bisbee, Father Joel was born Nov. 23, 1930 and baptized in St. Patrick's Church in Bisbee.
(This is a very long article and it is not in good condition. I think I captured everything about Eddie (Joel) but I will go back later and make sure. This was a "new" find while cleaning out some cupboards.)
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