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kept ringing constantly.  At each altar the Benediction was given.  At the moment of the Benediction the soldiers fired a salute with guns, anvils and mortars.  Having made the long tour, the procession returned to the church, the last Benediction was given, and then the hymn, "Grosser Gott wie loben Dich-Holy God we praise Thy Name," was intoned and sung by the whole congregation, and the feast was closed.
    On one of these occasions things went a little awry.  It may have been in 1865 or '66.  After the High Mass was over and the procession began to form, His Lordship, who was very particular about the observance of the Church regulations, saw the girls carrying the statue of the Blessed Virgin on a stand in front of their ranks.  He said: You ought to know that in the Procession of the Blessed Sacrament no image or statue is allowed.  The girls returned the statue and wept.
    After the procession got started outside the church the choir began to sing hymns in German.  Again the Bishop began: Do you know that in this procession only Latin hymns are to be sung?  The girls in the choir now thought it their turn to weep.  What the men thought or said the historian did not hear.
    In marching through a pasture field with cattle busy grazing, His Lordship, carrying the Blessed Sacrament very devoutly, and not looking at the roadbed, unfortunately stepped into one of the fresh cow pancakes with his golden slippers.  He could not express his disapproval of this unrubrical happening with the Blessed Sacrament in his hands.
    At the end of the celebration every one of the clergy present felt uncomfortable and out of sorts at the various mishaps during the procession.  At the dinner all were serious until Father Louis Funcken began to think that it was silly to be so serious.  He cracked a few jokes and in a few minutes had the guests in a real festive mood.
    At the departure of the Bishop another salute with anvils and mortars was given.
    On one of these celebrations a mortar burst and tore off an attendant's arm.  Thereafter the use of mortars was discontinued.  The salutes by soldiers and anvils was kept up for many years.
    A peculiar custom brought from France was the "Swiss." A man dressed in gorgeous uniform with shining buttons and a Napoleon hat, marched up and down the aisle, with a Swiss halberd to keep order before, during and after the service.  Another old custom, now long forgotten, was that on feast days the congregation filed singly through the Sanctuary, dropped their offering into a plate on a table, passed behind the altar and returned each one to his place in the pew.
    At Confirmation visits the Bishop was received with the same solemnity as for Corpus Christi.
    While at St. Agatha Father Eugene's activity was by no means confined to St. Agatha. Hamburg, New Prussia, Berlin, Preston, Hamilton, Toronto, and other places were frequently visited.  In St. Agatha he was often assisted or replaced by other priests of his Community in Berlin, St. Clement's. and New Germany.  During one of his periodical trips to Rome, Father John Gehl, then newly ordained, took his place here for over a year from Sept. 1879 to Jan. 1, 1881.
    In later years Father Eugene became extremely stout and. in consequence much less active.  He was universally mourned when death took him away at the age of only about 56 years.
    He always assisted his brother Louis in the difficult, at times almost hopeless, enterprise of the college.  Without this encouragement, the advice and financial help, Father Louis would scarcely have persevered in the work.