The Third Bishop of Manchester, Monsignor George Albert Guertin was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, and was educated in the parochial schools of his native city, after which he went to St. Charles College, Sherbrooke, Province of Québec, and St. Hyacinthe College, Province of Québec, to pursue his classical studies. He then entered St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts, of which he would eventually become the first graduate to become bishop. Ordained priest on December 17, 1892, by Bishop Denis M. Bradley at St. Aloysius Gonzaga church in Nashua, New Hampshire, he became the first candidate in that parish to be ordained in the church of his native city.
Appointed assistant to the Father J. A. Chevalier at St. Augustine's church, Manchester, after four years and three months he was assigned to the Sacred Heart Church at Lebanon, New Hampshire, of which the Father Martin Egan was then pastor. Sent on October 7, 1900, to take charge of St. Anthony's parish, which had been founded in 1899 by Fr. D. C. Ling, Guertin found that debt had been incurred by the erection of a chapel, which was not yet finished. Becoming soon apparent that it was too small for the fast growing parish, Father Guertin bought land and moved the church. An addition was built and the building completed. He then opened a school in the basement, which accommodates two hundred and fifty children, under the supervision of four Sisters of the Holy Cross and two lay teachers. A parsonage was built on the land adjoining the church, into which he moved, three houses were purchased, one used as a home for the Sisters, and the other two are rented and net a good income to the parish.
Elected the Third Bishop of Manchester, he received his episcopal consecration on March 19, 1907, from Archishop Diomede Falconio, assisted by Bishops Matthew Harkins and Michael Tierney. By the time of his death twenty four years later, his tenure was longest in the history of the Manchester Diocese, spanning the industrial changes of the early twentieth century, the hardship of the Great War, the economic distress of mill closings, and ultimately the Great Depression.
Guertin died aged 62 at 3:35 am., on Thursday, August 6, 1931, away from home and with only one New Hampshire person with him, the vicar general, Monsignor Jeremiah S. Buckley. His death certificate cites as causes of death pulmonary tuberculosis, diabetes and arteriosclerosis. His funeral took place in the cathedral in Manchester with solemn ceremonies on August 11, where interment also followed in the crypt beside his two predecessors.
Appointed assistant to the Father J. A. Chevalier at St. Augustine's church, Manchester, after four years and three months he was assigned to the Sacred Heart Church at Lebanon, New Hampshire, of which the Father Martin Egan was then pastor. Sent on October 7, 1900, to take charge of St. Anthony's parish, which had been founded in 1899 by Fr. D. C. Ling, Guertin found that debt had been incurred by the erection of a chapel, which was not yet finished. Becoming soon apparent that it was too small for the fast growing parish, Father Guertin bought land and moved the church. An addition was built and the building completed. He then opened a school in the basement, which accommodates two hundred and fifty children, under the supervision of four Sisters of the Holy Cross and two lay teachers. A parsonage was built on the land adjoining the church, into which he moved, three houses were purchased, one used as a home for the Sisters, and the other two are rented and net a good income to the parish.
Elected the Third Bishop of Manchester, he received his episcopal consecration on March 19, 1907, from Archishop Diomede Falconio, assisted by Bishops Matthew Harkins and Michael Tierney. By the time of his death twenty four years later, his tenure was longest in the history of the Manchester Diocese, spanning the industrial changes of the early twentieth century, the hardship of the Great War, the economic distress of mill closings, and ultimately the Great Depression.
Guertin died aged 62 at 3:35 am., on Thursday, August 6, 1931, away from home and with only one New Hampshire person with him, the vicar general, Monsignor Jeremiah S. Buckley. His death certificate cites as causes of death pulmonary tuberculosis, diabetes and arteriosclerosis. His funeral took place in the cathedral in Manchester with solemn ceremonies on August 11, where interment also followed in the crypt beside his two predecessors.
The Third Bishop of Manchester, Monsignor George Albert Guertin was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, and was educated in the parochial schools of his native city, after which he went to St. Charles College, Sherbrooke, Province of Québec, and St. Hyacinthe College, Province of Québec, to pursue his classical studies. He then entered St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts, of which he would eventually become the first graduate to become bishop. Ordained priest on December 17, 1892, by Bishop Denis M. Bradley at St. Aloysius Gonzaga church in Nashua, New Hampshire, he became the first candidate in that parish to be ordained in the church of his native city.
Appointed assistant to the Father J. A. Chevalier at St. Augustine's church, Manchester, after four years and three months he was assigned to the Sacred Heart Church at Lebanon, New Hampshire, of which the Father Martin Egan was then pastor. Sent on October 7, 1900, to take charge of St. Anthony's parish, which had been founded in 1899 by Fr. D. C. Ling, Guertin found that debt had been incurred by the erection of a chapel, which was not yet finished. Becoming soon apparent that it was too small for the fast growing parish, Father Guertin bought land and moved the church. An addition was built and the building completed. He then opened a school in the basement, which accommodates two hundred and fifty children, under the supervision of four Sisters of the Holy Cross and two lay teachers. A parsonage was built on the land adjoining the church, into which he moved, three houses were purchased, one used as a home for the Sisters, and the other two are rented and net a good income to the parish.
Elected the Third Bishop of Manchester, he received his episcopal consecration on March 19, 1907, from Archishop Diomede Falconio, assisted by Bishops Matthew Harkins and Michael Tierney. By the time of his death twenty four years later, his tenure was longest in the history of the Manchester Diocese, spanning the industrial changes of the early twentieth century, the hardship of the Great War, the economic distress of mill closings, and ultimately the Great Depression.
Guertin died aged 62 at 3:35 am., on Thursday, August 6, 1931, away from home and with only one New Hampshire person with him, the vicar general, Monsignor Jeremiah S. Buckley. His death certificate cites as causes of death pulmonary tuberculosis, diabetes and arteriosclerosis. His funeral took place in the cathedral in Manchester with solemn ceremonies on August 11, where interment also followed in the crypt beside his two predecessors.
Appointed assistant to the Father J. A. Chevalier at St. Augustine's church, Manchester, after four years and three months he was assigned to the Sacred Heart Church at Lebanon, New Hampshire, of which the Father Martin Egan was then pastor. Sent on October 7, 1900, to take charge of St. Anthony's parish, which had been founded in 1899 by Fr. D. C. Ling, Guertin found that debt had been incurred by the erection of a chapel, which was not yet finished. Becoming soon apparent that it was too small for the fast growing parish, Father Guertin bought land and moved the church. An addition was built and the building completed. He then opened a school in the basement, which accommodates two hundred and fifty children, under the supervision of four Sisters of the Holy Cross and two lay teachers. A parsonage was built on the land adjoining the church, into which he moved, three houses were purchased, one used as a home for the Sisters, and the other two are rented and net a good income to the parish.
Elected the Third Bishop of Manchester, he received his episcopal consecration on March 19, 1907, from Archishop Diomede Falconio, assisted by Bishops Matthew Harkins and Michael Tierney. By the time of his death twenty four years later, his tenure was longest in the history of the Manchester Diocese, spanning the industrial changes of the early twentieth century, the hardship of the Great War, the economic distress of mill closings, and ultimately the Great Depression.
Guertin died aged 62 at 3:35 am., on Thursday, August 6, 1931, away from home and with only one New Hampshire person with him, the vicar general, Monsignor Jeremiah S. Buckley. His death certificate cites as causes of death pulmonary tuberculosis, diabetes and arteriosclerosis. His funeral took place in the cathedral in Manchester with solemn ceremonies on August 11, where interment also followed in the crypt beside his two predecessors.
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