Retirement & Death
In 1868 McElroy retired to the Jesuit novitiate in Frederick, Maryland. In 1872 he visited Georgetown for his final time in order to celebrate his golden jubilee. Father McElroy’s eyesight was failing and while moving through his home he fell, fracturing his femur, which would eventually lead to his death. Father John McElroy died September 12, 1877 at the Jesuit Novitiate in Frederick, Maryland. For some years leading up to his death, McElroy was regarded the oldest priest in the United States and the oldest Jesuit in the world. He was buried in the Novitate Cemetery. In 1903 the Jesuits withdrew from Frederick and the graves were moved from the Frederick Jesuit Novitiate Cemetery (1805-1904) to St. John’s Cemetery.
Read more about this topic: John Mc Elroy (Jesuit)
Famous quotes containing the words retirement and/or death:
“Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man’s enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.”
—Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)
“There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship—only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)