Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ryan, John Vincent (Rev.) May 12, 1927
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Virginian-Pilot  May 13, 1927
The Rev. Father John Vincent Ryan, one of the youngest Catholic priests in 
Virginia, died at 3:40 o’clock yesterday afternoon at St. Vincent’s Hospital. He 
had been in ill health for several years.
Had he lived until June 14, Father Ryan would have celebrated the third 
anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Martin J. Ryan, of Norfolk, and until his health failed him, he showed every 
indication of making his mark in the vocation he had chosen for his life’s work. 
He had many friends and, by his kindly feeling for persons of all walks of life, 
he had won for himself the love and respect of all who knew him.
When stricken ill, Father Ryan bore his suffering with fortitude and up until a 
few weeks ago, when he was obliged to take to his bed, he continued to perform the 
duties of his calling. He comforted the sick and the poor by his kindly words 
while he himself was suffering from an illness for which his physicians said there 
was little hope of a cure.
Father Ryan was 29 years old and was ordained a priest in the Baltimore cathedral 
on June 14, 1924, by Bishop Curley. Two other Norfolk boys were ordained at the 
same time, they being the Rev. Fathers Julian F. Bullock and Edward Johnson. All 
three of the young priests came to Norfolk and on June 15, they celebrated their 
first mass in this city. Father Ryan said his first mass in St. Mary’s Church and 
that edifice was filled with his friends and friends of his family.
Soon after his ordination, Father Ryan was sent to Lynchburg as assistant pastor 
of Holy Cross Church in that city. He served about six months at this church and 
was obliged to give up his duties on account of ill health. He came to Norfolk 
and, up until a short time ago, had no regular charge, but said mass daily in one 
of the Catholic churches here.
He received his grammar school education at St. Mary’s Male Academy, this city, 
and from there went to St. Charles College at Baltimore and later to St. Mary’s 
Seminary, Baltimore, where he took up his studies for the priesthood.
Just a few weeks ago he was made one of the assistants of St. Mary’s Church and 
again his health failed him. He was sent to St. Vincent’s Hospital and remained 
there until the hour of his death yesterday afternoon.
Father Ryan is survived by his mother and father and the following brothers and 
sisters: William B. and Emmett J. Ryan and Mrs. J. F. Gallilee and Miss Elizabeth 
J. Evan, all of Norfolk.
Arrangements for the funeral had not been completed last night and will be 
announced later.

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