Carl's Seafood
Restaurant offering the best in Caribbean & Chinese Cuisine -
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Brief biography of Rev. Matthew J. Ashe, S.J.
Rev. Matthew J. Ashe, S.J. was born on December 22, 1911 in Springfield,
Massachusetts. He graduated from Cathedral High School in 1929 and from
the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1933. On
August 14th of that year he entered the Society of Jesus at Shadowbrook,
Lenox, Massachusetts.
He was ordained a priest on June 12, 1943. From 1945 until 1983, he
served in Jamaica, West Indies. From 1945 to 1947, he was a parish
priest at St. Ann's in Kingston, Jamaica. From 1947 to 1959, Fr. Ashe
was the pastor at St. Joseph's in Spanish Town and worked with its large
education network from kindergarten through high school throughout that
time.
In conjunction with the Sisters of Mercy, he opened St. Catherine High
School in 1949. In Spanish Town, Fr. Ashe also served as chaplain at a
prison and at a home for lepers, staffed by the Marist Sisters. St.
Joseph's, the largest parish in Jamaica outside Kingston, tripled the
number of its Masses during Fr. Ashe's tenure, which ended when he was
summoned to help organize the new Campion College in Kingston in 1959.
Fr. Ashe taught at Campion College from 1960-1983. In 1984, he retired
to Campion Center in Weston, Massachusetts. He died of a heart attack
on June 17th, 1990 at the age of 78, and is buried at Campion Center in
Weston.
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