1945 Presentation 9.5" Sword Letter Opener-Father Zeiser- St. Nicholas Cadets

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A nice original Presentation Sword & Scabbard Letter Opener present to - Father Zeiser St. N.T. Cadets, May 30, 1945....9+1/2 in. long and in good as found condition...1878 -- 1951 (May 9) Blase J. Zeiser was born in Bowmans, Pennsylvania on October 8, 1878, the son of Blasius Zeiser and Juliana Sauer. He entered Villanova College in 1898, and was received into the novitiate in 1902. He made his profession of simple vows on June 30, 1903, and solemn vows on July 1, 1906. He was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Prendergast in Saint Charles' Seminary, Overbrook, PA, on May 25, 1907.Father Zeiser was assigned as an assistant in Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Parish, Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1907. The following year he was sent to Saint Nicholas of Tolentine in the Bronx, N.Y., and in 1912 to Our Mother of Consolation in Chestnut Hill, PA. In the Provincial Chapter of 1914, he was elected a Definitor of the Province. Then for 30 years, from 1917 to 1947, he served as prior and pastor of Saint Nicholas in the Bronx.