To rebuild the Church after the French Revolution, Abbe Louis Lafosse founded the Institute of Christian Education at Echauffour in Orne, France in November 1817. With patience supplied by the supernatural grace that helps holy priests endure their bishop’s lack of urgency in the face of obvious want, only later did he receive episcopal permission to open branch houses and schools across France and in England. Before the Third Republic’s anti-clerical laws forced the Institute overseas, he built his final chapter house in Rouen Bon Secours, where Fr Jacques Hamel, martyred by ISIS in July 2016, is buried. While most of the Institute’s religious sisters relocated to Belgium and England, several members came to the United States and opened Jeanne D'Arc Academy in Milton, MA; and St Genevieve-of-the-Pines in Asheville, NC. St Genevieve’s brightest and most promising young pupil was Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Jr. Graduating to Junior College in Augusta, GA, he became class president and captain of the football team. Fr Harold Barr at St Mary’s in Augusta remembers Sheridan as “rigidly faithful to his religious duties, a young man of sterling character.” (Rigidity was more valued during the pontificate of Pius XI than under the current pontiff.) He enlisted in the Army so he could sit for the entrance examination for the United States Military Academy at West Point. He earned admission and became a football star, despite his light weight, and was chosen by his fellow cadets as president of his class. In the middle of an 8-2-1 football season, Army’s Cadets traveled to New Haven on October 24, 1931 to play the Bulldogs in the Yale Bowl in front of 70,000 fans. After an Army touchdown, Yale’s Bob Lassiter received the kickoff and, as the Hartford Courant reported, “an Army man worked his way through the Yale wedge and felled Lassiter with a fierce tackle on Yale’s 20 yard line.” The tackler was Dick Sheridan, and during a lengthy timeout the referee believed him to be dead on the spot. He was taken off in a stretcher alive but unconscious. An Army major met Mrs Sheridan at New York Penn Station and traffic was cleared for her to race 75mph to New Haven Hospital. Sheridan never regained consciousness and died two days later. He was 21 years old. On October 28, West Point’s Catholic chaplain Fr John A. Langton offered a Requiem Mass in the Academy chapel but Sheridan’s mother “was too overcome by grief to assist at the Holy Sacrifice.” On the same day, Mrs Sheridan received a message from Army’s upcoming football opponent: