Our usual business will be conducted and we anticipate that we have two candidates eligible to be knighted. Information will be shared, and a festive board provided by the local Eastern Star.
We plan to conduct the toasts and usual festivities of a festive board.
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He also served as the Most Excellent Grand High Priest of our current Grand Jurisdiction in 1852-53. He is the only Companion to have served as the Most Excellent Grand High Priest for the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the Republic of Texas and for this Grand Jurisdiction. His home Chapter was Jerusalem Chapter No. 3 in Navasota.
He was made a Mason in Kentucky in 1827. At the time of his arrival in Texas the Royal Arch Degree was conferred in Craft Lodges under a Master's warrant by Lodges who received their Warrant or Charter from a Grand Lodge of Ancient York Masons.
In 1842, Dr. Patrick was a charter member of Orphan's Friend Lodge No. 17 located in Anderson Texas and served as its Worshipful Master seven times. He was the Charter High Priest for Jerusalem Chapter No. 7 under the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the Republic of Texas in 1846, and would later be the Charter High Priest for Jerusalem Chapter No. 3 in 1850 under our current Grand Jurisdiction.
He is the only Texas Mason to have been elected to two full terms as the Grand Master of Masons in Texas in 1849 and again in 1850; he served as the Most Illustrious Grand Master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters in 1859 and as the Grand Commander of Knights Templar in 1860. Thus Dr. Patrick was the first Texas Mason to have served as the leader of all four Masonic Grand bodies in Texas. He died June 29, 1889.
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