South Yorkshire Times, November 3rd 1933
Canon Leteux
We share the deep regret felt by Roman Catholics throughout the riding at the loss of Canon Leteux, who was laid to rest on Tuesday at Denaby where the the best of his life work was done.
Canon Leteux was equipped for high preferment in his Church, but lived and died a humble parish priest “Si monumentum circumspice.” He spent his time founding churches and schools and planting the seeds of a vigorous Catholic growth in the industrial area of South and West Yorkshire, where the consolation and inspiration of religion are so greatly needed.
During the many years he spent at Hemsworth and Denaby we came to know him well and to respect him deeply. His devotion to the faith and to his people was utterly unselfish and impersonal: I have never met any man, priest or layman, so careless and contemptuous of bodily comfort. He had the austerity and asceticism of monasticism with the fiery zeal of the missionary. “I hold the world but as the world, a stage where every man must play his part.”
Canon Leteux played his with all the energy of a volcanic nature, and his Church is so much the stronger for his labours. He lived to see some of the results of them, but died with the knowledge that the best is yet to be.