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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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BEYOND OUR BORDERS.
Arthur C. Monoghan, lately of the United States
Bureau of Education, has been appointed Director of
the Educational Bureau of the National Catholic Wel
fare Council, of which Archbishop Dowling, of St.
Paul, is chairman.
Msgr. Ilsley, Archbishop of Birmingham, England,
83 years of age and an intimate friend of Cardinal
Newman, has resigned his See, thus leaving three
Metropolitan Sees in England vacant. The two others
are Cardiff and Glasgow.
Dr. Charles Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard
University, in a recent address before the English
Educational Conference in Boston, remarking the suc
cess of the Catholic Church in teaching music, said:
“I think it fundamental that we have new methods of
instruction, new methods of discipline, new methods
of learning.”
Col. E. H. R. Green, son of the late Hettie Green,
although not a Catholic, has given $10,000 to the
Fordham University fund.
Sixty-four French army officers entered the Sem
inary of Paris last year to study for the priesthood.
Among them were four captains and a major. Many
other candidates were rejected for lack of room.
Sixty converts to the Church were among the 80
confirmed in Washington, D. C., February 10th, by
His Excellency, Most Rev. John Bonzano, Apostolic
Delegate.
Cardinal O’Connell, of Boston, Archbishop Hayes,
of New York, Bishop Shahan, of the Catholic Uni
versity at Washington, and Bishop O’Connell, of Rich
mond, Va.,'were among the signers of a recent protest
against the Anti-Semitic propaganda which has cir
culated throughout the country for the past several
months.
In the detention camp at Ballykinclar, County
Down, Ireland, are more than 1,000 political prison
ers. One of their first acts on being interned was to
establish a Conference of the Society of St. Vincent
de Paul, of which many of the prisoners, before their
arrest, were active members. On Christmas morn
ing 900 of them received communion in a body.
Rt. Rev. John F. Farrelly, Bishop of Cleveland,
Ohio, died Saturday afternoon, February 12th, at
Knoxville, Tenn., where he was taken ill returning
from a visit to Bishop Byron, of Nashville. Prior to
his consecration as bishop in 1909, he had been
spiritual director of the American College at Rome for
25 years.
The Associated Press reports that Most. Rev. Den
nis Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, has been
named Cardinal to succeed the late Cardinal Farley,
of New York.
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE PARISH
OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST,
SAVANNAH, GA.
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upon the breast-works of Savannah on the 9th of
October, when he gave his life for the cause he had
so generously espoused.
In the midst of the heaviest fighting at Springhill
Redoubt, with the approval of General Lincoln, Pu
laski attempted, with 200 cavalrymen, to force a
passage between the British batteries. His last com
mand, uttered as he fell from his horse in this famous
charge, was ‘‘Follow my lancers, to whom I have
given the order to attack.”
Pulaski was taken from the bloody field and, it is
said, after the fight was over he was conveyed on
board the United States brig, ‘‘Wasp,” to go to
Charleston. The ship was delayed several days in
the Savannah River, and although attended by the
most skillful surgeons of the French fleet, it was found
impossible to save his life. As the “Wasp” was leav
ing the river we are told that Pulaski breathed his
last, and Colonel Bentalou, his officer in attendance,
‘‘was compelled, though reluctantly, to consign to a
watery grave, all that was now left upon earth of his
beloved and honored commander.”
This is the story generally accepted as the true
one. But the other tradition, coming down to us
direct from Revolutionary days, is so circumstantial
that it is deserving of equal credence. Which one is
correct we do not venture to say. The tradition, pre
served in the Bowen family, is as follows:
Count D’Estaing and Count Pulaski, with other
wounded officers, were taken from the battlefield to
Greenwich, near Bonaventure, on the St. Augustine
Creek—then a plantation owned by Samuel Bowen.
Count D’Estaing and the other wounded were ten
derly nursed by the family and servants of the house
hold until they were able to join the French fleet.
Pulaski was placed in a room adjoining that of Mrs.
Bowen and her daughter. He lived but a few hours
and died during the night, his comrades exclaiming
in mournful tones, ‘‘Pulaski, the beloved Pulaski, is
no more!” Being anxious to join the fleet, an imme
diate burial was decided upon. At the dead of night
the remains were buried by the light of torches in a
garden about 200 yards from the Bowen mansion,
where a large palmetto and a holly tree marked the
place of burial.
Lafayette, at the time of his visit to Savannah in
1825, laid the cornerstone for a monument to Count
Pulaski in Chippewa Square. The site was afterwards
changed to Monterey Square and the first cornerstone
was removed to the new location and placed along
side of the new one in 1 853. In the same year the
supposed burial place at Greenwich was excavated
and the remains disinterred. After an examination
by the Medical Society, it was decided by the Com
missioners in charge to inter the remains beneath the
monument in Monterey Square.
Whether or not the body of Count Pulaski actually
reposes beneath the monument in Savannah matters
little after all. His memory will ever remain and his
name will ever stand for patriotism and loyalty to the
cause of freedom.
The monument to the memory of Pulaski in Savan
nah—erected by a grateful people to one who was ar