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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
IN CATHOLIC CIRCLES
GEORGIA NOTES
Rev. Alphonsus Elmer Otis, S.J., former president
of Loyola University, New Orleans, and until a few
weeks ago a member of the faculty of St. Stanislaus
College, Macon, died in New Orleans February 22d,
after a few days’ illness. Father Otis was recently
named assistant to the General Visitor of the Jesuit
Order, Very Rev. Norbert de Boynes, S.J., and had
gone to New Orleans to assume his new duties when
he was stricken.
Father Otis was laid to rest among the pines of
Spring Hill College Sunday, February 27th. His
Grace, Archbishop Shaw, of New Orleans, presided
at the office of the dead and gave the final absolu
tion. The requiem mass was sung by Father de
Boynes.
Father Otis was well known and highly regarded
throughout Georgia. He preached Lenten sermons in
Augusta and Macon in 1920, and had been heard
from the pulpit in nearly every city in the State at
some time or other.
Lord Mayor Donal O’Callaghan, of Cork, Ireland,
successor to the famous Lord Mayor McSwiney, was
a visitor to the State during the month. He delivered
an address to a large and interested audience Satur
day, March 5th, at Atlanta. The following day he
spoke at Savannah, where the reception accorded
him was as warm as that at the State Capital. Mon
day, March 7th, found him at Augusta, where he told
of conditions in Ireland to an audience that crowded
the Opera House, the largest auditorium in the city.
He then went to Macon, and again was given a fine
reception and an attentive hearing. In order to speak
at Macon, the Lord Mayor cancelled an important en
gagement at Philadelphia.
Rev. J. A. Irwin, D.D., a Presbtyerian minister of
Belfast, Ireland, well known to Georgians through his
speaking tour of the State with President de Valera,
of the Irish Republic, last spring, has been sentenced
to a term in prison in Ireland for having a revolver
in his possession. Rev. Mr. Irwin impressed those
who heard him here as a gentleman and a scholar,
and the news of his imprisonment was a shock to
the friends he made in the State, although some such
action against him was anticipated here.
The Waycross Journal-Herald recently carried the
following item: On a number of occasions in the
past we have seen the appearance of buildings im
proved as the result of being worked over or repainted,
but never have we seen as much improvement in the
appearance of a building as Dan Morgan has wrought
in the Catholic Church. Even strangers stop to ad
mire the Pretty Chapel, or The Church Around the
Corner, as they call it; but the local people who
failed to watch the work while in progress remark:
‘Why, what did they do with the old building?’ ”
The Knights of Columbus have moved to their new
home in Columbus. Under the direction of Secretary
George J. Burrus, the furnishings of the Columbus
Knights were recently removed from temporary
headquarters in the Webster Building to the new home
in the Crawford Building at Thirteenth and Broad
Streets. The new hall, recently remodelled, will be
elaborately equipped.
The Columbus Council put on a very successful
third degree Sunday, March 13th.
Rev. Emmet Walsh, pastor of St. Patrick’s Church,
Savannah, has started work on the renovating of the
parish rectory. Rev. H. A. Schonhardt, pastor of
St. Patrick s in Augusta, is also having repairs made
on his parish house.
St. Patrick’s Church in Augusta is now equipped
with three new memorial windows, the gifts of the
families of Mr. and Mrs. John D. McCarthy, Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Dempsey and Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Heffer-
nan, respectively. The subjects of the window de
signs are the Annunciation, Christ Commissioning
His Apostles, and Christ With His Little Ones.
The windows were made in Munich before the out
break of the world war. It was impossible then to
send them to America, and they were sent to Holland
for safe-keeping. It was the ambition of the late
pastor of St. Patrick’s, Very Rev. P. H. McMahon,
V.G., to see the windows installed during his life
time, a wish he did not see realized.
Another addition to St. Patrick’s is the installation
of a statue of St. Rita. Devotions to St. Rita have
been started by Father Schonhardt, and are proving
very popular. St. Patrick’s is the first church in the
Diocese to conduct the special St. Rita services.
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Supreme Secretary William J. McGinley, of the
Knights of Columbus, was a visitor to Atlanta during
the month. Mr. McGinley made the trip to inspect
the K. of C. Free School for Ex-Service Men at the
Marist College. A “postage stamp” course will be
inaugurated by the order next year whereby ex-ser
vice men will be educated by mail, Mr. McGinley
said. Even university courses will be included.
Rev. Father Bernard, pastor of Sacred Heart
Church, Savannah, is running a series of motion pic
tures at Benedictine Hall for packed houses. The
pictures were •’produced under the auspices of the
Catholic Art Association of America. Three of them
have already been shown, “The Victim of the Seal of
Confession,” “The Transgressor,” based on the ap
parition of the Blessed Virgin at Lourdes, and “The
Eternal Light,” portraying the Passion of Our Lord,
all scenes taken in the Holy Land.
Father Bernard has three more pictures scheduled:
“The Burning Question Who Must Pay?” showing
the work of the Knights of Columbus, April 8th;
Luring Shadows,” a lesson on spiritualism, May 5th;
Pope Benedict XV and the Canonization of Joan of
Arc, June 1st.
The collection at Sacred Heart Church in Milledge-
ville for the suffering people of Central Europe, re
ported in last month’s Bulletin as fifty-three dollars,
was subsequently increased to seventy-eight dollars.
“The Flying Squadron” of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association plans to visit Milledgeville and Athens in
the near future.
President P. H. Rice, of the Laymen’s Association,
who has been ill for some time, has regained his
former health and vigor.
St. Patrick’s Day was observed quietly in Georgia
this year. Banquets were planned in several cities,
but in view of the distressing state of affairs in Ire
land, they were called off. Details of the State cele
brations had not arrived at press time, but it is under
stood that the plan for raising funds for the sufferers
in Erin was advanced by the modest celebrations that
were staged.
Eighty thousand men are enrolled in the Holy Name
Union of the Detroit Diocese, which thus ranks close
to Chicago and New Jersey among the leaders in
numerical strength of Holy Name Societies in the
United States.