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Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens Association/Geoigia
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MAY 15, 1922.
Catholics of Georgia Present
Bishop Keiley With Token of
Their Lasting Love for Him
Beloved Prelate Receives Purse of Over $10,000—Ex
presses His Appreciation for the Remembrance Through
The Bulletin, and Says Final Word to His People, With
and for Whon* He Has Labored for Thirty-Six Years.
RIGHT REV. PATRICK BARRY,
IS CONSECRA TED FIFTH BL
OF THE DIOCESE OF ST. AUGUSt
I avail myself of the most efficient means of reaching
all the Catholics of the diocese to thank them for their
generosity, and through The Bulletin, express my appre
ciation and say a final word.
It is now six and thirty years since I came, a stranger,
to this state.
I have only tt> recall and record a warm welcome and
a hearty cooperation.
No one realizes more than I how much more might
and should have been done.
There is nothing which I recall in all these years with
"mor‘e-T?l£asure than the fact that I was able to do some
thing to lHcrease the membership and assist in the splen
did work of the "Catholic Laymen’s Association.
Wherever my future days may be passed, I will al
ways recall with pleasure my association with the splen
did body of loyal Catholics, the Laymen’s Association.
To them and to all the Catholics of Georgia I say from
the depths of a grateful heart: May God bless you all.
Affectionately,
(Signed)
Savannah, Ga. BEN]. J. KEILEY,
May 8, 1922.
Savannah, Ga.—Rt. Rev. Benjamin
J. Keiley., I). I)., who recently re
signed as Bishop of Savannah be
cause of his failing sight, was pres
ented with a purse of over $10,000
Sunday morning, May 7, as a token
of the love and esteem in which he
is held by the people of the Diocese,
and of their gratitude for his long
years of work and accomplishment
in Georgia.
The purse was raised through vol
untary contributions of Catholics in
the various parishes of the Diocese,
and it was presented informally to
Bishop Keiley at the Episcopal Resi
dence. Michael A. O’Bryne of Sav
annah, treasurer of the purse fund,
was spokesman for the presentation
committee, which Was composed of
Mr. O’Bryne, I’. H. Rice K. C. S. G,
president of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia, who direct
ed the fund movement, Leo. A. Mor
rissey, Grand Knight of the Savan
nah Council Knights of Columbus,
and T. F. Walsh, Jr., former state
deputy of the Knight of Columbus.
The presentation of the purse was
a complete surprise to Bishop Keiley.
He was visibly touched by the token
of his people’s affection for him. He
has labored in this state for thirty-
six years, more than twenty of them
as Bishop of Savannah, and there
are few prelates anywhere who have
earned as great and lasting place
in the hearts of their people as he.
Judge Hammond Terms VeaseyLaw
“Un-American and Unnecessary”
Richmond County Jurist Pays Respects to “Convent In
spection” Statute After Grand Jury in Report Declares
Inspection of Eleemosynary Institutions a Waste of
Time, and Money.
Augusta, Ga.—The Vcasy 'or “con
vent inspection” law was labeled
“un-American and unncseccary” by
Judge Henry C. Hammond of the
Superior Court of Richmond Coun
ty, in which this city is located in
his address to the grand jury May
8th. Judge Hammond’s remarks
followed a report of the grand jury,
into which was incorporated a para
graph reading: “Your committee
feels that it is a waste of valu
able time on its citizens, acting as
a grand jury, and also a waste of
the county’s money, to make in
spections of eleemosynary institu
tions.” Judge Hammond did not
' refer to the Vcasy bill by name,
hut left no doubt about the statute
to which he referred.
■ TferTeport of the grand jury on
the Catholic institutions of the
county follow:
“Sacred Heart Convent, St. Mary’s
Convent, St. Joseph’s Convent—
These three institutions are capably
managed and doing excellent work.
Inasmuch as they do not draw any
financial assistance from the coun
ty, we do not feel called upon to
make any recommendations.
“Franciscan Institution, Haines
Institute and Paine Industrial In
stitute (the two last are non- Catho
lic institutions). These three in
stitutions are doing a worthy work
and receiving no county contribu
tion. No recommendations.”
METHODISTS RETURN
KIAN’S PUBLIC GIFT
Archbishop Curley
more, Predecessor
Officiates at Eleva
His Former Chancel!
MSGR. PACE DELIVI
SERMON AT CEI
Church Dignitaries fro
Parts of Country Atte
Bishop Barry First PL
Appointed By Pope Pint
RT. REV. PATRICK BARRY, D. D.
New Bishop Served Twenty-Seven
Years In Diocese He Now Heads
Rt. Rev. Patrick Barry, D. D., Was Born in Ireland, Edu
cated By the Jesuits at Mungret, and Came to Florida
in 1895 : —Has Served as Chancellor, Vice-General and
Administration at St. Augustine.
Speacial to The Bulletin.
Athens, Ga.—The. Board of Ste
wards of the First Methodist
Church of this city recently voted
to return to' ■'the local branch of
the Ku-Klux Klau a donation of ten
dollars which was presented the
pastor by three masked and robed
members of the order while he was
preaching a sermon. The stewards
met after the affair, and passed the
following resolutions: . • ^
“TheJJsftCijtt Si£WaffdT^of the
"First Methodist Church, without
calling into question the motives
of the donors, feel that to accept
the gift of ten dollars made by the
Ku-Klux Klan would be to acquicse
in an act calculated to disturb
divine worship. They, therefore,
feel constrained to return the do
nation.
(Signed) “THE BOARD OF STE
WARDS OF THE FIRST METHO
DIST CHURCH.”
In discussing the affair, Dr. Wal
ter Anthony, pastor of the church,
declared the presentation was a
cheap bid for publicity, and he de
nounced the way in which public
worship was interfered with in
order to get the name of the Klan
before the public.
St. Augustine Fla.—Bishop Patrick
Barry was born in West Clare, Tri-
land. He entered Mungret _ Apos
tolic College, Limerick, in 1887, there
successfully completing his collegi
ate work in the Royal University of
Ireland. In 1890 young Barry en
tered St. Patrick's College at Car-
law for philosophy and theology,
and was ordained priest in that an
cient seminary on June 9, 1895.
In mid-June of that year the
young Irish priest.sailed for the new
world and arrived in Jacksonville,
Fla., on August 10, 1895, to com
mence his twep_l y-seven years of
serviej^v'.', CathoTie~'pt'rc5wj|' the
Aaiui of sunshine and flowers.
Father Barry served in Jackson
vill and the missions in that vicin
ity until 1903. When war clouds
hovered and broke over the country
and the United States entered into
the war with Spain, Father Barry
enlisted as a volunteer chaplain and
served with General Fitzhugli Lee’s
army corps, then stationed in Jack
sonville, until the end of the war.
During till’s critical period he show
ed great devotion and self-sacrifice,
attending the soldier victims of ty
phoid and other diseases which pre
vailed, " ministering to the body as
well r.s to the soul. He worked
diligently through the days of rc-
consti notion in Jacksonville follow
ing tin fire of 1901, another troub
lous time of sorrow and
that tri< (bci .nils
their sirei.
iu 1V93 *u, iiH
Palatka, where he administered over
the wide territory, which included
DcLand, Eentcfprise Junction, Se
ville, Crescent City and other stat
ions in five counties. He had suc
ceeded the late Father O’Brien as
pastor of St. Monica’s church in Pal
atka, and during his- administration
over that parish he built a beautiful
rectory, a new church in Crescent
City, and made other notable im
provements in the way of church ex
tension work.
When in 1913 the late Bishop
Kenny established the new parish
of South Jacksonville. Father Barry
was called there. In the course of
eight months the efficient priest had
caused i/p-ha—constructed an attrac
tive church, a rectory’ and "'jfivii}}
hall in the field that was still young
The improvements were paid for the
end of four yours when in 1917
Father Barry was summoned to St.
Augustine by' Bishop •xirley as the
rector of the Cathedral and vicar
general of the diocese.
When Archbishop M. J. Curley left
the ancient diocese of St. Augustine
to assume his high office in Balti
more, Bishop Barry became the ad
ministrator of the diocese. On the
morning of February 22nd an Asso
ciated Press dispatch froni
brought the news that the
Aected Pope Pius XI had-
Very Rev. Patrick B
Continued on
St. Augustine, Fla.—-Rt. Re
rick Barry, I). I)., was cons
the fifth bishop of the dio
St. Augustine Wednesday,
his predecessor, Most Rev.
.T. Curley, archbishop of Balt
and under whom he served as
cellor of this diocese, acting
sccrator. Rt. Rev. John J.
ghan, D. I)., of Wilmington,
and Rt. Rev. William Turner,;
of Buffalo, N. Y., were co-co
tors. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edvv
Pace, 1)1 D., of the Catholif
versify, Washington, D. C., i
cred the consecration sermon)
which the place of the cpisco-
in human society as an ageij^
upbuilding Its structure wf
phasized.
Bishop Barry, through his”
(•ration, assumed ecclesiastical
thority over one of the most
toric diocese on the North Amt
can continent, one which can t.f
its history back to the beginn
of the sixteenth century, wt)
priests and missionaries who
accompanied Ponce de Leon, 1
Soto and other Spanish explore
planted the seed of Catholic
in Florida.
The consecration ceremonies
attended by church dignitaries fr!
all parts of the United States, aro«
then), in addition to the consecr|
ing prelates were Rt. Rev. Willis |
T. Russell, I). I)., bishop of Charles
ton; Rt. Rev. E. P. Allen, D.
bishop of Mobile; Rt. Rev. J. H|
Prud-Homme, bishop of Prince A1 f
heft Canada; Rt. Rev. Mgr. E.
Pace, of the Catholic University
Washington, D. G.; Rt. Rev. Mgr. 1)
A. Brady, vicar general of Mobile |
Rt. Rev. Abbott Charles, O. S. B.. otf
St. Leo; Rev. Mgr. P. Horan, oi i.i
tic Rock, Ark.; Very Rev. Du ft
D. D„ of Buffalo. N. Y.: Rev. Jam.
H. Ryan. D. D., N. C. W. C., Wash
ington, D. G.; Rev. S. Caron, Prince
Albert, Canada; Rev. Father Ha fey?
Baltimore; Very Rev. L. B. Pa.sto
rclli, of Baltimore, Md.; Rev D. M
McCarthy, of Savannah; Rev. Fathe
Bernard, O. S. B., Savannah- Revjj
F. A. Foley, Savannah; Rev. J. F
Hendrich, Morristown, N. J.:
P. Turner, Montgomery, Ala. R •
J. J. McLaughlin, S. J., Miami . Rev
Peter Marion, Hendersonville, \
Rev. J. J. Burke, N. C. J.V. C.. Was!-,
ington, D. C.; Rev. T. Eaton, Mo
bile, Ala., and the following priests]
from the diocese of St. Augustine:,
Rev. J. H. O’Keefe, of Ft. Myers
Rev. J. J. O’Riordan and Rev. D. .)j
O’Keefe, of St. Petersburg; Rev
John Conoley, of Gainesville; Re?
M. J. Farley, of Lakeland; Rev.
P. White, of Key West; Rev.
rick E. Nolan, 1). D., of Orlamf-
j^W. J. Mullally, of Fernandin s
Rev! |
I.yden, C. M.; Rev. Father Farref
S. J„ of Tampa; Rev. Father Tyre
S. J., of Ybor City; Rev. F.atlfi
Stritcli, S. J., of Tampa; Rev. J.
Brodeur, of Pass-a-Grille; Rev. M.jj
Gumbleton, S. J., of Jaeksonvil
Rev. J. Henncssy, of Sanfoid: fj
P. J. McGill, of St. Augustine; ft
F. L. Linton, of St. Augustine; Rj
R. Brennan, of Ocala; Rev. Willi
Barry, of Jacksonville; Rev.
Lyons, of Jacksonville; Rev. T.
her, of Klkton; Rev. M. Mor
of Halatka; Rejv^Ea*^^
of G