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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
DECEMBER 21. 1987
Two Abbots Have Been Greensboro Pastors i
DECORATING OF TREES
ORIGINATED IN GERMANY
(N. C W. C. Christmas Supplement)
Although the custom of erecting
and adorning Christinas trees is
firmly established in the Anglo-
Saxon observance erf the season,
authorities insist that the practice
originated in Germany.
The custom was introduced in Eng
land, authorities contend, by Prince
Albert, Queen Victoria’s eonsort.
Prince Albert was from Thuringia.
order teaching also at St Benedict’s.
The parish buildings erf St. Mary's
have been pictured in The Bulletin
on previous occasions. The Passion-
ist Fathers conduct parishes for the
colored also at Washington, N. C.,
New Bern and Greenville.
Passionist Fathers
Serve Saint Mary’s
Father Patrick Darrah,
P M Pastor of Church
and School
A development of major impor
tance also in recent years at Greens
boro has been the establishing of St
Mary’s parish for the colored Catho-
les, with the Rev. Patrick Darrah, C.
P-, pastor. St. Mary’s under Fath
er Patrick’s direction has one of the
finest property for colored in the
Southeast and a school with 160 pu
pils, conducted by the Daughters of
Charity of St Vincent de Paul, the
Season’s Greetings
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FB. CHARLES LATEST
OF NOTABLE LINE OF
BENEDICTINES THERE
Abbot Charles and Abbot
Vincent Former Pastors.
Father Charles , Former
Belmont Cathedral Rector
‘Hie Rev. Charles Castner, O. S.
B., pastor of St Benedict's Church,
Greensboro, X. C., has the distinc
tion of having had two Benedictine
Abbots among his predecessors, the
'late Rt. Rev. Charles Mohr, O. S. B.,
D. D., beloved founder of St Leo’s
Abbey in Florida, who was in
charge of Greensboro as a mission
center over a half-century ago, and
fee Rt. Rev. Vincent Taylor, O. S.
B., D. D., Abbot-Ordinary of Bel
mont who was pastor there for a
quarter of a century and at the time
he was called to head Belmont Ab
bey as Abbot-Ordinary.
In fee days of Abbot Charles,
Greensboro was a mission center for
such places as- WinSton-Salem and
Salisbury, now mission centers them
selves. In addition to Abbot Vincent,
other recent pastors at Greensboro
included Father Lawrence McHale,
O. S. B , and Father Eugene Egan,
O. S. B.
Father Charles is a native of Balti
more, where he was born August 16,
1697. He attended Fourteen Holy
Martyrs parish school there, Loyola
College, Baltimore said St. Vincent’s
College, Latrobe, Pa., then going to
Belmont Abbey College, where he
was professed as a Benedictine monk
June 16, 1918. Father Castner made
his studies in philosophy and the
ology at Belmont and was ordained
June 3, 1923.
After ordination, Father Charles
spent two years at St. Joseph’s Insti
tute, Bristow, Va^ returning to the
Cathedral at Belmont in 1325 as as-
•sastant pastor. In 1926 he was ap
pointed pastor at fee Cathedral at
Belmont, a post he filled until his
appointment at St. Benedict’s
Greensboro, last year.
At Belmont, Father Charles organ
ized several lay groups and did par
ticularly effective work also in or
ganizing bus transportation for chil
dren of school age in fee district so
that they might attend the Catholic
schools at Belmont. He is a retreat-
master of note, having given retreats
in many states, and he has also given
his motion picture lecture. on the
Mass in a number of cities and states.
For several years his Catholic Hour
addresses were one of the most pop
ular features over WBT. Charlotte.
Father Charles has a sister who is
a Passionist Nun. His father was or
ganist at the parish church in Balti
more for many years before his death
not long ago; Father Charles’ moth
er is now keeping house for him in
Greensboro. He is repeating m
Greensboro his success in Belmont,
and Catholics and non-Catholies es
teem him as a worthy successor of
his distinguished predecessors.
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