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Gallagher “
Named Knight
Of Malta
BELMONT—Edward F. Gal
lagher, president of Good Will
Publishers, of Gastonia, N. C.,
was named to become a Knight
of Malta in special ceremony to
be held in St. Patrick’s Cathe-
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dral In New York on January
18th.
One of the highest honors
that a Catholic layman can re
ceive, he will be invested by
His Eminence, Francis Cardinal
Spellman, it was announced by
the Very Rev. Cuthbert E. Al
len, O.S.B., president of Bel
mont Abbey College, who deliv
ered the notification of the elec
tion to Mr. Gallagher.
The Abbey president said that
Mr. Gallagher’s election was
based on his Christian character
and his continued support of
charitable organizations, and his
ardent support of church ac
tivity.
The Sovereign Order of the
Knights of Malta was founded
in 1099 as an eleemosynary
(charitable) and military order
for the care of the sick and to
protect pilgrims to the Holy,
Land in 1113.
From its origin until 1309 it
existed in Jerusalem. It was
then transferred to the Island
of Rhodes, which it captured
from the Mohammedans. During
this time it became a sovereign
and autonomous military order
as well as a sovereign state.
When Rhodes was recaptured
by the Mohammedans in 1522,
the Knights were given the
sovereignty of the island of
Malta in 1530, which they ruled
until 1798, when Napoleon Bon
aparte recaptured the island.
Although largely inactive
militarily since that time, the
Knights of Malta have contin
ued their support of hospitals
and other charitable works
throughout the world. As a sov
ereignity, it acted as the inter
mediary that made it possible
for the United States and allied
forces during World War II to
give arms to Italy when that na
tion withdrew from the axis
powers in 1944. Presently it has
diplomatic missions with 20 na
tions throughout the world.
The organization’s primary
function today, Father Allen
said, is the support of hospitals,
a tradition continued from its
earliest days when it was called
the Knights of the Order of the
Hospital of St. John of Jerusa
lem, or simply the Knights Hos-
THE BULLETIN’S Book Re
view page is now in its six
teenth year. Our first review?
appeared in the Christmas is
sue, 1944. We hope to be of
service to readers of THE BUL
LETIN for many more years.
Each issue of this Book Page
pitallers.
The first Gastonian to wear
the eight-pointed Maltese Cross
is a 46-year-old businessman
extraordinary, who in 23 years
in the religious book field has
built a Bible-selling empire that
spans the United States, Cana
da, England, Ireland, Scotland,
France, Spain, Belgium, Aus
tralia, New Zealand, Mexico,
Puerto Rico, and South Africa.
Good Will Publishers and its
16 subsidiary organizations have
between 650 and 750 field repre
sentatives a n d/or dealers
throughout the world, Galagher
estimates, and an office staff of
125 in its Gastonia head
quarters.
Charlotte born, Mr. Gallagher
began a Catholic Bible-dis
tributing firm in 1938. In 1940
it moved operations to Gastonia
and the firm has operated from
here ever since, graduating to
publishing in 1951, while still
continuing in distribution.
While the Bible has remained
the piece-de-resistance of Mr.
Gallagher’s sales operations, he
also publishes devotional books
using the same type of vivid
full-color illustrations which
have made his deluxe Bible
editions big sellers.
Mr. Gallagher says he is not
sure how many Bibles his firm
has sold during his career, but
said the latest Catholic Edition
Bible which he began publish
ing only in 1954 has sold 1,000,-
000 copies. He estimates his
firm has a continuous active ac
count list of 300,000.
is confided to ihe patronage of
Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces,
with the hope that every read
er and every contributor may
be specially favored by her
and her Divine Son.
OUR LADY IN THE LITUR
GY, by Dom E. Flicoteaux,
O. S. B., Helicon Press, $2.75.
“If we would be the faithful
children of our Blessed Lady,”
says the author of the little
book, “our devotion to her
should be extremely simple,
spontaneous, one might almost
say natural . . . True devotion
to the Blessed Virgin is shown
by an habitual and lively sense
of her presence, of her tender
ness, of her protection; by an ir-
restible need to have recourse
to her in the smallest details
of our daily life ... To acquire
such dispositions, there is no
surer way than to live the life
of the Church and make her
prayer our own. . . souls whose
devotion to our Lady is nourish
ed by the Church’s own prayer,
as from a most pure spring, are
certainly shielded from . . .
regrettable deviations . . .”
Briefly and unemotionally,
the Benedictine author de
scribes first the liturgy of those
feasts in which “the Virgin
Mother and her divine Son are
set before us as inseparably
united in the realization of
some mystery in which they
both share”—Christmas and its
Octave Day, the Annunciation,
the Visitation, the Presentation.
A chapter is devoted to the Ad
vent liturgy, another to Our
Lady’s Magnificat, and one to
Mary and the mysteries of her
Son’s public life. Then, in part
two of his little hook, he con
siders other feasts, ancient and
modem, which have been in
stituted in honor of the Blessed
Virgin, concluding with a medi
tation on the Salve Regina. This
and the meditation on the Mag
nificat are the most delighful
portions of a wholly charming
book.
Plentiful samplings from the
“most pure spring” of the litur
gy prove what substantial nour
ishment is to he found in this
living water of “the Church’s
own prayer.” Readers already
familiar with this rich source
of true devotion will be happy
to see the knowledge and appre
ciation of the beauties of the
liturgy spreading further among
the faithful. It may be regretted,
however, especially in view of
the attention that Dom Flico
teaux gives to St. John the Bap
tist, that St. Joseph is scarcely
mentioned even in those mys
teries in which the entire Holy
Family certainly participated.
IN THE LIGHT OF THE
MONSTRANCE, by Blessed Pe
ter Julian Eymard, The Sentinel
Press, 194 East 76th Street, New
York 21, N. Y.. $2.00.
(Reviewed by Sister
Margaret Mary, T.O.M.)
The Congregation of the Bles
sed Sacrament, founded in 1856
by Blessed Peter Julian Eymard
and devoted to perpetual adora
tion and the Eucharistic apos-
tulate, unfortunately is not well
known in Georgia.
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THE BULLETIN, January 9, 1969—PAGE 7
This is one of a series of pub
lications from their American
press. It was compiled in 1935
by a Belgian Father of the Con
gregation from extracts from
Blessed Eymard’s various works
and published in New York in
1947. It admirably serves the
compiler’s wish “to acquaint the
laity . . . with the luminous and
heart-warming doctrine of
Blessed Eymard.”
A critical reader in the year
1960, however, while admiring
the truly “luminous and heart
warming” substance of the little
book, is impelled to wish that,
such a gem might be provided
with a new setting. Typographi
cal errors could be corrected,
first of all, e.g. “humanity” for
“humility,” page 133. Then
transliterated French expres
sions, such as “the august Virgin
Mary,” page 143, could be
Americanized. And finally, per
haps Blessed Eymard would
even agree to some slight re
vision of his thoughts to coin
cide with current trends a cen
tury after his writing, e.g., he
might admonish the faithful to
a fuller participation in liturgi
cal worship as well as counsel
ing them (page 148) to “unite
yourself to the sacrifice by par
taking of the Victim with the
priest.”
These criticisms are meant
constructively. Blessed Eym
ard’s luminous doctrine is wor
thy of the best efforts of those
who know and love him. All
that is said of this little volume
is true also of another book
which is chiefly his work, the
Manual of ihe Third Order of
Mary. Blessed Eymard was a
Marist Father before founding
his own Congregation and Mar
ist tertiaries can never forget
their immense debt to him.
LIBRARIANS WANTED, by
Adrian A. Paradis, McKay,
$3.50.
This is a new addition to a
series of “books for career-
minded teenagers.” Judging by
this sample, the series is an ex-
HOME STUDY
COURSE AT
ST. BERNARD’S
ST. BERNARD, ALA.,—The
Department of Theology of St.
Bernard Seminary, St. Bernard,
Alabama wishes to extend to
the general public, both Cath
olic and non-Catholic, an oppor
tunity to learn more about the
Catholic Faith.
Seventeen men engaged in
study for the priesthood operate
a Home Study Course which is
free to all those interested.
Reading matter and tests con
sisting of true and false, as well
as multiple choice questions are
sent with each of the seven les
sons.
Each student receives the per
sonal attention of a seminarian
of the Theology Department,
who corrects mistakes an the
tests returned. With each lesson
pamphlets suited to the subject
are forwarded.
The seven lessons can be
completed within two months,
after which a diploma of com
pletion of a Christian Doctrine
course is awarded to the stu
dent. All these services and fea
tures are free and place the stu
dent under no obligation. All
who would like to apply for the
course should write to:
Correspondence Course, St.
Bernard, Alabama.
cellent one. Mr. Paradis, libra
rian and author, writes with a
popular, journalistic style which
should certainly attract many
young readers to careers in li-
brarianship. His book claims to
tell young people “almost ev
erything they need to know
about the library profession, the
opportunities and rewards it of
fers, the training required, and
the deep personal satisfaction
that awaits those who choose
librarianship for their life
work.” It fulfills this claim ad
mirably.
Public, college, school, gov
ernment, business, medical, le
gal and other special libraries
are all introduced with inter
esting examples of all catego
ries. Of particular interest to
Georgia Catholics will be three
well-told stories: that of the
West Georgia Regional Library
at Carrollton, organized in 1944
by Miss Edith Foster in a sec
tion where “the average rural
adult had never had access to
good library materials . . . was
not by practice much of a book
reader . . . (and) was shy when
it came to talking about him
self or his needs”; that of The
Queen's Work library at St.
Louis University which serves
the public as Well as the staff
of that magazine and other so
dality publications (“We look
upon the librarian’s job as an
apostolic one,” the librarian told
Mr. Paradis, a fact which is true
of every Catholic library, of
course); and that of the Atlanta
University School of Library
Service, one of the largest lib
rary systems in the country, of
fering opportunities for Negro
students.
B. Sanders Walker
President
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Vice-Pres., Mgr. Ins. Dept.
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Sec.-Treas., Off. Mgr.
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