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m M3 I 'Jh r 1 s S [ nr A.S ■5, len Lge >t 1 m- ns< M< om e: tin d Y t s ce ec io ar li' >P xv ts ir n •e I DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH EDITION Serving Georgia's 88 Southern Counties Published By The Catholic Laymen's Ass'n of Georgia OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH Vol. 41, No. 9 MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1960 10c Per Copy — $3 a Year MACON DEDICATION—His Excellency the Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, D.D., J.C.D., Bishop of Savannah, is pictured as he blessed St. Joseph’s Hall, addition to Mt. de Sales-in Macon. To the left of the Bishop is the Rev. Robert Brennan, pastor of Sacred Heart, Warner Robins. To His Excellency’s right is the Rev. William P. Dowling, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes, Columbus. Addition To Mt. De Sales Bishop Dedicates New Saint Josephs Hail MACON — The Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, D.D., J.C.D., Bishop of Savannah, presided at dedication cere monies, September 18 th, for St. Joseph Hall, newest addi tion to Mount de Sales High School. The new building designed in style to somewhat match the character of Mercy Hall consists of three academic classrooms; study hall; biology laboratory with its prepara tion room; business suite con sisting of office practice room and typing room; Guidance room; store; storage facilities; lavatories; and janitorial facil ities. PUN NEW BUILDING FOR NOTRE DAME BOOK SHOP SAVANNAH — Construc tion has began at the new site of the Notre Dame Book Shop on the northeast corner of Lib erty and Lincoln Streets. This cottage-type structure was de signed with the thought of pre serving the architectural at mosphere of old Savannah and also to provide an efficient, modern bookstore operation. Its exterior will blend with the handsome new St. Vin- ^Tphoto^pageT™ cent’s Academy building which is diagonally across from this location. The one-story building will be of masonry construction with painted stucco finish. The facade includes an entrance porch adorned with ornamen tal iron and_ balanced with a picture window which will be used for display. Plans call for the interior block wails to be painted and ceilings of acoustical tile. The PRAY FOR OUR PRIESTLY DEAD REV. ALEXANDER J. SEMMES, died Sept. 27 1898. REV. G E O R G E S. O’ BRIEN, died Sept. 29, 1887. O God, Who didst give to thy servants by their sacredotal office, a share in the priesthood of the Apostles, grant, we im plore, that they may also be one of their company forever in heaven. Though Christ Our Lord. Amen. Book Reviews . ' 6 Editorial Comment : 4 Marriage Notices 2 Obituaries 7 Youth Column 5 The Catholic In America 2 flooring throughout the shop will be of monolithic terrazzo. Included in the design is an office for the Catholic Infor mation Center. Immediately to the rear of the building is a small parking area for custom ers with additional parking space available in the Cathe dral parking lot one block south of the shop. . The building is being con structed by W. J. Teston Con struction Company and was designed by John Knox Stacy, Jr., architect. The Notre Dame Book Shop was begun in October, 1953 by the Savannah Deanery, D.C.C.W. at the direction of Most Rev. Francis E. Hyland, then Auxiliary of the Diocese. Operating as a non-profit shop, it has made available for sale Catholic books, prayer books, pictures, cards and religious articles with one portion of the Shop featuring a lending lib rary. Provisions have been made in the plans of the new (Continued on Page 8) Connected to Mercy Hall by a covered passage, the struc- ture is located immediately be- hind the existing utility build ing and parallels Columbus Street. Approximately 9000 square feet of building make up the new work. Permanence and ease of maintenance have dictated many of the aspects of design and materials. Cam pus space, at a premium, was preserved while creating a unified school group. N. J. Pascullis was the architect while Chris R. Sheridan was the contractor for the new building. In use since August 30, the building is planned to take care of the increased enroll ment. Beginning in September 1959 boys were accepted in the ninth grade. At present there are 41 boys in grades nine and ten out of a total enroll ment of 170. Mount de Sales High School, a private school accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, has been in continual operation since 1876. It is staffed by the Sisters of Mer cy, Province of Baltimore. The faculty for 1960-1961 includes: Rev. John Fitzpatrick, Sister M. Aurelia, who is also the Religious Superior; Sister M. Consuella, Sr. M. Clare, Sister M. Agnes, Sister Francis Mary, Sister M. Alphonsine, Sisters M. de Sales and Bernadette, Study Halls; Mrs. A. O. Brown, Major J. C. McCul lough, Mrs. Devereaux Jarratt, Librarian: and Sister M. Feli- citas, Principal. Ursuline Sisters Teach At Newly Opened Our Lady Of Lourdes School In Columbus Ultra-Modern School For 3 Year Old Parish COLUMBUS — On Sept. 6, Our Lady of Lourdes School in South Columbus opened its doors for the first time. But the school isn’t the only thing new on the Columbus scene — so are the sisters who teach there. They are four Ursuline sis ters from Cork, Ireland, who had been in Columbus barely two weeks bofore school be gan. It is the first time any of the four have been to the United States and the first time that two, Mother Im- maculata and Mother Joseph had ever been outside of Ire land. They were extended an official welcome by His Ex cellency, Bishop Thomas J. McDonough, Bishop of Savan nah a few days after their arrival. . Mother Joseph and Mother Paul are from County Cork; Mother Imm aculata, from Dundalk; and Mother Mar garet Mary, from Tipperary. The sisters were welcomed on their arrival with a dinner at their brand-new convent, followed by a reception at tended by all the sisters of the Columbus area. The following day the entire parish got their chance to meet the sisters who had left their homes far be hind to teach children in America. The coming of the sisters and the opening of the school capped three years of work by the Rev. William P. Dowling, pastor, who started the parish from the ground up. Our Lady of Lourdes Parish serves the south Columbus area and many of the Catholic personnel from the neighbor ing Fort Benning military res ervation. (SEE PHOTO PAGE 8) The ultra-modern school will serve boy and girls from kin dergarten through the eighth grade. Mother Margaret Mary is principal. In addition to the sisters, the teaching staff in cludes five lay teachers. Mines Spiritual Kin To Irish Presentation Sisters The history of the Ursuline Sisters, recently arrived to help staff the new school of Our Lady of Lourdes in Col umbus, reveals a spiritual kin ship between them and the Irish Presentation Sisters, who teach at Sacred Heart School, Warner Robins. For, the Pre sentation Sisters owe their ori gin to the Apostolic zeal of an Irish expatriate residing in an Ursuline Convent. The Ursuline Sisters were founded by St. Angela Merici, a contemporary of the great St. Charles Borromeo, pioneer in the Christian education of youth. St. Angela was much impressed with the work of St. Charles in the Christian education of boys and determ ined to devote her life to the Christian education of girls. She converted her home in Desenzano, where she little girls instructed ments of work was Italy, into a school daily gathered the of the town and them in the ele- Christianity. Her highly successful and she opened another school at Brescia, a neighboring town. On November 25, 1535, her Community was founded with twelve companions at a small house near the Church of St. Afra in Brescia. St. Angela died in 1540 and was canonized by Pope Pius VII in 1807. The Ursulines soon spread to France and it was at their Convent in Rue St. Jacques in Paris that Nano Nagle, a pious Irish lady who had fled the penal laws in Ireland conceiv ed the idea that was to culmi nate the founding of the Presentation U a n o Nagle knew the dangers to the faith presented by the oppres sive penal laws in her native land and determined to emu late the activities of St. Angela in Ireland. With the help of the Bishop of Cork, Nano was able to have four Irish girls train at Rue St. Jacques and return to Ireland. This was the be ginning of the Ursulines in Ireland. But the Ursulines taught rich as well as poor children. Nano Nagel wanted to devote her life exclusively to the teaching of poor children and founded the Irish Presentation Sisters, who four years ago came to Warner Robins. Today there are various congregations of Ursuline Sis ters with convents throughout the world in Europe, Africa, Australia and North and South America where the ■ sisters not only teach but are actively engaged in Missionary activi ties. But the spirit of St. Angela Merici is particularly strong in the Diocese of Savannah. For, while the foundress of the Irish Presentation Sisters was trained by the Ursulines, Mother McCauley, foundress of the Sisters of Mercy made her Novitiate with the Pre sentation Sisters, and the Sis ters of the Most Blessed Sacra ment made their first Noviti ate under the Sisters of Mercy. All four communities teach in the Savannah Diocese. SSi V# OUR LADY OF LOURDES SCHOOL AND CONVENT Motor Chapel Visits 32 Towns Catholic Church ‘Rolls’ Through Diocese STATESBORO — The Cath olic Church literally rolled into thirty-two Georgia towns this past summer. Father John Bar ry, Glenmary Home Mission- er, was at the wheel. He was driving the Dominican Motor Chapel borrowed from Father -Patrick -Wetfaht O.-P.y of Spring- bank, South Carolina. Over one thousand persons were introduced to the ele ments of Catholic worship through a guided tour of the motor chapel. Explanations of the Mass, the Sacraments, and Catholic devotions were made while visitors inspected the al tar and vestments, the confes sional and the stations of the Cross. Priests, seminarians, and lay apostles were aboard when the truck roiled up. Visiting homes during the day, they left hand bills and a verbal invitation to visit the Chapel that evening. At eight p. m. the outdoor service began. Bible reading, preaching, the religious movies made up the program. Then the lights in the motor chapel were lighted and the visitors were invited to tour the Chap- BISHOP DEDICATES SAINT VINCENT'S SAINT VINCENT'S ACADEMY—Pictured here is the new St. Vincent Academy building dedicated by Bishop McDonough on Sunday, September 25t,h.—(Andrew Bunn Photo). SAVANNAH — The hand some new St. Vincent’s Acad emy building on the south side of Liberty Street between Ab- ercorn and Lincoln was dedi cated on Sunday, September 25. His Excellency, the Most Reverend Thomas J. McDon ough, D.D., J.C.D., Bishop of Savannah, presided at the ce remonies held at 4:30 ,p. m. in the outdoor amphitheatre. Bishop McDonough blessed both the interior and exterior of the new structure and was the speaker on this occasion. St. Vincent’s Academy was established in 1845 at its pre sent site by the Sisters of Mer cy. Expansion followed expan sion but because of the de terioration of the original por tions of the structure, it was necessary to raze them and in their place the new St. Vin cent’s Academy was erected. Earlier this month it opened its doors to more than 270 girls, the largest enrollment in the history of the Academy. - Built at a cost of $300,000, the split-level, L-shaped build ing is three stories high in one section and two stories in the other. It contains 10 class rooms, a science laboratory, principal’s office, visitor’s room, health room, lay teach ers’ lounge, newspaper room, locker rooms and other facili ties. One area to be used at present as an auditorium will, in succeeding years, be oc cupied by three classrooms. Access to the new classrooms is from open corridors enclos ed only by ornamental brick work. The courtyard has been developed into an open-air am phitheatre which will be used as an attractive and unusual background for dramatic pre sentations. The new building structure containing two classrooms and a cafeteria and with the con vent building on the west. This latter structure houses the home economics, the commer cial departments, the library and the chapel, in addition to the living quarters of the nuns who teach at St. Vincent’s as well as at Cathedral School. This blending of the new and the old has produced a block- long building whose architec tural beauty is in perfect har mony with the serene beauty of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in the background. Thomas-Driscoll-Hutton were the architects and engineers, and Harry Roland was the con tractor. In June, 1959, the Building Fund Drive was launched by the St. Vincent’s Alumnae As sociation and the Sisters of Mercy and is continuing for the next ten years. Members of the clergy, sis ters of the various communi ties in Savannah, Alumnae and friends of St. Vincent’s joined the Sisters of Mercy in cele brating the dedication of their new school building. el. Father Barry regards the motor chapel as one of the most effective means of pre senting the Catholic Faith to southern rural communities. He is striving to obtain funds for a motor chapel to do year ’round service in the Georgia missions. 10 From Diocese At Belmont SAVANNAH — Ten Cath olic students from this diocese have enrolled for the Fall Term at Belmont Abbey Col lege, Belmont, N. C. William B. Daniel has enroll ed as a senior. A native of Augusta, he will be a candi date in June for the Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Business Administration. Registering as juniors are David J. Bohorfoush of Mil- ledgeville; and Thomas G. Branch of Savannah. Richard J. Buttimer is a member of the sophomore class and a native of Savannah. Beginning their college ca reers as freshmen are Edward M. Buttimer, John W. James, Robert M. Kelleher, John J. McAlpin, Joseph M. McDon ough and Michael J. Torma, all of Savannah. With over 500 students, the Abbey was compelled to limit the enrollment to the same as last.year due to lack of physi cal facilities. A large number of applicants for admission to (Continued on Page 8) GOLDEN JUBILEE OF U. S. CHARITIES—The 1960 National Conference of Catholic Charities convention in New York, September 23 to 27, marked the golden jubilee of the organization’s establishment in the United States and the 115th anniversary of the founding of the Society of St. Vin cent de Paul, oldest Catholic lay charitable group in the U. S. Presiding at the meeting were: Msgr. George H. Guil- foyle, of New York, national president, and George E. Heneghan, of St. Louis, Mo., president, Superior Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in the United States.