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PAGE 6—THE BULLETIN, November 26, 1960
PRESS COMMENTS
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had voted Republican in 1957
was responsible for Sen. Ken
nedy’s victory.
Mr. Lawrence said: “The
South, with its large bloc of
electoral votes, could have
changed' the election result
had there been an anti-Cath-
olic vote of the proportions
often predicted during the
campaign.
“Instead, it cast its. decisive
votes for the Democrats, while
in the North, especially in the
states with big Catholic popu
lations, at least 80 per cent of
the Catholic voters supported
ben. Kennedy, making it pos
sible for the first time in his
tory for a Roman Catholic to
become President . . . This
fgctor, rather than any issue
relating to public policy or
qualificati on s for office,
swung the American presiden
tial election in 1960.”
Syndicated columnist Rich
ard Starnes stated: “There
were two vital elements in Mr.
Kennedy’s triumph. First, of
course, was the tremendous
Catholic vote in his favor.
Next was the fact that Prot
estant defection did not de
velop in any comparable mag
nitude, particularly in the
South.”
Political analyst Samuel Lu-
bell stated that in many areas
there was a “dramatic” con
trast between the showing of
Sen. Kennedy and that of
Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New
York, a Catholic who was
overwhelmingly defeated in
his bid for the presidency in
1928.
“How the electoral vote fell
indicates that Sen. Kennedy’s
religion helped rather than
hurt his election chances,” Mr.
Lubeil said.
Louis Cassels, United Press
International staff writer,
stated that Sen. Kennedy’s re-'-
ligion “clearly had a signifi
cant impact on American vot
ing patterns.”
Mr. Cassels said there was
“strong presumptive evidence”
of “religious bloc voting in
many areas and on both
sides.”
He added: “Whatever else
Sen. Kennedy’s victory may
mean, it has removed from the
White House door the figura
tive sign which generations of
politicians had hung there:
‘ Only Protestants need apply.”
New York Times analyst
Arthur Krock said Sen. Ken
nedy’s win “was greatly as
sured by a concentration of
Catnolic voters” in big cities.
"What else could have been
expected of them, and those
oi other minorities who joined
them, after evidence mounted
that his faith was the principal
reason why many citizens in
normal Democratic areas in
tended to vote against him?”
he asked.
The Associated Press con
ducted a survey of political
experts in a number of key
states. According to the AF,
“in general the experts seem
to agree that Kennedy’s Ro
man Catholicism helped him
more than it hurt him, that
he won ground on his tele
vision appearances, that he
won much of the Negro vote,
that Nixon lost in economical
ly distressed areas.”
Many commentators saw in
the election results a repudia
tion of religious bigotry.
But Frank Conniff, national
editor of the Hearst news
papers, noted that the fact that
Sen. Kennedy is the first
Catholic elected President “in
itself establishes conditions
that will inhibit him during
his tour of office.”
“In an odd way, he will be
under the same fetters Branch
Rickey put on a reluctant
Jackie Robinson when he
brought him up as the first
Negro major leaguer,” Mr.
Conniff said.
The St. Paul, Minn., Pioneer
Press said in an editorial that
“it should be a matter for gen
eral gratification that the old
idea that a Catholic could not
be President has been disposed
of for once and all.”
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
said the election has “shown
again, as at the state and mu
nicipal levels, that religion is
not a barrier to public office
in the United States.”
The New York Journal
American said the election of
a Caiholic as President is “a
momentous milestone on the
road to religious tolerance.”
The New York Mirror said:
“The bigots and hate purvey
ors have been confounded, for
which we can give thanks.”
The Ottawa Journal said the
election indicated “the happy
fact that the old bugaboo of
religious prejudice has for the
present at any rate been prop
erly routed.”
Washington, D. C., Star po
litical writer Gould Lincoln
said Sen. Kennedy “has
smashed the long held belief
that a Catholic could not be
elected President. It is to be
devoutly hoped that the so-
called religious issue will now
be swept under the rug. It is
and always should have been
unworthy in the United States
to either defeat or elect a man
because oi his religious be
liefs.”
The Catholic press was gen
erally happy over the appar
ent down-grading of the reli
gious issue, but at the same
time there were warnings that
bigotry was not dead.
The Providence, R. I., Visi
tor commented: “Actually, the
election of an American Cath
olic President holds more
significance for the United
States than for the Church.”
To the Church it is something
merely honorary ... In a
nonpolitical sense the election
of a Catholic President con
stitutes a gain for the United
States. Our country has come
of age . . . Prejudice at least
of the hard core variety may
always remain with us, as a
permanent element of human
frailty. But never again should
it be dignified with public
respectability.”’
The Hartford, Conn., Cath
olic Transcript said bigotry
will not entirely disappear.
But, it added, “honest ana rea
sonable people, amenable to
the discipline of facts and not
undivorceably wed to animus,
will see for themselves that
no least change in the separa
tion of churcn and state will
come about with a Catholic in
the White House. The so-call
ed religious issue will lose its
old force and sting.”
The New York Catholic
News said the election results
“made it impossible for the
anti-Catholics to boast that
they have the power to violate
the Constitution and apply
the religious test to a Catholic
candidate for the White
House.”
The Brooklyn Tablet de
scribed Sen. Kennedy's win as
“an historic triumph,” adding:
“We are sure that all real
Americans, including those
who voted against him, will
rejoice at least in the fact that
a Catholic has been elected
President — that 1960 has put
the lie to the allegation that
this great land of ours prac
tices religious discrimination
for its highest office.”
The Boston Pilot said: “It
will surely be said that Cath
olics heavily supported Ken
nedy, which is probably true,
although it is impossible to
say how much of this support
was given for religious rea
sons. He also received durable
support from predominantly
Protestant areas in the Souin
where his religion was expect
ed to lose votes for him. In
the balance, it is likely that
the Senator’s religion, in dif
ferent areas, was both a liabil
ity and an asset, and in the
total not more of one than trie
other.”
The Trenton, N. J., Monitor
commented: “Naturally, there
is pride among Catholics in
the election oi a member of
their Faith to the presidency
and there will be fervent
prayers for his success. But
Catholics who supported John
F. Kennedy looked upon him
as the candidate of the Demo
cratic party, not of the
Church.”
The Michigan Catholic, De
troit, said: “We know that
within our 50 states there will
be a bigoted minority sniping
at our President elect. We
further realize the fact that
provincial thinking Catholics
may try to pressure him.
“To both these groups, and
to all Americans, we say most
earnestly that ours is still a
‘government of the people, for
the people and by the peo
ple.’
The Pittsburgh Catholic
stated: “If religion was a fac
tor (and we will leave that
determination to the sociol
ogists and the historians), then
it failed to evidence itself in
those areas where it was ex
pected it might. South Caro
lina (carried by Sen. Ken
nedy) proved a case in point.
It dramatized that Protestant
clericalism is as outmoded as
Catholic clericalism would be
out of order.”
The Catholic Review, Balti
more, said: “Catholics no long
er have the excuse that the
force of prejudice and mis
understandings has denied
them a full share in American
government. A Catholic is
about to occupy the highest
office in the land. John Fitz
gerald Kennedy has made
Catholic apologies unnecessary
and excuses irrelevant.”
The Catholic Standard and
Times, Philadelphia, said:
“Partisan politics were notably
absent from the Catholic pul
pits of the land. This was not
the case among our Protestant
brethren. Fairminded Protes
tants in the pews were shock
ed and disgusted. Thanks be
to God, there were many Prot
estant clergyman who decried
this misuse of the pulpit.”
Robert Hoyt, editor of the
Catholic Reporter, Kansas
City, Mo., said: “There will be
nothing in Sen. Kennedy’s ad
ministration to confirm or
lend reality to all the anti-
Cathclic scare talk we have
been hearing; even some of the
more intensely prejudiced will
be able to come out of the
dream world they have been
inhabiting when they are giv
en a chance to compare visible
realities with the horrendous
theoretical predictions that
have been flung, about.”
The Worcester, Mass., Cath-
SCOUTS RECEIVE CHARTER •— Mr. nertoy btarea, District Executive oi Scouting
in Albany presents Father Martin Bangert, O.F.lVI. a charter authorizing a Boy Scout troop
for St Clare’s Church.
U. S. Bishops Urge
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wills of individual persons.”
The Bishops said that a
“strong and responsible nation
is fashioned by responsible
persons, not group pressures.”
They asserted that personal
responsibility presupposes the
acceptance of “one’s dignity as
a son of God in whatever en
vironment he may be placed
and the acknowledgement of
binding moral law.” Personal
responsibility requires “free
and deliberate acceptance of
one’s obligation in the position
he occupies—in the family, in
the church, in the corporation,
in the labor union, in the com
munity, in the nation, in the
family oi nations,” the Bishops
said.
“If we are to restore man
to his sense of personal re
sponsibility and to the accept
ance of life as a mission,” the
statement continued, “we must
understand more clearly the
moral causes which have un
dermined men’s sense of re
sponsibility.”
“First among these causes
has been the marked decline
in the force of religious con
victions,” the Bishops said.
They recalled that George
Washington warned the Amer
ican people they should in
dulge with caution the sup
position that morality could
exist without religion.
“A fresh evocation of the
principle and practice of per
sonal responsibility can re
vivify our society and help to
stem the seemingly inexorable
march toward tne automation
of human beings and tne
steady loss of that freedom
whicn is man’s distinctive at
tribute,” the statement said.
“It will cure the mental
lethargy and inertia which
permit organizations to usurp,
mainly by default, the rights
of their members. It will stim
ulate a self-reliance which will
automatically restore the bal
ance between freedom and se
curity. It will reject unwar
ranted pressure from groups
that seek unjustly to aggran
dize their power and will re
strict them to their lawful
ends. It will see in all busi
ness ventures of whatever size
a means of serving others as
well as self. It will have an
immediate effect in every
sphere of life—m the home, in
tne office, as well as in the
workshop, in the factory, in
our schools, in our cultural
groups.”
The Bishops said tnat an
effective response to the call
for personal responsibility
need not wait for a mass
movement, but belongs to- the
individual person. They add
ed: “Such a response by a rep
resentative number, given
only in the silent sanctuary of
the heart, will begin to have
its leavening effect. Our ap
peal for action is made direct
ly to our Catholic fellow-
citizens, but it reaches out
also to all Americans who face
olic Free Press said the reli
gious issue has not been oblit
erated and “doubtless will pop
up again before 1964.” The
newspaper stated: “There are
still those who are not con
vinced that the Church does
not aspire to control the Unit
ed States government; that
John Fitzgerald Kennedy will
not be a tool in her hands.”
The Davenport, Iowa, Cath
olic Messenger said: “To our
mind the concept, let alone
any analysis, of ‘Catholic vote’
is appalling. Talk of ‘Catholic
voting strength’ creates an
imaginary dragon. Catholics,
if they must be considered as
a voting group, are not a bloc.
They vote as the overwhelm
ing majority of Americans do
— for the candidate or the
party they regard as most
able.
“If all Catholics join in wel
coming the victory of Sen.
Kennedy, it is not in a politi
cal or partisan sense, but out
of relief that an unwritten 're
ligious test for the presidency
has been abolished.”
the same problems as our
selves.”
“Before it is too late, we
must revive in our midst and
present to the world the ideals
that have been the real source
of national greatness,” the
Bishops said.
FURTHER
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the proclamation at a ceremo
ny attended by three Ameri
can cardinals.
Mother Seton, a convert
from the Episcopal church
who founded the Daughters of
Charity in the U. S., could
become the first native citizen
of the United States to be
beatified. But there is already
one canonized American citi
zen: Italian-born Mother Fran
ces Xavier Cabrini, who was
proclaimed a saint by Pope
Pius XII in 1946.
Seek Ways
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eral norms to guide those tak
ing part in its preparation.
' He specified that the goal
of the coming council will be
less to combat heresy than to
re-establish “in value and
splendor the substance of hu
man and Christian thougiit
and life” against a growing
materialism.
He repeated what he has
stated several times previous
ly, that the council will be
concerned primarily with the
Church’s internal organization.
“Today’s meeting of repre
sentatives gathered together
from all over the world is not
yet the opening of the coun
cil’” he said, “but the begin
ning and a kind of consecra
tion of the planned and vast
preparation of your resources
for its good success — to take
up points of agreement, to in
troduce studies and discus
sions, in preparation for sound
doctrine and life.”
Columbus
111 Hears
Fr. Salway
COLUMBUS — “P r a y e r,”
urged Rev. Father James J.
Salway at the Sunday buffet
supper of the Columbus
Branch of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association, “can move
mountains.” Father Salway
was guest speaker at the an
nual supper meeting of the
Columbus Branch in the Cafe-
torium of Holy Family School.
Father Salway, advised that
prayer, earnest and sincere to
our Blessed Mother and Her
Divine Son, can do much to
being about right feeling and
understanding, and urged
upon Catholics a feeling of
humility and submission to the
will of God.
Father Salway has recently
returned to the Columbus
area following eight years as
Chaplain at St. Vincent’s Hos
pital, in Jacksonville, Florida.,
He is now pastor at Holy
Family Church in Lanette,
Alabama. He was for 18 years
in charge of St. Patrick’s in
Phenix City, Alabama, and
the dinner meeting was a wel
come home to Father Salway,
as well as the annual meeting.
There were about 125 persons
present to greet Father Sal-
way.
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quires no registration.
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COLD WAR
Maybe this old world we
live in isn’t flat, but is cer
tainly is on edge nowadays.
Board Of
Notre Bame
Shop Meets
SAVANNAH — Members of
the Board of Directors of the
Notre Dame Book Shop Asso
ciation were guests at a buf
fet supper given by Roy L.
Anderson, President, at his
home on Wilmington Island,
Thursday evening November
10. This was followed by the
quarterly meeting of the
Board at which plans were
made for the moving of the
Book Shop in January to its
new location on the northeast
corner of Lincoln and Liberty
Streets.
In appreciation of the serv
ices of the volunteers at the
Shop, a Christmas party will
be given in their honor early
in December. Mrs. William ll.
MacKrell is Chairman.
Regrets were expressed over
the departure from Savannah
of Mrs. Walter J. Smith, a
former Board member and
long-time Shop volunteer.
Mrs. James J. Coihns, Shop
Director, announced the arri
val of manger sets and other
attractive imported items for
the Christmas shopping sea
son.
The President appointed the
following members of the
Nominating Committee to
bring in a slate of officers for
the Annual Meeting in Feb
ruary: Mrs. James W. Howe,
Mrs. Julian Halngan and Mrs.
Joseph M. McDonough.
Fail Meeting
Saint Mary's
Home Guild
The fall meeting of the St.
Mary’s Home Guild was held
at the Home recently. The
children gave a moving tab
leaux of the life of Catherine
MacAuley, foundress of the
order of the Sisters of Mercy.
Mrs. Anthony Purdy, presi
dent, announced the sale of
candy turtles; the proceeds to
be used for a Christmas party
for the girls of the Home.
His Excellency, Bishop Tho
mas J. McDonough, expressed
his appreciation for the mem
bers efforts and urged the
attainment of a membership
oi one thousand.
The president appointed a
nominating committee of the
following members: Mrs. John
Brennen, Mrs. Frank Cullum,
and Mrs. William Semmes.
Soinniyiiity At
Conyers To
Move Dec. 12
CONYERS — On December
12th the Community of the
Abbey of Our Lady of the
Holy Ghost will move to the
living quarters of the new
monastery.
After the move ths law of
enclosure will exclude the
ladies. For this reason the
monks extend an invitation to
the ladies to visit their future
heme before the 12ill of De
cember.
It will be several years be
fore the monks anticipate they
will have sufficient funds to
furnish the Church and guest
house so that there may be a
formal consecration of ihe
new abbey buildings.
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Scout Troop
For Albany’s
St. Clare’s
ALBANY — Mr. Leroy Star-
fett, District Executive of
Scouting, recently 'presented
Father Martin Bangert, O.F.M.,
a charter authorizing a boy
scout troop for St. Clare’s
Church.
The troop is a community
project composed of five Cath
olic boys and twelve non-
Catholic boys and is the result
of a summer spent in trying to
find a program to help boys
keep off the streets and out
of trouble.
St. Clare’s is fortunate in
having Catholic men who are
keenly interested in promoting
scouting and are willing to
give their time and talents to
the project.
Those active are: Scout
masters Mr. Jack Hall and Mr.
Hilton Taylor. The Scout com
mittee is composed of Mr.
Alexander Hall, Mr. Robert
Christian, Mr. Walter Judge,
Mr. Harry Lyons and Mr.
Charles Battle.
Considerable help in the
project has been given by Mr.
Robert McCormack, the Amer
ican Legion Post 512 and the
Albany Knight of Columbus.
Meeting Of
Albany PTA
ALBANY — The monthly
meeting of St. Teresa’s P.T.A.
was held Thursday, Novem
ber 17th, in the school audito
rium. with the president, Bob
McCormack, Jr., presiding. Fa
ther Marvin LeFrois opened
the meeting with a prayer.
The minutes of the last meet
ing were approved as read. A
financial report was given by
the treasurer, Jim Schneiders.
The president thanked all
those who worked so diligent
ly for thee success of the Hal
loween carnival. A check rep
resenting the profits from the
carnival was presented to Fr.
LeFrois by the treasurer, to be
used for payment of the debt
incurred by the: addition of
new classrooms. Father Le
Frois expressed his apprecia
tion to all for their great spirit
in making this project such a
success, especially those from
both military bases.
A brief report was given by
Mrs. Lawrence Mock, Jr. on
the purpose of the St. John
Vianney Seminary Associa
tion, as well as the material
and spiritual benefits derived
from membership in the orga
nization. Donations were re
quested by the Catholic Wo
men’s Club for their Christmas
project.
Mr. McCormack announced
that the date of the annual
chicken barbecue would be
January 21st, with Teresa
Kimbrell as chairman.
The announcement was
made that the Thanksgiving
holiday would commence Wed
nesday, November 23rd and
the December meeting would
be held on Thursday, Decem
ber 15th. The room count was
won by grade IB.
Sister Miriam welcomed the
guest speaker, Father John
Cuddy, Superintendent of
schools of the Savannah Dio
cese. Father Cuddy gave a
most informative talk on St.
John Vianney Seminary, its
purpose and necessity, stress
ing the importance of voca
tions to the priesthood. Fol
lowing this enlightening talk,
Father Cuddy held a question
and answer period for tne par
ents present.
There being no further bus
iness, the meeting was ad
journed and refreshments
were served by the first grade
mothers.
Blessed Sacrament'
Home, School Ass'n
SAVANNAH — Mrs. Janes
Harte, president of the Blessed
Sacrament Home and School
Association at the November
meeting appointed Mrs. Harry
Haslam and Mrs. William
Hennessey to serve as chair
men of the Thanksgiving Pan
try Shower.
Monsignor Thomas Brennan
announced that Father’s Night
will be held on December 6th
and the speaker will be His
Excellency, Bishop Thomas J.
McDonough.
Albany PCCW
ALBANY — St. Teresa’s
Catholic Women Council held
its November meeting on the
evening of the 7th, Mrs. Paul
Anderson, Jr., President pre
siding. The meeting was open
ed with the reciting of Our
Lady of Good Council prayer
led by Father Marvin J. Le
Frois.
The projects being under
taken by the Council for the
month are the Bishops Cloth
ing Drive, and a Thanksgiving
dinner for a needy family in
the parish.
Meeting Of Weekly
Dublin PCCW Calendar
DUBLIN — The first month
ly meeting of the Parish
Council of Catholic Women of
the Immaculate Conception
Church was held at the home
of Mrs. Hugh Craig, with
twenty-six women present.
Rev. Cajetan McDyre and
Rev. Myron Bateman, spiritual
directors of the group, were
guests.
Officers for the coming year
in the Parish Council are:
President, Mrs. Hugh Craig;
Vice-President, Miss Louise
Ludwig; T r easurer, Mrs.
Glenn Hall; and Secretary,
Mrs. J. Duncan Black.
Chairmen of Committees for
the year were named as fol
lows: Organization and De
velopment, Miss Louise Lud
wig; Catholic Charities, Mrs.
Carrell Daniels; Hostesses,
Mrs. J. Duncan Black; House
and Grounds, Mrs. Bush Per
ry; V.A.V.S. Representative,
Mrs. J. B. Johnson; and Proj
ects, Miss Sophia Benchina.
The Parish Council plans to
meet on the first Wednesday
of each month and it was de
cided that . pre-printed post
cards to announce meetings
would be sent to the women
of the parish for the next two
or three meetings, as a re
minder. Mrs. George McCullar
volunteered to take care of
this for the next three months.
Car pools are also being set
up to facilitate all the women
getting to the meetings.
Miss Louise Ludwig an
nounced that the Parish Coun
cil has Christmas cards on sale
at the Catholic Center after
Mass each Sunday, and urged
all parishioners to take ad
vantage of this opportunity to
obtain their Christmas cards
for tne coming season and at
the same time help the women
in this fund-raising project.
Plans were made to hold a
Benefit Card Party on Thurs
day evening, December 1st, at
the Elks Club. Proceeds from
all activities will go into the
treasury of the Parish Coun
cil, which is planning to> con
tribute all funds to the Fif
tieth Anniversary Fund.
Ail women of the parish
were urged to save clean,
used, bed linen, to be used
by the Catholic Charities Com
mittee during the year. The
women of the Parish Council
will use these linens to make
cancer pads winch will be
donated to the tree, inter
denominational Cancer Homes
m Atlanta and Savarman.
Mrs. Cletus Calvert volun
teered to obtain a new pattern
lor the cancer pad, as the
original pattern used in pre
vious years cannot be located.
YOUTHS
AN* *.
COLUMBUS — Sixty-five
youths representing the Co
lumbus Deanery, met Novem
ber 6th at Uur Lady of
Lourdes, Columbus, to elect
officers. There were repre
sentatives from Columbus, Al
bany, and Valdosta. The fol
lowing were elected deanery
officers:
Mary Ann McManus, Co
lumbus, President; Suzanne
Trench, Columbus, Vice-presi
dent; Maureen Gordon, Val
dosta, Secretary; and Kay
Hughey, Albany, Treasurer.
Also the following deanery
chairmen were elected; Judy
Brockway, Valdosta, Social
Activities; Gerell Green. Co
lumbus, Physical Activities;
Pat Cooper, Columbus, Spirit
ual Activities; and Ray Lanier,
Albany, Cultural Activities.
Father James Dolan, Chap
lain at Fort Henning gave a
series of three talks on the
Kingdom of God. Father
Dolan said that Christ Himself
was a teen-ager and he knew
the trials of teen-agers as well
as: the tremendous good that
teen-agers could do, both now
and later on in life.
The election was held in
conjunction with a day of re
collection which Father Dolan
conducted. 'The young people
closed the day with Mass and
Benediction.
Blessed
Sacrament
Parish Council
SAVANNAH — The regular
meeting of the Blessed Sacra
ment Parish Council of Cath
olic Women was held Monday,
November 7th.
Mrs. W. P. Schneider presid
ed over the meeting. Plans for
a cake sale were discussed and
reports from committee chair
men were heard.
ELECT
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
SUNDAY, November 27 —
First Sunday of Advent. Gen
erally this date is the feast of
St. Virgil, Bishop-Confessor.
He was an Irish saint of noble
birth who played a prominent
part in the apostolate of Ger
many. He was aided in his
work: by King Pepin and the
King’s son, wno bacame Em
peror Charlemagne. He served
as Bishop of Salzburg and
died in 784. He was canonized
m 1232.
MONDAY,. November 28 —
St. Sosthens, Martyr. In the
first century he was the ruler
of the synagogue of Corinth
and became a disciple oi St.
Paul. Pie probably is the
"Sosthens, our brotner,” men
tioned m the introduction of
the first Epistle of St. Paul
to the Corinthians. Some con
tend that fie afterwards be
came a bishop and went to a
martyr's deatn.
TUESDAY, November 29 —
SS. Saturmus and Sisinius,
Martyrs. Saturninus, said to
be a Carthaginian by birth,
was a priest m Rome. Sisinius
was his deacon. 'They were
sentenced as Christians to
hard labor and subsequently,
about 2U9, were martyred.
They were buried in the ceme
tery of St. Thraso.
W7DNESDAY, November 30
— St. Andrew, Apostle. A na
tive of Bethsaida in Galilee,
be was the elder brother of
St. Peter and also was a fish
erman. A disciple of St. John
the Baptist, he was the first
of the Apostles to be called
Christ. Tnere is no certainty
of his mission, labors after
the Ascension, but it is gener
ally agreed tnat he worked m
Greece and the Balkan Coun
tries. Tradition has it that he
was imprisoned, scourged and
crucified on an X-shaped cross
at Patras in Achaia. it also is
recounted that he remained
hanging on the cross for two
days, preaching to all wno
came near and entreating
them not to hinder his agony.
THURSDAY, November 1 —
St. Nahum, Prophet. He lived
in tne seventh century, B. C.,
was a native of Palestine and
one of the minor prophets. His
snort prophecy ot tbree chap
ters is directed against the sins
of the city of Nmiven. He
lived to see the city's destruc
tion, whicn he had foretold.
PR1DAY, December 2 — St.
Vibiana, Virgin-Martyr. A na
tive of Rome, sne was the
daughter and sister of martyrs.
Her parents, bB. Flavian and
Daphrose, and her sister, St.
Demetna, gave tneir lives for
their Faith. St. Vibiana was
scourged to death in Rome in
303 under the persecution of
J ulian the Apostate.
SATURDAY, December 3 —
St. Francis Xavier, Confessor,
ihe apostle oi the Indies was
born in fa06 at Pamplona in
Navarre and had distinguished
himself as a student in Pans
wnen he came under the in
fluence of St. Ignatus of
Eoyoia, founder of tne Society
of Jesus. As a Jesuit mis-
sioner, he went to the Tar
East, where the results of his
work in India and Japan were
remarkable. He died m 1552
on tne island of Saneian, near
Macao, while trying to reaen
China. He was canonized in
1662 arid is a Patron of the
Missions.
Catholic
Woman s Club
SAVANNAH — The Novem
ber meeting of the Catholic
Women’s Club was held Tues
day evening, November v 8th,
in the Club Rooms.
Mrs. Kathryn Huggins, the
Program Chairman, introduced
the guest speaker, Miss Vir
ginia McGuirt, Special Teach
er of Braille at the 37th Street
School, who gave a very inter
esting talk about her classes
for the blind children and how
much progress they were mak
ing.
Plans were discussed for the
Christmas party to be given
by the Club for its members
at the Club Rooms on Decem
ber 13th and also for the'
Christmas Party for the guests
of the Little Sisters of the
Poor on December 15th.
The members were asked to
bring Christmas gifts for the
persons in the State Hospital
at Milledgeville, Georgia; to
note on each gift whether they
were for a man or a woman,
and to leave them at Chatham-
Savannah Mental Health As
sociation, 27 East Jones Street,
not later than December 10th.
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