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CE. 7-8694 Free Inspection Atlanta, Ga. 1500th Anniversary Of Saint Patrick's Death ST. PATRICK A “Patrician Year” will begin this March 17 to mark the 15th centenary of the death of the great bishop and saint who first saw Ireland as a slave and. returned to win it for Christ. By Leila Carroll (N.C.W.C. News Service) DUBLIN — The sentimental idea of St. Patrick as an old man draped in shamrocks and tilting at snakes and Druids just won’t do. With the opening of the Patrician year, marking the 1,500th anniversary of St. Patrick’s death, the emphasis is on uncovering the real Patrick — a sensitive man who became so personally committed to God that he became — in the words of Boston’s Richard Cardinal Cushing—“the ideal missionary.” The great qualities which made St. Patrick so remarkable and successful a missioner stand out in the life of the man of prayer and the man of action. He had come to his mission through the direct call of the Master, first head when as slave-boy he cared for the flocks of his pagan owner Miliucc on the bare slopes of Slemis moun tain in county Antrim. It was during his short slumber one night that a Voice called him to the ship which was waiting to take him to free dom and to his continental homeland. But during the years that followed when he persued his vocation and eventually became a priest he always heard the “voices of the Irish” calling him back. Back he came in 432 A.D., a bishop on a mission to convert the Irish, with the approval of the Holy See and subject to Savage Murder Of Priest Part Of Planned Attack (N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) USUMBURA, Ruanda-Urnu- di, — Reports from the neigh boring Congo state that the murder of a Belgian priest in Bukavu on February 16 was not the result of a chance en counter as first reported, but of a well-planned attack on his mission. The attack was planned at an all-night session of a Lu- mumbist youth organization attended by the Lumumbist Minister of Social Affairs and Youth of Kivu Province, Al bert Kisongo. This was report ed by eye-withnesses. Repated phone calls for help from the besieged mission to United Nations headquarters in Kivu got the answer, “Somebody’s coming.” But no U. N. troops arrived. The new information shows that Father Rene De Vos, W. F., died in a courageous at tempt to save his fellow- priests by facing the armed at tackers alone. He was killed, and his body was mutilated. The attacking party consist ed of about 50 Lumumbist youths armed with clubs and spears, and local policemen in plain clothes. They brought 50 gallons of gasoline with them, a fact regarded as further con firmation of government com plicity in the assualt. Gasoline can be obtained in Bukavu only through the government. Before carrying out their at- A. J. 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Established 1919 JA 2-9960 JA 1-0421 de Give Construction Co., Inc. Larry de Give, President Engineers, Contractors and Developers 1478 Mecaslin Street, N. W. Atlanta 9, Georgia tack, the Lumumbist diverted troops loyal to the central Congolese government by a telephone ruse. The telephone call said that Belgian para troops were attacking Kivu province from the nearby Bel gian trust territory of Ruanda- Urundi. The loyal troops rush ed off to investigate, and were miles from the scene when the Lumumbists attacked . The assault party arrived at St. Francis Xavier mission about 10:30 a m.. At the mis sion were six priests: the Afri can pastor, his African assist ants, two White Fathers who also served there as assistant and two other White Fathers who had come from the mis sion of St. Theresa to help hear confessions. Five of the priests were tak ing a coffee break in the rec tory from an all-morning ses sion of hearing confessions in preparation for a confirmation visit from the Archbishop two days later. The sixth priest, Father Jos eph Van Noten, W.F., remain ed in the confessional. He took refuge in the church tower when the attackers arrived. The priests who were in the rectory came onto the veranda when they heard the shouts of the arriving assault party. They were first attacked by frenzied men whose heads were decorated with leaves. They retreated into the rec tory and tried to talk to the attackers. The African pastor, Father Alphonse Runiga, left the mis sion for help when he found the attackers could not be per suaded to leave. His African curate was also able to escape. The three White Fathers re treated still further into the immense mission house, bar ricading doors as they went. As the attackers broke down doors and barricades, the priests retreated again. At one point Father De Vos went down the hall alone to force the attackers back and rebarricade the door. He was taken and dragged out of the house. The first the two White Fa thers inside the house knew of his murder was from shouts of the Lumumbists: “Bring the body over here. Now try to say your Mass. Alleluia, Alleluia. In the name of the Father . . But Father Van Noten saw the mutilation of Father De Vos’s body from his hiding place in the church tower. The ears were cut off, the eyes gouged out, the head cut off. Then the limbs were hacked from the body. An autopsy indicated that Father De Vos was dead be fore the butchery began. Father Van Noten said thou sands of Congolese stood by terror-stricken while the priest was murdered and his. body tom apart. Many of those who watched were Catholics who had come for confession. After the murder the attack ers renewed their search of the house. When they were un able to find the two priests they set fire to the house to burn them out. About this time a lone Lumumbist hap pened to climb a gallery over the room in which the priests were hiding. He threw his spear at one of them, Father Henry Farcy, W.F., who was grazed on the mouth but who picked up the spear and chased his assailant. It was then that Murder Planned New reports from neighbor ing Congo areas indicate that the murder of a Belgian priest in Bukavu, Kivu prov ince, was not the result of a chance encounter, hut a well-planned attack on his mission. Father Rene De Vos, W.F, died in attempt to save five fellow priests at St. Francis Xavier mission. The attack on the mission was planned at an all-night session of pro-communist Lumumbist youth. (NC Photos) he saw that loyal Congolese troops had arrived on the scene. The Congolese troops took Father Farcy, Father Van Noten and the other priest, Father Alphonse Bosnians, W. F., under their protection. They eventually handed them over to the belated protection of the U. N. Missioners at St. Theresa’s mission were warned by the African pastor of St. Francis Xavier’s that they should ex pect an attack. They were able to get help. Archbishop Louis Van Steene, W.F., of Bukavu was at St. Theresa’s mission at the time. Ironically, Father De Vos had been assigned to St. Fran cis Xavier mission only a week before his murder as a replacement for a priest whose life had been threatened. The first priest, Father Michael Dooms, W.F., had celebrated a Mass of reparation for destruc tion of a statue of the Blessed Virgin during a previous Lu mumbist attack. The Lumum bists had threatened him with death for this. Cuban Refugees MIAMI — The worldwide rleief agency maintained by U. S. Catholics has found new home and job opportunities for half of the Cuban refugees re settled in various sections of the country, says Hugh Mc- Clone, Catholic Relief Services representative at Miami’s Cu ban refugee emergency center. 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Patrick desired to model his foundation of an Irish church on that of Gaul, but in the Ireland of the time there were no towns to which bishops could be attached. In effect the coun try was a vast forest, with rough primitive roads catering for a wholly rural society. Politically the system was monarchic, with a High King at Tara, the center of pagan power, ruling numerous provin cial “kings” or chiefs and many tributaries. So the early Irish church had to have a rural bias and St. Patrick must have been quick to grasp that significance. St. Patrick’s writings assume, and Irish tradition confirms, his supreme jurisdiction over the Church in Ireland. This ex tended over the whole island which ecclesiastically was regard ed as a single province with its metropolitan see at Armagh. The latter See was founded in 444 A.D. after St. Patrick had returned from a visit to Rome, entailing a two-year ab sence including the journey. That the Irish Church so quickly emerged from the status of a mission to become an ecclesiasti cal province under the immediate jurisdiction of Rome speaks well for Patrick’s technique. He developed his well-known practice of trying to con vert the rulers and chieftains as the surest. way to winning the people. His early apostolate was directed to the High King at Tara, who at least eventually granted safe passage and per- U ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ i In Nation's Capital City Some Early Celebrations Of Saint Patriots Bay By Thomas E. Kissling (N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) W A S H I N G T O N — The 1500th anniversary of the death of St. Patrick on March 17, according to the conclus ions of most historians, origi nally was not designed to be one of rejoicing. But St. Pat rick’s Day has grown to be one of joy wherever Irish folk gather. This special day of remem brance seems destined to be kept alive among Irish-Ameri- cans. St. Patrick’s Day was first observed as early as 1737 in Boston, where some Irish merchants met and formed the Charitable Irish Society for the relief of poor immigrants. In the decade before the American Revolution the Irish inhabitants of New York and elsewhere celebrated the day. General Washington, with many Irish troops under his command, recognized the day in his orders to the Continen tal army. His love and concern for the Irish was recognized by the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, meeting in Phil adelphia, Dec. 18, 1781, at which time he was made “an Irishman by adoption,” — “not just an “honorary member ship.” K Historians point out that eight Presidents of the United States claimed Irish ancestry: Presidents Jackson, Polk, Bu chanan, Arthur, McKinley, Wilson, Truman and Kennedy. Capt. James Hoban, Dublin architect, designed and built the Presidential Mansion, which resembles the palace of the Duke of Leinster, and re built it when the British burn, ed the White House in 1814. He was also employed in su perintending the construction of the Capitol building, and built St. Patrick’s church about 1804, on land purchased by Irish-born Father Anthony Gaffrey in 1794. Indeed the Irish have been numerous and prominent in the history of the capital city. But the first mention of their observance of St. Patrick’s Day on the streets of Wash ington is found in a letter of Dr. Samuel L. Mitchell of New York and a member of Congress, from 1801 to 1813. Under date of March 17, 1802 he wrote to his wife: “As I walked out this morn ing I observed the sons of Hibernia had adorned thier hats with the shamrock in honor of St. Patrick, their tutelary saint.” At that time Robert Brent, of Irish descent, was the first Mayor of the City of Washing ton (1802-11), and was host to the noted Irish poet, Thomas Moore, who visited the city in 1804. One newspaper account mentions that Bishop Leonard Neale of Baltimore delivered a sermon on St. Patrick in Washington’s St. P a t r i c k’s church, on March 17, 1810. An annual Mjass in honor of the saint has been held there since the beginnings of the parish. Other early accounts of the celebration of St.' Patrick’s Day in the nation’s capital mention a dinner held at the Indian Queen Tavern, in 1812, by the Society of the Sons of Erin, Washington, D. C. Moses Young was chosen president. The following year, the Sons of Erin celebrated with a ban quet at the tavern of Phile mon Moss near the Navy Yard gate, Patrick Kain, a master painter at the Navy Yard, pre sided. Among the toasts were: “The Army,” “The Navy,” “The President and Constitu tional Authorities of the Uni ted States,” “George Washing ton,” and “Thomas Jefferson.” Other Irish groups partici pating in the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day in the na tion’s capital include the Hi bernians, organized locally as early as 1818. In 1831, they adopted the name of Wash ington City Hibernian Bene volent Society, No. 1, and met on Pennsylvania Avenue where the Apex Building now stands. George Washington Parke Curstis, adopted son of George Washington, presided at a gala March 17 celebration in Fuller’s hotel in 1842. The Knights of St. Patrick and its junior branch were organized in 1871, and were active. One local historian, John Clagett Proctor, recalled that as a boy he viewed parades of some 2,000 members of the Sons of St. Patrick and kin dred groups along Pennsyl vania Avenue and that they were reviewed by the Presi dent, regardless of weather. These popular events in 1874, 1877, 1880 and 1881, are recorded in the Washington Star. The latter parade pro- ceded around the Capitol building, down the Avenue to the Executive Mansion where it was reviewed by President Garfield, thence to St. Ann’s Infant Asylum, where the pa- raders took up a collection for the orphans and again at 15th and H streets for St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum. The Washington Star of March 17, 1896 mentions the presence of James Cardinal Gibbons in the U. S. Senate reserved gallery with Father Gloyd of the Local St. Pat rick’s church during a com memorative address there. 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The Archbishop of Boston explains his stand this way: “It is a very significant fact that Saint Patrick never ap pealed for foreign missionaries for the conversion of the Irish. He never sent to France or to Rome for foreign missionaries. From the very beginning he established in Ireland an indigen ous, a native, Church. And through his prayers, his sacrifices, his boundless zeal, he inspired the Irish themselves to convert Ireland. “In all this, Patrick was the ideal missionary, because the foreign missionary is only a temporary servant of the Church. The primary purpose of the foreign missionary is to establish the Church where it does not exist and you cannot do that without training a native clergy, a native episcopacy, native lay workers for all the various aspects of faith practiced. “Patrick was the ideal missionary — probably the greatest missionary since Apostolic times, since the time of St. Paul.” York and other cities of large Irish or Irish-American popu lation, the parades of other years have been replaced in Washington by St. Patrick’s Day banquets and speeches. In recent years both the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick have held their separate cele brations in the evening at the Mayflower Hotel. President Eisenhower, in 1958, attended both the dinners and spoke briefly at each. Throughout the day, Irish organizations place wreaths, at the statues of Commodore John Barry, Gen Philip Sheri dan, Edmund Burke and other heroes memorialized in the nation’s capital city. 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