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PAGE 2—THE BULLETIN, March 18, 1961
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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-
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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.
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the authority of the missionary headquarters in Gaul, prob
ably that of Auxerre.
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-
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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
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Gibbons in the U. S. Senate
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mission to preach in his territory, although he probably never
embraced Christianity himself.
But members of the High King’s family did become
Christians, as did other chieftains throughout the country.
By the end of his 30-year apostolate, when he died in 461, St.
Patrick had converted Ireland as a whole to Christianity.
Cardinal Cushing, writing in the March issue of the Med
ical Missionary of Mary magazine, holds that St. Patrick was
“1,500 years ahead of his time” insofar as the missionary pro
gram of the Church is concerned.
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. Although
the number of native Irish in
the Washington areas is much
smaller today, enthusiasm for
observing St. Patrick’s Day
continues.
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