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PAGE TWO —THE BULLETIN, February 22, 1958 AN ALTAR BOY FOR 72 YEARS Dr. Michael J. Scott, Sr., pours water over the hands of Father Linus Stahl, S.J., during’ the “Washing of the Hands,” during low Mass in Seattle's St. James Cathedral. Dr, Scott, a familiar figure at the Cathedral and at times mistaken for a Brother has served daily Mass for approxi mately 72 years. A well-known surgeon throughout the country, he is 80 years old, (NC Photos} ELLIOT HARPER’S REALTY CO. CLEANERS We can serve you PICK UP & DELIVERY anywhere in Cleaning & Laundry Greater Atlanta Altering & Dyeing 1290 Fair St., S. W. 1075 McDaniel St., S. W. PL. 8-2145 JA. 5-9450 A.tlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga, BERTHA’S BEAUTY SHOP COMPLETE BEAUTY SERVICE, HAIR STYLING Staffed by Experts CATHERINE ANDERSON — HELEN THOMAS Open Dally Except Mondays and Sundays TR. 6-9469 — 293 Pine N. E. — Atlanta, Ga. Cooper Self-Service Drugs 1614 Simpson Rd„ S. W. SY. 4=0247 Atlanta, Ga. 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Dawkins, Operator Mrs. Curry, Owner 886 SIMPSON N. W. JA. 4-9639 ATLANTA, GA. Lourdes Centenary Recalls That Our Lady Asked For Building Of Chapel, And Processions To Site By George J. Robinson (N.C.W.C. News Service ) Lourdes, which in 100 years has risen from the obscurity of a tiny mountain village to one of the centers of the Church’s de votion, might be called “the city that Our Lady built.” The Blessed Virgin herself started the tremendous develop ment of Lourdes and its surround ings when, during the 11th appa rition to St. Bernadette, she said, “Go and tell the priests to have a chapel built here.” Later, dur ing her 13th apparition, she told the little girl saint that she want ed the people to come to the grot to in procession. That was in 1858 and Lourdes, hidden in the Pyrennes, was un attractive and uninspiring, with nothing more than an outdated castle used as a munitions depot, to give it outside interest. Today, however, because a lit tle girl had to go out one day to gather firewood because her fa ther could not afford to buy any, Lourdes has become what is per haps the greatest Christian shrine to Our Lady. Thousands of pilgrims come every year from every part of the earth to seek physical cures and spiritual graces, or simply to render homage to the Mother of God. Marie Bernarde Sourbirous was 14 years old on that day 100 years ago when she and her sister and their cousin went to gather wood along the River Gave. Bernadette, as she was called in the local dia lect, had always been a sickly child and was allowed to wear what, in ordinary circumstances, would have been a luxury for a girl from a family as poor as hers ■— woolen stockings. When the girls got to the canal leading from, the river, Berna dette decided not to cross it—as much from fear of slipping into the icy water and perhaps bring ing on another of her choking asthmatic attacks, as from ap prehension of what her mother would say if she should get her expensive stockings wet. Her two companions waded across the shallow stream and Bernadette stayed on the shore, close to the grotto the waters had carved from the rocks. Fin ally, she became lonely and felt “left out.” She decided to risk crossing the canal, but first de cided she would take off her precious stockings. “I had hardly begun to take off my stockings,” she said later, “when I heard the sound of wind, as in a storm ... I looked up and saw a cluster of branches and brambles . . . Behind these bram bles and within the opening (in the grotto) I saw immediately af terwards a girl in white, no big ger than myself, who greeted me with slight bow of her head . . . She was wearing a white dress reaching to her feet, of which only tlie toes appeared. The dress was gathered very high at the neck by a. hem from which hung a white cord. A white veil cov ered her head and came down over her shoulders and arms al most to the bottom of her dress. On each foot I saw a yellow rose. The sash of the _ dress was blue, and hung down below her knees.” This was the first of 18 appari tions of the Blessed Mother that Bernadette was to have. Later, when asked to describe the qua lity of the color and material with which Our Lady’s dress made, she was shown some very fine material by a merchant. When she answered that Our Lady’s dress had seemed to her to be made of much finer stuff, he responded that it would be im possible to get anything finer in all of France. “All of which goes to show,” she answered, “that the Lady did not have her dress made by you!” People and the clergy of Lourdes were at first more than a little skeptical about Berna dette’s claims that she had seen a “beautiful Lady.” On February 25, 1858, however, the Lady told Bernadette to “Go, drink at the spring and wash in it”—where there was no spring. The girl scratched at the damp water and thus began the miracu lous springs from which more than 20,000 gallons of water flow each day in which, during the past 100 years, more than 7,000 scientifically unexplainable cures Your school can win high honors and national recognition in the Catholic Press by taking part in the national essay contest sponsored by the Catholic Press Associa tion. The subject is: All you need do is assign students in your high school (grades 9 to 12 inclusive) to write an essay of not less than 500 nor more than 750 words on this subject. You choose an official winner from your high school and forward the winning essay to the Catholic Press Asso ciation for judging in the national contest. Well- known Catholic editors will act as judges to pick three national winners, who will receive: FIRST PRIZE: $200.00; SECOND PRIZE: $100.00; THIRD PRIZE: $50.00. Certificates will be pre sented to the winning schools by the Catholic Press Asso ciation. The contest ends March 15. There is no entry fee. Each high school in the country will be sent an official entry form during January. The entry form gives all the con test rules. Also, the New Catholic Press Month Kit contains a load of information on the Catholic press which you can use to guide students in preparing their essays. For instance: • A Pamphlet which de scribes the purposes of each of the four elements of the Catholic Press—newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and books. • An Outline for sermons, speeches and papers deliv ered during Press Month • A List of 35 new or re cent books which Catholics should read • A Directory which gives complete mailing addresses of all publications . . . the only one of its kind because it classifies magazines by type (juvenile, general in terest, mission, devotional, etc.) • A Pamphlet which de scribes how to set up and operate a literature rack in your church and a blueprint of a make-it-yourself wood en rack • A Project sheet with ideas for holding programs during Press Month • And the colorful new Press Month Poster featur ing this year’s theme: “Get The Whole Truth . . . Read Your Catholic Press.” You’ll want to get your school’s copy of the Program Kit quickly. Write today to the Catholic Press Associa tion, 6 East 39th Street, New York 16, New York. Send $1 to help cover printing and administrative costs. MEMO TO ORGANIZATIONS: You’ll want to purchase the Catholic Press Month Kit, too, to aid in planning Press Month programs and activ ities — and to use as valua ble reference material the whole year through. You may also want to encourage the essay contest by offering your own local prizes or arranging for local winners to speak at your Press Month programs. © THE CATHOLIC PRESS ASSOCIATION 6 East 39th Street, New York 16, N. Y. have occurred. Church authorities have never claimed that it was a new spring which, was created at Lourdes, but simply that Bernadette, at the direction of Our Lady, discovered an already existing spring through which God wishes to work wonders. After the discovery of the spring, the crowds coming to the grotto became larger and larger. Through the years, the crowds have grown and a Basilica of the Immaculate Conception was built and consecrated in 1876. A larger church was built in 1901 and this year an underground church, ded icated to St. Pius X, will be con secrated and opened to the faith ful. A striking feature of Our Lady’s apparitions to Bernadette is the fact that they occurred four- years after the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Con ception by Pope Pius IX was an nounced. Bernadette may have heard the local priest explain the doctrine at the time of the defi nition, but it is unlikely that she, an uneducated girl from a small mountain town, would have un derstood much of what he said. After many opportunities from, local ecclesiastical and civil of ficials, Bernadette finally asked the Lady, on March 25, 1958, to tell her name. Three times she repeated, “Madame, will you be so kind as to tell me who you are?” The Lady, she said, just smiled at her the first two times, but then, after she had repeated the question once, more, the appari tion opened her arms and lowered them as though to include the whole world. Then she joined her hands and brought them close to her breast, Bernadette said, and raising her eyes to heaven she answered in the local dialect, “Que soy era Immaculate Con- cepciou—I am the Immaculate Conception.” Bernadette had to repeat these words all the way home and to the local rectory, for fear she would forget them. Later, when she was asked if she knew what they meant, she replied that she did not, but merely repeated them because that was the answer the Lady had given to her question. The last apparition took place on July 16, 1858. There had been a three months interval between it and the preceding apparition, and Bernadette later said that she had felt she must return to the grotto that morning, during her thanksgiving after Holy Com munion. Our Lady did not say anything that last time, but only smiled and nodded her head in greeting. “Never had I seen her looking so beautiful,” Bernadette said. Bernadette joined the Sisters of Charity and Christian Instruction of Nevers in 1866. She lived a life of physical suffering and tried always to impress upon the many neople who came to the convent to see her that the important fact was not that she had had the visions, but that Our Lady had shown herself to mankind. She died in 1879, and was beatified in 1925. She was de clared a saint in 1933, on Decem ber 8—the Feast of the Immacu late Conception. Lourdes is now a city with a permanent population of 12.421, but these people are almost swal lowed up in the vast crowds which make the city their home every day of every year when they come to pay homage to Our Lady. Hostels and pensions for pil grims have been built. The once small village has grown beyond any predictions that anyone might have made on the winter day, 100 years ago when a little girl went out to gather firewood. SOFT SOAP Beware of the man who is al ways shaking your hand — he may shake your confidence later. LUCAS GRILL Delicious Home Cooked Meals BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNERS JA. 4-9270 573 Mitchell, S. W. Atlanta, Ga. laity From US lo Visit Lourdes (N.C.W.C. News Service) When the Lourdes centennial year draws to a close on February 11, 1959, more than 60 IJ. S. dio ceses and archdioceses will have sponsored pilgrimages to the famous French shrine of Our Lady. By next February 11, 29 mem bers of the American Hierarchy will have personally led pil grims to Lourdes. One American cardinal and six archbishops will have been among them. Current estimates indicate that more than 30,000 Americans will have swelled the throngs of pil grims . observing the 100th an niversary of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin to St. Berna dette. Officials of travel agencies, steamship and airline companies are in unanimous agreement in their assessment of the coming centennial year. “Great demand for accommodations,” “m ore Americans . . . than in the 1950 Holy Year,” “tremendous interest generated by the 'Lourdes cen tenary”—is how they sum it up. Their predictions have been echoed by the Lourdes pilgrim age bureau. Lourdes officials an nounce that they expect the ordi nary influx of tourists to triple in the next 12 months, reaching a total of nearly six million. The town is currently building ac commodations to hold 30,000 vis itors at a time. However, the pilgrimage bu reau may have been too conserva tive in its estimates and failed to reckon with Americans’ devo tion — and their yen for travel. Just a week ago the Lourdes bureau was expecting 80 pilgrim ages from the United States dur ing the coming year. But figures reported to the N.C.W.C. News Service by leading travel agencies indicate that 63 U. S. dioceses and archdioceses alone are going to sponsor pilgrimages to Lourdes. A number of other trips are be ing sponsored by various organi zations, institutions and individu als. Current reports indicate they will be well over the 100 mark. The total of U. S. pilgrimages to Lourdes iw the coming year could easily reach 200. Among the 29 members of the American Hierarchy planning to lead Lourdes pilgrimages are: His Eminence Francis Cardinal Spell man, Archbishop of New York, and Archbishop Thomas A. Bo land of Newark, Thomas A. Con nolly of Seattle, Richard J. Cush ing of Boston, John J. Mitty of San Francisco, Patrick A. O’- Boyle of Washington and Joseph F. Rummell of New Orleans. Cardinal Spellman’s will be the largest U. S. pilgrimage. Some 700 persons are expected to join the Archbishop of New York on a 35-day European tour, sailing from New York, September 8. Two pilgrimages led by Ameri can bishops were in Lourdes for the official opening of the cen tennial year on February 11. They were under the direction of Bish- on Christopher J. Weldon of Springfield, Mass., and Auxiliary Bishop Leo R. Smith of Buffalo. The prayers for world peace of at least one U. S. pilgrimage will be broadcast behind the Iron Curtain. The group will be com- nosed of Americans of Czech and Slovak ancestry and led by Ben edictine Abbot Ambrose L. On- drak of St. Procopius Abbey, Lisle, 111. They will leave New York by air on July 2. In Lourdes they will join Czech and Slovak pil grims from European countries and their prayers there and at the shrine of La Salette in the French Alps will be beamed to Czechs and Slovaks behind the Iron Curtain by Vatican Radio, the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and the British Broad casting Corporation. Two air pilgrimages for the sick are planned. 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