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Rt. Rev. Leo Haid, 0. S. B., Abbot,
Bishop and Dean of the American
Hierarchy, Dies at Belmont, N. C.
THE LATE RT. REY. L EO HAID, O. S. B., D. D.
Macon. Telegraph Urges Jesuit
Fathers to Rebuild St. Stanislaus >
Such Action Would Be Tribute to Fairness of Macon and
Georgia It Says, Recalling That State is Product of
Catholic As Well As of Protestant Effort.
Macon, Ga. — The rebuildin g of St. Stanislaus’ College, the
Jesuit novitiate which was destroyed here by fire two years ago,
‘ would be a tribute not only to M aeon but to Georgia—the expres
sion of a belief in the fairness and sane-mindedness of Georgians,”
declared the Macon Telegraph of July 16 in an editorial urging the
Jesuit Fathers to relocate the novitiate of the Southern province in
Macon. The editorial follows:
CANONIZING OF ENGLISH
MARTYRS BEING URGED
Ecclesiastical Court Exam
ines Claims Presented For
252 Sufferers For Faith.
By George Barnard.
(London Correspondent. N. C. W. C.
News Service)
London—The claims to beatifica
tion and canonization of 252 Catho
lics who lost their lives in England
during the persecution‘of the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries are
being considered by an ecclesiastical
court.
Exhaustive inquiries covering
every part of the country have been
made for many years in preparation
for this enormous “trial” of the
claims to sanctity of so large a body
of martyrs. The court, which has
been appointed by the Pope, is now
meeting regularly at Westminster.
The possibility of having 252 new
British saints has annoyed some or
gans of the press, which would pre
fer to forget the Catholic blood
which was split in the old days but
G. K. Chesterton, in an interview,
says he thinks it a splendid idea that
the English, who are profoundly ig
norant of their own history, should
know’ their heroes.
From All Walks of Life.
Among the 252 ■ martyrs whose
lives are being investigated by the
court are many priests and lay folk
in every walk of life—peers, and lay
servants, tradesmen, schoolmasters,
a painter and some w’oinen; one the
mother of a family.
“High treason” was the charge
against them. It was high treason in
the reign of Henry VIII to refuse to
recognize the King as head of the
Church. In the days of Elizabeth
it was high treason for a priest to
be in England, and it was high trea
son for a layman to accept the min
istrations of a priest.
The martyrdom occurred in many
parts, of the country. Of the eleven
London martyrs included in the in
quiry. one is a printer named Wil
liam Carter, who died for the Faith
at Tyburn in 1584.
The Earl of Arundel who died in
the Tower of London and Viscount
Stafford who was done to death on
Tower Hill arc two nobles who ap
pear on the London list.
Another interesting name is that
of Edward Shelley, of the family of
the poet Shelley. He went to his
death at Tyburn in 1588.
Most of the 252 martyrs were
hanged, drawn and quartered, us
ually to the accompaniment of other
indignities. Margaret Clitheroe,
whose story still lives in York, was
pressed to death.
Two other women on the list in
clude Ann Line, described as “a
delicate, elderly widow lady” and
Margaret Ward, an unmarried wo
man of London who was slaughtered
at Tyburn for helping a priest to
eocape from Bridewell Prison.
Canon Burton, who is taking an
important part in the investigation,
says that the Catholic of England
have always regarded the victims of
the old persecutions as martyrs, but
before public honor can be paid them
it is necessary for the church to set
the seal of approval upon their sac
rifice by beatification.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
London.—Cardinal Gasquet’s doc
tor told him in 1885 that he had
not long to live, and that he had
better say good-bye to his friends.
Another London doctor confirmed
his colleague’s opinion.
The cardinal was then 39 years
of age. He is now 78,^and is still
planning new work. This medical
error was recalled this week by
the Right Hon. John Wheatley,
minister of health in the labor gov
ernment, who presided at a dinner
in honor of Cardinal Gasquet’s
sacerdotal golden jubilee.
“If I may say so. as minister of
health,” said Mr. Wheatley amidst
laughter, “this little medical inac
curacy makes one feel sceptical
about the value of the medical pro
fession.”
Mr. Wheatley, the only Catholic
member of the British cabinet, paid
a striking tribute to the cardinal's
work.
“I believe,” he said, “that the
literary work of Cardinal Gasquet
has contributed largely to that
amazing advance in religious toler
ance which we have witnessed in
England during the past genera
tion.”
He quoted an extraordinary refer
ence to Cardinal Gasquet, made by
a German Lutheran professor when
De Valera, Released, to
Lead Irish Republicans
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Dublin. — The release of
Eamonn de Valera and his
forthcoming re-entry into pub
lic life, foreshadow a period of
intense political activity during
the coming autumn. The N. C.
W. C. News Service correspond
ent is reliably informed that the
Republicans remain firm in ad
herence to their principles, but
that there will be no resort to
violence in attempting to apply
them.
De Valera will take his place
as leader of the Constitutional
Republican party, and his fol
lowers will constitute a group
distinct from the element led
by Joseph McGrath. After a
short rest with his family in
the west of Ireland, De Valera
will open his campaign in
County Clare, which is his own
constituency.
REPRESENTATIVE BLACK
SCORES FEDERALIZATION
Federal Control Would Fol
low Passage of Sterling-
Reed Bill He Says.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Washington.—The tendency of the
Sterling-Reed Bill “to stagnate the
youthful mind under a federal sys
tem” through the establishment of
a Federal Department of Education
is pointed out in an address by Rep
resentative Loring Black of New
York printed in an Appendix to the
Congressional Record as _ ah exten
sion of remarfis. Referring to the
proposal for Federal subsidies to the
states doled out through a Federal
Department of Education, Mr. Black
said:
“The outstanding danger is its
possibility of Federal control of edu
cation that would evolve into a rea
sonable probability should the bill
become law. True, you have the
definite statutory language of the
bill against the control but subse
quent Congresses, acting under the
spur of the Secretary of Education
may eliminate the limitation and
provide for a centralized control of
education. Forces strong enough to
have this hill adopted with its tre
mendous expense feature would, if
they controlled its administration,
easily influence a Congress to make,
their power absolute.”
“Federal control is a dangerous
thing and entirely out of accord with
the American theories of education,”
Mr. Black continued, “Civil freedom
rests largely on intellectual freedom.
Intellectual» freedom flows largely
from diversification in the teaching
field. The censored mind of the
child developed into the abject mind
of the political subject as distingu
ished from the ruling mind of the
free citizen.”
Supporting his allegation that the
Sterling-Reed bill tends towards
federal control of education, Mr.
the famous Benedictine scholar was
raised to the sacred college. Cardi
nal Gasquet was then described as
“the historian of the world.”
Cardinal Bourne, at the jubilee
dinner, added his testimony to “the
services of all kinds” that Cardinal
Gasquet had rendered to the church
in England during many years of
strenuous labor.
Long life seems to he a special
privilege of the Benedictine Order,
remarked Cardinal Bourne, the other
day he had visited a Benedictine
friend—Abbot Bergh—who was about
to undergo a seroius operation, out
of which he emerged successfully at
the age of 84, and he had learned
that the abbot’s daily visitor was
his former novice master, another
Benedictine who was 93. So that
Cardinal Gasquet seemed to have
every right to look forward to all
sorts of other jubilees.
In addition to the two cardinals
and a cabinet minister at Cardinal
Gasquet’s jubilee dinner, there were
present four bishops, four anoots
four peers, and over a hundred dis
tinguished members of the clergy
and laity, including many famous
scholars. Cardinal Mercier, who
could not attend, wrote: “I desire
to join in rendering a tribute to
the great historical work of Cardi
nal Gasquet, which is the pride of
the world.”
“Since the burning of St. Stanis
laus College, there has been much
speculation as to whether'it would
be rebuilt here or not. Talk has
been heard of possible plans to
move it to New Orleans or some
other city, in its rebuilding. This,
really, would be unfortunate in view
of the beautiful and somewhat ideal
site possessed by the Catholics in
Vineville. Then, too, Macon is the
site of one of the largest and most
handsome Catholic churches in the
country, on the one hand, and of
a most excellent Catholic girls’
school (Mount de Sales) on the
other, and it seems a veritable pity
to take the third unit a.way from
the trinity.
“Outside of a small and negligible
few, Macon is a town to which the
relationships between Catholics and
Protestants are especially fine.
There is no appreciable tendency
to draw a line of demarkation down
through the social body, but good
humor and fight spirit are the gen
eral order of things. The Catho
lics of Macon have through the
years proven themselves patriotic
and unselfish citizens. The test of
time has declared them. They are
good people, and good friends. They
are sincere; their motives line up
well with those of other men.
“If the Catholic authorities should
find it convenient and advantageous
to rebuild St. Stanislaus in Vine
ville it would be a tribute not only
to Macon but to Georgia—the ex
pression of a belief in the fairness
and sanc-mindedness of Georgians.
“This state is the product not only
of Protestant effort but of Catholic
as well. From the days of Geor
gia's early history, tile Catholic
people have labored, struggled,
fought., hied and died for the glory
of our commonwealth. They gave
their lives in the revolution, in the
war of 1812, in the war between the
states, and in the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, and in the late tragic world
war. Side by side, Catholics and
Protestants have dorked and have
fought and worked for the common
cause, building a homeland for
their children. It is only befitting
that these children, whose fathers
marched abreast and worked hand
in hand under the folds of a com
mon flag, now go on together un
der the stars and bars—their stars
and bars. It is a common heritage,
a mutual love. They respect and
revere it together. They bled for
(Continued on page 11.)
VICAR-APOSTOLIC OF N.
CAROLINA SINCE 1888
Seventy-five Years Old, He
Was Fifty-One Years a
Priest—Funeral July 28, at
Belmont Cathedral.
Special to The Bulletin.
Belmont, N. C.—Rt. Rev. Leo
Haid, O. S. B., D. D., dean of
the hierarchy of North America,
abbot of Belmont since 1885 and
Bishop and Vicar-Apostolic of
North Carolina since 1888, died
at Belmont Abbey July 24 after
an illness of a few weeks. Bishop
Haid had been in ill health for
some time and bat recently was
confined in the hospital at
Charlotte. At times he seemed
in spite of his seventy-five
years to have thrown off the
ills which attacked him. Nine
days before his death, on his
seventy-fifth birthday,, he re
ceived the final vows of two of
the Benedictine Fathers at Bel
mont. and bestowed the habit
on two novices. He suffered a
relapse shortly afterwards, and
even his great courage and re
markable vitality were unable to
resist the final attack, and on
Thursday night at 9:30 death
ended one of the most distin-
/guished and useful careers in
the history of the Church in
America-
Through Saturday and Sunday the
body of the beloved Bishop lay in
^Tate in the Cathedral which now
stands a monument to his memory
in a spot which was a wilderness
when he first came to North Caro
lina. Here the remains were view
ed by hundreds, Catholic and non-
Catholic, who had known him in
life and grieve for him in death.
Monday morning at six o’clock there
was a solemn requiem Mass sung
for the repose of his soul, a private
Mass. In the evening matins and
lauds of the dead were chanted by
the abbey clergy.
FUNERAL ATBELMONT
CATHEDRAL ON TUESDAY
Abbot Charles of Florida to
Pontificate at Mass—Bis.
hop Boyle Eulogist.
Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock a
Pontifical High Mass will be sung
in the Cathedral, Rt. Rev. Charles
Mohr, 0. S. B., D. D., Abbot of St.
Leo's, Florida, pontificating. The
eulogy will be delivered by Rt. Rev.
Hugh Boyle, D. D., Bishop of Pitts
burgh. In addition to the clergy
of North Carolina and scores from
other states, there will be present
at the funeral Rt. Rev. Patrick
Barry, D. D., Bishop of St. Augus
tine; Archabbot Aurelius. O. S. B„
of St. Vincent’s, Beatty, Pa.; Rt.
Rev. Abbot Ernest, of St. Mary’s
Newark, N. J.; Rt. Rev. Abbot Val
entine, of Lisle, 111., Rt. Rev. Abbot
Bernard, Cullman, Alabama; Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Thomas, pastor of St.
Patrick’s Church, Washington, rep
resenting Archbishop Curley, of
Baltimore, who is now in Europe;
Very Rev. Felix Carp, chancellor of
the Diocese of Richmond, represent
ing Bishop O'Connell, whose health
will not permit him to attend; Rt.
Rev. Msgr. McElroy, V. G., repre
senting Bishop Russell of Charles
ton; Very Rev. T. A. Foley, V. G.,
of Savannah, representing Bishop
Keyes, of Savannah, Bishop Russell
and Bishop Keyes being away, and
many others.
Interment of the remains in the
abbey cemetery will follow the Pon
tifical High Mass of Requiem. The
grave will be simple, marked by a
plain marble slab. Here lie ten
priests of the abbey and vicariate
who have labored at the abbey and
in the vicariate of North Carolina
under the direction of Bishop Haid,
and who have preceeded their abbot
and bishop to their reward.
Bishop Haid was born in Latrobe,
Pennsylvania on July 15, 1849, an
received his early education unde’
(Continued from Page Eleven.)
(Continued on page 9.)
Cardinal Gasquet, Invalid Forty
Years Ago, Now Golden Jubilarian