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12 THE BULLETIN OF THE CA'SHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA AUGUST 16, 1924. Death of Father Tyrrell Removes One of South’s Pioneer Priests Former President of Spring Hill College Labored in Flor ida For Over a Generation—Known As Church Builder and Erected School After Half Century As Jesuit. REGISTRATION CLOSING FOR LAYMEN’S RETREAT BRUNSWICK’S PAGEANT RECALLS CATHOLIC DAYS Catholic Women’s Club in Charge of Spanish Episode at St. Simon’s Celebration Special to The Bulletin. Brunswick, Ga.—The Catholic Wo man’s Club of Brunswick, in com mon with the other organizations of the city, did itself proud in the re cent exercises and pageant which featured the opening of the Bruns- wick-St. Simon's Highway, connect ing St. Simon’s Island with the main land. Nine pageants illustrated the history of the island and its vicinity. The second episode, admitted to he one of the best, recalled the Catho lic history of the island, and was under the direction of the Catholic Women’s Club, headed by Mrs. J, H. Gilmore and Mrs. J. C. Styles.' The first episode depicted the original settlers of the island, In dians. Then came iiie SpanisU mis sionaries. In Ihe third episode the granting of the charter to the colony by George II was illustrated, fol lowed by the founding of Frederica, the laying out of Brunswick, the planting of the American Flag. Plan tation Life at St. Simon’s, the Com ing of Commodore John Barry, the War Between the States, and Sidney Lanier’s description of “The Marshes of Glynn.” The description of Episode II which was directed by the Catholic Women’s Club of Brunswick as it appeared in the Official Program, follows: The coming of the Spanish Mis sionaries—Scene 1. A. D. 1568 (only three years after founding of St. Augustine). Enter Friars of the Order of St. Francis, accompanied by a Spanish officer and his soldi ers hearing the Spanish flag, and an Indian interpreter. Indians hide behind trees and watch the white men in great fear. The Indian inter preter advances end makes s gns of friendship to the native Indians. A few Indians timidly advance and confer with the interpreter; they call the others who come from thei/ places of hiding and seat themselves on the ground. The Franciscan Fa ther preaches to them. Scene 2. F’riars teaching the In dians. (Interior of Mission Church). Indian men, women and ch hfren seated in groups; Friars teaching them to read, write and count, as w-ell as arts and crafts. Scene . A. I). 1597. The Martvdom of Father Velascola who was killed on St. Simons Island. Father Velascola kneels in front of altar praying. An Indian creeps up behind him and strikes him on the head with a tomahawk. This Episode is staged by the Catholic Women’s Club Mrs. J. II. Gilmore and Mrs. J. C. St ies Franciscan Monks—Father Velas cola—J. B. Touhey. Monks—J. F. Casey. J. M. Jones, Jos. F. O’Brien. Spanish Soldiers—Jose Lopez Marie Hermida, Jos. C. Ligeour, Jno. Gilmore. Indian Chief—Thomas J. Spellman Indian Braves—Robert Brunegraf Benj. Brunegraf Frank Boufeulette. Indian Interpreter—F. L. Curry. Indian Women and Girls—Mrs'. I.. Artau Mrs. Rowe. Mrs. A. M. Ross. Mrs. J. F. Casey. Miss Betty Artau Miss Thelma Gilmore, Miss" Monica Sylv’a Mrs. F. L. Curry, Mrs C. T. Calnan Miss Marie Brunegraf Miss Alberta Kinstle. Miss Pearle Portu- las. Miss Matilda Curry, Miss Mary McGarvev Miss Marv Green Miss Winnie Meir. Miss Clacel Meir Miss Marie Evans Miss Margaret Crbie. Miss Marie Goodyear, Miss Aeries Berrie, Miss Eleanor Stiles, Miss Annie Owens Miss Mary Davenport Miss Nell Robinson. Indian Boys—Julius Owens James Owens Alex Owens. Charles K’nstle, Charles Goodyear Leo Nugent An drew Boss. Leo Ross. Joe Mir. Er nest Jinkins. Peter Riley, Vincent Crine. . Thousands came from all parts of Ihe state and the Southeast .for the celebration. Among the dist’nguish- ed visitors who witnessed the page ant w;ere Governor Clifford Walker and his staff and ITnTed States Sena tors William J. Harris and Walter- F. George. Savannah Mourns Abbot Bishop Haid Was President of Bened ctine School. Special ! o the Bulletin. Savannah, Ga.—A high Mass of Re quiem was celebrated at Sacred Heart Church, July 26 for the re pose of the soul of the late Rt. Rev. Leo Haid. O. S. B., D. B.,Vicar- Aposto'ic of North Caro’ina m l Ab bot of Belmont, who was also presi dent of Benedictine College of this city. Bishop Haid was a frequent visi or at Sacred Heart Church, which is under the direction of Benedictine Fathers from Belmont Abbey. Very Rev. Father Eugeno, J. S. B.. prior of the Benedictine Community in Savannah, Rev. Father Richard and Rev. Father Gregory went to North Carolina for the fune ral. The Diocese of Savannah was represented by Very Rev. T. A. Foley, V. G., in the absence of Bisli- »p Keyes. (Continued From Page One) America. Father Tyrrell’s fourth and final year in theology was then spent at the House of Higher Studies in the Argagon Province in Southern Spain. Returning to America in 1887, Father Tyrrell was made professor of mathematics English and French, and prefect at Spring Hill College, going from there the following year to New Orleans as professor of mathematics and prefect of disci pline. While here he had charge of the newsboys’ home, in addition to his other duties. In 1889 Father Tyrrell made his tertianship, or third period of study at the Jesuit House of Studies in Missouri, re turning the following year to Spring Hill, wheie he remained for two years as vice-president. His Work in Tampa In August, 1892, Father Tyrrell went to Tampa. The task before him would have discouraged many another man. His district was all South . Florida, upon which Yellow Fever had laid its ravishing hand, depleting families and paralyzing industry. Rut it only made Father Tyrrell more resolute. With the as sistance of a little bund of Jesuits, Fathers Conrad, Widrnan, Philip de Cau-irefe and Brother Joseph Leunda, he started work. The church was a little frame building, very small but adequate for the needs of the congregation. There was also St. Louis Church at Ybor City. Father Tyrrell was everywhere in a state that is, 1 200 miles from its capital to another point within the state— Jacksonville today, Miami tomorrow. St. Augustine the next day and Palm Beach the fourth, anywhere his presence was needed. He started a fund for the erection of a new church in Tampa, a project then only a faint hope. In 1897 he an nounced to his congregation his plan of a great church, the finest in Florida, perhaps the finest in the South. They were amazed. He went to work, and had the project well under way when, in 1899, he was advised of his election as Presi dent of Spring Hill College. Spring Hill President Father Tyrrell headed Spring Hill : I : CHARLESTON CATHOLICS ' WELCOME VETERANS for the next eight years, years of strenuous activity. The Yellow Fever ravages had turned the flow of college students in the South to Northern institutions. With charac teristic determination Father Tyr rell started to change this condi tion. He beautified the grounds, erected new buildings and improved the old ones, and 'scoured the South for students. In 1907, when he turned the reins of government over to Father Francis X. Twell- meyer, he had doubled the number of students. The next two years Father Tyrrell spent as a member of the New Or leans Jesuit Mission Band, giving missions in Mississippi, Louisiana, ^Texas, Alabama, Colorado New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut. All this time, and during the preceding years he kept in constant communi cation with his Tampa friends, and 1909 saw him back again on the Florida missions, tiaveling from town to town, from hamlet to ham let, constantly bringing the consola tions of religion to families.and in dividuals miles from church and, railroad. In 1911 he was transferred to Yhor City, outside Tampa.^ All Tampa honored Father Tyrrell on October 18 last on the occasion of his golden jubilee as a Jesuit At that time he had just finished a new school at Ybor City and was making plans to beautify the church. Shortly afterwards his final illness started to creep upon him and he went to Mobile. A just estimate of Father Tyrrell’s character may he gathered from a tribute paid him by- -Archbishop Curley, of Baltimore, formerly Bishop of St. Augustine, who in a letter last fall expressing his re gret that he could not be present at the venerable Jesuit’s golden jubilee observation, said: “I have no hesitation in stating that the old Peninsula State never knew a finer or more devout priest and never had one that did bigger things than the old sage pf Ybor City. I have never met him when he was not in a pleasant mood, and he seemed to have a philosophy of life that steered him through the most difficult places in the most success ful way.” PASTOR AT HELENA, N.C. DIES AFTER OPERATION Albany Frowns on Klan Georgia City Refuses It Use of Public Auditorium. Special to The Bulletin. Albany, Ga.—The city commis sion of Albany unanimously refused to allow the municipal building to be used by the Ku Klux Kian for degree work after a petition signed by six Albany taxpayers had been presented asking for the use of the auditorium for Thursday evening. Later it was announced that the klan had secured the use of the main auditorium of the Supreme Circle of Benevolence, a negro fraternal and insurance order. This announcement was succeeded by one which stated the stage in the negro hall was too small and that the degree work would be held in Tif- ton, a city some miles from Albany. It is said in Albany that the action of the president of the negro or ganization in granting the klan the use of the hall did not meet with the approval of the executive board and that this was the real reason for the subsequent change to Tifton MISSISSIPPI ALUMNAE EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS Federation Sends Sisters to Catholic University and is Otherwise Active. Special to The Bulletin. Vicksburg. Miss.—From the time of its organization seven years ago, the Mississippi Federated Mercy Alumnae have labored with untiring devotedness in the cause of Calho- lice education in Mississippi. This association was formed by uniting the Alumnae Associations of the schools taught by Sisters of Mercy in the state. It has as its object not only to aid education but also to encourage literature and music among its members. During the first years of its activity a fund was provided to send several sis ters lo the Catholic University Sum mer School. From 1920 to the pre sent year the educational fund was used to defray the expense of sum mer normals conducted under state auspices at the Sisters of Mercy Motherhouse, Vicksburg; to provide instructors for the music teachers and to send sixteen sisters to the summer sessions of colleges in other states. The annual yearly budget, provid ed by the Alumnae for educational purposes has been $1500.00. Con sidering financial conditions in the majority of the southern states the achievements of the Association have been remarkable. Their suc cess will no doubt furnish encour agement and inspiration to others. The sisters are proud of what their devoted children have accomplished, not only from a financial stand point, but also because they are conscious that this work has deve loped a remarkably efficient and in telligent leadership among the Ca tholic women of Mississ'ippi. RELIGIOUS PROFESSION AT GREENVILLE, S. C. Sister Mary Carmelita of Ur- suline Nuns Makes Vows-— Sermon by Fr. Gwynn. Special to The Bulletin. Greenville, S. C;—The convent chapel was crowded with interested friends July 28 at the Profession of Sister Mary Carmelita, known in the world as Miss Herminia Morell. Very Rev. A. K. Gwynn, delegat ed by the Right Reverend Bishop Russell to perform the ceremony, was assisted by Rev. Father Mc Grath of Anderson. Those present were much im pressed by Father Gwynn’s sermon on the blessing promised by our Divine Lord to those who left" all to follow Him and his explanation of the three vows taken by the newly professed. , The procession entered from the hall and at conclusion of ceremony passed out of the chapel through the cloister wending its way to the assembly room, where the beautiful psalm “Ecce Quam Bonum, ’ was finished. Sister Carmelita is now identified with the Ursuline Con vent, Greenville, S. C. Rev. Father Poche S. J. of New Orleans, will give the retreat to the Ursuline nuns'in Greenville be ginning August 15. Studies will be resumed at Sacred Heart Academy September 8. “CATHOLIC TRANSCRIPT” Of Hartford, Conn., Has Fine New Home. Hartford, Conn.—In a few weeks the “Catholic Transcript,” official paper of the Diocese of Hartford, will move into a splendid new $150,- 000 building, especially erected for it and of which it will be proprie tor. The building is now rapidly nearing completion, and it is ex pected the “Transcript” will occupy it in September. Plans For Augusta Retreat Next Week and Macon Week After are Completed Augusta, Ga.—Plans for the retreat for laymen at Sacred Heart College Augusta, from Thursday even ng, August 21, to Sunday morning August 24, and for women at Mt. de Academy, Macon, from Tuesday evening August 26, to Friday morn ing, August 29, are completed, and there Ts every indication that the 1924 retreats will be at least as suc cessful' as those of previous years. Rev. Robert T. Bryan, S. J, of New Orleans, will give the retrca.s instead of Rev. John M. McCready, S. J., as previously announced. This is the first time Father Byran has given the Georgia retreats. He is rcgafded as one of the most force ful and eloquent of the Jesuit Fa thers in the South and has conduct ed retreats in many parts of the country. He was retreat master at Spring Kill College last year when the student body made its annual retreat. Father Bryan has already arrived in Augusta, and after con ducting the Augusta retreat will go to Macon for the retreat at Mount de Sales. Those who intend to make either retreat should fill out the retreat blank in this issue at once. Appli cants for the men’s retreat should forward it to 1409 Lamar Budding, Augusta, Ga., and women desiring to make the Macon retreat should mail their applications without de lay to the Sisters of Mercy, Mount de" Sales, Macon. It is necessary ; that the Jesuit Fathers at Sacred Heart College, Augusta, and the Sis ters at Mount de Sales, know before hand how many they must be pre pared to accommodate. Applications should not arrive later than Monday/* August 18. The arrangements at both Augusta and Macon will be the same as last year. In Augusta the retreat will start Thursday evening after sup per, supper being scheduled for seven o'clock, after the arrival of the evening train from Atlanta, Re- treatants will be provided with lodg ing and meals; their every want will he looked after. The retreat will close Sunday morning after Mass and breakfast. 'The expenses of the retreat will be met by private volun tary contributions from the retreat- ants. 'the retreat for women at Macon will open the following Tuesday, August 26th, after supper, and wilt close at breakfast Friday morning. The Sisters will provide board and lodging for the retreatants, and the expenses there will he met in the same way as at Augusta. A regular schedule will be follow ed: every minute will be occupied and interesting. There will be time for instructions, prayer, meditation, rest, conferences, religious exercises, etc., all arranged to the best advant age, a program based on hundreds of years of experience in conducting retreats. At Augusta Father Ma-_ cready, pastor of Sacred Heart* Church, has turned the college build ing and grounds, over for retreat purposes, and the retreatants will attend a special Mass in the church each morning. Two very successful retreats have already been held at Sacred Heart College which is se cluded and spacious despite its lo cation in the city. In Macon the women retreatants will have the beautiful Mount de Sales Academy grounds, building and chapel for their retreat, an ideal situation. Practically everyone who made the retreats in 1928 is making reserva tions for the 1924 retreat, Before they made their first retreat they expected to he lonesome in retreat; they were not. They expeted to be imprisoned for three days; they found out that true freedom con sists in -being free from cares and worries. They found that the days of the retreat were among the sweetest they ever spent, and they come back year after year. There is room this year for a few others if applications are promptly mailed. Macon Dramatic Club Holds Outing at Houston Factory, Ga. Special to The Bulletin. Macon, Ga.—Four new members were admitted to- the St. Joseph’s Dramatic Club at its July meeting, Miss Rebecca Long, Aloysius Cas sidy, F’rank Ferry and William C. Joanis. A recitation in Italian dialect by Miss Cecelia Cassidy lead the program. Others on the program were Edward Lackey, Miss Romalda Muldowney, and J. L. Sullivan. Th program committee for August is Miss Mary Agnes Cassidy, Miss Melba Huthnance, Bernard Ferry and Albert E. Sheridan. The Dramatic Club recently held a picnic at Houston Factory about thirty miles from Macon. Dr. and Mrs. Elmer L. Jervis and Mrs. Chester A. Zeilder were chaperones. Attendance prizes were awarded to" Miss Edna Huthnance and D| Jarvis. A delegation of fourth degree Knights of Columbus recently at tended the fourth degree exempli fication in Jacksonville. K. of G. and Other Organiza tions Entertain Thirtieth Division Members. Special to The Bulletin. Charleston, S. C.—The Catholic or ganizations of Charleston are coop erating with non-Catholic bodies in extending a Welcome to the Thirtieth Division which is holding its reun ion in this cits - . The Knights of Columbus have established a “hut” in Columbus Hall, and the familiar “Everybody Welcome Everything Free” sign has been hung out. Har ry- Kruse, who served as a K. of C. secretary overseas is the chairman, of the committee in charge, and a committee of ladies is also assist- ng in i7,c entertainment of the veterans. Cigarettes, cigars, cold drinks, writing material and other supplies are on hand for the ex- service men. Among the chaperons for the com- lrnnity dance to he given the visit ing veterans are Mrs. John McAlis ter and Mrs. Thomas W. Reynolds of the Council of Catholic Women Mrs. Patrick Carter and Mrs. Frank Moran from the Bishop England Par ent-Teacher Association. Mrs. John J. Furlong and Mrs. Charles Deemis of the Catholic War Center, and others, including Mrs. John Catherwood on the general commit tee. Sister Mary Perpetua and Miss Annie Kulinski of St. Francis In firmary recently passed the state board examination at Columbia and received Registered Nurse diplomas. Both are graduates of the St. Fran cis Training School for Nurses. A meeting of the Holy Name Soci ety men of Charleston has been call ed for August to arrange for a dele gation from this city to the Holy- Name Convention in Washington. September 18th to 20th. Rt. Rev. J. T. McEIroy, V. G. has written a letter to the Holy Name men urging a large delegation from Charleston. SUCCEEDS FATHER WILLIBAL1> Father Reuke Pastor at Winston- Salem, N. C. Winston-Salem, N. C.—Rev. Igna tius Reuke, O. S. B , of Bristol, Va., has been named pastor of St. Leo’s church here, succeeding Very Rev. Millibald Baumgartner, O. S. B., re cently- appointed prior of Belmont Abbey and viear-general . of the Vicariate of North Carolina. Father Charles Kneusels Stricken in New York— Had Just Erected School. Special to The Bulletin. Helena, N. C.—The funeral of Rev. Charles Kneusels, pastor of the St. Helena and neighboring Catholic missions, who died July 31 at St. Vincent's Hospital, New Y’ork City, follow-ing an operation there, was held here August 4. Services were conducted by Rev. F. J. McCourt of St. Mary s Pro-Cathedral, Wil mington, N. C., assisted by Rev. W. F. O’Brien of Durham, N. C., Rev. A. it. Freeman of Goldsboro, N. C. and Rev. B. J. MeDevitt, of Wilming ton, N. C. The choir of St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral furnished the music for the High Mass and Reguim. The large number of friends pres ent at the chapel and burial in the nearby cemetery testified to the great love and esteem to which Father Kneusels was held by all who knew him. Father Kneusels was born in Rhineland Grefeld, Germany, 58 years ago. He was secretary to the general of the religious order of the dominicans for 18 years. He was ordained to the priesthood June 12, 1911. Soon after his ordination he was assigned to St. Helena, his con gregation then consisting of twenty Italian families. At present the con gregation numbers 190 souls, Italian. Belgian, Hungarian, Dutch and Polish. Father Kneusels had just about completed building a very beautiful and up-to-date school at St. Helena. Mobile Sister Dead Sister Mary Aloysius Relig ious Forty Years. Special to The Bulletin. Mobile, Ala.—Sister Mary- Aloysius of the Sisters of the Visitation died late in July- in the Visitation Con vent here where she was a student in her girlhood days and where she entered the religious life forty years ago. Sister Mary Aloysius was the daughter of a Cuban sugar planter and a member of the Ruiz family here. Rev. J. B. Doonan, S. J., of Spring Hill College was celebrant of the requiem High Mass for the repose of her soul. The services at the grave were conduct ed by Rev. Daniel J. Lawton, S. J., of Spring Hill.