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AUGUST 30, 1924.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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SISTER ALPHONSUS DIES
IN SAVANNAH HOSPITAL
Superior of St. Mary’s Home
Was Native of Atlanta and
Former Augusta Superior.
Special to The Bulletin.
Savannah, Ga.—Rev. Sister M. Al
phonsus, for the past several years
superior of St. Mary’s Home in this
city, died early Friday morning,
August 22, in St. Joseph’s Iinfirm-
ary after! forty-four years of service
in Georgia as a Sister of Mercy.
Sister Alphonsus had been in failing
health for two years, but she brave-
Belgians Feed, Clothe and House
Thousand of Children of Enemies
Charity Organized by Cardinal Mercier Brings Health to
Hungarian Children in Homes of Those Against Whom
Their Fathers Sought During Recent World War
Denominations Hurt by
Rivalry Says Minister
By REV. J. VAN DER HEYDEN
(Louvain Correspondent N. C. W. C.
News Service)
Louvain.—In Turnliout, a small in
dustrial hive of the Belgian Campine,
a kind old gentleman of leisure, well
, known for his warm patronage of
ly continued her work until forced every charitable undertaking, enter-
to discontinue it two months ago.
Death followed a lingering illness.
The funeral was held from St.
Mary’s Home, Very Rev. F. Eugene
O.S.B., and Rev. F. Maurice, O.S.B.
of Sacred Heart Church officiating.
Interment was in the Sisters’ Ceme
tery, A nephew, Raymond McMahon,
of Savannah, survives.
Sister Alphonsus was a native of
Atlanta; her name in the world was
Miss Nora Ryan. In 1880 she en
tered the Sisters of Mercy, and her
novitiate was made at St. Vincent
Convent, Savannah. For many years
she was superior of Sacred Heart
Convent, Augusta, and she served
also at Immaculate Conception
School, Atlanta.
Sister Alphonsus was devoted to
her work and to the little ones un
der her charge. She was a splendid
teacher, a competent administrator,
a devoted religious. Her last years
were spent as superior of the or
phanage at Savannah, and although
in bad health and suffering greatly
at times, her gentleness toward the
little ones never relaxed. She is
held in grateful memory by hund
reds of her former pupils, now
grown to manhood and womanhood,
who learned to love her when they
were pupils ij^lier care.
Church Can Meet Evils of
Day Bishop Turner Says
(Continued from Page Two)
where acknowledge that it is not
overdrawn.
“I have dwelt on these conditions
that constitute the peril of our
modern civilization in order to pass
from them to the consideration that
the Catholic Church of today can
meet them as she has met other
evils of the past; that now, as ever,
she is the salt of the earth and has
not lost its saver. Protestantism
has flung aside many of the very
means by which the world is to be
saved. By so doing, she has not
only made her own task hopelessly
difficult, but she has made it more
difficult for all of us. the Cath
olic Church on the contrary, has
held on to her divine and original
endowment of authority, discipline,
dogma and administration. Never
has she yielded an iota of her claim
to possess supernatural power,
never has she compromised, never
has she wavered in her confidence
that it is her privilege and her al
lotted task in every generation and
in every crisis of the world to ‘re
store all things in Christ.’
ed the shop of a small trader and
greeted him with the words:
“No doubt you surmise the object
of my errand? ’
“I do,” was the reply. “It can
but be about our pastor’s latest ap
peal to our purses. That’s all right;
here are the forty francs to pay for
the journey from Hungary to Turn-
hout of one of those little ones he
told us about at Mass yesterday, and
wishes us to keep in our homes for
six months or more.”
“I thank you for the forty, but
I feel bound to tell you that in com
ing here my calculations were for
eighty francs, because I was • sure
that you would. want to be the
foster-father to two and thus pay
also for the traveling expenses of
two.”
“Why, my good Sir I half pro
tested 'with my wife when she told
me that she wanted to shelter one
of these foreign bairns. I have to
dig hard to keep the nine of our
own whom the Lord gave us and
methinks even that our kind pastor
did not have the like of us in mind
when he asked the congregation to
help rescuing the famishing children
of far away Hungary.”
“May be he hadn’t; hut I had you
first in mind, when His Reverence
called upon me tp make up a list
of the families willing to share in
looking after the first transport of
750 little ones due here soon. I
said to myself: If my friend with
the nine of his own chips in for
two, there will be none to refuse
harboring one. I know that you’ll
do it and I am here to have you
put down your name and the cash
for two.”
Each Caravan Costs 30,000 Francs
The original amount was doubled
forthwith and {he name recorded
for two little Hungarians to be add
ed to the nine hopefuls of the Cam-
pine. They came—along with a
trainful—on February 21. Another
train of 750 arrived on March 17,
a third April 28, a fourth on June
2, and a fifth July 28. That’s for
the present year. The first tenta
tive contingent arrived last year
May 1. Since the work has been
systematically organized—in Hun
gary by Msgr. Dr. Knebel Miklos,
in Belgium by Canon Jansen. Each
caravan costs' the Belgian commit
tee, presided over by His Eminence
Cardinal Mercier, thirty thousand
francs in fares alone, despite the
reductions recorded by the railroads
of the countries—Hungary, Austria,
Switzerland, Germany, Luxemburg
Belgium—whose tracks are used on
the three days journey.
The youngsters'arrive poorly and
miserably clad, emaciated and fam
ished. Their adoptive parents’ first
concern usually is to clothe them.
After a six months’ stay, they are
repatriated, well provided with
clothes and—health.
Letter Writer for Children
In every city where it has been
possible to do so, a Hungarian
school teacher has taken her abode
—to look after her country's chil
dren, to serve, as interpreter and to
correspond with the parents at
home. Every morning the children
gather about her for lessons in the
mother-tongue and in the afternoon
they attend the Belgian school. They
are quick to learn both French and
Flemish, to the delight of their pro
tectors. but especially of their Bel
gian children companions. With
them they keep up regular corre
spondence after their return to their
country. Many a package of food,
sweets and clothes follows them at
stated intervals, to keep fresh the
remembrance of the stay in the
Flemish land.
Verily, what better proof could
Belgians give of the spirit of for
giveness that animates them than
to feed little innocent victims—
their enemies’ children—pursued by
the Nemesis of a war ended six
years ago. After sharing in saving
from starvation Austrian children
who have since assisted back home
at the dawn of better days, Bel
gians are now rescuing Hungary’s
hope for the future, and that not
withstanding that their own country
is far yet from having recovered
from the effects of the frightful
conflict; that the prices of food
and commodities are still excessive
and that those who burden them
selves with children not of their kith
and kin are themselves far from
wealthy.
At this writing there are 3 500
Hungarian children in Belgium and
the number is still increasing.
All hail to the good people who
without any ado about it exercise a
charity which, like St. Paul’s, feels
itself indebted to all I
JESUIT SCHOLASTICATE
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Hendersonville Estate Ac
quired for Purpose—Macon
Novitiate Still Possible.
“It is the mission of the Church
to make God known and feared
and loved. This mission she ful
fills not only from the pulpit one
day in the week, but every day
and on every occasion. She takes
the little children committed to her
care, who have just begun to lisp
the name of God at their mother’s
knee, and in her own way and by
means which she alone possesses,
and in a manner suited to the
child-mind, she teaches them from
their tenderest years to grow in the
knowledge of God. She teaches
them to know God in nature, to
seek Him in history, to search for
Him in literature, to find him in
sane and sound philosophy. She
teaches them to fear God with a
wholesome and salutary fear, with
such a fear as a good child has for
its father and mother. And on
this fear of God she builds, as on a
firm foundation, respect for law,
reverence for authority ad modera
tion in the control of their desires
and passions. She teaches them to
love God, and with that love for
God come all high and holy enthus
iasms, the love of one’s fellowman,
the love of home, the lovS of coun
try, the love of great deeds and
noble endeavors, the love of peace,
the love of justice, the love of
order, the love of truth, the love
of purity, the love of all that is
sweet and wholesome in thought
and word and deed. God is the
greatest friend of the- people, God
is the mainstay of social order, the
- only sure hope of democracy, and
in making Him known and feared
and loved, the Church in this crisis
of our civilization discharges a duty
that is of essential value.”
NOTED ZIONIST
(Continued From Page One)
MONTGOMERY SISTER
IS GOLDEN JUBILARIAN
Sister Marietta Entered Sis
ters of Loretto in Ken
tucky Half Century Ago.
L
Becomes Catholic Convert in Vienna
Vienna,—Hans Herzl, son of Theo
dor Herzl, the founder of the Zion
ist movement, is a recent convert
to the Catholic church. He was
baptized and admitted t<5 the church
by Father Sclilessinger, also a Jew
ish convert to Catholicism.
Another year after ordination is
spent in studies anticipating the
Jesuit’s work as a priest.
Magnificent Estate.
..The Hendersonville estate, known
as Orleans Park, has on it at the
present time a twelve room home
which is being used this summer
as a vacation house for the Jesuit
Fathers. From the porch of the
houce a commanding and beautiful
view greets the eye. The residence
itself is located on Long John Moun
tain, where part of the estate lies;
another part is a plateau. There
are two lakes on the property, both
artificial, one three acres in extent
and another a half acre. Part of
the property is inside the city limits
of- Hendersonville.
The property has been owned for
the past twenty years by Dr. Scliep-
pegri’l, one of the most widely
known medical men in the South.
He is president of the famous Audu-
don Park, New Orleans, and model
ed his North Carolina estate after
it. 'Nearly every kind of shrub
grown in this climate has ben plant
ed at Orlean Park. There are orch
ards of various kinds, a vineyard,
and numerous kinds of flowering
plants. Splendid roads traverse the
estate, and the buildings include two
houses for gardeners, quarters for
help, barns and other structures
Two years ago Mrs. Scheppergrill
died, and it was to carry out the
wishes of his wife that Dr. Shep-
pegrill sold the properly to the Je
suit Fathers, she having expressed
a wish before her death that they
bo given the first chance to acquire
it should it change hands. Local
real estate men say that the price
for which he deeded the property
to the Jesuit Fathers was many
thousands of dollars under even the
most conservative estimate of its
value.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Lake Junaluska, N. C. Protest
antism is declining in the rural
sections of America, formerly
its stronghold, according to Dr.
Worth M. Tippy, executive sec
retary of the Social Service Com
mission of the Federal Council
of Churches. Speaking here
under the auspices of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church South,
Dr. Tippy gave results of a sur
vey made in Oklahoma, Califor
nia, Tennessee, Ohio and other
states.
He declared denominational
rivalries are breaking up com
munity cooperation and making
a comprehensive religious pro
gram impossible. This situation,
he said, is particularly acute in
the mill villages of the south.
Miss Mary McNally
Member of Old Augusta
Family Dead.
CHURCH BELL BLESSED
AT FERNANDINA, FLA.
Fr. Bernard Officates—Bell
Gift of H. H. Raymond—
Colonel Kay Speaks.
Augusta, Ga.—Miss Mary McNally,
one of the oldest members of St.
Patrick’s Parish; died at the home
of Mrs. K. G. Mulherin, 1222 Ellis
Street, after a serious illness of two
weeks. She had been an invalid for
eight years.
Miss McNally was a member of
one of Augusta’s pioneer Catholic
families—one of those faithful fami
lies who, at great personal sacrifice
protected the sisters of St. Mary’s
Convent and St. Patrick’s Church
during those stormy days just suc
ceeding the War Between the States.
For years she was a regular and
loved attendant at St. Patrick’s
Church, and was closely identified
with every Catholic movement in
the city.
Her beautiful resignation to the
will of God and her cheerfulness
throughout her years of pain and
suffering weer an inspiration to all
who were fortunate enough to know
her. The passing from this world
of Miss Mary McNally has taken
away a most devout Catholic,' a lov
able woman, a true friend to all in
need, an admirable character. There
is a void in the hearts of her family
that can never be filled.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon August 17th, at five
o’clock from Sacred Heart Church,
Rev. Fr. McCready officiating. The
pallbearers were T. P. Doris. C. C.
Stulb, Sr., W. J. Mulherin, J. C.
O^Gorman, Leo F. Cotter and Dr.
P. J. Vaughan.
Miss McNally is survived by one
sister, Miss Ellen McNally and five
cousins, Mrs. K. G. Mulherin, P. M.
Mulherin and Misses Anna, Helen
and Mary Mulherin all of Augusta.
NUNS INCORPORATE
To Build Schools In London
Special to The Bulletin.
Fernandina, Fla.—The great bell
of St. Michael’s Church of this city,
presented to the parish principally
by H. H. Raymond, was blessed by
Rev. Father Bernard, O.S.B., of St
Leo’s Abbey, on the Feast of the
Assumption in the absence of Rev.
J. J. Nevin, pastor of St. Michael’s,
who is now in Ireland. Mr. Ray
mond, the donor, who is president
of the Clyde, Mallory and other
steamship lines, and whose friend
ship for the Borden family was
largely responsible for the gift, ex
pected to be present at the cere
mony, but he is recuperating in Nova
Scotia. After the ceremony, however,
Father Bernard called on Col. W.
E. Kay, a lifelong friend of Mr.
Raymond, for a few remarks.
After a tribute to Mr. Raymond,
in which he told of the love the
donor, who is not a Catholic, has for
Fernadina and its people, Colonel
Kay turned his remarks toward the
bell itself. “Long before clocks were
invented, bells marked the time and
the divisions of the day, both of
labor and of rest, of toil and re
joicing,” said Col. Kay.
“In the early morning, their peals
summoned the drowsy sleeper to
the realization that another day was
at hand; at noon it rang forth
throughout the towns and across
the fields the hour of labor suspen
sion and in tho evening, as the an-
gelus floated over the atmosphere it
told the artisan at his bench and
the farmer in the fields that the
time or labor was at an end. Those
who have traveled in foreign lands
and have had the pleasure of lis
tening to chimes which everywhere
mark the great churches, erected by
devoted members of the Christian
faith, will recall with pleasure the
music of the chimes. But to those
whom I am addressing, this bell
will sound in the morning of every
day the call to early mass, or to the
high mass of Sundays and Holy
days; it will announce the entry of
another soul into the Chrisitan faith
at the event of baptism; it will tes
tify to the different stages of reli
gious growth as embodied in the
sacraments from time to time pub
licly administered; it will peal forth
in cheerful tones the marriage cere
mony and it will, by its soft anc
solemn tones announce the passing
away of a believing soul, and while
in its measured tolling it will indi
cate the sadness which surrounds
the funeral occasion, yet in the in
tervals those who believe can hear
the proimse of resurrection and ol
rest in the bosom of Christ. I close
by quoting you the sweet sentitment
embodied in the inscription on this
bell.
“ ‘May its sound be - heard far and
near, for the glory of God and the
salvation of souls.”.
London.—A new way of raising
money for education has been
adopted by a north London Convent.
An incorporated tompany has been
founded to build a school and par
ents of the prospective pupils are
subscribing the shares. The Rever
end other and one of the nuns are
members of the Board of Directors.
MONUMENT TO ENGLISH POPB
London.—Adrian IV, the only Eng
lish Pope, is to be honored at his
birthplace by the erection of a
monument. Nicholas Beakspear
was born at Abbotts Langley, Hert
fordshire, and became Supreme Pon
tiff in 1154.
Special to The Bulletin.
Montgomery, Ala.—Rev. Sister
Marietta of the Sisters of Loretto
observed her Golden Jubilee in re
ligion August 15, completing a half
century in religion started at Loret
to, Ky., August 15, 1874. Sister
Marietta’s life as a religious has
been spent largely in Montgomery.
To this city she came in 1888 to
be directress of St. Peter’s School
for Boys, a position she held for
eighteen years. It was in Mont
gomery that her Silver Jubilee was
observed, and her Golden Jubilee
still finds her there.
Sister Marietta was born in New
Haven Kentucky, and entered the
novitiate of the Sisters of Loretto
at the Foot of the Cross, at Loret
to, Ky., August 15, 1874. After her
final vows in 1879, Sister Marietta
taught in St. Louis and Springfield,
Mo., until 1888 when she was made
directress of St. Peter's School for
Boys at Montgomery. After eigh
teen years in this position, Sister
Marietta headed schools at New
Haven, Ky., and St. Charles, Mo.,
for four years, then coming to Lo
retto Academy, with which she is
still connected.
The Golden Jubilee celebration
was quiet, out of respect to the
wishes of the Jubilarian. At the Ju
bilee Mass, celebrated by Rev. Man
uel Campodonicio, many of Sister
Marietta’s former pupils were in
attendance. Among her former pu
pils are many men who have climb
ed to positions and honor and trust
in Alabama and elsewhere. Sister
Marietta's “boys’ ’presented a purse
of gold to her as a token of their
love and esteem, the presentation
being made by Michael Vincentelli.
The Boy Scouts, who attended the
Jubilee Mass in a body, also pre
sented a gift to her, Mrs. Lucille
Harper, president of the Loretto
Alumnae, Mrs. Mary R. Pepperman,
treasurer, and Miss Nell Morgan,
secretary, assisted in receiving.
T
CATHOLICS DO NOT BELIEVE
That the Pope is God.
That the Pope cannot do wrong.
That the Pope has temporal rights in America.
That the Pope can claim their political allegiance.
That'the Pope can nullify laws, oaths, or contracts at will,
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That the marriages of Protestants are invalid.
That Protestant husbands and wives are living in sin,
That the children of Protestants are illegitimate.
That contracts with Protestants may be broken.
That Protestants may be hated or persecuted.
‘that Protestants will all be damned.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That public schools are an evil.
That they ought to be abolished or destroyed.
That they ought not to be supported by a common tax,
That education ought not to be universal and free.
That it ought not to be compulsory where necessary,
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That they can buy forgiveness of sin.
That they can purchase freedom from purgatory.
That they can get indulgence to commit sin.
That sin can be forgiven without repentence.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That images may bo worshipped.
That anybody or thing may be worshipped or adored “in the
heavens above, or the earth below, or the waters be,
neath the earth,” but the One True God.
[F YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT CATHOLICS DO BELIEVE;
WRITE THE
CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION
OF GEORGIA
AUGUSTA,
1409-1410 Lamar Building.
GEORGIA