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AUGUST 30, 1924.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SISTER LOUIS, NURSE
IN CIVIL WAR, DEAD
St. Louis Religious Minister
ed to Both Confederate and
Federal Wounded.
(By N, C. W. C. News Service.)
St. Louis, o.,—Sister Mary Louis,
aged 84. died on Friday at the Con
vent of Mercy, Webster Groves, a
suburb of this city. Her funeral
services and burial took place on
Sunday. Sister Mary Louis had spent
over 63 years as a member of the
Sisters of Mercy and was one of the
first six Sisters who came from New
York to St. Louis just before the
outbreak of the Civil War. Their
first small convent was at the place
that is now Morgan and Tenths
streets. Sister Mary Louis, who had
come from Ireland, was a novice at
that time, and on March 12, 1861,
received the veil and took the name
of Louis because it is said, the
Mother Superior had promised that
if the convent were left unmolested
by the soldiery, the first novice
would be asked to take the name of
Louis in honor of the city’s patron
saint.
Sister Mary Louis, then 21 years
of age, worked during the years of
the war as a nurse in the military
camps and hospitals, caring alike for
the Federal and Confederate, soldiers.
Sinde the war she spent her life in
hospital work and in visiting the
sick of the city.
About seven years ago she was
obliged to retire from active work
in the Webster Groves Convent.
Birthplace of Mother of Leo XIII
Observes Centennary of Her Death
Great Pontiff Assisted at Deathbed of His Saintly Mother,
Countess Pecci, One Hundred Years Ago This Month—
Memory of Her Charities Still Green.
Chinese Catholics
Now Number Over Two Mil
lion Jesuit Says.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
New York.—Father Kennelly, an
Irish Jesuit and a veteran missioner
in Shanghai, finds by recently com
piled statistics that there are 2,208,-
800 Catholics in China.
Speaking of the social standing of
these Chinese he writes:
“Many families belong to converts
dating back to a century or two. All
in general are solidly and- thoroughly
instructed in their religion; the
home is Christian, and sanctified by
prayer, the practice of virtue and
good works; a considerable number
assist daily at Mass and approach
frequently the Holy Table. Compar
ed with their pagan neighbors, there
is a new an supernatural view of
life and a change of conduct which
impresses the most prejudiced on
looker. With more priests in the
field, and an increased output from
the native seminaries, millions will
be gathered into the Fold, and the
Church extended in this vast and
promising land of China.
(By Msgn. Enrico Pucci.)
(Rome Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service.)
Rome.—The little country town of
Carpineto^ birthplace of Leo XIII,
is observing the centenary of the
death of the mother of the great
Pontiff. The memory of Anna Pros-
peri-Buzi is worthy of being remem
bered not only because she gave
birth to Gioacchino, who under the
name of Leo XIII, governed the Uni
versal Church, but also because
through her virtues and her activi
ties and her sweet disposition she
was the true type of a Christian
gentlewoman.
Clever in business and strong-
minded she was the right hand of
her worthy companion Count Ludo
vico Pecci. Filled with a profound
sense of Christian faith and piety,
she rejoiced when she was her two
sons Guiseppe and Gioacchino con
secrated to God in the sacerdotal
state. Animated by the most lively
charity she was the mothei of the
poor, especially when lean years
produced great misery among the
rural population. During the fam
ine she herself, everyday,cooked
large boilers full pf vegetables and
polenta to feed the hungry poor
who flocked to her palace sure of
finding the most charitable recep
tion. And as she herself had not
a very large patrimony, often, when
she had nothing else to give the poor
she gave them her childrn’s cloths.
Therefore the memory of Countess
Pecci, passing from on generation
to another, is still kept alive in
Carpineto.
But the pious lady had not only
these intimate and familiar virtues
She was also intelligent and cultur
ed, and corresponded with the learn
ed personages of that period, so
much so that her collection of let-
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ters is like a complete history of
the first" twenty-five years of the
Nineteenth Century in her region.
Amongst those persons with whom
Countess Anna Pecci used to cor
respond were many famous in the
history of the Church such as the
Blessed Gaspare Del Bufalo. founder
of the Congregation of the mission
aries of the Precious Blood and the
Ven. Paolo Capelloni of the Com
pany of Jesus. Monsignor Tosi,
Bishop of Anagni, to whose diocese
Carpineto belonged, often wrote to
her and in his letters occur such
phrases as “Your heart, full of char
ity manifests itself on every occa
sion. What a beautiful heart Jesus
has given you! And He rejoices in
it because it is so full of love and
charity.”
Countess Pecci died at only 52
years of age on August 5, 1824, as
sisted by her son Giuseppe who was
a priest at that time and afterwards
became a Cardinal, and by her other
son Giocchino who was a cleric, but
had not yet been ordained priest.
The Countess had wished to be
buried in the habit of the Francis
can Tertiary in the Church of the
Holy Stigmata. Her husband, at the
moment of her death, burst into a
broken-hearted cry exclaiming “The
pillar of the house has fallen.
The memory of a mother so holy
always remained deeply engraven in
the hearts of her sons. Leo XIII,
often mentioned her with profound
agitation. When he spoke of his
devotion to the Holy Rosary which,
as is known, he promoted with so
much ardour, he used to say that
one of the reasons why it was so
dear to him was the memory of the
piety and care with which his moth
er recited the Rosary eveifr evening
together with all her family, and
taught her sons this sweet Christian
devotion.
Pen-Mar, Md.—Governor Al
bert C. Ritchie of Maryland, ad
dressing 10,000 members of the
Knights of Columbus at their
eighth annual reunion here de
clared himself in favor of state
encouragement of private schools
as well as support of the public
schools. He said the State would
be taking a narrow view of the
situation if it confined its in
terest in education to schools
under State control and super
vision.
The Governor also took occas
ion to reaffirm his previous ex
pressions of opposition to all at
tempts to stir up religious in
tolerance.
“We ought to set our faces
eternally against any person or
group,” he said, “that would
deny the religious freedom
granted in the Toleration Act of
Maryland.”
Gulfport Church Dedicated
Archbishop Shaw of New
Orleans Officiates.
FATHER TAYLOR NAMED
ABBOT OF BELMONT
Pastor at Greensboro, N. C.i
Native of Virginia, Elected.
Aug. 20 by Abbey Council.
Gulfport, Miss.—The new Church
of St. John the Evangelist of this
city, of which Rev. H. A. Spengler
is pastor, was dedicated the last
Sunday in July by Most Rev. John
W. Shaw, D. D., Archbishop of New
Orleans. Archbishop Shaw also de
livered the sermon. Those assist
ing His Grace in the dedication
ceremonies were Rt. Rev. Msgr. J.
M. Prendergast. of Vicksburg, and
Very Rev. Peter Keenan of Biloxi.
Father Spengler was celebrant of
the High Mass, Among those as
sisting at the mass were Rev. A. L.
Gmelch. of Bay St. Louis, Rev. P.
J. Carey, Biloxi, Rev.* W. J. Leech,
Pass Christian, and Rev. C. M, Ha
ger, Long Beech. Biloxi aDd Gulf
port Fourth Degree Assemblies,
Knights of Columbus, attended the
ceremony in uniform.
(Continued From Page One)
May 24, 1902. Shortly afterwards he
was assigned to St. Benedict’s pa
rish, Greensboro, N. C.
For twenty-two years Father Tay
lor labored in Greensboro, and he
built up a flourishing congregation.
There he won the love and respect
not only of his parishoners, but of
the people of Greensboro in gen
eral. He is known to everyone, Ca
tholic an non-Catholic, as Father
Vincent. In addition to his pastoral
duties, Father Vincent found time
to devote to civic enterprises, and
was foremost among those working
for the advancement of the city. He
was a member of the Kiwanis Club.
Belmont Abbey was created in
1885, with the late Bishop Haid as
the first abbot. In 1910 it was made
by special decree of Pope Pius X,
an abbey -“nullius diocesis,” an ab-
bev independent of the diocese in
which it is situated, a distinction it
alone enjoys of all the abbeys in
the United States. The counties of
Gaston, Lincoln, Cleveland, Polk,
Rutherford, McDowell, Burke and
Catawba constitute the diocesan ter
ritory of the abbey.
Besides Belmont Abbey and its
seminary and college, the Benedic
tine Fathers, whom Abbot-elect Vin
cent will head, have parishes in
North Carolina at Greensboro, Win
ston-Salem and Salisbury with their
missions, and conduct St. Mary’s
church and Benedictine College, at
Richmond, Va., St. Joseph’s Institute.
Bristow, Va., and Sacred Heart
church and Benedictine school, Sa
vannah.
The date of the ceremonies mark
ing Father Taylor's elevation to ab-
batial dignity has not been an
nounced.
Candidates Frown on Intolerance
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dent. It is, of course, utterly im
possible to guess whether these cir
culars' are inspired by some fanati
cal person, who, with a strangely
twisted mind, imagines that this
sort of thing would help the presi
dent, or whether as seems more
probable, they were circulated by
people who wish to do injury to
the president. ,
“They have never before been
brought to our attention, and it is
hard for me to believe they have
been circulated very generally. Prob
ably there is no way of preventing
people with such strange minds from
doing things of this sort; and I do
not need to say to you that neither
the president nor anybody with any
authority to represent him ever
heard of this matter or would want
any other attitude toward it than
of" unqualified disapproval.”
Mr. Davis’s Declaration
At Sea Girt, N. J., Aug. 22.. Mr.
Davis reminded his hearers that in
his Clarksburg acceptance address
he affirmed his personal belief in
“the great guarantees of religious
freedom and religious toleration
which have made this country what
it is,” the nominee declared he had
sought to give his views in terms
sufficiently broad to* include any
and all forms of bigotry, prejudice
and intolerance.
“On that declaration I stand,” he
said. “Whenever any organization,
no matter what it chooses to be
called, whether it is Ku Klux Klan
or by any other name, raises the
standard of racial and religious be
lief a test Of fitness for public
office, it does violence to the spirit
of American institutions and must
be condemned by all those who be
lieve as I do in American ideals.
“Hear me for one further word.
I repeat that these matters must
not be permitted to divert the at
tention of the public from the vital
questions now before them. To this
and with this end only in my mind,
I venture here and now to express
the hope that the nominees of the
Republican party will seek by some
explicit declaration to" join me in
entirely rememng this topic from
the field of political debate.”
General Dawes on Klan.
The statement by General Dawes
came a day later in an address at
Augusta. Me. After telling of the
rise of the Klan in Oklahoma and
Illinois, he declared: “Appeals to
racial religious of class prejudice by
minority organizations are opposed
to the welfare of all peaceful and
civilized communities. Our consti
tution stands for religious toler
ance. To inject religious and ra
cial issues into polities is contrary
to the welfare of all the people and
to the letter and spirit of the con
stitution of the United States.
“I have told you why I am op
posed to the Klan. Take what I
say into your hearts and your con
sciences and think it over calmly.
However, it may be with the mind,
there is no acrimony in the con
science.”
The La Follette Letter.
Senator La Follette’s letter to Mr.
Scripps. which revealed his attitude
toward the Klan, was published early
in, August. It follows:
“Anyone familiar with my record,
especially in my own state, knows
that I have always stood without
reservation against any discrimina
tion between races, classes and
creeds. I hold that every citizen
is entitled to the full exercise of
his constitutional rights.
“I am unalterably opposed to the
evident purposes of the secret or
ganization known as the Ku Klux
Klan, as disclosed by its public
acts.
“It can not long survive.
“Relying upon the sound judgment
and good sense of our people, it is
my opinion that such a movement
is foredoomed. It has within its
own body the seeds of its death.
“Abraham Lincoln, nearly seventy
years ago. set forth his views on
this question in a letter to his
friend. Mr. Joshua F. Speed, dated
Springfield, 111,, Aug. 24, 1855:
. . You inquire where I now
stand. That is a disputed point. I
think I am a Whig; but others say
there are no Whigs and that I am
an Abolitionist.
“I am not a Know-Nothing; that
is certain. How could I be? How
can any one who abhors the op
pression of negroes be in favor of
degrading classes of white people?
Our progress in degeneracy appears
to me to be pretty rapid. As a na
tion we began by declaring that all
men are created equal.” We now
practically read it, “all men are cre
ated equal except negroes.” When
the Know-Nothings get control, it
will read “all men are created equal
except negroes and foreigners and
Catholics.” When it comes to this,
I shall prefer emigrating to some
country where they make no pre
tense of loving liberty, to Russia,
for instance, where despotism can
be taken pure, and without the base
allov of hypocrisy. . . .
Your friend forever
“A. LINCOLN.”
“With this statement from Abra
ham Lincoln I would join also a
passage from a letter written by
Thomas Jefferson to Edward Dowse
in 1803: . ,
“I never will, bv word or act. bow
to the shrine of intolerance, or ad
mit a right of inquiry into the re
ligious opinions of others.
“Upon these statements of Jeffer
son and Lincoln, expressing the sen
timents which I am happy to be
lieve the vast majority of our citi
zens cherish and to which they will
ever rigidly adhere and upon my
own views expressed in this letter. I
am content to stand without quali
fication or evasion.
“Sincerely yours,
(Signed)
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