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English Delegation--Thous
ands of Mexicans Coming
Chicago.—An English delegation,
presided over by His Eminence,
Francis, Cardinal Bourne, Primate of
England, will leave London dune 5
for the XXVIII International Eu
charistic Congress to he held .lime
20-24, according to a cablegram re
ceived at the Congress headquarters.
The Congress housing committee
has secured 1100 rooms in Chicago
hotels to accommodate the pilgrims,
and there are indications that more
Will join the party later
The Red Star line “Pittsburg'’has
been designated the official ship for
the English delegation, which will
include many noted prelates of the
British Isles, and several altars will
be installed to give the passengers
the opportunity of hearing Mass
daily.
On their return front the gather
ing at Chicago, the pilgrims will
visit the famous shrine of Ste. Anne
de Beupre, near Quebec. Niagara,
Montraeai, and Toronto are also in
cluded in the itinerary.
' \
Several thousand Mexican Catho
lics will attend the twenty-eighth
International Eucharistic Congress
to be held here, June 20 to 24, ac
cording to information received at
the Congress headquarters from
Mexico City.
The pilgrimage will be headed by
a number of distinguished prelates,
including the Most Rev. Leopold
Ruiz y Flores, Archbishop of Mich-
eacan; the Most Rev. Francisco Cro-
zco y Jimenez, Archbishop of Guad
alajara and the Most Rev. Juan Her
rera y Pena, Archbishop of Monte
rey.
The Most Rev. Jose Mora del Rio,
Archbishop of Mexico and Primate
of the Mexican Church, who was re
cently cited to appear before a gov
ernment court following a clash wfeih
Mexican officials over ecclesiastical
matters, lias issued a statement of
approval for the Congress urging all
who can do so to join the Mexican
national pilgrimage to Chicago.
D. DF A. NAME ASHEVILLE
Mobile Convent Houses Forty-Eight
Nuns, Expelled by Mexican Troops
Mother Margaret Mary Semple of Distinguished South
ern Family, Superior of Religious Who Were Driven
Out, Tells of Trying Experiences of Her Little Band
Special to The Bulletin s
Mobile, Ala.—Mother Margaret Mary Semple, a mem-1
ber of a distinguished Southern family, and forty-eight Visi-;
tation Nuns who were driven from their convent at Cayoa- 1
can, near Mexico City, a few days ago, are now resting at
Visitation Convent in this city, after their harrowing ex
periences at the hands of the radical Mexican government.
Six of the nuns are Americans and the others Mexicans.
expelled the
The troopers who
nuns told Mother Margaret Mary that
their heart was not in the work but
that thev carried out orders against
their will to save themselves from
the danger of being shot for diso
bedience. While searching the con
vent they gathered around Mother
Margaret Mary., knelt down and ask
ed her blessing, according to a let
ter received by the N. C. W. C. News
Service at Washington. Mother Mar
garet Mary and the nuns also sav
ed the Sacred Hosts from desecra
tion by consuming them, the same
authority says.
The experiences of the nuns were
described by Mother Margaret Mary
for the Mobile D.-yly Register, which
carried the following story about the
heroic little hand of women who
refused to be frightened by the
armed might of the Mexican gov
ernment:
“We were happy in Coyoacan, ’
declared Mother Margaret Mary. “The
convent was called the.Kinta Maria
and it was a most beautiful build
ing on a hilltop. Surrounded by
beautiful gardens the convent was
symbolic of peace and quiet, a rest
ful haven for us, we thought. We
had 90 day students in our classes
and they were devoted to us. Just
before our expulsion we had install
ed a new domitory for the nuns.
“Out of a clear, sky, at 11 o'clock j
on the evening of February (1. live
policemen appeared and ordered us.
to leave, 'ihey had been sent, they i
said, by the minister of the govern-j
ment. That was all the explanation i
they would volunteer We were ac-!
cuscd of infringing the rules of the I
Mexican government within its» bor
ders. Despite this accusation, 1
know it to be a fact that the Mexi
can constitution’s provision pertain
ing to religious freedom is identical
with that of the United States.
“I protested on the ground of be
ing an American citizen. I asked per
mission to communicate with the
American embassy. That night I
phoned the embassy but could not
establish communication. 1 commu
nicated, with the consulate, however,
and was advised to ask the Mexicans
government to suspend action until
the consulate could communicate
with the ministry.
“After 36 hours, which was the re
spite granted, the five police whom
we learned to regard as sinister bear
ers of evil tidings, again appeared
and politely but firmly demanded our
departure. 1 immediately phoned
the embassy but they replied that
this was altogether a domestic mat
ter and that as much as their sym-
MEXICAN CATHOLICS TO
(Continued on Page 7)
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Utica, N. Y.—Five .$1,000 scholar
ships in Social Service, voted at the
biennial convention of .the Catholic
Daughters of America iii July, were
formally confirmed and allotted to
the National Catholic School of So
cial Service at Washington, at the
semi-annual meeting of the supreme
officers and directors of the order
here recently.
An appropriation of $1,000 also was
vqted to the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception at Washing
ton, and another $1,000 for education
al work among the Mexicans in the
United States.
Asheville, N. C., was chosen as the
Convention city for the order in
1927. and Miss Maisie V. Scanlan, of
Atlantic City, was appointed' direc
tor of the junior organization. A
framed coat-of-arms was presented
to the Rt. Rev. W J. Hafey, Bishop
of Raleigh, who is National Chaplain
of the order and who addressed the
meeting. Miss Mary C. Duffy of
Newark, N. J., Supreme Regent, pre
sided at the sessions, and a dozen
officers and directors from all parts
of the country were present.
Intolerance Lost Canada to United
States Senator Walsh Reca lls
Congress Arranges For St.
Patrick’s Day Address
f —i
(By N. C- W. C. News Service.)
Washington.— By unanimous
consent, the United States House
of Representatives on March 2,
set aside thirty minutes for a
St. Patrick’s Day address on the
floor March 17.*
Representative John Q. Tilson,
of Connecticut, asked the unani
mous consent of the House, des
ignating Representative Jeremi
ah E. .O’Connell as the speaker.
There was no objection.
Although St. Patrick’s Day ad
dresses have been delivered in
the House before, so far as is
known a time has never hereto
fore been formally set aside for
the purpose Representative ,
Tilson expressed the belief that
the day is of importance to a
su..ciently large part of the
population of the country to
warrant the rational legislators
devoting thirty minutes to it.
Spanish Transatlantic Aviators
Proclaim Faith As Columbus Did
By REV. MANUEL GHANA.
(Madrid Corresponentd N. C. W. C.
News Service).
Madrid.—Efforts made by certain
papers to “secularize” the exploit of
the Spanish aviators whose succss-
ful flight to South America has at
tracted world attention have made
It necessary to state clearly lhat
Commander Franco and his intrepid
companions, Senors Ruiz de Alda,
Duran and Rada, are religious men.
Press comments have sought to
convey the impression that these
men who so sincerely profess the
Catholic faith are not merely unbe
lievers but actually hostile to rcli-
6 "commander Don Ram/m Franco
and his companions are sincere and
practical Catholics, not merely by
family tradition but hy personal
conviction.
.When they reached Huelva, they
Persecution of Catholics by
New England Responsible
He Tells Capital Audience
Rt. Rev. Denis J. O’Connell,
D. D., Renowned As Edu
cator Here and in Europe
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Washington.—Complying with the
request of the Bight Rev. Denis
Joseph O’Connell, I). D., Bishop oi
Richmond, Virginia, to be relieved
of his See, because of ill health
His Holiness Pope Pius XI has
promoted him to the Archiespiscopai
Titular See of Marianine, it was an
nounced by the Apostolic Delegation
here." Bishop O’Connell is 77 years
old.
The Delegation also announced
that Bishop O’Connell will serve as
Apostolic Administrator of the Dio
cese of Richmond until his successor
is appointed.
Three Day Period Appointed
—Radical Officials Have
Daughters in Convents
Mexico City.—Catholics have de
cided upon a three-day period of
mourning “over-the death of Liber
ty in Mexico.” Private houses, bus
iness offices and shops will be drap
ed in black, and cards and posters
nearing the ’respectful pica for “free
dom of conscience for Catholics who
form ninety per cent of the Mexican
population, will be displayed in win
dows of shops and private residences
and in others appropriate and con
spicuous places on private property.
Colonel Tejada, Secretary of the
Interior, who has been directing the
snti-Catholic campaign in the ab
sence of President Calles from the
Capitol, retaliated for this an
nouncement by ordering the execu
tive heads of all departments to fur
nish him without delay with a list
of their Catholic employees. The
circular states thai. any employee
vho has made a protest, public or
private, against the anti-Catholic
acts of the government, shall be dis
missed. The Secret Police are spying
on the employees, particularly on
the women clerk, to secure cveidcnce
against them.
Convent schools, orphanages, hos
pitals and other institutions arc be
ing closed and thousands of chil
dren have been turned out of
school. A peculiar phase of the sit
uation is the fact that a daughter of
Colonel Tejada is a student at a
convent school, which has not been
dosed thus far, and two daughters
of President Calles were hurriedly
removed from a convent school two
days before, the present anti-Cath
olic campaign began.
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
Washington.—Religious and racial
intolerance lost Canada to the new
American Republic in the Revolu
tionary War Senator Thomas J.
Walsh, of Montana, told an audi
ence of 1,100 here recently.
Sdnator Walsh was speaking at
the dedication exercises.of the new
$400,000 Jewish Community Center;
and his theme w^s the folly of in
tolerance in a nation so constituted
as the United States. His audience
was the largest gathering of Jews
ever to assemble in Washington.
The fundamental laws of the United
States barring religious tests and
qualification, he saiij, were forced
thoroughly the Rounders of the Na
tion by citing the services rendered
by Catholics and Jews to win the
War for Independence. “It' is quite
likely too,” he added, “that there
was not lost upon that generation
the lesson of the failure of Canada
to join in the insureetion.”
proceeded to Palos dc Moguer, the
famous port from which Golumbs’s
sailed on his voyage of discovery
One of their first visits was to the
Church of St. George, where they
were accompanied by great cliowds
of people. In this church is vener
ated the image of Our Lady of Mir
acles, before which Columbus and
liis companions prayed many hun
dred years ago. They heard Mass
the morning of the flight.
Tlie next visit was to the Francis
can Monastery of La Rabida, where
the Franciscan Fathers encouraged
the airmen as their predecessors had
encouraged Columbus.
Commander Franco has solemnly
promised that they will come hack,
if God grants them a safe return
flight, to give thanks to Our Lady of
Miracles. An impressive religious
celebration will he arranged on
their return.
“Its people were almost exclusive
ly French and Catholic,” he con
tinued. “Scarcely fifteen years be
fore Lexington, they had fought the
English on the Plains of Abraham.
Generations of strife had driven
them from the country to which
they owed allegiance and from that
from which they or their ancesters
had come, breaking out from time
to time in wars in which they had
become involved, and had disposed
•hem to revolts.
“But they held coldly aloof be
cause of the fierce, not to say the
fiendish, intolerance of New Eng
land. They preferred to tic up with
an ancient enemy rather than unite
with their neighbors who though
they tolerated the Jews, were un
restrained in their persecution of
their fellow Christian, Catholics and
Quakers.
“Thus half of the continent of
North America was lost to the Unit
ed States, and,a potential enemy
left at the doors of the infant re
public. To the credit of the people
day, however, it must bi:
Bishop O’Connell was born at
Donoughmore, County Cork Ireland.
January 28, 1849. He studied in the
American College at Rome and was
ordained a priest on May 26, 1877
Following liis ordination he carried
the decrees of the Late Plenary
Council of Baltimore to Rome and
returned as secretary to Bishop
Conroy, delegate to Canada.
Following the death of Monsignor
Hostlot in 1884, Father O’Connell
was made rector of the American
College, Rome. He was made a do
mestic prelate March 20, 1887, and
continued ps rector of the American
College until July, 1895, when he
resigned to act as vicar of Cardinal
Gibbons for his titular Church, St”
Maria, iu Trastevere, Rome.
Father O'Connell became the third
rector of the Catholic University of
America in 1903, and on December
16. 1907, w r as elevated to the titular
See of Sebaste. He was conseerat
ed Bishop by Cardinal Gibbons at
Baltimore on May 3, 1908. and on
December 24, 1908, was appointed
Bishop Auxiliary of the Archdiocese
of San Francisco.
On May 7, 1909, he was succeeded
as rector of the Catholic University
by the present rector, ihe Jtighl
Rev. Thomas J. Shahan. On January
(Cpntinued on page 7)
Although excitement here has
never been more intense or a sense
of injustice more profound, such
meetings as have been held have
been devoted to the peaceful discus
sion of the best means of obtaining
justice. 'Ilie government lias order
ed several such Inertings prevented
or broken up as soon as they began.
The venerable Archbishop of Mexico
City, who is confined to his lied, has
issued a statement to tile Catholics
of Mexico in which he says: “I do
not want a single drop of blood to -
be shed in our country. In all their
actions good Catholics should ob
serve the moderation which the
Church recommends. I only hope
lhat peace will return as soon as
possible to all Christian homes, the
heads of which have been so deeply
outraged in their sentiments as true
Catholics ”
President Calles declared that he
is determined not to change or
modify in any way liis application of
the articles of the Constitution re
lating to religion and the schools, in
answering a telegram from the Ste
vedores' Union of Vera Cruz com
mending liis course, and Secretary
Tejada in a statement to the press
charged attempts to discredit “the
pacific work of the government.'’
The expulsion will continue, lie de
clared, Admitting however that cer
tain agents of the Department of the
Interior had violated their power
and descended upon Catholic
schools where they were not requir
ed to go in the exercise of their pre
scribed duties.
Ten priests, a nun and four Marist
(Continued on page 7)
Baptists Oppose, Senators Shelve
Virginia Bible Reading Measure
of that day, however, it must
said that "their gratitude overcame Rev. Y. Y. Downnan,
their. illiberality; and they made Saints’ Episcopal
religious freedom the cornerstone of mond, and two women also spoke in
the political system they erected.” behalf of the bill.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Richmond, Va.—The Senate Com
mittee of Public Instruction and
Education recently shelved tile bill
providing for the compulsory read
ing of llie Bible in all grammar and
high schools of the State, by a vote
of ten to four.
The chief speech against tile bill
was made by Kev. Dr. George W.
McDaniel, pastor of the First Bap
tist church of Richmond and one of
the leading Baptist preachers of the
South. Rablii A. S. Anspaclier, of
Richmond, also spoke against the
bill. The chief speaker for flic
forces supporting the bill was the
Rev. George Booker, pastor of a
Richmond Patriotic Sons of America,
a fraternal order; the Junior Order
United American Mechanics, and the
rector of All
church, Rich-
Tile hearing was shifted from a
committee room to tiie Senate
chamber, when several hundred
people, including more than two-
score women and a number of cler
gymen, assembled for the meeting
The debate was between the Rev. Mr.
McDaniel, whose vigorous speech
against the Dill in 1924 was regard
ed as a big factor in its defeat, and
the Rev. Mr. Booker. The greater
part of Mr. McDaniels' speech
stressed the point that the hill was
contrary to all the principles of re
ligious freedom advocated by Thom
as Jefferson. At one point he de
clared :
“The adoption of this bill by the
Democratic members of t)u\ Virginia
Assembly would be a betjcayal of
Thomas Jefferson in the house of
liis disciples.”
It took the Cominittc only five
minutes to decide to table tlis bill
indefinitely.