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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MAY 21, 19W
Augusta Council Plans to
Observe Silver Jubilee
Celebration to Be Coincident
With State Convention—
Luke Hart to Be Speaker.
Augusta, Ga.—Patrick Walsh Coun
cil, Knights of Columbus, will ob
serve the twenty-ilfth anniversary
of its organization June 6 coinci
dent with the meeting of the annual
convention of the Georgia State
Council here. The dinner which will
feature the celebration will have as
its only speaker Hon. Luke Heart
of St. Louis, prominent member of
the Missouri Bar and supreme ad
vocate of the Knights of Colum
bus.
The convention program will open
Sunday morning when the Knights
will receive Holy Communion in a
body at St. Mary’s-On-The-Hill. Rev.
James A. Kane, pastor, this being
the regular Communion of the Coun
cil. The Fourth Degree will be ex
emplified during the day.
Monday the state convention will
meet at Knights of Columbus Home,
State Deputy Wm. H. Mitchell of
Macon presiding. There will be a
luncheon for the visiting delegates
and members at noon and an auto
mobile trip after the sessions. The
dinner will be served at a country
resort at 6:30 P. M., Grand Knight
J. Coleman Dempsey presiding, and
Mr. Hart will deliver the address of
the occasion. Dancing will follow
the dinner, which will be attended
by Knights of Columbus and their
ladies.
Tire arrangements committee is
headed by Lecturer L. A. Dorr of
the council, assisted by several
committees, all of which are func-
tioiting so well that the plans are
completed. Visiting Knights from
every Council in Georgia as well as
from several in other states are ex
pected for the celebration, which it
is hoped to make the greatest K.
of C. affair in the quarter of a cen
tury of the local Council’s existence.
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AUGUSTA GA.
Georgia’s Spanish Mission Rains
Recall History Dating Back to 1566
Atlanta Journal Magazine Story Tells of Labors of Fran
ciscan Friars Among Indians Here Scores of Years Be
fore Founding of Jamestown and Plymouth
Ed. H. Bradley in the Atlanta Jour
nal Magazine.
Cuirassed and helmeted solders of
the Spanish king busy at their rou
tine duties in and around a grim,
walled little fortress looking out
across a vast expanse of salt
marshes toward the Atlantic that
stretched away to the eastward;
black-robed Franciscan friars at
their devotions in the rude little
mission chapel that stood close to
the fort; and at a little distance,
squatting around camp fires, a hun
dred or more copper-skinned war
riors glowering at the white men’s
outpost on the edge of a new world.
Such a scene was a daily occurrence
three and a half centuries ago at
Tolomato, the Indian village on a
bluff overlooking the delta of the
Altamalia river, on the Georgia
coast, about midway between Sa
vannah and Brunswick, a few miles
north of Darien, one of the oldest
settlements on the south Atlantic
seaboard.
Then, one day, there was a great
uprising of the Yemassess against
the Spanish conquistadores and
their priestly asociates. Juan, eld
est son of the mico, or chief of
the village of Tolomato, led war
riors as they swarmed out of the
jungle and overwhelmed the little
garrison that fell under the savage
attack. Their holy calling did not
save the Franciscans, who perished
along with the soldiery. The vet
eran Father Corpa, head of the mis
sion, was taken prisoner, but was
subjected to terrible indignities by
the Yemassees, and finally be
headed.
A huge cross molded of crude con
crete made of crushed oyster shells
and lime, manufactured from the
same material, today marks the spot
in the midst of the ruins of the
Tolomato misison, where his re
mains were committed to earth by
the avenging military expedition
tliat speedily came northward from
St. Augustine to wreak vengeance on
the Yemassees for the massacre of
the Spanish outpost. That was in
1597, a little more than thirty years
after the founding of St. Augustine,
llie first white setlement on the
North American continent, which
antedated by one year only the es
tablishment of the Spanish military
and mission posts on the coast of
what is now the state of Georgia.
“Tabby,” the primitive form of
concrete invented by the Spaniards
Tor use in the constx'uclion of their
outposts, is the material of which
the old fort and mission at Tolo
mato are built. Lacking cement, they
crushed oyster shells and obtained
a fair quantity of lime. Mixed with
sand and shells, they developed
from this practical formula a con
crete that has defied the elements
for centuries. The Tolomato fort
is octagonal, its walls more than
a foot thick .with a floor of the
same material, “tabby.” The char
acter of the roof is problematical,
for only fragrants of the walls re
main. Several buildings, all con
nected, were ranged along the bluff
at the foot of which flows the little
tidewater river that winds through
the marshes out toward Sapelo
sound at the mouth of the Atla-
maha.
A little distance removed from
the main group of structures was the
prison, with its dungeons and nar
row cell rooms just large enough
for a man to stretch at full length
on the floor. None or the buildings
were more than 30x50 feet in dimen
sions, some of them much less than
that, hut it is evident that they
provided quarters for perhaps half
a hundred soldiers and priests. One
of the distinguishing features of the
architecture and typical of the pe
riod in which the buildings were
erected, is a beautiful flat Spanish
arch still intact over one of the
doorways.
The territory that is now Georgia
was then known as “Guale” by the
Spaniards, who paid their first visit
to the coast in April 1566, Menen-
dez having founded St. Augustine in
'September, 1565. The settlement on
St. Catherine’s was the first of the
chain of outposts ,and in 1573 the
Franciscans entered the province,
five priests being in charge of as
many establishments along the
coast. Two of them, Friar Corpa,
and Friar Velascola, lost their lives
in the uprising headed by Juan, and
Father Davila, of Jekyl, was
wounded. There was a period of re
ligious inactivity following the Ye-
massee rebellion and massacre, but
the missions were restored in 1606.
They were a day’s journey apart
by canoe and so arranged that all
could he reached on one itinerary
starting at St. Marys and coming
northward to Cumberland, thence to
Jekyl, to St. Simons, to Talaje,
which was on the mainland be
tween Brunswick and Darien, thence
to Tolomato, to Zapala, to Santa
Catalina, and on to Tupique.
A century and a half before Og
lethorpe’s time the Spanish and
French were sending trading vessels
to the Georgia coast, bringing back
sassafras and wild turkeys, which
the Indians brought in to exchange
for weapons, bright-colored cloth
and trinkets.
Ancient documents show that in
one season more than 10,000 wild
turkeys were bought from the In
dians around St. Simons and ex
ported to Europe. And though more
than three centuries have elapsed
the wild turkey is still found in
considerable numbers in the vast
swamps along the Atltamaha river
and in the upland ridges along the
coast, furnishing splendid sport for
hunters every season.
The ruins of the Tolomato mis
sion stand on the plantation known
as The Thicket, and formerly owned
by Captain Charles Spalding, of the
United States Dragoons, who fought
through the Seminole war with his
regiment. A few miles away his
brother, Colonel Randolph Spalding,
had his country seat, “Ashantilly,”
named for the ancestral home of the
Spaldings in Scotland. During the
War Between the States this splen
did old ante-bellum mansion was
shelled by a federal gunboat that
steamed up from Sapelo sound to
bombar the towns and villages in
the Altamaha delta area. Several
shells struck the Spalding home, de
molishing the left wing, but the
captain of the warship learned of
Captain Charles Spalding’s relation
to the owner and gave the order to
cease firing. “Ashantilly’ ’has been
restored and stands as a stately me
morial to a period of history color
ful and romantic.
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“BEAUTY CONTESTS’’ New Evidence of Catholic
C n c in Editorial in R ev jy a I Noted in Sweden
Vatican’s Offical Organ
By N. C. W. C. News Service.
Rome.—Count della Torre, ed
itor of Osservatore Romano, of
ficial organ of the Vatican, has
just written an article' protest
ing against beauty contests,
which he says incite girls to
“sacrifice their happiness to
their happiness to their vanity.”
The editor was inspired to the
writing by. the international
beauty contest arranged for Gal
veston, Tex.
The article, intensely ironic in
tone, concludes wiith the state
ment that “Many honest girls
are being sacrificed to public cu
riosity. They will lose much of
their 'modesty. Afterward they
will not see their home and their
family wiith the same eyes.
Women are .fraail, but hteir
fraity is being exploited for
commercial reasons. The extrav
agant homage which will be paid
to them will givfe them an exag
gerating sense of the value of hteir
beauty. They are sacrificing
their happiness to their vanity.
To fascinate men they will pass
honest men by.”
An Ecclesiastical Province.
A province is the territory, com
prising usually several dioceses,
within which an archbishop or met
ropolitan exercises jurisdiction.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Stockholm.—Three new Catholic
churches are under construction in
Sweden at this writing: one at Oer-
ebro, to honor the Swedish martyr
Eskil, the first Bishop of Straen-
gnaes, who died in 1076, stoned by
the peasants whom he sought to
convert; another at Hclsinghorn,
which will be dedicated to the Saint
whom the people of the North ven
erate as the patron of sailors; and
the third one at Norrkoping, the
fourth largest city of Sweden which
is to bear the name of St. Bngitta
of Sweden.
The Catholic revival is gomg on
in the land despite ail *the restric
tions to religious liberty still upon
the statute books. The impulse giv
en to it by the Holy Year pilgrimage
to Rome, wh ; eh was participated in
by several adherents of the Luther-
an Church, continues to be felt.
Promoters of a pilgrimage from all
the Scandinavian lands to Our Lady
of Lourdes, which is to take place
in the course of next July, look for
ward to increased blessings for the
movement of conversion from this
homage to the Blessed Mother of
God.
The religiously untilled field in
Sweden remains very large indeed
for the Catholic Church; for the last
decennial census registered but 3,-
424 adherents of the Church in a
population of 5 904,439 inhabitants.
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Recent research in ancient Span
ish archives has resulted in the dis
closure of much valuable informa
tion concerning the early settle
ments on the Georgia coast, a period
of history that is touched on rather
lightly by most writers of today.
The settlement at Tolomato was per
haps the most pretentions of any
along the coast, being intended by
the Spaniards to control the terri
tory as far inland as Tama, the
present site of Macon. Of the half
dozen posts in the tidewater sec
tion, the one at Tolomato was re
garded with particular importance
by Avendano, the governor of Flor
ida, who established most of the
early. settlements. Santa Maria, at
St. Marys’ was only a mission, as
were San Pedro, on Cumberland is
land; Ospo, on Jekyl, and San Buena
Ventura, on St. Simons. The post on
Sapelo Island was fortified to a de-
S ee, and Santa Catalina, on St;
therines island, although the cap
ital of the Spanish province and un
doubtedly well fortified, now
shows no sign of nfiltary occupa
tion.
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