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, THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MAY 21, 1927
Priests Tell of Ravages of
Mississippi Valley Flood
(Continued From Page One.)
Arkansas.
In the Pine Bluff deanery, in the
Diocese of Little Rock, of which Rt,
Rev. Msgr. Walter J. Tvnin, S. T. L.,
is dean every parish with the pos
sible execution of that at Stuttgart
has been severely damaged; even
Stuttgart may have suffered. At Lake
Village, a $25,000 school house just
completed by Rev. J. F. Galloni with
the generous cooperation of his few
parishoncrs is almost entirely un
der water and the parishoners them
selves and the Catholics on the mis
sions have lost heavily. At McGe-
hee, the center of a numbed of mis
sions the stations under the direc
tion of the Carmelite Fathers, the
priests’ house, school and Sisters’
home are under three or more feet
of water. The Sisters were forced to
go to the second story of their home
to live, as Avas Father Osca, pastor,
in his house, but here as in Lake
Village the priests and Sisters refus
ed to leave.
At Pine Bluff all but possibly a
dozen of the 240 families of St. Jos
eph’s parish have suffered damage
and about fifty of these families have
had their homes inundated. The
parish is heavily in debt and the
situation it faces now is very seri
ous. Sixty Italian families were
turned out of house and home by
the waters. The more fortunate fam
ilies took the others into their homes
and the Sisters themselves cared for
three families. In spite of their
troubles, Monsignor Tynin reports
that the people gave generously to
the Red Cross for those even w'orse
off than they.
The Northeastern Deanery of the
Little Rock Diocese was also in (lie
path of the flood and suffered severe
ly. Rev. Alfred L. Fletcher, Chan
cellor of the Diicese, says that
While the damage was heavy it will
not be possible for some time to es
timate it. but enough is known to
predict that the Catholics in the
stricken districts will not be able to
repair the damage. Many of them
lost everything they possessed, and
a loss of life is also reported.
At Pine Bluff Rev. John Thomu-
son, S. S. J., pastor of the church
for colored Catholics, threw the par
ish buildings open to the refugees
The United States Arm-'- Engineers
practically turned over to the su
pervision of Father Galloni of Lake
Village the supervision of a large
section of the levee, a work he and
his parishoners labored at night and
day without rest.
Mississippi.
In Mississippi reports on the
damage to church property are un
available. In Vicksburg the first
local society to participate in a re
lief program was the Knights of Co
lumbus. Col. M. J. O’Leary, direc
tor of the Southeastern Department
of the-Knights of Columbus, is in
fcharge of the general K. of C. relief
work, assisted here by State Deputy
McKenna. At Vicksburg a s many as
1200 refugees were fed by the
Knights in one day. Grand Knight
C. W. Katzenmaycr of Vicksburg
Council took a prominent part in re
lief work when the territory north
of Vicksburg was flooded by a
break in the river embankment. The
women of St. Paul’s and other par
ishes did heroic work. Before the
National Council made an appro
priating Vicksburg Council footed
the relief bills.
Louisiana.
The greater portion of the Dio
cese of Alexandria, which is over 22,-
000 miles in extent, is effected by
the flood, Rev. .1. A. Plauche, chan
cellor, writes. Thousands of square
miles of the Diocese, the largest and
the poorest in the state, are under
water; the civil parish of Avoyelles
one of the hardest hit anywhere in
the flood area, is in the diocese, and
the parish of the chancellor is sit
uated in it. Up to May 12 (here
were no ecclesiastical parishes un
der water but a number of missions
had been inundated and thousands
of families had lost all they possess.
There is little prospect of making a
crop in this section this year, a sit
uation which will react on the peo
ple and the Diocese long after the
direct damage has been repaired
The city of Alexandria escaped dam
age.
New Orleans is safe, Rev. Michael
A. Gcehan, chancellor, says, but the
crevasse below the city to save it
made numerous Catholic families
homeless and perhaps flooded a few
mission churches. Rt. Rev. Msgr. I-
J. Gassier, V. F., ^rector of St Jos
eph’s Church, Baton Rouge, reports
that his city is also safe but express
es concern about the result of a pos
sible break in the levee at Bayou
• des Glaises, which would place a
large section of the neighboring Dio
cese of Lafayette at the mercy ol
the waters.
Efforts of relief committees arc
now being directed to preventing an
epidemic and it is evident that; even
after the danger from the waters
passes there will fade the workers
the task of rehabilitating thousands
»f families who have had their
earthly possessions swept away
from them. , And the danger from
the raging river is by no means over,
according to latest reports.
Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Toolen, D. D.,
Becomes Sixth Bishop of Mobile
Archbishop Curley, Assisted by Bishop Keyes and Bishop
Gerow, Consecrator of New Prelate in Historic Cathe
dral at Baltimore—Installation at Mobile May 18
(Continued from page one)
Belmont Abbey, 40 priests from
the Diocese of Mobile and hundreds
of priests from the Archdiocese of
Baltimore attended. Msgr. Jospcli
A. Cunnane, pastor of ,St. Andrew’s
Church here, preached the sermon.
Bishop Toolen’s ring, conferred
at the consecration, was made from
the wedding ring worn by his moth
er and jewels left by his mother
and sisters, all now dead, to Bishop
Toolen and his brother, the Bev.
William Toolen, pastor of St. Ed
ward’s Church here. Father Toolen,
who was a chaplain to his brother
at the consecration, was the lirst to
receive his blessing.
Immediately following the ser
vices BishopToolen visited the of
fices of the Bureau of Home and
Foreign Missions, of which he was
direclor, and greeted and blessed
his former co-workers, many of
whom were on the verge of tears.
Later he attended a luncheon at
the Alcazar. The priests of the
Archdiocese presented him with a
purse of $5,000. -
The Rev. John I. Barrett, arch
diocesan superintendent of schools,
who was Bishop Toolen’s other chap
lain, has been a close companion of
the new prelate since boyhood. The
Rev. W. Carroll Milliolland, S. S.,
the master of ceremonies, was Bi
shop Toolen’s room-mate at St.
Mary’s Seminary. The Uev. Gregory
Moran of Atlantic City, who was a
chaplain to Bishop Gerow, was dea
con at Bishop Toolen’s lirst Mass,
while Msgr. C. J. Quille of Chicago,
a chaplain to Bishop Keyes was sub-
deacon at the Bishop’s lirst Mass.
A large throng had assembled in
front of tlie Cathedral long before
the time the ceremonies were to be
gin. There were lines extending to
either side of the front gate when
the procession started. The priests
marched from Calvert Hall College
to the Cathedral and the prelates
from the Archbishop’s residence.
Immediately before the consecra-
tor, his assistants and the Bishop-
elect in line were, the lit. Rev.
Thomas J. Shahan, Rector of the
Catholic University of America; the
Rt. Rev. John J. Swint, Bishop of
Wheeling; the lit. Rev. Edmond J.
FitzMauriee, Bishop of Wilmington;
the lit. Rev. Andrew J. Brennan, Bi
shop of Richmond; the Rt. Rev.
Patrick Barry, Bishop ’of St. Augus
tine, and the Rt. Rev. Vincent Tay
lor, O. S. B„ of Belmont Abbey.
The Rev. Charles W. Lyons, S. J.,
President of Georgetown University,
was among the clergy.
The Very Rev. John F. Fenlon,
S. S., Provincial of the Sulpicians
and president of St'. Mary’s Semi
nary, and tlie Very Ilev. John F.
Duston, S. J., president of Loyola
High School, were chaplains to
Archbishop Curley. Bishop Toolen
attended both of the institutions re
presented by these priests.
When the procession had entered
the Cathedral Archbishop Curley
vested on liis throne before the
main altar, while the Bishop-elect,
who was to celebrate Mass with him
prepared before a side altar. Father
Barrett then read the Papal, com
mission with Archbishop Curley oc
cupying a faldstool on the top step
of the altar and the Bishop-elect be
fore him. Then followed the exam
ination of the Bishop-elect in Latin
and shortly thereafter Mass was be
gun. Then while the Litany of
the Saints was being sung. Arcli-
ernaclc and his co-consecrators knelt
at the foot of the steps for this.
The Litany having been sung, a
book of the Scriptures was placed
upon the neck and shoulders of the
Bishop-elect and the ceremony of
the imposition of the hands begun.
The Gospel and the sermon follow
ed the completion of this cere
mony and the removal of the Scrip
tures.
Bishop Toolen remained at the
main altar after the sermon and
stood on the epistle side during the
Communion. 'Hie consecrator gave
to the new Bishop a portion of the
Host and some of the Precious
Blood he had consecrated.
Archbishop Curley later blessed
the mitre and placed it upon the
head of the new Bishop who sat
upon the faldstool the Consecrator
had occupied on the top step of
the altar. Then, staff in hand, he
was led through the church to give
his blessing to the congregation. Re
turning to the altar he gave his sol
emn and general blessing.
The procession at the conclusion
of the services was abandoned be
cause of a heavy downpour of rain.
Georgian Leads His College
Classes Despite Blindness
Augusta, Ga.—The Associated
Press recently sent out a story about
the remarkable record of Gregory
Sullivan, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. P.
Sullivan of Sacred Heart Parish in
this city, a student at the University
of Georgia who, despite blindness
from birth, has made such a record
in his studies that he has been elect
ed to membership in Phi Beta Kap
pa, national honorary fraternity,
membership in which is won only
hv an unusual scholastic record. He
will receive his degree in June and
the story says he intends to teach.
He is 22, has a general average well
above ninety, and has his memory
so developed that one reading of a
lesson to him by a classmate is suf
ficient. Among other honors he has
won the medal offered the student
making the highest average in
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