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4 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA 1 APRIL, 27, 1929 Archbishop Curley, Priest and Prelate The Voice, St. Mary's Seminary Publication at Baltimore, Tells of Life and Achievements of One-Time Florida Priest and Former Bishop of St. Augustine The following 1 extract from a tribute to Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, D. D., Archbishop of Bal timore, is of interest to readers of The Bulletin not only because of the observation of the twen ty-fifth anniversary of the ordi nation of the metropolitan of our province, but because of the ad miration and love the Southeast has for the Archbishop, ordained for Florida and lormerly Bishop of St. Augustine, Fla. The Curley farm im on the Golden Island, near Athlone, and there the future Archbishop was born October 12, 1879. He studied under the Ma- rist Brothers in the schools of St. Mary’s Parish, Athlone, till he was sixteen. He was one of the stars of the school as regards the studies, and could hold his own in alley-bail and football. “Michael Curley,” says John Mc Cormack, the signer, who was five years his junior, but attended the same school, “was a regulaar boy and played all our games — we met usually in the school yard. But there was a certain reserve about him, a certain dignity which even we boys could not help but sense, and which made us remark in an undertone to one another with con siderable awe when We observed him passing by, “There goes Michael Curley!’ And when I read of Bishop Curley’s appointment to the place of the late Cardinal Gibbons at Bal timore, I said to my wife, ‘There goes Michael Curley!’ I’d rather talk about him than any man I know. I love him, and we all wor ship him. He’s everything that a man and a priest should be. And what more could one ask?” At Mungret in Limerick the Jesuit Fathers have an Apostolic school; Michael Curley who had made up his mind to be a priest and a mis sionary, entered it at the ago of 16. He studied there for years and in 1900 took his A. B., with first hon ors, at the Royal University of Dub lin. The pictures above show Arch bishop Curley as a young priest in Florida twenty-five years ago and as Archbishop today. Picture through • courtesy of The Baltimore Catholic Review. fectively that he was soon one of the best-known and best-liked men in Florida. In the meantime, too, he had learned much of the art of keeping busy in a country parish by careful attendance on the needs of his widely scattered flock. In 1914 John McCormack met in Montreal Brother Hugh of the Ma- rist Brothers, who had been a teach er of both himself and Michael Curley in Athlone. He said to him: “Brother Hugh, do you ever hear of Michael Curley nowadays at all?” “I do, indeed,” said Brother Hugh. “Haven’t you heard? He’s been made Bishop of Florida.” “You could have knocked me down with a feather,” says John McCor mick. “Micnael hurley, my school mate of Athlone, Bishop of Florida! I could sarcely believe it. But I was turly happy, for I had never since the earliest days of my youth doubted that Michael was bound for a high place in the Church, or in anything he might set his hand and mind to.” He studied theology at the Prop aganda at Rome. His classmates still speak of him as quiet, serious, innocent, successful in his studies. He had the satisfaction to bring heme to his mother a gold, medal which he had won “for Ireland” on a Scripture essay. He took his B. D. in 1901; his S. T. L. in 1903. He was ordained at St. John Lateran March 19, 1904. He had gone to school ready for any mission; Providence and his superiors sent him to Flor ida. There after a short time he became pastor of Deland (1S04-1914). At Deland Father Curley had a room over a store and ate at a restaurant. Sometimes he had to pay as high as $4.50 a week at this restaurant! It was plain living aand high thinking. There was a good deal of leisure; this the young priest employed to keep up his studies and to write his sermons. He accumulated valuable “notes,” and got used to communicating his id^as in that clear and forcible way with which we are now familiar. Thanks largely to the leisure hours at Deland, he is now able to tackle a great variety of subjects on short notice. Recently one of the sub jects of the diocesan conference was assigned to him; he knew nothing about it till he got into the hall. But a few minutes thought were enough to enable him to give a very Instructive and interesting talk. He was not, however, absorbed in his books. Hq was ever ready to help bis fellow priests and did it so ef- In Florida, to quote the words of Bishop Turner, another Mungret man, who knew him well at this period of his life, all knew and ap preciated “his zeal for the cause ol Christ and His Church, his pa tience, his courage, his humility, his affability, his fair-mindedness, his scholarly attainments, his gift for felicitous expression.” Both as priest and bishop he had shown forth the qualities which designated him to the choice of the Holy See as Archbishop of Baltimore. MAINE MERCY SISTER SAVES MAN’S LIFE By N. C. W. C. News Service.) Eastport, Me.—To Sister Claire of the Sisters of Mercy, station ed at the Passmaquoddy Indian reservation at Pleasant Point, Edward Rutherford, aged 19, of this city, owes his life. Ruther ford, a passenger on a train bound for Ayer Junction, floll from one of the coaches and his right foot was severely mangled as one of the wheels passed over it. There is no surgeon at Pleas ant Point and the Sisters of Mer cy were appealed to. Sister Claire responded, although it was late at night, and applied a turniquet which stopped the flow of blood. When the nun arrived Rutherford was quite weak from the great loss of blood. When he reached the hos pital here, physicians said the turniquet had saved his life. It is even likely that amputation of the foot will be unnecessary. Archbishop Nei! McNeil of Toronto 50 Years Ordained Noted Educator, Editor and Prelate Honored on Jubilee Archbishop ‘ Curley took possess ion of his See of Baltimore Nov. 30, 1921, after a very cordial reception by the whole city and diocese. The loyalty of his diocesans was pledg ed after the High Mass by Bishop Corrigan, whom he had reappointed Vicar-General, and Senator Biggs. Bishop Corrigan made the charac teristic speech of an historian — which he has always been in the leisure moments of his busy career. He expressed the pride wuich Bal timore has continuously felt in the “illustrious succession of venerable men who have in the Providence of God been placed over it, and who have guided its destinies during the 122 years of its existence.” As a matter of fact every archbishop of Baltimore has been a great and fine priest of God, whom Catholics have loved and whom all have respected. It was the thought of Cardinal Gib bons, though, that filled all minds as the Bishop recalled the past, and the new Archbishop paid a splen did tribute to him as he took his place on the throne he had left va cant. or rather permeated by the teaching of the God Man. ... I am most anxious to see all educational po tentialities reduced to act, until we have a perfected educational sys tem second to none in the nation.” Things soon began to happen in the field of education. Three years after his installation, the Archbish op listened to a speech of a distin guished Capuchin who had just come from Pittsburgh, and who told for the edification of Baltimoreans what great things had been done by a drive for school funds. They had raised $3,000,000! The Archbishop remarked that they had had no drive in Baltimore, but that with in three years they had spent $6,- 000,000 on school buildings. And that was before Baltimore gave $1,000,000 to St. Mary’s Seminary. In our last number we quoted sta tistics of the great increase of at tendance at Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese. Remarkable progress, over a condition which the Arch bishop called good in 1921, is due chiefly to his interest in education, his spirited leadership, and to his power of appeal to the great mass of the people. Few 'considerable gifts from particular individuals have helped him in his work, but he can count on the support of his priests and the enthusiastic love of 99 per cent <5f the Catholics of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Shortly after his appointment, Father Dyer was with him at a con firmation at Father Manley’s church. He admired the way he talked to the children, and, indi rectly, to the grown-ups, but he protested that he put four times more energy into the ceremony than he should. He would wear himself out! But no one has ever been able to moderate His Grace’s expenditure of energy for any of the numerous worth-while causes tnat are con stantly appealing to him. Fortu nately, however, he takes a vaca tion, in the Golden Island, with his mother. Long may she be there to wel come him ! (By N. C. W. C. News Service.) Toronto.—The Most Rev. Neil Mc Neil, Archbishop of Toronto, observ ed the fiftieth anniversary of his or dination April 11. His Grace cele brated a solemn pontifical Mass of thanksgiving at St. Michael’s Ca thedral, having for his assistants the Rt. Rev. M. D. Whelan, assistant priest; the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Hand and the Rev. P. J. Coyle, deacons of honor; the Rev. Francis Carroll, deacon; the Rev. C. W. James, sub deacon, and the Rev. L. Barnett and the Rev. C. Lamphier, masters of ceremonies. The sermon was delivered by Msgr. Hand. Following the Mass, a banquet was held in St ; Michael’s Hall, where speeches of a congratu latory nature were delivered. Archbishop McNeil was born at Hillsborough, Inverness, Nova Sco tia, Nov. 23, 1851. He was educated at St. Francis Xavier’s College, An- tigonish, N. S., the College of the Propaganda, Rome, and the Univer sity of Marseilles. He joined the teaching staff of St. Francis Xa vier’s College in 1890, one year after his ordination in Rome. In 1884 he became rector of the college, a position he continued to hold until 1891. During this time he also was editor of Aurora, a weekly newspaper. After serving as pastor of West Arichat and Des- course, he was elevated to the Epis- capate in 1895, being censecrated at St. Ninian’s Cathedral, Antigonish, Bishop of NiCopolis and Vicar-Apos tolic of St. George’s. He became Bishop of St. George’s in 1904 and six years later was appointed Arch bishop of Vancouver, where he re mained two years, being transferred to Toronto. Si. Leo College Prep Wins i Track Meet in Florida Immaculate Conception, Jack sonville, Leads Junior Class (Special to The Bulletin.) St. Leo, Fla.—The second annual state track meet for Catholic boys was held here Saturday, April 20. Schools represented were Immacu late Conception of Jacksonville, St. Joseph’s Academy of St. Augustine, and St. Leo College-x'rep School of St. Leo. St. Leo won the honors by a large margin over the other two schools, scoring in all 118% points, while Immaculate Concep tion stood second with 19% and St. Augustine third wiht 14. A great number of previous records were broken when Joe Edwards vaulted over the bar at 10 feet 4 inches, and hurled the javelin 142 feet. Mass- man broke the record for the mile, half-mile and cross country run with time for each event as enu- numerated of 4 minutes 54.1 seconds, 2 minutes 10.1 seconds and 14 min utes 55.2 seconds. The record, for broad jump was beaten by Roge- ro, who made 19 feet. Hope tossed the shot 37 feet, 5 inches. Kauss Knight tied for firs- place in the high jump by going over the bar at 5 feet 2 inches. The Junior division honors went to Immaculate Conception School, Jacksonville, with a score of 54% points, followed by St. Leo with 46%, St. Benedict’s Preparatory with 16% and St. Anthony School fourth. Many of tne old records fell. Heim- berger, of Jacksonville, was high point man, while Brick and Garcia, of St. Leo, were second and third respectively. The beautiful silver loving cup do nated by tne Bank of Pasco Coun ty, Dade City, Fla., was presented to St. Leo College-Prep School as the winning school. The gold medal for the senior division was warded to Herbert Rogers, the silver medal to George Kauss and the bronze to Joseph Edwards, all of St- Leo- The gold medal for the junior di vision was awarded to Heimberger, of Immaculate Conception, Jackson ville, the silver medal to John Brick and the bronze medal to Albert Gar cia, the two latter of St. Leo. These medals were donated by Rev. Ber nard Weigl, O. S. B., of Lake Jovi- ta, Rev. Louis Hass, St. Vincent Abbey, Latrobe, Pa., Rev. Patrick Bresnahan, St. Petersburg, Fla. Rev. Michael Farley, Lakeland, Fla., and Miss Nancy Helen McCabe, Lake Jo- vita, Fla. WLWL Heard in England. London. — A letter received here from New York states that the Paulist Fathers there have received letters from people living in Liver pool, Blackpool and Kent saying they have picked up broadcast from the Paulist radio station WLWL. For the benefit of others who wish to listen in to the Paulist programs, a Catholic paper here has published details of the WLWL wave-length and times of broadcasting. In a marathon race of 3% miles held at Ybor City, Fla., under the auspices of the Cuban Club Rich ard Massman, of St. Leo, was awarded a 26 inch silver loving cup for getting first place. He ran this distance in 19 minutes, while his nearest opponent was 30 seconds be hind. AUGUSTA WOMEN PLAN CLUB IMPROVEMENTS Augusta, Ga.—The Catholic Wom en’s Club conducted a bridge tea at the Bon Air-Vanderbilt April 15 for the benefit of the fund to improve the women’s section of the K. of C. Home. Mrs. John P. Mulherin was chairman and the party was a splen did success. The athletic association of Mt. St. Joseph’s Academy sponsored a bar becue at the Carmichael Club April 16 for the benefit of the athletic fund, and it was well attended. This first address of the Arch bishop of Baltimore in his Cathe dral, delivered in the strong, mu sical, ringing voice which would of itself suffice to command attention even if he f.Id not have such good things to say, made the people of Baltimore realize that another great leader had been given them. They realized, too, that although he would neglect none of the spiritual inter ests of the flock over which God had placed him, his special interest would be in education. “The Catholic Church,” he said, “takes her stand on the program of the best secular training united to I Mr. Palmer had a wicked face. Conan DoyleB ‘Spirit Photo’ Conan Doyle ‘Spirit Photo’ London.—South African papers which have arriyed here give fur ther details of a remarkable scene which took place at Nairobi, Kenya, during a lecture by Sir Athur Co nan Doyle. Sir Arthur was showing stereop- ticon slides made from photographs purporting to depict spirits, and was exhibiting one of a “ghost” in a supposedly haunted house, drawing attention to the figure’s “hard, wicked face,” when a local dentist, Spencer Palmer, got up and declar ed .dramatically “that is a photo graph of myself.” Mr. Palmer explained that 15 years ago he and some others interested in an alleged haunted house near Not tingham, England, decided to keep watch. After three fruitless nights Mr. Palmer suggested faking a pho tograph. Attiring l.imself in a long night shirt, he said, he posed in an old room, and the result was the picture which had found its way into Sir I Athur’s collection. Sir Arthur accepted this statement ) at once and said he very much re- j gretted that he should have shown the picture, although he had done so in good faith. He would withdraw it immediately. 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