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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 7, 1929
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MARYLAND NUN HEAD
OF MERCY SISTERS
Six Provinces of Order j
Formed. Mother Dominica j
of Mobile Counsellor
(BY N. C. W. C. News Service) |
CINCINNATI, O.—The chapter j
of thirty-nine communities of the
Sisters of Mercy meeting here ]
August 28 elected Mother Mary
Carmclita of Mount Washington, j
Baltimore, superior-general. Six |
provinces of the Sisters of Mercy
were created. Most Kev. Peter
Fumasoni-Biondi, D. D.. Arch
bishop of Diocica and Apostolic
Delegate to the United States,
presided at the chapter.
CINCINNATI, O.—Following t h e
election of Mother M. Carmelita
Hartman, of Mount Washington, Bal
timore, as Superior General, August
28, the First General Chapter of Sis
ters of Mercy in the United States
here, announced the election of other
administrative officers.
Mother M. Bernardine Purcell, of
Cincinnati, O., was elected Assistant
Superior General, while Mother
Acquin Gallagher,, of Omaha; Mother
M. De Neri McCoriologhue, of New
York, and Mother M. Dominica Mc
Gowan. of Mobile, Ala., were elected
Counsellors.
Sister M. Gregory Finnigan, of Chi
cago, South Side, was elected Secre
tary General, and Sister M. Thom-
asinea O’Hara, of Mount Washington,
Baltimore, Procuratrix General.
Mother Mary Carmelita Hartman,
the first Superior General of Sisters
of Mercy in the United States, wa§
born in Baltimore, Md., September
16, 1872. the daughter of Henry and
Adelaide Hartman. She entered the
Sisters of Mercy on January 5, 1893,
and took her final vows on Augugt
1, 1895.
During the first eight years of her
religious life. Sister M. Carmelita
taught in various parochial schools
conducted by the community, and
between the years of 1904 and 1917,
filled the posts of treasurer and su
perior at Mercy Hospital, Baltimore.
For the last 12 years, she has been
connected with Mt. St. Agnes’, Mourn
Washington, and for the last six
years as Mother Superior.
Sister Mary Thomasina, the Pro
curatrix General, also was at one
time superior of Mercy Hospital, Bal
timore. and for the last few years
has been superior of St. Vincent's
Orphan Asylum, in the same city.
Pope Greets Legion
Officers in Vatican
Commander McNutt and
Veterans Received in
Private Audience
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
ROME—National Commander Paul
McNutt of the American Legion, an
organization of war veterans of the
United States, and a number of
visiting legionnaires were received in
private audience by Pope Pius Aug
ust 27th. The Holy Father welcomed
his visitors and addressed a few
words to each. The audience was
arranged by the Knights of Colum
bus.
The audience lasted half an hour
and. at its conclusion, the Pope im
parted his blessing to the veterans.
Among those received by His Holi
ness were Commander Charles Hann,
of New York; General Jouett Henry,
of Hopkinsville, Ky.; Colonel Nelson
Jackson, of Burlington. Vt.; former
governor Francis McGovern, of Wis
consin; Major Julius Peyser, of
Washington, D. C.. Judge Royal
Stone, of St. Paul; Dr. E. B. Stew
ard of Oregon; Charles Starrett of
Newark. Ohio, and John Howe of
Oakland, Cal.
Editor of Chicago’s
Catholic Paper Dead
Rev. C. F. Donovan Was
Widely Known as Author
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
CHICAGO—The Rev. Cornelius F.
Donovan, managing editor of The
New World, official newspaper of
the Archdiocese of Chicago, died
August 30th in a local hospital ill-
lowing an illness. Death was said
to be due to cerebral hemorrhage.
Father Donovan was one of the
leading Catholic editors of the coun
try. Prior to entering the priest
hood he had had considerable ex
perience in newspaper work on Chi^
cago dailies. He is the author of two
novels. “His Father’s Way” and “Tne
Left Hander,” and he comoiled lor
publication the story of the Twenty-
Eighth International Eucharistic Con
gress in Chicago, from the official
record of the committee in charge,
lie also was the author of “Our
Faith and the Facts,” a book of ref-
ei fence.
CALIFORNIA HONORS {
PRIEST PATHFINDER
Four-Day Celebration Re
calls Labors of Father
Junipero Serra in West
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MONTEREY, Cal. — The dormi-
nant features of the four-day cele-
gration August 18-21, honoring Father
Junipero Serra, the priest pathfinder,
“California’s Holy Man,” were the
pilgrimage and the Mass celebrated
in the Mission San Carlos de Barro-
meo El Carmello in the peaceful val
ley of the Carmel River. This mis
sion Father Serra loved best of all
and under its main altar his sacred
remains repose.
The pilgrimage was organized un
der the giant oak at the presidio'
gate, where Fathers Andres de la
Asuncion. Tomas de Aguire and An
tonio de la Ascension, the three Car
melite Friars who accompanied Vis-
caino celebrated Mass when that in
trepid evplorer entered Monterey
Bay in 1602. On this historic spot
Father Serra also celebrated Mass
in 1770. when re-discovering the bay
he disembarked from the San An
tonio.
The Rt. Rev. Ramon M. Mestres,
V. G.. pastor of the church of San
Carlos de Monterey, with the San-
Carlos choir, headed the pilgrimage.
Along the Camino Real .the footpath
of the ■ Padres, amid the pine and
twisted cypress fourteen stations
have been marked and crosses and
shrines erected , noting the spots
where Father Serra knelt in silent
prayer, and commemorating the Sor
rowful Way of Our Blessed Lord.
Over this trail four miles long. Father
Mestres led the pilgrimage. Starting
with a few hundred, augmented by
large numbers at the’ different sta
tions, the pilgrimage numbered sev
eral thousand by the time Mission
Carmel was reached.
At every station, before reciting
the prayers, Father Mestres gave a
brief instruction. It is a significant
fact, that regardless of creed or de
nomination, the great assemblage
knelt at every station in the pine
needles or in the dust of the road,
and made responses to the Monsig-
1 fContinued on Page 2)
Monsignor Maestres
Heads Pilgrimage
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Raymond M.
Mestres, V. G., Rector of San Car
los Church, Monterey, California,
who married President of the
United States and Mrs. Hoover in
1899, headed the pilgrimage which
featured the fiesta honoring Fath
er Juniper Serra. Monsignor Mes-.
tres collaborated in the writing
of the fiesta’s pageant.
Mr. Hoover being a Quaker and
his bride-to-be, Miss Lou Henry
an Episcopalian, it was necessary
to obtain special permission from
the Rt. Kev. Georgd Montgomery,
then Bishop of Monterey and Los
Angeles, before Father Mestres
could officiate at their marriage.
Wisconsin Governor
Welcomes K. of C.
Governor Walter J. Kohler, who
flew from Madison to Milwaukee
to extend an official welcome to
Wisconsin to the forty-seventh
annual supreme convention of the
Knight of Columbus. The gov
ernor called the attention of the
Convention to the fact that the
Wisconsin legislature recently
passed a measure officially rec
ognizing Columbus Day, October
12.
News Nuggets j
(From N. C. W. C. News Service)
Prayers for the safety of fliers in
the national air races were offered
by Rev. Edward A. Kirby at all
Masses at St. Cecilia's Church, Cleve
land, August 26.
K. OF C, MEETING
ENDS WITH RALLY
Thousands at Marquette U.
Stadium. Martin Carmody
Re-elected Supreme Knight
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MILWAUKEE, Wis.— The Knights
of Columbus wound up the business
of their forty-seventh annual supreme
1 international convention here August
22 and that night joined with thou
sands of Catholics of this vicinity in
a great Holy Name rally held in the
Marquette University stadium.
The rally was addressed by Quin
O’Brien of Chicago, who spoke on
“The Present % Status of the Church
Universal.” and by the Rev. Camillus
Becker, O. M. Cap., of this city ami
the Rev. Francis J. Ledwig of Gan-
ado, Texas. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Ber
nard G. Traudt, Vicar General and
Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Mil
waukee, pronounced the benediction
that brought the convention to a
close.
Resolutions occupied the attention
of the closing sessions of the conven
tion. A resolution concerning the
erection of a national memorial sta
tue to James Cardinal Gibbons in the
City of Washington wal referred to
the executive board.
A resolution calling upon the Order
to support a memorial to be erected
in Minnesota to Father Hennepin,
missionary and explorer, was with
drawn by the delegation from that
State, and ..it was announced that the
j project would be backed by the Min-
j nesota Kpights of Columbus them
selves.
Mr. O’Brien delved extensively into
the present status of the church in
Belgium, England, Scotland. France.
Austria, Germany, Spain, Italy and
the United States.
“Although over half of the Ameri
can citizens are unbaptized and over
two thirds of them belong to no
church,” he asserted, “the Catholics
twenty million strong liavg kept the
faith with the flag of freedom in one
hand and the cross of Christ in the
other. Against the rising tides oi
Atheism we have battled for the Am
erican heme devoid of divorce; for the
American child’s right to be born: for
American laws and liberty, free from
church dictation and domin ion, and
for American education atune with
God and the soul.”
London Press Lauds Nuns
Sacrifice of Life in Fire
Other Outrages in
Holy Land Recalled
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
JERUSALEM—The clashes between
the Arabs and Jews which broke out
in the Holy City August 23rd, and
which have resulted in the killing of
scores of persons, the wounding of
hundreds of others and the declara
tion of martial law. recall vividly
the fact that on Holy Thursday of
this year, the Orthodox Greeks and
the Moslems added two new indigni
ties to the long list of outrages they
have directed against the Latins, and
that, in 1928, on the eve of Epiphany,
Greek Orthodox sacristans attacked
a group of Franciscan Friars in the
.Holy Grotto of the Nativity in Betli-
yehem. and wielding candlesticks,
wounded them painfully.
Dies in Effort to Reach
Blessed Sacrament. Child
ren Led to Safety
Boston Baptists Laud
Memory of Priest
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BOSTON.—Resolutions adopted by
the Waverly Baptist Society on the
death of the Rev. Richard H. Splaine,
of St. Luke's Parish in that city, have
been received by the Rev. Cornelius
L. Rearden. of St. Luke’s Church.
Father Splaine was a brother of the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. M. J. Splaine, of
Brookline. The two churches face
each othpr in the Waverly section.
Father Splaine was held in high es
teem by the members of the Baptist
Cnurch.
(By N. C. W. C. News Servic^)
LONDON. — “Her life was sacri
ficed to duty,” said the coroner at+an
Inquest held at Hayling Island upon
the body of Sister Celestine (Har
rington) who died in an attempt to
rescue the Blessed Sacrament when
St. Patrick’s Convent there was de
stroyed by fire.
Sister Celestine was acting Mother
Superior of the home at Hayling Isl
and, conducted by Sisters of the
Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary for
crippled and convalescent children
from the slums of big cities.
When fire broke out in the early
morning the nuns showed great per
sonal courage in marching out the
home’s 58 children in perfect order
without their realizing they were
not taking part in a customary fire
drill.
Mother Euphemia, widely known
for her educational work in this
country, Canada, France and Italy,
and for 59 years a Religious of Jesus
and Mary, died here August 29 at
the convent of Our Lady of Peace
which she founded. She was 80 years
old. Interment was in Canada.
A department of physical educa
tion in the parochial schools of St.
Paul opens this fall with Rev. Joseph
Gibbs as director.
Week-day schools of religious ed
ucation are being inaugurated this
fall in ten public schools of Harri
sonburg and Rockingham counties,
Virginia. Fifth and sixth grade pu
pils are being excused from school
one hour each week for religious
education.
A fake priest impersonating Father
Leonard Feeny recently victimized a
number of priests and lay people in
Brooklyn.
Bandit Leader Who
Killed Priests Dead
(Bv N. C. W. C. News Service.)
NANKING. China—Reports of an
encounter which Chinese troops have
just had with bandits in Hunan Pro
vince. just received heie. teds of
the death of Mao-Chi-Y'ung, one of
the outlaw leaders who murdered
the American Passionist missioners,
Fathers Walter Coveyou. Clement
Seybold and Godfrey Holberi, at
Chen Ki. April 24th.
The report was received from the
office of the Chi Kiang Magistrate.
Chao Yungseng, who said the body of
the tnissioner's assassin was identified
by inhabitants of neighboring
places.
Two staircases were cut off by fire
before the children were gotten out,
and had the nuns made straight for
the fire escape without cool recon-
naisance of the situation they would,
it is believed, have led the children
into a trap.
When the children were assembled
on the lawn and the roll was called
it was found that Sister Celestine
was missing. Other nuns entered the
building as far as the smoke would
allow and shouted, “Sister Celes-
tine!" unavailingly. When the fire
department arrived from Portsmouth
and had subdued the flames the men
found Sister Celestine. suffocated
and burned, near the door of the
chapel.
Though the brave nun did not
reach the Blessed Sacrament, the fire
fighters were amazed to find that
while the rooms around the chapel
were burned out. the chapel itself
was not touched by fire and the
Blessed Sacrament was intact.
Bishop Van de Ven. of Alexandria,
La., observed the twenty-fifth anni
versary of his nomination as bishop
in his birthplace, Oirscholt. Holland,
the people of the town honoring him
with a celebration on the jubilee.
Ten thousand children wer enter-
(Continued on Page Two)
Martin H. Carmody. of Grand
Rapids, Mich., was re-elected unani
mously to the office of Supreme
Knight, beginning his second term
Other officers re-elected were:
John F. Martin of Green Bay. Wis.,
Deputy Supreme Knight; William J.
McGinley, of New Haven. Conn.. Su
preme Secretary; Daniel J. Callahan,
of Washington. D. C., Supreme Trea
surer; Luke E. Hart, of St. Louis. Mo.,
Supreme Advocate; Dr. Edward W.
Fahey, of St. Paul, Minn., Supreme
Physician: the Rev. John J. McGiv-
ney, of Bridgeport. Conn.. Supreme
Chaplain, and David F. Supple, of
San Francisco, Calif., Supreme War
den.
Edward Houlihan, of Chicago. 111.,
Leo F. Craig, of Sioux Falls. S. D„
James W. Gibbons, of Topeka. Kans.,
and James H. Devaney. of Cascade,
Iowa, were re-elected members of tha
board of Supreme Directors. Edward
P. Ryan, of Spokane, Wash., was
elected a member of the boa’rd of di
rectors, to succeed Thomas P. White,
of Los Angeles, Calif., who retired.
(The term of Capt. P. H. Rice of
Georgia does not expire until next
year.—Ed. The Bulletin).
Following the election cf officers,
Supreme Knight Carmody was pre
sented with one of the highest Papal
honors—the Grand Cross of the
Order of St. Gregory the Great. The
honor was conferred by the Most Rev
(Continued on Page Two)
“Missionaries No Agents of
Imperialism’’—Msgr. Seipel
The Daily Express, one of the most
widely circulated newspapers in Eng
land, writing of Sister Celestine un
der the caption “The Noble Nun,”
savs editorially:
“The whole country will be in
tensely moved bv the story we print
today of how Sister Celestine. in a
desperate effort to save the Blessed
Sacrament from flames, was burned
(Continued on Page 2)
BY. DR. FREDERICK FUNDER
(Vienna Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service.)
VIENNA—The Church at all times
has realized the necessity of separa
tion of politics and missions to such
an extent that she preferred her mis
sions to suffer, her missioners to be
driven away rather than to allow
them to serve imperialistic ideas,
Msgr. Ignaz Seipel, former Austrian
Chancellor, declared in addressing
the International Academical Mission
Congress just held here.
In developing his theme, the Pre
late pointed out that the Church is
centuries in advance of the secular
powers and of the policies of the
slates. He reminded his hearers that
at all times the Church has urged
that every mission country be given
to its own native clergy and its na
tive hierarchy. Frequently, he re
called she was forced into conflicl
with the European Powers because
of the treatment accorded to the na.-
tives in colonies.
“The modem law of nations,” said
Drl Seipel, “has its origin in the
treatises of the famous theologians,
Suarez and Vittoria. Unfortunately,
their great works fell into oblivion
and only after the lapse of centuries
have the States begun to go ways
similar to those gone by the Church.
This was the case after the World
War, when the League of Nations
was created and a start was made
to replace colonial regime by the
mandatory system.
“Only these missionaries will do
greatest honor to their country and
gain true sympathy for it, who are
the missionaries of the Church only
and not the emissaries of seme secu
lar power. The missionary has ac
complished his work onlv when he
and his brethren have assured that
the gospel shall be brought to fol
lowing generations by native clergy
and not by foreign missionaries. It
must be the ideal of every missio
nary that as soon as possible his
mission territory be no 'longer any
mission territory at all. That is the
viewpoint of the Church.”