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10 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA OCTOBER 19, 1929 Was Nun Author of * Someone* s Darling*? Catholic Editor’s Inquiry About Miss LaCoste Brings Savannah Data About Her (From the Milwaukee Catholic Citizen) The Savannah (Ga.) Morning News (September 25) reprints our editorial. “Was She a Nun?” referring to the author of the poem. “Somebody’s “Darling.” As Miss LaCoste was born in Savannah, this republication nat urally brought some information. According to information furnished by Miss Jennie Cohen, Miss LaCoste taugh school in Savannah at the cor ner of Whitaker and Liberty streets. Miss Cohen was not herself one of the pupils at this school but she thinks it probable that other Savan nah people now living were and may know mote about Miss LaCosteV life. The poem, “Somebody’s Darling,” Miss Cohen said, was included in a book edited by Miss Emily Mason and published in Virginia, the title being “Southern Poems of the War.” Mr. D. G. Bickers, and editor or the Savannah News, adds this memoran dum: Prof. Henri LaCoste taught French in Chatham Academy, 1844-45, and had private classes of his own 1848-49. In 1851-52 he and his wife conducted French and English classes in the city. In 1861 his wife, Madame H. or A; LaCoste opened “La Retraiti,” a French and English day and boarding school. This school she conducted 1861-64. She als6 taught school in the city in 1859-61. The author of the verses may have been the daughter of the pair of teachers alluded to in the above which was dug up by A. S. Otto, who is compiling a history of education in Savannah and Chatham County, So. Meanwhile. Nina Duffy of Stark weather, N.D., sends us this clipping from an old newspaper: “SOMEBODY’S DARLING” "The present war has brought out many beautiful bits of verse, but none equal to the following lines written by Sister LaCoste. a member of one of the sisterhoods that did ser vice during the conflict between the North and the South. Coming to the ‘dead room’ of the hospital, she saw the corpse of a young man who had been fatally wounded at the battle of Cedar Creek. He proved to be Pat rick Feeney, who had enlisted at De troit. He was the only son of a widowed mother, who, when she learned of his enlistment, strove to get his release from the commanding general. She was refused and faint ed away. While in this condition she was brought in. She stared at him in a vacant way for a few seconds, and then a look of admiration come to her eyes. The sight of her brave boy in a new. suit of blue touched her pride. She was the mother of one willing to sacrifice- his life while fighting for his country. “As mother and son embraced for the last time, tears came to the eyes of those near. A few months later a letter came from Sister LaCoste saying that Patrick Feeney had been wounded unto death, but he had lived to receive the last sacraments of the Church and to 'send word to his mother.” This story is reprinted here subject to verification. We are looking to Baltimore for further information. Miss LaCoste removed to that town and was a resident there in 1886. New Christus Selected for Oberamergau Passion Play Anton Lang Retires and Aloys Lang of Another Family Is Chosen for Role Gy N. C.'W. C. News Service) OBERAMMERGAU — For the first time in 30 years there will be'a new actor playing the role of Christus, when the residents of this little Ba varian mountain village present their Passion Play. Aloys Lang, wood car ver, has received the coveted honor. Aloys succeeds the world-famous Anton Lang, who is now 58 years of age^-too old to play the part of the Saviour. There is no relationship be tween the two. The new Christus, who hitherto has played the role of Nathaniel, is 38 years old, six feet tall, and has the olive complexion and classical features of the Nazarene. In the last election. Aloys was beaten by Anton Lang by the close margin of one Vote. A new player for the role of the Virgin afto was selected—Annie Rutz. She succeeds the old player of Mary, Martha Veit, who deserted the cast after the last presentation to marrv a Dutch visitor to the fete. Anton Lang did not run for his old role in this year’s election but con tented himself with the role of the prologue reader, the traditional part of the retiring Christus. The race for election to the part of Mary was close, with Miss Rutz opposed by Hansi Preisinger, 22, an inn-keeper’s daughter. The latter was appointed to play the part of Mary Magdalen. Miss Rutfc is 20. and has sable hair and dark eyes. BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE BELMONT. N. C. Established in 1878 Boarding School for Boys and Young Men High School Preparatory ‘ Clas'ical and Scientific Courses Prepare for Any College Fully Recognized by the State Board o>f Education JUNIOR COLLEGE Two Years of Pre-Law, Pre-Medical, Load to Bncholor of Arts or Professions APPROVED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF N. C. AND STATE BOARD Now Athletic Field, one of the Finest in the South, Suitable for All Out- Door Sports For further information apply to THE REV. RECTOR. Bolmont Abbey College Belmont. N. C. New York Life Insurance Co. What Will You Leave Your Mother, Wife and Children if You Are Taken Away « Tomorrow? What Is the Value of Your Life? These are questions to be settled while you are living and in good health. I can make a contract with you that will take care of all these things with The New Insurance Company. Immediately upon learning that he had been elected to the major rol», Aloys Lang went to the town’s church, where he prayed in thanks giving. His election has caused gen eral satisfaction, as he is known as one of the most pious of the vil lagers. He has trained all his life for appearance in the Passion Play, and is well qualified in outward ap pearance for the part. He has a chestnut beard, and dark brown hair, which is uncut. Lang is known as one of the most industrious and thrifty "men in the village. He is conceded to be one of the best wood carvers in Ober ammergau and in addition tends for ty beehives. Like all other Passion Players, he based his claim to the role he received upon his SDiritual as well as physical qualifications. There are 2,500 inhabitants in Ober- ammergau, one-fifth of whom take part in the' great drama. A com mittee elects all the speaking players, of whom there are 103. In addition to the selections of Christus, Mary and Mary Magdalen, three others have been chosen. They are Randi Peter for the part of St. Peter, Guido Mayr for Judes, and Hans Lang for St. John. The play will open in May next year, when 300,000 visitors, 50.000 of them Americans, are expected to visit Oberammergau. The fact that both players of Christus are named Lang is not con sidered unusual, as there are 500 per sons in the village bearing the name. Bonaparte House Is Mercy Motherhouse Headquarters of Amal gamated Sisters of Mercy Estate Near Baltimore BISHOP OF BERLIN TAKES UP DUTIES Noted Philosopher Heads See of 600,000 Catholics BALTIMORE, Md.—The General or Motherhouse of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy in the United States, an amalagmation of more than five thousand members of the Order from all parts of the country, recently formed at Cincinnati, will be established at Mt. Vista, the old Bonaparte estate, near Baltimore. The property, which consists of thirty-six acres, improved by a large frame dwelling containing twenty rooms, was given to the Sisters of Mercy in Maryland in March, 1928. Sincp that time it has remained un occupied. The home was erected in the ’90s by the late Charles Bonaparte. The Superior General of the Order, Moth er Mary Carmelita, a Baltimorean and former head of the Sisters of Mercy in Maryland with headquarters at Mt. St. Agnes, Mt. Washington, will make her home' at Mt. Vista. Sister Mary Thomasina, wbo, for the past four years, has been the directress of St. Vincent’s Male Or phan Asylum, the Procuratrix-Gen- eral of the Order, will also be sta tioned there, as will the secretary- general of the Order, Sister Mary Gregory of Chicago, and the four Councilors, Mother Bernadine. Cin- rmr.ati; Mother D’Neri, New York; Mother Aquin. Omaha, and Mother- M. Dominica, Mobile. LOYOLA NAMES PROFESSOR (fey N. C. W. C. News Service.) CHICAGO—"Hie appointment of Prof. Paul KinieFy. to the department of history was announced by the Rev. Frederic Siedenburg, S. J., dean of the downtown college of Loyola Universtiy. Professor Kiniery ccmeS to Loyola University from the Uni versity of Wisconsin where he took his degrees. BY REV. DR. WILHELM BARON VON CAPITANE (Cologne Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service.) < COLOGNE—On October 1st, the newly elected Bishop of Berlin, the Rt. Rev. Christian Schreiber assumed administration of the new bishopric. His appointment will actually take place after the formation of the metropolitan chapter and the com pletion of other diocesan organiza tion. On September 22nd„ in all the Berlin churches, a pastoral letter from Cardinal Berham, Archbishop of Breslau, was read ip which he bade farewell to the people of the now independent Diocese of Berlin. Bishop Schreiber was born in the little town of Somborn on the Hesse- Bavarian border in 1872. While a professor in the seminary at Fulda he published a number of theological and philosophical works. So great an authority ir he on such matters that when he became Bishop of Meis sen after the war, he delivered lec tures at the University of Leipzig on the philsosophy of Immanual Kant. Many non-Catholic students attended his course. According to the latest statistics available, the new See of Berlin has 608,080 Catholics of whom 470,000 are resident- in Berlin. There are 13 archipresbyteries or deaneries, Ber lin having seven, Brandenburg three, and Pomerania three. Brother Francis of Belmont Abbey Dies Venerable Benedictine Re bey, Professed 50 Years (Special to The Bulletin) BELMONT, N. C. — The venerable Brother Francis Swiesler, O. S. B., aged 74 years, died from advancing age on September 24, at Belmont Abbey. He is survived by several relatives in Dayton, Ohio, and Wash ington, D. C. BrotherTrancis celebrated his 50th year of service in the Benedictine Order last year. Born in Dayton, O., in 1885, he joined the Order in 1878, serving at many different monasteries thrughout the United States. He had been stationed at Belmont Abbey for the past 26 years. Funeral services were held in the Abbey Cathedfal on Thursday, Sep tember 26, and burial was made in the Abbey cemetery. FIRE SURGEONS HONOR j Dr. W. F. O’Connell FR. CHARLES MOULIN IER Miami Grand Knight (By N. C. W. C. News Service) DETROIT — The Rev. Charles B. Moulinier, former regent of the med ical school, Marquette University, has been elected honorary member of the National Association of Police and Fire Surgeon, which closed its convention here September 28. Pax ton Mendelssohn, chief of Box 12 Associates, “buff” , fire fighters orga nization, proposed Father Moulinier for the honor, with the statement that he has been “more of a doctor than some of us.’ Father Moulinier was appointed re cently to take charge of the medi cal department of the University of Detroit. He organized and was pres ident for 15 years of the Catholic Hospital Association, and has been honored by many universities for his pioneer hospital work. In the June issue of Hospital Man agement, Dr. Franklin M. Martin, president, American College of , Sur geons, eulogized his work, which he characterized as “that of a genius, standing for tangible and enduring progress.” Succeeds Henry C. Kleier, Who Retires After Fine JOHN J. BRADLEY IS ATLANTA GRAND KNIGHT Other Officers Installed. Fifteen Former Grand Knights of Council Honored For tlie first time In thirty years, a new actor will play the Christus in the 1930 Passion Play at Oberam mergau. Aloys Lang (above) will play the role next year, supplanting the famous Anton Lang, who is now too old. The Langs are not related. Annie Rutz (below), twenty-three years old, will play the part of the Blessed Virgin in the 1930 presenta tion of the play. (Special to The Bulletin) ATLANTA, Ga.—John J. Bradley, elected grand knight of Atlanta Council at the annual election in Sep tember, and the other officers chosen at the same time were installed at the first October meeting, District Deputy James A. LaHatte presiding. Other officers elected and installed included William J. Welsh, deputy grand knight; Dr. Leo P. Daly, chan cellor; Chas. B. Cannon, recorder; John ,T, McGrather, warden; Daniel McAuliffe. inside guard; Philip Druiff and, Thomas Flynn, outside guards; Frank Gillespie, James A. LaHatte and J. J. Collins, trustees. Grand Knight Bradley, who has rendered the Council long and effec tive service in various capacities, suc ceeds Lewis F. Gordon, who retires after two terms of office in which the council made splendid progress. The most conspicous achievement during his service was the acquiring of the magnificent Columbus home on Peachtree Street as a home for the Council and other Catholic or ganizations in Atlanta. Fifteen past grand knights of At lanta- Council were guests of honor at a recent meeting. Past Grand Knight Peter W. Clark as senior past grand knight presided. Other past grand knights among those honored were James A. Holliday, Richard A. Magill, John B. McCallum, Matthew C. Car- roll, John M. Harison, Dr. Joseph Hines, Edward Flynt. Lewis D. Sharp, Joseph Callahan. Winfield P. Jones, Andrew A. Baumstark, James A. LaHatte, Clement McGown and Lewis F. Gordon. (Special to The Bulletin.) MIAMI. Fla.—Dr. William F. O’Connell, deputy grand .knight of Miami Council, has been installed as grand knight of the council, fol lowing the annual lection; he suc ceeds Henry C. Kleier whore achieve ments as grand knight during his several terms have made him wide ly known throughout K. of C. circles in this section. Other officers' installed included John Waldhouser, deputy grand knight; James A. Dunn, chancellor; William Michael. warden; Jame Hourihan, trustee; Dr. E. V. Denau! recording secretary; J. E. Marcou. advocate; Frank Clair, inside guard J. P. Chapman, outside guard. The Knights of Columbus Council here has splendid quarters on the nineteenth floor of the Congress Building from which Miami may be seen on all four sides, and the coun cil extends a cordial invitation to members to visit Miami and the Knights of Columbus quarters there. Father Lissner Tells Seminarians of Work The Voice of St. Mary’s Records Address on Labors Among Colored in Georgia Very Rev. Ignatius Lissner, S. M. A., provincial of the Society of Afri can Missions, was a recent speaker at St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore and described the work of his so ciety among the colored people of the South. Father Lissner was quoted extensively in The Voice, the semi-' nary publication, which said in part: Father Lissner said his method— MONSIGNOR LEFT S9.000 -r BY PROTESTANT’S WILL (By N. C. W. C. News Service) AUBURN, N. Y. — A bequest of $9,000 to Msgr. Patrick J. Byrne of Maryknoll is contained in the will of the late Dr. Horace S. Cutler, a den tist who died recently. Dr. Cutler was not a Catholic, but his wife, al so deceased, was. and he has had much success with it—is to do everything through the children. The first thing he does in a/parish is build a school. Colored people are as anxious for education as white people are and they realize the moral benefits of a Catholic education. Father Lissner's Order now has three schools-in the city of Savannah alone. One of them with an enrollment of 700, and all of them overcrowded. Now thev are looking for a high school which they need badly. So far they have been hamp ered by a lack of money. Despite this lack Father Lissner said that he and his priests have accomplished much, both in the building of schools and churches and the making of con verts. The two big obstacles to colored conversions, he finds, are freemasonry and divorce. In concluding Father Lissner Said be and his Order are working on “the firing line” in the South and need a ‘ little sympathy from their fellow Catholics. He asked that we give our prayers for the success of his.work. AGED BROTHER DIES (By N. C. W. C. News Service) SAN DIEGO—Brothmer Otto, O. F. M„ member of the Franciscan Order for more than 60 years, was buried here recently. He died at Mission San Luis Rey. He had been a Cali fornia resident nearly all his life. Southern Finance Corporation REAL ESTATE AND RENTING GENERAL INSURANCE MORTGAGE BONDS AND LOANS AUTOMOBILE FINANCING Southern Finance Corporation Building AUGUSTA, GEORGIA LIBERTY BANK AND TRUST CO. SAVANNAH, GA. Capital $300,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits... $525,000.00 Solicits Your Account The Georgia State Savings Assn. BULL AND YORK STREETS—SAVANNAH, GA. 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