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AUGUSTA, GA., DECEMBER 7, 1929
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CARDINAL HAYES IS Sulpician Superior-General
RECEIVED BY POPE Is New Archbishop of Paris
Holy Father Pleased at Re
port of Progress of Church
in New York Archdiocese
By Msgr. Enrico Pucci
(Rome Correspondent. N. C. W. C.
News Service)
ROME — The crown which His
Eminence. Patrick Cardinal Hayes,
Archbishop of New York, placed on
the statue of Our Lady of Sorrows
in his titular church of Santa Maria
in Via, in this city, was the result
of many gifts of the people, from the
humblest to the most eminent. The
idea of the gift originated with the
people of the parish themselves in
the last month of May.
Cardinal Hayes, wishing to show
further his attachment to his titular
church, presented it with two mag
nificent new organs, with their own
tribunes in beautiful marble sur
mounted by a sculptured and gilded
frame. The organs are at present be
ing made and will be put into use
next Easter.
In connection with this magnificent
ceremony in his titular church, I had
the privilege of an interview with
Cardinal Hayes, who told me of his
audience with the Holy Father, and
an interview with Mr. George Mac
Donald. who discussed in some detail
the cruise which the Archbishop of
New York was to take with him on
his yacht, following his departure
from Rome.
“The benevolence of the Holy Fath
er,” said Cardinal Hayes, speaking of
his audience, “was really great to-
(Continued on Page 7)
Archbishop of Paris
Cardinal-Designate
Monsignor Jean Verdier, superior-
general of the Sulpician Fathers, who
lias been named Archbishop of Paris,
and who will be elevated to the Col
lege of Cardinals at the consistory to
be held in Rome this month. He lias
been a Monsignor only a short time.
Monsignor Verdier Named
to Succeed Cardinal Du
bois in Famous See
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
PARIS—For the first time in its
practically three hundred years’
existence, the Society of St. Sulpice
has had one of its members selected
as Archbishop of Paris. The Rt. Rev.
Pierre Verdier, only last July elect
ed superior general of the order, it
was announced officially, will be the
new Archbishop of Paris as suc
cessor to the late Cardinal Dubois.
The news of Msgr. Verdier’s selec
tion came as a surprise to everyone
but to none more than the Sulpicians.
It has always been the policy of the
order to avoid, if possible, such
honors, devoting themselves to their
work of ecclesistical education.
Msgs. Verdier’s appointment is at
tributed to the fact that he possesses,
in addition to the qualities of faith,
humility, untiring patience and kind
ness, an intellectual prestige and
boldness tempered by precedence that
marked him as a worthy successor to
Cardinal Dubois. He enjoyed the
confidence of his predecessor in the
archepiscopal see and was consulted
by him as a specialist in social ques
tions. It was at the request of the
deceased Cardinal Archbishop thaf
the Holy Father raised Canon Verdier
to the rank of Protonotary Apostolic
last October.
The new archbishop was bom in
1861 at Lacroix in Aveyron. He was
(Continued on Page 7)
Immaculate Conception Dogma
Diamond Jubilee Acclaimed
Marist Adrift Eight
Days in South Seas
Boston Priest, South Sea
. Missionary, Nearly Loses
Life on Pastoral Visit
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
HAAPAI, TOUGAN ISLANDS—
Outclassing the most thrilling South
Sea fiction tale was the actual hair-
raising experience of the Reverend
Father Tremblay, S. M., who survived
an eight-day storm in a small boat
with no food but hardtack and no
water.
The occurrence, which reads more
like ficton than reality, took place
on the return journey from the vol
canic “Tin Mail Island,” where Father
Tremblay had gone to rebuild the
church and rectory destroyed by the
eruption of July 25th. One day out
from the volcanic isle a furious
South Sea gale rose. The captain of
the boat was thrown overboard and
rescued, hut with an accident which
nearly caused fatalities to the ten
occupants of the skiff. The water
canteen was knocked overboard in
the maneuvers, leaving a small quan
tity of dusty water that lasted two
days, then no water for four days.
After seven nights and eight days
the boat was landed.
Father Tremblay, who was bom in
Boston, Mass., is pastor of the Haapai
Islands, which form part of the
Vicariate of Central Oceania, prob
ably one of the most adventurous and
thrilling missionary posts in the Pa
cific. The Catholics total 7,800 cared
for by the Marist Fathers.
fBy Staff Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
DRESDEN. — Bolshevism’s o u t-
rageous persecution of religion al
ready has been reported from many
sections of Russia, but information
which has just come to hand from
an absolutely authentic source shows
clearly that the desperate measures
being taken against all Christian
Churches in Soviet Armenia equal,
if they do not surpass in cruelty the
outrages elsewhere.
In Soviet Amenia churches have
been desecrated; priests have been
whipped, publicly humiliated and re
viled, and in at least one case buried
alive. The residences of Apostolic
Administrators have been broken in
to and papers confiscated, translated
and published in an effort to em
barrass priests. Mock processions
have been staged with hoodlums
dressed as Jesuits and Dominicans,
and others wearing sacred church
vestments.
My information has come from a
distinguished Armenian, a dealer in
precious stones, a man of culture,
whose word is absolutely dependable.
Conditions in the Soviet States,
which threaten not only my inform
ant but also the members of his
family with dire and barbarous pun-
Cemetery Closed by
CardinaVs Order
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MALDEN, Mass. —Cardinal O’Con
nell, Archbishop of Boston, ordered
the gates of Holy Cross Cemetery
here closed to all but funerals No
vember 25.
The Cardinal’s order, from Boston,
brings to a halt the pilgrimages to
the grave of the Rev. Patrick Power,
priest who died sixty years ago. Dur
ing the past month an estimated 2,-
000,000 people have visited the grave
of the long-dead priest, in the hope
of finding cures for their various ail
ments. Many cures have been claim
ed.
Before the Cardinal's announce
ment was made, cemetery officials
had planned to close the gates for
all but three hours daily, and also
had announced their intention of re
stricting visitors on four days a
week to invalids and cripples.
The order closing the cemetery
reads:
“By reouest of Cardinal O'Connell
we are asked to publicly broadcast
everywhere that the situation at the
cemetery in Malden has become such
that an investigation is being made
into the whole question which de
veloped there during the past month.
“The Cardinal, therefore, has de
cided that for the interest of all con
cerned the cemeter-' will be closed
to all expect funerals beginning Mon
day morning until further notice.”
ishment if his name become known,
compel me to keep his identity a se
cret. I have been able, however, to
corroborate the entire truth of his
statements with the aid of docu
ments.
“My profession,” said my inform
ant, “takes me on long journeys all
over my native country, from the
Caucasus to far beyond Erzerum. In
this way, I have been, in the last
few years, the witness of a history
of suffering which for my whole na
tion is written in blood and tears.
The lot is made bright only by the
many confessors and martyrs who
sacrificed liberty and their lives for
their faithfulness of Christ.
“The Orthodox Armenian and the
Georgia Churches are today heaps of
ruins. All the once beautiful domed
churches erected for soldiers in the
gardens of various garrison towns,
have been transformed into clubs and
places of amusement. Inside the
churches, the heads, hands and feet
of saints in mural paintings, which,
in many cases, were very valuable,
have been cut off and obscene illus
trations and inscriDtions put on.
“In the time of Diocletian no more
human beings fell before the execu
tioner than during the Russian re
ligious persecutions.”
December 8th is 75th An
niversary of Defining Be
lief Always Held by Church
ROME—Seventy-five years have
nearly passed since the morning of
December 8 1854, when along toward
mid-day, His Holiness Pope Pius IX
declared and made definite inter
missarum solemnia the doctrine of
the Immaculate Conception of the
Most Blessed Virgin Mary Mother
of God.
In these 75 years, the devotion of
the Immaculate conception founded
on the universal tradition of the
Church, hut corroborated by the new
solemn, dogmatic definition—has de
veloped magnificently and has con-
stiuted one of the fruitful sources
for the manifestation of Christian
piety. Religious congregations of
men and women, sodalities, works of
zeal and charity, cultural and scien
tific institutions have multiplied
themselves under the name and
patronage of the Immaculate Concep
tion. Magnificent temples have been
built in all parts of the world under
the title of Mary without sin.
Of these last, one of the greatest
and most magnificent—the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
—is being erected at the Catholic
University of America, in Washing
ton. His Holiness Pope Piux XI,
wishing to contribute to this magnifi
cent undertaking, has caused to be
pushed to conclusion a splendid
mosaic work for the Shrine, begun
by another Pontiff who desired to
express his deep interest in the great
American project, Pipe Benedict XV.
This correspondent has inspected the
mosaic with admiration.
Scarcely three years had passed
after the definition of the dogma of
the Immaculate Conception when in
the litlte town of Lourdes, in the
Pyrenees, the Blessed Virgin^ . in
augurated the series of 18 apparitions
to the young peasant girl, Bernadette
Sourbirous, who in the Holy Year of
1925 was elevated by Popie Pius XI to
the honors of the altars with the
title of Blessed.
The Blessed Virgin appeared dress
ed in a white garment, tightened at
the waist with a blue sash, her head
covered with a flowing veil that
reached to the shoulders with two
gold roses at her feet and clasping in
her hands a rosary of white heads
linked with gold. .
In one of the most memorable of
these apparitions—on March 25th, the
Feast of the Annunciation—the ecsta
tic Bernadette asked the name of
the heavenly visitor. Joining her
hands and raising her eyes to heaven,
the Virgin replied, “I am the Im
maculate Conception.” From that day
Lourdes became the marvelous cen
ter of the mercy of Mary, who could
not have given from Heaven a morfe
beautiful and eloquent sanction ot
the words of the Vicar of Christ oi
earth who gave the definition of her
Immaculate Conception as a dogma of
faith.
Days of Diocletian Recalled
by Red Outrages in Armenia
Irish Archbishop to
Be Made Cardinal
Among those prelates whose ele
vation to the Cardinalate at the con
sistory to be held in Rome this month
already has been announced officially
are Monsignor Jean Verdier, S. S.,
(picture in column two on this page),
who recently was naaied 'Archbishop
of Paris, and (above) the Most Kev.
Joseph MacRory, Archbishop of Ar
magh and Primate of All Ireland.
. Wide World Photos
CATHOLIC U, PLANS
ENDOWMENT FUND
Annual Report of Rector
Reveals Plan for $20,-
000,000 to Provide In
come for Operations
FATHER TORNDORF OF
GEORGETOWN DEAD
Heart Disease Fatal to
World-Famed Authority on
Subject of Earthquakes
(By N. C. W. C. News Agency)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—The Rev.
Francis A. Tondorf, S. J., a seismolo
gist internationally famous for hia
reports on earthquakes, was found
dead in his room at Georgetown Uni
versity here November 29. Death, it
was believed, was caused by a heart
attack.
Funeral services were held Decem
ber 2, in Dahlgren Chapel on the
college campus. The Rt. Rev. John
M. McNamara, auxiliary Bishop ol
Baltimore, who was a pupil of Fath
er Tondorf’s at Loyola College, Bal
timore, officiated. Burial was in the
cemetery at Georgetown.
Father Tondorf was born in Boston,
Mass., July 17, 1870. He received the
degree of Bachelor of Arts at Wood-
stock College, Md„ in 1895, and the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy at
Georgetown, in 1914. While still a
scholastic at Woodstock College, he
took post-graduate work in physiol
ogy and biology at Johns Hopkins,
Baltimore.
Having been stationed at George
town since 1903, Father Tondorf was,
in point of service, the oldest mem
ber of the religious community at the
noted Jesuit school. In addition to
his work as director of the Seismic
Observatory, Father Tondorf in Sep
tember became head of the depart
ment of physiology in the George
town University -School of Medicine.
He had taught physiology in the Med
ical School for many years, but was
relieve of this work five years ago,
because he was at the time conduct
ing the seismological research at the
univrsity and lecturing at Woodstock
College.
Father Tondorf was for a num
ber of years the assistant and col
laborator of the Rev. John George
Hagen, S. J., formerly of Georgetown
but now director of the Vatican as-
I tronomical observatory.
(ByN. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A plan for
the realization of a $20,000,000 endow
ment fund is now being studied by
the executive c.ommittee of the Cath
olic University" of America here, it
is revealed in the annual report of
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. James H. Ryan,
Rector of the University, which has I
just been made available.
Certain suggestions regarding the
plan were submitted by the executive
committee to the Board of Trustees
of the University at its recent annual
meeting in this city, but details of the
project have not yet been made pub
lic.
In bringing the endowment fund
plan to the attention of the Board of
Trustees, through his annual report,
Monsignor Ryan declared that the
needs of the University “are many
and important, and that “if it is to
keep its place as the foremost Catho
lic institution of the country, means
must be found to meet these ever-in-
creasing demands.
“In the first place, he continued, “I
would call the attention of the Board
to oul totally inadequate Endowment
Fund. A glimpse at the treasurers
report cannot but convince one that
the Endowment Fund must be quad
rupled if the University is to do its
work properly. No university can
live on tuition fees or on casual gifts.
An adepuate Endowment Fund is the.
only sure foundation for the future.
We are almost hopelessly outclassed
by other universities in respect to
funded resources. Our present en
dowment is well invested, and its in
come is spent most economically.”
It was, however, in the field of
seismology that Father Tondorf was
best known. He was the first to re
port the Japanese earthquake in 1923,
locating the scene of the disaster sev
eral hours before news of the quake
arrived in the United States. His
observations were carried as news by
the great news agencies papers
' of the country, and invariably he
was referred to when any serious
earthquake occurred.
Besides checking up on the numer
ous seismic disturbances recorded
daily on the machines at Georgetown.
Father Tondorf issued a monthly bul
letin on earthquakes to all observa
tories throughout the world.
In 1927, Father Tondorf was honor
ed with election as a fellow of the
Royal Astronomical Society in Lon
don. He was also a member of the
Seismological Society of America, the
American Geophysical Union, the
Washington Academy of Science and
other learned groups. He was the
author of various brochures and arti
cles in scientific journals.
CLEVELAND FUND AIDS
CATHOLIC CHARITIES
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CLEVELAND. — Catholic hospitals
and other welfare institutions will re
ceive more than $400,000 from this
year’s community chest fund, can
vassing for which got under way
Monday and will continue until Nov,
26. The goal is $4,650,000, the largest
in the ten years the fund has been in
existence.
Fr. Torndorf’s Earthquake
Reports Nov. 18 Led Field
(ByN. C. W. C. News Service)
WAHIGTO, D. C.—Jesuit seismolo
gists have again proved the accuracy
of their observations.
On Nov. 18, earthquake shocks
were felt throughout New England
and New York. The shocks were vi
olent in some sections, shaking build
ings and breaking crockery in homes.
And while seismologists throughout
the United States were computing
their findings the Rev. Francis A.
Tondorf. S. J., of Georgetown Un
iversity, who died the »following
week, reported to the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey that the
disturbance, according to his instru
ments, had occurred in the Atlantic
Oce^n, somewhere southeast of the
Newfoundland coast.
Other reports had varied, some es
timating th e disturbance to have
been at the mouth of the St. Law
rence River, and others farther South.
But Father Tondorf s information was
as nearly accurate as it is possible to
get, Government seismologists have
announced. The reports of cable
ships, repairing the broken lines at
the scene of the disturbance, bales
his computations almost exactly.
There are seismological stations op
erated by Jesuits in seven cities—
Washington, New York, New Orleans,
S. Louis, Denver, Manila and Shang
hai. Some of these, as at Fordham
and Georgetown, are university ob
servatories; the others are indepen
dent stations founded and operated
for the purpose of advancing scienti
fic knowledge with regard to earth
disturbances.
Government scientists are eager to
give the Jesuits full credit for their
invaluable aid. They have been stud-
ing earthquakes, as an organized
body, longer than the government has
and are, consequently, more than
ordinarly reliable; their reports, as a
general rule, are more quickly for
warded to Washington than those of
independent stations.