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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA JANUARY 4, 1930
PRIEST RANSOMS
MINISTERS CHINA
Secures Protestant Clergy
man’s Release by Paying
$100 to Bandits
.. (By .N. C. W. C. News Service)
KWEICHOW (Szechwan, China)—
When the Reverend Mr. Smith, Prot
estant missionary, was captured by
Chinese Communists, his freedom was
secured by a Catholic priest, Rever
end Father Aloys Baumeister, M.S.C.,
by payment of $100 ransom. Immedi
ately following the release of Rev. Mr.
Smith, the priest was himself captur
ed and escaped death by the timely
arripal of soldiers, Sepember 20. De
scribing his experience, he writes:
“From September 12-20 I was in the
hands of the communist bandits, forc
ed to submit to threats of shooting,
chains, and all the depredations a
band of brigands is capable of imagi
ning. I would have been assassinat
ed had not soldiers arrived on the
twentieth and scattered the band.
These bandits are all over the place.
“Recently they captured and ill-
treated Father Ankenbrand at Wucn-
wah. Property damages are ever in
creasing. My entire station is in
ruins, everything having been wreck
ed, burned or stolen. The three mis
sionaries who left Germany a year
ago cannot come through on account
of the bandits. I haven't even a page
of clean paper or any ink.”
Father Baumeister is the successor
of Father Winkleman. who was mur
dered by bandits last year, as Super
ior of the Mission at Tekiank. Kwei
chow Vivariate, Szechwan, China.
NIGHT SCHOOL IN R0J/1E
OPENS ITS 56TH YEAR
<Bv N. C. W. C. News Service.)
, ROME—With simple but impres
sive services the Associazione Cat-
tolica Artistico-Operia commemorat
ed the beginning of the fifty-sixth
year of its evening school.
The school offers courses in
geometrical, architectural and ornate
design: a superior course in applied
design; a course in illustration and
various technical fields; plastic art;
end a practical course in electric ..
—• majority of the pupils are em
ployed in the daytime in some phase
of applied art and seek to impro.e
their technique and the scope of
their work through attendance at
the night school.
REDS DESTROY FAMOUS
CHAPEL IN MOSCOW
By DR. FREDERIC FUNDER
(Vienna Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
VIENNA — News received here
from private sources give an account
of the profound commotion and deep
humiliation caused among the Christ
ian population of the Russian capital
still faithful to their faith, by the act
of vandalism recently committed by
the Soviet authorities; the demolition
of the venerable Iberian Chapel in
Moscow.
The Chapel of the Iberian Madon
na was an annex to the Iberian mona
stery which is in the vicinity of the
Kremlin. When the inhabitants of
the city recently awoke in the morn
ing they found the gates of the mona
stery closed and laborers razing the
historic chapel.
Noted Catholic Dies
at Washington, D. C.
Mme. Marie Porter of
Famed Family Widow of
Col. Porter of Confederacy
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.— Funeral services
for Mme. Marie C. Porter, descend
ant of a distinguished French fam
ily and the widow of the late Col.
Charles Porter of the Army of the
Confederacy, who died Christmas'
morning at Walter Reed Hospital,
were held at| S.t. Paul’s Church here.
Burial was in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Madame Porter was born in Paris,
in 18-16, and came to this country with
her parents 10 years later. The fam
ily subsequently settled at Wythe-
ville. Va.
Prior to coming to this country,
Madame Porter's father, M. Charles
Hartman, was a member of the Im
perial Guard of France- Her great
uncle. Dr. Phillip Hartman, was a
marshal of France and the personal
physician of Marie Louise, the second
wife of Napoleon. Dr. Hartman was
in attendance at the birth of the King
of Rome, destined to become Na
poleon II.
Madame Porter was an accomplish
ed linguist and a devotee of music.
She was for many years engaged in
private tutoring, and during the
World War served as a translator of
foreign dispatches in the Navy De
partment.
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IPassion Play at Oberammergau
1930 Objective of U. S. Tourists
! I he Village of Oberammergau, iu the foothills of the Bavarian Alp«. and
Rev. \V. Coleman Nevils, President of Georgetown University
and Cltainuan of the Executive Council of the newly
formed Catholic Students Travel Teague
New Catholic Students Travel League Features Age-Old
Stupendous Spectacle on Tours
NEW YORK—Europe is always]
alluring to the American traveler,'
but there is an added incentive for
going abroad in I960. It is the
year of the Passion Play. This;
stupendous spectacle is presented
over a period of five months every
tenth year, and Americans are at
tracted to these performances in ^
increasing numbers each lime they ]
are given at Oberammergau.
The ’Passion Play will be given j
every Sunday next May and June,]
and twice weekly the following |
three months. Attendance at the j
Passion Play is featured on a num-!
ber of the tours of the newly form
ed Catholic Students Travel’ League :
in 1930.
Besides its religious significance,
the Passion Play serves to interest I
the tourist because of the hospital- 1
ity of the villagers to the visitors
to Oberammergau. Nearly the en- j
tire population of this quaint vil- |
lage. which nestles in the foothills'
of the Bavarian Alps, participates]
in the performances, and it is 'the
custom that eacli spectator be
housed by a player the night pre
ceding the performance.
Already several hundred reserva
tions for these quarters have been
made for members on tours of the
Catholic Student* Travel League
next Spring and Summer. This
organization has the endorsement
and support of hundreds of church
dignitaries afid educators at the
leading colleges and schools of the
United States and Canada. His
Eminence, William Cardinal
O'Connell, Archbishop of Eoston,
Is one of the endorsers, and the
Executive Council is headed by Rev.
W. Coleman Nevils, president of
Georgetown University. I.ocai
headquarters of the League are lo
cated at No. 551 Fifth Avenue.
The Passion Play, a dramatiza
tion of the life of Christ ,has been
given every tenth year since the
plague of 1033. During that year
the citlzens of Oberammergau vow
ed that they would re-enact the
life of Christ every tenth year as
a thanksgiving offering for having-
been delivered of the inflictive
evil.
The play Is a gigantic manifesta
tion of religious worship and the
moral character of each actor is
considered as well as, his histrionic
ability. The whole village lives for
this production. The inhabitants
spend their time at fashioning
■ crucifixes, rosaries and images of
i the Saints for disposal to the tour-
j ists who pass through their village
] year by year.
i The Passion Play portrayals are
- the epitome of emotional acting.
| Each player puts his very soul into
! his part. • Participation in one of
| the leading character roles is the
.‘life's achievement of each player.
GERMAN PRESIDENT •
FELICITATES POPE
Holy Father Replies to Hind-
enburg’s Congratulatory
Message on Jubilee
BY DR. WILEY ELMENDOKF’F
(Berlin Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
BERLIN.—President von Hinden-
burg has received a letter from Pope
1 ius XI in acknowledgement of the
one addressed to His .Holiness on the
occasion of his golden jubilee. The
text of these two letters has just
been made public.
- “Your Holiness,” the President's-let-
i ter reads, “is now celebrating the
fiftieth year of Your priesthood. It
is my special privilege, Your Holi
ness, on this occasion to convey to
you an expression of my personal
congratulations as well as those of
. the state. May the Almighty, Your
Holiness, fill your old age with fruit
ful works and grant to your untiring
flock. Your Holiness, His blessing- I
. have commissioned my ambassador to
the Holy See, Dr. von Bergen, to
present this letter to Your Holiness,
and. by word of mouth, to try to con
vince you of the feelings that fill me
en this worthy occasion. As a token
of my interest and friendly sentiment,
please accept from the hands of the
Honorable Ambassador a table serv
ice made at the State Porcelain Fac
tory in Berlin, a duplicate of that
mad.: for King Friedrich II of Prus
sia. With best wishes for the per
sonal welfare of Your Holiness I
combine the assurance of my per-
I feet esteem and sincere friendship.”
The Sovereign Pontiffs letter is ad
dressed to “The distinguished and
honorable Paul von Beneckendorif
und von Hindenburg, President of the
German State."
“Distinguished and Honored Sir,”
the Holy Father’s letter reads,
“Greetings and health. Your excel
lency, the German Ambassador to the
Holy’ See, has tc Our joy delivered
your letter, in which you express
wishes for Our happiness and pros
perity on the jubilee of Our fifty
year - in the priesthood, and brought
the gift, a wonderful work of art
which you and the German people
have had the goodness to present on
this happy occasion. Both the so
highly esteemed gift, which attests
to the finest art, as well as the action
and good wishes which you and the
German people have brought to the
Holy See have filled Us with great
satisfaction. Therefore, we repeat
and affirm anew in this letter our
feelings of profound thanks, which
We have already expressed to your
Ambassador. In this spirit of grati
tude it pleases Us to implore the Al
mighty God that He protect you and
your beloved people wtih His om
nipotent strength and bless and unite
you with Us in perfect love.”
TOUR CHAPLAIN NAMED
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
SAN FRANCISCO. — The Most
Rev. Edward J. Hanna, Archbishop
of San Francisco, has announced the
appointment of the Rev. Oliver A.
Welch. C. S. P.. of Old St. Mary's
Church.( to serve as chaplain of the
1930 pilgrimage to the Passion Play
at Oberammergau by the people of
the San Francisco archdiocese.
Birmingham Church
Dedication Jan. 19
Bishop 'Toolen to Officiate at
New St. Bernard’s, Fr.
M. J. Rafferty Pastor
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BIRJMNGHAM. Ala.— January 19
has been set for the dedication of
new Saint Bernard’s Church, Ingle-
nook, Birmingham, Ala., by the RL
Rev. T. J. Toolen, D. D., Bisohp of
Mobile. This is the second new par
ish established since the coming of
Bishop Toolen to the diocese; the
other is the Little Flower in Mobile.
Saint Bernard’s is a brick-veneer
building with a seating capacity of
250. Chas. H. McCauley of Birming
ham was the architect, Nobinger and
Hooks the contractors. Father M. J.
Rafferty, formerly assistant at St.
Vincent’s, Mobile, is the pastor.
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Apalachicola School
Fire Damage Heavy
Sisters Conduct Classes at
Community Club Through
Courtesy of Philaco Club
(Special to The Bulletin).
APALACHICOLA, Fla.— Following
the fire at the Convent of Our Lady,
Star of the Sea, here, the Sisters
were enabled to continue classes at
the Community House through the
kindness of the Philaco Club. The
fire, which occurred December 4, re
sulted in damage of $15,000, only $5,000
of which is covered by insurance.
The Convent was built in 1901. The
fire broke out at noon and the fur
nishings for the most part saved ex
cept those in the chapel, which were
destroyed, including the altar, sta
tions and statues. Rev, Michael J.
Keyes is pastor of the Apalachicola
' parish.
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