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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NOVEMBER 19, 1932
A Page of Carolina Catholic News
Greenville Council
of N.C.C.W. Meets
Plans for Coming Months
Made at Gathering
(Special to The Bulletin)
GREENVILLE, S. C. —A great deal
of business was transacted at the
regular monthly meeting of the
Council of Catholic Women in No
vember. The president, Miss Mary
Slattery, presided and after the in
vocation by Mrs. Miles S. Phillips,
the minutes were' read and reports
made by chairmen of various com
mittees.
The following were assigned to so
licit for the Red Cross Roll Call in
Ward One: Mrs. Catherine Berry,
Mrs. Raymond Beliotte, Mrs. Ernest
Patton. Mrs. E. Dowling, Mrs. L. P.
Slattery, Mrs. West. Mrs. H. P. Bur
bage, Mrs. Miles R. Phillips. Mrs.
Thomas Cantwell. Miss Howard. Mrs.
W. A. Bindewald, Miss Catherine
Miller, Mrs. Wainfright, Mrs. T. L.
Kivett and Mrs. J. H F. Rascob.
Gingham dresses to be sewed for
the Welfare Association were dis
tributed, as were tickets to be sold
for the coming indoor circus.
The Commonweal will again be
sent to the City Library. For cur
rent events Mrs. H. P. Burbage read
a message from the president of the
National Council of Catholic Women,
Miss Mary Hawks, and Interesting
Facts About the Mass from the Music
Club Magazine.
Papers relating to the origin of
many Christmas customs will be read
at the December meeting by Mrs. W.
A. Bindewald, Mrs. M. R. Phillips,
Mrs. Thomas Cantwell, Mrs. L. P.
Slattery. Mrs. L. C. Sease and Mrs.
H. P. Burbage.
Tea and cake was served during
the social hour by the hostesses, Mrs.
Otto Schwiers, Mrs. Thomas Cantwell
and Mrs. John Reynolds.
Death Claims John
Love in Greenville
Lifelong Resident of City Is
Dead at 76
(Special to The Bulletin)
GREENVILLE, S. C. — John Love,
a lifelong resident of Greenville, and
for over a half-century prominently
identified with the religious and
civic activities of the community,
died here November 1, after a brief
illness; he attended Mass as usual
the previous Sunday. For the past
32 years he had been public auc
tioneer. On October 20 he and Mrs.
Love, who is treasurer of the Dio
cesan Council of the Council of
Catholic Women, observed the 47th
anniversary of their marriage.
Mr. Love was born here 76^ years
ago, and was a life-long member of
St. Mary’s Church, from which his
funeral was held with a Requiem
Mass. Interment as in Springwood
Cemetery. Surviving, in addition to
ll is widow are a brother, W. J. Love, of
Travelers’ Rest, and four sisters, Mrs.
Elizabeth King and Mrs. Kate Lam
bert, of Greenville, and Mrs. W■ G^
Howard and Miss Hannah Love :
Travelers’ Rest.
Salisbury's Golden Jubilee
Church in Pioneer Parish
History of the Parish Dates
Back a Century. “Christian
Reid’’ Donated Church Site
of
Noted Harpist Gives
Asheville Recital
Edythe Marmion Brosius at
St. Genevieve’s
Greenville Men at
Communion Monthly
Mass at St. Mary’s for De
ceased Members of K. of C.
Inaugurates Custom
(Special to The Bulletin)
GREENVILLE. S. C. — The cus
tom of men receiving Holy Commun
ion in a body was inaugurated at
St. Mary’s Church. Rt. Rev. Msgr.
A. K. Gwynn. pastor, the first Sun
day in November, the Mass being of
fered up for the repose of the souls
of members of the Knights of Co
lumbus who died during the year,
Louis Deimling, Stephen E. King
and John Love. The Knights of Co
lumbus are co-operating with Mon
signor Gwynn in the movement, a
committee composed of Richard Eas-
sy, L. P. Slattery and James F. Gal-
livan, making the arrangements. The
men will receive Holy Communion
in a body monthly hereafter.
The young men of St. Mary’s parish
entertained with a Hallowe'en party
for the children of St. Mary’s late in
October. Mrs. Alice Howard led the
children in games and contests. Prizes
for costumes were won by little
Misses Jean Anawalt, Jean Rogers,
and Anne Crosby, while Emil George
was awarded the prize for special
costume. Virginia Wittcamp and
Charles Ballentine were winners in
the rick-rack contest.
Paul Deimling, Robert George, An
thony Seamon and Peter Berry pre
sented a skit for the entertainment
of the youngsters, and little Miss
Mary George entertained with a tap
dance.
The Junior Council of Cath
olic Women entertained with a Hal
lowe’en social at St. Mary’s School
with the Catholic boys at Clemson
and Furman University as special
guests. The grand march was led byl
Miss Claire Blsslnnar and H. B.
ASHEVILLE, N. C.—Edythe Mar
mion Brosius, harpist of renown,
Washington, D. C.. appeared in a
concert at St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines,
November 4.
The program presented by Madame
Brosius was as follows: “Priere,” Has-
selman’s. “Au Monasters,” Hassel-
mans; “Le Bon Petit Roi D’Yvoetot
and ‘‘Chanson de Uillot Martin,” ^six
teenth century French folk songs ar
ranged by Perilhou; “C Minor Pre
lude,” Chopin; “La Fille aux Che-
veaux de lin,” Debussy; “Chacome,”
Durand: “Song of the Volga Boat
man;” “Holy Night,” “The Harp That
Once Through Tara’s Halls,” “Mother
Machree,” and “XIV Century Irish
Boat Song,” arranged for harp by
Madame Brosius; “Minuet from the
Opera of Therse,” “Massenet; “Am-
springbrunnen,” Zabel; “Minuet of
the King of France,” traditional; “Pat-
tuglia Spagnuola,” Tedeschi.
The program was enthusiastically
received, and the harpist responded
with two encores. These were “Old
Black Joe” and “Dixie” arranged for
harp by Madame Brosius.
4 MISSIONERS LEAVE
TO LABOR IN INDIA
(By N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
WASHINGTON.—Four missionaries
of the Congregation of the Holy Cross
left here for New York, whence they
sailed November 4 to the mission
fields of Bengal, India.
The departing missionaries, who
have been studying mission science
and the Bengalese language for the
past four years at the Foreign Mis
sion Seminary in Brookland, are: The
Rev. George Pellegrin, C.C.S., of
Omaha, Nebr.; the Rev. Francis X.
Quinn, C.S.C., of Yonkers, N. Y.; the
Rev. George Pellegrin, C. S. C.. of
Green Bay. Wis., and Brother Neil,
C.S.C. (Paul Gildea), of Gibson, Ohio.
Wells. Chaperones included Mr. and
Mrs. Byrd Miller, Mr. and Mrs. T.
E. Eskew, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Boyd,
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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC MEN
1314 Massachusetts Avenue Washington, D. C.
(Special to The Bulletin)
SALISBURY, N. C.—The golden
jubilee of the dedication of Sacred
Heart Church here November 6, at
which the Most Rev. William J.
Hafey, D.D., presided and delivered
the sermon, recalls the interesting his
tory of this venerable Catholic parish,
one of the pioneers of the Carolinas,
a history which goes back a century to
the early days of the nineteenth cen
tury.
The following information, kindly
supplied by Mrs. Eugenie Roueche
ILewis, is gathered from the Bible of
(the Roueche family, from the memory
of the oldest living members of the
parish, and collected into his interest
ing sketch by Rev. William Regnat, O.
S.B., the beloved pastor of the Golden
Jubilee Church.
How many of the early pioneers
whose dauntless spirit and laborious
toil transformed these parts from a
barren wilderness into a veritable
garden spot of the Carolinas were
Catholics must remain a matter of
mere conjecture, based upon a study
of the names of families who have
lived in these parts for generations
and who doubtless trace back their
lineage to Gallic or Celtic ancestry.
The first Catholics to have lived in
Salisbury or vicinity, nearly a century
ago, were Dr. Ferrand and Major
MacNamara. The first Catholic defi
nitely known to have made Salisbury
his permanent home and whose num
erous progeny are to the present day
living in our midst was Francis Rich
ard Roueche, who emigrated from
France in 1838 and for some years liv
ed in the “Old Mansion House” on
the site of the present Wallace Build
ing.
Salisbury Catholics
at Dedication and
Jubilee of Church
(Special to The Bulletin.)
SALISBURY, N. C.-Five members
of Sacred Heart parish who witness
ed the consecration of the church fifty
years ago were present at the Golden
Jubilee celebration of Sacred Heart
Church November 6. They were Mrs.
E. A. Lewis, Miss Fanny Roueche,
Mrs. L. M. Roueche, Mrs. L. H. Har
ris and Mr. Bernard Roueche. The
Rouech family, a pioneer family of
this section, traces its history in
this city back to 1832 when Francis
Richard Roueche came from France.
Members of the Roueche, Ferrand
and MacNamara families are the
pioneer Catholics of this section.
THE EARLY DAYS
There was in these early days neither
church nor priest within a hundred
miles, North Carolina forming a part
of the diocese of Charleston, S. C.
The first missionary priest to visit
Salisbury was Father Cronin who at
long and irregular intervals made
Salisbury one of his many stopping
places, saying Mass and administer
ing the sacraments at the home of Mr.
Roueche, where he was overtaken
by his last illness and died in 1842.
In the spring of 1861 Father Joseph
O’Connell, coming up from Columbia
S. C., stopped in Salisbury to in
quire whether there were perhaps
Catholic residents in need of his
spiritual ministrations and he found
a little flock, consisting of Mr. and
Mrs. Roueche and their eight child
ren, Mr. and Mrs. Buis and Miss
Christine Fisher. During the period
of the Civil War he frequently visit
ed Salisbury ministering to his little
flock as well as to the Federal sold
iers who were held prisoners of war
in the Confederate prison located on
the site of the present National
Cemetery.
After the War Miss Christine Fisher
offered her home, until 1922 one of
Salisbury’s landmarks, located on the
southeast comer of Fulton and Innes
streets, as a place of worship to her
coreligionists until the present church
was built in 1882. Among the visiting
priests during these years were the
three brothers, Jeremiah, Lawrence
and Joseph O’Connell, who visited
Salisbury two or three times a year.
“CHRISTIAN REID”
DONATED CHURCH SITE
Father Patrick Moore, who at in
tervals came to this town from 1881-
83, built the present little church on
the northeast corner of the Fulton
and Councils Streets, and Bishop
Northrop of Charleston. S. C. dedi
cated it to the Sacred Heart of
Jesus. The lot was donated by Mrs.
Frances C. Tieman, a daughter of
Colonel Fisher, and well-known as a
prolific writer under the penname
of Christian Reid. Her deep faith and
loyalty, her learning and intellectual
eminence, her innate refinement and
nobility of character were not only
the pride of her home town and the
glory of her native State, but the
light and inspiration of the little
Catholic flock who for a generation
looked up to her for spiritual leader
ship until death ended her brilliant
career in March, 1920.
BISHOP DELIVERS
JUBILEE SERMON
Salisbury Church, Rev. Wil
liam Regnat, O.S.B., Pas
tor, Fifty Years Old
Father Mark Gross, Pastor of St.
Peter’s Church in Charlotte, attend
ed Sacred Heart mission from 1883-
86 and during the following years
Father Walter Leahy and Father
Hill paid their monthly visits.
BENEDICTINES ATTEND
SALISBURY SINCE 1884
About this time, 1884, the Fathers of
the Benedictine Order, branched out
from their motherhouse in Westmore
land Co., Pennsylvania, established
themselves in North Carolina under
the leadership of the Rt. Rev. Leo
Haid, D.D..O.S.B., who was appoint
ed Vi car-Apostolic of North Carolina,
and since then Sacred Heart Church
has been under the spiritual care of
the Benedictine Fathers of Belmont
Abbey. Belmont, N. C. Father Charles
Mohr, O.S.B., later Abbot of St. Leo’s
Abbey in Florida, attended this mis
sion in ’88, Father Francis Meyer, O.
(Special to The Bulletin,
SALISBURY, N. .—Graced by the
presence of the Most Rev. William J.
Hafey, D.D., Bishop of Raleigh, and
of a large gathering of the clergy
and faithful, Sacred Heart Church
in this pioneer parish observed the
Golden Jubilee of its dedication here
November 3.
A note of sadness marked the ob
servance in the absence of Rev. Wal
ter O’Brien, O.S.B., former pastor of
Sacred Heart Church, who was to
have participated in the ceremony,
but who died suddenly a week be
fore.
Rev. John Smith, O.S.B., a native
North Carolinian, was celebrant of
the Solemn High Mass, Rev. Bene
dict Rettger, O.S.B., of Belmont Ab
bey, was deacon, Rev. John Roueche,
a native of the parish, who will be
ordained for the Diocese of Raleigh,
sub-deacon, and Rev. Nicholas Bliley,
O.S.B., of Belmont Abbey, master of
ceremonies.
Bishop Hafey presided at the High
Mass Coram Episeopo, with Rev. Cor
nelius Selhuber, O.S.B., rector of
Belmont Abbey College, and Rev.
William Regnat, O.S.B., pastor of Sa
cred Heart Church, as deacons of hon
or. The children’s choir under the
direction of Mrs. R. M. West ren
dered the “Children’s Festival Mass,”
by C. C. Stearnes.
The sermon by Bishop Hafey was a
masterly dispourse, on the Church in
general and the Church in Salisbury
in particular, the local parish having
exercised an influence through distin
guished members of the congregation,
out of proportion to its numbers. The
sermon will be published in a future
issue of The Bulletin.
After the Mass a dinner was served
in the rectory to the visiting clergy.
In the evening Rev. Charles Kastner,
O.S.B., rectory of Belmont Abbey Ca
thedral, gave his famed motion pic
ture lecture on the Mass. The inte
rior of the church was splendidly
decorated with golden chrysanthe
mums and United States flags, and
the exterior of the rectory with ce
dar garlands and flags and buntings.
S.B., in '89 and Fathr Gerard Pilz, O.
S.B., in ’90.
FATHER JOSEPH WAS
FIRST RESIDENT PASTOR
Eighteen hundred and ninety-two
marks a n«w step in the history of
Sacred Heart Church. Father Joseph
Mueller, O.S.B., held in esteemed
memory by the older citizens of Salis
bury, who had twice a month attend
ed Sacred Heart Church as a mision
attached to Greensboro where he was
pastor, was officially appointed first
resident pastor in Salisbury by Bishop
Haid. The same year the rectory
was built by the congregation to
house the talented and well-beloved
young rector. During his incumb
ency a little chapel was built in Spen
cer on a corner lot of Fifth Street and
Iredell Avenue, donated by Mr. and
Mrs. Henderson and Mr. and Mrs.
Vanderford, to accommodate a num
ber of Catholics living in Spencer. A
few years later, owing to street car
facilities then established between
Salisbury and Spencer, this little
mission W'as abandoned.
In 1903, upon the death of Father
Francis Meyer, O.S.B., Father Joseph
was transferred to Charlotte and
Father Leo Kunz, O.S.B., whose lov
able congeniality won the hearts of
all, received the appointment as Pas
tor of Sacred Heart Church. During
his tenure of office Sacred Heart
School was built on the corner lot of
Council and Ellis streets and placed
under the charge of the Sisters of
Mercy of Sacred Heart Convent of
Belmont, N. C. A lingering illness
necessitated Father Leo’s removal to
Asheville, where he died in May, 1917.
Father Anthony Meyer, O.S.B., W'as
Hallowe’en Program
for St. Genevieve’s
Entertainment Given at Lit
tle Flower Camp
(Special to The Bulletin-
ASHEVILLE, N. C.—A Hallowe’en
party was given by the college and
academy of St. Genevieve-of-the-
Pines October 29, in the lodge of the
Little Flower camp at Mount St.
Louis. Quantities of colorful autumn
leaves were arranged about the lodge,
and a fire in the open fireplace fur
nished the light. The Hallowe’en mo
tif prevailed in the decorations,
games, refreshments and costumes of
the guests. Ghosts greeted the guests
as they arrived.
Those winning prizes in the games
were the following: Miss Janet Reed,
of Columbia, S. C.; Miss Virginia
Sterling, of Charlotte; Miss Celeste
Courtney, of Jacksonville, Fla., and
two Asheville girls, Miss Carroll Cos
tello and Miss Jessie Holcombe. Fol
lowing an elaborate buffet supper,
dancing was enjoyed.
Miss Mary Frances Redmond, of
Lumberton, chairman of the party,
had on her committee, Misses Mar
tha Wiswall and Jessie Holcombe, of
Asheville.
The little pupils of the grammar
school grades enjoyed their party at
“St. Genevieve’s” on Friday after
noon, October 28.
Academy Students at
Belmont Entertain
Honor Father Charles on His
Patronal Feast Day
(Special to The Bulletin,
BELMONT, N. C.—The Senior Class
of Sacred Heart Academy entertained
Rev. Charles Kastner, O.S.B., at din
ner, Thursday, November 3, in honor
of his name day. The west dining
room was attractively decorated in
green and silver, the class colors,
while the place cards bore sprays of
dainty pink roses, the class flower.
Miss Marie Saseen proposed a toast
to which Father Charles responded
in his usual happy style, express
ing his appreciation of a very de
lightful evening.
A delightful Hallowe'en party mark
ed the formal opening of the new
“Activities Building” at Sacred Heart
Academy. Ghosts and goblins held
sway until a late hour, when all re
turned to the dormitory building af
ter a most enjoyable evening.
The students of the Academy pre
sented “A Virginia Heroine,” a dra
ma in three acts, the evening of Oc
tober 26. --The time was during the
War Between the States, and centers
around the heroine whose brother is
a Union soldier and whose sweet
heart a Confederate. Those taking
leading parts in the cast were, in the
order of their appearance, the Misses
Helen Lewis, Orella Croft, Frances
McKnight, Frances Mason, Gertrude
Field, Cletus Waechter, Margreta
Gollner, Teresa Doyle, Ada Jones.
Marie Saseen and Sara Sanders. '
appointed his successor in the fall of
1916 and remained in charge until
1919 when he was transferred to St.
Peter’s, Charlotte, and succeeded by
Father William Regnat, O.S.B., until
1924. Father Walter O’Brien, O.S.B.
whose sudden death, October 30, of
this year, brought universal sorrow,
held the pastorate for one year, then
Father Lawrence McHale, O.S.B., was
pastor until 1928, when Father Wil
liam Regnat was appointed to his sec
ond term at Sacred Heart Church.
In 1925, upon the death of Rt. Rev.
Leo Haid, Vicar-Apostolic of North
Carolina, the vicariate was raised to
the status of a diocese by the ap
pointment of Rt. Rev. William J. Ha
fey, D.D., as the first Bishop of the
newly-erected diocese of Raleigh.
Of those who witnessed the dedica
tion of their little church fifty years
ago only a few are living today to
take joyous part in the celebration of
the Golden Jubilee: Mrs. E. Lewis,
Miss Fanny Roueche. Mrs. L. M.
Roueche, Mrs. L. H. Harris and Mr.
Bernard Roueche.
Sacred Heart congregation at pres
ent numbers about 200 souls.
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