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SEPTEMBER 23, 1933 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA;
Milledgeville Recorder Has
History of Local Parish
Present Church There Built
in 1874. Many Widely
Known Priests Labored
There
(From (he
Milledgeville,
corder.)
Ga., Re-
There have probably been Catholics
in Milledgeville since the very earliest
years of the city’s history, but the
first Mass known to have been cele
brated here was in April, 1845. The
Rev. I. J. O’Connell visited Milledge
ville as a missionary then, coming
from North Carolina. He was a guest
in the home of the Treanor brothers
(the old Newell Hotel) where he held
services. The city had about 300
populationfi a dozen or more of these
being Catholics. In 1847, Bishop Rey
nolds of South Carolina, visited the
city, remaining some time to ad
minister to the few people. .
The present Catholic Church of the
Sacred Heart, Milledgeville, was buil^
in 1874 and dedicated by Bishop Gross
of the Diocese of Savannah. In 1889.
Rev. Robert Kennedy was appointed
the first resident pastor. At various
times since then the Jesuit Fathers
of Macon cared for the Catholics of
this city.
In 1906, Milledgeville was made the
center for the Middle Georgia terri
tory with secular priests of the Dio
cese of Savannah in charge.
The registers of the Sacred Heart
Church recalls some of the priests who
have labored in Milledgeville; Rev.
J. B. Langois, Thomas O’Hara, T.
Kirsh, Charles Pendergrast, Charle
Wrightman, James O’Brien, F. Bazin
G. Schadwell, Robert Kennedy, Wil
liam Meriwether, S. J., W. A. Friend,
S. J., Father Gore, S. J., Dane S. J.;
Henry Schonhardt. R. Hamilton, D. J.,
McCarthy, T. J. Morrow, J. H. Con-
lin and T. S. McNamara, now in
charge.
Mrs. Josephine McGowan, of Can
ton, 0., prominent Catholic speak
er who has been appointed direc-,
tor of the minimum wage law in
Ohio where she will assist Secre
tary of Labor Frances Perkins in
carrying out the provisions of the
National Recovery Act. Mrs. Mc
Gowan is a past president of the
alumnae of St. Elizabeth’s Col
lege, Convent Station, N. J., and
— is active in the I. F. C. A.
Honolulu Missionary
Back After 50 Years
Went to Hawaiian Islands
From Ohio in 1883
DAYTON, Ohio.—Brother Francis
Marx, S.M., a veteran missionary
from the Hawaiian Islands, returned
to the States this summer for a brief
sojourn with his confreres, the Broth
ers of Mary, and to visit his relatives
in Baltimore. Brother Francis has
spent the past fifty years as profes
sor of music and director of the or
chestra at St. Louis College, the
school of the Brothers of Mary in
Honolulu. He is one of a pioneer
group of Brothers that went to the
islands in 1883 at the call of the
bishop of Honolulu. When these eight
pioneers landed in Honolulu they
were. greeted at the Cathedral by the
bishop and the clergy and the Mass
to commemorate the occasion was
celebrated by Father Damien, the fa
mous leper priest.
Brother Francis will celebrate the
BOth anniversary of his religious pro
fession in the Society of St. Mary
next year. After the summer vaca
tion he will return to St. Louis Col
lege and continue his work in the
department of music. In 1927 h£ di
rected an oratorio commefnorating
the centenary of the Catholic Church
in the islands. Brother Frapcis en
tered the Society of Mary in 1874
and before he went to Honolulu he
taugh in the schools of the Society
of Mary in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati,
New York and San Anotonio, Texas.
Archdiocesan Organ
Lauds Boy Scouts
Killarney’s Lakes Called
“Cluster of Blue Opals
(BY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
WASHINGTON.—In view of the re
cent gift of Muckross Estate, by its
owner, Senator Vincent, to the Irish
Free State, the beauty and historical
points of the celebrated Lakes of Kil-
larney, which lie within the 100,000
acres of the estate, are described in
a bulletin from the Washington head
quarters of the National Geographic
Society.
“Killamey’s lakes form a cluster of
blue opals set in the emerald jewel
that is County Kerry, Ireland’s south
western corner,” says the bulletin.
“Wiliam Wordsworth hailed the re
gion as ‘the mots beautiful spot in
the three kingdoms.’
“The ancient kingdom of Kerry sur
rounding the three principal Killar
ney lakes is strangely wild and beau
tiful. Here are remains, such as they
are. of the Druids. Here, too, are the
earliest Christian relics in Ireland. It
is a county of semi-tropical mosses,
ever-freshened by the humid breath
of the Gulf Stream, and of plants that
are found nowhere else but in Por
tugal.
“Kerry was the home of Irish class
ical learning, more Latin and Greek
having been known in Kerry than in
any other part of Ireland. Its people
areg rave and courteous and have
pleasant voices. The wild swan is more
abundant than elsewhere in Ireland,
and there roam the last of the wild
red deer. The lakes teem wtih salmon
and trout, and along the shore land,
or on the tiny islands, wodcock and
snipe bound.
“The name Killarney means ‘Church
of the sloe bushes.’ Each of the three
larger lakes has a local name: the Up
per or McCarthy Moore’s Lake; the
Middle or Tore Lake; the Lower or
Lough Leane. Many of the^ rocks in
Lough Leane are called after the
chieftain of the district, the O’Don-
oghue of the Glens. O’Donoghue’s
House was blown down during a
storm, but his Table, Prison, Pigeon
House and .Library still survive.
guide walks along beside the ponies,
reciting verses of poetry about Kil-
lamey, and when the gloomy gap is
reached he makes the moutnain walls
of Goldenu MacGillicuddy’s Reeks
echo with Irish airs played on his bu
gle. He explains that he does this as
did his father before him.
“Moerun Catsle, on the road to
Cork, is the birthplace of Admiral Sir
William Penn, the father of the foun
der of Pennsylvania. Gougane Barr,
on the wild borderland between
County Kerry and County Cork, is a
place of dark and beautiful aspect.
Here, in the steep mountains, broods
lake like black marble—whose sever
ity is relieved by trembling silver riv
ers sliding down into the dark water.”
CLAS0N POINT OBSERVES
ITS GOLDEN JUBILEE
Famed Christian Brothers’
School Half-Century Old
“Near the picturesque little town of
Killarney, on the Kenmare Road, rise
the ruins of Muckross Abbey, one of
the finest Norman abbeys in Ireland,
with a somber yew tree in its clois
ters 60 feet in height. Along the shore
of Lough Leane is another striking,
vine-clad stronghold—Ross Castle, in
the vicinity of which Tennyson wrote
part of “The Princess.’
“Close by Ross Castle lies beautiful
Innisfallen Island, on Lough Leane,
which Macaulay called ‘the gem of
Killarney; not-a reflex of heaven, but
a bit of heaven itself. Its greatest
charms are its holly groves and red-
berried rowan trees. The sky above in
fair weather is a vivid blue.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
OAKDALE, L. I.—La Salle Mili
tary Academy, here, formerly Clason
Military Academy, marks its golden
jubilee this year.
In 1870, the Brothers of the Chris
tian Schools of the New York Pro
vince purchased from Dominic
Lynch, one of New York’s prominent
citizens of post-Revolutionary days,
an historic residence and estate, bor
dering on Long Island Sound, in
Westchester, N. Y. It was in this
residence that the first Mass in West
chester County was celebrated.
After the estate had been used for
13 years as a novitiate, an urgent de
mand for a Catholic boarding school
for boys in and around New York
City, led to the opening of Sacred
Heart Academy.
By legislative act, the name Sacred
Heart Academy was changed in 1903
to Clason Point Military Academy.
Clason was designated in 1919 a Re
serve Officers Training Corps unit of
the United States Army Reserve
Corps, the first Catholic academy to
secure such a designation. It is to
day the only essentially military
boarding school in the Catholic edu
cational system east of the Missis
sippi. To the present time, the Acad
emy has one of the hest records
among the Corps Area Junior Units.
Since 1919, the Academy has con
tributed 200 officers to the Officers'
Reserve Corps.
Xhe Catholic Press:
By J, P.O’Mahony
The following striking presented on of the aims and purposes of
Catholic Press by Mr.'O’Mahony, editor of the Indiana Catholic
Record, is re-printed from the issu e of that paper of February 4, 1925 ■
New Saint
(Editorial of the Catholic Standard &
Times, official Orgin of the Arch
diocese of Philadelphia)
Boy Scout Week has again called
attention to the remarkable fact that
once more enrollment in this very
popular youth movement has reached a
new figure, higher than ever before.
The figures evidence the insistent
nature of the appeal which scouting
makes to boyhood, and indeed to
manhood, for many in mature life
remain in the movement directing
the activities of the association.
Scouting has justified itself
proving how amply it meets the va
rious needs of the growing boy. It
remains, of course, an auxiliary force,
but it does a very fine piece of work
in supplementing the training re
ceived in the home, in the church and
in the school. Its definite program
sets a task for the growing boy which
in its achievement tends to develop,
not only his physical but also his
mental capacity. It adds the desirable
achievement of instilling into the
heart of the youth in his early teens
a genuine love of nature even as it
interests him in the great life of the
outdoors. One is convinced that not
only is scouting not a hindrance to
even spiritual development, but may
well be a positive help.
The news columns of this paper last
week published a partial list of for
mer members of the Boy Scout troops
of this city who are studying for the
priesthood. From the district of Ger
mantown and Mount Airy, thirty-
three members of four troops have
entered seminaries. Four have been
already ordained; one secular priest,
two Vincentian Fathers and one
Augustinian. Such a record from a
few parishes in one city gives an in
dication of how thoroughly Scouting
may be consonant with the very best
in Catholic life and development.
The value of a movement in which
the Catholics, while loyal to the
highest and best in their principles,
are associated in a national solarity
with great numbers of other earnest
citizens cannot be other than a val
uable contribution towards unity and
peace. If in the widespread distress
of the last year the Boy Scout move
ment thrived with little evidence of
any knowledge of the depression.,
surely there is hope of continued
vigorous growth.
Saint Andrew Hubert Fournet,
whose name was enrolled in the
album of the Saints by His Holi
ness Pope Pius XI at the canoni
zation ceremony held recently in
the Vatican Basilica. Members
of the saint’s family, President
De.Valera of the Irish Free State,
and representatives of the Daugh
ters of the Cross, a religious com
munity which he founded, were
among those who witnessed the
ceremonies.
I am the Catholic Press.
The right arm of the Church.
Which is the “pillar and the grd
of Truth”. '
I am the champion of wcll-ord]
Liberty.
The best friend of the State.
The exponent of purest patr;oti|
The exemplar of loyalty to
anc. Country.
I stand ever ready.
Cardinal O’Connell
New Library Trustee
Boston Herald Commends His
Appointment
“In the Gap of Dunloe, which pours
the brawling Loe River down into
Killarney’s Lakes, the stream expands
into little lakes of water remarkable
for their blackness. When visitors as
cend the pass to the Gap of Dunloe
from Kate. Kearney’s Cottage the
THE REV. EDWARD F. G ARBS -
CHE, S. J., president of the Catholic
Medical Mission Board, New York,
has been officially commended by the
International Hospital Association for
the address he delivered recently at
its biennial convention in Belgium.
THU REGISTER of Denver has an
nounced that it will back every suit
based on a violation of the new Colo
rado law forbidding the religious test
in any application for a public school
position.
A PARIS YOUNG LADY who has
under an assumed name become a
famous radio speaker on a commercial
program in July announced that she
was participating in her last radio
program; what she did not tell them
was the fact that she is entering the
Little Sisters of the Poor.
(By N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
BOSTON.—His Eminence William
Cardinal O’Connell Archbishop of
Boston, has been named by Mayor
Curley as trustee of the Boston Pub
lic Library, succeeding the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Arthur T. Connolly, of Jamaica
Plain, who resigned because of ill
ness.
In a letter to Monsignor Connolly,
Mayor Curley expressed his regret
that Monsignor Connolly was forced
to resign.
Commenting on Cardinal O’Con
nells’ appointment, the Boston Herald
asserts editorially that “Mayor Cur
ley has made an admirable choice,
which will receive the warm and im
mediate commenadtion of the Cardi
nal’s flock and all others.”- “This ap-
oarently is the first public office which
he has ever accepted,” the paper adds,
“and His Eminence 'will be 73 next
month. This breaking of a lifelong
precedent carries its own implications.
We may see in it the value which he
sets on a great free library system
now one of the foremost'in the world;
the spirit of public service; willing
ness of an extraordinary busy man
to take on a new’burden for the good
of the community. And incidentally
it mav be said that, this appointment
dignifies public office and will add
greatly to the prestige of the Public
Library.”
THE SERVITE FATHERS of Port-
laud, Oregon, have been advised that
the Holy Father has blessed a great
bronze statue of the Blessed Virgin
for the new shrine of the order here.
The statue, eleven feet all, was sculp
tured by Prof. Guiseppe Cassioli.
To defend the teachings of G<1
Church; , on guard to promote I
welfare. I do not suffer her td|
slandered with impunity. ,
I am the foe of- -camouflage-
mission is to expose falsehood ail
pillory hypocrisy. ,
Like Him who scourged the money
changers from the Temple—my Mai
ter—I know no compromise wij
wrong because it is rich.
I am the friend of poverty, but nl
the enemy of honestly acquir-j
wealth.
The call of the oppressed for. frej
dem ever finds response in me.
I am the guardian of the
The comrade of the Missionary7:
The trumpter of the Pulpit.
I defend the Priesthood, and ]
carry the story of the labors of
clergy to the farthermost corners I
the Christian world. I make the a|
peals for aid in the cause of
Faith. I PREACH TO TENS
THOUSANDS IN ONE DAY WHEl
THE MOST ELOQUENT OF PULP11
ORATORS CAN ONLY REACH TH|
HUNDREDS.
When the humble good die, I record
the story of their Worthy fives.
I fell of the Sisterhoods who
members spend their years nursing
the sick, teaching the young and aid|
ing the old and infirm.
I am the exponent of Catholil
Education.
I am the one who is always read!
to applaud everyone who stands UJ
for right and justice anywhere.
It is my duty to denounce wroij
in high places AND IN ALL PA1
TIES. No servant of the politicl
place-hunters, trimmers, or apologjj
am I.
I give the news of the world, I
truth is never strangled withoujl
protest. 4
I give those who follow lyb a-«a^
of reading, BUT NO SCANlf
EVER BLACKENS MY PAGES.
I am not subsidized by any forij
government to say things that
un-American.
No domestic trust conrols my
terance against the interest of
people.
I can do better with your good
fluence and the help that you
give.
If I need vour assistance TO FIGi]
YOUR FIGHT, blame me not if I
I am worthy of it.
February will be the month- of |
Catholic Press, it will soon be c
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