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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMENS ASSOCIATION Of GEORGIA
NOVEMBER 18, 1933
Dixie Musings
(Continued from Page 6)
Delegate to Ireland. The other is
Hon. Eamon DeValera, President of
the Irish Free State, honorary LL.D.
So we left Dublin to bring up the
Holy Cross average there.
From Dublin wc departed on
crisp October morning, for the Lakes
of Killamey, near the west coast of
Ireland, in the mellow south, and al
most across the island from the capi-
tol city and the Irish Sea. We went
through Kildare, which gets its name
from the oak cell of St. Brigid;
Queen’s, where St. Patrick's chario-
aeer, Odhran, saved his master’s life
and won the martyr’s crown by
changing places with him after over
hearing a plot to murder the saint;
Tipperary, which is a long way from
the trenches but close to God; Limer
ick. famed for the River Shannon
and Mungret College, the Alma Mater
of Archbishop Curley, Bishop Barry.
Bishop Gallagher, Bishop Turner,
Bishop O’Leary, numerous other
American prelates and priests, among
them the Very Rev. Dr. Nunan, vicar-
general of the Diocese of St. Augus
tine and the Rev. P. A. Ryan, S. J.»
formerly pastorat Augusta; Cork, the
birthplace of the South’s first resident
ordinary, Bishop England of Charles
ton, and of General Moylan, Wash
ington’s Commissary General in the
Continental Army; and Kerry, an ex
quisite setting for the gem of Killar-
ney.
The journey from Dublin to Killar-
ney, 186 miles, intrinsically interest
ing, was made infinitely more so Dy
the championship of two Capuchin
Fathers, into whose compartment
Father Senan introduced us in Dub
lin. They had labored in the Arch
diocese of San Francisco, knew the
United States better than ninety-rune
per cent of the natives, and had been
with us once before, at the Eucharis
tic Congress in Chicago in 1926. But
as there were a million others there
too, that contact was not even casual.
The season had closed at Killar-
ney, except for week-end visitors and
holiday visitors, and we were the only
guest at the Great Southern Hotel.
Near the hotel there was a great
church, and we followed the crowd
there on a Friday evening. It was a
spacious Franciscan Church, and
thronged for the Rosary, litanies, and
Benediction, with men and boys con
stituting about half the congregation.
There is another church, the Catho-
dral church, in the ctiy which, as we
recall it, has a population of 6,000.
General O’Duffy was at Trulce that
night, and slightly injured in a dis
turbance which made the front page
of nearly every newspaper in Eu
rope and the United States, if those
we say are any criterion. He came
to Killamey the next morning while
we were there.
‘You are wild people down here
in Kerry,” a Dublin physician, who
had dropped in to the hotel for a roast
pheasant lunch, said to the porter.
"And why wouldn’t we be, sir.
answered the porter. “Once you
Dublin people used to come down
here in great numbers, and tourists
from America filled the place, but
since the money is scarce you leave
us to ourselves. And we get wild
like a field that doesn't be cultivated,
sir.”
After having seen the Bay of
Naples. Rome from the Janiculum
Hill, Venice, the Italian and French
Riveria and other glories of Europe,
we wondered what Killamey could
offer in the way of beauty to interest
us. R unfolded bfore us a type of
magnificient scenery we saw nowhere
else. The eight and a half miles from
Killamey to the Gap of Dunloe, es
pecially those around the lakes them
selves, are a continuous garden, with
nature as the gardener; the secret of
Killamey’s beauty is its naturalness.
But Killamey’* history is equally
interesting. There are the ruins of
Muckross Abbey there, founded by
the Franciscans in 1440, and flourish
ing until Cromwell swooped down on
it over two hundred years later to
martyr its monks. There is Black
Lough, the stream where St. Patrick
is said to have banished the last snake
from Ireland,; and Innisfallen, of
which the golden-hearted Moore
sang; and the Gap of Dunloe, be
tween the Purple Mountain and the
Macgillicuddy Reeks, a wild moun
tain pass—Connie Mack's ancestors
came from Killamey; and the cot
tage of the beautiful Kate Kearney,
whooe spirit still hovers over the
hills; and Lord Brandon’s Cottage,
from which one may see the Kerry
Mountains, the Upper and Lower
Lakes, the Valley of the Shannon and
in the distance the Bay of Dingle,
near where our own Most Rev. Bishop
was bom.
The jarvey—one may drive around
the lakes only in a jaunting car or
carriage—is a fund of information,
some of it highly imaginative. He
tells you the sad story of Colleen
Bawn, pointvig out the spot where she
was drowned through the instigation
of her aristocratic but spumed ad
mirer; he points out palms and other
tropical plants, indicating the mild
ness of the climate; he shows you deer
in the thicket; he gives you his views
on Irish politics, with parenthical
comments on Mussolini, Hitler and
the Eighteenth Amendment; and he
informs you that they grow such fine
potatoes there by planting onions u “
tween the rows in order to make
eyes of the potatoes water.
Blarney Castle lies between Killar-
ney and Cork via Mallow, and we
deliberately refused to kiss the Blar
ney Stone in order to avoid the sus-
pion that anything complimentary we
might say in the future was influ
ence by that experience instead of re
flecting our convictions.
The Danes built the city walls of
Cork in the ninth century, Henry 11
captured it in 1172, Cromwell attack
ed and took it in 1649, but the spirit
of St. Finn bar, founder and first
Bishop of the See fourteen hundred
years ago, still prevails. And ten
miles from Cork is Cobh, formerly
Queenstown, with one of the finest
harbors in Great Britain, a sheltered
basin of ten miles square.
At the hotel the good lady was not
able to change the bank note we pre
sented when we were paying our bill.
It was nearly time for the tender to
take us out to the Britlanic, anchor
ed at the mouth of the harbor.
“That will be all right,” she said.
“Just send it to us when you get lo
America.”
The first thing we saw on the ten
der was an automobile with a Geor
gia license. We met its owner later;
he was a Georgian from Macon, for
merly from Bainbridge, not a Catho
lic, and married to a young lady from
Belfast.
As the Brittannic weighed anchor
to the harbor and turned toward Gal
way, its last port of call on its voyage
from Liverpool, the numerous Catho
lics among the passengers gathered to
gether before the altar for Sunday
Mass. Our first impression of Ireland
was of pilgrims returning from Rome.
Our last most vivid one was this —
the passengers, for the most part Irish
or of Irish extraction, joining the
priest in offering up to God the Sac
rifice of the Mass. Everything we
saw between the Irish Sea and the
Bay of Cobh and Galway seemed to
be woven against a background of the
Catholic faith of the Irish.
Our good friend Humphrey Des
mond of Milwaukee, whom God call
ed to Himself in recent years, wrote a
delightful book on: “Why God Loves
the Irish.” Our all too short stay in
Ireland gives us the answer: Because
the Irish love Him.—R. R.
Mrs. Reynolds Gives
Convention Report
Tells Charleston Members of
St. Paul National Meeting
of N. C. C. W.
(Special to Hie Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. -Mrs. Thom
as W. Reynolds, president of the
diocesan Council of the National
Council of Catholic Women, reported
on the national convention of the
Council at the monthly meeting of
the Charleston Council. The con
vention wae held at St. Paul, and in
addition to Mrs. Reynolds, Charles
tonians attending it included Mrs.
Ella V. Hurley, of the Diocesan
Council; Miss Rosa F. Olover and
Miss Rose I. Speissegger, of the local
N. C. W. C. Council; Mrs. James F.
Condon, of the Sacred Heart P.-T.
A.; Miss Margaret Speissegger, of the
athedral Senior Sodality, and the
Misses Azile Speissegger and Agnes
Lyons.
One of the principal addresses at
the convention was made by the
Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D. D.,
Bishop of Charleston. The previous
convention was held in Charleston in
October, 1932.
charleston marriages
Maguire-Easterllng—The Rev. C.
A. Kennedy, pastor of St. Joseph’s
Church, officiated ata the marirage
of Miss Catherine Kenny Maguire,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John M.
Maguire, and Charles Monroe Easter
ling, son of Mrs. Harriet Easterling,
of Mt. Pleasant, and the late William
M. Easterling; a nuptial Mass fol
lowed the marriage. Miss Margue
rite Mary Maguire was maid of hon
or and Flank E. Priester best man.
After the wedding trip Mr. and Mrs.
Easterling will live in Charleston.
Frank - Madden — Father Kennedy
officiated also at the marirage, with
nuptial Mass, of Miss Rosalie de-
Sales Frank, daughter of Ma. and
Mrs. Stephen C. Frank, and James
Leroy Madden, son of Mrs. James E.
Madden and the late Mr. Madden.
Miss Parmella Frank was maid of
honor, and Miss Agnes deAntonio
bridesmaid, and Robert Riols best
man. Mr. and Mrs. Madden will live
in Charleston.
SHAHID-ADRY—The marriage of
Miss Margaret Shahid, daughter of
Mrs. Najlah Shahid and the late
Abraham Shahid, and Aziz Adry,
was solemnized at St. Patrick’s
Church, the Rev. Dr. Joseph L.
O Brien, pastor, officiating. Miss
Mary Shahid was maid of honor and
Sidney Farris best man. On their
return from the wedding trip they
will live in Charleston.
Received by Pope.
James Roosevelt, eldest son of the
President of the United States,
and his wife are shown above as
they were photographed recently
in the Vatican chambers, follow
ing an audience with Bis Holiness
Pope Pius XL JThe audience was
marked by the greatest cordiality
and lasted fifteen’ minutes:’
AUGUSTA RED CROSS
Honors Mrs. W. W. Battey
and Mrs. J. P. Mulhcrin
AUGUSTA, Ga.—At the great rally
opening the 1933 Red Cross Roll Call
of the Augusta Chapter, the Chapter
presented distinguished service
honors to two of ils members. They
were Mrs. W. W. Battey, Sr., mother
of Alfred M. Battey, president of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia, and Mrs. John P. Mulherin.
state vice-president of the Laymen’s
Association for Augusta.
Pope Pius Expresses
Appreciation to U. S.
Thanks President in An-
dience With His Son
BY MSGR. ENRICO PlICCl
(Vatican City Correspondent, N. C.
W. C. News Service)
V ATI AN ITY. — Departing from
Rome after the audience he received
from His Holiness Pope Pius XI,
James Roosevelt, son of the Presi
dent of tiie United States, said he
would follow the advice of the Holy
Father and pay another visit to
Rome. Pope Pius told him, Mr.
Roosevelt said, that Rome is like
one of the grand books that belong
to the intellectual patrimony of hu
manity. The first reading is a duty,
he said, and returning to read it
again becomes a necessity.
With Mr. Roosevelt at the audience
were his wife and Mrs. Kennedy,
daughter of former Ma^or Fitzgerald
of Boston. They were accompanied
to the audience by Comm. Enrico
Galeazzi, representative of the
Knights of Columbus in Rome.
The Pope recalled with pleasure
the reception by the President of
His Excellency of the Most Rev. Em-
leto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States by
President Roosevelt, the President’s
visit to the Catholic University of
America, in Washington, and, above
all, his presence at the meeting of
the National Conference of Catholic-
Charities in New York, and his
speech on that occasion, when Mr.
Roosevelt recalled the necessity of
faith in God and religious senti
ments in the life of the people. The
also recalled the beautiful words ad
dressed by Cardinal Hayes to the
President on the same occasion, unit
ing himself to them with all his
heart.
Mr. Roosevelt was greatly pleased
with these benevolent expressions of
the Sovereign Pontiff toward his
father and with the cordiality with
which Pius XI spoke to him of his
journey to Rome.
Georgetown Parishoner
Is Claimed by Death
Funeral of Mrs. Julia Beetham Doyle
From St Mary's
GEORGETOWN, S. C. — Mrs. Julia
Beetham Doyle, widely known mem.
her of St. Mary’s parish here, died
here October 31. Mrs. Doyle was
bom in Canada, and had lived here
for many years; her husband died
several years ago. The Rev. James
McElroy officiated at the Requiem
Mass at St. Mary’s and at the inter
ment in Elmwood Cemetery. Sur
viving Mrs. Doyle are three daugh
ters, Mrs. E. W. DuRant, and Miss
Margaret Doylo, of Georgetown, and
Mrs. Frank Bowen, of Chattanooga,
and two sons, Joseph Doyle, George
town. and George E. Doyle, Little
Rock.
MARIST CADETS ARE
GRIDIRON CHAMPIONS
Win North Georgia Inter-
scholastic Conference Title
(Spc »al to Hu* Bulletin)
ATLANTA. Ga. - With victories
over Robert E. Lee High School of
Thomarton, Fulton. Gainesville, North
Fulton and Commercial High Schools
and a tie game wiht Russell High,
and with no further games scheduled
with league teams. Marist School is
undisputed champion of the North
Georgia Interscholastic Conference on
the gridiron. Marist. coached by
Louis Van Houten, ended its league
season by defeating Commercial 18 to
6, coming from behind after the first
quarter, when held 6 to 0, to score six
points in the second and twelve in
the fourth quarters. Decatur, peren
nial champion of the circuit, lost to
Gainesville, Griffin lost to Gainesville,
and Marist conquered not only all
the teams it played but the conqueror*
of the teams it did not play.
Marist-Benedictine
Battle Ends in Tie
The Marist Cadets journied to Sa
vannah last Saturday to battle the
Benedictine Cadets, the game result
ing in a scoreless tie. Marist threat
ened the Benedictine goal on a few
occasions. but the Savannahians
tightened up at crucial moments.
INDIANS in New Mexico, with
whom the late Archbishop Daeger, of
Santa Fe. pleaded in vain to return
to their religious duties, are return
ing in large numbers since his death.
St. Anthony's Messenger reports, the
Indians asserting that the Archbishop
is appearing to them and continuing
his exhortations. “It is not our pro
vince to decide whether these appa
ritions are real or imaginary,” the
article says. “At any rate, the ef
fect of them Is salutary.”
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HOURS OF MASSES
Cathedral of St. John the Bap*
tist: Very. Rev. Msgr. Jos. f.
Croke. Rector. Sunday: 6:30, |
9:10. Daily 6:20, 8.
St. Patrick’s: Rt Rev. Msgr. Jos.
D. Mitchell, V. G., Pastor. Sunday:
7 and 9:30. Dally: 7:30.
Sacred Heart: Very Rev.
Boniface Bauer, O. S. B., Pas*
tor. Sunday: 6:30, 8. 9 and 11.
Daily (during Lent: 6:30. 7. 7:30
and 8.
Blessed Sacrament: Rev. Jos. R.
Smith, Pastor. Sunday: 7, 8, 9:30
and 10:30. Daily: T and S.
St. Benedict’s: Rev. G. Obreckt,
S. M. A., Pastor. Sunday: 7:30 and
10. Daily: 6:45. St Mary’s Chapel.
Sunday: 9. D*Uly: 7JO.
St Anthony’s Mission. Sunday:
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