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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
APRIL 28, 1934
Eucharistic Congress Held
in Alabama’s Capital City
Father Wm. Power, Famed
Jesuit, 79, Dies at Key West
Bishop Toolen Presides at
Largest Catholic Gathering
in History of Montgomery
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—The largest
Catholic gathering ever held in the
Capital City of Alabama was observ
ed April 10. It was the fourth public
Eucharistic Diocesan Conference. The
program was opened with a solemn
Pontifical votive Mass of the Blessed
Sacrament in St. Peter’s Church, with
the Most Rev. Thomas J. Toolen,
Bishop of Mobile, as celebrant. The
sermon was delivered by the Rev.
James Mundy, of Mobile.
Members of the clergy from all sec
tions of the diocese attended, some
traveling from 200 to 500 miles to be
present.
The following message was received
by Bishop Toolen from His Eminence
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli. Papal Sec
retary of State: “Holy Father sends
special Apostolic Benediction to
priests and people assembled at Eu
charistic Congress in Montgomery,
Ala.. April 10.”
Bishop Toolen presided at a round
table discussion of the Holy Name
Society in St. Mary's Auditorium. Pa
pers presented at the afternoon ses
sion included “The Eucharistic Sac
rifice, Center of Divine Worship,” by
the Rev. George Keyes, of Mobile;
“The Blessed Eucharist in Holy Com
munion. Nourishment of Divine Life
in the Soul.” by the Rev. Edwin C.
Bobe, of Pensacola. Fla., and “Per
sonal Relation of the Priest to the
Blessed Sacrament,” by the Rev. Dr.
Francis Giri, of Birmingham. The Rev.
James B. Rogers delivered an address
of welcome.
At the evening service the Rev.
Francis C. Doyle, of Whistler, Ala.,
delivered the sermon.
MRS. HITCHCOCK OF
• AIKEN, S.C., DIES
For Many Years Outstanding
Leader of Famed Tourist
City
(Special to The Bulletin)
AIKEN, S. C.—The Rev. George J.
Dietz, pastor of Our Lady, Help of
Christians, Church officiated at fun
eral services fcr Mrs. Thomas Hitch
cock, who died April 1 at the age of
67 years from injuries sustained the
day after Christmas when the horse
she was riding fell. Interment was in
the Hitchcock private cemetery in
Aiken.
Mrs. Hitchcock was born Louise
Eustis at Cannes, France, the daugh
ter of George Eustis and Louise Cor
coran Eustis of Washington and New
Orleans; she -was the granddaughter
of the late William W. Corcoran, the
founder of the Corcoran Art Gallery,
Washington, and the niece of the late
James B. Eustis, ambassador to France
in the administration of Grover
Cleveland. She first came to Aiken
when she was five years old, and for
many years and at the time of her
death was regarded as Aiken’s leader.
She was widely known for her per
sonal charity, and was recognized as
Aiken's outstanding benefactor. All
business houses in Aiken closed from
nine to eleven the morning of her
funeral.
CHARLESTON YOUNG
LADY BECOMES NUN
Miss McGregor Received as
Sister of Our Lady of Mercy
JSpecial to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—The Most
Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D.D.. Bishop
of Charleston, celebrated the Mass
and presided at the ceremony of re^.
ception of Miss Mary McGregor, in
the Convent Chapel of the Sisters of
Our Lady of Mercy, April 2. His Ex
cellency was assisted by the Rev. J.
L. McCarthy. Present in the sanc
tuary were Very Rev. J. J. May, Rev.
C. A. Kennedy and Rev. A. J. West-
bu ry.
In the procession, which was led
by M ss Elizabeth Kennedy, cross
bearer. the habit bearers were the
Misses Elsie Condon and Ursula Mc-
Dermot, and the flower girls, the
Misses Mary Ann Runey, Helen
Wickert, St. Clair Barrett and Annie
Swan.
Bishop Walsh gave an impressive
talk on the manifold activities of the
Sisters in the Diocese of Charleston,
their service, their sacrifice. He un
folded to the young candidate the
nature of the life to which she had
been called, concealed not its hard-
ships, but at the same time inspired
courage.
Miss McGregor, before her entrance,
resided in Our Lady of Mercy Par
ish and was graduated from the
Bishop England High School last
June. She will be known in. religion
«ts Sister M. Berenice.
COL. H. A. MOLONY,
CHARLESTON, DIES
(Courtesy News and Courier)
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.. — Col. Hen
ry A. Molony, one of Charleston’s
leading and most beloved citizens,
died here April 13, after an extended
illness. He was 76 years old.
Colonel Molony was born in
Charleston and lived here all his life
except for a period during the War
Between the States, when his family
was compelled to go to Sumter. His
parents were from County Clare,
Ireland; his father for many years
was engaged in the grocery busi
ness.
Conditions after the War, in which
his father became impoverished,
made it necessary for him to leave
school at the age of fifteen. In 1888,
he and Patrick Carter started in the
fertilizer business with a capital of
$1,800; in 1906, the business was in
corporated with a capital of $100,000.
As a young man he served as a depu
ty sheriff, and was a delegate to the
Democratic National Convention of
1886 which nominated Grover Cleve
land. He was a ranking colonel on
the staff of Governor Duncan Clinch
Heyward, previously serving as a
lieutenant of the Irish Volunteers
during the troubles of 1876. He was
prominent in the entertainment of
President Theodore Roosevelt and of
President Taft when they came to
Charleston.
Colonel Molony was president of
the Hibernian Society from 1910 to
1913, a former grand knight of the
Knights of Columbus, and a charter
member of the council, an organizer
of the old Commercial Club, active
for years in the Chamber of Com
merce and the Board of Trade, a
member of the harbor commission
for 25 years, a director of the South
Carolina Power Company and other
business and financial corporations,
and for many years a vestryman of
the Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist. He was one of the organizers of
the Holy Name Society in Charles
ton.
Colonel Molony married Miss An
nie Hennegan, who died in 1892; his
second wife, who was Miss Marie
Cahil, died in 1910. Surviving, by hit
first marriage, are two sons, Henry
A., Jr., and J. William Molony, and
a daughter, Mrs. George C. Balzer;
by his second marriage seven daugh
ters, Mrs. Robert H. McDowell and
the Misses Louise, Bessie, Marcia,
Adele, Blanche and Rita Molony.
The Charleston News and Courier
and the Charleston Post both carried
extended editorials paying tribute to
Colonel Molony as a citizen and as a
man. Members of the Knights of
Columbus and of other organizations
of which he was a member attended
the funeral in a body; the funeral
was held from the Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist, with a Requiem
Mass, with interment in St. Lawrence
Cemetery. Many members of the
clergy and a congregation which fill
ed the Cathedral to overflowing at
tended the services. Interment was in
Cathedral Cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Active, Thomas
W. Bennett, J. Philip Kennery, Rob
ert Sheehan, William Rowland, N. P.
Bryan, Harry J. O’Neill, Representa
tive Robert McC. Figg, Jr., and John
Connolly; honorary, Theodore Rave-
nel, Dr. J. A. Ball, Dr. Francis L.
Parker, Dr. Edward F. Parker.
Ashmead F. Pringle, John Marshall
and Percy H. Whaley.
FR. MTJLVIHILL BETTER
AFTER RECENT ILLNESS
Father William Mulvihill of Flor
ence, who was stricken there April
7 and removed to St. Francis Xavier
Infirmary in Charleston, although
very ill at the time, soon started a
gradual and steady improvement, and
his many friends throughout the state
will be pleased to know of his prog
ress toward recovery.
SOUTHERN JESUITS IN
TROPICAL MISSION
New Orleans Province Takes
Over Territory in Ceylon
(Special to The Bulletin)
NEW ORLEANS, La.—The Trinco-
mali Mission on the east coast of
Ceylon will henceforth be served by
the Jesuit Fathers of the New Or
leans Province, according to an an
nouncement just made; the Southern
Jesuits will succeed the French Jes
uits of the Province of Champagne.
One Southern Jesuit, the Rev. Mr.
John T. Linehan, S.J., has already
gone to Ceylon, and will be followed
by others from the South this sum
mer.
“The Southern Jesuit”, which made
its first appearance recently, says that
Ceylon may be reached by traveling
either east or west, ahd the ticket will
cost about the same either way; Cey
lon is on the other side of the globe,
on the southeast tip of India, washed
by the Indian Ocean, and within five
degrees of the equator. The popula
tion is predominantly Hindu.
Mr. Linehan taught in the Jesuit
High School in New Orleans before
volunteering for the tropical mission;
he is now teaching native Catholic
students at St. Michael’s College, Bat-
ticola. Twenty-four Jesuits, as well
as native secular priests, have been
laboring there, and Sisters teach in
the parish schools. The territory has
a population of about 200,000, and has
48 schools, 31 churches and chapels, a
hospital, an orphanage and a leper
colony under Catholic direction.
MRS. BELLE RHYNES
DIES AT AGE OF 123
Funeral at Home of the Little
Sisters of Poor, Savannah
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Mrs. Belle
Rhynes, one of the oldest if not the
oldest person in the United States,
died here April 15 at the Home of
the Little Sisters of the Poor at the
age of 123.
Mrs. Rhynes was bom in Dublin,
Ireland, March 4, 1811, the daughter
of Thomas Hights and Julia Rus
sell Hights. She came to this country
at the age of eleven. She had made
her home with the Little Sisters cf
the Poor, in their Home for the
Aged, for the past four years. She
was confirmed on her birthday,
March 4, 1930, by the Most Rev.
Michael J. Keyes, D. D., Bishop of
Savannah.
Until recent years Mrs. Rhynea
had enjoyed splendid health; one of
the reasons for rejoicing she gave
on her 121st birthday was her recov
ery from asthma, from which she
said she had suffered since girlhood.
She was a cheerful soul and a
philosopher, and each birthday re
porters from the local newspapers in
terviewed her to get her outlook on
life, then relaying it to the country
at large through the news services.
The funeral was held from the
chapel of the Little Sisters’ Home,
the Rev. Paul Milde, O. S. B., of
Sacred Heart Church, officiating at
the Requiem Mass. Interment was
in Cathedral Cemetery.
Double Funeral at
Savannah Cathedral
Bishop Keyes Presides at
Requiem Mass for John G.
and Miss Mary Pepper
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Most Rev.
Michael J. Keyes, D. D., Bishop of
Savannah, presided at the High Mass
of Requiem at the funeral at the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist of
John Gerald Pepper, who died April
15 in New Orleans, and his sister,
Miss Mary Pepper, who died April 17
in Savannah. The Very Rev. Msgr.
Jos. F. Croke, rector of the Cathe
dral of St. John the Baptist, was cel
ebrant of the Mass, at which the
clergy of the city, headed by the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Joseph D. Mitchell, V. G.,
pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, assist
ed. Interment was in Cathedral Ceme
tery, where the Rev. T. J. McNamara,
pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Mil-
ledgeville, officiated.
Pallbearers for Miss Pepper were
J. J. Powers, P. J. McNamara, C. R.
Goette, Edwin C. Feuger, John L. Mc-
Cluskey and H. D. Siem and L. F. Mc
Grath, Jr.; for Mr. Pepper, Judge
James P. Houlihan, R. H. Colcok, Jr.,
New Orleans, E. T. Merrick, New Or
leans, H. M. Carter Harry Daniel, An
thony Harty and Robert Reed.
Mr. Pepper and Miss Pepper were
members of one of Savannah’s most
widely known families, their father,
thp late Thomas Pepper, having been
a prominent dry goods merchant here.
Miss Pepper died without being
aware that her brother had preceded
her in death; she was ill but ten days.
Surviving are two nieces, Miss Leila
McDonough of Savannah and Mrs.
Mary Pepper Bennet, Frederick, Md.,
and a nephew, William Clement Mc
Donough, Savannah.
ABBOT VINCENT SAILS
ON VISIT TO ROME
(Special to The Bulletin)
BELMONT, N. C.—The Rt. Rev.
Vincent Taylor, O. S. B., D. D., Ab
bot-Ordinary of Belmont, pas sailed
from New York for Europe and Rome.
Abbot Vincent is the second Abbot of
Belmont, succeeding the late Bishop
Leo Haid, first abbot, in that capacity.
A native of Virginia, Abbot Vincent
was for nearly twenty-five years
pastor of St. Benedict’s Church,
Greensboro, a post he occupied when
elected Abbot nearly ten years ago.
SR. MARTHA CROGHAN
OF CHARLESTON DIES
Beloved Member of Order
Was 72 Years Old
T
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.— The Rev.
Sister Mary Martha Croghan, beloved
member of the Sisters of Our Lady
of Mercy here, and a member of a
widely known Charleston family, died
here last week. Sister Mary Martha
was bom in Charleston in 1862, the
daughter of Mr and Mrs. Michael
Croghan. She was educated at the
Academy of Our Lady of Mercy, and
her long and truly Christian ministra
tions as a religious won to her the
hearts of all with whom she came in
contact. The Very Rev. James J.
May, V. G., rector of the Cathedral,
officiated at the Requiem Mass at
the convent chapel; interment was in
St. Lawrence Cemetery. Pallbearers
were Thomas Croghan, Leo J. Crog
han, Julian Conlon, William Crog
han and M. A- Condon. Surviving
Sister Mary Martha are three sisters,
the Misses Annie, Margaret and Sarah
Croghan.
MRS. JAMES P. HAMMOND, a
member of St. Mary’s Church, died
April 14. She was bom Miss Emily
Martin of Charleston, and is survived
by her husband and one daughter.
Mrs. Hammond was educated at Our
Lady of Mercy Academy and at St.
Joseph’s Academy, Sumter.
Final Vows Made by
Franciscan Sister
Sister Mary Blanche, Augus
ta, Entered Convent in Rome
AUGUSTA, Ga.— The Rev- Sister
Mary Blanche Gormley, who entered
the Missionary Franciscan Sisters of
the Immaculate Conception in Rome
nearly eight years ago, pronounced
her final vows here April 20 at cere
monies at the Franciscan Convent.
The Rev. A. J. Laube.S.M.A., pastor
of the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, received Sister Mary
Blanche’s vows as the delegate of the
Most Rev. Michael J. Keyes, D.D.,
Bishop of Savannah. The sermon was
delivered by the Rev. J. J. Kennedy
of St Mary’s-cm-The-Hill, and the
Rt. Rev. Msgr- James A. Kane, pas
tor of St. Mary’s, was present in the
sanctuary.
Father Laube was celebrant of the
Solemn High Mass, with the Rev. Leo
M. Keenan, pastor of St. Patrick’s
Church as deacon and the Rev. A.
Wassler, S.M.A., of the Church of the
Immaculate Conception, sub-deacon.
The little Misses Helen and Mar
guerite Lyons, daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Lyons, were flower girls.
Sister Mary Blanche was bom at
Tyrone, Ireland, and made her postu-
lancy at Rome, her novitiate in Rome
and at Newton, Mass., and subse
quently taught in Minnesota and Illi
nois before coming to the Franciscan
Convent and Immaculate Conception
School here two years ago.
Former Superior in South,
He Was Visitor of Order on
Three Continents. Renown
ed as Orator and Scholar
(Special to The Bulletin)
KEY WEST, Fla.—The Rev. William
Joseph Power, S.J., died March 28,
at St. Mary’s Rectory here, in his
79th year and his 61st as a Jesuit.
Early in the month of February he
had a siege of pneumonia and had
recovered from it. Then, in Pas
sion Week, he was again stricken with
pneumonia. Complications set in and
despite excellent care and nursing he
slowly sank. Extreme unction was
administered Wednesday morning of
Holy Week and Father Power replied
to all the prayers. He was conscious
up to within a short time of his
death.
The body W’as kept in state in Key
West Good Friday and sent that
evening to Mobile, Ala, for interment
m the Jesuit cemetery at Spring Hill
College. Father W. A. Wilkinson, S.
J. of Gesu Church, Miami, accom
panied the remains to Spring Hill-
Requiem Mass was said by Very Rev.
Joseph M. Walsh, S.J., Provincial of
the New Orleans Province, in the
College Chapel, Monday, April 2, after
the recitation of the office of the dead
by the Spring Hill Jesuit community.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. E. J. Hackett, V.
G., Rector of the Cathedral of the
Immaculate Conception, Mobile, as
sisted in the. sanctuary.
William Joseph Power was born in
the city of Dublin, Ireland, April 19,
1855; he entered the Society of Jesus
at Claremonte, France, July 22, 1873;
and made about two years studies of
humanities in the College of Lyons le
Saulnier, France. At this time he
decided to enlist for the work of the
New Orleans Mission, then connected
with the Lyons Province of Jesuits.
On his arrival in the United States he
was sent immediately to Woodstock
College, Maryland, for his philosophi
cal and theological studies. He was
ordained at Woodstock by Archbishop
(later Cardinal) Gibbons April 19,
1884.
His subsequent career as a Jesuit
was one of government and of
preaching. He was appointed Supe
rior of the Southern Mission June 17,
1897, and held this office for eight and
a half years when he reached the
heights of a great preaching career.
As a member of the Jesuit Mission
Band he preached in practically
every city of the South. In 1917 he
received from the Very Rev. Wlodi-
mir Ledochowski, General of the
Jesuits, the first of four special mis
sions in the ensuing five years he
visited as the representative of the
General the Provinces of Canada,
Belgium, Ireland and Australia. On
his return to America in 1922 he was
made Director of Manresa House of
Retreats for laymen near the city of
New Orleans. In 1928 he was retired
from active duty on account of ad
vancing age. After several years of
retirement at Grand Coteau, La., he
was sent as assistant pastor in the
Jesuit churches at Miami, West Palm
Beach, Palm Beach and finally Key
West.
In New Orleans after word had
been received of the passing of this
great Jesuit, both Father Albert H.
Biever, S.J., pastor of Holy Name
Church, and Father Thomas J. Mc
Grath, S.J., who was then conducting
a mission at the Church of the Im
maculate Conception referred to
him in their Holy Thursday evening
sermons-
Joseph Keiley First
in Marist Contest
ANTHONY O’DONNELL WINS
FIFTH DISTRICT CONTEST
ATLANTA, Ga. — Anthony
O’Donnell, son of Mrs. Alice
O Donnell, representing Marist
College in the Fifth District
declamation contest last week,
won first honors, making the
fourth consecutive year in
which Marist’s representative
has won first honors—Cadet
Shroder in 1933, Cadet Keiley
in 1932 and Cadet Cefalu in
1931.
O o
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga. —- Joseph Keiley,
son of Mr. and Mrs. James J. Keiley,
won the P. O. Herbert medal in the
senior declamation contest at Marist
College, April 19, with his oration,
“The Unknown Speaker’. Lewis Gor
don, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis F.
Gordon, was second, with “The Bull
in the Arena”, and Anthony O’Don
nell, son of Mr£. Alice ODonnell
third, with “Crime, Its Own Detec
tor. This is the fourth consecutive
year in which Joseph Keiley has been
among the declaration winners; twice
in first and twice in second place. In
1932 he won the Fifth Congressional
District declamation contest as a rep
resentative of Marist.