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VOL. XVI. No. X.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JANUARY 12, 1935
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Bulletins
1jEV. HENRY S. SPALDING, S. J.,
noted editor and author, died late in
December in Cincinnati at the age
of 69. Father Spalding, for many
years editor of “The Queen’s Work”
in St. Louis, was bom in Bardstown,
Ky., and was a member of the famed
Catholic Spalding family of Ken
tucky. Four of his sisters are nuns.
Bishop at 32
AUSTRALIA’S Bishops in a recent
meeting at Melbourne drew up a
plan of Catholic Action resembling
in many respects that of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference in the
United States. Promotion of the
Catholic Press, the Legion of Decency
and broadcasting are among the ac
tivities which will be specially fea
tured.
BISHOP GABRIEL REYES of
Cebu in the Phillipines is the first
native Filipino to become an Arch
bishop, his See now being raised to
Archiepiscopal dignity.
MRS. ALICIA NEEDHAM, famed
composer of 700 songs, including 100 for
American schools, has been received
into the Church in London. One of
Mrs. Needham’s best songs is “My
Dark Rosaleen.”
CARDINAL MACRORY, Arch
bishop of Armagh and Primate of All
Ireland, Papal Legate at the National
Eucharistic Congress in Australia, is
returning to Ireland via the United
States. Cardinal MacRory visited San
Francisco and is proceeding by boat
through the Panama Canal to New
York.
AN OCTAVE OF PRAYER for
Church Unity sponsored by the
Friars of the Atonement at Gray-
moor, Garrison, N. Y., will be held
this year from January 18 to Janu
ary 15, inclusive. The octave of pray
er will be conducted at St. Agnes
Church, New York, with a series of
sermons by notable pulpit speakers.
FRANK O. SALISBURY, Hriifch
artist, includes his life sized portrait
of Cardinal Hayes in his current ex
hibition. Cardinal Hayes is portrayed
in his ecclesiastical robes.
MATTHEW O. FOLEY, for fifteen
years editorial director of “Hospital
Management”, Chicago, and the
founder of National Hospital Day,
died here early in January after a
brief illness. The father of ten child
ren, his eldest daughter is a member
of the Sisters of Providence.
The Very Rev. Msgr. Raymond A.
Kearney, S. T. D„ Chancellor of the
Diocese of Brooklyn, who has been
named Auxiliary Bishop of that See
and Titular Bishop of Lysinia.
Bishop-elect Kearney is 32 years old,
and the youngest member of the
hierarchy in the United States and
the world. He is ah alumnus of
Holy Cross College, the North Ameri
can College in Rome, and the Catho
lic University of America. He wil as
sist the Most Rev. Thomas E. Molloy,
Bishop of Brooklyn.
Photo by Blackstone
Death Claims Noted
Abbot of Trappists
Abbot Edmond of Gethse-
mani, Ky., Had Distinguish
ed Career—Abbot 36 Years
SEVEN AMERICAN PRIESTS
were forced to flee from the missions
of Changeteh, Hunan, China, as
“Red” bandits approached the city.
MSGR. FULTON J. SHEEN of
the Catholic University of America
is giving the current series of ad
dresses on the Catholic Hour, spon
sored by the National Council of
Catholic Men, over the National
Broadcasting Co., network each Sun
day evening at six o’clock Eastern
Standard Time.
MSGR. NELSON BAKER, whose
work for the poor and orphaned is
nationally and internationally fam
ous, has baptized 618 colored people
during the past three years. Monsig
nor Baker is over ninety years of
age.
MILWAUKEE Catholic Institutions
are beneficiaries of the will of James
J. Morris, who left an estate of $250,-
000, and of that of Miss Viola B. Lon-
storff, whose estate is Valued at $92,-
694. St. Louis Catholic charities re--
ceived a bequest of $5,000 from the
estate of Daniel F. I “han.
(Special Telegram, N. C. W. C. News
Service)
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The Most Rev.
Edmond M. Obrecht, O. C. S. O., Ab
bot of the Abbey of Our Lady of
Gethsemani, of the Order of Cister
cians of the Strict Observance, died
here Saturday. His Eminence,
Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Arch
bishop of Philadelphia, will officiate
at the funeral Tuesday of this week
MEXICAN “RED SHIRTS” KILL
CATHOLICS AT PARISH CHURCH
Bishop Monaghan, Native of
Sumter, Dies in Delaware
Former Greenville Pastor Was Serving in Charleston When
Named Bishop of Wilmington in 1897
(Special to The Bulletin)
WILMINGTON, Del.—The Most
Rev. John J. Monaghan, D. D., titular
Bishop of Lydda and retired Bishop
of Wilmington, died here Monday af
ter an extended illness. Funeral
plans are not yet complete.
Bishop Monaghan was bom in Sum
ter, S. C., May 23, 1856, the son of the
late Thomas Monaghan and Mrs.
Margaret Bogin Monaghan, and was
a resident of that state and Diocese
until he was named Bishop of Wil
mington forty-one years later.
Bishop Monaghan’s classical stu
dies were made at St. Charles Col
lege and his philosophical and theo
logical studies at St. Mary’s Semi
nary, both in Maryland. He was or
dained in 1880, and spent the next
two years as a curate at St. Joseph’s
Church.
From 1882 to 1887, Bishop Monag
han was pastor of St. Mary's Church,
Greenville, and is credited with being
the organizer of the missions there.
He was then named pro-rector of the
Cathedral at Charleston, and chan
cellor of the Diocese, then going to
St. Patrick’s Church as assistant vi
car-general.
Bishop Monaghan’s distinguished
work for the Church in the Diocese
of Charleston attracted the attention
of his ecclesiastical superiors, and in
1897, after the resignation of the Most
Rev. Alfred A. Curtis, D. D., as Bis
hop of the Diocese of Wilmington,
Bishop Monaghan was named to suc
ceed him.
For twenty-eight years Bishop
Monaghan served as Bishop of Wil
mington, doing his work quietly, un
ostentatiously and effectively. Ill
health compelled him to resign in
1925, and since that time he has made
his home at the home for orphan
boys at Delaware City in the Diocese
he served so long and well, and
among the children to whom he was
so devoted.
Surviving Bishop Mpnaghan are
several nephews and nieces in Char
leston, John C. Molony, James Mo-
lony, Mrs. W. I. Cormier. Mrs. H. C.
Conklin and Mrs. Greta McCarrel.
Archbishop Redwood, Oldest
Bishop in World, Dies at 96
Venerable Marist, Distinguished New Zealand Prelate, Was a
Bishop for Over Sixty Years
Abbot Obrecht was born at Stotz-
heim, Alsace, France, on November
13, the Feast of All the Saints of the
Cistercian Order, in the year 1852.
In the early 1890s, Father Edmond
came to New York to appeal for funds
for the charities of the Trappist Or
der, and was signally successful.
Named Superior of the Abbey of Our
Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky,
on January 24,1898, Father Edmond
arrived at the Abbey in March of
that year, and was elected Abbot the
following October. When he received
the abbatial benediction on October
28, 1898, the Most Rev. George Mc-
Cl(;.:';ey. Bishop of Louisville, was
celebrant -*f the Mass.
-He was a friend of every Pope in
fifty years, beginning with Pope Leo
XIII.
Doctors Approve 14 Cures
at Lourdes as Miraculous
BY M. MASSIANI
(Paris Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
Vpwc Sprvii’p
PARIS—Dr. Vallet. president of
the Bureau of Medical Verification of
Lourdes has announced that 14 mira
culous cures were ratified this year
by the bureau among those who
claimed to have been cured the pre
ceding year.
Among the 14 cases where cures
were effected, there were five cases
of Pott’s disease, four of pulmonary
or peritineal tuberculosis, one brain
tumor, one ulcerated stomach, one
case of bacillary enteritis, and pyel
onephritis, and one angiomatous tu
mor.
Most of these sick people, before
coming to Lourdes, had been in hos
pitals where they were under the
care of reputable physicians, who
furnished certificates as to the nature
and extent of the diseases from which
they were suffering when ttrey began
their pilgrimage.
During 1933, there were 88 invalids
who claimed to be cured. Most of
them returned this year in good
health, but the medical bureau has
passed over the remaining cases
either because there was some doubt
as to the instantaneity of tire cure
(progressive improvement might be
due to natural processes), or because
the disease was not at its worst, ac
cording to physicians’ certificates, at
the time of arrival at Lourdes, or be
cause the cure was not complete at
the end of 15 months.
The 48 reported cures for 1934 will
be renewed in 1935. This year there
were 797 physicians participating in
the work of the bureau, a figure a
little lower than in previous years.
There were 896 in 1933.
The International Medical Asso
ciation of Lourdes' continues its re
markable growth. The number of
members has increased from 1,885 to
2,063.
(EY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
“A bundle of records” was the title
bestowed upon himself by the Most
Rev. Francis M. Redwood, S.M., 95-
year-old Archbishop of Wellington,
whose death in New Zealand has been
reported.
Responding to the addresses of dig
nitaries of Church and State, who con
gratulated him on the occasion of his
episcopal diamond jubilee in 1934, the
venerable prelate said:
“I am the first vocation to the
priesthood in New Zealand, and that
fact is the source and occasion of the
flood of graces bestowed upon me
ever since. I have been a Marist for
79 years. I am the oldest member of
the Marist Order. I knew the vener
able founder of the Order, Claude Ma
rie Colin, and often in my youth serv
ed his Mass. I have been 60 years a
Bishop and 47 years an Archbishop.
Now I contend, ladies and gentlemen,
that that is an amazing set of rec
ords.”
And there were still other records.
He held the distinction of having been
the youngest Bishop in the Universal
Church at the time of his consecration
and the oldest in the Church at the
time of his death. He had made of
ficial ad limina visits to five Popes—
Pius IX, Leo XIII, Pius X, Benedict
XV and Pius XI—and had made 21
voyages to Europe from his distant
See.
HI- last ad limina visit was made
in 1M32 afteiOie attended the Inter
national EuciYli^tic Congress in Dub
lin. In his visit to the Holy Father,
the Archbishop told the Pontiff that
he was the fifth Pope to whom, as a
Bishop, he had paid his respects. The
Holy Father held up pne finger: “You
are unique,” he said. “Of no one else
may that be told.” \
Born in North Staffordshire, Eng
land, in 1839, the prelate, as a child of
three, reached New Zealand with his
parents, who were among the first
settlers of that country.
.At the age of 15, the future Arch
bishop set out for Europe\to begin
his studies for the priesthood. He
sailed Decembef 8, 1854, tha day on
which, in distant Rome, the Ijogma of
the Immaculate Conception rites pro
mulgated. He was the first to, leave
New Zealand to study for the sacred
ministry, just as later he was tlo be
the first Bishop and first Archbishop
from that country. 1
After some years of study ini the
colleges of the Society of Marji in
France and in Ireland, he was pro
fessed in that Society in 1864, and waS
ordained at Maynooth the following'
year.,
In 1874, after some further years of
teaching in Ireland, he was appoint
ed to be Coadjutor to the first Bish
op of Wellington, but. before his con
secration by Archbishop (afterwards
Cardinal) Manning, the See became
vacant by the death of Bishop Viard,
and thus became second Bishop of the
diocese he had left as a boy. On March
17, 1874, when Bishop Redwood was
consecrated, he was the youngest
Bishop in the Universal Church. At
his death he was the oldest. On
March 13, 1887. he was created Arch
bishop and Metropolitan.
When the late prelate was appoint
ed Bishop,-there were only 17 priests
and 8,500 Catholics in the diocese over
which he was called to rule. Today,
the Diocese of Christchurch has been
created out of part of it, and in the
remaining area, the Archdiocese of
Wellington, there are 197 churches,
and 82 schools, solely supported by
Catholics without state aid, in which
10,243 children are taught. In the
meantime, the Archbishop founded
colleges, high schools, orphanages,
hostels, and homes for the sick, the
poor and the aged. He was co-found
er, with the late Mother Mary Joseph
Aubert, of the first New Zealand Re
ligious Institute, the Sisters of Our
Lady of Compassion. He attended the
Eucharistic Congress in Chicago in
1926.
ASSAULT FATAL TO
WOMAN, FOUR MEN
Sixty-Three Radicals Arrest
ed—-Deputy Accused of
Concealing: Their Weapons
By CHARLES BETICO
(Mexico Correspondent, N. C. W. C,
News Service)
MEXICO CITY.—Secretary of Ag
riculture Garrido Canabal’s “Red
Shirts” who killed five Catholics, in
cluding one woman, in front of the
parish church of Coyoacan, near the
capital city, not only fired upon those
who sought to disperse their blas
phemous demonstration at the very
door of the church, but also shot at
men and women coming down the
church steps and who could have had
no possible connection with the dis
turbance. Members of the “Red
Shirst” are also suspected of being
the desecrators of the monument at
Cuernavaca last week.
Moreover, it has been brought out
that an agent of the public ministry
saw a Deputy conceal the weapons
used by the “Red Shirts,” which ac
counts for the fact that only one of
those arrested was found to be armed.
A youth belonging to the . “Red
Shirts” * also was killed in the dis
turbance. The police arrested 63
radicals and are holding them for
investigation as instigators of the
riots- Members of this same organi
zation have held anti-religious dem
onstrations in various towns in the
vicinity of Mexico City.
The dead are: Senorita Maria Luz
Camacho Angel Calderon, a Spanish
merchant, Inocencio Ramirez, a la
borer, Jose Ines Mendeza, gardener.
Andres Velazco, laborer, and Ernesto
Malda, an employe of the Ministry
of Agriculture who was beaten and
stoned to death by the infuriated
people.
The “Red Shirts” erected a stand at
the foot of the cross in front of the
church and, as the Catholics came
out of church, blasphemed God and
religion. The people, unarmed, set
upon the “Red Shirts,” who, in turn,
fired upon the worshipers while cry
ing “Viva Garrido.” They also fired
upon the faithful who were just com
ing out of the church and who had
taken no part in the fray. The peo
ple of Coyoacan. regardless of the
fact that they had no firearms, chased
and stoned the “Red Shirts” who took
refuge ■ at their headquarters. The
people stormed the building crying.
“Down with Garrido Canabal.”
An agent of the public ministry,
Zapata Vela, proceeded energetically
against the insolent “Red Shrist,” ar
resting 63 of them. An agent of the
public ministry saw Deputy Hora-
cio Margalli of Tabasco conceal the
weapons used by the “Red Shirts.”
Police found boxes of discharged
as well as unused cartridges at the
(Continued on Page 14)
Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop
of Westminister, Dies at 73
LONDON. — Francis Cardinal
Bourne, Archbishop and Metropoli
tan of Westminster and head of the
Church in England, died New Year’s
Day.
Born in Clapham, London, on
March 23, 1861, Cardinal Bourne was
the second son of Henry and Ellen
Byrne Bourne. His mother was the
daughter of a Dublin merchant, and
a Catholic. His father, princi
pal clerk in the Receiver General’s
branch of the postoffice and an Eng
lishman, was a convert to the
Church.
At the age of 9 the Cardinal lost
his father by death. His devoted
mother, whose first son died, sur
vived until 1900.
After attending the Clapham
schools. Cardinal Bourne went to
St. Cuthbert’s College, Upshaw, and
then to St. Edmund’s College, Ware.
Later he studied at St. Sulpice Col
lege, Paris, and at the University oi
Louvain, in Belgium. In 1884 he was
ordained a priest at the Belgian uni-
\versity.
4 In 1889, Cardinal Bourne became
iVector of the Southwark Diocesan
Seminary at Wonersh , which he
founded. He was rector until 1898
and for some years was professor of
moral theology and sacred Scrip
ture there. In 1895. he went to Rome,
where Pope Leo XIII appointed him
Domestic Prelate. The next year
Cardinal Bourne became Coadjutor
Bishop of Southwark and Bishop of
Epiphania, with right of succession
to the Southwark See. In 1897. he be
came Bishop of Southwark.
In 1903. after the death of Cardi
nal Vaughan, Archbishop of West
minster. Cardinal Bourne succeeded
him as Archbishop. On November
27, 1911, he became Cardinal,- with
the title of St. Prudentiana.
Cardinal Bourne multiplied the
number of small churches in London,
so that Catholics throughout the city
might attend Mass more easily. He
removed the load of debt from the
Westminster Cathedral, whose beauty
he caused to be enhanced from time
to time.
Cardinal Bourne attended many
Eucharistic Congresses. In 1910 he
attended the one held in Montreal,
after which he visited this country.