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FEBRUARY 29, 1936
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
ELEVEN
Msgr. Charles Dubois Wood Prothonotary Apostolic
Diocese of St. Augustine
Association of Holy
Childhood in Florida
Key West and Tampa Pupils
Enroll in Mission Group
(Special to The Bulletin)
KEY WEST, Fla.—The Association
of the Holy Childhood was inaugur
ated in the schools of Key West Jan
uary 27; the Very Rev. W. J. Rea
gan, S. J., presided at the enrollment
ceremonies and inscribed the names
of one hundred and ninety-four chil
dren in the annals as members. Sis
ter M. John of the Eucharist is the
Superior of the Convent of Mary
Immaculate at Key West.
AT TAMPA, in the Sacred Heart
Parochial School the Very Rev. F. J.
Clarkson, S. J., pastor, enrolled two
hundred and fifty-two pupils in the
Association of the Holy Childhood.
To date the first grade pupils have
sent five dollars to ransom a pagan
child to be called Mary Rose, and
the children of the fourth grade have
earned five dollars to. be applied in
ransoming a pagan boy to be named
Joseph, according to Father O’Ma
honey, the Propagation of' the Faith
Director who has transmitted both
amounts to the National Director at
Pittsburgh. The five lowest grades
in the same school have sold stamps
to the amount of eight dollars for
the Association which has also been
sent to Father Rossenbach, C. S. Sp.,
the National Director. It is the hope
that the close competition that exists
between the classes at the Sacred
Heart Parochial School for the Holy
Childhood will even extend to the
different schools in the Diocese of
St. Augustine.
Benedictine Lauded
by U. S. Bureau Chief
Brother Gerard of St. Leo,
Fla., Cooperative Weather
Observer for 34 Years
(Special To The Bulletin)
ST. LEO, Fla.,—Thirty-eight years
ago Brother Gerard of the Benedic
tine Abbey of St. Leo began keeping
weather reports here, and for thirty-
four years he thas been cooperating
in his work with the Weather Bureau
as an official observer. His long
faithful and active volunteer service
occasioned the following letter re
cently from W. R. Gregg, Chief of
the Bureau at Washington.
January 18, 1936,
Brother Gerard Schneider,
Cooperative Observer,
Weather Bureau,
St. Leo, Florida.
Dear Brother Schneider:
It is with a great deal of pleasure
that 1 not from our records that you
have, in the capacity of cooperative
observer at St. Leo. furnished this
Bureau with valuable weather re
-ports for 34 years. As you know,
there are at the present time, scatter
ed from coast to coast, nearly 5,000
cooperative observers of the Weather
Bureau, but comparatively few have
to their credit such long and dis
tinguished servece as yours.
We fully realize what it means in
the way of inconvenience and bother
to make these weather observations
day after day, year in and year out,
and with the years accumulated to
the imposing number you have serv
ed, without monetary compensation,
the matter becomes so outstanding
as to make eminently fitting these
words of personal greeting, congratu
lation, and assurance of appreciation
therefore.
Your contribution to the climate of
Florida and the work of the Weather
Bureal in general is of great value
and we are glad of the opportunity to
recognize it in this personal way.
There comes to you with this mes
sage the sincere hope for many more
years of health, and for your con
tinuance through them as a valuable
member of our official family in the
capacity of cooperative observer at
St. Leo.
Sincerely yours,
(signed)
W. R. GREGG,
Chief of Bureau.
St. Petersburg Has
Fine New Rectory
St. Mary’s Parish House Ad
joins New Parish Hall
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.,—The new
rectory of Our Lady of Grace parish
at St. Petersburg is complete and
unique in many respects. Situated on
the church grounds, it adjourns the
new parish hall, connecting it with
the living room. It affords priests
and people a facility to transact bus
iness, for each priest has an office
in the rectory. The social hall af
fords an excellent indoor promenade,
especially during inclement weather.
The Rev. J. J. O’Riordan, S. T. L.,
pastor of the Church of Our Lady of
Grace, has the first resident pastor
in St. Petersburg, having been ap
pointed in 1921.
FLORIDA U. STUDENTS
ENTER NOVITIATES
One Joins Jesuits, Second to
Become Redemptorist
(Special to The Bulltin)
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two Crane
Hall students left recently the Uni
versity of Florida to begin studies for
the priesthood. William Hartnett of
Plant City has joined the Redempto
rist Congregation and Donald Beut-
enmuller of West Palm Beach has
joined the Society of Jesus.
JOHN P. STOKES, Miami attorney,
has contributed several up-to-date
volumes of history and philosophy to
Crane Hall library. A very special ef
fort is being made to build up the li
brary so that all students of the Uni
versity desiring information of au au
thoritative nature on matters of doc
trine or history may find their quest
satisfied. With the more than two
hundred volumes donated by Colonel
Kay of Jacksonville last year a nu
cleus has been made of worthwhile
volumes toward the proposed library.
DR. S. R. DIETRICH has returned
to resume his work at the University
of Florida as professor of Economic
Geography, having spent six months
at the Royal Hungarian and Palatine-
Joseph Universities in Budapest. Both
Dr. and Mrs. Diettrich are faithful
members of St. Patrick’s Church,
Gainesville, the University City.
DEAN BLAKE R. VAN LEER of
the Engineering College addressed the
Catholic men of the University of
Florida Thursday evening in the so
cial room, Crane Hall. Planning, the
subject of his talk, is an advisory and
not an executive function, said Dean
Van Leer. Its purpose he declared is
to give those in executive authority
intelligent, carefully thought out al
ternatives of action from which to
choose.’ He insisted that planning
also crystallizes our thoughts, stimu
lates our imagination and helps to
build up public sentiment for desir
able modes of conduct; its need is ap
parent for success in our daily lives,
our institutions, our cities, counties
and our nation. Dean Van Leer is
chairman of the Univesity of Florida’s
Committee on Advanced Planning and
Technical Consultant to the Florida
State Planning Board. Recently his of
fice at the University of Florida drew
the plan for the recently installed
steam heat at Crane Hall. Dean Van
Leer's contribution to the Catholic
men at the University, he declared to
Father O'Mahoney.
CAPTAIN WALTER J. MULLER,
associate professor of Military Science
at the University of Florida, recently
promoted, is a brother of the Very
Rev. T. A. Muller, O. P., Benicia, Cal
ifornia.
There are five sets of brothers at
present residing in Crane Hall: Thom
as and Mart Gary of Brooksville,
Florida; Ferd and Bernard Nordmann
of DeLifhd, Florida; John and Mack
Mruz, DeLand; Stephen and Gerald
O’Connell, West Palm Beach; Jose
and George Vila of Havana, Cuba.
Confirmation Classes
in Florida Parishes
Bishop Barry Administers
Sacrament There
(Special to The Bulletin)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.,— The Most
Rev. Bishop Barry is making his an
nual Visitation and Confirmation at
present. Sunday, February 16. he
confirmed at Sacred Heart. Lake
Worth, in the morning and in the
afternoon confirmed a large class at
St. Anne's, West Palm Beach. Fur
ther engagements include St. Paul's,
Daytona Beach, February - 23; St.
Monica’s, Palatka, March 1; St. Pat
rick’s, Gainesville, March 8; Imma
culate Conception, Perry. March 15
and St. Michael’s, Fermandina,
March 22.
BISHOP BARRY recently visited
San Antonio, where he expressed his
delight with the splendid spirit of
co-operation with their pastor. Fath
er Felix, O. S. B.. their willingness
to make personal sacrifices, and
their pleasure at seeing the church
renovated and the grounds im
proved.
ADDITION COMPLETED AT
MIAMI BEACH SCHOOL
Father Barry’s Parish In
creases Its Facilities
(Special to The Bulletin)
MIAMI. Fla.— The splendid addi
tion to St. Patrick’s high school,
Miami Beach, recently completed, is
in conformity with the pedagogical
requirements as to light, air and
space of class rooms. This plant,
complete with adequate room in its
grammar and high school depart
ments serves a fast growing school
attendance.
DISTINGUISHED RANK
FOR BELOVED PRIEST
OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Highest Dignity Outside
Episcopacy Itself Conferred
on Former Charleston Pas
tor by Holy Father
The rank of Prothnotary Apostol
ic, the highest rank to which any
American priest has been appointed
except the episcopacy itself, has
been conferred on the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Charles Dubois Wood, former
ly pastor of St. Mary’s Church,
Charleston, by the Holy _ Father in
recognitidn of his thirty-nine years of
priestly service and of his great
benefactions of his family for which
he was responsible, enumerated
elsewhere.
Monsignor Wood officiated re
cently for the first time in his new
capacity at St. Patrick’s Church in
the presence of the Most Rev. Em
met M. Walsh. D. D., Bishop of
Charleston, and Monsignori, clergy
and a congregation which thronged
St. Patrick’s. There are only a few
Prothonotaries Apostolic in the
United States; they indued the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Lavelle, rec
tor of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New
York, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. C. F.
Thomas, S. T. D., LL.D., pastor of
St. Patrick’s Church, Washington, D.
C., and the Rt. Rev. Msgr. D. F.
Murphy, pastor of he Church of the
Immaculate Conception, Memphis,
Tenn., administrator of the Diocese
of Nashville.
A Prothonotary Apostolic is a
member of the highest college of
prelates in the Roman curia, and
also of the honorary prelates on
whom the Pope has conferred this
title and its special privileges.
During the persecution of the ear
ly Church in the third century cer
tain men of prudence, piety and re
ligious zeal were selected by the
Pope to keep the records and data
of the act of the martyrs and the
circumstances of their death.
In later antiquity seven were ap
pointed for the city of Rome, one for
each of its regions or districts, and
were known as the seven regional
notaries, who, on the further devel
opment of the papal administration
and the . accompanying increase of
the notaries, remained the supreme
palace notaries of the Papal chan
cery. In the Middle Ages the Pro
thonotaries were very high Papal
officials, and were often raised di
rectly from this office to the cardi-
nalate.
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On acount of their dignity and to
distinguish them from other notaries,
they were designated prothonotaries,
or first notaries. In the year 337 Pope
Julius I assgned to them the duty of
drawing up all decrees and enact
ments concerning faith and disci
pline. Since the sixteenth century the
Popes also have appointed honorary
prothonotaries, who enjoyed the same
privileges as the seven regional no
taries of the Prothonotarial college at
Rome.
The Prothonotaries Apostolic “ad
instar participantium”. to whose rank
Monsignor Wood has been raised, are
“ad instar”, or like those participat
ing, because while not taking an ac
tive part in the work of the Roman
court, as do the seven first protho
notaries of the college at Rome, nev
ertheless like them they have the
privilege of a private chapel, and of
celebrating Pontifical Mass and oth
er Pontifical ceremonies at stated
times.
They use the same external insignia
of a Bishop, and their rank is
next to the Bishops in processions
and in all ecclesiastical functions. It
is the highest dignity in the prelacy,
outside of the episcopate itself, to
Which a priest in America can be
raised. It makes Monsignor Wood a
member of the papal household and
of the Roman court.
In 1905, Pope Pius X defined anew
the rights and privileges of the pro
thonotaries. Among them are the re
cording of the acts of consistories and
canonizations, the preparing of Papal
bulls, the use of Pontificals and a
representation in the Congregation of
the Propaganda de Fide. The Pope
confers the dignity of the prothono-
taryship, but he does so only at the
request of the Bishop-of the Diocese
to whihe the priest is attached.
Monsignor Wood was born in Os
wego County, New York, a son of
Anthony DuBois Wood and Mary
Caroline Byron. His boyhood was
spent at Middletown, N. Y., under the
tutelage and care of his grand aunt,
Mrs. Armanda LeFebvre Dubois,
widow of Dr. Dubois. He attended the
grammar school and Walkill academy,
at Middletown, graduating from the
Oswego High School at the age of
seventeen. He taught school for three
years and then entered St. Mary’s
college at Belmont, N. C., from the
college graduating into St. Mary’s
seminary. He was adopted by Bishop
Northrop for the Diocese of Charles
ton and ordained by Bishop Northrop
a sub-deacon “ad titulum patrimonii
sui” in the old pro-cathedral, April
22. 1897. Ordained a deacon April 10,
1898 and raised to the priesthood Sep
tember 29. 1898. he has labored all of
his priestly life in the Diocese of
Charleston, with the exception of a
Carolinian, Kinsman
of Washington, Dies
Hermann Washington, Na
tive of New Bern, N. C.,
Convert in Washington
BROOKLYN.—Herrmann Bushrod
Washington, for whom funeral ser
vices were held at St. Edmond's Cath
olic Church here, was a member of
a branch of the family from which
George Washington sprung.
Mr. Washington, who was bom in
New Bern, N. C., 87 years ago, lived
in New York for a while before going
to Chicago in 1882. While in Chi
cago he was for a time president of
the Illinois State Board of Fire Un
derwriters. He settled in Brooklyn
in 1914 and was active in the insur
ance business here until his retire
ment four years ago. He is survived
by his widow, Mrs. Frieda Gerstner
Washington; three sons, Herrman B.,
Lawrence W„ and Edward W. Wash
ington. and three daughters, Mrs,
John G. Greer, Miss Maud M. Wash
ington, and Mrs. William Monroe.
Winston-Salem Choir
Broadcasts the Mass
Father Leo Frierson, O.S.B.,
Explains It Over WSJS
WINSTON-SALEM. N. C.—The
choir of St. Leo’s Church recently
broadcast Leonard’s Mass in B flat
over Station WSJS, the broadcast
lasting a half hour. Fhther Leo
Frierson. O. S. B., explaining the Mass
during the broadcast. The members
of the choir are:
Soprano, Mrs. Richard Bledsoe, Mrs.
W. C. Moffitt, Misses Elizabeth
Angelo, Elizabeth Widdfield. Evelyn
Dave; Altos, Mrs. S. C. Shepherd,
Miss Evelyn Tesh; tenors, Arthur
Sambergh, Harry Miles, Leslie Dun-
nagan; Basses, Alphonse Daye,
Gerard Estes, John Dughi is the di
rector and Mrs. Joseph Gallen,
organist.
Greenville Council
Sponsors Dramatics
GREENVILLE. S. C. —• “The Path
Across the Hill”, a play in three acts,
was staged at St. Mary’s auditorium.
Tuesday evening. February 11. at 8
o’clock, sponsored by the Knights of
Columbus. This was the first time
the play was staged in this section
and it was well received.
The cast of characters included:
Zuzu, Adele George; Lutie. Patsy
Slattery; Grandma, Bettie Batson;
Flo, Edna Seaman; Ruth. Sophie Syr
acuse; Salamander, Jim Sheleuly;
Walter. Paul Deimling; Grandpa,
Richard Eassy; Dr. Reed, Philip Eas-
sy - Robert Post, Robert George.
sabbatical leave of absence which
Bishop Walsh granted to enable him
to assist the venerable Dean McClan-
cy, of Middetown, his own home
town, where he now resides at the
family- residence.
Following is the papal brief of Pope
Pius XI, conferring the new rank on
Monsignor Wood:
“Beloved son, health and apostolic
blessing:
“The Bishop of Charleston has
highly commended you and made
known to us how eminently deserving
you. have shown yourself in the ser
vice of his Diocese: The Bishop states
that you have built several churches
through resources taken from your
patrimony: That you also have con
tributed to the construction of a
school erected in his Cathedral City:
And that by your zealous activity in '
the missions of his Diocese you may
rightly be called the founder of two
mission parishes.
“On that account, in order to ex
tend to you a reward worthy of such
achievements and to express in a pub
lic and solemn manner our good will
in your regard: We by this present
letter, through our own authority,
elect, make and proclaim you ‘pro
thonotary apostolic ad instar particip-
ium’. Therefore, we grant you. belov
ed son, all faculties, rights, privileges,
prerogatives and indults which eccle
siastics raised to that rank have and
enjoy, particularly in virtue of the
constitution, ‘de conlegio prothonota-
rium,’ published by our late predeces
sor Pius P. P. X., on February XXI.
1905, of which a printed copy we or
dered to be sent to you.
“Moreover we decree that a notifi
cation of your elevation to this digni
ty be officially entered in the acts of
the College of Prothonotaries Apos
tolic. We command that before you
may enjoy the advantages of the
aforesaid concession, you make be
fore your own Bishop, who in this
r atter will act as dean of said college,
the profession of faith according to
the articles proposed by the Apostolic
See, that you adhere sincerely to ev
ery word of the oath, a formula of
which we have directed to be sent to
you, finally, that you religiously ob
serve all other things prescribed in
that same constitution, anything to
thj contrary notwihtstanding.
“Given in Rome at St. Peter’s, un
der the ring of the fisherman of the
XVII. day of May, MCMXXXV. The
fourteenth year of our pontificate.”
The brief is inscribed “to our be
loved son, Charles D. Wood, priest,”
and attested by “E. Card. (Cardinal)
Pacelli, secretary of state.”
MSGR. WOOD AND HIS
FAMILY GENEROUS TO
CHURCH IN DIOCESE
Gifts Total Over $300,000 in
Thirty-Seven Years, During
Episcopacy of Three Bis
hops of Charleston
Through the zeal of Monsignor
Charles DuBois Wood and the gen
erosity of his Northern relatives and
friends, the Diocese of Charleston
has received more than $311,000 in
material gifts during the 37 years of
his service in the church.
Three churches have been built at
Florence, Sumter and Georgetown
with money raised by Monsignor
Wood from his friends and relatives,
at a total cost of $136,000. Other
beneficences, including $50,000 to
St' Patrick’s parochial school and
$25,000 to St. Francis Xavier infirm
ary in Charleston, total more than
$175,000 in this diocese.
In the order that they were built,
the churches constructed with funds
collected by Monsignor Wood are: St.
Mary’s, Georgetown, $33,000, in 1899;
St. Ann’s, Sumter, and a rectory,
$43,000 in 1910, and St. Anthony’s All
Souls,Florence, $60,000 in 1915.
Most of the money for these and
other gifts came from the Wood,
DuBois and LeFebvre families of
Middletown, N. Y., and New York
City. Other gifts are memorial win
dows in the Catholic churches at
Columbia, Sumter, Georgetown,
Florence, Cheraw and Charleston.
The beautiful Good Samaritan win
dow in the Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist here was erected in
memory of Monsignor Wood’s par
ents.
The entire renovation of the 100-
year-old mission at Cheraw was ac
complished through the generosity , .
Dr. John DuBois, of Middletown,
grand uncle of Monsignor Wood.
Donated by Mrs. Armanda DuBois,
widow of Dr. DuBois. and grand
aunt of Monsignor Wood, are the im
ported church bells of the churches
at Georgetown, Florence and Sumter,
costing a total of $5,000 and commem
orating the 10th, 20th and 30th anni
versaries of Monsignor Wood's ser
vice in the church.
A gift of $50,000 was made to the
St. Patrick’s parochial school here by
Mrs. Mary DuBois Hervey and her
grand aunt, Mrs. DuBois. The school
named the Father Wood School, com
memorated the 35th year of his ser
vice.
There is a perpetual endowment for
a scholarship at St. Mary’s Seminary,
Baltimore, for the benefit o* South
Carolina students only, and $9,000
placed in Charleston for the benefit
of the late Bishop Russell’s school
plan. The maternity ward at St.
Francis Xavier infirmary, costing
$25,000, commemorated the silver ju
bilee of Father Wood while he was
pastor of St. Mary’s here. This love
ly old church was restored at a cost
of $18,000 during his pastorate.
Numerous other gifts, for eleemosy
nary and charitable purposes, have
been donated by the family and
friends of Monsignor Wood during
the last 37 years. No condition or ob
ligation was attached to any of these
gifts, which were made to the Bishop
of Charleston to be used as he saw
fit. Bishops Northrop, Russell and
Walsh have administered these gifts.
With the rank of prothonotary
apostolic, Monsignor Wood is given
the right to wear the vestments of a
bishop four times a year. He was born
in Middletown. N. Y.. and came to
Charleston in 1895 to study for the
priesthood. In 1928, due to ill health
and overwork, he resigned as pas
tor of St. Mary's here and returned
to Middletown, where he was pastor
of St. Joseph’s Church, hut still at
tached to the Diocese of Charleston.
At the time of his retirement sev
en years ago, The News and Courier
commented in an editorial as tollows:
“Fortunately for his church. Father
Wood’s work is not over. After his
deserved rest he will return to Char
leston, not as pastor of St. Mary’s,
but to undertake other important
work here, which has already been
outlined for him.”
Key West Has Stamp
and Coin Exhibit
(Special to The Bulletin)
KEY WEST. Fla..—The Key West
International Coin and Stamp Expo
sition at the Convent of Mary Imma
culate here in St. Cecilia's Hall at
tracted a splendid attendance.
Twenty-one foreign governments as
well as that of the United States
participated.
Mrs. M. De Barcee was elected
president of the Marian Sodality of
the local parish at a recent election
meeting. Mrs. J. Johnson was elects
ea vice-president Mrs. N. Lopez sec
retary. Mrs. M. Sweeting treasurer;
Mrs. J. Wells, Mrs. C. Nash and Mrs.
S. Walton consultors.
The alumnae Music Class of the
Convent of Mary Immaclate recently
entertained with a program, and the
boys of St. Joseph's School early in
February presented an entertainment