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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. | RIGHT TO PONTIFICATE I D ■ -D 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