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VOL. XVn. No. 8
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 22, 1936
ISSUED MONTHLY— $2.00 A YEAR
Number of Religious Killed in Spain Mounts
Bulletins
rev. b. j. McIntyre, o.f.m.,
noted Franciscan orator, started a se
ries o£ three discourses on “Charac
teristic Christian Ideals” August 16
over the Catholic Hour, sponsored by
the National Council of Catholic Men
over the N. B. C. network.
BISHOP WILLIAM O’BRIEN, Chi
cago Auxiliary, has been reappointed
president of the Catholic Church Ex
tension Society for his third term by
the Holy Father at the request of His
Eminence, Cardinal Mundelein.
NOTRE DAME University’s annual
retreat for laymen, held early in Au
gust, was this year attended by 1,200,
a record attendance. The Rev. John
B. Delaunay, C.S.C., of the University
of Portland, was retreat master.
FATHER ALCINE CYR, S.M., lias
been named provincial of the Marist
Fathers of the Boston Province, suc
ceeding Father Henry de la Chapelle,
S.M., who was before the division of
the Marists into two provinces pro
vincial of the American province in
cluding Georgia. Father Cyr was at
one time president of the Marist Col
lege in Mexico City.
MEXICAN CATHOLICS in the Dio
cese of Saltillo, despite their own
troubles and impoverishment, have
sent a check for $69.80 to Bishop Boyle
of Pittsburgh for the aid of the vic
tims of the flood in that Diocese.
FIRE ON THE EARTH by the Rev.
Dr. Paul Hanly Furfey of the Cath
olic University of America is the Au
gust selection of the Catholic Book
a Month Club.| It is published by
Macmillan and is described as a clar
ion call for Catholics, rousing them
to genuine, supernatural Catholic ac
tion.
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| ALTOONA BISHOP-ELECT
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Bishop James E. Walsh New
Head of Mary knoll Society
Succeeds Late Bishop James
A. Walsh, Co-Founder With
Father Thomas Price
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MARYKNOLL, New York— The
Most Rev. James Edward Walsh, of
Cumberland, Md., Vicar Apostolic of
Kingmoon, South China, was elected
Superior-General of the Catholic For
eign Mission Society of America
(Maryknoll) at . an Extraordinary
Chapter of the Society here.
Bishop Walsh succeeds the late
Bishop James Anthony Walsh, found
er and first Superior-General of the
Society, who died April 14. There is
no relationship between the late
Bishop Walsh and his successor.
MSGR. R. T. GUILFOYLE
MSGR, GUILFOYLE IS
NEW ALTOONA BISHOP
Erie Chancellor Succeeds
Late Bishop McCort
Bishop Walsh was born in Cumber
land, Md., April 30, 1891, the son of
William E. and Mary (Concannon)
Walsh. His father was a lawyer of
Cumberland; his mother came from
Montegut, La.
Bishop Walsh is a brother of
Judge William C. Walsh, of Cumber
land, and of Rev. John F; Walsh, also
a Maryknoller, now stationed at the
Maryknoll College, at Scranton, after
several years service in what is now
Manchukuo.
Three sisters have entered religion:
Sr. M. Rosalia, of the Mission Helpers,
Towson, Md., Sr- M. Joseph of the
Notre Dame Convent, Puerta de
Tierra, Puerto Rico; and Sr. Mar
guerite, St. Joseph’s College, Emmitts-
burg, Md. Other sisters are Mrs. F.
L. Werner, of Baltimore, and Miss
M- G. Walsh, of Cumberland.
REV. SYLVESTER JUERGENS has
been officially installed as the pro
vincial of the St. Louis Province of
the Society of Mary, with ceremonies
at Chaminade College, Clayton, Mo.,
where he was formerly president.
REV. ALFRED H. RABE, S.M., has
been named president of St. Mary’s
University, San Antonio, Texas, for
the fourth successive term of three
years. St. Mary’s is conducted by the
Marianists, an order distinct from that
laboring in Georgia.
ARCHBISHOP JOACHIM LIMA,
S.J., of Bombay, India, died recently
at the age of 59. Archbishop Lima was
a priest before he joined the Jesuits
in his native Portugal in 1899; after
a number of years in India, he suc
ceeded Archbishop Goodier, S.J., of
Bombay, in 1928.
BISHOP-ELECT M. S. Garriga will
be consecrated coadjutor of the Dio
cese of Corpus Christi September 21.
Archbishop Drossaerts of San Anto
nio will be consecrator and Bishop
Ledvina of Corpus Christi and Bish
op Muench, of Fargo, co-consecra-
tors.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C. —The Very
Rev. Msgr. R. T. Guilfoyle, Chan
cellor of the Diocese of Erie, has
been appointed Bishop of Altoona,
according to word received here.
Monsignor Guilfoyle succeeds the
Most Rev. John J. McCort, who died
April 21, 1936, and becomes the third
Ordinary of the See.
Monsignor Guilfoyle has served
for 13 years as Chancellor of his di
ocese. Aside from his active work
in that very important post, Mon
signor Guilfoyle centered much of
his interest in children’s homes and
in the Harborcreek Training School
for Boys.
Born in DeLancey, Pa., he was
educated at St. Bonaventure’s Col
lege and Seminary, Allegany, and
was ordained to the priesthood in
Buffalo on June 2, 1917. His first
assignment was at St. Stephen’s
Church, Oil City, where he served
until 1921, when he became secre
tary to the Most Rev. John Mark
Gannon, Bishop of Erie.
At the death of the Rev. James
Conlin, rector of the Cathedral and
Chancellor, he was appointed to
the latter post in November, 1923,
and the following year was made
Papal Chamberlain with the title
Very Reverend Monsignor. He has
also served as Diocesan Director of
the Society for the Propagation of
the Faith.
Msgr. Baker Dies in Buffalo
at 96—Was “Padre of Poor”
MSGR. NELSON BAKER came
to Georgia a few years ago to se
lect the marble he used in mag
nificent Basilica he erected at
Lackawanna, N. Y., making the
trip by automobile. He delivered
one of the principal addresses at
the Buffalo convention of the
Catholic Press Assocation in 1932,
he then being 92 years old.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
LACKAWANNA, N. Y. — The Rt-
Rev. Msgr. Nelson H. Baker, who in
the labors of more than half a cen-
* tury built here what is one of the
largest and best known groups of
charities anywhere in the world,
died in Our Lady of Victory Hospi
tal late in July in his 96th year.
Monsignor Baker, to whom many
referred affectionately as the “Padre
of the Poor,” was known throughout
the United States and even beyond
the confines of this country. He
was one of the oldest priests in the
United States, had completed more
than 60 years of priesthood, had
served as Vicar General of the Di
ocese of Buffalo fot upwards of 33
years, and was a Domestic Prelate
for more than a quarter of a cen
tury.
Msgr. Baker was bom in Buffalo,
February 16, 1841. He spent his
early years in study and then in
business before entering the semi
nary to prepare for the priesthood
His father was Lewis Baker and his
mother Caroline Donnellan Baker.
His mother was a Catholic but his
father was not and their son was
not baptized until he was ten years
old.
After spending a few years as a
partner in the flour and grain busi
ness of Meyer and Baker, he decid
ed to become a priest and entered
Niagara University. He had received
his elementary education in the
public schools and studied religion
and Latin with the Jesuit priests of
St. Michael’s Church, who later
started Canisus College.
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HEADS MARYKNOLLERS
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ALL CHURCHES BUT
TWO IN BARCELONA
DESTROYED BY REDS
Defenseless Nuns Brutally-
Murdered — Communists
Shoot Priests on Sight
Bishop James E. Walsh, M. M.
Beatification of Franciscan
U. S. Martyrs to Be Sought
109 Martyred on This Con
tinent, 65 in U. S., Five in
Georgia, Five in Florida
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
SANTA BARBARA, Cal— At the
eighteenth annual meeting of the
Franciscan Educational Conference
held here, the Conference, which rep
resents 16 Franciscan, Conventual and
Capuchin Provinces in the United
States, Canada, England, Ireland and
Australia, has as its subject, “The
Franciscan History of North Ameri-
i.”
As a result of the Conference, the
Friars determined to open a Francis
can historical research institute at St.
Bonaventure’s College, Allegany, N.
Y., to attempt a correlation of Fran
ciscan archives throughout the United
States, and to publish a textbook of
Franciscan history in the United
States on the colonial and national
periods.
The Rev. Marion Habig, O. F. M„
of Washington, D. C., in a paper en
titled “Franciscan Martyrs of North
America,” said there have been 109
Franciscan martyrs on the continent,
65 of whom were killed'in the United
States; six in California, six in Ari
zona; 31 in New Mexico, nine in Tex
as; five in Florida; five in Georgia,
and one each in Michigan, Illinois,
Nebraska and Colorado.Fr. Habig said
the proto-martyr of the United States
was Fray Juan Padilla, killed in the
Panhandle of Texas in 1542, and the
proto-martyr of Canada was the
Franciscan, Father Nicholas Viel, 1623.
At the close of the conference, a peti
tion signed by 51 of the Friars was
sent to the Franciscan Postulator
General in Rome asking that steps be
taken towards introducing the cause
of beatification of the various groups
of Franciscan martyrs.
The Rev. Thomas Plassmann, O. F.
M., president of St. Bonaventure’s
College, Allegany, N. Y., was re
elected president of the Conference.
Father Vincent Mayer. O. M. C., of
Washington, D. C., was re-elected
vice-president; Father Claude Vogel,
O. M. Cap., of Washington, D. C., was
re-elected secretary, and Father
Habig was re-elected editor of Fran
ciscan Studies.
Methodist Minister
Becomes a Catholic
St. Joseph, Mo., Pastor Re
ceived Into the Church
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo.—The Rev. Frank
Fitzpatrick, pastor of the South Park
Methodist Espicopal Church, here, has
been received into the Catholic
Church.
On July 2, he resigned his pastorate
in the Methodist Episcopal Church
and last Thursday made his profes
sion of faith and was received into
the Catholic Church by the Very Rev.
Charles F. Buddy, rector of St.
Joseph’s Cathedral.
An energetic young man with a
brilliant scholastic carrer, Mr. Fitz
patrick, in his work as pastor of the
South Park Episcopal Church, has
been a popular minister, especially
among the younger people of his par
ish.
The foUowing cabled dispatch from
a special correspondent has been re
ceived by the N. C. W. C. News Ser
vice headquarters in Washington. Re
layed to Paris from Spain and cabled
from the French Capital, it gives un
censored first-hand information of
conditions in those areas of Spain
visited by the killing of clergy and
nuns, church burnings and other acts
of violence that have accompanied
the strife between the forces of the
Leftist Government and the insur
gents. Much of this information is
confirmed by refugees arriving in
Paris, London and Vatican City.
(Cable, N. C. W. C. News Service)
PARIS—The burning of churches
by mobs in Madrid, which began on
the day following the outbreak of the
civil war, has continued and some of
the finest edifices in the Spanish
Capital are in ruins, among them the
historic Cathedral of San Isidro.
Church burnings are reported in
many other cities and towns. Most
of the churches in Valencia are said
to have gone up in flames, including
the Cathedral in that city. In Barce
lona, it is known that only two
church structures have been left
standing- The burning of churches
in Malaga also has been extensive.
When this correspondent left Mad
rid the city was outwardly quiet.
Valencia, at that time, also was said
to be outwardly tranquil, with no
signs of the rebel activities that have
been referred to in some news dis
patches. Anti-Fascist committees
have seized control of the principal
buildings in Madrid and other large
cities and they are being used as
troop headquarters.
The guard placed by the govern
ment in charge of the historic Church
of San Jose in Madrid has desecrated
a statue of the Christ Child. The
troops now refer to it as the “Child
Communist.” The word “dynamite”
has been scrawled across a globe on
which the foot of the Christ Child
rests, a pistol has been bound to the
raised right hand and a red flag
draped in the left. Below there is a
placard which reads: “I have been
betrayed by the Fascists because I
have become a Communist”.
When a mob arrived to bum the
famous Church of La Concepsion, in
Goya Street, a group of taxicab
drivers intervened, informing the
mob that the city’s principal oil and
gasoline deposit was just across the
street and the burning of the church
might result in a conflagration of
serious proportions. Thus, the church
was saved.
A number of priests and Religious
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400 Barcelona Priests Slain
London Newspaper Reports
Never strong physically, Father
Baker was ill for several months
and his superiors were certain that
he would never live to be ordained.
But then, as on several occasions
Continued on Page Ten)
REV. WM. H. MEEGAN, director of
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of
Buffalo, was elected president of the
Diocesan Directors of the Catholic
Charities at the annual meeting of the
directors held in connection with the
Catholic Charities convention in Seat
tle.
BY GEORGE BARNARD
(Cable, N. C. W. C. News Service)
LONDON.—Heavy firing that is
heard each day in Madrid between 2
and 3 p. m. marks the execution by
government troops of priests and nuns
and of citizens of the Spanish capi
tal accused of sympathy with the
Rightist revolt, a refuge Englishman
told the Daily Telegram here. The
firing, he said, always lasts at least
an hour.
The Tangier correspondent of the
Daily Mail says the number of priests
slain in Barcelona totals 400.
Bernard Malley, a refugee from Ma
drid, tells me churches and con
vents there have been destroyed.
Priests are being shot at sight. Some
have been dragged from their hiding
places and butchered in the streets.
The Mass has been banished.
“The dream cities of Spain, vast
centers of medieval art, with their
centuries of associations with the
Faith and the Fatherland have suf
fered far more terribly than did any
Roman city at the hands of the bar
barian invaders,” he said.
George Ogilvie-Forbes, prominent
Catholic and Counsellor of the Brit
ish Embassy at Spain, is returning
voluntarily to Madrid and has been
appointed by the British Foreign Of
fice to take charge of the Embassy.
He was home on leave when the re
volt began. He will try to reach Ma
drid via Marseille and Valencia.
Newspapers here have praised his
courage. The British Ambassador to
Spain and his staff are now on the
French side of the border.
Refugees of many nationalities who
fled from Madrid and were taken
aboard a British warship at Barcelona
heard their first Mass in a fortnight
on the deck of the vessel. The Mass
was offered for the Bishops, priests,
nuns and lay victims of the amssa-
cres.
The rector of St. John of God Hos
pital, Scorton, Yorkshire, has re
ceived the news that 18 religious of
St. John of God have been slain at
Calaselles and that othqrs have been
murdered in Barcelona, where they
conducted hospitals.
At Sitges, near Barcelona, refugees
arriving here said, children are being
encouraged to mock the religious ob
jects which have been taken from the
churches. They don stolen sacred
vestments and bestraddle cruicifixea
and tug them for hobby-horses, , ,.i