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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
OCTOBER 17, 1936
Leading Durham Firms
COMPLIMENTS
• and
BEST WISHES
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GEORGE W. KANE
CONTRACTOR
Durham, N. C.
Lakewood Dairy
Grade “A”
Pasteurized Dairy
Products
PHONE F-9801
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Durham Drug
Co., Inc.
Prescriptions
330 W. Main Street
Durham, N. C.
D. C. MAY
Painting and Paperhanging
and Interior Decorating
Phone J-5321 316 Morgan St.
Durham, North Carolina
NORMAN L. BENSON
CAROLINA GLASS CO.
425 West Main Street
AUTO GLASS, GLASS MACHINERY,
MIRRORS RESILVERED, CUTTING
AND POLISHING—PLATE, WIN
DOW MIRROR, SKYLIGHT WIRE
. AND FIGURED GLASS,
METAL STORE FRONT
CONSTRUCTION
Durham, N. C.
W. C. LYON & CO., Inc.
HARDWARE
213 CHAPEL HILL ST.
Everything in Hardware for the Home
and Your Building
DURHAM, N. C.
C. D. KENNY CO.
TEAS, COFFEES,
SUGARS
PHONE F-4301
Durham, N. C.
Shaw Paint & Wall Paper Co.
Inc.
Painting, Papering and
Decorating
WHOLESALE and RETAIL
115 E. Chapel Hill St.
Durham, N. C.
ALEXANDER MOTOR
COMPANY ,
Cars Trucks Tractors
Durham, North Carolina
GEO. V. WYNNE
CLYDE M. KELLY
J. M. BARNES
HALL-WYNNE & CO., Inc.
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Ambulance Service
PHONE N-147
Durham, N. C.
Compliments
KRESS STORES
Father O’Brien in His 30th
Year as Pastor at Durham
Raleigh Societies
Aid Local Hospital
Unite Their Efforts to Equip
Room
Besides supplying the material
needs of the Cathedral sanctuary, the
Sacred Heart Altar Society promotes
social entertainments throughout the
year affording new comers to the
parish an avenue for forming ac
quaintanceship with Catholic resi
dents of Raleigh.
The society functions in three
groups according to the geopraghical
location of respective members in ihe
city. Of the St. Anne Chapter Mrs.
William R. Boyle is Chairman, Mrs.
H. W. Johnson, treasurer and Mrs. L.
M. Sneed, secretary. Mrs. C. S. Tatum
heads St. Elizabeth’s Chapter of which
Mrs. W. N. Lineburg is treasurer and
Mrs. Paul C. West secretary. St.
Theresa’s Chapter has as Chairman
and secretary Mrs John W. Kane and
Mrs. B. Streb as treasurer.
SOCIETIES EQUIP
HOSPITAL ROOM
As the outcome of work by a joint
committee of Catholic Daughters,
Knights of Columbus and the Cath
edral parish, a room in the new Rex
Hospital, now nearing completion, has
been equipped in the name of The
Sacred Heart Cathedral. In addition,
several Cathedral parishioners have
supplied furnishings for individual
rooms in the same institution.
JAMES J. ROBINSON OF
RALEIGH PARISH DIES
James J. Robinson, for 10 years a
member of Sacred Heart Cathedral
parish, died here Oct. 12 after a brief
illness. Burial was made in Savannah,
his former home. Mr. Robinson was
sales manager for the Dillon Supply
Co. of this city. He is survived by
three brothers, John D. Robinson,
William X. Robinson and Harry C.
Robinson.
Phone L 979
“We Deliver the Goods”
Peoples Fruit &
Produce Market
330 West Main St.
Durham, N. C.
UZZLE MOTOR
COMPANY
OLDSMOBILE
CADILLAC
LaSALLE
Sales and Service
Cor. Main and Dillard Sts.
Durham, N. C.
B. C. Woodall Co.
“PLAYTHINGS”
136-138 E. Chapel Hill St.
DURHAM, N. C.
Everything fur Sport
and Play
Bicycles, Toys
Riding Equipment
Phone F 8231
HOSPITAL
PHARMACY
Cor. Broad and Club
Boulevard
Durham, N. C.
Beloved North Carolina
Priest as Associate of
Saintly Father Price of
Maryknoll in Early Days
The Rev. William F. O’Brien, friend
and associate of the famed Father
Price, co-founder of the Maryknoll
Foreign Mission Society and previous
ly a missionary in North Carolina, is
now in his thirtieth year as pastor of
St. Mary’s Church Durham.
Father O’Brien’s priestly life has
been spent in,North Carolina, and al
though far from great Catholic cen
ters he has been in intimate touch
with the great stream of Catholic life
in the nation and the world, even be
yond his connection with the saintly
missionary who lies buried today in
the China he longed to bring to a
knowledge of Christ, and for which
he and his associate Bishop Walsh
laid such firm foundations.
Father O’Brien was born in Wash
ington, D. C., September 18, 1872, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. JWilliam J.
O’Brien, natives of Ireland who met
and w— e married in Washington, D.
C. Following the War Between the
States, Mr. O’Brien was connected
with the War Department, and then
became superintendent of the Na
tional Cemetery, a post he held at
the time of his death in 1899.
After preliminary education in the
parochial schools of Baltimore, Fa
ther O’Brien attended schools at Fay
etteville, Ark., and New Bern, N. C.,
coming to New Bern at the age of IS
He then entered Belmont, spending
five years in the college there and
four in the seminary, and he was or
dained June 12, 1898.
Shortly after his ordination, Fa
ther O’Brien was appointed assistant
at St. Paul’s, New Bern, and placed in
charge of the congregation for the
colored there; the following year he
became pastor of St. Patrick’s
Church, Fayetteville. In 1901 he be
came associated with Father Price,
co-founder of the Maryknoll Mis
sionary Society, in the North Caro
lina Apostolate; Father O’Brien as
sisted him in the establishment and
editing of Truth.
From 1901 to 1907, Father O’Brien
was engaged in work on the North
Carolina missions, made weekly visits
to the Soldiers’ Home, the peniten
tiary and the County Home in Ral
eigh and served as chaplain of the
Orphanage at Nazareth. In 1907 he
was appointed pastor at Durham.
Durham in 1865 had less than one
hundred residents; now it has consid
erably in excess of 50,000. The first
Catholic family came to the city In
1879, and priests from Raleigh attend
ed the mission until Father O’Brien's
appointment as pastor Father
O'Brien’s first concern was the es
tablishing of a school for the parish;
this he succeeded in doing in 1909, al
though there were but fifteen child
ren in the parish. The Dominican Sis
ters of Newburg, N. Y., were and are
the teachers, and the number regis
tered has grown from fifteen to over
one hundred. The congregation has
grown from a mere handful to about
250 members, many of them converts
brought to a knowledge of the faith
by Father O'Brien. Duke University’s
Catholic students also attend St,
Mary’s and are ministered to by Fa
ther O’ Brien.
Coming to North Carolina as a boy
securing most of his education with
in the state, including his course in
the classics, philosophy and theology,
and with thirty-seven years of priest
ly service within its borders, Father
O’Brien is a Carolinian of the Caro
linians as well as a most zealous and
devoted priest. No one is held in
higher esteem than he in Durham
and its missions, which Father
O'Brien still attends, and the devo
tion of his people and the good will
of those not of the faith are trib
utes to his own zeal, life and charac
ter.
WILLIAM M0L0NY DIES—
PROMINENT CAROLINIAN
Blackville, S. C., Parishoner,
Was Widely Known
Blackville, S. C.,—William Molony,
a member of a family long prominent
in South Carolina and Georgia, died
here in September at the age of 61.
Mr. Molony was bom in Blackville,
and is survived by his wife, Mrs. Edna
Molony, his son. William Molony, Jr.,
his daughter, Mrs. M. W. Cornwell,
Washington. D. C., and two brothers,
Dr. John E. Molony and Harry Mo
lony. The funeral was held from
Sacred Heart Church with a Requiem
Mass, Father Driscoll, C.SS.R., pastor
at Orangeburg and of the Blackville
mission, officiating. Interment was in
Blackville. Mr. Molony was one of the
most highly respected citizens of
Blackville, and his death brought
great sorrow to the city and section.
FATHER STEPHEN FANG, Chi
nese priest kidnapped by communist
bandits in October, was murdered by
shooting after many days of torture,
the Franciscan mission headquarters
at Yennaufu has been informed. Ha
was 38 years old, and a priest ten
years. , , . _ ;,
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