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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MARCH 27, 1937
Spartanburg Is Host
to Deanery Meeting
Greenville Deanery N. C. 0.
W. Has Quarterly-Meeting
Establishing New
Greenville Parish
(Special to The Bulletin)
SPARTANBURG, S. C.—The local
Council was host to the Greenville
Deanery for the first quarterly meet
ing of the year. The meeting was
held in the reception room of St.
Paul’s Parish Rectory on North Dean
Street.
Seventy-three ladies attended the
meeting. Including the recently ap
pointed administrator of the parish,
the Rev. Francis Ferri, of Charleston,
four priests were guests: The Rev.
Sidney Dean, Greenville; the Rev.
Charles J. Baum, Anderson; the Rev.
T. J. McGrath, Greenville, and the
Rev. Linus Verhelst, O.F.M., Pater
son, N. J.. now of Greenville.
Mrs. J. P. Siener, president of the
Greenville Deanery, as chairman, pre
sided at the following interesting pro
gram:
Player—Father Baum.
Welcome to guests.
Introduction of guests: Mrs. J. P.
Siener, president.
Minutes: Mrs. T. F. Armstrong,
secretary.
Financial report: Mrs. Thomas
Cantwell, treasurer.
Report of committees: Publicity,
Mrs. Sease; organization, Mrs. Cum
mings; coupons, Mrs. Foster.
Reports of organizations: Ander
son, Catholic Women’s Club; Green
ville, Council of Catholic Women, St.
Mary’s Parent-Teacher Association;
Greenwood, Catholic Women’s Club;
Spartanburg, Council of Catholic Wo
men.
Reports of Junior Councils: Miss
Winifred Bahan.
Nominating committee appoint
ments: Mrs. J. P. Seiner.
Talk by our state president, Mrs.
George H. Williams.
Address: The Rev. Francis Ferri.
Reading: Miss Janie Stallings.
tj J - if The Rev. Sidney
Seminary in U. S. Acquired
to Educate Mexican Priests
Their Training Forbidden by Law in Mexico, U. S. Bis
hops Will Provide Facilities in New Mexico
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ERIE, Pa.—The seminary in the
United States where Mexican youths
will be trained for the priesthood—an
institution which will be America’s
own counterpart of Douai, Salamanca
and similar historic institutions in
Europe—is to be launched on a mag
nificent property some S miles out
side of Las Vegas, New Mexico.
This announcement has just been
made, on behalf of the Committee of
Bishops on the Mexican Seminary,
by the Most Rev. John Mark Gan
non, Bishop of Erie, who is chairman.
Funs for the purpose have been and
will be solicited from the Catholics
of the United States.
Benediction:
Dean.
Pages were officers of the Junior
Council. President, Helen Seiner;
vice-president, Janet Wendlinger;
secretary, Catherine Sumner; treas
urer, Victoria Miller.
State Officers: President. Mrs. G.
R. Williams. C harleston; first vice-
president, Mrs. Ella V. Hurley,
Charleston; recording secretary, Mrs.
Cecilia D. Smith, Spartanburg, cor
responding secretary, Mrs. W. C.
O’Driscoll, Charleston; treasurer,
Mrs. W. C. C. eraty. Yonges Island;
auditor, Mrs. J. M. Costello, Colum
bia.
Deanery officers: President, Mrs. J.
P. Seiner. Spartanburg; secretary,
Mrs. T. F. Armstrong Spartanburg;
treasurer, Mrs. Thomas Cantwell,
Greenville.
Spartanburg officers: President,
Mrs. Leonard Becker, Sr.; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. J. T. Crowley; secretary,
Mrs. Louis Riebling; treasurer Mrs.
Bernard Sumner.
After the business meeting, the
guests were invited to the dining
room of the rectory for a social hour.
Mrs. J. P. Siener poured tea. and Mrs
Leonard Becker, Sr., president of the
local Council, served the plates with
delicious chicken salad. The members
of the entertainment and refreshment
committee, Mrs. J. S. O’Neill, Mrs.
Leonard Becker, Jr., Mrs. Louis Rieb-
, s ®'7 cd the guests with their
plates. Mrs. Martin O'Brien supervis-
ed the decorations for the occasion.
The table was laid with a beautiful
lace cloth, and in the center of the ta
ble were vari-colored snapdragons,
flanked with tall pink tapers.
Parish Farewell for
Father Linus, O.F.M.
Franciscan Father Trans
ferred From Spartanburg
Parish to Greenville
The Rev. Linus E. Verhelst, O. F.
M., of Paterson, N. J., a member of
the Franciscan Order, who was in
charge of the Spartanburg parish
from the time of the appointment of
Father Mackin as pastor at Shandon,
Columbia, and the coming of Father
Ferri. Father Linus, who endeared
himself to the parishoners during his
stay in Spartanburg, is now assigned
to Greenville, where he is engaged in
the founding of the first parish for
the colored people there.
Fr. Ferri Now at
Spartanburg Parish
Father Ferri was ordained to the
Priesthood May 1, 1929 in the Cathe
dral of St. John the Baptist, Charles
ton, by the Most Rev. Emmet Walsh,
and was appointed as assistant to the
Right Rev. Msgr. A. K. Gwynn at
St. Mary’s Church, Greenville, S. C.
In 1831, Father Ferri became a mem
ber of the faculty of Bishop England
High School, Charleston, and assisted
in parochial work at St. Patrick’s
Church and at St. Mary’s Church in
that city. In 1935 he joined the staff
of teachers at Portsmouth Priory
School, a preparatory school for boys
conducted by the monks of the Eng
lish Congregation of Benedictines at
Portsmouth, R. I.
On October 4, 1936, Father Ferri
was clothed as a Benedictine novice
for the American establishments of
the English Congregation at St. An
selm’s Priory, Washington, D. C., but
was forced by ill-health to abandon
the monastic life. He has, however,
found it possible to assume his pres
ent charge. For some years Father
Ferri has been engaged in collect-
nig source material for a biography
of the Chevalier Limoelan, a Breton
Nobleman who, after a most adven
turous life in France, served as a
priest in Charleston before the com
ing of Bishop England, and later be
came chaplain to the Nuns of the
Visitation, Georgetown, Washington,
D. C.. who regard him as their second
founder.
Parishes Exchange
Centenary Greetings
St. Patrick’s, Charleston,
Salutes St. Patrick, Mo.
^ (Special To The Bulletin)
. SPARTANBURG, S. C.-The par
ishioners of the Church of St. Paul
the Apostle gathered to bid a fond
“teweU Father Linus Verhelst,
°- £. M„ who had b*en in charge
of the parish since the promotion of
Father Mackin.
The local Council of Catholic Wom
en presented an amusing fashion
show. An auction sale, with Mr
T. Woodworth and Mr. James Crow
ley as auctioneers, was conducted
later in the evening. The proceeds
from the auction sale and a check
from the Council of Catholic Women
were presented to Father Linus, who
has gone to Greenville for parish
work.
Spartanburg Mission
by Fr. Wagner, S.J.
Jesuit Father Conducts It in
Parish of St. Paul the Apos
tle in February
(Special to The Bulletin)
SPARTANBURG, f>. C.—The Rev.
Austin L. Wagner, of the Society of
Jesus of the South, a member of the
Mission Band with headquarters at
Shreveport, La., conducted a most
successful mission in February at the
Church of Saint Paul the Apostle.
!The mission closed February 21.
While the centenary of St. Patrick’s
Church was being celebrated in
Charleston, the 100th anniversary of
another St. Patrick’s parish was ob
served in the Middlewest, St. Patrick,
Mo., the only town in the United
States bearing that name.
In recognition of the affair the Rev.
John P. Clancy, assistant pastor of
St. Patrick’s Church, wired greetings
and felicitations to the Rev. Francis
O’Duighan, at St. Patrick, Mo. His
telegram is as follows:
“We learn with great joy and pleas
ure that St. Patrick’s Parish, St. Pat
rick, Mo., celebrates its centenary as
does St. Patrick’s. Charleston, on St.
Patrick’s Day, 1937.
“Our Right Reverend Pastor, Jo
seph L. O'Brien, his assistants, and the
people of St. Patrick’s send greetings
and felicitations expressive of joy
which they feel on the 100th anni
versary of their parish.
“May St. Patrick’s parish, St. Pat
rick, Mo., continue to flourish in do
ing the work of our Divine Saviour
and celebrate its centenaries joyous
ly until the end of time.”
Father O’Duighan, pastor of the
Missouri parish, wired acknowledge
ments and greetings to the Charles
ton parish.
The name selected for the institu
tion, which wiR be the first of its
kind in this country, is Montezuma”,
a proud and important title in Mex
ican history. Likewise, it is interest
ing that the location is in the State
of New Mexico.
The high importance of this great
undertaking for the future of the
Church in Mexico springs from the
fact that the maintenance and oper
ation of seminaries is forbidden by
law in the country just south of the
Rio Grande. While some education
for the priesthood has been carried
on and still is carried on there, it is
accomplished only under the gravest
inconveniences, with frequent and
discouraging interruptions occasioned
by the descent of the military and
police when the secret places of in
struction are discovered. Through the
Seminary about to be opened in this
country, the Bishops of the United
States will make available to Mex
ican aspirants for the priesthood the
quiet, order and peaceful surround
ings so necessary to a proper prepara
tion for the sacred ministry.
The Bishops of the United States
are able to do for the Catholic Church
in Mexico what was done at Rome,
at Douai, at Salamanca and other
places in Spain, in Portugal and in
France, when the Catholic Church in
England and Ireland suffered so
grievously in the reigns of Elizabeth
and James I. Nof it is pointed out,
is the situation in Mexico in any de
gree less serious or less urgent’than
that once faced by the Church in
England and Ireland. In fact, every
inconvenience and hardship it placed
in the way, not only of ecclesiastical
education but also of the religious
vocation, in Mexico. Not only are the
seminaries made impossible of exist
ence,! but the forced absence of
numerous prelates from their dioc
eses makes the training of aspirants
for the priesthood a most difficult
undertaking.
In a number of instances, the Or
dinary of the Diocese is dependent
upon the aid of others for his own
personal food, his clothing and his
shelter. He cannot possibly supply
food, clothing and books to ecclesi
astical students, even when they suc
ceed in finding some precarious shel
ter. The Mexican Episcopacy, col
lectively and individually, are endur
ing privations and sacrifices to main
tain the small groups of students
wherever they can. Special collec
tions are made available on feast days
in those churches that are open in
Mexico City, but the amounts receiv
ed are not in any way sufficient to
defray the costs of educating priests,
especially under such unusual and
vexatious circumstances.
ST. GENEVIEVE’S HAS
ITS ANNUAL RETREAX
Father Kevin Conley, C.
of Boston, Conducts It
(Special to The Bulletin)
ASHEVILLE, N. C.—At St. GetM*
vieve-of-the-Pines, the second seme*
ter began with the annual three dayy
retreat for the students. The Revv
Kevin Conley, of St. Gabriel’s Morn
astery, Brighton, Mass., was the Re*
treatmaster. Father Conley gave fout
conferences a day, which brought owtj
the many phases of human relation*
ships with God. Those who made the
retreat received many practical and
spiritual benefits.
Non-Catholic Cities Lessons
(Taught by “Little Flower”
Mrs. Frances Parkinson
Keyes Emphasizes Them
in “Good Housekeeping”
Article
Exhibit of Catholic
Press in Anderson
v ANDERSON, S. C. - Featuring
Catholic Literature Exhibit, consist
ing of about 75 Catholic papers and
magazines, was on display in the
rear of St. Joseph’s Church, Ander
son, S. C., all during the month of
February. The exhibit, suggested
several months ago by the Rev.
Charles J. Baum, was sponsored by
the Catholic Woman’s Club of An
derson.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK, Mar. 12—To those
“modem women” who would be
cynical in thj matter of chastity, a
powerful lesson is pointed out by a
famous non-Catholic writer in an
article on St. Therese of Liseux in
the March issue of Good Hqpsekeep-
ing, a secular magazine.
The article, it is stated, is an “ab
breviated version” of a book en
titled “Written in Heaven: the Life
on Earth of the Little Flower of
Lisieux”, which is to be published
this spring. While Writing this story,
Frances Parkinson Keyes, the author,
stayed at the Abbaye des Benedic
tines in Lisieux, where St. Therese
attended school, it is stated. It is
also said that “the manuscript was
read and approved at the Carmelite
Convent in Lisieux, of which, the
Saint’s sister, Pauline, is Prioress”.
Mrs. Keyes traces the life of St.
Therese and the events leading up
to her canonization. She says that
only those who speak “with the
tongues of men and of angels” can
describe the Saint adequately “as she
stands crowned with roses and en
shrined with glory; her name writ
ten in Heaven”. Then, expressing a
desire to set down what she thinks
The Little Flower means to her
and to other women, Miss Keyes says
in part:
“I believe that she stands for pur
ity. By this, I do not mean merely
the purity of the flesh—that she had
this goes without saying. She was
chastity incarnate, and the fact that
she has so often and so truly been
spoken of as the ‘Soldier’s Saint’ and
the “Man’s Saint” should be proof
positive to modem women who are
cynical on this paramount subject
that men never have lowered and
never will lower their ideals of the
essentiality of this quality in the wo
men whom they venerate. But I
also mean that she had that purity
of thought and vision which is the
highest form of sincerity, which
sweeps away confusion and estab
lishes charity, which makes for sin
gle-mindedness and single-hearted
ness”.
“I believe, first of all”. Miss Keyes
says, “that she stands for purpose.
From earliest childhood, she knew
what she wanted to do, what she
could do, and what she ought to do.
There was never anything indecisive
about her ...”
“I believe that she stands for re
sourcefulness”, Miss Keyes also says.
“She was after all, a girl of rather
limited opportunities, brought up in
a small provincial city, without great
riches or powerful contacts or bril
liant openings. She did not live
very long, and she lived a secluded
way, even before she entered the
Convent. She never had any special
chance to develop her natural gifts
or to reveal these. But the city
where she lived has become famous
because it was her home, and the
book which she wrote is known
throughout the world”.
Then, stating it as her belief that
St. Therese stands for wisdom, lov-
N. C. C. W. Sponsors
Spartanburg Social
During the week of February 14-19^
the Visiting Committee of the Coop*
erative Study of Secondary School
Standards was at St. Genevieve’%
During the school year of 1937, thfll
Academy Department of St. Gena*
yieve’s-of-the-Pines is participating
in the nation-wide high school move*
ment. The study has been organized!
to try out guiding principles and cri*
teria for evaluation and stimulationj
mid to remove some of the outstancS
ing faults and limitations now com*
monly recognized in the existing
standards.
St. Genevieve’s has been chosen to
cooperate with 200 other high schools
selected from the six regional associ
ations of colleges and secondary
schools in the United States. The!
Academy is one of the twelve Cath*
olic schools listed in the 200 high’
schools.
The men on the Visiting Committee
are eminent educators who have been
selected to use this year in making
a thorough study of methods of in*
struction and organization. The com*
mittee remained at St. Genevieve'S
for three days and visited all of the
classes during the daily class routine!
and they expressed their heartiest ap
preciation for the cooperation maid*
fested in the respective classes.
SPARTANBURG, S. C.—The mem
bers of the Council of Catholic Wo
men sponsored a pre-Lenten dance at
St. Paul’s Parish Hall from 9 to 12
o’clock. Music was furnished by
Adolphe Julienne and admission was
by invitation only.
The hall was beautifully decorat
ed. Lights, were festooned with long
streamers of red and white.
Mrs. J. P. Joyce, Mrs. Leonard
Becker, Sr., and Mrs. Martin O’Brien
were hostesses at the refreshment
table. E. P. Joyce assisted as mas
ter of ceremonies. The decoration
committee serving were: Mrs. Leon
ard Becker. Jr.. Mrs. Martin O’Brien,
Mrs. Cecilia Youngblood, Leonard
Becker, Jr., and Barker Kaminer. The
invitation committee was composed
of Mrs. E. P. Joyce, Mrs. Leonard
Becker, Jr., Mrs. J. P. Siener and
Mrs. O Brien.
Two Feasts Changed
by Date of Easter
Holy Week Transfers Them
to Following Month
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Observance of two of the most im
portant feasts in the month of March
is. transferred to the month of April
this year because of the date of Eas
ter. These are the Feast of the Annun
ciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and
the Feast of St. Benedict, Founder of
the Benedictine Order.
The fixed date for the observance of
the Feast of St. Benedict is March <£1,
and the date of the Feast of the An
nunciation. March 25. However, this
year both of these dates fall within
Holy Week. March 21 being Palm Sun
day. As Holy Week is privileged,
these feasts cannot be observed at that
time, nor can they be observed in the
following week, because the entire oc
tave following Easter is a privileged
octave.
The first day after Easter on which
either of these feasts might be observ
ed is Monday, April 5, and it is to this
date that the Feast of the Annuncia
tion is transferred. The Feast of St.
Benedict is transferred to the following
day, Tuesday, April 6.
ing-kindness and courage, Miss Keyes
says:
“I believe that she stands for that
supreme simplicity, which has been
indicated already, and that because
of this, we who are average persons
can pattern our lives after hers, at
least in some smlal degree, in pur
pose, in purity, in resourcefulness, in
cheerfulness, in courage, in wisdom,
in loving-kindness, and in faith. We
do not need to feel that because she
was a Norman, and we are American
or English or German or Italian, it
makes any difference; the lessons
which she taught can be put to uni
versal use. e do not need to feel
that because she was a Carmelite
nun, and we are housewives or arti
sans, typists or teachers .social lead
ers or politicians, that this makes any
difference either, her basic principles
are applicable to every walk of life”.
On February 22, the Junior College
gave its annual library tea, cele*
brating Washington’s Birthday. The|
recreation room was colorfully dec*
orated in red, while, and blue witJS
cherry and hatchet motifs here ana
there. Fish ponds, and other attrac*
tive concessions furnished amuse*
ment for the large number of guesft
who came during the afternoon.
SISTERS MAKE VOWS
AT ST. GENEVIEVE’S
On Satin-day morning, February 2S,
in the convent chapel, Sister Anne
Corbett, of Richmond, Virginia, anti
Sister Mary Elizabeth Mason, of Try-
on, North Carolina, pronounced their
first vows in the Order of Christian
Education. The two Sisters are for-
mer graduates of St. Genevieve’s
Junior College.
The Mass was celebrated by the
Bev. Louis J. Bour, with the Rev. H.
Blanc as deacon, and the Rev. A.
Racette as sub-deacon. The Gregor
ian . Mass was sung by the Sisters’
Chou. Rev. C. A. Dubray. S. M„
Fh, D., of Marist College, Washing
ton, D. C.. delievered the sermon and
presided at the ceremony. His ser
mon was most inspiring and gave all
who heard it a clearer and more un
derstanding view of the religious life.
The Sodality of the Children of
Mary have held their regular month
ly meetings. At the last session, eacK
member wrote and read an interest
ing paper on one of the titles of the
Blessed Mother from the Litany. The
meeting closed with a hymn and the
recital of the Litany.
On March 2, a large audience had
the pleasure of hearing and seeing
J. Franklin Caveny. Artist and Lec
turer, present a varied program. The
performance was truly an art demo-
stration. Mr. Caveny drew in col
ored chalk many beautiful scenes
which he changed with marvelous
dexterity. From a bit of clay he mod
eled the visage of some famous men
m history, and from rags, he con
structed beautiful landscapes. This
artist mixed the correct proportion of
art, humor, and literature to enter
tain and inspire his audience.
The boarding students enjoyed
many pleasant trips on the Saturdays
which permitted them outdoors. They
have visited Lake Lure and the Bot
tomless Pool. Bear Creek, and Camp
Powhattan. Flat Rock, and the world
famous Biltmore House. These week
ly excursions give the pupils relaxa
tion and a greater love of God’s great
outdoors.
The Easter vacation will start cm
March 24. The boarders will return
on March 30, and classes will be re
sumed March 31. On this date, the
pupils will have the pleasure of hear
ing Miss Marie Houston, prominent
soprano, in an enjoyable recital.
LITTLE FLOWER CAMP wiR be
gin its sixth season this June. Several
new additions are being made to the
camp buildings and to the equipment,
and plans are being formulated for
a most successful and very happy
season.
MRS. MARY KOZMA DIES
IN FLORENCE, & Q,
FLORENCE, S. C.-Mrs. Mary Ko.
ma, a member of St. Mary’s Churo
here, died early in March at the
of 74. The Rev. James A. McElroy,
tor, officiated at the funeral
interment was in Elmwood Cen
Surviving are her son, Joseph ’
and her daughter, Mrs. John At
Georgetown, and her brother,
Kozma, of Kingstree.