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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JUNE 26, 1937
BENEDICTINES AT
ST. LEO ORDAINED
Father Edward and Father
Benedict Receive Holy
Orders From Bishop Barry
ST. LEO, Fla.—Two members of
the Benedictine Abbey of St. Leo, the
Rev. Edward Martineau, O. S. B., and
the Rev. Benedict Weigand, O. S. B.,
were ordained to the priesthood here
by the Most Rev. Patrick Barry, D.
D., Bishop of St. Augustine, assisted
by the Rt. Rev. Francis Sadlier, O. S.
B., D. D., Abbot of St. Leo, and Fa
thers of the Abbey and the Diocese.
REV. EDWARD MARTINEAU, O.
S. B., was bom in Bridgeport, Conn.,
on October 12, 1909. His parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Martineau, are still
residing in New Haven. 'After living
in Montreal for a short time, they
returned with their family to New
Haven. The young priest’s first
schooling took place in East Haven.
At the age of nine he spent three
months in Canada and then return
ed with the family to New Haven
where he began his studies in the St.
Louis French Parochial School. Here
were planted the first seed of voca
tion. Here he learned to serve his
first Mass and here he celebrated his
First Solemn Mans.
Having completed the courst at St.
Louis’ School, he attended the local
Hillhouse High School for one year,
after which, in January, 1916, he
came to Florida with his father who
was in ill health. His vocation was
partially realized when he received
an opportunity to study for the Ben
edictine Abbey of St. Leo. Two weeks
after leaving New Haven, the young
man was studying for the priest
hood. He was graduated from St. Leo
College Prep School in June, 1930. In
the fall of die same year, he was en
rolled at St. Bernard College in Ala
bama where he completed one year
of colege work. In June of the fol
lowing year, he entered the Novitiate
at St. Leo and a year later was pro
fessed on June 17. During the sum
mers of 1932 and 1933 he attended the
University of Florida.
Appointed to publications in 1933, he
has been active in these circles ever
since besides teaching in the mathe
matical and scientific departments.
During this period, from September,
1933, to the present time, he has com
pleted his philosophical studies in the
St. Leo Seminary and will finish the
prescribed theological courses under
the Rt. Rev. Abbot Francis Sadlier,
O. S. B., D. D., during the coming
year.
Father Edward was solemnly pro
fessed in June, 1935, was ordained
sub-deacon in October of the same
year and on April 4 ofthis year was
ordained deacon at the hands of the
Most Rev. Patrick Barry, Bishop of
St. Augustine.
Father Edward read a low Mass
June 12 and departed on the same
day for his home in New Haven
where he celebrated his first Solemn
Mass in his own parish, St. Louis
Church, June 20. At seven o’clock of
the same day, he addressed the grad
uating class of St. Louis School in the
same church where thirteen years
ago, almost to the day, he received
his own diploma.
After his visit in New Haven, Fa
ther Edward will return to St. Leo
where he will take charge of Camp
St. Leo, to the Directorship of which
he was appointed not long ago.
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REV. BENEDICT WEIGAND, O. S.
B., was born March 28, 1911, in St.
Augustine, Fla. He began his educa
tion at St. Agnes Parochial School,
North City, subsequently attending
the Public School and St. Joseph’s
Academy in St. Augustine. When the
family moved to Orange Park, Father
Benedict finished his grammar
schooling at the local Public School.
In the fall of 1925 he enrolled as a
student at St. Leo College Prep,
where he took part in various scho
lastic enterprises. In 1929, the year of
his*, graduation from high school, he
won the gold medal for the best es
say on St. Francis de Sales awarded
by Miss Douglas of the Carolinas. The
two following years were spent in the
Junior College of St. Bernard, Ala
bama.
Father Benedict returned to his na
tive state in June, 1931, to begin his
novitiate at St. Leo, on the comple
tion of which he was professed, June
17, 1932. Since the fall of that year
he has been engaged in teaching on
the staff while pursuing his philo
sophical and theological studies. The
care of the St. Gregory’s Acolytical
Society has been his all during this
time as well as fulfilling the func
tion of Master of Ceremonies at the
many and varied functions at the Ab
bey. For the past three summers he
has been engaged on the staff of the
summer camp as hiking director and
in charge of a portion of the enter
tainments.
On the completion of his temporary
vows Father Benedict was solemnly
professed as a Bendeictine monk in
June of 1935 and ordained sub-dea
con in October o fthe same year. On
Low Sunday of 1937 he was ordained
deacon along with Father Edward
Martineau, O. S. B. Father Benedict
sang his first Solemn Mass in St.
Paul’s Church, Riverside, Jackson-
sonville, Fla.
FREDERICK I. MEYERS, a noted
member of the faculty of the Uni-
verssity of Notre Dame, formerly
professor of English at the Univers
ity of Illinois, the United States Na
val Academy and in the Department
of Education in Hawaii, died at Notre
Dame early in June.
FATHER BENEDICT
Small Hope of Peace
in Catholic Germany
Despite Recent Conferences,
Persecutions Will Continue
(By N, C. W. C. News Service)
AMSTERDAM. — Following up the
recent far-reaching Encyclical of the
Holy Father on the religious situation
in Germany, and the Berlin Foreign
Office’s formal diplomatic ‘ protest”
against it, the Most Rev. Wilhelm Ber-
ning, Bishop of Osnabrueck, was re
ceived by Chancellor Hitler, and the
Most Rev. Seasare Orsenigo, Apostolic
Nuncio to Germany, by Baron Kon
stantin von Neurath, Nazi Foreign
Minister.
Both meetings are reported to have
had considerable bearing on the fur
ther development of the relations be
tween the Church and the Hitler re
gime, but no essential conclusions
seem to have been reached sofar. Some
competent observers here doubt se
riously that the anti-Christian ten
dency of the Nazi movement can be
corrected at this alte hour. Rather,
the ysay, must one be prepared for
a recrudescence of the persecutions of
German Catholics by the Nazi radi
cals, who are in full control of the
country.
It is possible that the Apostolic
Nuncio to Germany will soon call on
Chancellor Hitler himself. However,
the Fuehrer’s chief advisers are so
violently prejudiced against every
thing Catholic that no sanguine hopes
can be entertained with regard to all
these new attempts at conciliation, ob
servers here point out.
The Nazi movement is basically pa
gan, opposed to the supernatural as
pect of life, entirely materialistic in
its outlook and unwilling to give fair
consideration to the essentials of
Christian Doctrine. It is primarily for
this reason that the important Papal
Encyclical was not permitted to be
published in Germany. The Nazi cen
sors were afraid that the convincing
condemnation of Nazi philosophies
might have serious repercussions even
among non-Catholics.
The extent of the measures taken
against the circulation of the Encycli
cal is shown by the suppression even
of the official diocesan organ of
Treves for three months because it
carried the full text of the Encyclical.
The printer, a firm of the name of Em
merich Herzig in Treves, was ordered
to close his establishment until fur
ther notice. He had to stop all business
and to dismiss his staff. Catholic firms
in other parts of Germany which had
printed the Encyclical suffered the
same fate. The Treves diocesan organ
is now distributed among the clergy
in a mimeographed edition. A situa
tion very much like that in Soviet
Russia is thus being approached in
Germany.
CAMPAIGN OF SLANDER
The campaign of slander against the
priesthood and the religious Orders is
being carried on with greater violence
than ever by the chief Nazi organs,
which now insist that convents and
monasteries should come under gov
ernmental supervision. Extreme radi
cals even go to the extent of demand
ing the expulsion of all Religious from
Germany.
The infamous trial of three priests,
First Mass in 231 Years Said
in Old Chapel at New Smyrna
Former Francisan Mission, Now Historical Shrine, Scene
of Ceremony as City Observes Gold Jubilee
(Special to The Bulletin)
NEW SMYRNA, Fla. — The cele
brating of Mass at the Old Spanish
Mission near New Smyrna, the first
Mass there in 231 years, was a fea
ture of the observance of the Golden
Jubilee of the incorporation of the city
of New Smyrna June 6. The Rev. Dr.
Joseph T. Daly, C.SS.R.,' pastor and
superior of the Redemptorist Fathers
at New Smyrna, arranged it.
The old mission near New Smyrna is
one of the city’s most treasured mon
uments. Here the Spanish Franciscan
Friars, who founded the California
missions, established their habitation
in 1693; here one of the Franciscans
was martyred. From 1693, when the
chapel was built, to 1706 Mass was said
daily; in the latter year Governor
Moore of South Carolina and his band
of pagan Indians destroyed this cen
ter of Christian religion and culture.
In the Trumbull colony the chapel
was utilized as a sugar mill, and so
used again by Thomas Stamps until its
early history was forgotten. It was the
researches of Mrs. Washington E. Con
nor which led to the rediscovery of
the chapel, and she and Mrs. Zelia
Sweett were largely responsible for
bringing its early history to the atten
tion of the public again.
And so, on June 6, the old chapel,
for the first time since 1706, two hun
dred and thirty-one years, again had
the Holy Sacrifice offered up within
its walls. The Florida Historical So
ciety, in charge of this historic spot,
graciously gave permission for the
Mass, Mayor W. E. Swoope and Com
missioner E. A. Latham cooperated in
the preparing of the road and grounds
and the men of Sacred Heart Parish
under the leadership of A. B. Nord-
man and with the assistance of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
arranged for the handling of the traf
fic.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. William J. Mul-
lally, pastor of St. Paul’s Church, of
Daytona Beach, and formerly, in
charge of the New Smyrna Mission,
was the celebrant of the Mass, and Dr.
Daly delivered the sermon. The mu
sic was rendered by the combined
choirs of St. Paul’s Church at Day
tona Beach and Sacred Heart Church
at New Smyrna. Mrs. Vera Houston
and Frank Puckett, sang solos during
the Mass, the Misses Julia and Sa
lome Simon decorated the altar, the
Mass closed with the singing of “Holy
God, We Praise Thy Name,” and the
service opened and closed with a pray
er for the spiritual and civil authori
ties.
“SILENT AMERICANS”
RECOVERING VOICES
Speechless When Nuns Were
Murdered, They Now De
fend the Reds, Editor Says
Former Savannahian
Is Dead in New York
Benjamin B. Bryan Prom
inent Also in Business in
Chicago
(Special to The Bulletin)
NEW YORK, N. Y.-Benjamin But
ters Bryan, prominent stock and com
modity broker of New York and Chi
cago, died here last week at the age
of 76. Mr. Bryan was bom in Savan
nah, Ga., and went to Scotland with
his parents while quite young. He
started his business career in Glasgow
with a firm of grain merchants, came
to Montreal where he was associated
with the Bank of Montreal, and then
entered the brokerage business in
Chicago. He was a member at various
times of the New York Stock Ex
change, the Cotton Exchange, the Pro
duce Exchange and other markets. He
belonged to a number of clubs here
in Chicago, in Canada and California.
He was for years a member of the
Chicago Board of Trade.
Surviving Mr. Bryan are his widow,
Mrs. Florence Brosius Bryan, two
sons, James Taylor Bryan and Benja
min B. Bryan, Jr., and a sister, Mrs.
John Frotheringham, of Scotland.
The funeral was held from the Church
of St. Ignatius Loyola with a Requiem
Mass. Interment was in New York.
Athletic Tearns Feted
at Saint Augustine
(Special to The Bulletin)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - His Ex
cellency, Bishop Barry of St. Augus
tine, was the principal speaker at the
annual “get together” dinner tender
ed players on the St. Joseph’s Acad
emy and the Lyceum athletic teams by
the Cathedral Athletic Association.
Father O’Keeffe was toastmaster and
introduced Bishop Barry and the other
speakers, who included County Com
missioner Verle A. Pope, Sam Con-
nally, noted basketball official, and
Coaches L. O. Davis and Slade Pink-
ham. Bishop Barry complimented the
teams on their splendid performances,
emphasizing the sportsmanship they
displayed.
Father Maher Gives
Retreat in Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Rev. Thom
as F. Maher, S. J., of Shreveport, La.,
a native of Augusta, conducted the
fetreat for the Sisters of St. Joseph at
Mount St. Joseph’s Convent, which
ended here this week.
Michael Moran Dies
Was Widely Known Charles
ton Businessman
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Michael J.
Moran, for many years a leading bus
inessman of this city, and a member
of a pioneer Charleston Catholic fam
ily, died here late in May. Mr. Mor
an was a member of St. Joseph’s
Church, from which his funeral was
held with a Requiem Mass. Inter
ment was in St. Lawrence Cemetery.
Mr. Moran was the brother of Mrs.
Theo. G. McAuliffe, of Augusta.
WEST POINT HONORS
FOR CHARLESTONIAN
Thomas McGarey Metz Is
Member of This Year’s Class
of the Rhineland, chief among them
Father Joseph Rossaint, accused of
“connivance with Communism” came
to a close before the so-called “Peo
ple’s Court” in Berlin with the sen
tences pronounced showing the vin
dictiveness of the Hitler regime and
its fanatical prejudice against the
Church.
How the Catholic people themselves
feel about these persecutions was once
more shown by an incident in the vil
lage of Essen, in the State of Olden
burg. On Palm Sunday, Father Nier-
mam had read the Papal Encyclical
from the pulpit of the parish church
and afterwards announced that copies
would be distributed at the church
doors. Seven young girls were hand
ing out these copies, when suddenly
two policemen interfered and confis
cated the brochures and prevented the
girls from carrying on. A priest having
protested against such steps being
taken on church territory, the police
asked the girls to come to the parish
house. There they were arrested. Fa
ther Niermann immediately came for
ward stating that he had ordered the
distribution of the Encyclical, and if
anybody were to be arrested, he was
willingto submit. The police declared,
however, that they had orders not to
arrest any priest
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Thomas Mc
Garey Metz, of Charleston, was grad
uated at the recent commencement
exercises at the United States Mili
tary Academy at West Point, a fit
ting climax to a bright career at the
nation’s Military Academy. His rank
in the organization of the Corps of
Cadets has been successively corpo
ral and supply sergeant. During his
last year he was appointed a lieuten
ant, second in command of his com T
pany. He was one of the most pop
ular members of the Army’s football
team and played in seven out of nine
games last season. Notre Dame, Har
vard and Navy will especially re
member his hard-driving play at
quarterback. Membership on the
Catholic Chapel Choir for four years
and on his class Ring Committee
rounded out his accomplishments.
Mr. Metz is the son of Ernst Met?-
and the late Theresa McGarey Metz,
of New Bern, S. C. He is the grand
son of the late Col. T. F. McGarey,
of Charleston, S. C. In 1932, Mr.
Metz graduated from The Citadel,
where he was the senior ranking Ca
det. At West Point, his roommate was
Cadet William J. Cain, of Bayonne,
New Jersey, cousin of the Most Rev.
John Aloysius Duffy, D.D., Bishop
of Buffalo, who delivered the bacca
laureate sermon to the Catholic
members of the graduating class on
Sunday, June 6, at the Holy- Trinity
Chapel, West Point, N. Y.
When Mr. Metz received his diplo
ma, he was also commissioned a sec
ond lieutenant in the United States
Army. Immediately thereafter, he
was granted a three months leave of
absence before he reports to his first
station.
The Springfield, Mass., Daily Un
ion, under the heading: “Speechless
Americans,” thus discusses some
leaders who had nothing to say about
the murder of priests and nuns but
who have since recovered their
voices to defend the Reds:
Bishop McConnell, head of the
committee on aid for the Spanish Red
government has sent out a letter in
Which he says: “It seems to me in
credible and impossible for Ameri
cans to remain indifferent and
speechless before one of the greatest
outrages of modem times/’ the
bishop referring to the situation in
the Basque country.
Speaking of speechlessness, as we
were in the preceding paragraph,
where was Bishop McConnell’s
tongue when priests, nuns and lay
men who were not in sympathy with
the communistic atheistic government
of Spain were being massacred in
wholesale fashion Obviously the
good bishop’s tongue was where he
did not care to use it.
It was all right, apparently, to slay
the priests, nuns and laymen of faith
without protest.
BISHOP J. M. LAVAL,
NEW ORLEANS, DIES
Beloved Auxiliary, 82, Or
dained Nearly 60 Years
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW ORLEANS.—The Most Rev
John Marius Laval, Titular Bishop of
Hierocaesarea and Auxiliary Bishop
of New Orleans, died at St. Mary’s
Hospital, San Francisco. He was 82
years of age. Bishop Laval was taken
ill where h° was visiting.
Bom at St. Etienne, Loire, France,
on September 21, 1964, Bishop Laval
came to New Orleans - in 1872, after
having made studies at Mont Brison
Seminary, and at St. Michael’s Col
lege, St. Etienne. He entered the
Archdiocesan major seminary here
and was ordained in 1877.
Bishop Laval yas buried beneath
the floor of the sanctuary of St. Louis
Cathedral. The Most Rev. Joseph
Francis Rummel, Archbishop of New
Orleans, celebrated the pontifical Re-
uiem High Mass and the Most Rev.
Arthur J. Drossaerts, Archbishop of
San Antonio, deliverey the eulogy
The absolutions were given by Arch
bishop Rummel, the Most Rev. John
B. Morris, Bishop of Little Rock; the
Most Rev. Jules B. Jeanmard, Bishop
of Lafayette; the Most Rev. Richard
O. Gerow, Bishop of Natchez, and the
Most Rev. Thomas J. Toolen, Bishop
of Mobile. Also attending were the
Most Rev. Christopher E. Byrne,
Bishop of Galveston, and the Most
Rev, Mariano S. Garriga, Bishop of
Corpus Christi.
SPARTANBURG STUDENT
NOTRE DAME GRADUATE
(Special to The Bulletin)
NOTRE DAME, Ind.—Edmund P.
Joyce, of Spartanburg, S. C„ was
among those receiving degrees at the
annual commencement of the Uni
versity of Notre Dame here. Mr.
Joyce, who plans to enter business in
Spartanburg, made a splendid schol
astic record at Notre Efcame, and was
active also in the general activities
of the student body.
CONFIRMATION CLASS AT
ST. JOSEPH’S, MACON
College Degrees Wo
by Savannah Girls
(Special to The Bulletin)
BALTIMORE, Md.—Miss Margaret
E. Butler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John G. Butler, w'as graduated with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts from
the College of Notre Dame of Mary
land here. Col. and Mrs. John G,
Butler of Savannah and Miss Kate
Murphy of Atlanta, were among
those at the commencement exer
cises. Miss Butler has been one of
the most prominent and active mem
bers of the class for the past four
years.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Miss Fran
ces Maggioni, dauhgter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. O. Maggioni, of Savannah,
was a member of the graduating class
at Trinity College, receiving her de
gree after four years of splendid
work. Miss Maggioni has been presi
dent of her class and otherwise prom
inent at Trinity.
MACON, Ga.—The Most Rev. Ger
ald P. O’Hara, D. D., Bishop of Savan-
nah-Atlanta, administered the Sacra
ment of Confirmation at St Joseph’s
Church, Macon, June 5. He was as
sisted by the Rev. Peter McDonnell, S.
J., pastor of St. Joseph’s, and the
priests of the city.
FUNERAL IN MACON OF
LITTLE LACKAY GIRL
The funeral of little Miss Juanita
Silvy Lackay, three-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. James C- Lackay,
leading members of St. Joseph’s par
ish, was held with the Rev. Peter Mc
Donnell. S. J., officiating. Interment
was in Rose Hill Cemetery.
To Our Readers
This issue of The Bulletin
contains all the commencement
programs which have been re
ceived for publication from
schools in the Southeast.
Others will be welcomed for
the next issue.
Tiie amount of news avail
able for publication overtaxes
the space facilities of The Bul
letin, and those submitting
articles are asked to keep this
in mind' and to make their
articles as concise as possible.