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Published by the
Catholic Lay-
Ben’s Association
of Georgia.
“Te Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors irre
spective of Creed”
VOL. XIX. No. 5
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MAY 28, 1938
ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.C0 A YEAR
Providence Hospital, Columbia, Completed
Above, the splendid Provi
dence Hospital, Columbia, just
completed, which will be
blessed on the Feast of Cor
pus Christi, June 16. Left,
the Most Rev. Emmet M.
AValsh, D. ~D., Bishop of
Charleston, at the laying of
the cornerstone. The picture
of Bishop Walsh, by Sar-
geant, is used through the
courtesy of the Columbia’
State.
FINE COOPERATION
FROM PHYSICIANS
Dr. Bristow Reports Cordial
Interest of Doctors
“Providence Hospital will fill a very
urgent need in central South Caro
lina,” says Dr. Walter J. Bristow,
chief of the medical staff of the hos
pital. “By complying with the req
uirements of the Duke Foundation
the Hospital will be in a better posi
tion to care for indigent and charity
cases.
“In my efforts to form the medical
and surgical staff for the Providence
Hospital the medical profession of
Columbia has been cooperative to
the highest degree. Applications for
service on the active staff have been
received from fifty-three physicians.
The various services or specialties
which are represented on the active
staff are as follows: internal med
icine, allergy, cardiology, general
surgery', ophthalmology, otolaryngo
logy. bronchoscopy, dentistry, pedia
trics, gynecology, obstretrics, urology,
orthopedic surgery, neuropsychiatry,
proctology, dermatology, venereal
disease, radiology, roentgenology.
“Many letters have been received
from the older physicians in Colum
bia who do not wish to participate in
the active work of the hospital but
who have signified their intention of
patronizing the hospital by sending
their private medical and surgieSl
cases here for treatment.
“The medical profession is looking
forward to the opportunity for rend
ering more efficient service to suf
fering humanity^’
DEDICATION JUNE 16
OF GREAT HOSPITAL
OF CHARITY SISTERS
Bishop Walsh to Officiate.
Bishop Schrembs of Cleve
land to Offer Mass on
Morning- of Ceremony
(Special to Tlie Bulletin)
COLUMBIA, S. C.—Columbia’s
new Providence Hospital, just com
pleted at a cost of about 5350,000. will
be formally dedicated on the Feast
of Corpus Christi, Thursday. June 16,
at a ceremony which will be graced
by the participation of many notables
from all parts of South Carolina and
from distant cities and states.
The Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh,
D. D., Bishop of Charleston, through
whose urgent invitation the Cisters of
charity- of St. Augustine came from
Cleveland to provide Columbia with
the magnificent hospital, will officiate
at the blessing of the hospital at
noon, following a Mass in the chapel
at eight o'clock at which the Most
Rev. Joseph Schrembs, D. D„ Bishop
of Cleveland, wil officiate. The Very
Rev. Martin C. Murphy. V. F., pastor
of St. Peter's Cureh, who sees a
dream of years realized in the open
ing of the hospital, which owes much
to his zeal, is in charge of the cleri
cal arrangements.
In the afternoon and evening from
four to 8:30 -the hospital will be open
for inspection by the public. It is
already finished, and the Sisters of
Charity of St. Augsutine have been
in Columbia for some time preparing
for the opening. They were the guests
of the Ursuline Nuns pending the
opening of their convent, the old
Southern .residence on the hospital
grounds, which has been renovated
for that purpose, and a beautiful
hcapel installed.
Bishop Schrembs, who comes to
Columbia for the opening of the
hospital is Bishop of Cleveland,
where the Sisters of Charity of St.
Augustine have done such notable
work, and which was the cradle of
their work in the United States. At
the time of the laying of the corner
stone His Excellency was unable to
come to Columbia, but was represent
ed by his auxiliary, the Most Rev.
James A. McFadden, D. D. He
now indicates his further interest by
making the trip to South Carolina
from the shores of Lake Erie.
Born at Ratisbon, Bavaria, Ger
many, March 12. 1866. Bishop
Schrembs came to the United States
with his parents when he was eleven
years old. He made his classical
studies at St. Vincent’s College,
Latrobe. Pa., and his course in
philosophy and theology at the Grand
Seminary in Montreal. After serving
as assistant in Michigan parishes and
as pastor at Grand Rapids and vicar-
general of the Grand Rapids Dio
cese. he was named Auxiliary Bishop
of Grand Rapids in 1911, appointed
Bishop of Toledo later the same
year, and Bishop of Cleveland in
1921. As Bishop of Cleveland lie
heads one of the largest Dioceses
in the United States, and one of the
most cosmopolitan; he preaches to
his cosmopolitan people there in sev
eral languages, for he is one of the
most able linguists among the
Bishops.
Bishop Walsh has been associated
closely with Bishop Scrembs in the
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, in which the Cleveland Bishop
served as chairman of the Department
of Lay Activities. At the time of the
National Council of Catholic Women
in Charleston five years ago Bishop
Schrembs was one of the distinguish
ed prelates present.
pita!. Bishop Walsh and Father Mur
phy see realized one of their fondes
hopes. Bishop Walsh has been re
sponsible for the founding of Cnthoh
hospitals in Greenville, Rock Hill aru
York, the Columbia Hospital bein.
the fourth to his credit in the Dio
cese in a little more than a decade
It is probable that no Diocese in tin
United States or in the world will
such a limited Catholic populatioi
has done as much in the matter o
exemplifying Christian teach! ■’
through providing for facilities f
the care of the sick' as that
Charleston under Bishop Walsh
leadership. In addition, there is St
Francis Xavier Infirmary, Charleston
in the Diocese, whic has strength
ened its position splendidly durirq
the episcopacy of Bishop WaLu. j ..