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Published by the
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men’s Association
of Georgia
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
,VOL. XIX. No. 6.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. JUNE 30, 1938
ISSUED MONTHLY—*2.00 A YEAR
Providence Hospital at Columbia Dedicated
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Renovated Spartanburg Church is Blessed
BISHOP WALSH AND
FORMER PASTORS AT
CAROLINA CEREMONY
Beautiful Liturgi :al Altar
in Church at Spartanburg
Bishop Walsh Officiates and
Bishop Schrembs Speaks at
Historic Carolina Ceremony
Renovated St. Pauls Church, Spartanburg
All Columbia Unites in Wel
coming Sisters of Charity
of St. Augustine to City
(Special to The Bulletin)
COLUMBIA, S. C.—Providence Hos
pital, one of the . most modern as
well as the newest of the hospitals
of the South, was dedicated here on
the Feast of Corpus Christi in cere
monies which made that day one of
the greatest in the history of the
Catholic Church in the capital city
of South Carolina, a history which
extends well over a century and a
quarter.
Two Bishops, the Most Rev. Em
met M. Walsh, D. D„ Bishop of
Charleston, and the Most Rev. Jo
seph Schrembs. D. D., Bishop of
Cleveland, participated in the cere
monies, which were attended by
priests, Sisters and the laity not only
from every section of the state, but
from far beyond its borders.
The days’ program opened with a
Mass in the chapel of the Sisters of
Charity of St. Augustine, who came
down from Cleveland at the invita
tion of Bishop Walsh to establish and
erect the hospital, which cost $350.-
000. Bishop Schrembs was the cele
brant of the Mass. At 11:30 a. m.. a
United States flag was raised to the
top of the flagpole by Major A. C.
Doyle. U. S. A.
Bishop Walsh offiicated at the ded
ication of the hospital, and presided
at the exercises, after being present
ed by Ashley C. Tobias, Esq., chair
man of the hospital board of trustees.
The Very Rev. Martin C. Murphy,
V. F„ pastor of St. Peter's Church,
and with Bishop Walsh the moving
spirit here in the plans which led
to the erection of the hospital, was
chairman of the program committee.
Bishop Walsh in presenting Bishop
Schrembs, recalled the invaluable
services of His Excellency, the Bishop
of Cleveland, in the work which
culminated in the erection of the
hospital.
Father Ferri, Now Pastor of
St. Paul’s Parish, Directed
Church Improvements
(Special to The Bulletin)
SPARTANBURG, S. C.—Auspic
iously, on the high feast of Pentecost,
when the Church throughout the
Worl'd was celebrating the " anni
versary of the commencement of its
apostolic activity in the world, His
Excellency, the Most Rev. Emmet
M. Walsh, D. D.. Bishop of Charles
ton, solemnly blessed the enlarged
Church of Saint Paul the Apostle at
Spartanburg, S. C. The solemn bless
ing was followed by the celebration
of a Solemn Mass in the presence of
His Excellency, who assisted in cope
and mitre, and preached the sermon.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. A. K. Gwynn,
,V. F„ dean of the Piedmont district,
was the celebrant, assisted by the
Very Rev. Dean Martin Murphy of
Columbia, S. C., and the Rev. T. J.
McGrath, a former pastor of the
parish, of Greenville, S. C. A choir
composed of the clerics of the
Oratory of St. Philip, of Rock Hill,
S. C„ sang at the Mass.
On Sunday evening the holy relics
which were to be placed in the High
'Altar at its Consecraiion on Pentecost
Monday, were placed in a reliquary,
with three grains of incense, and the
attest of the consecration by His
Excellency. The reliquary was then
closed, and tied with red silk ribbon,
and sealed with the Consecrator's
signet. Following this, the clergy in
attendance recited Matins and Lauds.
During the night, two candles were
kept burning before the relics, and
a watch was kept before them until
they were carried to the main altar
in the morning. This service started
at 7:30 Sunday evening.
The ceremony at which the altar
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Spartanburg Pastor
REV. FRANCIS O. FERRI, pastor
of St. Paul’s Church, Spartanburg,
S. C., under whose direction the
parish church was renovated, served
at Charleston and Greenville before
being appointed to the Spartanburg
parish. He was also associated for
some time with the English Benedic
tines, at the priery at the Catholic
University of America, their only
establishment in the United States.
Bishop Schrembs outlined the con
tributions of the Church .n the de
velopment of hospitalization through
the centuries, quoting Virchow as
saying that in the thirteenth and four
teenth centuries there was hardly a
town of 5,000 inhabitants which did
not have its own hospital. The “dark
ages’’ of nursing were from the 17th
century until recent generations,
Bishop Scrembs said, the Sisters
keeping alight the glorious traditions
of nursing when it was neglected
elsewhere. He sketched the history
of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augus
tine, whose first service in this coun
try was in Cleveland in 1863 when
the first Bishop of that Diocese in
vited them there from Europe.
In concluding his address. Bishop
Scrembs quoted Jack Crawford’s
famed tribute to Catholic nursing
Sisters; he commended Providence
and its Sisters to the love
ople of Columbia.,".
Dr. W. J. Bristow, chief of staff,
presented by Bishop Walsh, expressed
his deep appreciation to Bishop
Walsh. Bishop Schrembs. Father Mur
phy, the Sisters and others; he as
serted that the medical profession of
the city and section was manifesting
a profound interest in the hospital
and stated that the physicians of the
community have agreed to look after
the cases of needy and indigent per
sons at the hospital.
Dr. R. B. Durham. president of tho
Columbia Medical Society, who had
anticipated being present but who
was called away at the last moment,
designated Dr. W. R. Barron to rep
resent him; he assured Bishop Walsh
and the Sisters that they could
anticipate the whole hearted co
operation of the Medical Society. Dr.
J. Rion McKissick, president of the
University of South Carolina, who
had also accepted an invitation to
speak, was detained In Greenville
with a foot infection.
Bishop Walsh and Mr .Tobias ex
pressed heartfelt gratitude for the
support the people of Columbia have
given the hospital and the cordial re
ception they gave the Sisters who,
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