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JULY 30, 1938 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMENS ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA ELEVEN JOSEPH BREEN GIVEN HONOR BY VATICAN Motion Picture Leader Is Made Papal Knight (By N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON—Joseph A. Breen of Los Angeles has been created a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory th# Great cum placca, it is announced in word received here from Vatican City. Mr. Breen is an official of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. As director of the Produc tion Code Administration, he passes on scripts which members of the As sociation plan to produce into pictures, advising wherein they may conflict with the code, and also passes on the pictures when they are completed, but before the negatives are printed. To facilitate the booking of their films into American theaters, a number of foreign producers are voluntarily sub mitting their scripts and pictures to Mr. Breen’s office. When the International Eucharistic Congress was held at Chicago in 1926, Mr. Breen was in charge of publicity both before and during the great event. Later he became associated with the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. Paulists Will Open S. African Mission Father Henry P. Fisher to Be First Superior (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NEW YORK.—The Paulist Fathers are going to establish a mission in Jo hannesburg, Transvaal Colony, South Africa, it has been announced here. The Rev. Henry P. Fisher, C. S. P„ known throughout the country as the spiritual director of St. Paul’s Guild, an organiaztion whose work is chiefly among converts, is going to Johannes burg this fall as the first Superior of the mission. He will be accompanied by an other Paulist yet to be named, and next year two more Paulists will go out to Africa. However, from the very beginning the aim will be to es tablish there a native Paulist clergy. 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Far in to the north along that same coast we knew that a terri fic struggle was then taking place around Castellon and Teruel. south of Barcelona. I thought of several friends, whom 1 knew in Spain, priests, fellow students in Rome years ago, and wondered where they were and what had happaned to them in the midst of the confusion of war. “Are they still living?” I asked my self, or, “have they perhaps met the fate of so many thousands of their fellow priests in that unhappy coun try?” I was to find out before many days had passed that all the priests in Spain I knew were alive and safe. The next morning after leaving Gi braltar, Saturday, May 21, at 7-30, we anchored off Villa Franche on the French Riviera. The stop was brief and soon we were sailing along the so-called Blue Coast within sight of Monto Carlo, Nice and many other charming cities along that shore which is among the most beautiful in the world. That afternoon we docked at Genoa, where we had the usual ag gravating experience of going through custom house and passport formali ties. Genoa looked far from inviting because of the drenching rain that poured down oyer the city during the brief hours that we spent there. Af ter a short ride about the city and a visit to the celebrated Campo Santo, we boarded the train for Milan. At 8:30 that same evening we arrived in the Capital of Lombardy, the city of St. Ambrose and St. Charles Bor- romea. Early the next morning I went to theDuomo, the Cathedral of Milan, which so few know by its real name —the Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady—to say Mass at the tomb of St. Charles Borromeo in the crypt beneath the high altar. The Primate of Belgium, Cardinal Van Roey, was just* finishing Mass. Like ourselves, he had stopped in Milan to say Mass at the tomb of St. Charles on his way to the Eucharistic Congress. The body of St. Charles Borromeo, clad in Euiscopal vestments, wearing a mitre _ with a jeweled crozier at his side, is visible through a glass case located just in back of the altar of the Duomo crypt. St. Charles Bor romeo was one of the greatest Bishops that ever lived and he has left an im pression upon his Cathedral City and his Diocese that has remained to this day. He particularly is celebrated for his personal devotion to the sick and dying during a period of plague in Milan. His special interest was in the proper education of students for the priesthood and for that reason not a few seminaries throughout the world bear his name. After Mass, the morning was de voted to sightseeing in the course of which we visited' again the Duomo and assisted at part of the Solemn Mass celebrated in the Ambrosian rite. His Eminence Cardinal Schus ter, Archbishop of Milan, was pre siding. The Ambrosian rite is pecul- ial to the Diocese of Milan and is not found elsewhere. No one can be in the Capital of Lombardy without going to see one of the \vorld"s most celebrated paintings, that is to be found there: “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci, in the old refectory of the former Do minican Monastery, attached to the Church of Sancto Maria delle Grazie. Time and the elements have taken their toll of this famous masterpiece because it is a fresco and not painted on canvas, and yet the figures and the original colors are still easily dis tinguishable. That same afternoon we left for Venice and shortly after 8 o'clock in the evening arrived at the queen city of the Adriatic—centainly one of the world’s unique cities where ca nals serve for streets and gondolas for taxi-cabs and buses. An unus ual spectacle greets the eye of the visitor as he leaves the Venice rail way station. Before him is the Grand Canal whose waters lap the very steps of the station and waiting to receive him and carry him to his des tination in the city is a gondola dip ping and bobbing to the motion of the waters. Bag and baggage we managed with some little dexterity to get into the bobbing gondola. As we glided up the Grand Canal, on every side our eyes met the enchant ing vision that that eelegrated thor oughfare holds. The gondolier stand ing at the stern of the boat and pro pelling it with one oar in an amaz-. ingly straight course, volunteers from time to time information regarding the various buildings and palaces that we pass. The very mention of some of the names of former owners of these places brings back memories of famous characters who made Vene tian history. Amongst other palaces we passed that in which Lord Byron lived. Presently we came in view of the Rialto, the bridge across the Grand Canal immortalized by Shakespeare. Passing under it we turned to the left into one of the smaller canals that was not more than twenty feet wide. Here all was silent except the dip of the oar in the water and from time to time the warning croy of the gondolier as he approached a turn. These men have a system all their own by which through various vocal signals known to themselves alone, they make known to one another the turn they are about to make when they approach an intersection canal. Soon the Doges Palace loomed up be fore us. We passed along its left wall under the Bright of Sighs and came out again on the .broad expanse of the Grand Canal and finally drew up at the Hotel Royal Danieli, where we were to stay that night. After supper, the Rev. Father Sal vator Burgio, C. M., and I made our way to St. Mark’s Square in front of St. Mark’s Cathedral. Napoleon call ed this square the most beautiful in all Europe. There m evening dress men and women strolled up and down and listened to the music of the band. At one end of the square rather re moved from the life and gaiety of the square itself stands the Cathed ral of St. Mark, whose facade of mar ble and mosiae glinted even in the semi-darkness. It dominated the square. To the right of the Cathedral stands the Doges’ Palace and before it soaring up to meet the stars is the tall campaniile. Looking out over the waters of the" Grand Canal we could see several Italian war ships at anchor. Reflected in the water were their lights and those of the many smaller boats plying up and down. It all made up a nocturne of surpass ing beauty. Only too brief was our stay in Ven ice, for the next day found us on our way to Budapest by the afternoon train. We missed the mountain scen ery of Jugoslavia because we went through that beautiful country by night. When we awoke the next morning we were in Hungary, greet ed by the melancholy spectacle of dark, low clouds and falling rain. The train sped on through the gloom. The outlook for the opening cere monies of the Congress which was to take place that afternoon was in deed far from bright. At 10 o’clock we arrived at Budapest. At the sta tion the Cardinal Primate of Hun gary, Archbishop Seredi, a Benedic tine, together with a group of his clergy, was awaiting at the station to receive the two Cardinals who were on our train—Cardinal Dougherty, of Philadelphia, and Cardinal Tapouni, of Syria. Rain was still falling as we made our way through the streets of Budapest to the Royal Palace which was to be our “modest” home during the Congress. What first strikes the visitor to Hungary ig the language of the peo ple. Although Europeans, the mother tongue of the Hung- ians is not like auy other in Europe, it bears no re- semblanc at all to either the Latin or Germanic tongues. As a mater of fact it is of Asiastic origin and goes back to the first Nomaic Tartar tribes that made their way from Mongolia up to the Danube Valley and settled on the plains between the Danube River and the Carpathian Mountains in the eight and ninth centuries. The present day language of Hungary is called Magyar and all the newspapers of Budapest are printed in that tongue. This presented a difficulty for those visitors who wished to follow the day by day events of the Congress in the morning and evening papers. Even one taking part in a Congress iikes to know what the impressions of the local press have been, but here we were helpless and had to depend upon our own personal experiences for our information as to what was going on. Needless to say many of the sermons and addresses were en tirely lost on visitors to Hungary be cause they* were in the Hungarian language. Before entering on a description of the events of the Congress it would not be out of place to give briefly a little of the histry of that country, too little known, in which the Congress itself took place. Hungary has been a Catholic country for one thou sand years, v.'ithin a few generations after the original Nomads from Asia had settled in Eastern Europe, Slavish, Italian and German missionaries had converted the nation to the Catholic Faith. It has remained Catholic ever since. Our own times, up to the World War, had known Hungary merely as a part of the Austro-Hun garian Empire. We know little of the Hungary that was once an independ ent nation. The Treaty of Versailles, breaking up the dual monarchy and giving autonomy to the separate na tional groups that formerly consti tuted the Empire made Hungary once again an independent nation. Poverty, however, has not permitted her to as sume the once glorious position that she held in Europe and consequently Hungary has not figured prominently in the world's news since 1918. God grant that so worthy a Catholic na tion to whom Europe owes so much may once again regain the prestige that it formerly enjoyed! For two centuries, from 1100 to 1300, Hungary was the center of missionary work in the Balkans. Her mis sionaries preached the Gospel to all the pagan nations to the east and built up a strong and flourishing Chris tianity. What- ds perhaps Hungary's greatest contribution to Western Civilization was her ability to hold the Turks in check. For two cen turies she stood as a bulwark against this enemy thus permitting the rest of Europe to continue undisturbed the pursuit of the arts of peace. Time and again Turkish armies threw their might agains* Europe but were re pelled. It is not generally known that the mid-day Angelus bell was ordered to be rung in memory of the victory of John Hunyady over the Turks in 1436 at Belgrade. Hungary had its years of sorrow when half the country fell into the hands of the Turks in 1541. But even in its humiliation the nation was glorious for the Turkish forces could not penetrate farther into Europe. A living wall of Hun gary’s brave sons barred the way. Despite her long domination by the Turks and despite the wounds left in her national life by the so-called Re formation, Hungary remained and is today a Catholic nation. Hungary is a monarchy although the throne is now vacant. It is ruled at present by a Regent, the forfer Admiral de Horthy, who holds for life his posi tion as head of the nation. During the great war he achieved distinc tion as Admiral of the Austro-Hun garian navy. Although not a Ca tholic he took officially an important part in the thirty-four International Eucharistic Congress. Rain! Rain was falling as we made our way ot the Royal Palace. Dark clouds hung low over the city. I was given a room facing the Danube and the lower city. Ordinarily the view from there is enchanting but the clouds and the rain spoiled it. The question in everybody’s mind was: Would the opening ceremonies b held that afternoon. (Bishop O’Mara has indly consented to continue this scries in future issues—Ed. The Bulletin). Danzig Bishop, Count O’Rourke, Resigns (Special Correspondence, N. C. W. C. News Service) DANZIG.—The Most Rev. Eduard Count O'Rourke, Bishop of Danzig, has resigned, and the Rev. Karl Splett, pastor of the Cathedral of Oliva near here, has been appointed Bishop in his place by the Holy Father. Bishop O’Rourke opposed the Nazi regime strenuously from its very be ginning, and had recently made an attempt to organize two Polish parish es in his diocese. He was violently at tacked by Nazi authorities on that ground, and the plan was afterwards abandoned. ADDRESS OF BISHOP O’HARA AT ATHENS Maryknollers Care for Chinese Lepers (By N.C.W.C. News Service) OSSINING, N. Y. — Three hundred lepers have been safely transported ICO miles from their temporary quar ters in the cemeteries of Sunwui, South China, to the new Gate of Heav en Leper Asylum at Ngai Moon, con ducted by the Maryknoll Fathers. (Continued from Page 7) just his Confirmation schedule today in order to be able to make the trip to Athens and to help us dedicate this hospital. We ask Bishop Walsh also to be assured of our heartfelt appreciation and gratitude. To the Rt. Rev. Abbot Vincent Taylor of Belmont Abbey must go as well our profound and sincere gratitude. He has come a long and hard journey in order to honor this occasion. I thank you, my dear Mr. Dudley, the Mayor of Athens, for your presence here and for your very encouraging words of welcome. I thank you also, Dr. Hoop er, of the University of Georgia, rep resenting its distinguished president Dr. Caldwell. Your coming here to day and the address that you have made have been a source of great pleasure and encouragement as we begin this. work. We are indebted to the President of the Kiwanis Club who has spoken in the name-of the Civic Clulxs of this city. We ask all of our friends who have been so kind to us today to bear in mind that we shall not forget the good will and courtesy that they have manifested in our regard on this occasion. In .a particular manner I am in debted to Rev. Harold J. Barr, the Rector of St. Joseph’s Church in Athens who has labored so untiring ly during the long months that it took to acquire and recondition St. Mary's Hospital. Under his guidance, archi tect and builder have been able to recreate this splendid hospital that we see before us. We thank the doc tors and nurses and other citizens of Athens who have taken part in mak ing this new hospital, and if there is one man who deserves special men tion it is Mr. Tony Camarata. I beg him and all to accept our heartfelt thanks. Also I particularly want to mention those good ladies of Athens who during the past weeks have been such a wonderful help to the Sisters in making everything ready for the opening day. Many of you here be fore me I know are not members of the Catholic Church and still you have given up an afternoon that you might easily have spent more pleas antly in order to be with us today. Please, my dear non-Catholic friends, be assured that I deeply appreciate this courtesy. To you and to all the citizens of Athens I repeat what I said on a former occasion in this City, May God bless Athens and all who dwell therein The journey, made at night to lessen the danger of casualties from mili tary activities in the area, almost end ed disastrously, according to Father Joseph Sweeney, M. M„ of New Brit ain, Conn., when two of the junks en gaged for the transfer were attacked by Japanese bombers. The care of lepers was undertaken by Maryknoll in 1933. 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