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Bishop Blesses Statue Given
Parish Church by Portugese
His Excellency Also Blesses Shrimp Fleet at Ceremonies
at Brunswick
(Special to The Bulletin)
BRUNSWICK, Ga—An impressive
ceremony took place at St. Francis
Xavier Church here November 20, the
installation and dedication of a shrine
of Our Lady of the Ro ry of Fatima,
the gift of the Portuguese Catholics
of Brunswick to the church.
The ceremony opened with an out-
door procession from the parish hall
to the church. Trie beautiful statue
of Our Lady, borne on the shoulders
of four members of the Confraternity
of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima,
was preceded by litle girls, dressed
in white, strewing flowers. -Then
followed the acolytes, the priests, and
Bishop O’Hara with mitre and crozier.
The statue was carried into the
church, the choir singing the trium
phant Gregorian “Salve Mater . Our
Lady’s image was placed on a pedestal
and His Excellency the Bishop
solemnly blessed it- .
Solemn High Mass “coram Epis-
copo” was sung by the Very Rev.
William J. Lonergan, S. M„ vice
provincial of the Washingon Pro
vince of the Society of Mary and
Superior of the Marist Mission Band,
who attended the functions as repre
sentative of the province. The Rev.
J. P. Cassagne, S. M., one-time pastor
at Brunswick and now pastor of the
Church of the Immaculate Concep
tion. Westerly, R. I, was Deacon of
the Mass and represented the Boston
Province of the Marist Fathers at
the ceremony. The Rev. Francis M.
Perry. S. M., pastor of St. Francis
Xavier Church was sub-deacon of the
Mass. The Master of Ceremonies was
the Rev. Thomas J. Roshetko, S. M.
The Rev. Joseph G. Callaghan, S. M..
served as chaplain to the Most Rev.
Bishon The Gregorian Mass “De
Angelis” was sung by the parish
choir. .
His Excellency, the Most Rev.
Bishop, preached the sermon in which
he briefly outlined the history of
devotion to Our Lady of the Rosary of
Fatima In Portugal and showed the
connection between the growth of
this devotion and the progress of
peace and prosperity and stability in
Portugal.
Mass was followed by a procession
through the church and the ceremony
closed with Solemn Pontifical Bene
diction. The statue now enshrined
at St. Francis Xavier Church ,is a
beautiful work of art. hand-carved
from a solid block of wood by a well-
known Portugese artist, and delicately
tinted. It is a replica of the statue
of Our Lady of the Rosary enthroned
in the great Basilica at Fatima in
Portugal, often called the Portugese
Lourdes. The history of the shrine at
Patima closely parallels that of the
shrine at Lourdes. It was near
built on the spot The first appan-
peared to three shepherd children
and instructed them to have a shnne
built on the spot. The first apparai-
tion was on the thirteenth of May and
the apparitions were repeated on the
thirteenth of each month thereafter
until the final apparition on the
thirteenth of October. Each succes-
sive month the crowds who came
to watch grew until at the final ap
parition there were sixty thousand
people present, even the most cynical
of whom were convinced that some
great wonder had been wrought.
It was not until 1930, after years of
thorough and rigid investigation, that
the Bishop of the Diocese put the
seal of official approval on the enor
mously popular devotion of Our
Lady of Fatima, and declared that
the accounts of the children who had
seen the miracle were worthy of
credence. This devotion has grown
through the years and Fatima has
become a center of devotion and pil
grimage There as at Lourdes mirac
ulous cures are worked through
Mary's intercession; hundreds of them
have been certified by the medical
bureau that has been set up there.
The image of Our Lady at Fatima,
of which the statue in Brunswick is
an exact copy, closely follows the
descriptions of the three children
who saw Our Lady in 1917. Two of
these children have since died, but
the third is a Religious of the Con
gregation of St. Dorothy.
The day of dedication of the statue
of Our Lady of Fatima was observed
as a General Communion Sunday.
All the members of the newly form
ed Confraternity (for men) and Sodal
ity (for ladies) of Our Lady of the
Rosary of Fatima received in a body.
The ceremony was attended by Portu
guese fishermen from places three
hundred miles along the coast.
At two o’clock in the afternoon
hundreds gathered along the Bruns
wick waterfront while His Excel
lency bestowed the solemn blessing
on the shrimp fleet of sixty boats.
The festivities of the day ended
with the regular evening devotions of
the Novena of Our Lady of the
Miraculous Medal conducted by
Father Lonergan and Father Cas
sagne.
Recent Activities at
Sacred Heart College
Mother Superior Honored
on Feast of St. Raphael
Heads Confraternity
MRS. JOSEPH E. KELLY, Savan
nah, who has been named president
of the Savannah Diocesan Council
of the National Council of Catholic
Women at the organization meeting.
Mrs. Kelly is on; of the most wideLy
known Catholic leaders in the South,
is a member of the publicity commit
tee of the Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion and has served for many years
as president of the Catholic Woman s
Club of Savannah. She is also active
in Parent-Teacher Association and
other circles there.
ATLANTA SCHOOL’S
NEW PUBLICATION
Miss Anne Rogers Editor of
Monthly Sacre Coeur
Labor Congresses in Mexico
Labeled Cloak for the Reds
EDITOR LAUDS STAND
OF SENATOR WALSH
Leader Asserts They Are
Moscow’s Effort to Create
Front for Communism
BY CHARLES BETICO
Mexico City Correspondent, N. C. W.
C. News Service)
MEXICO CITY—Gerardo Murillo,
ipeaking at a meeting held in the
ialon Wagner, here, declared before
in audience composed of retired mili
ary men, students and statesmen that
lussia is consolidating her policy in
Wtexico by means of labor congresses
md the like, and warned of the dan
ger of Mexico being converted into a
Muscovite fief. He appealed to his
ludience to undertake united national
iction to counteract Russian tactics.
The speaker pointed out that Rus
sia. in need of new allies on other
roritinents because of the present
state of Europe and in the face of a
world war, is seeking allies in Mexico
through tiie Ambassador of the Span
ish Republic. The labor congresses
that have been held in Mexico, he
added, are the concentration of the
forces of the Komintem to create in
America a - front in the service of
Russia—a front disguising militant
action which, in good time, will enter
into a defense of Stalin’s revolution
ary program.
Mexico and other American nations,
he declared, are deceived by develop
ments at these assemblies where they
might well expect to hear revolu
tionary declarations, but where the
resolutions adopted keep within the
law and, without arousing too much
suspicion, move steadily forward to
the real goal. While the formation of
a continental Latin-American front
is agreed upon, they make use of
patriotic hypocrisies to fool official
elements, he added. While with ap
parent government co-operation, the
Army is glorified, the speaker assert
ed these international meetings held
•in Mexico are the result of orders
given to the French representative
of the Communists when he was in
Moscow in 1937, to the Barcelona rep
resentatives, and to Lombardo Tolen-
dano, the Mexican delegate to the
Olso Congress this year.
The following action was taken by
the Congress: Indorsement of Presi
dent Lazaro Cardenas for having
brought about the definite liberation
of Mexico;a demand to he made upon
American Governments for the libera
tion of those imprisoned for syndical
beliefs and the amendment of laws
held to oppress the workers; a de
mand that the Nicaragua Government
free the secretary general of the
Cedartown, Ga., Standard
Commends His Warning
Against Tactics of Reds
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—Miss Anne Rogers
is the editor of the newly established
Sacre Coeur, published monthly by
the students of Sacred Heart School.
The Misses Mary Louise Merriman
and Noel Bussey are associate editors;
other members of the staff include:
Art director. Miss Alyce Byrnes;
sports, Miss Peggy O'Shea; business
manager, Miss Mary Jane Baker; as
sistant busines manager, Miss Harriet
Coyle; advertising manager, Miss
Gladys Baer; assistant advertising
manager, Miss Peggy Pair; circulation
manager, Mis Yvonne Cornu; report
ers, the Misses Aileen Hummel, Sa
rah O'Keefe, Margaret Zeidler and
Peggy Harbin. Sister Marie Therese
is faculty adviser.
JOE GUYON, one of Georgia Tech's
greatest football players who made
athletic history about twenty years
ago has a son, another Joe Guy HI,
who is emulating the example of his
father as a star back on th- Catholic
University eleven, which stopped off
here recently for a workout on the
way to New Orleans.
BISHOP LAMB LAMENTS
“CATHOLIC LETHARGY”
(Special to The Bulletin)
BELMONT, N. C.—On the Feast of
St. Raphael, the students and Sisters
of Sacred Heart Academy and Junior
College celebrated in honor of F-ev-
erend Mother Mary Raphael, the su
perior of the Sisters of Mercy of N >rth
Carolina. High Mass was sung m
the convent chapel. Reverend Sebas
tian Doris acting as celebrant The
Mass “Stella Matutina” by Carnevab
was rendered by the St. Cecilia Choir,
which is composed of members of the
student body. The altars were taste-
fully decorated with pink and yel-
low chrysanthemums and gladiolas.
The background of ferns, and a
sprinkling of vigil lights and candles
added to the beauty of the decora
tions. On the eve of the festival, two
short plays, “Madonna of the Lose
and “Mystical Gifts”, were presented
by the Sacred Heart Dramatic Club.
During the intermission, Reverend
Mother Mary Raphael was presented
with a basket of garden flowers in
behalf of the student body. Many
visitors from all parts of the state,
notably Sisters of Mercy stationed on
the various missions, visited Sacred
Heart Convent to join in the festivi
ties.
THE TEASDALE BOOK CLUB of
Sacred Heart College held an opening
meeting November 8, presenting to an
appreciative audience a program that,
besides being origimal and artistic,
was informative. The author whose
books were eported on was the Vir
ginian novelist, Ellen Glasgow, whose
“Barren Ground” has been so uni
versally acclaimed, and whose other
works have won for her a ^ niche
among writers that is both signifi
cant and unique. At the next meet
ing. in December, the club hopes to
have the honor of listening to Mr.
P. Neal, principal of the Belmont
High School, discourses on North
Carolinian playwrights.
THE SOPHOMORES of Sacred
Heart Junior College entertained at
an informal dance given in the col
lege ballroom on Thursday evening,
November 10. A number of guests
from Gastonia, Mount .lolly. Cramer -
ton and Belmont, and the college stu
dents from Belmont Abbey, attended.
The ballroom was attractively dec-
oraated with autumn colors of crepe
paper streamers and confetti. Punch
was served in the college recreation
room. „ _ . ,
During the latter part of October
the Freshman College Class of Sacred
Heart Junior College sponsored a
most enjoyable wiener roast on the
campus. After the roast, dancing was
enjoyed on one of the pavilions, and
various forms of entertainment were
provided. Before the close of the eve
ning, all present assembled around a
large bonfire and toasted marsh
mallows while singing old familiar
songs.
The Rev. John E. Kuhn, Director
of the Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine of the Archdiocese of
Cincinnati, who has been appoint
ed Director of the National Center
of the Confraternity, with head-
ouarters in Washington. Father
Kuhn was formerly Assistant Na
tional Secretary of the Catholic
Students' Mission Crusade.
Atlanta Boy Scouts
Sponsor Ceremony
Rededication Program of
Co-Cathedral Parish Troop
(Editorial in The Cedartown, Ga.,
Standard)
A call to Americans to be on their
guard against “revolutionary propa
ganda” from Communists was made
in Boston recently by Senator Walsh
of Massachusetts, one of the Demo-
critic leaders of the Senate.
The Senator warned that Commun
ists were working particularly within
the schools of the nation- If this is
so, and the head of the Communist
Party recently admitted it, then it is
the duty of every parent to inspect
closely material of a radical nature
which is infiltrated ever so skillfully
into the public school system.
There are three types of Commun
ists that must be watched, the Senator
said one, “group of keen-minded col
lege graduates and university profes
sors”, the most wangerous; two, ‘the
numerically insignificant but vocally
strenuous” active party members, and
three, “somewhere between 3,000,000
and 4,000,000 border-line Commun
ists.” . „ .
Not only in schools is this propa
ganda being directed, the Senator said,
“but it is carried into colleges, labor
societies, civic aiid fraternal units,
business marts, youth centers, and, sad
to relate, some religious bodies.
Senator Walsh has served in Con
gress for years. As chairman of die
important Senate Committee on Labor
and Education he has been in a posi
tion to know whereof he speaks. His
words, therefore, are more than idle
comment. They become a significant
message of warning to Americans who
believe in America.
Tells Evidence Guild It Is to
Blame for Many of Our His
Federation of Nicaraguan Syndicates,
and the Pedro Arvizu Campos be
freed in Puerto Rico; a call to all
delegates to wage an intense campaign
in behalf of the Spanish Leftists and
to bring pressure to bear upon the
United States to lift the arms embargo
against the Arana Government; to
seek the liberation of political prison-
ers in Peru and of Carlos Prestos in
Brazil. ^
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
PHILADELPHIA—“Catholic lethar
gy” was blamed for the “evils the
Church is suffering in Mexico, Spain,
Germany and elsewhere" and St. Paul
was called the first member of a
Catholic Evidence Guild, at the
seventh national Catholic Evidence
Conference, which was held in this
city.
Speaking at the first session of the
conference, His Eminence _ Dennis
Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of
Philadelphia, asserted that St. Paul
“distributed papmphlets in the form
of his letters, like the Narberth In
formation Society does.” “Later in
Athens”, His Eminence added, he
spoke to the philosophers, like Mon
signor Hawks, on the street corners
here.” , ,
Karl H. Rogers, founder of the
naitonal Narberth Movement, was
elected president of the conference
at the closing session Sunday. Other
officers chosen are: John G. Bowen,
field secretary of the National Coun
cil of Catholic Men, vice-president;
and Thomas J. Diviney. of New York,
secretary-treasurer. Re-elected to
the board of directors were: George
Renehan, of Baltimore; Dr. Henry
B Sullivan, of Detroit; and John
Craig, of Little Rock, Ark. New di
rectors named are: John E. McAniff,
of New York; Miss Mary G. Hawks,
of Buffalo; and Dorothy J. Williams,
of St. Louis.
Mrs. J. T. Cotney
Dies in Americas
(Special To The Bulletin)
AMERICUS, Ga.— Mrs. James T.
Cotney died here October 19, after a
long illness. Funeral services were
held at St. Mary’s Church.
Mrs. Cotney was the former Miss
Molly McCue of Montgomery, Ala.,
comi-g to Americus 50 years after
marrying Mr. Cotney. Americus
pioneer cjftKen. Her husband, sur-
i vives her.
THE ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA
Society of Sacred Heart Junior Col
lege presented, on November 21,
North Carolina’s youngest maestro,
Melvjn Sipe, Jr.; of Lincolnton, and
his orchestra. The program con
sisted of classical and semi-classical
numbers, and was conducted with
remarkable skill. Lincolnton s child
orchestra, composed of hoys under
14 years of age. and Its youthful
conductor, have become well known
throughout North Carolina and the
adjoining states, because of then-
exceptional performances at numer-
ous schools, music clubs, and other
organizations.
ETHELYNDE SMITH, of Portland,
Maine, a singer of unusual merit,
appeared in a concert in the _ Sacred
Heart Junior College Auditorium on
November 3. The program was
divided into five groups: Old Songs,
Germah Lied and French Chansons.
Songs by American Women, Ameri
can Airs, and Songs of Youth. Each
numher was interpreted before its
rendition, thus adding to the listeners
appreciation. The artist s clear, sweet
voice, which she masters with per-
pect control, as well as her pleasing
peronality, charmed her audience, and
many encores were demanded. At
the conclusion of the first group,
Ethelynde Smith was presented with
a basket of pink chrysanthemums by
Miss Edith Adams, president of the
Sacred Heart Glee Club. This organ
ization sponsored the concert, and
hopes to be able to engage other art
ists during this scholastic year.
Charleston Belmont
Alumni Organized
Hon. J. Albert Von Dohlen
Named Group President
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—Troop No. 32, Boy
Scouts of America, presented a re-
dedication ceremony November 20 at
the Knights of Columbus Club. The
troop is sponsored by the Co-Cathc-
dral parish of Christ the King, with
Albert S. Adams as scoutmaster,
Dwight L. Ho Howell as assistant
scoutmaster, and W. H. Carver, chair
man, Bernard J. Kane and Arthur
Manning as troop committee mem
bers, Lewis F. Gordon of the Diocesan
Committee on Scouting was master of
ceremonies at the exercises. The
Rev. James J. Grady, Savannah, Dio
cesan chaplain of the Boy Scouts, was
a guest of honor at the exercises.
MRS. JOSEPH MANSOUR, a mem
ber of the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, died here early in No
vember at the age of 42. Surviving
Mrs. Mansour are five daughters and
three sons.
Parish Chapel Guild
Is Supper Sponsor
Entertainment Also on
Sacred Heart, Atlanta,
Program
(Speical to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—The Chapel Guild
of the Sacred Heart Church of At
lanta held its annual spaghetti supper
Tuesday, November 22, in the base
ment of the Sacred Heart School. An
entertainment followed in the Marist
College Auditorium. Five hundred
tickets were sold for the supper. The
chairmen of the committees were:
General chairman, Mrs. Ernest W.
Walker, co-chairman, Mrs. Bill Daly;
ticket chairman, Mrs. R. J. Reynolds,
Jr.; decorations, Mrs. John M. Smith;
serving, Mrs. Harold Parker; cake,
Mrs. Vincent Daley; quilt, Mrs. Ern
est W. Welker; country store, Mrs.
Slater Marshall; beano, Mrs. D. Hal-
lowell; coffee, Mrs. W. A. Tadlock;
tables, Mrs. Duncan Peeples; pro
gram. Mrs. Bill Daly; check room,
BUI White and Fred MasoiC"
The officers of the Chapel Guild
are '■ President, Mrs. Reybum Vtat-
kms; vice-president, Mrs. Frank
White; secretary, Mrs. John McGee;
treasurer, Mrs. Slater Marshall.
msgr. GWYNN better
Greenville Pastor Still in
Jacksonville Hospital
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Former stu
dents of Belmont Abbey College who
are now living in Charleston organ
ized an Alumni Asociation at a re
cent meeting, with Hon. J. Albert
Von Dohlen as president, Santo Sot-
tile first vice-president, Francis J.
Quinlivan second vice-president,
Joseph Mauro secretary, Aloysius Mi-
chel treasurer, and the following
members of the board of directors:
Francis Brenner, A. Ross Santos, Mel
vin Dengate, John Cantwell, Harry
P. Santos, Julian B. Courturier, Ed
ward D. Reilly, Jr., and Albert, Sot
i tile.
(Special to The Bulletin)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Rt,
Rec. Msgr. A. K. Gwynn, V. F„ pastor
of St. Mary’s Church, Greenville, 5>.
C., who has been confined to St Vin
cent’s Hospital here for a few weeks
following an attack he sustained when
he was in Florida on business, is great-
ly improved, and it is anticipated that
it will be possible to remove hen to
his home within a reasonable time.
He has not been able to leave his bed
yet, but his strength is returning and
his improved condition greatly encour-
, ages his physicians.
