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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
APRIL 29, 1939
New Church at St. Petersburg Is Dedicated
GESli YOUNG PEOPLE
IN ANNUAL MEETING
BY MISS ETHEL M. GREEN'
MIAMI, Fla.—The Gesu Young Peo
ple’s Sodality will hold the annual
election of officers at the meeting
April 28. The present officers are:
William H. Kinnear, Jr.. Prefect Pres
ident; Miss Rosemary Kane, vice pre
fect: Joseph J. Hourihan, treasurer;
and Miss Claire E. Pare, secretary.
Other members of the new Sodality
include: Miss Virginia Barretto,
James Clarke. Miss Jeanne Chapleau,
Robert Joergler. Blanche Tebo. Rob
ert Gilbert, Miss Josephine Wtite,
Robert Bilger, Miss Hazel Cleare,
Donald E. Schang, Miss Martha Kelly,
Thomas Hay, Miss Patricia Burke,
Jack Fleming. Miss Mary Ethel
Fletcher. Charles A. Gardner, Miss
Isabelle Clark, Frank McKenna, Cath
erine Hefinger, Russell J. Burke, Miss
Hazel Searing; Clarice Schnatter-
beck. Francis Smith, and Father Jos.
T. Burleigh, S. J., the spiritual di
rector.
Following the election, the Sodality
will conduct the formal reception of
the graduates of the Gesu High School
into the Parish group, with a closed
dance at the Gesu Roof Garden.
The Catholic Truth committee of
the Sodality will lead the discussion
on the statement, “’The Thirteenth,
tire greatest of Centuries’’ at the sec
tional meeting to be held at St. Mary’s
in Little River, late in May.
SISTER THOMASINE
DIES IN CHARLESTON
Native of City Fifty-Nine
Years Member of Sisters
of Our Lady of Mercy
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Sister M.
Thomasine Gough, for fifty-nine
years a member of the Sisters of Our
Lady of Mercy, and one of the most
beloved members of the Order in
South Carolina, died here April 24 in
her seventy-ninth year. Sister Thom
asine was born in Charleston August
22. 1860. the daughter of Mr. ~ and
Mrs. Charles Gough, and received
her early education here, entering the
Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in
1880.
S : ster Thomasine spent her reli
gious life of three score years teach
ing in the Catholic schools of Char
leston and caring for the orphans,
and three" generations of Charleston
ians have known her tender care.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. James J. May,
V. G., rector of the Cathedral, offi
ciated at the Requiem Mass at the
funeral. Interment was in the Sis
ters’ Section of St. Lawrence Ceme
tery. Pallbearers were William E.
Craven, Jr., George Spain, William
McLaughlin. W. J. Leonard, William
Molony and John Maguire.
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES, the Ruth-
erfordites, told a reporter in London
that Cardinal Hinsley is planning a
coup d’etat in 1942, when he will es
tablish a clerical dictatorship, and that
there will be a simultaneous uprising
in the United States, Cardinal Mun
delein placing himself in supreme
power in the White House. Hitler, ac
cording to the statement, is under the
domination of Cardinal Faulhaber.
When the reporter told the spokesman
for the Rutherfordites that the cartoons
in their literature were disgusting,
they said that the cartoons were for
American consumption, and American
taste is a bit vulgar.
ARLINGTON will have a military
field Mass at the National Cemetery
May 28 sponsored by the Washington
General Assembly of the Knights of
Columbus, with Coadjutor Bishop
Peter L. Ireton of Richmond, presid
ing and the Rt. Rev. Msgr. William R.
Arnold, Chief of Army Chaplains, as
celebrant.
St. Paul’s Church, St. Petersburg
The beautiful new St. Paul’s Church in St. Petersburg is of red bricll construction and seats one thousand
people. The interior of the church with its arched ceiling is dignified and colorful; the marble liturgical altars
and the altar rail are exceptionally beautiful. The edifice is of twelfth century Romanesque architecture.
Gerald A. Barry of Chicago is architect and A. P. Henn essey, St. Petersburg, contractor.
RISHOP TO BLESS
FISHING FLEET
Ceremony Planned for
Brunswick Sunday* May 14
BRUNSWICK, Ga.—The Most Rev.
Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D., Bishop of
Savannah-Atlanta, will officiate at
the ceremony of the blessing of the
boast of the fleet of te Portuguese
fishermen here May 14, as the fleet is
about to leave for the summer fish
ing. The blessing ceremony will be
in the afternoon, at three, following
a low Mass and general Communion
at seven, Bishop O'Hara officiating,
and a High Mass, Coram Episcopo, at
nine, the Rev. F. M. Perry, S. M., of
ficiating and Bishop O'Hara presid
ing. The Rev. Joseph M. Silvia of
Fall River will deliver the sermon.
The ceremony May 14 follows that
of November 20 last, when Bishop
O’Hara blessed the Statue of Our
Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fatima,
which resulted in a virtual religious
revival among the Portuguese fisher
men. There are about 250 in the col
ony, and two score or more .of them
who had not been to the Sacraments
in many years, some as long as forty,
returned to the practice f their faith.
Only a portion of the Portuguese of
the colony live here, although all
make it their headoquarters: about
one hundred, particularly of the
young, unmarried men, live on their
boats.
Bishop O’Hara’s interest in the wel
fare of the Portuguese colony and
Father Perry’s efforts have not only
resulted in many of them who were
not practical returning to the Sacra
ments, but has given a number of
them apostolic zeal. Manuel Boa is a
leader of the colony and has been a
leading factor in the revived inter
est of its members in ther religion.
REP. J. BURWOOD DALY of Penn
sylvania, formerly a member of the
faculty of LaSalle College, died in
Philadelphia at the age of 67. Mr. Daly,
a graduate of LaSalle and the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, was elected to
Congress in 1934 and re-elected in 1936
and 1938, the first Democrat ever
elected from his district in Philadel
phia.
Diocese of St. Augustine
*
Major Orders Conferred by Bishop Barry at St. Leo Ab
bey—Other Florida News
AT ST. LEO ABBEY, Bishop Barry
who was celebrant of the Pontifical
Mass ta St. Leo Abbey on the Feast of
St. Benedict, officiated the day fol
lowing when the sub-deaconate was
conferred by Dr. Raphael Schof, O.
S. B.
TAMPA was host March 20 to a
district meeting of the Sodalists of
South Florida, Catholic literature be
ing the chief theme of the meeting.
REV. H. W. ROCKWOOD, S. J.,
conducted the annual retreat for the
student body of St Joseph’s Academy
High School Department St. Augus
tine, the students maintaining si
lence during the retreat. The Rt.
Rev. Msgr. P. J. McGill, chancellor
of the Diocese, was celebrant of the
closing Mass, and addressed the stu
dents. Father Rocwkwood then giv
ing the Papal Blessing. A breakfast
was served through the kindness of
the Sisters of St. Joseph.
REV. JOHN M. M’CREARY, su
perior of the Jesuit Mission Band of
the South, and the Rev. J. W. Court
ney, S. J., conducted a most success
ful two weeks’ mission at the Cathe
dral at St. Augustine late in March,
one week for women and one for
men. The mission was splendidly at
tended, not only at night but at the
Masses as welL
RICHARD REID, editor of The Bul
letin, addressed the March meeting of
the Current Events Class of the Cath
olic Woman’s Club of Jacksonville,
at the hQme of Mrs. W. Shannon Lin
ing. Mrs. E. Stanwix-Hay and Mrs.
Mary Scanlon were co-hostesses. Mr.
Reid’s subject was the Catholic Press.
ST. PAUL’S, Jacksonville, will hold
its annual parish' picnic May 28 on
the grounds of St. Mary's Home,
Orange Park, it was announced at tire
recent meeting of the Parents’ Auxili
ary of the parish. The Dad’s Club
is cooperating. At the Auxiliary
meeting, on motion of Mrs. George
P. Coyle, resolutions were adopted
favoring changes in the laws of Du
vall County pertaining to the pro
tection of the mentally ill. Arthur
N. Sollee addressed the meeting on
County Government.
Recollections of Father Tabb
Editorial in the Atlanta Journal
Augusta YouthProgramGets
Under Way With Great Rally
Father Grady Addresses Mass Meeting of Nearly 300
Young People—Joseph Heffernan Elected President
AUGUSTA. Ga.—Over three hun
dred young people attended the or
ganization meeting of the Catholic
Youth Organization Tuesday night
and after hearing the Rev. James J.
Grady, chancellor of the Diocese of
youth activities of the Diocese, out
line the plan of His Excellency, Bishop
O’Hara, for including all the young
people of the state in Catholic groups,
organized the local contingent.
Joseph Heffernan was elected pres
ident. Miss Peggy Redd, vice presi
dent, Miss Marian Lawrence Secre
tary and T. J. Kearns, Jr., treasurer.
The members fo the executive board
are Carl Lawrence. Miss Peg
Schweers. Miss Mary McAuliffe, Ray
mond Loyal, Miss Clara Punaro, Miss
Atm Cotter and Edward Bailey.
The Very Rev. Leo M. Keenan, dean
of the Augusta District, presided, and
the guests of honor included the Rev.
Harold J. Barr, the Rev. John E.
O’Donohoe, S. J.. and the Rev. Daniel
Cronin, S. J. Edwin J. Dorr was
chairman of the committee on ar
rangements.
Father Grady, in outlining Bishop
O’Hara’s plan of organizing the Cath
olic youth of the Diocese, pointed out
the necessity for organization espe
cially in this day and time, and said
that he was certain that Augusta
would do ta least its part in this pro
gram as it has done in others. Rich
ard Reid described the organization
effected in other cities. The tenta
tive plans here call for senior and
junior organizations, the senior or
ganization to be affiliated with the
Georgia Junior Federation of Cath
olic Clubs. A social followed the
meeting, and refreshments were
served. , _
In the latest number of the Colophon
Aubrey Starke has a delightsome es
say on Father Tabb, one of the rare
spirits of Southern and American lit
erature. “Tabbiana” he calls it, and
explains that the reminiscences and
letters which it presents were given
him by the distinguished and vener
able Atlanta author, Mrs. Myrta Lock
ett Avary. John Bannister Tabb, poet
and priest, was born March 22, 1845, at
the ancestral home in Amelia County,
Virginia. During the War Between the
States he did gallant service from the
Confederacy. Though excluded from
the army because of defective eyesight
he performed perilous missions abroad
and in the summer of 1864 was cap
tured aboard the Siren, on which he
was carrying dispatches. At Point
Lookout, Maryland, prison, to which
he was sentenced, he met Sidney La
nier, with whom he maintained a long
and beautiful friendship. Tabb him
self was an ardent devotee of music
and verse. He was ordained priest in
the Roman Catholic Church in Decem
ber, 1884. Between then and his death
in November, 1909, he spent most of
his active years teaching English at
St. Charles College in Maryland.
William Thorp says of him, in the
Dictionary of American Biography,
“He mingled little with the world
beyond the college and the ’ City of
Baltimore. To the last he called him
self an ‘unreconstructed rebel.’ His
pupils loved him devotedly and were
molded by his rich and paradoxical
nature. Father Tabb commenced
poetry when he was in the Confed
erate service. His first volume, issued
privately in 1882, was experimental.
His first widely known volume. Poems
(1894), preceded by An Octave to
Mary (1893), reached a seventeenth
edition. By the time of the publication
of Lyrics (1897) the periodicals bought
his poems eagerly. His reputation was
further augmented, particularly in
England, by Later Lyrics (1902), The
Rosary in Rhyme (1904), and A Selec
tion from the Verses of John B. Tabb,
compiled by Alice Meynell in 1907.
. . . His most intense lyric utterance
suggests the epigramatic crypticism
of Emily Dickinson. His nature poetry
is often fanciful, but his religious
lyrics for their intensity invite com
parison with those of the seventeenth
century metaphysical poets.” Here
is one of his little lyrics; entitled "Evo
lution: ”
Out of the dusk a shadow,
Then a spark;
Out of the cloud a silence,
Then a lark;
Out of the heart a rapture,
Then a pain;
Out of the dead, cold ashes,
Life again.
In Tabbiana Aubrey Starke reveals
with deft and discerning touches the
whimsical, humorsome side of Father
Tabb. On the appearance of Mrs.
Myrta Lockett Avary's A Virginia
Girl in the Civil War, in 1903, the
veteran Confederate and poet-priest
sent her a note of cordial apprecia
tion, "blessing her for painting so ac
curate, so just and so compelling a pic
ture of the southern side of the war.”
But when she afterwards solicited his
aid concerning a literary project which
she then had in mind, he answered in
this wise:
Things have come to a pretty pass,
When, in a state of doubt.
The Ox appealeth to the Ass
To help to pull him out.
The Devil keep you in the mire
Ere you accomplish your desire.
Fast upon the heels of this retort,
however, came a postal card on which
was written: "Dear Mrs. Avary: This
morning's malediction fell only, of
course, on that part of the program
that concerns the poor Ass, who would
certainly kick the bottom out of any
vehicle that dragged him before the
public. . The final bit of Tabbiana
presented in the Colophon article is
a treasure indeed. Written some time
in the autumn of 19\H to airs. Avary,
ST. PAUL’S PARISH
EDIFICE BLESSING
SOLEMN CEREMONY
Bishop Barry . Officiates.
Father J. F. Enright Pastor
of St, Paul’s Church
(Special to The Bulletin)
S8. PETERSBURG, Fla.—St. Paul’s
parish, of which the Very Rev. J. F.
Enright is pastor, dedicated its splen
did new church here the last Sunday
in March, the Most Rev. Patrick Bar
ry, D.D., Bishop of St. Augustine, of
ficiating at the ceremony. The sermon
was delivered by the Rev. Thomas
Comer of Coral Gables, and the cere
mony was attended by priests and
people not only from all parts of Flor
ida but from many distant states.
Bishop Barry was celebrant of the
Pontifical Mass, with the Rev. J. J.
O’Riordan as archpriest, the Rev. T. J.
Geary and the Rev. M. J. Fogarty,
assistants at St. Paul’s, deacon and
sub-deacon respectively, the Rev. J.
J. Mullins and the Rev. T. A. Col-
reavy. deacons of honor, and Father
Enright master of ceremonies. The
Mass was sung by the boys’ choir
from St. Paul’s School, under the di
rection of Sister M. St. Ann, O. S. F.
Prelates and clergy assisting at the
dedication included the Rt. Rev. Fran
cis Sadlier, O.S.B., D.D.. Abbott of
St. Leo, the Rt. Rev. William Barry,
Miami Beach; the Rt. Rev. Msgr. D.
A. Lyons, St. Petersburg; the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. M. Kruszas, Chicago; Father
Aloysisu, O.S.B.; the Rev. John Hosey,
C.SS.R.,, arid thfe Rev. M. A. Tobin,
C.SS.R., Ybor City; the Rev. T. F.
Cooney, S.J.. and the Rev. Peter Ri
naldi, S.C.. Tampa, the Rev. John G.
Bishop. Orlando, the Rev. Dr. Patrick
• E. Nolan, Lakeland; the Rev. P. D.
O’Brien, Bradentown; the Rev. Charles
Elslander. Sarasota: the Rev. Mark
McLaughlin. St. Mary’s; the Rev.
Thomas A. Walsh, Chelsea. Mass.; the
Rev. Thomas L. Finn, Atlanta; the
Rev. R. J. Maloney, Crosby, Minn.; the
Rev. A. Potvin, Springfield, Mass.;
the Rev. J. Corcoran. Michigan; the
Rev. J. S. Griffey and the Rev. E. G.
Moore, Camden, N. J.
St. Paul’s parish is now ten years
old; Father Enright was appointed its
first pastor in 1929, two years after his
ordination; he previously was assist
ant at Miami Beach. It is the third
building to be erected on the church
property in the past nine years, the
others being the school, the auditor
ium of which has served the parish as
a chapel, and the rectory; church,
school and rectory constitute one of
the finest group of church buildings
in Florida. The Shrine to the Blessed
Virgin between the church and rectory
is a beautiful sources of inspiration
to the parishoners and the passersby.
It is illuminated at night.
St. Petersburg, which twenty years
ago was a mission of Tampa, now has
three parishes and churches, a splen
did school, St. Paul's, and a fine hos
pital, St. Anthony’s. Few parishes any
where have made ^greater strides in a
similar period of time than St. Paul’s,
under Father Enright. Father Enright
is widely known as an author as
well as for his distinguished parish
work. He is assisted in the parish by
Father T. J. Geary, who was ordained
eight years ago at St. John’s College,
Waterford, and who served at Coral
Gables before coming to St. Paul’s in
1934, and the Rev. M. J. Fogarty, also
an alumnus of St. John’s College,
who was ordained in 1933 and came
to St. Paul’s from St. James’ Church,
Orlando, in 1937.
John W. Corley of
Atlanta Parish Dies
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—John W. Crowley,
a member of St. Anthony’s Parish,
died here late in March. Surviving
Mr. Crowley are his two daughters,
Mrs. J. J. Mathieu and Mrs. J. L.
Cochran. Atlanta, and his son,
George C. Crowley, Kite, Gt. The
funeral was held from St. Anthony’s
Church, the Rev. Nicholas J. Quinlan
officiating at the Requiem Mass. In
terment was in Greenwood Ceme
tery.
MRS. ADA WELLINGIIURST, sis
ter of Mrs. D. J. Moriarty of Atlanta,
died late in March at Maplewood, If,
J. Surviving Mrs. Weliinghurst in ad
dition to Mrs. Moriarty' are two
daughters, her son, and her brother,
Edward A. Gately, Caldwell, N. J.
it runs thus: "From the printer’s de
vil up to the top of the ladder, I like,
at a distance, the whole struggling
clan. As personal acquaintances, lit
erary people are the last 1 desire; and
there’s not one, living or dead. I'd
encounter were it possible to escape.
Heaven has protected me from them
so far, and will, I hope, hereafter. You
are wise not to question me about
my own productions. Like sneezes,
they are only to be done and forgot
ten, and once deliverd of them. I re
call them no more. The published
ones I cannot bear even in my library
—a collection of half a dozen books
that I go to when I can't get outside.”
Mr. Starke has previously made the
South, and the English-rehding world,
his debtor by his admirable biography
of Sidney Lanier. For the glimpses
he now affords us of rare Father Tabb,
we are again heartily gratefuL ,
