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MARCH 23, 1940
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE
FORMER EDITOR OF
THE BULLETIN WILL
ADDRESS EDUCATORS
Richard Reid to Address
Convention in Atlanta
April 8-12
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga. — Included in the
list of nationally known speakers who
will address the 44th annual meeting
of the Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools, to be
held in Atlanta April 8 to 12, will be
Richard Reid, editor of The Catho
lic News. New York, formerly editor
of The Bulletin, and Executive Sec
retary of the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia.
Sessions will be held at the At
lanta Biltmore Hotel, with the Rev.
P. A. Roy, S. J., president of Loyola
University of the South. New Orleans,
and also president of the association,
as chairman.
Among other speakers will be F.
Edw. Herbert, citv editor of the New
Orleans States: Dr. John Temple
Graves, II, of the Birmingham News;
Dr. Harmon W. Caldwell, president
of the University of Georgia, and Dr.
H. M. Gage, president of Coe College,
Cedar Springs, Iowa.
SISTER MARY URSULA
MARKS 90TH BIRJHDAY
Has Been at St. Joseph’s
Hospital, Savannah,
65 Years
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Sister Mary
Ursula, R. S. M., one of the _ first
nuns to be assigned to work in St.
Joseph's Hospital when it was found
ed in 1875, observed her ninetieth
birthday on March 1, 1940.
A member of the Sisters of Mercy
for 68 years, all but three of which
have been spent in duty at St. Jos
eph’s, where she is still active, de
spite her age.
She is a native of Dedham, Mass.
Miss Margaret McNamara
Enters Sisters of Mercy
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Miss Margaret
Mary McNamara, former school nurse
working out of the Health Center,
was formally received into the Sis
ters of Mercy at services at Mount St.
Agnes, Maryland, on March 12. She
is the daughter of Alderman and
Mrs. P. J. McNamara.
The Right Rev. Monsignor T. James
McNamara, rector of the Cathedral
of St. John the Baptist, and her
brother, preached the sermon at the
reception service.
Marist Brothers
Slain in Spain
Superior-General Releases
Figures of Order’s Losses
in Letter to Principal of
School in Augusta
AUGUSTA. Ga.—Final figures con
cerning the losses suffered by the
Marist Brothers during the Spanish
Civil War are contined in a letter
from Brother Diogene, Superior Gen
eral of the Marist Brothers, Lyons,
France, which as been received re
cently by Brother Nicholas, principal
of the Boys’ Catholic High School
here.
One hundred and sixty-eight Broth
ers, besides a priest who was resi
dent chaplain in one of the houses,
and a young man employed as a
doorman in one of the Madrid houses,
fell victims of Red bullets. Another
thirty-seven, young Brothers, three
of whom were novices, died on the
battlefields as soldiers in the Na
tionalist Army. An undisclosed num
ber were wounded or disabled during
the conflict.
Barcelona was the scene of the
death of nearly a hundred Brothers,
who were massacred by the Red
forces. Others were slaughtered in
Madrid, and an entire community
was put to death in Toledo, of Alcazar
fame-
In spite of the losses in personnel
and tremendous destruction of prop
erty, the Superior-General states that
the surviving members of the order
in Spain are valiantly resuming their
work.
Brother Francis Borgia, assistant
general of the Marist Brothers*
writing from the mother house, at
Lyons, France, advises that over
six hundred Marist Brothers were
actually under arms and in mili
tary service, with the thousands of
priests and religious, in Europe at
this time.
When the Nazi decrees, closing the
Catholic schools were put into effect,
a number of Marist Brothers left
Germany to carry on their vocations
in Italy, Holland, Switzerland, South
Africa, and South America. Although
their schools w r ere closed and requisi
tion for garrisons and other purposes
by the Nazi government, many of
the Brothers remained in Germany,
some of them being called to serve
in the armed forces under the
Swastika-
The fate of German Brothers who
had gone to Poland to establish a
school near Poznan two years ago,
is still unknown.
Dr. Bernard Kline Heads
Atlanta Infirmary Staff
ATLANTA, Ga.—«Dr. Bernard McH.
Kline has been elected president of
the medical staff of St. Joseph’s In
firmary, succeeding Dr. William L.
Champion.
Dr. Major Fowler was named presi
dent-elect; Dr. Julian Riley, vice-
president; and Dr. Joseph Red, sec
retary.
MRS. MARGARET MURPHY
DIES IN SAVANNAH
Was Clerk of Court of Or
dinary for Many Years
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Mrs. Margaret
O'Connor Murphy, widow of Denis
J- Murphy, and for many years clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham
County, died March 1, and funeral
services were held from the Cathe
dral of St. John the Baptist.
For thirty-seven years Mrs. Mur
phy had been employed in the Court
of Ordinary of Chatham County,
having retired from office in 1938,
after faithful and efficient service.
Mrs. Murphy was clerk in the court
for 18 years .having been appointed
to that position in 1920. She entered
the office on December 5, 1901. Mrs.
Murphy was the first employee of
Chatham County to be pensioned
under the act adopted several years
age.
A native of Savannah. Mrs- Murphy
was born August 22, 1864, and had re
sided here her entire life. Her hus
band, prior to his death in 1901, was
associated in the retail coal business
in Savannah.
Surviving Mrs- Murphy are two
daughters, Mrs. Wilbur F. Goubeaud
of Bellrose, Long Island, and Mrs. L.
F. McGrath, of Savannah; a son,
James D. Murphy of Titusville, Pa.; a
sister, Mrs. Annie E. Lackey, of Sa
vannah, and seven grandchildren.
A page in the official minutes of
the Court Of Ordinary has been in
scribed by Judge Gordon Saussy as
a tribute to her memory.
MRS. RUSSELL. AUDESEY
FUNERAL IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Funeral services
for Mrs. Helen Hall Audesey, who
died February 29, were held from the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist-
Besides her husband. P. Russell
Audesey, she is survived by a daugh
ter, Madeline Audesey; her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. G- W. Hall; a sister,
Miss Rose Hall, and a brother, George
Hall.
DEATH CLAIMS
HENRY N. BERG1N
SAVANNAH. Ga.—Henry Newton
Bergin, a native of Greenville, S.
C-. who had lived in Savannah most
Of his life, died February 29. Funeral
services were held from the Sacred
Heart Church.
He is survived by two sons, William
J. Bergin, of Washington, D. C., and
John Bergin, of Port Arthur, Texas;
two daughters, Miss Thelma Bergin
and Mrs. John T. Moore, of Savan
nah; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Warren,
of Augusta, adn Mrs- Annie O'Neil,
of Reading, Pa.
MRS. NELLIE HITCIIMAN
IS CLAIMED BY DEATH
SAVANNAH. Ga.—Mrs- Nellie
Hitchman, widow of the late Arthur
Hitchman, died March 2. after a
short illness. Funeral services were
held from the Sacred Heart Church,
of which parish she was a devout
member.
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REMEMBER—
BROAD STREET at THE MONUMENT
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA
FOR THE
Easter—Then and Now
If a real Catholic recalls the ac
claim, the triumphs that were follow
ed by the unrest, the sense of uncer
tainty and finally the stark terror of
the days preceding the glorious feast
of the Resurrection, he might be
tempted to believe that those events
were but lately passed instead of
twenty centuries old. As a follower
of the Nazarene he would have seen
the growth in prestige of the new and
fearless Teacher, the increase in the
number of His disciples, those poor,
hardworking men who left their jobs
and their families, to follow Him.
He would have witnessed His many
miracles, His love for even the most
notorious sinners and His denuncia
tion of the hypocrisy of the Pharisees.
Finally he would have ben a specta
tor as admiration, gratitude added to
the mob psychology' of hero worship
climaxed in Palm Sunday’s triumph.
At last, thinks our loyal follower of
the Nazarine, the Redeemer is assur
ed the homage that is really His; rich
and poor will follow now in the path
of His loving law; priests and people
will acknowledge Him as their God,
their Messiah and their King.
Our 20th century Catholic, how
ever, knows that this did not happen.
Praise gave place to accusation, es
teem to suspicion, pageantry to tor
ture. The hoarse throngs, tired from
their shouted “hosannahs’’ turned
homeward to rest their voices in pre
paration for Friday’s loud-called
"Crucify Him”. Of the chosen twelve
Peter’s “1 Know Him Not” may have
reached the ears of the other ten as
they fearfully slunk through the
back streets of Jerusalem, even as
it echoed round the lifeless body of
the suicide Judas. Desertion, desola
tion and death! Yet we know that
these were but the prelude to the
blossoming of the seed of hope which
flowered into beauty on Easter morn
ing.
The Feast of Hope
Do we not find a simile between
those happenings and events in our
own day? Had not the hour of
triumph seemed near during the past
two decades? With the conclusion of
the reconstruction period the ac
knowledgement of Christ's goodness
and the desire for the extension of
His Kingdom presaged the triumph of
Palm Sunday. Then came the con
niving of the 1939 Spy Wednesdays.
Monetary restrictions curtailed the
building programs (spiritual and ma
terial) of Holy Mother the Church.
They were followed in turn by a
succession of Good Fridays whicn
marked the desertion, the desolation
and the death of entire peoples.
However, once again the perennial
flower of hope is ready to bloom this
blessed Easter 1940. Regardless of
intrigue, of deceit, of threatened an
nihilation the feast of hope is reborn
and, with its advent comes the Resu
rrection gift of peace—the personal
gift of the Risen Christ to all His
faithful followers. Thus while na
tions mourn and disaster threatens
we peacefully hope in Him “who
dying destroyed our death and ris
ing again restored us unto life”.
AMERICA AND THE NEGRO
The following account of a new
apostolate among the negroes in the
United States has just come to us
from Rev. John P. Sweeney, S. M. A.:
“There is an awakening, today
among thinking American Catholics
with regard to the negro, a growing
uneasiness about their altitude to
and treatment of these long-suffering
colored brethren for whom Christ
died and with whom He wishes to be
identified. Heretofore, a negro might
have asked for bread—the bread of
truth and Christian fellowship, only
to be handed the stone of cruel indif
ference and contempt. The change is
coming at last, thank God, slowly but
surely.
“As an earnest Catholic, therefore,
you will be interested in a recent ef
fort to extend the Kingdom of Christ
among the negro race. In Septem
ber, 1939, the Society of African Mis
sions opened a seminary near Wash
ington, D. C., wherein' zealous Am
erican students may be trained for
the priesthood and the negro aposto
late.
“Our field has been, and is, pri
marily the foreign missions. Hun
dreds of our missionaries from Eu
rope have spent and are spending
themselves under difficult but ex
tremely' promising missions of West
Africa. This heroic work must go on
until the native clergy is strong
enough to win and to hold,all Africa,
for Christ. Now, With our new Am
erican foundation, we desire to in
clude the home vineyard as well.
We would join forces with the few
zealous Catholic organizations already
in the field for the conversion of the
12,000,000 negroes of America.
Missions in Georgia.
“Our Society is not really a new
comer in this ever-ripening field.
The Society of African Missions has
charge of several colored missions
principally in Georgia and also in
California, founded by the veteran
A f rican missionary, Very Reverend
Ignatius Lissner, S. M. A., to whom
the establishment of a national semi
nary of our Society has been a long-
cherished ideal, and who, as Provin
cial Superior, will watch over its
progress with fatherly interest.
“We feel that we have the sympa
thy and interest of every mission-
minded Catholic in America in this
undertaking and we frankly appeal
for that cooperation which is essen
tial to our success. We have started
in what the true Christian would call
“auspicious poverty” and our first
home is in an old frame building,
badly in need of repair and presently
located in Silver Springs, Maryland.
Already a few of our students are at
tending tire Catholic University at
Washington, D. C.; others have ap
plied for admission.
“The Rector of the Seminary, Very
Reverend Anthony P. McAndrew,
S.M.A., LL.D., and his two associates.
Rev. John P. Sweeney, S.M.A., and
Rev. Patrick J O'Hara, S.MA, of the
Irish Province have served on the
mision fielc’s in West Africa, Dr Mc
Andrew having spent five years in
the interesting Black Republic of
Liberia and Fathers Sweeney and
O’Hara in Nigeria, West Africa.”
A GREAT PROFESSION
OF FAITH
One of the greatest public profes
sions of faith in modern times was
uttered on March 12 last in the great
St Patrick's Cathedral, New York
City, during the ceremonies • marking
the investiture of the Most Reverend
Francis J. Spellman with the sacred
pallium.
“In the presence of God and before
all of you, I profess my Catholic faith.
I believe in God, Father, Son and Holy
Ghost, a God who has fathered all
and redeemed all and who wishes to
sanctify all. I believe in the Holy
Roman Catholic Church as the church
which the Blessed Son of God found
ed upon the spiritual rock which was
then Peter and is now Pius. I believe
that in the bosom of Mother Church
the Divine Son still abides, imparting
to her His spirit. His authority and
His truth. I believe that the portals
of His church are as open and as
salutary as His very wounds, and that
it is God’s Holy Will that all men
should enter and find peace and hap-
piness benear its ample roof trees.
Believing in God, I believe in man,
in the fundamental goodness of the
creature because of the absolute good
ness' of the Creator. It is true that
man has fallen, but it is equally true
that man has been redeemed and may
by God’s grace lift himself above the
servitude of self.”
PATRIOT AS WELL
On this occasion, His Excellency
voiced his ardent affection for hts
beloved homeland.
“Not alone do I profess my Catholic
faith before you,” Archbishop Spell
man stated. “I profess and glory in
my American citizenship, and I pledge
myself to maintain and defend our
fundamental liberties, shining as they
do like tlaming jewels in our frame
of government, priceless and precious.
1 am for all of our freedoms and our
freedom. Therefore, I am opposed to
tyranny, even though it calls itself
freedom. I am opposel to anarchy,
even though it calls itself liberty. I
am opposed to traitors to the United
States, even though they wave Amer
ican flags and call themselves patri
ots I am opposed to lawlessness and
violence in speech and in action.”
As friends of the mission cause, we
are proud of the public utterance of
Archbishop Spellman on this mem
orable occasion. We are certain that
as chairman of the Episcopal Com
mittee of The Society for the Pro
pagation of the Faith he will insure
notable progress in the great work of
spreading Christ’s Kingdom through
out the world.
DID YOU KNOW THAT
Rosa, the daughter of Nathaniel
Hawthorne, author of ‘The Scarlet
Letter", “The House of the Seven
Gables”, “Tanglewood Tales”,' etc.,
became a Roman Catholic? After
her conversion she founded the reli
gious order known as the “Servants
for the Relief of Incurable Cancer”.
DID YOU KNOW THAT
“On July 24, 1840 Bishop Mathias
Loras of Dubuque “was setting out
from Green Bay for Milwaukee,
when he received a deputation sent
by the Menomenies, begging that
■‘the great father of the Christians'
would pay them a visit.” Writing of
that memorable visit His Lordship
stated that “on quitting these excel
lent savages, I was not only consoled
at what I had witnessed, but was also
convinced that it would be easy to
effect much good amongst the other
tribes.”