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1HE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLJC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MARCH 23. 1940
Boy Scout Round Up
at Belmont in May
Catholic Scout Troops of f
North Carolina to Gather
at Belmont College
PARISH BUILDINGS AT WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA
(Special to The Bulletin)
BELMONT, N. C — Elabor^rte plans
are being made to make the annual
Catholic Scout ‘‘Round Up” which
will be held at Belmont Abbey on
May 16, 17, 18 and for which the uro
gram has been approved by the Most
Reverend Eugene J. McGuinness,
Bishop of Raleigh as well as by the
Right Reverend Vincent Taylor, O.
S. B., Abbot-Ordinary of Belmont.
Splendid progress is being made in
North Carolina by the various troops
of Boy Scouts that are organized un
der Catholic auspices. The units that
are prominent in Scouting circles in
the state are the St Lawrence Troop
Asheville: St. Benedict's Troop, of
Greensboro: St. Peter’s Troop, Char
lotte: Sacred Heart. Cathedral Troop,
Raleigh; St. Michael’s Troop. Gaston
ia. Mary Help of Christians Cathedral
Troop, Belmont: St. Mary’s Troop
Wilmington; St. Mary’s Troop, of
Greensboro; St. Anthony’s Troop, of
Southern Pines; and troops are in the
process of organization at the Orphan
age in Nazareth and at St. Therese’s
School in Wilson.
Two new colored troops are to be
formed, one in Belmont Cathedral
Parish and one in St. Joseph’s School
in New Bern. At Wilmington. St.
Thomas’ colored troop is flourishing
and rated one of the best of the col
ored troops in Cape Fear Council.
The Rev. Francis J. McCourt, formerly stationed at Hamlet, is now pastor of the parish at Wilson, N. C„ which not only includes St.
Church, shown in the group of buildings above, but a wide mission field, including SL Elizabeth's, Farmville, and its substantial church, and
stations at Stantonsburg, Kenley, Bailey, Elnt City, Middlesex, Pinetops, Saratoga, Lucama, Wilbanks, and Sims.
Therea’s
mission
Flourishing Wilson Parish
Developed From Humble Start
Makers of
“Mother’s Bread”
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CAROLINA
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P. O. Box 1451
Phone 2621
Wilson, N. C.
A quarter of a century ago, when
Mrs. Rteuben A. Culpepper, ‘the
grandmother of the Church in Wil
son,” came to the city, she found only
one Catholic family there, that of
George Kannan, who had come there
a short while before. Mr. Kannan,
and the four members of his family,
constituted the entire population, and
previous to their coming there was
not even one Catholic in the city or
section. Mrs. Culpepper and her
niece brought the Catholic population
to a total of seven.
In January, 1907, Father Wherty of
fered Mass in the living-room of the
Culpepper home. A group of Irish
Catholics, who lived some distance
away, heard that Mass had been said
at Wilson and subsequent Mass was
offered once a month. Father
Francis Gallagher, Father James Gal
lagher, Father A. R. Freeman, now
Monsignor Freeman. and Father
Manley, in turn, said Mass at the
Culpepper home.
By 1924 the number of Catholics
had grown to twenty-five, and Mayor
Killette, noting that the congregation
was exceeding the capacity of the
Culpepper home, offered his office at
the Court House to the congrega
tion, and the offer was gratefully ac
cepted.
Eventually, a building, formerly
occupied by a grocery store, was ac
quired as a chapel, and in 1927, short
ly after the coming o f Bishop Hafey
to the D ocese of Raleigh, he and
Father Manley, with the assistance of
the Catholic Church Extension So
ciety, acquired a choice site for a
church.
On this site now stand the church
and school, opened in 1931, and con
ducted by the Sisters of Providence,
and the convent, the school now hav
ing an attendance of about one hun
dred pupils, only a small percentage
of which are Catholics.
The Rev. Peter Denges was pastor
at Wilson for several years, leaving
in 1933 to become pastor at Golds
boro. He was succeeded by the Rev.
Michael Begley, now at Wrights-
ville Beach, and Father Hugh Dolan
succeeded Father Begley. The Rev.
H. V. Lane was the next pastor after
Father Dolan, and during the last
year the Rev. F. J. McCourt, the pre
sent pastor, was appointed pastor of
St. Theresa’s, which is now a flour
ishing North Carolina parish. The
Rev. John McGuirk is assistant
tor.
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BOY SCOUT TROOP
FOR BELMONT PARISH
(Special to The Bulletin)
BELMONT, N. C. — The Right Rev
erend Vincent George Taylor, Q. S. B..
Abbot-Ordinary of Belmont, blessed
the American Flag and the Troop
Standard of the first Boy Scout Troop
to be organized in the Cathedral Par
ish of the Belmont Abbey Nullius.
The Rev. Thomas A. Williams, state
chaplain, of Southern Pines, deliver
ed the serij(pn at the investiture ser
vices. stressing the importance of the
Scout activity and, showing how it
could be cc-ordinated with the work
of the Church.
NATIVE CHINESE NUNS
RETURN FROM AMERICA
(By N.. C. W. C. News Service)
CINCINNATI. — Four Sisters of
Notre Dame de Namur departed from
the motherhouse at Reading, near
here, Saturday February 3, tor San
Francisco, from where they sailed
on the S. S. “President Coolidge” for
their mission in Wuchang, China.
They are Sister Mercedes, an Am
erican who returns to the mission,
and three native Chinese who have
been in this country for higher ed
ucation. The three native Chinese
are Sisters Antoinette Julie, Theresa
and Agnes Pauline.
These four complete the return of
the group that left its wrecked
mission in 1938. In September, 1939,
the Superior, Sister Theophane, and
two others, sailed from Seattle. These
three and Sister Mercedes are the
four who were compelled to leave
the mission at the time of the bomb
ing a year and a half ago.
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