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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 24, 1946
Generosity oi a Non-Catholic
Provides Fund oi $400,000 t o
Build New Greensboro Church
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JUDGE JESSE M. WOOD
Criminal Court of
Fulton County
Pattern lor New Memorial Church in Greensorbo
(Special to The BvHettn)
GREENSBORO, N. C„ — Con
struction of a new $400,000 Catho
lic ehurch and rectory in this city,
the gift of a non-Catholic as a
memorial to his Catholic wife, now
deceased, will begin as soon as ma
terials and labor are available, the
Most Rev. Vincent S. Waters, D.
D., Bishop of Raleigh, has an
nounced.
The immediate construction of
the new church and rectory is
made possible by Julian Price, of
Greensboro, as a memorial to the
late Mrs. Price, who was a mem
ber of St. Benedict’s parish here.
Mr. Price is chairman of the board
of the Jefferson Life Insurance
Company.
According to plans, drawn by
the New York architect, Henry V.
Murphy, the church will be one of
the finest of its class in this coun
try.
In making announcement of the
gift of Mr. Price, Bishop Waters
said: “Although the Diocese of
Raleigh is a missionary Diocese in
every sense of the word, this mag
nificent donation from one who is
not a member of the Church will
give to North Carolina and
Greensboro a shrine as beautiful
and as devotional as any in the
United States. We are grateful be
yond words to Mr. Price and to
his good Catholic wife who is
memoralized.
The church will have a seating
capacity of approximately 600, and
will be built along Gothic lines,
following the design of the Church
of Our Lady of Refuge, in Brook
lyn, plans for which were drawn
by Mr. Murphy, who will design
the new church and rectory here.
The new church in Greensboro
will also be dedicated to the Bless
ed Virgin, under the title of Our
Lady of Grace, and its architectur
al design, and windows, will pre
sent various events in the life of
the Blessed Virgin.
Bishop Waters has also made
known that an additional group of
buildings, consisting of a gram
mar school, a high school and a
parish hall will be added to the
church and rectory in the near
future. The overall cost will prob
ably be well over $600,000. Bishop
Waters said that he fully ap
preciated the rapid growth that is
taking place in North Carolina,
particularly in the central section
of the state, and that he looks for
ward with anticipation to the erec
tion of the new church, rectory
and schools, which will “keep pace
with the rapid development of a
very progressive city and will fill
a need long felt in Greensboro.”
Immediate plans are for the
erection of the church and rectory.
Plans for the not too distant fu
ture call for the construction of the
Gives $400, 000 for
Memorial Church
JULIAN PRICE
other ’buildings.
“Through Mr. Price’s generosity
the church and rectory are as
sured," Bishop Waters said, “but
the Greensboro parish will be call
ed upon to erect the school and
parish hall. Immediate steps will
be taken to raise funds necessary
for these buildings.”
A site for the pew group of
buildings has been purchased on
the south side of West Market
Street, between Tremont and
Chapman. The property West Mar
ket Street has a frontage of 32$
feet and a depth of 200 feet. Ad
ditional property has been acquir
ed on Tremont Street, adjoining
the rear of the Market Street
property, with a frontage of about
173 feet. On this portion of the lot
on Tremont Street, the plans call
for the erection of a grammar
school by the members of the new
parish which will be formed after
the present St. Benedict's parish
has been divided. At present St.
Benedict’s parish takes in the en
tire city. Construction of the new
school will relieve the present
crowded condition which prevails
at. St. Benedict’s School on Smith
Street.
George W. Kane, contractor, of
Greensboro, Roxboro and Durham,
has already been engaged to con
struct the new church and rectory.
Greensboro, with a population
of 60,000 has one city-wide parish,
St. Benedict’s, of which Monsig
nor Hugh A. Dolan, is pastor, and
a Colored parish, St. Mary’s, where
Father Vincent M. Crawford, C.
M., is pastor. Sisters of Charity of
St. Vincent de Paul conduct both
parochial schools in Greensboro.
BOOK REVIEWS
By EILEEN HALL
THE LIGHT OF STARS, by
Evelyn Voss Wise, (Bruce), $2.50,
the July offering of the Catholic
Literary Foundation.
An easy-to-read novel with truo-
to-life characters and a heart,
warming plot—the kind of people,
the kind of circumstances which
might be found anywhere, in your
own parish or the one across town
—the kind of story which would
make another delightful, human
movie with great popular-appeal,
because the characters are so like
the people we all know.
The scene is in Baltimore and
the time covers half a century of
not-too-long-ago years. Into and
out again of Father Gregory Lane’s
life walk the variety of individuals
whom anyone might meet in the
course of a lifetime — young
mothers and fathers with their
babies: young career men and
•women who are 'going places;”
cantankerous old folks and gentle
kindly old folks; a miser, a mur
derer, a happy-go-lucky family of
many boys and girls.
The orphans, the Sisters, the
bar-tender and the fruit stand
man; two growing boys just like
yours and mine; the other priest,
Father Lane’s dear friend who
preached the joy of giving yet
couldn’t realize, because he’s never
known poverty, that some might
have to forego that, joy because
giving would take bread from their
children’s mouths; the Irish
Mother whom Father Lane remem-
beied lovingly and the English-
saHor father pfho came back after
■o many years Just as his soa had
long hoped he would.
“The Light of Stars” is the pa-
gent of a man’s life nd the lives
of those whom he touched with
his influence. It’s splendid light
reading.
Harper & Brothers has reissued
“Saint Among Savages” by Rev.
Francis X. Talbot, S. J., in a spec
ial edition to retail at $2.50. The
reprinting of the life of Saint Isaac
Jogues coincides with the 300th
Anniversary of the Jesuit Mission
ary’s martyrdom, which is being
commemorated at the National
Shrine in Auriesville, New York.
Among his other noteworthy ac
complishments, Father Jogues was
an ambassador of peace from the
French nation to the Iroquois, the
discovery of Lake George, the
first priest to set foot on Manhat
tan Island and the first saint to
die on American soil.
The aew church of Our Lady of
Grace, which will be erected in
Greensboro, North Carolina, as a
memorial to the late Mrs. Julian
Price, who was a member of the
parish St. Benedict’s Church in
that city, will be designed after
the architectural style of the
Church of Our Lady of Refuge, in
Brooklyn, which is pictured above
Plans for the new church, and
rectory, which will be built in
Greensboro, are being executed by
Henry V. Murphy, New York archi
tect, who designed the edifice in
Brooklyn.
Construction of the new church
and rectory is being made possible
through the generosity of Julian
Price, of Greensboro, who has giv
en $400,000 to Bishop Vincent S.
Waters of Raleigh for that pur
pose.—(Photos—Courtesy of The
Charlotte Obeserver and The Ra
leigh News-Observer).
Booklet Tells Story of
“Little Guardian Angel” of
Priests’ Saturday Devotion
ST. NAZIANZ, Wis.—(NC)—The
sixth booklet for promotion of the
Priest’s Saturday Devotion, en
titled "Bertha Baumann,’’’ who be
came known as “the little Guard
ian angel” of the devotion, has
been published here by the Salva-
torian Fathers.
The booklet deals with the life
of Bertha Baumann, who lived a
helpless cripple at a home in Hei-
delberg-Sehlierbach, Baden, Ger
many. She died at the age of 13,
but shortly before her death she
learned of the devotion and dedi
cated her last days on earth to its
success.
The Priest’s Saturday Devotion
was inaugurated in 1934 by the
Salvatorian Fathers with the bless
ing of Pope Pius XI and has
spread throughout the world. The
devotion generally scheduled for
the Saturday following the first
Friday of each month, is for the
intention of the santiflcation of
priests and students for the priest
hood.
The following pamphlets and
booklets from the Grail Press, St.
Meinrad, Indiana, are recommend
ed:
“The Role of the Priest in the
Apotsolate of Reading,” by Peter
A. Resch, S. M., 10 cents. This is
by far the best of the group, and
has only one fault. Laymen should
not be excluded. The entire text
is as easily applicable to any
Catholic layman or woman as it is
to the priest. We’ve read it twice
and found it as inspiring the
second time as the first. It’s full
of ideas that you’ll want to put in
practice if you’re a book lover.
“To Seek God,” by Sister Imo-
A FLAT CONTRADICTION of
the charge that anti-Semitism is
rampant in the Polish forces under
the command of General Anders
was made in London by Dr. Nata
Rueben, chief rabbi in the Polish
Second Corps attached to the
British Army in Italy.
HIS HOLINESS Pope Pius XII
has named the Right Rev. Msgr.
Timothy Manning, of Los Angeles,
to be Titular Bishop of Lesvi and
Auxiliary to Archbishop John J.
Cantwell of Los Angeles.
IT IS REPORTED in the Italian
press that the Emperor of Ethopia
is planning to send a mission to
Rome to establish diplomatic rela
tions with the Holy See.
gene Baker, O. S. B., M) cents.
“Way of the Cross for Re
ligion*” by a monk of St. Mein-
rad’s Abbey, 10 cents.
“Follow Christ’' and “Christ
Calls,” two booklets of collected
articles on peUBtotui paeatiom.. 25
cents each.