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DECEMBER 21, 1946
TIIE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIFTEEN
DURBAN - LAIRD’S
INCORPORATED
Insurance-Real Estate
Surety Bonds
Aiken, South Carolina
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Augusta Building
Supply Company
J. M. WOODALL, Proprietor *
Better Building Materials
1559-61 Broad Street
Telephone 2-8818
Augusta, Georgia
Church of Our Lady of the Valley, Near Langley, S. C.
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The Church of Our Lady of
the Valley, near Langley, S. C.,
on U. S. Highway No. 1, between
Aiken and Augusta, completes a
group of buildings erected and
maintained through the efforts of
Father George Lewis Smith, pas
tor of St. Mary Help of Christians
Church, Aiken, whose parish in
cludes all of Aiken County.
The new church is built on a
lot adjacent to the property of
the Horse Creek Valley Handi
craft and Welfare Center, where
an educational and social center,
a convent, and a garage and
trin^, who while fostering the
Catholic rest
crafts shop have been erected for
some time. The welfare work in
Horse Creek Valley is in charge
of the Sisters of Christian Doc-
ine
laitn of the few
dents of that industrial area of
South Carolina, devote their lives
to uplift work generally, among
the people of the Valley, work
ing with the children and their
parents in an effort to develop in
them higher standards leading to
spiritual and material progress.
The new. church building, in the
style of Rural English Gothic, is
Congratulations to
BISHOP WALSH
FATHER SMITH FATHER MICHAEL
Southeastern
Construction Company
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
Builders of the
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Church of Our Lady of Peace
and the
Church of Our Lady of the Valley
built of split face granite with
mingled shade buff and red burnt
clay shingle tile roofing. The
church proper is 30 by 70 having
the .seating capacity of 200 per
sons. an extension to the right
cotains the sacristy, and an in
struction room.
Rising out of the intersection is
an attractive belfry from which
a 300-pound silvery bell pleasant
ly informs the people of the Val
ley of the time of Mass and other
services.
The interior is of rough texture,
finished in the spirit of the Early
English Gothic. Open timbered
ceilings convey the message of
strength and honesty as character-
is tic of the Catholic faith.
Stained glass windows remove
the flare, and, by the infiltration
of a multitude of hues and colors
decorate the interior to a richness
surpassing that of applied wall
paint.
Each window symbolizes some
one of the great virtues of Our
Blessed Lady. The church is
lighted by means of hand-wrought
hanging lamps; the sanctuary’s in
direct lighting, adds Aystery to
the Holy Place where the Sacri
fice of the Mass is offered.
The altar is of oak. having a
free standing circular tabernacle,
a large crucifix, a dosscl and rid
del of rich draperies, all accord
ing to the liturgy.
Over the altar and praedellu- is
the canopy or tester, as prescrib
ed. The ceiling of the canopy is
decorated in cobalt blue with gold
leaf insignia, symbolizing the per
son- of the Trinity, the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost. The
canopy is lighted with fluorescent
lamps which bring out the beauty
of the tabernacle, the corpus and
• lie draperies, and illuminate Hie
missal and altar cards where the
priest is offering the IIoly* Sacri
fice.
The entire ensemble of timber
ed ceilings, stained glass, colorful
stations, altar canopy, draperies
and lighting system, is designed
to create that calm religious at
mosphere, which is so desirable in
a house of prayer. ’ The church
has been, made comfortable by
means of a circulating steam heat
ing system haring an oil-fired
steel tubular boiler. Plumbing
has also been provided.
The Church of Our Lady of the
Valley was designed by Father
Michael Mclnerney, O. S. B.. reg
istered architect of Belmont Ab
bey. Other buildings designed by
Father Michael for the Diocese of
Charleston, are (he Church of Our
Lady of Peace, North Augusta, to
be dedicated also on December
22; the church of the Most Bless
ed Sacrament, Byrnes Downs; re
modeling of old St. Mary’s
Church, Social Hall; St. John’s
Church, Charleston; seven-class
room third story addition to tile
Immaculate Conception School,
Holly Hill; a Colored Social Rec
reational building, Rock Hill, for
the Oratorian Fathers.
K. OF C. JN SAVANNAH
HONOR MEMORY OI
DEPARTED BROTHERS
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Memorial
services at which their departed
brother knights were held by Sa
vannah Council, No. (131. Knights
of Columbus, at the council's sec
ond meeting in November.
Father Robert Brennan. O. S.
B.. chaplain of the council, deliv
ered the eulogy to the members
oi the council who bad died dur
ing the year, Charles V. Walsh,
John Distefano, Colonel John G.
Butler, Sr., and L. II. Cooper, Sr,