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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
DECEMBER 20. 1947
High Tribute Paid to Jesuits at
Triple Centenary in New Orleans
(By N. 7. W. C. News Service) | council tables. We need Catholics
NEW ORLEANS—Tribute was ( who value the word sacrifice and
paid members of the Society of are not afraid to face it; spiritually
Jesus as explorers and mis- vigorous Catholics who place
sionaries, as scientists, and as pas- honor above honors,
tor and educators at a tridrum of Bishop Byrne, who attended the
Masses marking a triple centen- J Jesuit-conducted St. Mary’s Col-
nial. The 100th anniversary of j lege. St. Mary, Kan., stated at the
the return of the Jesuits to New i second Mass of the tridium that
Orleans, the centennial of the | "the Jesuits were benefactors of
establishment of the Jesuit-con- [ Louisiana and the entire South.”
ducted Church of the Immaculate "They brought with them the
Conception here, and the centen- J sugar cane and laid the foundation
nial of the College of the Immac-%f your great sugar industry,” he j
ulate Conception, now known as J related. A great part of the rich- J
the Jesuit Hi eh School and Loyola ! ness of your city belongs to the i
University of the South. ( Jesuit Fathers and to Monsieur.
At the first Mass, offered in doBore, whose process of granula-
the Church of the Immaculate' tion of cane syrup into sugar j
Conception by Bishop Jules B. | revolutionized the industry. The i
Jeanmard of Lafayette, the Rev. J Jesuits brought your orange and ;
Henry C. Bezou, New Orleans your fig. j
Archdiccesan superintendent of | "When the Jesuits were ex-1
schools, lauiV'd the Jesuits
educators
Xmas Programs
Rev. Patrick I'eyton. C.S.C., (left)
founder of radio’s “Family Thea
ter” program, who will direct
“The Joyful Hour,” a special radio
presentation of Christmas music,
over stations of the Mutual Net
work, Saturday, December 20 at
9 P. M. EST. Rev. Aloysius F.
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At the second Mass, j they left New Orleans as your, the catholic Institute
offered the following day in the t friends and benefactors
Church of the Most Holy Name : “in our centennial celebration
of Jesus here by Archbishop Jo- Archbishop Rummel said at Louis
seph F Rummel of New Orleans, 1 Cathedral, “we must not by-pass
— ~ altogether the first epoch of Jesuit
history in Louisiana. This em
braces the period from 1700, when
Father DuRue accompanied Iber
ville to these parts as chaplain
and ministered to the garrison at
Fort Mississippi below New Or
leans. During this period. New
Orleans had become officially a
Jesuit Mission Station entrusted
with special care of the Indians.
Bishop Christopher E. Byrne, of
C'alveston told of the debt Louis
iana and the entire South owe to
the Jesuits because of the com
munity’s early scientific experi
ments. At the Mass offered on the
final day of the triduum by His
F.minence Samuel Cardinal Stiitch
Archbishop of ( h'cagc. Arch
il shop Rumrnel tmohasi/ed the
work of the early Jesuits as ex
of the
Press, who will deliver a Christ
mas talk entitled, “A Child is
Born,” over Columbia's Church of
the Air Progcam, Sunday, Decem
ber 28 at 10:30 A. ' M. (NC
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plovers and missionaries. ! Ifi the discharge of these duties.
Other guests at the c ’ -brations thcse Jesuit missionaries were
included Bishops Charle: P. Greco
of Alexandria, n former high
’harrowed by the hostility of the
Indians, the hazards of the swamps
St. Andrew’s Guild in
Myrtle Beach Presents
Catholic Books to Library
(Special to The Bulletin)
MYRTLE BEACH, S. C.—The
St. Andrew’s Guild has recently
presented several Catholic books
Indians, the nazaius oi me librarv in Mvrtle
school student of the Jesuit Falh-’ in d the dangers o'ZggftJ 0 ™ Beach Among the volumes were
ers in New Orleans; Rnhaid O. an d hunger that linked in tnc tor „ R
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Gerow of Natchez, and William D.
O’Brien. Auxiliary of Chicago;
Abbots Columban Thui.s. O. S. B..
of St. Joseph’s Abhey, St. Benedict.
La. and Boniface Seng O. S. B.,
of St Benedict’s Abbey, Culman.
Ala. and Provincials of two Jesuit
provinces. >•
“New Orleans 100 years ago was
a booming city emerging from a
deep lethargy,” Father Bezou said.
“There were only a few churches
and two chapels, and in these the
male populace vs as most con
spicuous by its absence. Men i
shied away from church. A kind
of spiritual laissez Lure permeMed
the air. There vas a lack of
Spiritual education for boys . . .
One factor that had set back the
ests and lowlands.
This period ended abruptly In
1763. when France expelled the
society from the Colony. of Louis
iana. The new period did not be
gin until 1847. he continued, when
the Jesuit Fathers met unllinch-
ingly yellow fever epidemics the
ravages and stagnation caused by
the War Between the States, the
necessity of demolishing and re
building the church, the pressure
for more room in the school.
SODALISTS INVESTED
AT SACRED HEART
CHURCH, SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH. Ga.—With
pressivc ceremony, on the
noon of December 7. new
Im-
after-
mem-
Church in Louisiana was the un
i. I bei
of the Sodality of Our Lady
fortunate departure of the Jesuitsiwere —. ..
in 1763 due to their expulsion from! insignia of the sodality
the Colony of Louisiana by
France. . » .
.“Just what wax the secret of the
success of (he Coliege of the lm
formally invested with the
by Father
Robert Brennan, O. S. B., pastor
, of Sacred Heart Church, with
!■ Father Alcuin Banderman, O.S.B,
land Father Timothy Flaherty, O.
maculate Conception’.’
Jesuit S. B.
educators take into consideration
the whole being: heart, head, spirit
and physical being. A person may
know how' to make a living, but
may not know how to live. A half-
hour or three-quarter-hour period
once or twice a v.cci; is not suf
ficient. Religion must be the
warp and woof of education. We
•need spiritually vigorou. Catholics
to teach others, to take their faith
into the labor unions and to the
The new members, who were
presented for investiture by Miss
Margaret Martin, prefect of Sacred
Heart parish sodality, were: Miss
es Laura Ann Grady, Mary A.
Little. Eleanor ^ellpis, Nancy
Morrisey. Katherine Goins, Pa
tricia Mickler, Mary Nugent, Mary
A. Saraf, Mary F. Hohenstein,
Beth Broderick, Jean Annis, Mary
C. Rocca, Joan Summer, Kath
erine Valenti.
L SEASON’S GREETINGS
JUDGE EDGAR E. POMEROY
Judge Supreme Court—Fulton County
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Rome and the White House.”
Hyland; ”My Catholic Neighbors,”
Atkinson; "Tar Heel Apostle,”
Murrett; “Men of Maryknoll,”
Keller; “When the Sorgluun Was
High”, Considine: “For God and
Democracy,” Wagner: “What
Other Answer?” by Dorolhy Fre
mont Grant, and Joyce Kilmer’s
“Anthology of Catholic Poets.”
The Guild has also purchased a
very fine set of hand-painted taber
nacle veils and other altar acces
sories which were used for the
first time on St. Andrew’s Day.
A pair of bronze candelabra were
donated to St. Andrew’s Church
by Mr. and Mrs. James O’Brien
and Mrs. Ann Rooney, of New
York.
In Conway, which is a mission
of St. Andrew’s Church here, (he
Catholic women met recently to
form an auxiliary guild which is
to be known as St. James’ Mission
Guild. Mrs. John Godbold was
elected chairman, and Mrs, Marion
Smith, secretary. Among those
who attended the organization
meeting were Mrs. Edward Carl
son. Mrs. Michael Velgrit. Mrs. J.
H. Rochelle, Mrs. John Dolin and
Miss Margaret Holihan.
Recent visitors to St. Andrew s
Church in Myrtle Beach were
mayor-elect Eugene J. Van Ant
werp, of Detroit, and Mrs. Ant
werp.,
Legion of Decency
Pledges Renewed
SAVANNAH. Ga.—Members of
the congregations attending Masses
in all churches of the Diocese of
Savannah-Atlanta made ’heir an
nual renewal of the pledge of the
Legion of Decency on Sunday,
December 14th.
Monsignor Joseph E. Moylan,
Vicar General of the Diocese of
Savannah-Atlanta. directed the
pastors of churches in the Diocese
to post classification bulletins of
the Legion of Decency in the vest-
ibules of their churches and in
the Catholic schools within their
parishes.
Monsignor Moylan also remind
ed that, the Archbishops and
Bishops of the United States, at
their recent meeting in Washing
ton, recommended that each parish
establish a committee of laymen
to bring to the attention of the
parishioners, each week, the rating
of films being shown in local mo
tion picture theatres.
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