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DECEMBER 20. 1947
THE BUII-FTIN OF THE CATHOLIC r.AVMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEVEN
Columbia Deanery
Council of Women
Meets in Sumter
(Special to The Bulletin)
SUMTER, S. C.—A meeting of
the Columbia Deanery Council of
Catholic Women was held in Sum
ter on November 29, with mem
bers of the Altar Society of St.
Anne’s Church as hostesses at the
luncheon which was tendered the
visitors. Miss Margie Monoghan
was chairman of the committee on
arrangements for the meeting.
With every member in attend
ance, a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Charleston Dio
cesan Council of Catholic Women
was held in Columbia, and a num
ber of important matters were dis
cussed.
Members of the committee
agreed that the Sisters of the Good
Shepherd, who are to open St.
Euphrasia’s Training School for
Girls, in Batesburg, would have
the wholehearted support of the
members of the Council of Cath
olic Women. It was reported that
members of the various councils
throughout the Diocese had ren
dered outstanding service in the
Thanksgiving Food Collection.
At the suggestion of Bishop
Emmet M. Walsh of Charleston
the executive committee members
voted to encourage the members
of their respective local councils
to aid in the sale of Christmas
Seals.
DRESSED LIKE NATIVES OF INDIA—-In order to illustrate
a description of the lives and customs of the people of India, given
to students at Mount St. Joseph’s Academy, jn Augusta, Georgia,
pupils dressed in costumes of the Asiatic country where Sister Marie
Estelle and Sister Canisius, of the Congregation of the Holy Cross,
have been serving in the missionary field. Pictured with the Holy
Cross Sisters, on their recent visit to Augusta, are left to right,
Joyce Padgett, Ann Marks, Gay Middleton, Betty Dempsey, Thomasine
Kelly, in the back row. and Kathryn Dienst Jacqueline Milton and
Penny Pye in the front row. Sister Marie Estelle is at the left,
Sister Canisius, at the right.—(Photo by Frank Christian—Courtesy
of The Augusta Herald). ■
Holy Cross Nuns, Returning From
Missions in India, Visit Georgia
AUGUSTA, Ga.—High school
students and elementary school pu
pils at Mount St. Joseph Academy
had an opportunity to gain a lot
f first hand information about.
Ind a, now one of the world’s
Sister Canisius. who has been
in India for eight years, was sta
tioned at St. Anthony’s Convent,
in the Nagari District, near Dacca,
India, where the Holy Cross Sis
ters conduct a school for orphans
city. Mrs. John Sowers, president
The St. Mary’s Parish Council
in Greenville entered a float, de-< of the council, and Mrs. A.
picting the Nativity scene, in a Folger, who served as chairman r
Santa Claus parade held in that the float committee, and those
who assisted them, are receiving
7 :.nd praise for the
-.-■'•orried great ap
plause as it passed along the line
. iiiUiCIl.
trouble spots, from two Sisters of
the Congregation of the Holy
Cross, who recently returned from
India, and who were visiting the
I Sisters of St. Joseph in Augusta.
and for boarding and day pupils.
The Sisters have no hospital at
that place, but do medical mis
sionary work among the natives.
She told the students at Mount
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St. Joseph of the customs and
mode of living In India, and to
illustrate her talk dressed several
of the pupils at the school here
in costumes such as are worn by
the Mohammedan, Hindu, rich
and poor children in India.
Sister Mary Estelle, who came
to Augusta with Sister Canisius.
had been serving on the missions
in India for twenty years.
Sister Canisius was Miss Helen
Minahan. of Atlanta, before en
tering the religious life, and while
visiting members of her family
there, came to Augusta to see
Mother Carmelita, Sister Rose de
Lima. Sister Immaculata and Sis
ter Joannes, who had been her
teachers when she was attending
the Sacred Heart School in At
lanta. which, like Mount St.
Joseph's here. Is conducted by
the Sisters of St. Joseph of
Carondelet.
The Congregation of the Sisters
of the Holy Cross, to which Sis
ter Canisius and Sister Marie
Estelle belong, has its mother-
house at Notre Dame, Indiana.
The Order conducts four schools
and a native novitiate in India in
addition to colleges, high schools,
grade schools, orphanages, sum
mer camps and hospitals in this
country.
Before going to India, Sister
Canisius was dean of Dunbartorf
College.tn Washington, D. C. She
lias a sister who is also a mem-
! her of the Congregation of the
Holy Cross, Sister Benjamin, who
teaches at the Parochial school of
the Church of St. Paul the
Apostle, in New York City.
ATLANTA, Ga.—India itself will
solve its religious and political
problems, if the rest of the world
will not interfere, was the opinion
of Sister Canisius, C. S. C., for
mer Atlantan, who lias just return
ed from India, where she has been
engaged in missionary work for
eight years.
Hindus and Moslems will never
agree, bul the present arrangement
of dividing India between the two
groups is the only answer, Sister
Canisius said.
Sister Canisius, and Sister Mary
Estelle, a native of Ireland, who
catnc. to this country with her after
. pending twenty years in India,
were stationed in the Dacca Dis
trict of Bengal, 30f miles north of
Calcutta, in a section of India
,ihat is now part of Parkistan. and
under Mohammedan control.
Born in Atlanta. Sister Canisius
has returned to visit her'mother,
Mrs. Ted Minahan, and her sis
ters. Mrs. Robert M. Margeson
and Mrs. II. A. Cain. Her father,
now dead, was connected witli the
Southern Railway. ’
While in Atlanta, the Holy Cross
Sisters spoke to the students at
the Sacred Hetn't School, where
‘-.1. Canisius was once a student,
and at St. Anthony's School. They
expeet to go back to India next
July.