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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 Now you can get famous Oausscn’s Fruit Cake again—the cake that’s crammed full of templing irnits and nuts, the cake made from lliegener- ations-old Claussen recipe which calls for these finest ingredients to be embedded throughout the cake itself. And Claussen's famous Fruit Cake still sells at the snme thanks to Claussen’s foresight in contracting last year for choicest nuts, fruits and other ingredients to be delivered fresh and in huge quantities in ample time for this season’s baking. Order your Claussen's famous Fruit Cake today! HP FAMOUS FRUIT CAKE SAKS9 LIKE Wli 3A HE 4 7 HOME! 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.