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Official
Newspaper For
The Diocese Of
Savannah - Atlanta
VOL. XXXV, No. 17
ARCHBISHOP
HOHORED BV
BRITISH K C
LONDON— (NC) —Archbishop
Gerald P. O’Hara, Apostolic Dele
gate to Britain and a Knight of
Columbus in the United States,
was honored by-the organization’s
British counterpart, the Knights
of St. Columba.
The Archbishop, who recently
returned from the United States,
told his “brother knights” that he
has been “overwhelmed by the
kindness I have received from
archbishops, bishops, priests and
laity since my arrival in this coun
try.”
The Apostolic Delegate was in
troduced by T. J. T. McMenemy,
the Supreme Knight, who point
ed out that the Knights of St,
Columba in Britain owed then-
existence ot the example and in
spiration of the American organi
zation. He added that 12 members
of the hierarchy and some 1.000
priests are now members of the
order.
EXECUTIYE
COMMITTEE
SESSION HELP
MACON, Ga. ’ The Executive
Committee of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association, meeting here
with His Excellency Bishop Fran
cis E. Hyland, laid plans for oper
ation of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia and opera
tion of THE BULLETIN for the
coming year.
The Group adopted a b'uget
authorizing the expenditure of
approximately $3,000 more than
in the last fiscal period. A new
plan for easing the financial ob
ligations of the Association was
introduced by His Excellency and
adopted by the committee. The
Annual campaign will get under
way in all the churches of the
Diocese on Sunday February 20 th.
Complete details of the campaign
will be outlined in the February
5 th issue of The Bulletin.
The session was presided over
by J. P. Meyer, Columbus, presi
dent of the Association.
Atlanta Kniglits
To Initiate Sunday
ATLANTA, Ga.—Atlanta Coun
cil 660 of the Knights of Colum
bus. will initiate 50 new members
into their order Sunday, January
23rd, according to membership
chairman Bill King.
The new group will be known
as the “Peter Chanel Class”—
named after St. Peter Chanel,
missionary priest, and first Marist
martyr. Before his death at the
hands of Fiji Island natives in
1841, Father Chanel had been one'
of the first twenty priests to make
profession in the Society of Mary,
religious order.
-Initiation will be held at the
clubhouse, 1200 Peachtree St.,
N. E.
PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
MONROE, GA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1955.
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PATRON SAINT OF CATHOLIC PRESS
St. Francis de Sales, (above), Patron Saint of Journalists and the
Press was bom of noble parents at Annecy, France in 1566, and
died at Avignon in 1622, He became Coadjutor Bishop of Geneva
in 1602, and succeeded to the See in 1622. With St. Jane Frances
de Chantal he founded the Order of the Visitation Nuns. His feast
day is observed on January 29. (NC Photos)
NCCW STATE BOARD WILL
MEET AT MACON TUESDAY
Passionist Provincial Names
Rev. Emmanuel Tray nor C. P.
To Head New Atlanta Mission
MACON, Ga.—The board of di
rectors of the Diocesan Council of
Catholic Women will meet in Ma
con, Georgia, on January 25, to
discuss plans for the Diocesan
convention to be held in Colum
bus, Ga., on Saturday and Sunday,
April 16-17.
Members of the board from At
lanta Deanery are Mrs. John S.
Correll, Mrs. George J, Gunning,
Mrs. W. J. Sullivan. Mrs. Joseph
H. Toomey, Mrs. Joseph Etheredge
(all of Atlanta), and Mrs. Jack
Kesler, of LaGrange.
Brief reports will be given of
the work done in the six month
period July to January. His Excel
lency Bishop Hyland will be pres
ent and Mrs. A. J. Schano will
preside.
Blessed Sacrament
Holy Name Rally Set
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Bless
ed Sacrament Holy Name Society
will hold a reception and rally
on Wednesday, February 2, at
which time new members will be
enrolled in the society and old
members will renew their pledges.
All men of the parish are in
vited and urged to attend the
rally.
UNION CITY, N. J.—The Rev.
Emmanuel Trainor, C. P., former
Mission Procurator of the SIGN
MAGAZINE, has been appointed
pastor and superior of the new
Passionist Mission in Atlanta,
Georgia, it was announced by
Passionist Provincial Ernest
Welch.
The new mission, to be known
as St. Paul of the Cross in honor
of the Passionist Founder, will be
located on a 40-acre tract in the
southwest section of the city. It
will include a church, rectory,
convent and a school dedicated to
the training of Negro youth.
The site is part of a 100-acre
tract of land formerly known as
the Clarke Estate, and fringes a
rapidly developing Negro resi
dential area. Contrary to pre
viously printed reports, the pro
posed hospital for Negroes will
be built on the remaining 60 acres
by the Medical Mission Sisters
and not by the Passionists, the
Provincial said.
Father Welch described the site
as a corner location, with elevated
sections where the parish build
ings can be erected without any
crowding, and level sections for
school playgrounds. The church,
he added-, will have a seating ca
pacity of about 400 persons: the
rectory will house six priests, and
the school will accommodate some
500 students. The convent will be
occupied by Sisters who will
teach in the school. The Rev. Ga
briel Gorman, C. P., who was in
charge of the construction of Holy
Family Monastery in West Hart
ford, Conn., dedicated in 1951,
will oversee the construction of
the Atlanta project.
Calling attention to the many
fine homes being built by Negroes
in the neighborhood immediately
surrounding the new Passionist
Mission, he said:
“This is something entirely new
and unexpected to anyone accus
tomed to seeing the poor condi
tions in which these people usual
ly live, and it is certainly indica
tive of the betterment of the so
cial position of the Negroes in the
deep South. Among the colored
citizenry are numerous highly ed
ucated leaders, successful in many
professions and business enter
prises. Atlanta University for
Negroes with its several affiliated
colleges, draws students Pom ah
over the United States.”
Although Father Trainor pre
pared for three years after his or
dination to become a Missionary
in China, nevertheless his Pro
vincial appointed him Mission
Procurator of the SIGN MAGA
ZINE, a position he filled with
distinction for 15 years. Born July
5, 1909, in Jamestown, N. Y., the
son of Joseph Trainor and the late
Johanna Laughlin Tranor, he was
educated at St. Peter and Paul
elementary and senior high
schools in his native city, and
Holy Cross Passionist Preparatory
College, Dunkirk, N. Y. He was
professed a Passionist on August
15, 1929, at Our Lady of Sorrow’s
Monastery. West Springfield,
Mass., and after studies at Pas
sionist monasteries in Springfield,
Mass., Scranton, Pa., and this
city, was ordained a priest May
30, 1936, at St. Michael’s Monas
tery Church here by the Most
Rev. Cuthbert C. Gara, C. P,,
Bishop of Yuanling, China.
One of six children, four of
whom are religious, he is a broth
er of the Rev. Bernard Joseph
Trainor, O. F. M;, Franciscan Mis
sionary in Brazil; Sister Jean Bap
tist and Sister Mary Petronilla of
the Sisters of Mercy, Buffalo, N.
Y.; C. O. Johnson, Jamestown, N.
Y., and Mrs. Allen Downing, of
Bradford, Pa.
With the extension of the Pas
sionist Dixieland Missions into the
heart of Georgia, the Passionists
now operate colored missions in
four States — North Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Texas.
COLUMBUS
BREAKFAST
FEBRUARY 20
COLUMBUS, Ga. — The an
nual Communion Breakfast of
the Columbus Branch of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association
will be held on Sunday February
20th. This Sunday has been de
signated by Bishop Hyland as
“Catholic Laymen’s Sunday”
throughout the Diocese of Savan-
nah-Atlanta.
Guest speaker at this years
Breakfast will be Mr. Mark A-
McDonald of Decatur.
Mr. McDonald in addition to
his duties as Choir Director at
St. Thomas More Church is a past
president of Christopher Toast
masters and a National member of
International Toastmasters Com
mittee on publicity.
Feature Added
Making Us first appearance in
this issue of The Bulletin will
be the column "Backdrop."
This column, written by Char-
les Lucey, becomes a regular
feature replacing Sursum Corda.
NURSES' HOME—Now under construction at Habersham and Taylor Streets in Savannah is
the new nurses’ training school and home for St. Joseph Hospital. The building is the first of $850,-
000 in additions slated for the hospital.—(Photo Bob Heriot Courtesy Savannah Morning News).