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TDctober 15, 1955.
•mu'. BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC DAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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Catholics
In Georgia—
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the parish, assisted by Father
Joseph Heidencamp. Father
Winkelried acquired for the pro
posed new • church the fine site,
immediately adjacent to what
is now the business section yet
overlooking the city. The foun
dations of the present church
were laid in August, 1888, and
J;he basement was blessed by
Bishop Becker June 15, 1892.
NEW MACON CHURCH
The congregation _ worshipped
in the basement until the com
pletion of the church in 1903.
Assistants in the parish during
these years were the Jesuit
Fathers John B. Quinlan, Ben
jamin Roydhouse, and Fathers
from St. Stanislaus’ College. The
Jesuits at the college in addition
to Father Brislan included Fath
ers William Power, Thomas
Stritch, William Meriwether,
John Montillot, Albert Biever,
A. Taillant, de - la Molienere, A.
Laurent, Patrick J. Kennedy,
.Henry T. B. Tarr, Darius Hubert,
M. J. Higgins, and Rene Mac-
ready. An indication of the man
ner in which the novitiate flour
ished is the fact that in 1888
there were 32 scholastics and 25
lay Brothers there.
The Sisters of Mercy in 1899
had 16 resident students and 146
day students in their school at
Mount de Sales. Two of the
Sisters at first and later three
continued to teach in the Fourth
and later the Poular Street pub
lic schools, the change in names
being occasioned by the removal
of the school from the old church
site to the new. Catholic chil
dren from any part of Bibb
County could attend the school;
non-Catholic children in the
school district in which the
school was located could do so
if their parents so desired. As a
consequence a number of Protes
tant and Jewish children were
pupils in the school taught by
the Sisters.
PARISH IN COLUMBUS
Father Schlenke, who had
been named pastor at Columbus
by Bishop Gross, continued there
until 1894, when he went to the
Cathedral in. Savannah for two
years as assistant, then return
ing to Columbus as pastor again.
Father Schadewell was pastor
during his absence. West Point
and Griffin were the principal
missions listed, with a number
of others visited periodically.
Neither Father Soochlenke nor
Father Schadewell nad an as
sistant, covering the parish and
the mission area alone. In 1899
there were 86 pupils in St. Jos
eph’s Academy, taught by five
Sisters of Mercy.
The Diocese lost one of its
greatest priests in the death on
May 18, 1896, of Father C. C.
Prendergast. He was a native of
Savannah; it was in the Prender
gast home that Bishop Gartland
and Bishop Barron found shelter
when a tornado made the epis
copal residence uninhabitable in
1854, and it was there that they
died of yellow fever within a
few days of each other imme
diately thereafter.
Father Prendergast made his
classical and philosophical stu
dies at St. John’s College, Ford-
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ham, under the Jesuit Fathers
when Fordham’s former pres
ident, Dr. John Hughes, was
Archbishop of New York. He
went to France to the Sulpician
Fathers at St. Sulpice, Paris, for
his course in theology. After
service at the Cathedral in Sav
annah, he became pastor of St.
Patrick’s Church in the See City
in 1871, at Augusta in 1874,
Milledgeville in 1879 and Albany
the year following, remaining
there until his death. Here for
nearly a generation he served
alone, ministering to an area
more than twice the size of Mas
sachusetts, from Middle Georgia
to Florida, and from Alabama
to the border of the Atlantic
Coast Missions. He may truly
be described as the founder of
the Church in Southwest Geor
gia.
TOTAL ABSTINENCE
MOVEMENT
In the latter quarter of the
19th century the Catholic Total
Abstinence movement, promot
ed by the famous Father Mat
thew, made its appearance in
Georgia. A society was organiz
ed in Augusta in 1889, in Sacred
Heart Parish. Its members were
pledged to total abstinence; spe
cial efforts were made to enlist
the interest of those just emerg
ing into manhood. The society
had a cadet corps, the Sacred
Heart Cadets, with P.M. Mul-
herin, at one time a member of
the Georgia legislature, as com
mander. He was succeeded by
Capt. Patrick H. Rice, who com
manded the corps for a genera
tion. The cadets were well dril
led, and took part in Memorial
Day, St. Patrick’s Day and other
celebrations. They were especial
ly commended by Cardinal Gib
bons for the manner in which
they participated in the ceremo
ny of the dedication of Sacred
Heart Church in 1900.
The example of the Sacred
Heart Cadets resulted in a simi
lar organization at St. Patrick’s
Church, Augusta. While the cad
ets were impressive in civic ob
servances, the memory of them
that is most vivid in the minds
of those. who saw them is their
reception of Holy Communion
in a body on Easter Sunday
mornings and at regular inter
vals during the year, at a time
when such corporate Communi
ons were not the custom.
Georgia’s third Catholic Total
Abstinence Society, St. Joseph’s
in Macon, was organized Nov
ember 14, 1893. Like those in
Augusta, the cadets were uni
formed, adopting one similar to
that of the Sacred Heart Cadets,
Conferedate gray trimmed with
wide white braid; they wore
straight scabbord swords. Dr. N.
G. Gewinner was captain and
F. X. Daly quartermaster. Ex
cessive drinking was rather a
general problem in those days;
only the recording angel knows
how many young men were res
cued from the habit, and how
many careers saved Doth by pre
vention and by cure.
(To Be Continued)
Copyright 1955
Movies should not be the fami
ly baby sitter, it was agreed by
a group of women attending the
fourth institute of the National
Council of Catholic Women
SERVICES FOR
MISS GRAHAM
ATLANTA, Ga.—-Funeral serv
ices for Miss Eileen E. Graham
of Miami, Fla., were conducted
Oct. 5th at the Sacred Heart
Church, Father John D. Staple-
ton officiating.
Surviving are a sister, Miss
Maury a A. Graham of Miami;
a brother, John P. -Graham of
Chamblee, and several nieces
and nephews.
DR. JOSEPH
M. HART
CHIROPODIST
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