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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA'’'MEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FEBRUARY 18, 1956
CONTINUED FROM
LAST ISSUE
JESUITS SERVING AUGUSTA
Jesuits at Sacred Heart Church
and College during these years
were: Under Father O’Shanahan,
Fathers Wm. A. Wilkinson, pres
ident of the College, C. Ruhl-
mann, N. Davis, F. Garbely,
James Lonergan, Michael Ken
ny, J. J. Gudgeon, Patrick Mar-
nane, Messrs., John Salter. J.
Lambert, R. Brooks and E. J.
Cummings, the later president of
Loyola University of the South
and Provincial; under Father
Wilkinson, most of the foregoing
plus Fathers A. L. Maureau, J.
Oberholzer, A. de Stockeper, L.
Meyer, John Brislan; Henry A.
Devine, and D. J. Foulkes;- under
Father Sherry, Fathers Loner
gan, Rene Macreadv, Davis, Ken
ny, H. Fleuren, J. Chanard, Mey
er, Devine, L. C. Bashnal, Maur
eau, Paul E. Elfer, John M.
Cronin, James McLaughlin, P.
T. Phillips, Peter McDonnell,
Andrew Brown, Patrick Red
wood, Michael Tiernan, Linus A.
Schuler, Thomas F. Stritch,
; Michael Walsh, John Buckley,
^ouis Stagg 'and Thomas Hegar-
<y; under Father Salter, Fathers
Lonergan, Schuler, McLaughlin,
Thomas H. Borteil, Stagg, James
J.. McKervey, Fleuren, Red
mond; under Father Ryan, Fath
ers A. C. McLaughlin, Elfer,
Macreadv, Oliver Semmes and
John Brennan.
NEW PARISH FOR NEGROES
The Diocesan clergy and the
■ iesuit Fathers had through the
years ministered to the compara
tively few Negro Catholics of
Augusta. As early as 1880 the
Missionary Franciscan Sisters
jf 'the Immaculate Conception
had an orphanage and novitiate
‘here, but they closed after a
tew years. The Sisters resumed
work there on the Feast of the
immaculate Conception, Decem
ber 8, 1901, and the following
year, on Octboer 4, 1902, Bishop
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orphanage on Marbury Street.
Here at St. Benedict’s Home be
tween 1902 and 1910 they pro
vided a haven for 120 homeless
or neglected Negro children; the
Jesuit Fathers at Sacred Heart
Church were chaplains at the
home and the mission. In this
period they baptized 64 colored
persons.
In 1909 the Society of African
Missions, which had started their
apostolic Georgia work in Sav
annah under the leadership of
Father Ignatius Lisener, Pro
vincial, took charge of the mis
sion in Augusta. Then known as
that of St. Francis Xavier, it was
located in a store at 1254 Marbu
ry Street. Father Eugene Peter
was the first pastor, assisted by
Father J. B. Baillent; the latter
was succeeded the year follow
ing by Father Alfred J. Laube.
In 1912 Father Laube became
pastor, remaining in that capaci
ty for over 23 years.
FRANCISCAN SISTERS
Father Peter had opened
a school on Florence Street with
the Missionary Franciscan Sis
ters as teachers. Father Laube
and Father Alphonse Barthlen,
his assistant for a decade, took
up the work started so zealous
ly and ably by Father Peter,
They labored with such energy
and effectiveness that within a
few years the parish had a com
modious church, dedicated by
Bishop Keiley to the Immaculate
Conception, a splendid school, a
substantial rectory and, subse
quently, a large parish hall, one
of the finest groups of religious
building's in the city or area, and
certainly the finest serving Ne
groes. In 1922 there were 150
girls and 180 boys in Immaculate
Conception School and 25 child
ren in St. Benedict’s Orphanage,
with 11 Missionary Franciscan
Sisters in charge of them.
ST. MARY'S-ON-THE-HILL
Augusta had a disastrous fire
in 1916 which swept from the
center of the city to the east
boundary. The property loss ran
into the millions, and hundreds
of homes as well as much busi
ness property was destroyed.
Fortunately all the church prop
erty was out of the path of the
flames. Many who lost their
homes did not rebuild on their
old sites but went to The Hill
section, nationally famous as a
winter resort. Among them were
a number of Catholic families,
making a new parish in that sec
tion advisable.
Bishop Keiley in 1918 com
missioned Father McMahon, pas
tor of St. Patrick’s Church, to
do the preliminary work, and
then acquired a most desirable
tract of land with a substantial
house on . Mbnte Sano Avenue,
on the ridge of The Hill. In
1919, Father James A. Kane, who
was rector of the Cathedral in
Savannah, was named pastor.
Camp Hancock nearby, where
tens of thousands of soldiers had
been trained in World War I, as
in the Spanish-American War,
was disposing of some of its
buildings. Out of purchases he
made, Father Kane erected an
attractive and commodious
church; the house on the prop
erty he remodeled as a rectory.
Mass was said 7 in the rectory un
til the. dedication of the church
on November 30, 1919.
ST. JOSEPH'S ACADEMY
St. Joseph’s Academy, Wash
ington, where for 35 years the
Sisters of St. Joseph had been
educating and training girls
from Southern families, with
Sister Sacred Heart personify
ing its spirit, was destroyed by
fire on November 21 1912, thus
reducing to ashes the physical
indication of a work they
inaugurated in 1876. On the ad
vice of Bishop Keiley they de
cided to rebuild not in Washing
ton but in the more populous
Augusta. They secured a splen
did tract of land in the health
ful Hill section; the cornerstone
of the new school was laid July
6, 1913. The academy flourished
in its new location; its building
wSs one of the finest education
al structures in the South.
But again tragedy struck it;
financial reverses including a
bank failure and other circum
stances. over which the Sisters
had no control made it necessa
ry for them to give up their
magnificent school, which be
came the famous Lenwood Hotel
and is now. a government hos
pital for disabled veterans. In
1916 the academy, which was
also the motherhouse of the Sis
ters of St. Joseph in Georgia,
moved to Chateau La Vert, a
beautiful estate, also in The Hill
section of Augusta, not far from
St. Mary’s Church. This fine old
Southern home, which had Ge
orge Washington as a guest in
1794 and Lafayette in 1825, was
acquired by the Sisters through
the generosity of Mrs. Kate Flan
nery Semmes, a friend and bene
factress of the Order and of ma
ny other Catholic activities
through the years.
THE WASHINGTON PARISH
The Sisters of St. Joseph con
tinued to care for St. Joseph’s
Home in Washington and to con
duct Sacred Heart Seminary for
Boys in Sharon. There were 105
pupils at the school in Augusta
in 1922—it was now known as
Mt. St. Joseph Academy — 70
boys in the Sharon school and
45 boys in the orphanage at
Washington. Father J. B. David
succeeded the beloved Father
O’Brien as pastor in Washing
ton when he died May 11, 1900,
remaining until 1906, with Fath
er Hennessy relieving him for
a time in 1902. Father T. J. Mor
row was there in 1907 and 1908,
Father McMahon prior to 1914,
and Father Schadewell from that
time until after Bishop Keiley’s
retirement.
With the exception of a few
years, all of Father O’Brien’s
priestly life was spent with the
parish and the orphans in Wash
ington; he served in Augusta as
assistant in 1873 and as pastor
from 1889 to 1894, and he was
pastor of the Church of the Im
maculate Conception in Atlanta
from 1878 to 1880. At his death
his close friend, Bishop Thomas
D. Beaven of Springfield, Mass.,
went to Washington to officiate
with Bishop Keiley at his fun
eral.
At Sharon, the Church of the
Purification was under Father
David, pastor at Washington,
from 1900 to 1907, when he mov
ed from Washington to Sharon;
he died June 13, 1909, after 16
years of service in the Diocese.
Father M. J. Higgins, S.J., of
Macon attended the parish in
1909 and 1910, Father Bazin. V.
G., was pastor from 1910 to 1916,
and Father William Quinlan then
started his long pastorate of 17
years there.
FATHER BAZIN'S DEATH
Father Bazin ended his long
career of 48 years as ,a priest
of the Diocese of Savannah when
he died October 21, 1916, as pas
tor at Sharon. He became pastor
of the Church of the Assump
tion, Macon, in 1868, immediate
ly after the war, remaining there
until 1882 when he went to Sav
annah as chancellor. Vice-presi
dent of Pio Nono College in
1877 and 1878 when he was also
pastor at Macon, he was pres
ident from 1884 to 1886, when
the college became the novitiate
of the Jesuit Fathers. He was
pastor at St. Patrick’s from 1886
to 1889, pastor at Washington
from 1889 to 1894, chancellor of
the Diocese the two years fol
lowing, and then the successor
of Bishop Keiley as pastor of the
Church of the Immaculate Con
ception, Atlanta.
He went from Atlanta to St.
Patrick’s, Augusta, as pastor in
1907, and to Sharon in 1909;
when Father Keiley became
Bishop he suceeded him as vicar
general. He served not merely
in the cities to which he was
assigned but in their far-flung
missions. Ony Bishop Keiley and
Father McMahon in his time had
the opportunity of knowing so
many Georgians, Catholic and
non-Catholic, as he.
PASTORS IN MILLEDGEVILLE
Milledgeville, where Sacred
Heart Church was being attend
ed by the Jesuit Fathers from
Macon at the time of Bishop
Keiley’s consecration, had Fath
er Eugene O’N. Boyd as pastor in
1901; it was attended from St.
Patrick’s, Augusta, in 1902, and
had Father H. A. Schonhardt as
pastor in 1903 and 1904. Father
R. M. Hamilton was pastor from
1905 to 1910, when Father Daniel
J. McCarthy succeeded him.
When Father McCarthy was
named pastor of the new Parish
of the Blessed Sacrament in Sav
annah in 1919, Father T. J. Mor
row began a decade of service
on the Milledgeville missions,
which included Gordon, Sanders-
ville, Dunlin, Sparta, Dudley,
Eastman, James, Gordon,Hawk-
insville and Wrightsville.
(To Be Continued)
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