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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
ELEVEN
JANUARY 5, 1957,.
(CONTINUED FROM
PREVIOUS ISSUE)
There were at the end of Bishop
Keyes’ years in the Diocese 19
Sisters of Mercy at Mt. de Sales
Academy, and 164 pupils; St.
Joseph’s parish school had 60 boys
and 40 girls, taught by the Sis
ters of Mercy. St. Peter Claver’s
parish school under the Sisters of
the Blessed Sacrament had an
enrollment of 80 boys and 84
girls.
In Columbus Father Schlenke’s
long service as pastor came to an
end with his death January 23,
1928. Father Joseph E. Moylan,
his assistant for the five years
before, acted as administrator un
til appointed pastor of the Church
of' the Immaculate Conception, j
Atlanta, succeed Bishop Emmet
M. Walsh. Father Daniel J. Me- j
Carthy, pastor of the Church of
the Blessed Sacrament, Savannah,
was the next pastor in Columbus;
his assistants , included Father
Henry Honeck, Father H. A.
Schonhardt and Father John
Clean, in the order named. St.
Joseph's Academy in 1936 had 48
boys and 45 girls, enrolled, taught
by the Sisters of Mercy.
Father Schlenke was one of the
band of courageous priests driven [
from Germany in the anti-Cath-!
olic campaign of Bismarck. Born j
at Folksmarsen, Germany, he;
started his studies for the priest
hood in the famous seminary at [
Fulda, the Cradle of Catholicity I
in the country, where St. Boni- j
face first preached the faith. Af- j
ter leaving Fulda he studied at:
Louvaine University, then com
ing to the United States and to
Pio Nono College, Macon, where
he was prefect while completing
his preparation for ordination.
He was ordained October 3, 1875,
by Bishop Gross in the Church of i
the Immaculate Conception, At- j
lanta. The next two years found
him in Brunswick as pastor of the
Southeast Georgia. Missions,
where he rendered herioc service
particularly during the yellow fe
ver epidemic.
Father Schlenke’s first service
in Columbus started in 1878, when
.the parish was known as that of
Sts. Philip and James. In 1879-
he was at the Cathedral in Sa
vannah, following it with four
years at St. Patrick’s, Savannah.
He returned to Columbus, then
Holy Family Parish, in 1884, re
maining there until his death 43
years later except for two years
at the Cathedral in Savannah in
the middle ’90’s. Until about five
years before his death he labored
in the Columbus parish and his
missions without an assistant. He
was the second Diocesan priest in
the history of the Church in
Georgia to reach his golden jubi
lee in the priesthood, Father Will
iam Quinlan, ordained in 1.871,
who survived him by six years
and lived to mark his diamond
jubilee, was the first. Father
Schlenke also was prom inent
in Diocesan offices, including con-
suitor, defensor matrimoni and
parish priest examiner. He was
distinguished by his love for the
poor and the orphan, manifested
by numerous benefactions, most
of them secret, from his private
means.
Father Quinlan, Father Schlen
ke’s contemporary through the
years, continued as pastor of the
Church of the Purification from
1916 until his death June 3, 1933.
i A native of Cork, where he was
born in 1844, only two years after
the death in Charleston of Cork’s
illustrious son, Bishop John Eng-
i land, he came to the United States
at an early age and made his
75,000 CHILDREN RECEIVE SACRAMENT
As with one voice, 200 priests (top photo) at the Second Bolivarian Eucharistic Congress at Cara*
•'cas, Venezuela, pray m unison, "Domine, non; sum dignus . . “Lord, I am not worthy," before
distributing Holy Communion to 23,00(j first communicants (bottom photo), and more than 50,000
other Children of all ages. Six South American nations participated in the Congress. (NC Photos),
studies in philosophy and the
ology at St. Mary’s Seminary,
Baltimore. He was ordained Jan
uary 8, 1871, in St. Patrick’s
Church, Augusta, by Bishop Ig
natius Persico, later a member
of the Sacred College of Cardi
nals. He was ordained just a few
months before the 1 deaths of Fath
er J. F. O’Neill Sr„ whose Mass
Daniel- O’Connell once served,
and of Father Gregory Duggan,
and a few weeks before the death
of Father Peter Whelan; all three
were ordained by.Bishop England.
Father Quinlan was therefore a
link between the episcopacy of
Bishop Keyes and of Bishop Eng
land, who addressed Congress in
the presence of President John
Quincy Adams in the early days
of the Republic. All the Diocesan
priests and a number of the re
ligious order priests in Georgia at
this writing who have been or
dained 23 years or more were
co-laborers of the pioneer Father
Quinlan.
He was assistant in Augusta
in 1871, at the Cathedral in Sa
vannah in 1872, pastor at Bruns
wick in 1873, and then assistant
at St. Patrick’s, Savannah, and
the Church of the Immaculate
Conception in Atlanta. He was
in Augusta again from 1880 to
1883, and was stationed at St.
Patrick’s in Savannah from 1883
to 1907. Nine years at the Church
of the Immaculate Conception in
Atlanta followed; in 1916 he- was
named pastor of Sharon and he
remained there until his death
17 years later. For a number of
CORRECTION
We wish to make the following
correction in the Funeral notice
of R. C. Piltard which appeared
in the Bulletin,. Survivors listed
should have read: his wife, Mrs.
Robert C. Pittard, Atlanta, one
sister, Mrs. Pauline Lashley, De
catur: two brothers, Harry H.
Pittard, Decatur and Thomas E.
Pittard, Etowah, Tenn.
years he was a Diocesan Con-
suitor. At Sharon he was chap
lain of Sacred Heart Seminary
and of the Sisters of St. Joseph
as well as pastor. His golden and
diamond jubilees in 1921 and 1931,
observed at St. Patrick’s, Au
gusta, where he was ordained,
were unprecedented in Diocesan
history.
MARRIAGES
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PICA-MOSS |
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ATLANTA, Ga.—Barbara Jean
Moss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. R. Moss Sr. and John Joseph
Pica, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rocco
Pica of New London, Conn., were
married December 15 th at the
Sacred Heart Church.
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KING-SHARKEY
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ATLANTA, Ga.—Miss Yuonne
DeLores Sharkey and Mr. L. Dean
King were married December
23rd at Our Lady of Lourdes
Church, Rev. Michael McKeever,
S.M.A. officiating.
Atlanta Services
For L. J. Hermann
ATLANTA, Ga.—Funeral serv
ices for Lawrence Joseph Herr
mann were held December 15th
at the Immaculate Conception
Church, Rev. Rainey officiating.
Survivors are his wife; two
daughters, Mrs. A. J. Stahl, New
Orleans, and Miss Marie Herr
mann, Atlanta; stepdaughter, Miss
Ella McLaughlin, Atlanta, and one
grandchild.
Prepare to live tommorrow by
living every minute of today.
It’s the experience of every
man that he wants a lot he doesn’t
get and gets a lot he doesn’t want.
Prostrating themselves before the altar, 51 students of the North
American College, Rome, receive the Sacrament of Holy Orders
in the college's Immaculate Conception Chapel. It was the largest
ordination class in the history of the college, and the solemn cere
mony was attended by a capacity crowd including 175 guests from
the U. S., relatives, friends, and students. (NC Photos)