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53 Graduate At
Blessed Sacrament
SAVANNAH — Fifty three
graduates of Blessed Sacra
ment School received their di
plomas from the hands of Mon
signor Thomas A. Brennan,
pastor of Blessed Sacrament
Church.
Members of the graduating
clas s were: Anthony Aliffi, Don
ald Aliffi, Joseph Anthony,
Frank Barragan, Stephen Cam
pos, Steve Cannon, Michael
Carbonell, David Carpenter,
William Cliett, Timothy Col
lins, Michael Corcoran, Robert
Cosnahan, Donald Cromartie,
William Hadsell, Hugh Harte,
Michael Hennessy, William
Kearney, James Keller, Jer
ome Kilpatrick, David Lerque,
John Maher, James McDonald,
Donald Pomykala, Richard Ra
gan, Michael Roach, Richard
Trifilio, Edward Welch, Linda
Abernathy, Audrey Ardle, Jeri
Bettencourt, Michelle Car
bonell, Grace Cooley, Carol
Downing, Shirley Fleming,
Mary Freel, Mary Gilchrist,
Marcia Hagan, Kathleen Jack-
son, Joy Joyce, Teresa Jaug-
stetter, Joanne Jenkins, Har
riett Johnson, Patricia Lang,
Barbara Lynch, Nancy Owen,
Attendants
Limited
VATICAN CITY, (Radio NC)
—Cardinals will be allowed to
take only one personal attend
ant with them when they enter
the conclave on June 19 to elect
a successor to Pope John XXIII.
This ruling has been made be
cause of the limited space with
in the conclave area and the ex
ceptionally great number of
cardinals—82—who are eligi
ble to take part in it.
Leonella Richards, Patricia Ri
ley, Kathryn Roney, Sherrie
Scott, Ellen Struck, Mary
Trigg, Patricia Walsh.
Cited as honor students for
the year were the following
graduates: Joseph Anthony,
Frank Barragan, Steve Cannon,
Grace Cooley, Carol Downing,
Mary Freel, William Hadsell,
Hugh Harte, Michael Hennessy,
Kathleen Jackson, Joanne Jen
kins, David Lerque, Barbara
Lynch, Leonella Richards, El
len Struck, Mary Trigg and
Patricia Walsh.
Hugh Harte, the first honor
graduate among the boys, was
the recipient of a one-year
scholarship to Saint John Vian-
ney Seminary. Michael Hen
nessy, the second honor grad
uate among the boys, was the
recipient of a one-year schol
arship to Benedictine Military
School. Barbara Lynch, the first
honor graduate among the girls,
was the recipient of a one-
year scholarship to Saint Vin
cent’ s Academy.
Mary Trigg and Kathryn Ro
ney were recognized as win
ners in the recent city-wide
Fire Prevention Slogan Con
test. Michael Hennessy was re
cognized as placing first in the
recent Savannah Optimist Club
oratorical contest. Second State
prize and a certificate of hon
orable Mention on the national
level was presented to Joanne
Jenkins for her Irish History
essay.
Perfect attendance certifi
cates were awarded to Shirley
Fleming, Bob Cosnahan, Hugh
Harte, Joseph Anthony and Dav
id Lerque.
Father Jerome McLaughlin,
U.S.A.F. of Warner Robbins,
Ga. addressed the graduates.
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ALBANY GRADUATES—A Catholic baccalaureate cere
mony was held at St. Tersa's Church to honor the recent
high school graduates of the parish. Mass of the seniors
was offered by Father LeFrois and the baccalaureate ser
mon was delivered by Father Frederick. Shown above are
front row, left to right: Patricia Sineath, AnneContos, Anna
Cruikshank, Andrea Cantrell, Donald Everson, Jerry Dixon,
Michael Brundage and Edward Derks; second row: Mary
Ann Kelly, Gay Ayash, Anne Marie Wolfe, Terry Harris,
Richard Wuller, William Turner, Douglas Gotsch and Ray
Vannier. 3rd row: Joyanne Jensen, Shirley Duke, Gayle
Gajdostik, Sherrie Booher, William Chapman, Howard Ed
wards and Thomas Rhodes. Standing behind the seniors are:
altar boy Patrick Keenan, Father Alan Gibbons, chaplain
at the Marine Base, Father Gene Krygier, assistant pastor
at St. Teresa’s, Father Marvin LeFrois, pastor of St.
Teresa’s, Father Frederick Kirchner, O.F.M. Father John
Keith, chaplain at Turner Air Force Base and altar boy
Jim Schnieders. Following the church ceremony the grad
uates and members of the Catholic Youth Club attended a
banquet at the Elks Home.—(McCollum’s Photo)
Visit To Hometown And Family Aid
Understanding Of Pope John’s Character
By Msgr. James I. Tucek
N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE
BERGAMO, Italy—One best
understands a man if he knows
the land and the people from
which he came. This is true also
of the Vicar of Christ.
Here are the home town and
the family of the late Pope John
XXIII.
The Pope was born and rais
ed in Sotto il Monte about 11
miles from Belgamo. His
people, the Roncallis, are sim
ple country folk, but with a name
that has deep and noble roots
in the history of the Bergam-
asques.
Pope John always referred
to Sotto il Monte in Bergam-
asque dialect, which has a part
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of the fiber of his being, as
"ol me pais”—“my town.”
The Bergamasque dialect is
unintelligible to one who only
knows Italian. It has a mixed
vocabulary: as the people them
selves say, “one part Aus
trian - Germany, two parts
French, one part corruption
and a little, but not too much,
Italian.” Words are truncated
and sung in a special cadence
that always terminates on a
short, low note, in the manner
of the Venetians. “Roncalli”
becomes “Ronca,” except in;
the plural, when it .becomes
“Ronca'yi.” “Manzini” be
comes “Manzu.”
The Bergamasque tempera
ment is characterized by a tol
erant and easy going man
ner which is stirred only by
the Faith and patriotism. One
who knows the Bergamasques as
a generally devout people is
puzzled to learn that Garibaldi
found some of his bravest men
there when he gathered forces
to attack Rome and unify Italy.
One is puzzled, until he learns
that the revolutionary cry of
the Bergamasques was: "Long
live the Pope! Long live the
Republic!” The Bergamasques
were always patriots but
never anticlericals.
“Sotto il Monte” in Italian
means “Under the Mountain”
—or better, “At the Foot of
the Mountain.” The “mountain
is Colie San Giovanni, a hill
as mountains go, but a hard
one to walk over, which is what
young Angelo Roncalli did every
day of his young life to go to
school. The cobble stone path
is still there, over which he
hiked an hour and a half, car
rying his shoes strung over
his shoulder to save them un
til he came in sight of the
school house.
Sotto il Monte is not includ
ed on most maps, and never in
the guide books. Today it is
a mere cluster of stone and
plaster buildings situated on a
nondescript country road, with
no stores (they are all in Ber
gamo) except for a “caffe-bar”
which is comparable to any
country store in the United
States.
It has a country smell, de
pending on the season, of cow
dung, freshly turned earth, and
the sweet perfume of growing
or harvested crops.
To go to the Roncalli house
you turn hard left at the church
(where Angelo Roncalli was
baptized, received his First
Communion and was confirm
ed), go a few yards past the
caffe-bar and you are there.
You go through a gate into a
farmyard of packed dirt (re
cently paved to accommodate
bus-loads of tourists), closed in
on two sides by an L-shaped
three-story farm house, on one
side by a wire fence and gate
that leads to the fields and on
the fourth side by the road.
A red dog of uncertain breed
barks and tugs at the chain. He
was one of the first victims of
Angelo Roncalli’s fame. Once
he ran free.
There are the usual chickens
pecking at the usual nothings,
cows (20 by actual count), farm
machinery, mulch heaps, si
lage, and laundry hanging off
the porch bannisters.
By prearrangement, Msgr.
Giambattista Roncalli, 36, the
late Pope’s nephew, is there to
meet you. It comes back to
you, as he comes out to meet
you: You can take the boy out
of the country, but you can’t
take the country out of the boy.
That was true also of his uncle,
the Pope.
Behind him comes Enrica
Roncalli, the Pope’s favorite
niece, they say, a rather pret
ty middle-aged woman. There
are the introductions and small
talk, and then she sends one of
the children out to call Uncle
Alfredo and Uncle Zaverio.
Alfredo, 74, and Zaverio, 80,
occupy the Roncalli house with
their families. They are
“Uncle” or “Grandpa,” de
pending on which Roncalli you
happen to be. To Pope John
they were “Brother.”
Alfredo is sorting poles on
which to train the new grape
vines. He is almost blind. His
hands are as hard and knotted
as the vine stocks. He shakes
hands with “the American mon
signor” and goes off to the wine
cellar to bring up a bottle of
the Bergamasque wine—black,
heavy and fruity.
You have to go out into the
fields to meet Zaverio where he
is pruining vines. He is dressed
in a black, sweat-stained hat; a
flannel, collarless shirt; a vest
tied around outside with an old
brown belt; dark striped trous
ers and heavy shoes. When you
approach, he jerks off his hat,
wipes the palm of his right hand
on the front of his trousers
and gives your hand a “Coun
try yank.”
Zaverio talks in dialect with
his priest-nephew, but in cor
rect and polite Italian with you.
You remark about his working
in the fields at his age. “I’m
not old enough yet to stop work
ing,” he says. You remark about
the eyeglasses in his vest pock
et. “I wear these sometimes to
be stylish,” he jokes.
The wine is on the table, so
you are called back to the house
and escorted into the parlor, a
parlor as you would find in ev
ery countrv home: relatives
pictured in formal photographs
on the walls, a seldom-used
piano, a cupboard, a table cov
ered with a damask cloth and
bricabrac from pilgrimages and
vacations. A bad color print of
Pope John, such as could be
bought in any store, hangs in a
place of honor. The fact that
there is no autographed photo
graph or the slightest sign of
special favor from Pope John
in the room underlines a truth
that you will find repeated again
and again in your visit with the
Roncallis.
If there is any change in
Sotto il Monte—a newly paved
road, a new school house, a
refurbished parish church—all
that is the work of the local
community government. The
only changes at the Roncalli
house are that the dog is chain
ed, more visitors come and Un
cle Angelo was Pope John.
Not here but across the road
is where Angelo Roncalli was
born. He moved to the “big
house” with the family when
he was 10. The “old house”
is very, very poor: a ground
level gallery of arches, under
which were a kitchen and an
animal shed, an outer stair
case leading to a porch and sev
eral starky simple rooms.
The “old house” is now occu
pied by tenants, but they will
have to move by the end of the
year. An Italian society of mis
sionary priests has brought the
property and adjacent lands and
will construct a seminary
there.
Across meadows and vine
yards from here and partly up
the hill of Colie San Giovanni
stands the Villa Martin. This
is where Cardinal Roncalli,
Patriarch of Venice, spent ev
ery summer vacation until he
was elected to the papacy. It
was purchased by the state and
given to the Pope, and is now a
museum, cared for by the Sis
ters of Blessed Palazzolo who
also tend the Pope’s household
in the Vatican.
Reception rooms, chapel,
bedroom, and study are open
to the public. Another part of
the house was closed off and is
to be opened now that the Pope
is dead.
After a visit to the church,
clean but ordinary, and to the
new kindergarten and school,
the ultimate in design and fur
nishings, you return to the Ron
calli house. Someone in the cow
shed is yelling.
“What’s that?” you ask, and
Msgr. Roncalli explains that
Gustavo is home from school,
is milking the cows, and that
“yelling” is the Hymn of Gar
ibaldi which he usually sings at
the task. The cows don’t seem
to mind.
Gustavo is 12, the late Pope’s
The Southern Cross, June 15, 1963—PAGE 3
Princely Chigi
Family Guards
Papal Conclave
VATICAN CITY, (NC)--The
flag which will fly over the
Vatican while the forthcoming
conclave is in session is the
banner of the princely Chigi
family, which has guarded the
security of the sessions for 250
years.
The flying of the flag is sym
bolic of the great power and
responsibility of the conclave’s
marshal, who guards the out
side door of the conclave cham
bers. The marshal’s authority,
in those matters pertaining to
his position, is above any
other—even the cardinals
themselves—during the elec
tion of a new pontiff. Only the
newly-elected pope may com
mand him.
The single door of the con
clave area is to be guarded on
the inside by the governor of
the conclave, Msgr. Federco
Calori di Vignale, whose name
is cast on the interregnum coin
age of Vatican City. Guarding
the outside is the marshal, a
member of the Chigi family.
The first conclave marshals
were members of the Savelli
family, who guarded the doors
at papal elections in Viterbo,
Italy, which lasted from 1268
to 1271. The Savelli line came
to an end in 1709 and the here
ditary title then passed on to
the wife of the Prince Savalli
of that time. She was a Chigi.
Her prince son guarded the con
clave of 1721, which elected
Pope Innocent XIII.
The 79th conclave, which
opens June 19 will be mar
shaled by Prince Sigismondo
Chigi, the son of Prince Ludo
vico Chigi-Albani, who guarded
the 1939 conclave which elected
Pope Pius XII. Prince Sigis
mondo guarded also the 1958
conclave which chose Pope
John.
Prince Sigismondo was born
in Chigi Palace at Rome on De
cember 12, 1894.
His wife, the Princess Berry
Chigi, is an American born in
Rome, Ga. The Berry family
was English and settled in Geor
gia in the 1700s.
The Chigis, like the Savellis,
are a patrician family ori
ginating from Sienna. They gave
to the Church various cardinals
and magistrates and one pope.
Blessed John of Lecceto (1300)
a hermit of St. Augustine, and
Blessed Juliana, also an
Augustinian, were members of
the family. Fabio Chigi was
Pope Alexander VII.
There is no rule that only
members of the Chigi family
may be conclave marshals. But
the centuries-old tradition is
one not easily be broken.
Install
Officers At
Sacred Heart
SAVANNAH— At the last
yearly meeting of Sacred Heart
Home and School Association,
Father Terence Kiernan, O.S.B.
installed the following slate of
officers for the school year
1963-1964:
President, Mrs. Richard Mc
Ginn; 1st vice president, Dr.
Robert Howard; 2nd vice pres
ident, Mrs. Peter Czarny; re
cording secretary, Mrs. Stan
ley Dlugozima; correspond
ing secretary, Mrs. Julius Fine;
treasurer, Mrs. William Sem- 1
mes.
Miss Angela Lain received
honorable mention in a nation
wide essay contest because of
the excellence of her compo
sition on Saint Bridget.
grand nephew. He sings in the
parish choir.
The city of Bergamo explains
another side of Pope John. The
upper city is a medieval fort
ress town with narrow streets,
rich in history and monuments
that commemorate its times
and its people. It has an im
portant library and an outstand
ing art gallery. Here is where
Msgr. Angelo Roncali worked
for many years as personal sec
retary to the bishop.
The lower city is a modern
town with clean, wide streets,
good hotels and a bustling bus
iness district. Here the Eco di
Bergamo, the only newspaper
that the Pope read daily from
cover to cover, is edited
by Msgr. Andrea Spada, a talen
ted and aggressive youngpreist.
Between Sotto il Monte and
Bergamo you will find what put
its stamp upon Pope John XXIII:
the simplicity and wit of the
farmer, the faith and patriotism
of the city, the respect for tra
dition, a knowledge of art and
culture, an openness to new
ideas.
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