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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. BRUNSWICK TAIT FLORAL CO. fjO' “Say It With Flowers” i. bJ<Sr* iitrivi 803 First Avenue Brunswick, Georgia ZELL INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. 504 Gloucester Street Brunswick, Ga. 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 £ SO TV SERVICE w \ts Glynn Electronics 2423 NORWICH AM 5-7669 S. H. Kress c# & Co. "Shop For Less J BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA MEMBER F.D.I.C. BRUNSWICK 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. L “SEAFOOD AT ITS SOURCE On The St. Simons and Sea Island Causeway BRUNSWICK, GA. DECK RESTAURANT For the First in Home Furnishings Furniture, Carpets, Draperies, Wall Papers, Pictures, Mirrors and Accesories- Our Decorators Are At Your Service C. McGARVEY INC. TRENDITION HOUSE 1709 Reynold St. Ph. 265-5454 Est. 1886