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Obituraries
Mrs. Joseph Steeg
SAVANNAH —Funeral ser
vices for Mrs. Joseph Steeg
were held at Blessed Sacra
ment Church on July 20th.
Survivors include two daugh
ters, Mrs. Douglas N. Eller
Sr. and Miss Margaret Steeg,
both of Jacksonville, Fla.; a
brother, John W. Gleason, Sa
vannah, Ga.; a niece, three
grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren.
James Mura
AUGUSTA — Funeral ser
vices for James Joseph Mura
were held July 22nd at St.
Patrick’s Church conducted by
Father Colm Moriarity.
Survivors include a niece,
Mrs. John McDonald of Augusta
and a nephew, Henry Mura of
Augusta.
In Savannah
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James J. McCarthy
SAVANNAH — Funeral ser
vices for Mr. James Joseph
McCarthy were held July 25th
at the Blessed Sacrament
Church.
Surviving are a daughter,
Mrs. James W. Atkins of Beau
mont, Texas; two sisters, Mrs.
W. J. Macher and Miss Ade
laide Curry; a brother, Fran
cis P. Curry; four grandchil
dren and several nieces and
nephews.
Mrs. DeZoort
SAVANNAH — Funeral ser
vices for Mrs. Lavina Judge
DeZoort were held July 30th
at Sacred Heart Church.
Surviving are two daughters,
Dr. Edith DeZoort of Atlanta
and Mrs. Robert Hovle of El
Paso, Texas; two sons, William
DeZoort Jr. and Frank A. De
Zoort; and six grandchildren.
Mrs. Peter Pek
AUGUSTA — Funeral ser
vices for Mrs. Peter Pek were
held July 24th at St. Joseph
Church. Father Thaddeus Mi-
chota officiating.
Survivors include two dauth-
ters, Mrs. Mary Dwyer, Au
gusta, and Mrs. Helen Noga,
Orlando, Fla.; two grandchil
dren, Mrs. Dorothy Czikowsky,
Bowling Green, Ky.; and George
Noga Jr., Orlando, Fla.; and a
great-grandchild.
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Edgar L. Matthews
AUGUSTA — Funeral ser
vices for Mr. Edgar L. Mat
thews were conducted July 29th
at the Immaculate Conception
Church with the Rev. John L.
Sheehan officiating.
Mr. Matthews was the holder
of the Papal Medal "Pro ec-
clesia et pontifice,” given for
services rendered to the Church
and Holy See.
He was active in the Holy
Name Society and Legion of
Mary at the time of his death.
He organized the Colored Ca
tholic Laymen Association of
Georgia and served as its pre
sident for 10 years and for four
years was chairman of the exe
cutive board. Mr. Matthews was
a member of the Holy Name So
ciety and Knights of St. Peter
Claver.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Sadie Crump Matthews,
three sons, Edgar Matthews
Jr., Boston, Mass., Robert Al
fred, Walnut Creek, Calif., and
Thomas Michael, U. S. Air
Force, stationed in Texas; five
daughters, Mrs. Shelman Por
ter, Berkley, Calif., Mrs. The
resa Brooks, Roosevelt, L. I.,
Mrs. Lelia Anne Olds, Augusta,
Mrs. Sadie F. Gray, Bayonne,
N. J., and Mrs. Laura Mar
shall, Huntingdon, L. I., and
20 grandchildren.
Jasper T. Minor
AUGUSTA — Funeral ser
vices for Mr. Jasper T. Minor
were conducted July 26th at
Sacred Heart Church by Father
Joseph M. Gillepsie.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Mattie Medlock Minor,
Augusta; two sisters, Mrs. Ida
Bryan, Edgefield, S. C., and
Mrs. Queen Chastain, Miami,
Fla.; and a number of neices
and nephews.
James L. Baeon, Sr.
ALBANY — Mr. James L.
Bacon, Sr., of Albany, Ga.,
died July 24.
Besides his wife, the former
Kate Mock, he is survived by
one daughter, Mrs. Robert
Slate; two sons, James L. Ba
con, Jr., and Dr. William H.
Bacon, and five grandchildren.
Funeral services were con
ducted in St. Teresa’s Church
on July 25th by Rev. Marvin
J. LeFrois.
QUESTION
BOX
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than 300 inhabitants, that the
city was built lengthwise from
north to south, and that its cli
mate was “somewhat unhealth
ful, being very cold in winter,
with freezes, and excessively
hot in summer.’’ At that time
the parish of St. Augustine—
the oldest parish in the United
States proper—was flourishing.
THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY
of the introduction of Christian
civilization in what is now the
United States will be commem
orated in 1965. Plans for the
observance are being made by
the St. Augustine Foundation, a
non-profit foundation with head
quarters at the Mission of Nom-
bre de Dios, P. O. Box 868,
St. Augustine, Florida.
Q. The term “religious
state:’’ what does it imply be
sides vows?
A. The religious state involv
es four elements. One is a stable
mode of life. The second is a
common life; i.e., membership
in an approved institute.
The third and fourth are ob
servance of the evangelical
counsels of poverty, chasity
and obedience; and commitment
by vows.
Christian Fresco
KHARTOUM, Sudan, (NC) —
The Sudan’s postal department
has issued a stamp with a re
production of a well-preserved
.fresco of the Blessed Virgin.
The fresco comes from the
ruins of a church at Wadi-
Halfa, 440 miles northwest of
here on the right bank of the
Nile. The Sudanese government
brought frescoes from the
church, which dates from the
early Christian centuries, to
Khartoum because the ruins are
threatened by the waters of
the Aswari reservior.
TERMITES
SWARMING?
POPE PAUL GREETS ITALIAN PRESIDENT—The visit of Italian President Antonio
Segni to the Holy See on July 24, was the fifth by a head of state during the first month’s
reign of Pope Paul VI. After an elaborate ceremonial protocol, he was received (above)
in private by the Pope for 35 minutes. Pope Paul cited the occasion as tangible proof
of the good working relations between th e Apostolic See and the Italian State. (NC Pho
tos)
Pope Says Italian President’s
Visit Shows Friendly Tie
VATICAN CITY, (NC), His
Holiness Pope Paul VI stressed
that the state visit of Italian
President Antonio Segni to the
Holy See was tangible proof of
the good working relations be
tween Church and State.
President Segni’s visit (July
24) was the fifth by a head
of state during the Pope’s
month-long reign. The others
were President John F. Kenne
dy, President Eamon de Val
era of Ireland, President Joao
Goulart of Brazil and King Bau-
douin of Belgium.
The visit of Italy’s chief of
state was taken by Vatican ob
servers as forecasting apossi-
ble return visit by Pope Paul,
to the Italian Presidential Pa
lace, the Quirinal.
After an elaborate cere
monial protocol, President
Segni was received in private
by the Pope for 35 minutes.
Following this, in an address
televised throughout Italy, Pope
Paul noted that this was the
third time within a year that
President Segni had been re
ceived at the Vatican on a state
visit. •
The first was his July 3,
1962, visit to Pope John XXIII
after his election as President
of Italy, and the second his
visit to present the Balzan
Peace Prize to Pope John. Pope
Paul remarked:
“This meeting, coming so
rapidly and befittingly after the
first two, demonstrates to us,
and to whoever wishes to take
note of its most obvious and
important aspect , the perfect
normality of the relations that
exist between this Apostolic
See and the Italian State.’’
The Pontiff added that Pre
sident Segni’s presence, his
motives for coming and the of
ficial character of the visit were
“a clear proof of the peaceful
and happy equilibrium which the
Lateran Pacts. . . established
between the two supreme
powers, ecclesiastical and
civil, here in Rome, where their
convergence is almost charac
teristic and their coexistence
most delicate.’’
The Latern Pacts referred
to by the Pope were concluded
in 1929 and established the
Agitation
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The strategists in this cam
paign aim at frightening, in
veigling and high pressuring
Washington into a policy help
ful to their purpose.
No matter what concession
the government may make, the
leaders of the Inter-Sect Com
mittee will reject them or al
lege that the promise has been
broken or make new claims.
Apparently they intend to pro
voke and exasperate the gov
ernment to a point where it
will make an angry blunder of
disastrous magnitude.
Accordingly they attempt to
hold demonstrations in city
streets without police permits.
They have gone on well adver
tized hunger strikes and even
incited a public ritual suicide,
a stratagem they threaten to
repeat. Whenever they stage
some spectacular demonstra
tion, they make sure to have a
Greek chorus of journalists,
especially foreign correspon
dents, on the scene.
They make a special effort
to play to the American
audience, because they know
that the government here is
heavily dependent on American
aid. So they carry banners with
slogans in English (“The Free
World and the U. S. Must Help
the Buddhist’’) and they tell
the foreign correspondents:
“Bring your cameras.”
The Buddhists made an ob
vious attempt to involve the
United States government on
their side this month. A bonze
(Buddhist monk), wearing his
monk’s robes, dashed into the
American embassy with a peti
tion and dashed in again when
police tried to grab him as he
left. For some time that day he
was a news-making fugitive
forced to seek asylum in the
immunity of American terri
tory.
His adventure was entirely
unnecessary. His letters could
have been delivered by him
self or any of his associates,
dressed in ordinary clothes,
like any other messenger
carrying papers in Saigon offi
ces.
The Buddhist dissidents have
been helped enormously by po
lice measures intended to res
train them. The nervous closing
of streets around pagodas and
other excessive security pre
cautions have irritated the gen
eral population and won sympa
thy for the Buddhists. Far worse
have been the ruthless on
slaughts made by the police on
bonzes and their supporters who
refused to disperse. These
demonstrators were acting un
lawfully, to be sure, but the
force used against them was out
of all proportion.
The great majority of the
Buddhists taking part in these
activities wear the brown, saf
fron or grey robes of bonzes
or bonzesses. Not all of these,
however, are actually bonzes. A
Buddhist spokesman admitted,
on July 20, that of some 260
robe-wearing persons arrested
for illegal demonstrations on
July 16; “most of us are stu
dents , either from government
schools or Buddhist Associa
tion schools.”
A bonze told this correspon
dent that for 100 young men,
preparing to be monks, in an
important pagoda here, there
would be no classes for two
months. The students were “to
help the bonzes in the struggle”
during that time.
The organization and tactics
seen in this “struggle” have
puzzled many Vietnamese and
foreign observers. “Bonzes
never acted like this before,”
a Vietnamese woman who was
a Buddhist until a few years
ago remarked. “I’ve never
known bonzes to behave
like this,” a veteran diplomat
commented. “There’s some
thing else besides Buddhism in
this,” is a remark often heard
in Saigon.
There is no proof as far as
this correspondent knows, that
the “something else” is com
munism. The communists are
probably trying to profit by
the situation but they do not
seem to control it.
Probably various opposition
groups have teamed up with the
protesting Buddhists and by now
may be master-minding them.
The attitude of the Buddhist
Inter-Sect Committee towards
the government has become al
most that of an equal, a sover
eign state dealing with a state.
What kind of state would em
erge, if their efforts were suc
cessful is not clear. It might
resemble Laos, for a while, or
Ceylon. And then it might be
gin to resemble North Vietnam,
here Vietnamese Communists
rule and Chinese communists
look over their shoulders.
independence of the State of
Vatican City.
The Pope spoke of Vatican
City as “the minute seat of Our
temporal sovereignty, the sign
and instrument of the indepen
dence of Our universal spiritual
mission.” He continued:
“In our opinion (this official
visit) means that, where juri
dical terms are solemn and
very clear in defining and dis
tinguishing respectively the sa
cred and intangible spheres of
Church and State, the historic
cultural and religious terms—
in a word, the human and real
terms—of the two^same real
ities reveal and require a deep
moral communion. It would
be antihistorical and harmful
to repudiate this communion,
while on the other hand it will
be a mutual duty and to mutual
interests to foster and promote
it nobly.”
In expressing his wishes for
Italy’s freedom and inde
pendence, Pope Paul added the
wish that it “not consider its
incomparable and - religious
heritage as a burden left over
from past centuries, but
rather' ars a source of con
stantly youthful energies for
its new culture and modern
development.” He stated:
“May it be the glory and for
tune of Italy not only to call
itself Catholic, but to feel and
really be Catholic.”
In an exchange of gifts after
the audience, the Pope gave the
President a silver-framed au
tographed picture of himself, a
mosaic copy of the image of
Our Lady of the Romans which
is venerated in the city’s Ba
silica of St Mary Major, and
a gold medal commemorating
his coronation. President Segni
gave the Pope a 17th-century
monstrance of silver set with
precious stones.
Knights Hold
Picnic For
Altar Boys
WARNER ROBINS — Sacred
Heart Council 4371 held its an
nual picnic July 27th for the al
tar boys of Sacred Heart Church
and Robins Air Force Base
Chapel.
The day started out with a
swim at one of the base pools
and was followed by a barbecued
chicken dinner with all the trim
mings. Guests at the dinner in
cluded Rev. Robert Brennan,
Chaplains John Kastigar and
Cornelius McLaughlin and three
Sisters of the Presentation.
Races were held after the
meal, then a golf-ball hitting
contest. The last event of the
day was a softball game won by
the team captained by Dale
Trombley, while Lee McKin
ley headed the losers.
Randal Carnes, Chairman of
the Council’s Youth Committee,
handled the preparation of the
food, assisted by George Geof-
froy, Conrad Kalbfleisch, Wil
liam Riordan, Jack Ellis, Grand
Knight Joe Dembowski and
James Dembowski.
First From
Pittsburgh
TAMALE, Ghana, (NC) —
Miss Helen Celko of Pittsburgh,
the first volunteer under a lay
apostolate program sponsored
by Bishop John J. Wright of
Pittsburgh, has arrived here
to serve as secretary to
Quebec -born Bishop Gabriel
Champagne, W. F., of Tamale.
The Southern Cross, August 1, 1963—PAGE 5
Jottings
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veloped areas of the world. At
home here in Rhode Island, we
have recently seen a moving ex
ample of this theme of man’s
great generosity to his fellow
man. This story was written by
Mildred McCormick and Flo
rence McManus, two telephone
operators, who took 11 young
friends “who happen to be Ne
groes” off on vacation with the.
The youngsters were members
of a Martin de Porres soft
ball team and the telephone op-
Pope Sends Aid
To Victims Of
Earthquake
VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC)
—His Holiness Pope Paul VI
has sent emergency aid and
messages to Yugolsavia ex
pressing his sympathy over the
loss of life and the damage to
earthquake- striken Skyplje.
The telegrams were sent
to Archbishop Josip Ujcic of
Belgrade and Bishop Smiljan
Cekada of Skoplje.
The message to Archbishop
Ujcic said in part: “We share
wholeheartedly in the sorrow of
the noble Yugoslav nation . . .
and We ask you to communi
cate to all the ecclesiatical and
civil authorities and to your
beloved people the expression
of Our sentiments.”
The second message, sent to
Bishop Cekada, was signed by
Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Pa
pal Secretary of State, in be
half of the Pope, saying:
“The Pontiff intimately
shares the grief caused by the
cruel earthquake which de
stroyed your city and your re
gion and, mourning with you
over the death of so many, he
recommends with fervent pray
ers their souls to the divine
mercy and embraces the wound
ed with paternal affection. . .
to help you provide for the most
urgent needs the Vicar of Christ
sends an emergency contribu
tion to assist the most needy
families.”
erators were their coaches.
When it came time for them to
go on vacation down at Point
Judith with a week of hot dog
roasts, days by the sea, a trip
to Block Island, they took along
their, young friends for a week
they would not soon forget.
A former student of mine who
has done a most remarkable job
at a hospital in Omaha wrote:
“With all the personal heart
breaks, the spiritual and phy
sical and mental challenges I’ve
had, I feel stronger and closer
to God.”
There are probably other sto
ries like these in this one sec
tion of the vineyard of the
world. They are heartening to
read and hear about. Mankind
appears straight, tall and shin
ing when trouble comes in the
form of sickness, death . . .
or, worse than all the ugliness
of prejudice is seen. We don’t
see or accent the good too
often, here are stories of great
ness in a man and woman ac
cepting their blindness, and two
young women devoting their va
cation period ot a group of Ne
gro children.
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FIVE ACRES FOR GOD
TFLLICHERRY, India.
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ON THE SHORES OF THE ARABIAN SEA is the city of
Seventy miles from this southerh In
dian seaport lies the little colony of
x \ THOTTUMUKKU, a new settlement
\ \ ^ ... Land prices are low and the
' >’ poorest settlers have gone to make
their homes there. The Bishop of
TELLICHERRV tells us about them:
“All they have for religious services
is a poor thatched shed which serves
as church, rectory and Sunday
school . . . About 400 children attend
classes. The people have collected
money for five acres for a church
and small presbytery and are willing
to give any amount of their labor
to build them . . . They need $3,000 for materials for buildings
large enough to serve three hundred families . . Can we give
any assistance, asks the Bishop, to these sincere Christians
working to establish a new and belter life for their families?
A dollar in THOTTOMUKKU means much more than- a dollar
in America . . . Any amount you can send therefore will be a,
substantial help. But please hurry—THOTTOMUKKU’s 400
children are growing up fast!
The Holy Father’s Mission Aid
for the Orieittal Church
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PREPARING FOR SCHOOL? Hardly, if we mean our re-!
luctant young scholai's to whom vacation stretches into the
hazy distances of September! But for some students freedom -
from studies is a tragedy; not a boon . . . We mean those semi- i
narians and Sistex’s preparing for their vocations in the 18-
countries of the Near and Middle East, always in fear that they,
won't have sufficient money to finish their training . . . We have,
the names of many of them: JOHN KUPERTINE VELIYIL- f
PARAMPIL and CHRYSOSTOM THOMAS PLAVUNIKUN.
NATHIL of Bangalore, India, and SISTER ALAXIA and SIS
TER XAVIER of the CARMELITE SISTERS of Kothamangalam,
India. You can sponsor one of them by sending $100 a year for
I he six yeai’s of a seminarian’s training or $150 for each of the
two yeai’s necessai'y for a Sister . . . Money can be sent in
instalments. You will have the wonderful feeling of partici
pating in the good these futui’e missionaries will do!
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A STATUE?
Some famous persons do become statues, reminding their
countrymen of great deeds and accomplishments from genera
tion to generation! Another kind of “statue” is a MEMORIAL
CHAPEL or SCHOOL in some missionary territory dispensing
grace and knowledge for years to come. You can arrange such
a liviivg MEMORIAL for yourself or a loved one through our
Association.
SOME SUGGESTIONS: CHAPEL ($2,000 to $6,000); SCHOOL
($2,500); MASS KIT ($100); CHALICE ($40); VESTMENTS
($50); CIBORIUM ($40); ALTAR ($75); MONSTRANCE ($40).
PLEASE REMEMBER US IN YOUR WILL. Our legal title:
THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION.
Kindly keep sending us your Mass stipends. Often they are
the only support of our missionaries.
Religion pure and undefiled before God the Father is this:
to give aid to orphans and widows in- their tribulations . . .
so says St. James in his Epistle! In the NEAR and MIDDLE
EAST, our SISTERS, BROTHERS and PRIESTS are valiantly
looking after thousands of orphans, giving them a home, food,
clothing and love . . . Our ORPHANS BREAD CLUB is an
easy way for you to help them. All we ask is a prayer a day
and $1 a month and you can send it when able . . . Other
CLUBS look after other needs:
DAMIEN LEPER CLUB (cares for lepers); MONICA GUILD
(provides chalices, etc. for chapels and churches); PALACE
OF GOLD (provides for aged); THE BASILIANS (supports',
schools); MARY'S BANK (trains Sisters).
Sst OlissionsjMl
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