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PAGE 6—The Southern Cross, September 5, 1963
zation which afiliates all in
stitutions of lay Catholic mis
sionaries in the world. Through
the Fraternal Union among Ra
ces it is also represented at
the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organi
zation from which it receives
requests to send doctors to de
pressed zones.
The first doctor sent out by
the college was Angelo Tasso.
His first ldtter back to the col
lege illustrates the need served
by him and those who have fol
lowed him. He wrote:
“I am writing my first im
pression of my new field of
labor. . .How hot it is! The land
is all tobacco-colored and the
bare hills are without a blade of
grass. . .They tell me that 90
per cent of the population is in
fected with malaria. I am al
ready overburdened with work.
I begin at 7 a.m. and go until
7 p.m. There is always a long
line of people outside. Many of
them have come tens of kilo
meters, so how can I send him
home?”
* * *
HERE IS ONE of many ac
counts written back by the doc
tors, which demonstrates their
value as helpers to the mission
aries. One of the young doctors
working in India was called to a
village in his territory where
cholera had broken out. There
was not a single Christian in the
village, but thepriest went along
anyhow. It turned out to be a
full-scale epidemic and both
doctor and priest remained
night and day at the village:
the doctor working constantly
with his medicines and the
priest doing what he could to
calm the frightened people.
When the epidemic was under
control, the priest and the doc
tor returned to their homes
exhausted. Months went by and
not a single person from the
village appeared to express his
gratitude. Then, on Christmas
eve as the missionary waspre
paring to celebrate midnight
Mass, a crowd of men, women,
and children, all dressed in
white, came walking into the
mission compound. It was the
total population of the village
that had been stricken with chol
era.
The village chief stepped for
ward and said to the priest:
"When we were sick and every-
For Open Heart Operation
Archbishop, Sisters
Nurse Team To Bring
Korean Nun To U. S.
Italian Diocese—
(Continued from Page 5)
other medical missionaries
went to Tanganyika, Kenya and
Jordan. Since then there has
been an annual steady flow of
doctors going to the missions.
* # *
THE COLLEGE is a member
of the International Secretariat
of Lay Missionaries, anorgani-
BOSTON, (NC)—A success
ful open heart operation on a
native Korean nun, performed
by surgeons at Carney Hospital
here, climaxed a series of
events that began halfway
around the globe at a little hos
pital in Mokpo, South Korea.
Sister Immaculata, a 27-
year-old Korean nun, came to
St. Columban’s Hospital in Mok
po, South Korea, for treatment
of a heart ailment that was
later diagnosed as rheumatic
heart disease. Immediate sur
gery was advised to remedy a
severe obstruction caused by
inflammation of a valve in the
heart.
During her stay in St. Colum
ban’s Hospital, Sister Imma
culata was attended by Boston-
born Sister Mary Stephanie.
Since the hospital at Mokpo
was not equipped for open heart
surgery, surgeons at the hospi
tal in Seoul, South Korea, where
the patient had been referred,
recommended that Sister Im
maculata be sent to the United
States for the operation.
Archbishop Harold W. Henry
of Kwangju, South Korea,
Sister Immaculata’s superior,
said he would pay for her tra
veling expenses to the United
States, but could not meet the
cost of surgery and hospitaliza
tion.
While Archbishop Henry was
considering the possibility of
sending Sister Immaculata to
the U. S., Sister Mary Stephanie
wrote her nurse-sister, Virgin
ia King, a graduate of Carney
Nursing School here, to see if
some arrangement could be
worked out with surgeons and
administrators at Carney Hos
pital.
In response to Miss King’s
inquiry, the administrator at
Carney agreed to take care of
hospital charges. A surgeon
said he would donate his serv
ices, and another physician of
fered to perform preliminary
cardiac tests.
Sister Immaculata, accom
panied by Sister Mary Ste
phanie and Archbishop Henry,
who had been planning a visit
to the United States, left Seoul
by jet and arrived in the U. S.
in June.
After three weeks of preli
minary examinations, Sister
Immaculata underwent the open
heart operation and is now re
cuperating.
During the long period of hos
pitalization, Sister Mary Ste
phanie served as both nurse
and interpreter, interrupting
her duties for an occasional
visit to her parents who live
here.
Sister Immaculata is a mem
ber of the Caritas Sisters, a
congregation founded in Japan
and invited to the Kwangju dio
cese by Archbishop Henry. The
Sisters teach Christian doc
trine in Korean parishes and
schools, operate infant homes,
orphanages, homes for the aged,
and elementary schools.
A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION—These are the principals in a success T story which began
in Korea and ended in Boston. Left to right are Sister Mary Stephanie, a Columban mis
sionary nun from South Boston; Sister Margaret, administrator of Carney Hospital,
Boston; Sister Immaculata.. a Korean Garitas Sister, presenting a handmade doll to
Sister Margaret, and Archbishop Harold W. Henry of Kwangju, Korea. Sister Imma
culata was flown to Boston from Korea for open heart surgery as a result of a letter
from Sister Mary Stephanie to her own sister, a nurse at Carney. (NC Photos)
ST. JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL, AUGUSTA
60 Beds Added This Year
St. Joseph’s, Augusta
AUGUSTA—A dream of many
years, a Catholic Hospital in
Augusta finally became a reality
when definate plans for St. Jo
seph’s Hospital were made in
1949.
Today this medical facility
stands as a service to Augusta
and the CSRA with a capacity of
26 bassinets and 172 beds. This
includes an increase of sixty
beds- from last year, according
to Sister Aloysius Marie of
Medical Records at the hospital.
Jewish Women’s Groups
Give Heart-Lung Machine
To Catholic Hospital
OTTAWA, Ont., (NC)—Two
Jewish women’s groups were
among donors of a heart-lung
machine presented to the cardi
ac unit of the University of
Ottawa at Ottawa General Hos
pital.
The donors were the National
Council of Jewish Women, the
Parliament Lodge of B’nai
B’rith and Queensway Kinsmen.
Ottawa General Hospital is
directed by the Grey Nuns qf
the Cross and the University
of Ottawa by the Oblates of
Mary Immaculate. The opera
tion and use of the heart-lung
machine is on a cooperative
basis, including all other Otta
wa hospitals.
* * *
THE MACHINE will make
possible operations within the
heart, which until now have
been practically impossible in
Ottawa hospitals. Object of the
complicated machine is to by
pass the entire circulatory sys
tem past heart and lungs, so
that internal heart operations
can be performed, it was ex
plained.
Father Henri Legare, O.M.I,
university rector, thanking the
one abandoned us, only you
came to help, us. We want to
know and love the God of the
Christians who sent you to us.”
A year later the young doc
tor from the college stood at
the baptismal font to be god
father of every man in the vil
lage.
* * *
THE COLLEGE’S operating
costs are supplied by the Padua
diocese with help from the Sac
red Congregation for the Propa
gation of the Faith. Sacred Con
gregation for the Oriental
Church and from private contri
butions. The cost of board and
lodging is kept at a minimum
and is fixed for each individual
case according to information
received from the missionar
ies. In some cases students
are maintained and provided
with textbooks free of charge.
The academic fees at the Uni
versity of Padua run to about
$75 a year, and this also is
provided for particularly needy
and talented students.
According to Father Luigi
Mazzucato, director of the col
lege, inaugurated by Gregorio
Cardinal Agagianian on Janu
ary 10, 1960, the school has
already proven to be too small
for the demand. He insists,
however, that the present col
lege should not grow beyond its
present capacity of 54 students.
This, he says, is because the
purpose of the college would
be damaged if it lost its small
and intimate character which
is necessary for student forma
tion.
The only solution to the con
stantly growing demand, he sug
gests, would be for the Dio
cese of Padua to erect similar
units, or for other dioceses
in the world to develop a simi
lar program.
donors, said that only through
cooperation of the community,
its hospitals and universities,
has medical science been able
to advance.
The cardiac unit was organ
ized to pool knowledge and ex
perience of personnel in the
Ottawa area and to centralize
expensive equipment in order to
make most economical use of it,
it was explained.
Though it was to be a Catho
lic Hospital, contributions for
the building of the facility were
also donated by members of
various other faiths of the
community, Sister Marie said.
The official groundbreaking
of the hospital took place on
Aug. 20, 1950, and St. Joseph’s
was dedicated on Dec. 10, 1952.
The first baby born in the
new hospital was named Charles
Joseph Lee, Joseph in honor
of the hsopital’s patron saint.
Since that time there have been
over 11,500 births at St. Jo
seph’s.
The Rev. John Buckley, S. J.
was named the first chaplain for
the new St. Joseph’s hospital
when it opened. After Father
Buckley’s death in 1953, the
Rev. Louis Mulry was named
the hospital’s chaplain, and he
served for 10 years until his
death last January. The hospi
tal is presently without a resi
dent chaplain.
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