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Thursday, August 24, 2000
The Southern Cross, Page 11
Sister Mary Cornile Dulohery, RSM, dies at 90
S ister Mary Comile Dulohery, RSM, 90, admin
istrator of Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Savannah
for over 20 years, died August 11 at Mercy
Convent in Savannah.
During Sister Comile’s long career in the health
care field, she served as Director of the Schools of
Nursing at both Saint Joseph’s Hospital in
Savannah and Saint Joseph’s Infirmary in Atlanta.
She also serv ed as administrator of both hospitals.
She was named president and chief executive offi
cer of the Savannah hospital in 1978.
She was responsible for building a new Saint
Joseph’s Infirmary which opened in downtown
Atlanta in 1953, and she relocated the Saint
Joseph’s Hospital in Savannah to its present south-
side site in 1970.
Bom Lucile Genevieve Dulohery on a family
summer trip to Kansas, she took the name Sister
Mary Comile to honor her father, Cornelius
Dulohery, a Savannah grocer, when she entered the
Sisters of Mercy in 1933. She earned a bachelor’s
and a master’s degree in nursing and administra
tion from the Catholic University of Amerca.
Sister Comile held numerous positions in health
care and community organizations. She was appoint
ed to the Georgia Board of Human Resources by
Governor George Busbee. She was past president of
the Georgia Hospital Association, a former member
of the National League for Nursing and past presi-
World Day of Youth
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asked to shed their blood, said the
pope, Christian witness demands a
“new martyrdom,” and believers are
“called to go against the tide ... in the
circumstances of everyday life.”
Challenges can present themselves
in the guise of temptation to premari
tal sex or frustration at “wanting to
live a life of solidarity in a world
where the only things that seem to
matter are the logic of profit and
one’s personal or group interest,” he
said.
Contemporary society needs the
sign of self-sacrifice, said the pope,
“and young people need it even more
so, tempted as they often are by the
illusion of an easy and comfortable
life, by dmgs and pleasure-seeking,
only to find themselves in a spiral of
despair, meaninglessness and vio
lence.”
Urging them to bring peace into
the world through their faith in
Christ, he acknowledged the difficul
ties inherent in such a task.
“In the year 2000,” he asked, “is it
hard to believe?
“Yes, it is hard. There is no need to
hide it,” he said with an exceptional
ly forceful, clear delivery. “It is hard,
but with the help of grace it can be
done.”
Irrepressible, pulsating cheers of
“Giovanni Paolo”—John Paul in
dent of the Georgia Board of Nursing. She was one
of the recipients of the Brotherhood Award from the
Savannah Chapter of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews in 1975.
Upon her retirement as President and Chief
Executive Officer of Saint Joseph’s Hospital in
Savannah in 1982, Sister Comile became head of
the hospital’s planning and development program.
She continued to visit the sick and their families in
the hospital for many years, using an electronically
powered cart to make her rounds in her later years.
Survivors include eight nieces and nephews,
Claire Dulohery Frew, Cornelius Jerome (Jerry)
Dulohery, Lucy Dulohery Behr, Josephine
Dulohery Dye, Leonard Gerard (Roddy) Ledlie,
and Margaret Mary Ledlie, all of Savannah; Joseph
M. A. Ledlie of Atlanta, and Eugene F. Ledlie of
Richmond, Virginia.
The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for
Sister Comile at Saint Frances Cabrini Church on
August 13 with burial in the Catholic Cemetery.
Remembrances may be made to Saint Joseph’s
Hospital Foundation.
Right: Savannah Bishop Thomas J.
McDonough looks on as Sister Cornile
breaks ground for the new Saint
Joseph’s Hospital, Savannah, in the late
1960s.
Italian—and “John Paul Two, we
love you” interrupted the pope sever
al times during the vigil.
“I’m leaving here rejuvenated,” he
told the screaming masses in off-the-
cuff remarks, sending greetings espe
cially to youngsters located far from
the papal stage.
“Even if they couldn’t see,” he
joked, “they could certainly hear this
uproar.
“Rome heard this uproar tonight,
and Rome will never forget it,” he
proclaimed, just before the boom of
fireworks drowned out the noise of
human cheers.
During the Aug. 20 Mass, attended
by more than 600 cardinals and bish
ops in special World Youth Day vest
ments, the youths’ boisterousness
appeared to mb off on the thousands
of priests seated in the front section.
As an African choms performed dur
ing the offertory, the priests, wearing
sunglasses and official World Youth
Day hats to protect them from the
sun, stood and waved scarves to the
beat.
Along the arduous trek to Tor
Vergata, little could shield pilgrims
from the sun’s piercing rays, and
many youths were lobster red by the
time they arrived.
Hundreds of fountains and fire
hoses sprayed water on the crowd,
turning patches of ground into
swampland.
In an attempt to beat the heat,
scores of young women took off
their shirts, wrapping official World
Youth Day scarves around them to
preserve a modicum of modesty.
Throughout the week of activities,
more than 1,000 participants were
treated for sunstroke and heat
exhaustion.
“These aren’t exactly primo condi
tions,” said Chris Morgan, a chaper
one for a U.S. group from the Aviano
Air Base in northern Italy.
Upon discovering that food had mn
out, and exasperated by the sea of
makeshift tents and muddy ground,
half of the group picked up their
backpacks and headed back to their
hotel.
“It’s not supposed to be a conven
ience,” said 18-year-old Justin Weis,
who decided to stick it out.
Another chaperone from Aviano,
Glen Gallegos, expressed his disap-
pointment at those who packed up
and left.
“I mean, Jesus carried a cross, and
(they) carried a bag,” he said, shak
ing his head at what his group would
miss.
A group from the Archdiocese of
St. Paul-Minneapolis, Minnesota,
played cards as they awaited the
pope’s arrival.
“I’d rather be there,” said 16-year-
old Alicia Pease, pointing at the
stage far from her spot, which did
not even afford a clear shot of a
maxi-screen, “but this is fine.”
Sporting the title of “six-mile
champ” written on her bicep in green
marker, she said she was exhausted
after walking three hours in the heat
but excited about witnessing the high
point of World Youth Day.
“The pope is really connected to
young people,” she said, stretching
out a mud-splattered leg on an air
mattress. “It really means something
to him to do this for us.”
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