Theatine Fathers Given 4Th Mexico City Parish
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Denver Nun's Grandfather, D r. Preuss, K. of C. Supreme Knight to Visit Denver Nov. 24 Was Famous Convert From Lutheranism Charters W ill Be Presented to Eight New Colorado Councils AN ARTICLE in the Regitter, Lutheran theologian in Germany THREE SONS of Dr. Preuss be The first official visit of the supreme knight of the Mr. Swift on a tour that will include a visit to the Littleton St. Mary’ s council 3340, Lamar council 3325, "National ETdition, last week about at the time of the definition of came priests, and a fourth, Arthur Knights of Columbus to the Colorado jurisdiction will Mother Cabrini shrine. and R o ^ e n council 3115. This represents a national Dr. Edward Preuss, Lutheran the- the dognna o f the Immaculate Con Preuss, founder and for 40 years be made Friday, N ov. 24, when Judge John E. Swift will A committee led by Leo Koll, field agent for the record m increase. There are nearly 5,000 members in olo^an who was received into the ception in 1854, He wrote an at editor of the Fortnightly Roview, K . of C., and W ally W ebb, grand knight or the Denver Ca^oMc Church in St. Louis in tack on the doctrine, but seven gained an international reputation arrive for presentation of charters to eight new councils. Colorado. 1872, has an interestinsr Denver years later he resigned his teach as a defender o f the faith by his Denver council 539, oldest and largest in the state, will council, is mapping plans for the visit. Reservations for the charter banquet should be made postscript. ing position at a Lutheran seminary books. He translated and anno be host to Mr. Swift, with Edward J. Kelly, state deputy, Charters will be given W elby Coronado council with the grand knights of the councils by N ov. 15. Dr. Preuss and his wife, who re in St Louis, entered the Catholic tated dogmatic and moral theol leading the welcoming contingent. 3268, Limon Mother Cabrini council 3247, Cheyenne Mr. Swift's headquarters are in New Haven, Conn., mained a Lutheran throughout her Church, and wrote a vindication of ogy sets. His father long edited The charter presentation Coquet will be held N ov. W ells Immaculate Heart of Mary council 3252, Brighton where the order was founded, and where it publishes life, were the parents of eight the dogma of the Immaculate Con the famous G e r m a* n Catholic children seven boys and one girl, ception. daily of St. Louis, Amerika. 25. Other events on the prc^ram will include escorting St. Augustine council 3285, North Denver council 3319, its national magazine, Columbia. Marie. The glri married and three of her daughters became nuns, one o f whom is Sister M. Hugolina of the Sisters o f St. Francis Seraph, director of nurses at St. Anthony’s hospital, Denver. “ Our mother,” relates Sister M. Hugolina, "was Dr. Preuss’ only Plans Made for Fieldhouse at Regis College living daughter. She was educated by the Sisters of Notre Dame in St Louis, Mo., and wished to join 'It Isn't Much, But—' Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation the sisterhood. Because her Alumni Will Spark Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1950— Permission to Reproduce, Except on mother, a strict Luthei’an, strongly . Articles Otherwise Marked, Given A fter 12 M. Friday Following Issue. opposed it, she later married Three of her daughters became Franciscan nuns, and a fourth one Drive for 2nd Unit who met with a fatal accident at the age of 13, was determined to enter as soon as she was 16.” * * * SISTER M. HUGOLINA’S sis Of Expansion Goal ters, both members of the School DENVEROffHOLIC Sisters of S t Francis, are Sister By Frank Morriss M. Etheirita, Saored Heart sani With a new $250,000 classroom building already tarium, Milwaukee, W is.; and Sis ter M. Silvester, St Joseph’s hos under construction on tihe Regis college campus, Denver, pital, Beaver Dam, Wis. Their par the Very Rev. Raphael C. McCarthy, S.J., president, an ents, Theodore Peoples and Marie nounced this week that a drive has been launched Preuss, met in St.' Louis when the among the alumni for funds to erect a new gsrmnasium REGISTER former was attending college and recreation hall. The Regis college Alumni associa there. Price per copy, three cents Sister M. Hugolina entered the tion has endorsed the project to provide the college with Franciscan community Feb. 22, its first fieldhouse, and the graduates are preparing to VOL. X LV I. No. 12. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1950 DENVER, COLORADO 1922, at St Francis’ mother-house, conduct a nation-wide solicitation campaign both in their own EvAston, III. She first came to ranks and among friends of Regis. Denver in January, 1932, when Construction of the fieldhouse will get under way when suf she was stationed in the operating ficient funds are on hand. Father McCarthy does not expect, how room in S t Anthony’s until March ever, that the building will be completed in time for use in Sep o f 1933; then she became director tember, 1951. o f the school of nursing, a posi At an alumni meeting Nov, 6 Father McCarthy explained the Theatine Fathers Given tion she held until 1940. In that need of increased gymnasium facilities to keep pace with the ex year she entered Creighton uni panding enrollment and the. basketball squad which in the past versity, Omaha, for postgraduate three years has undertaken top-rank competition. The plans call study, following which she was sto- for a building more than 200 feet long and 100 feet wide. Two tioned at St. Elizabeth’s hospiAl, regulation floors side-by-side will provide simultaneous workout 4th Mexico City Parish Lincoln, Neb., for three years, and space for four teams. Space in the building will provide for at S t Joseph’s hospital, Omaha, eventual completion of bowling alleys, recreation rooms, a lounge fo r two and one-half years. She and store, and offices for student publications. has been director of the school of Letters being sent to alumni by Father McCarthy and Aldo Father Andrew Burguera nursing at S t Anthony’s hospital Notarianni, Denver attorney and alumni president, explain the since O ct 9, 1948. campaign. The alumni did not officially take part in the recent Sister M. Hugolina’s grandfa drive for funds to build the classroom building. All efforts 'will be Transferred From Denver ther, Dr. Edward Preuss, was a made, said Father McCarthy, so that there will be no solicitation The Theatine Fathers are expanding their work in Mex of those who contributed recently. The grymnasium now on the campus is too small to allow the ico City, where they have met with surprising success. The V basketball squad proper workouts. The floor is under the stan Rev. Andrew Burguera, C.R., formerly in charge of Our Christmas Seals dard size. A revived basketball program under the coaching of Lady of Guadalupe church, Denver, left for Mexico City I^rry 'Varnell produced a team in 1948 that captured the fla- Oct. 29, where he is assigned as assistant to the Rev. An GLORIA JAMES, 10, 2700 High street, a student in tional Catholic title and was runner-up in the NAIB toume^ thony Sagrera, C.R. This year’s plans call for competition with oustanding schools^ Father Sagrera is now building the privilege of offering three Campaign Seeks the fourth grade of Sacred Heart school, puts her bit in A number of the games will be double-headers with Denver uni a new church in the Gertrudis Masses on Sunday. The churches the Red Feather coin box in her room at the school to add to the versity in that school’s fieldhouse. The season opens Nov, 17 with are packed for every Mass. Denver area Community Chest fund. School children of Denver and Sanchez xcolonia of Mexico City the varsity playing the alumni in the gymnasium. dedicated to the Holy Family. The The Theatines will also erect a the tri-county area have their own division in the Chest drive, and The new fieldhouse will enable the team to play before sev church under the patronage of St. Real 'Holy Year' this Junior Community Chest group has consistently turned in excel edifice will be completed early in Parochial school children of eral thousand spectators. Movable bleachers are planned for 1961, and in the meantime an al Cajetan in the Colonia Linda Vista. lent reports. the sides of the playing floor. ■Though the two other churches are the archdiocese will try to tar has been installed in the un + + + + + _ The fieldhouse is the second part of an expansion program finished church and Mass is o f in poverty-stricken sections of the make the Holy Year of 1960 initiated by Father McCarthy. A classroom building being con fered there every Sunday to serve city, S t Cajetan’s will be in a fine a real “ holy year” by bringing structed now was the result of a campaign that netted more than the people. residential district A good plot of to pagan children the op Msgr. Mulroy Describes $200,000. The Church of the Holy Family Round has been secured as a site portunity o f receiving Baptism. In 'order to facilitate the campaign, all Regis alumni have is a larger building than the for the church, and work will be Obey will do so by endeavoring to been requested to send their names and addresses to Reps, along Church of Our Lady of the Sacred gin as soon as the Holy Family make the annual Holy Childhood with the names and addresses of any Regis graduates with whom Heart, also erected by Father Sa- ehurch is completed.