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Member of 'Audit Bureau of Circulation Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1952 — Permission to Reproduce, Except oa 4,505 Enrolled in Archdiocesan Vocation Schools Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue There were 4,505 pupils enrolled Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in In Denver, All Saints’ parish led tory chapel, taught by the Benedic season there were 13 schools. In in 73 religious vacation schools in Colorado Springs with 244 pupils, with 140 pupils taught by the Sis tine Sisters of Atchison, had an en the following year the number of the Archdiocese of Denver this sum were both taught by Missionary Sis ters of Loretto. It was dosely fol rollment of 112. schools increased to 23 and the ’ft,! mer, the 24th year of the organized ters of Our Lady of Victory. Sisters lowed by Holy Ghost Youth center, Deserving of special mention is pupils nuihbered nearly 1,600. In vacation school movement in the of Charity of Cincinnati taught a where the Missionary Sisters of Our the St. Peter Claver school, con 1930 the movement was placed DENVER CATHaiC archdiocese. The report was released school of 156 in Fort Lupton, and Lady of Victory had 137 pupils. ducted for Negro Protestant chil under the direction of Monsignor by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Gregory Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet The school at Annunciation parish, dren by the Sisters of Charity of Smith. Smith, pastor of St. Francis de Sales lad 185 pupils in Julesburg. taught by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati at Sacred Heart school In the summer of 1951 a total parish, Denver, and archdiocesan di The largest school. in the sub Leavenworth, had 128 pupils, and under the direction of the late Rev. of 10,427 children attended reli rector of the Confraternity of Chris urban area was in Aurora, taught Our Lady of Grace parish, taught Arthur Versavel, S.J. In its 15th gious vacation schools in the state tian Doctrine. by the Sisters of Loretto, with 165 by the same sisters, had 100 en year, the school had 72 pupils. REGISTER — 4,943 in the Archdiocese of Den The report indicates a drop from pupils. The Arvada classes, also rolled. In Presentation parish the The vacation "school movement ver and 5,484 ir\ the Diocese of 81 schools and 4,943 pupils in taught by the Lorettines, had 119 Sisters of Mercy had 124 pupils, began in Colorado in 1928 with Pueblo. 1951. "The decrease is a healthy pupils. and the classes at Our Lady of Vic four centers. By the end of the first (See Complete Report on Page 8>) VOL. XLVIll. No. 1. ' THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1952 DENVER, COLO. s i g n," commented ■ Monsignor Smith. "It indicates the growth in our parochial school system. After all, the vacation schools are simply a substitute for parochial-school edu New Ecclesiastical Province Set Up in Kansas cation." There are, however, a con siderable number of vacation schools even in parishes with parochial + + + schools, but which cannot accom Historic Sacred Heart School modate all the Catholi^ pupils of Bishop Hunkelerof Kansas City 1 school age. 17 Schools in Denver There were 17 religious vacation Is Designated 1st Metropolitan schools in Denver and six in the suburban area with ehrollments, The establishment of a new ecclesiastical province embracing the state of Kansas, respectively, of 1,237 and 432. The and the appointment of Bishop Edward J. Hunkeler of Kansas City, Kaps., as the Metro 50 outstate schools had an enroll politan Archbishop were announced by the Holy See through the Apostolic Delegation in ment of 2,836. Fourteen different Washington, D.C., on Aug. 20. , communities of religious sisters Included in the new Province of Kansas City, Kans., are the Dioceses of Wichita, Salina, and Dodge City. Hitherto taught the classes. Pastor of Fort Morgan Parish The two largest vacation schools, these sees, with the Kansas City, in Brighton with 252 pupils and in Kans., diocese, were suffragan sees Rev. Joseph C. Erger Dies; of the Province of St. Louis, with r 11 r\ ' I ’ Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter as the 05883732 Metropolitan. Still suffragans of the Served Archdiocese 37 Yeors St. Louis archdiocese are the Dio- The Rev. Joseph C. Erger, pastor of St. Helena’s par cese of Kansas City, Mo., and St. ish, Fort Morgan, died Wednesday, Aug. 20. He had been Joseph, Mo. May Open School in failing health for some time. Arrangements had not been This brings to 24 the number of completed at press time, but the ecclesiastical provinces in the U. S., Archbishop Hunkeler Funeral Mass will probably be of and to 25 the number of archdio fered in St. Helena’s church. Fort ceses. The Archdiocese of Washing If Enough Pupils Morgan, on Saturday morning, Denverite to Join Aug. 23, at 10:30 o’clock. ton is not a Metropolitan see. Registration will be con In an area of 82,113 square ducted at the rectorjj of St Father Erger, who was ordained by Bishop Nicholas C. Matz June miles, the new province counts Nuns of Sick Poor Patrick’s parish. Fort Logan 3, 1915, in the Denver Cathedral, 190,979 Catholics in a total pop Patricia Catlett, daughter of this coming week to consider claimed the distinction of being ulation of 1,905,299. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Catlett of the possibility of opening the the first priest to ma^e his full 4541 E. 18th avenue, Denver, will first grade of a school in the course of studies in St. Thomas' Included Part of Colorado enter the convent of the Domini parish. seminary, Denver. A native of St. The Vicariate Apostolic of the can Sisters of the Sick Poor at Mrs. James L. Markey, well Louis, Mo., where he was born Territory East of the Rocky Moun Ossining, N. Y., on Sept. 7. Dec. 4, 1891, he attended the St. known lay leade." in St. Louis HISTORIC SACRED HEART SCHOOL eight years before this building was erected. They tains, established in 1850 with She was born in Denver on May parish, Englewood, and an ac Louis Preparatory seminary from 13, 1934, attended Loyola grade took up work in Denver 70 years ago, in September, 1905 to 1910, when he entered Leavenworth as its see city, in credited teacher, has volunteered in Denver, when the new building was 1882, and their alumni have numbered in the school, and was graduated from her services, both in helping to blessed Feb. 3, 1890, and opened to some 250 pupils, St. Thomas’ for his philosophy cluded that part of Colorado north St. Francis de Sales’ high school on thousands. Today the school, still taught by the and theology courses. establish the school, and to be the was far in advance of its times in spaciousness and Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, has an enrollment of the Arkansas river a n d ^ ast June 1, 1952, At St. Francis de school’s first teacher. facilities. The Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati had of some 700 grade pupils.— (Register photo by His first assignment was to An of the Rocky mountains. The Sales’ she was active in Our Lady’s The school portion of the parish already been teaching in the parish school nearly Turilli) » nunciation parish, Denver, and the Sodality and the Catholic Students’ following year he was transferred Most Rev. John B. Miege, S.J., of Mission Crusade. As a member and plant occupies the lower floor of -T -f ' + the rectory, and much of the work + + + to St. Anthony’s in Sterling as an Leavenworth thus was the first Or president of the Dominicanettes, in the preparation of the class assistant. In May, 1917, he was dinary to have jurisdiction over the group of young girls who assist rooms has been done by the Rev. named chaplain at Mt. St. Vin Denver and a considerable portion the Dominican Sisters in their calls Anthony Weinzapfel, pastor. Both Charity Nuns to Begin 71st Year cent’s home, Denver. From May of the Denver archdiocese and on the sick and poor, she spent floors have an entrance on the. 9, 1918, to Oct. 27, 1920, he many hours each week helping the ground level, as the structure, served as pastor in Telluride, and Pueblo diocese. He held this juris sisters. She was active in the Le pnee a Ft. Logan warehouse, was from 1920 to June, 1927, as pas diction from 1851 to I860, though gion of Mary in Loyola parish and placed on a basement foundation tor in Delta. In January, 1927, he there were few White people in the served as its vice president. prepared on the side of a hill next Of Work at Sacred Heart School took charge of St. Mary’s parish. territory at that time. The Catlett family was one of to the church. Vacation schools, Brush, and in June, 1939, he was Rev. Joieph C. Erger By Rev. J ohn B. E bel the pioneer families of Sacred conducted in the summertime by named pastor of St. Helena’s par Discovery of gold near Pike’s Heart Loyola parish and, until the Sisters of Loretto, have attracted This September will mark just 70 years since the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati ish, Fort Morgan peak in 1858 brought a rush of set family moved into Blessed Sacra- as many as 130 students. took up their teachtPg work at Sacred Heart school in Denver. As they begin their 71st In June, 1950, on the occasion tlers, and the Colorado territory year at the school they can count their alumni in the thousands, including 894 grad of Father Erger’s 35th anniver Early-Day Pastor was transferred to the jurisdiction uates of the high school alone.