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1 Colorado*8 Largest Newspaper; Total Press Run, ’AU Editions, Far Above 500,000; Denver Catholic Register, 23,007 PONTIFICAL MASS PLANNED AFTERNOON OF JULY 4 ■+ Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1948—Pennission to Reprodnce, Except on Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue Over 10,000 Persons God and County DENVER CATHaiC Expected to Attend Lowry Field Service REGISTER Archbishop Vehr Will Officiate in Devotion The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service SuppUes The Denver Catholic Register. We Unique in Colorado With Several Mem Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller Services, Photo Features, and Wide World Photos. bers of Hierarchy Present VOL. x x x v m . No. 43. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1943. $1 PER YEAR History will be made Sunday, July 4, Independence day, when Archbishop Urban J. Vehr of Denver celebrates a Solemn Pontifical Field Mass at 4 p.m. in Lowry Field. This will be the first.time that a Pontifical Military Field Bishop Edwin V. Byrne Named Mass has ever been offered in the West in the afternoon. More than 10,000 are expected to assist at the Mass, which probably will be celebrated on the parade grounds of the air forces’ huge technical school. Military authorities Eighth Archbishop of Santa Fe announced that this will be one of the few occasions during war Meeting to Outline time that the public will be per- mitted to enter Lowry Field. Washington, D. C.—The Apos He succeeds the late Archbishop He had been stricken while dress Summer Activities All details for the Mass, which tolic Delegation has announced the R. A. Gerken in Santa Fe, where ing; death was due to cerebral thrombosis. He had suffered from is being planned by the Catholic appointment by the Holy Father of he will be the eighth Archbishop. Of USO-NCGS Club chaplains of the army posts adja the new Archbishop of'Santa Fe, Bishop Byrne was the 55th oc high blood pressure for several cent to Denver, have not been com years and had been aware that N. Mex. He is the Most Rev. Ed cupant of the See of San Juan sinc6 pleted, Bishop Joseph C. Willging win Vincent Byrne, Bishop of San May, 1513. This diocese is im there was a possibility of death at Keman Weckbaugh will be host any time. of Pueblo is being invited to be Juan, Puerto Rico. He was born mediately subject to the Holy See. to the general committee of the present, as are several of the Hier Aug. 9, 1891, in Philadelphia, Pa., The Rt. Rev. Jules N. Stoffel, City of Romance USO-NCCS of Denver in his archy who are expected to be in and was educated in St. Charles pastor of Sacred Heart church in Archbishop Byrne will come to mother’s home, 1701 E. Cedar Denver for the blessing of the new Borromeo’s seminary. Overbrook, one of the oldest cities in the Holy Ghost church on July 8, Pa. Ordained May. 22, 1915, ho United States—a city wrapped in avenue, Friday evening, June 18. Invitations to attend the Mass served as curate of Our Lady of an historic mantle of romance and All priests of the city, as well as will be mailed this weekend to high Lourdes church, Philadelphia, un adventure. The Church came to parish representatives serving on state and city officials, including til 1917, and as a chaplain in the New Mexico in 1539, when Fray the volunteer committee, are in Gov. John C. Vivian and Mayor U. S. navy 1918-1919. He was sec Marcos de Niza led into the South vited. Substituting for the month Benjamin F. Stapleton; the clergy, retary to Bishop James P. Mc- west the expedition that a year ly business meeting, the session is and the sisters of the province. Closkey of Jaro, Philippine islands, later brought the march of Fran arranged to give a special impetus Also invited to be present will and Vicar General of Jaro from cisco Vasquez de Coronado. But to summer activities in the USO. be the commanding officers and 1920 to 1925. Elected Bishop of 26 years before, San Juan, from Both the men’s and women’s di their staffs from the military Ponce, Puerto Rico,_June_23, 1925, where Archbishop Byrne comes, visions benefit by the volunteer establishments in the region. he was consecrated in Philadelphia was established as a Bishopric. planning of this group. The goal _ The preparations for the Pon Nov. 3(h 1925. He was transferred Shortly after the dawn of the of the committee, ofJ ,which Mr. tifical Field Ma.ss took on a na to the Diocese of San Juan March 17th century the city of Santa Fe, Weckbaugh is chairman, is to en tional aspect this week when 8,1929, and named an Assistant at whose name means Holy Faith, list the co-operation of every pa negotiations were begun for the the Pontifical Throne June 11,1940. was established. The hiatory of rishioner in Denver for the enter broadcast of the celebration over the winning of New Mexico to the tainment and aid of service men a nationwide hookup. Arrange banners of Christ is written in the stationed in nearby camps. ments also are reported under dis Over One-Fourth scarlet of the blood of martyrs. All ppcords of the USO club, in cussion whereby photographs of New Mexico is said to have pro the former Knights of Columbus the Mass can be made available to vided martyrdom for r. greater hall, were broken Sunday, June national picture magazines. number than any other state of the 13, with 3,000 men registering The Lowry Field band is ex Of St. Francis’ Union. Until 1850 New Mexico for events that included the Dunk- pected to play as Catholics of the was under the jurisdiction of the ers’ club, Cadet breakfast, lounge post assemble and march to and Bishop of Durango in Mexico. Fa facilities, lawn supper, and ball from the scene of the Mass. Hymns Father Bailey Is Debt Is Cleared ther Jean B, Lamy, sent out from room dance for which an orches also will probably be played by the Colleges’ Registration in (Turn to P aget — Colum n 6) . tra was engaged. band. Instead of a sanctuary bell, a fanfare of trumpets will signal Beti.«en Dec. 1, 1942, and May the Consecration in the Mass. 1 of tWs year, ?16,500 was paid on Son Is Serving in Africa Summer Courses Is Normal Awaiting Caii as the parish debt of St. Francis de A combined choir of representa Sales’, Denver. This represents tives of several Denver parishes will sing the responses of the Despite war conditions, the reg out-of-town students. Casper, Army Chaplain more than one-fourth of the obli Mrs. Kit Carson II Named Mass. The choir will be directed gation of $61,500 outstanding istration in summer courses of Wyo.; Ord, Nebr.; Tulsa, Okla.; by the Rev. Richard Hiester, as and Chicago arc some of the places when the golden jubilee debt re sistant pastor of Blessed Sacra Regis and Loretto Heights - col The Rev. Joseph I. Bailey, O.P., duction campaign was inaugurated leges, Denver, is normal or a little listed. Of the freshmen coming assistant in St. Dominic’s parish, last fail. Officer of War Mothers ment parish, Denver. Mrs. Anne from Denver high schools, 10 are O’Neill Sullivan will sing "The above the usual this year. from Regis, seven from St. Fran- Denver, for the past year, haa The Rev. Gregory Smith, pas Moit Rev. Edwin V. Byrne Star-Spangled Banner” at the close Registration was completed been called to ChicaM,^hic 111., to tor, reveals that collections on June 16 in Regis. The number CIS four from S t Joseph’s, two Albuquerque, who has been Admin Denver paid honor to Mrs. Kit of the Mass. each from Holy Family, Cathe await there his officid induction pledges made by parishioners are with a record of service in both The first Military Field Mass in of regiatrauts totaled 68. Despite as a chaplain of the United States continuing so well every month istrator of the Archdiocese of Carson II last week by electing World wars. dral, and-aSast, and one from Santa Fe since shortly after the the 73-year-old historical figure Colorado was a Solemn one sung the drain that military service is Mullen high, near Fort Logan. army. He was known in Cathdie that he expects to have the entire Kit Carson III, a direct descend about 1916 at the National Guard making on college enrollments, amount cleared by Dec. 31, 1944. death of Archbishop Gerken, will the third vice president in the ant in the third generation from encampment near Golden. The this year’s total is slightly more Regular classes in the summer Sufficient money was pledged in continue in that post until the in American War ■ Mothers’ con the famed frontier scout of the session began June 15 and will run stallation of Archbishop Byrne. Lowry July 4 Mass was arranged than that of last year. The ma the drive to wipe out the debt. An vention. Mrs. Carson helped pr- Western country, is now 32 and for the afternoon in order to have jority of the students are enrolled until July 23. indicator in the vestibule of the Archbishop Gerken died in St. ganize the Guadalupe chapter is serving with a railroad battalion the public present but not to in in pre-induction courses leading The first of the two sessions in church shows the progress made in Vincent’s hospital in Santa Fe 10 of the organization in La in Africa.