9.000 Converts in One Year in Mission Land

9.000 CONVERTS IN ONE YEAR IN MISSION LAND The Re(i*trr Ha* the Internatioaal New* Service (Wire and Mail), the N. C, W. C. New* Service (Incladinf Cablei), it* 30 MARTYRS IN Own Special Service and All the Smaller Catholic Service*; al*a International Illuatrated New* and N. C W. C. Picture Service. LITTLE SUNDA Local Local The writer has been re- making the acquaintance REDS’ UPRISING, Edition Edition ISLANDS SHOW through a daily newspaper column of an editor THE under whom he worked years ago. SPAIN REPORTS WAVE OF FAITH «f MMiMr That editor, now in his 90th year, is still grind ing away, day after day, to Priests and Religious Killed; Ten Churches Catechists’ Work Held Chiefly Responsible inform and entertain the Burned; Oviedo Cathedral REGISTER for Turnipg of Natives to Church public. The old gentleman * (Name Registered in the U. S. Patent Office) v wrote a few days ago of a Ruined Ndona-Ende, Little Sunda Islands.— The Fathers of T W O CENTS town that impressed him as YOL. X. No. 44 DENVER, COLO., SUNDAY, NOV. 4, 1934 the Divine Word society, in the Vicariate of the Little a beautiful and thriving Madrid.— Accounts of the barbatous torture of priests Sunda Islands, have registered over 17,000 Baptisms in place years ago. Lately he are included in the reports which bring up to 30 the num ‘Gee,’ Says Dad, ‘Three of Them’ the past 12 months. Nine thousand of these were adult revisited it, and found It fall ber c^f priests and religious killed in the Province of As converts. This brings the total number of Catholics in the turias, where the recent revolt of Socialists sought to over ing apart. Industry had GRNVERF RFRIIN s' / vicariate to 247,679, more than half the entire Catholic moved from It. So the old throw the government and^ turned its full fury upon the population of the Dutch Indies. gentleman wrote an edito Catholic Church. It is believed that there are other priests The missionaries attribute much rial on the passing of earthly and religious who were killed in of the success to their catechists, the uprising but whose deaths PIRRS SOCIFIF RF who njm number 1,100. Only 67 things. have not yet been learned of. of thes#are full time workers, the rest being “ prayer teachers,” who EVER! SIAIE III While some of the priests were W e have seen the ruins of I 'f toil aH day in the fields or forests being subjected to* the crudest great industries in two locali torture, others were saved mirac and when the day is done gather T the catechumens of their village ties where we lived. In ulously. The Most. Rev. Juan Perez, Bishop of Oviedo, was to teach them their religion. MEURIR PRI Pennsylvania there are pic U n AFTFR saved. Last year, with over 10,000 turesque ruins of great iron London. — The Rev. Edmund adult conversions, this 'vicariate Some 10 churches were burned Lester, S.J., organizer Of the works that flourished in the or demolished. Among these were ranked fifth among the missions Knights, Handmaids, and Pages of of the world in number of con small towns and rural dis the Cathedral and the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, died sud versions, coming immediately aft San Tirsb at Oviedo and the denly of a heart attack at the age tricts a century ago. Cheaper er four central African vicariates church at Pola de Lena, all of of 68. He was buried here Oct. 27. ore then bqgan to come from which were highest. which were of great historic value. Sixty of his young seminarians The Vicariate of the Little Sun Mexico City.— (INS Wire.)— the Great Lakes regions and Washington. — The repressive Fortunately, the artistic treasures were at the grave. It is estimated Catholic priests will be ordered to the iron mines and furnaces of the Cathedral will be recovered, that there are 3,000,000 members da Islands is staffed by 78 priests, measures put into" force by the 29 brothers, and 56 sisters. Irt leave every state in Mexico, it of our locality closed. In Nazi regime in Germany have had since they are buried under the of the Blessed Sacrament organ was decided at an important con ruins. ization which he formed. Two the past year there were 20,000 various parts of the West, one effect that was not intended Confirmations, 2,700,000 Com ference at Tehacan, Puebla state, — they have served to strengthen All of the Revolutionaries have hundred priests owe their voca between President Abelardo Rod- there are ghost towns that tions to him since 1920. Father munions, and 1,064,000 Confes the religious convictions of Ger been arrested and the military sions. ri^ ez, former President Plutarco 25 to 50 years ago were man Catholics to such an extent courts are functioning. There Lester was a convert from An Elias Calles, and President-elect well-populated gold and sil that church attendance is now at will not be many executions, how glicanism, entering the Catholic Cardenas. Every state govern ver mining centers. They its .highest mark, according to the ever. Church in 1883. He entered the ment will order the prilstsr - lp Rev. Paul Bussard. editor of “ The Society of Jesus two years later. Jesuit QeneraVs leave its borders, follo'wing are in ruins tfcday or else There is no evidence of any po tlir’ Leaflet Missal,” St. Paul, who has litical consequence. He was editor of Stella Maris examples set by the states of have but a fraction of their just returned from a ten-month magazine and Introibo. In 1920, Sister^s Sainthood Guerrero, Mexico, Chiapas, and former glory. Five years stay in that country. “ From pas Vatican to Open School Father Lester founded at Campion Colima. tors in German cities I learned house, Osterly, the Society of Our In g further move against the ago we drove into a great “ It’n rS irl! It’* a boy! It’* a girl!” No, there wa*n’t any doubt that the number of Confessions of Library Science Lady’s Young Priests, a group for Cause Advancing Catholics, the government com Ohio steel city, whose sky about it; that i« the way ho*pital authoritie* in Malden, Ma*iachu(ett(, and Communions has increased re Vatican City.— A School of Li the education of late vocations. mittee of public health ordered the reported to Jamet J. Kelley that he wai the father of triplet*. The looked like the roof of hell markably,” Father Bussard” said. brary Administration open only to Vatican City. — The body, of dismissal of every confessed Cath because of the weird reflec “ On holy days the churches are ecclesiastics and religious will be Leg of Limerick Girl mother i* doing nicely. A nur*e *how* the trio, who collectively Countess Maria Theresia Ledo- olic on its pay-rolls. weighed 18 pound*. tions of the mighty furnaces. thronged and the Corpus Christi inaugurated in the Vatican library chowska, sister of the Very Rev. The Tehecan conference plainly procession in Cologne was the on Nov. 1&. The school will offer Lengthened at Lourdes Vladimir Ledochowska, S.J., su A few weeks ago, we drove largest in history.” Father Bus- Limerick, Ireland.— Miss M. placed the burden of ousting the two annual courses in cataloguing, perior general of the Society of priests upon the separate state into the same city and the sard pictured Germany as a na Raynor, 24-year-old girl just re organization, and library services. Jesus, and foundress of the Sodal governments, apparently meaning tion of people afraid. None, he Following a •final examination, turned from a pilgrimage to sky was black. It may be PLAN JUBILEES FOR CARDINAL ity of St. Peter Claver for the aid the priests still could seek haven said, dares voice -Dolitical opinions successful candidates will receive Lourdes, says that she was com that history is repeating it of African Missions, was exhumed in the federal district in which adverse to the Hitlerites. a certificate of qualification. pletely cured of a spinal and hip from the German cemetery near Mexico City is located, and self. ailment while bathing at the fa in AND ARCHBISHOP GLENNON the Vatican and taken to the other federal territories. mous shrine. She is now able to motherhouse of the sodality in walk unassisted and her right leg, A weakness in Catholics Rome. Mexico City.— Charges that the which had been shorter than the St. Louis.— Three distinct cele will be held on Dec. 15, a chil Countess Ledochowska, a Polish is what we heard an old brations will be held here in De dren’s observance on Dec. 19, at Catholic Church has incited stu How Collegians Are Made left, is now of the proper length. noblewoman, was a lady in wait dent rioting are being used as an priest describe as a “ take Two other Irish members of the cember in . observance of the which Bishop Winkelmann will ing at the imperial Austrian court. golden sacerdotal jubilee of the pontificate at Mass, and on Dec. excuse for the latest outbreaks for granted” attitude. The pilgrimage reported great improve She founded the Sodality c ' SL against religion in Mexico, but no ment in their physical condition. Most Rev. John J. Glennon, Arch 20, the date of the Archbishop’s Peter Claver at Salzburg, Austria, Church is so well organized Daily Communicants Told bishop of St. Louis, according to anniversary, a Pontifical Mass in proof of such inciting has been of in 1894.

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