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GATHERED FRAGMENTS A Publication of The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania • Vol. XXVIII, Fall 2018 1 Table of Contents • Vol. XXVIII • Fall 2018 Page SUBMISSION GUIDELINES, MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION, AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS ....................................................... 3 BEACON IN THE DARK, PART 2 – Sister Mary Mark Mullen, CSJ ................................................................................... 4 FLYING TIGERS, ‘WARPHANS,’ HOMEWARD BOUND: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND FOR SISTER MARY MARK’S BEACON IN THE DARK, PART 2 – Kathleen M. Washy. ........................................................34 THE VOCATION OFFICE OF THE DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH MARKS 70 YEARS – Rev. Michael R. Ackerman .............40 THE VISIT OF A FUTURE POPE TO PITTSBURGH – John C. Bates, Esq. ..........................................................................43 BEYOND THE CARD CATALOGUE: A TOUR OF THE VATICAN LIBRARY – Rev. Aleksandr J. Schrenk...........................46 CATHOLIC HIGHER EDUCATION: ITS ORIGINS IN THE UNITED STATES AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA – Michael T. Rizzi, Ed.D. .................................................................................................50 ELEANOR MCCANN: A LIFE OF LIBRARIANSHIP AND SERVICE – Sara Baron, Ed.D. ....................................................62 PORTRAITS OF CATHOLICS WITH WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONNECTIONS: THE FAMOUS, THE FORGOTTEN, AND THE UNKNOWN – John C. Bates, Esq. ................................................................................................................69 THE ARCHIVES OF SETON HILL UNIVERSITY – Bridget Malley .......................................................................................84 MARTYRS IN DESIRE: THE STORY OF PASSIONIST FATHERS GODFREY HOLBEIN, CLEMENT SEYBOLD, WALTER COVEYOU, AND CONSTANTINE LEECH – Katherine Koch .........................................................................86 THE LEGACY OF MONSIGNOR ANDREW ARNOLD LAMBING 1842-1918 – Rev. Aleksandr J. Schrenk .....................116 2018 DONOR LIST .............................................................................................................................................................117 FORTHCOMING BOOK ON THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA – Kathleen M. Washy ..................................................................................................118 SPECIAL FEATURE: CELEBRATING LAY APOSTOLATE HISTORY IN THE DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH ...............................119 • THE NEW EVANGELIZATION: ROLE OF THE LAY APOSTOLATES – Very Rev. Joseph M. Mele, Ph.D. • LAY APOSTOLATES REACH OUT IN PRAYER AND SERVICE – Sharon Serratore OUR AUTHORS ...................................................................................................................................................................127 NEWS FROM THE CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY..........................................................................................................129 BOOK REVIEWS – John C. Bates, Esq.............................................................................................................................134 2 Submission Guidelines The Catholic Historical Society The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania solicits and of Western Pennsylvania welcomes items for Gathered Fragments addressing the culture and history of Catholicism in Western Pennsylvania. Gathered Fragments publishes articles and primary sources relating to the parochial, religious, diocesan, and laical history of the Catholic Church in Western Pennsylvania. We also solicit book and exhibit Board of Directors reviews, news, and other items relating to Catholic history in Western Pennsylvania. Genealogical items are accepted, providing they relate Mike Aquilina to the broader scope of the Society’s mission. Articles previously published elsewhere will be considered with appropriate permission from the original publication. Submissions should pertain in some John C. Bates way to the broader theme of Catholicism in Western Pennsylvania. Research articles will be considered. Notation of sources must Rev. Michael P. Conway accompany each article. Submitters are urged to consult the most current editions of The Chicago Manual of Style or Kate Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, for Blanche G. McGuire guidelines on proper formatting. Submissions are accepted both electronically and by mail. Rev. Aleksandr J. Schrenk Instructions will be provided by contacting the Society at info@ catholichistorywpa.org. The opinions expressed in Gathered Kathleen M. Washy Fragments represent the views only of the individual contributors. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the officers, the members of the board of directors, or The Catholic Historical Society of Dennis P. Wodzinski Western Pennsylvania. Advertising in Gathered Fragments does not necessarily imply endorsement. Membership Information Editors Gathered Fragments is published once a year by The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Diocese of Pittsburgh, 2900 John C. Bates Noblestown Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15205-4227. Rates for subscriptions are currently: $150 for member of Msgr. Andrew A. Lambing Circle, Kathleen M. Washy $125 for member of Msgr. Francis A. Glenn Circle, $100 for Synod Hall sustaining members, $45 for institutional members, $35 for individual members, and $20 for women religious members. The Society also welcomes donations to complete research, as well as to support publishing and preservation projects in local Church history. Cover Photo Sisters Catherine Davenport and Mary Mark Mullen survey the damage by Japanese bombers to their convent in Chihkiang, Hunan, China, 1940. Source: Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden Archives. © 2018 by The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania 3 BEACON IN THE DARK, Part 2 Sr. Mary Mark Mullen, CSJ Editor’s note: In the first installment of her memoir, Beacon in the Dark, which was published in the fall 2017 issue of Gathered Fragments, Sister Sister Mary Mark Mullen with a young child Mary Mark took us through the first half of her missionary experiences in Source: Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden Archives Chihkiang (known as Zhijiang today), Hunan, China. Arriving in China in 1933 during years of warlords and somewhat primitive lifestyle, she ends that half with the arrival of some modern conveniences – ranging from transporta- tion improvements, such as the advent of the bus, to entertainment improve- ments, such as movies and chewing gum. For this second half of her memoir, Sister Mary Mark takes us from those early days of modernization into the Second Sino-Japanese War, which some historians consider to be the beginning of World War II. As Chihkiang was home to a large air base, the war became a daily part of the sisters’ lives as they worked on carrying out their missionary work. Sister Mary Mark’s story provides some insight into their struggles. Chapter 10: Spring in China wooden dishes and a bundle of chopsticks. In the other box, the restauranteur had his supply of noodles and a mixture of ground The haze of Chinese spring drifted up from the river, hanging in meat seasoned with chopped peppers, ginger, and garlic. On the soft wisps over the rich moist earth. The trees in the mission yard little stove, made from a discarded oilcan, a pot of water bubbled were a fresh sparkling green and almost overnight, it seemed, the and hissed over the charcoal fire. red earth was carpeted with grass. The fertility of the soil in China The resourceful Chinese could prepare enough food for only was a constant marvel to me. I sometimes thought if I planted a few of the children at a time so two or three of them clustered a stick in the ground, I would wake up one morning to find it around him, watching as he dropped the long strips of dough into sprouting. Anything will grow in China! the boiling water, eagerly waiting for their dish of noodles covered In the classroom, the girls became restive. Their bright eyes with the rich, spicy sauce. The other girls romped and played while turned with distaste from the black and white characters in their waiting their turn. With a sharp stick, they scored off squares on a books to the low windows framing the enticing picture of the bare spot of the dusty earth, marking each square with a magical bright young greenness outdoors. It seemed the right time for a character, hopping and jumping from one to the other, just as picnic. So, after breakfast one morning, surrounded by a happy children play anywhere in the world. chattering group we filed through the city gate, strolling along When our chef had nothing more to cook, he packed his boxes, terraced rice fields that looked like miniature lakes reflecting the bowed his wordless thanks, and trotted back to the city, well sat- transparent blue of the sky. Thick white mist spread like a blanket isfied with his day’s work. Then we gathered the scattered young- over the rolling hills and under the warm sun, tiny tongues of mist sters and left soon after, for the air was getting cold and some of curled up from the spear-like green shoots of rice. the little ones were growing sleepy. We crossed a small brook running over muddy stones. The girls As we neared the city wall, an old farmer stopped us to ask if scampered back and forth, gathering clusters of the little white we would help a sick neighbor of his whom he thought had chick- flowers growing along the bank. 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