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/ Prhst hnpris0 n tl, Walkmd *D«crth’ M a rth Braved Martyrdom in Spanish War DENVER aT H a iC Funeral scr\'iees were held fered by the Very Rev. Joseph Father Estrada came to the Father Estrada will be buried Wednesday, .Aug. V i. in Our Pratt. S.F., provincial of the United States in 1950 and was next to his predecessor. Father Lady of Peace church. Greeley, congregation of the Sons of the named assistant priest at Holy -Morera. at Gate of Heaven for the Rev. Louis Estrada. S.F., Holy Family, Silver Spring. Md. Cross church in Santa Cruz. N. cemetery in Silver Spring. Md. pastor, who underwent a year’s REGISTER Bishop Maloney also gave the .Mex. He was named pastor of Silver Spring is the site of the imprisonment and faced death final absolution. Our Lady”"of Peace church in novitiate and seminary of the Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations in the Spanish Civil war. The funeral was attended by 1958, succeeding the Rev. Domi Sons of the Holy Family in the THURSDAY, AUG. 29, 1963 about 12 members of the Sons nic .Morera. S.F. U.S. DENVER, COLORADO VOL. LVKI No. 3 of the Holy Family, who staff several parishes in Colorado, and by a large representation of clergy from the Denver arch diocese. Over 1,000 Teachers Staff Father Estrada died suddenly in the parish rectory Saturday. .Aug. 24. He had been pastor of the parish for the past five years. Schools of Archdiocese Father Estrada was bom in Barcelona. Spain. .April 13, 1903. He studied in Rome for five 360 of Laity years, after which he was or dained a priest in 1925. .After his A staff of more than 1,000 priests, brothers, ordination. Father Estrada sisters, and lay teachers will welcome nearly 30,000 taught for about 10 years. boys and girls expected to troop into elementary When the Spanish Civil war and secondary schools of the Archdiocese of Den Father Estrada began In 1936, Father Estrada ver on opening day, Sept. 3. Auxiliary Bishop David M. went into hiding, as all priests The growing army of lay teachers staffing Catholic grade the archdiocese’s 65 grade Maloney presided at the Solemn were brought under suspicion. and high schools in the arch schools and 17 high schools this Requiem Mass, which was of- After two years in hiding, he diocese will hit a new high of year presents an Increase •( was caught and imprisoned. 360 persons when the school year more than 1,000 over last year’s While in prison, be earned hLs opens Sept. 3. record high of 27,941. The total means that approx A major factor in this year's iiving by seiling newspapers to Cursillo imately one out of three of the jump in enrollment will be the the other prisoners. classrooms in the archdiocese (Turn to Page 3) Changed to After being held for about a this year- will be in charge ol year, be and many others were lay men and women, according to the Very Rev. Monsignor Wil Aurora Site marched to France. Many died liam H, Jones, archdiocesan su Men’s Cursillo No. 3 in the along the way, but Father Es perintendent of schools. Vcicofiofl Archdiocese of Denver has been trada survived the ordeal and -As an indication of the in moved to a new site this week was released shortly after that. creasingly important role played end. It will be held at St. Pius by lay men and women in Cath Schools' Tenth school, .Aurora, instead olic schools. Monsignor Jones of Camp St. Malo as previously recalled that in the 1952-53 school planned. 6 Donors Boost year there were only 52 35th Year A major break in the water lay teachers in archdiocesan lines serving the camp has ne Burse to $ 1 ,9 2 3 schools. Thousands cessitated the change in the This year’s figure, he pointed Cursillo which will be held Six donations have added $29 out, is nearly seven times that Instructed from Friday evening, Aug, 30, in the past week to the St. Jude high. By Edward T. Smith to Monday evening. Sept. 2. burse for the education of young The total for this year also Celebrating its 35th birth-,' The Rev. Edward Pettit, new men studying for the priesthood will be 22 higher than the 338 day in the Archdiocese of ly named diocesan coordinator in the archdiocese. The burse lay teachers in archdiocesan Denver this summer, the of Cursillos in the Diocese of total stands at $1,923.86. schools the past year. Monsig religious vacation school Pueblo, will be the spiritual di Donors include: Arvada. An nor Jones reported. onymous. $5; and four from DECREASE IN NUNS movement can recall with rector for the (-'ursillo. assisted satisfaction in the tens of thou Denver, Mrs. N. S. $13; Mrs. .Another interesting fact ob by a team of Denver laymen. sands of boys and girls to whom G.A.W., $3; .Anonymous. $2; vious from the comparison of FULL SLATE it has brought a knowledge and P.E.D., $1; and Mrs. L. E.M., current figures with previous re love of their faith. The Rev. Robert Harrington, $5. ports is that the number of Sis reservations chairman. an The sum of $6,000 will estab ters teaching in archdiocesan With reports still pouring in, nounces that a full slate of 42 lish a seminary burse in perpe schools appears to have drop|)ed. the archdiocesan office of the men and five priests have sign tuity for the education of a stu Welcome to Classes!? The past year there were 504 Confraternity of Christian Doc ed up for this third Cursillo for dent for the priesthood. The nuns on the stalls of area Cath trine has records of 4,592 chil men. Previous Cursillos have Sister smiles a welcome, but we cannot tell year's enrollment. Shown above are Loretto principal will be invested and whether little sister is being pushed into school Sister Frances Mary, principal of Blessed Sac olic schools. / dren and youths enrolled in the been held at the Sacrftl Heart only the interest used. program this summer — a far retreat house in Sedalia and at by big brother, or she is pulling him in. At any rament grade school, Denver; .Ann Sirovalka, The report for 1952-53. on the The Catholic people are re rate, the doors of the 65 grade and 17 high 6. who will attend the first grade; and Peter other han<r recorded a total of cry from the handful reached Sacred Heart parish in Boul by the few scattered schools der. One Cursillo for women was quested to remember the edu schools in the Archdiocese of Denver will open Sirovalka, her big brother, who will be an 856 religious on Catholic grade cation of Denver seminarians to some 30,000 pupils on Sept. 3. This will be eighth-grade student. and high school faculties. This that initiated the program in held early this month at Mt. St. 1928. Gertrude’s academy in Boulder. in their last wills and testa an increase of more than 1,000 above the past figure included priests and ments. Any amount will be Brothers, but the vast majority Tabulation of statistics was Several airmen from Lowry gratefully received. of the 856 were Sisters. not one of the strong points of •Air Force base will handle meal the vacation schools in the first The future of the Church de The decrease, said Monsignor arrangements for the three-day year of their existence. But the Cursillo, which is specifically pends upon a well-prepared Jones, reflects today's empha sis on higher standards of prep history does show that the four being held over the Labor Day priesthood in sufficient num Girls Embark on Religious Life aration for Sisters assigned to schools in existence 35 yeais week end to accommodate men bers. teaching. The longer period of ago received their Impetus from who otherwise would be forced training now required by reli (he generosity of one man, John to take time off from their work. DONATIONS TO the semi gious congregations before send F. Vail. Father James Purfield and a nary burse should be sent to the In Rites at Marycresf Convent ing their members to teach in In The History of Catholic group of men from St. Peter's Most Rev, Urban J. Vehr, Arch schools has diminished, at least Education in the State of Colo parish, Fleming, will be among bishop of Denver. Chancery of EMB.ARKING on Uie life of a the novitiate of the Sisters of and from Greeley, Evelyn Ar temporarily, the number avail rado, the Very Rev. Monsignor representatives from nine par fice, 1536 Logan street. Denver Franciscan Sister, 11 girls St. Francis of Penance and chuleta, daughter of Mr. and able for assignments. William H. Jones, archdiocesan ishes at the Cursillo. 3, Colo. from, a live-state area entered Christian Charity at Marycrest Mrs, .Antonio Archuleta of Our convent, 2851 W. 52nd avenue, Lady of Peace parish. The anticipated enrollment In (Turn to Page 3) Denver, on .Aug. 22. Four young women from the .A GRADUATE of the Mar.v- •Archdiocese of Denver were crest .Aspirant school in .Alli among the group that donned ance. Neb., .Ann DiSenso was a Nun on President's Panel their postulant outfits on the member of the Legion of Mary Feast of the Immaculate Heart and, when she was in Denver, of MaiT, patroness of Mary worked among the aged at Mul Will Speak at Institute len home.