* I Pioneer Nun Wrote Work Begun on St. Louis’ School' Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Real Life Thriller Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1948—Permission to Reproduce, Except on Site of Englewood Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue. ■+ + ( + ' B y P a u l H . H allett The great William Seward, Lincoln’s Secretary of State, Denver Sister was being proudly introduced to a little Italian-born nun, Building Is Blessed; teaching in a parochial school in 1871, The secretary pre­ sented his hand. It was not touched. Instead, there came Prepares Book steely words with a steely glance: "I cannot touch the hand DENVER CATUaiC Excavation Finished of the man who signed Mrs. Surratt’s death warrant.” Mrs. For Publication Surratt was the Irish Cathdlic landlady who was unjustly The site for the new St. Louis’ school in Englewood was hanged for complicity in the murder of Lincoln. blessed Sunday, Aug. 15, the-Feast of the A.ssumption, by Sister Therese Martin of the The Httle nun, then 21, was Sister Blandina Segale, Father Joseph P. O’Heron. The excavation for the school is j Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, whose incomparable journal. At the End of the Santa Fe who prepared Sister Blandina’s now dug and forms are being readied for the pouring of the book, At the End of the Santa Fe Trail, published originally in 1932, is now being reissyed by REGISTER concrete foundation. Trail, for re-publication at this Bruce of Milwaukee ($3). The book will be released Oct. 1. The contract for construction time, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We of the school was awarded to the The spirit of this incident marks the keynote of Sister Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller Henry McCarthy of Pueblo. She is Blandina’s character as it shines through her journal. Rising John’s Engineering company for a member of the faculty of the Services, NCWC and Religious News Photos. Pnice of paper 8 cents a copy. 11137,757. The Gordon Bell and T ra n s fe rs Cathedral high school, Denver, above her humor, her boundless sympathy, her hard common Sons Plumbing and Heating com­ where she teaches journalism and «ftise, her deep humility, her wonderful ingenuity was un­ VOL. XLHI. No. 52. DENVER, COLO., 'THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 194«. $1 PER YEAR. pany was awarded the contract Eni^lish. bending devotion to the principles for the plumbing, heating, and O f C le rg y The publication of these priceless of her faith. ventilation for $20,975. John K. memoirs of a frontier nun is the Sister Blandina began her nar­ DEATH OR PRISON AWAITS EXILED ARCHBISHOP Monroe is the architect. culmination of several years of rative in 1872, while riding a The building will be erected at work by Sister Therese Martin. 3301 S. Sherman street, directly Announced Editing and revision of the text west of the church, about 30 feet were kept at a minimum to pre­ back from the street The school "Ilhree priests of the Archdiocese Prelate Te|ls of Titovs Terror Reign of Denver and four Franciscans serve Sister Blandina’a own style wHl be 90 feet long and 66 feet are affected by clefgy appointments and her personality as portrayed wide. The basement will include by the text. Numerous notes, how­ By Rev. James B. Hamblin announced this week by the Chan- , a cafeteria and kitchen, lavatories, eery office. ever, giving background and ex­ “ For me there are only two roads; one would take me and store room space that could planatory material, are the work back to my archdiocese, the other is that of an exile, it can Christian Brother Reports be used for a classroom, if the The Rev. James Halloran, as­ of considerable research by Sister end only in heaven.” need arises. The first floor will sistant at St. Vincent de Paul’s, Therese Martin. Denver, has been named pastor of : These were the words of the Most Rev. Gregory Roz- have, besides the four classrooms, ■\fter several summers of post­ a teachers’ room, office and re­ St. Peter’s in''Fleming. I graduate work in English at On Land of Contradictions man. Archbishop of Ljubljana in Yugoslavia, a refugee from ception room, and a first aid room. The Rev. John Haley, assistant} Marquette university in Milwaukee. Tito’s reign of terror,’ a living example of what type of By David Prudhomme school where he has been teaching, The second floob will have five at the Cathedral parish, Denver, Wis.; • Colorado university, and An adopted son of the land of he said, is a Catholic school, and classrooms and a music storage who has been helping out in Flem­ Denver university, Sister Therese “ freedom” the Red leader gives to religion. the Fugitive walked into the Reg­ yet ‘ it is not. He and his con­ room. ing, has been assigned as assistant, Martin has nearly completed re. Archbishop Rozman was in Den­ the state. Not only has the Bed ister’s front office early this week. freres are supposed to wear reli­ at St. Vincent’s. | uirements for her Master of Arts ver this week on a brief visit to The school and classrooms will dictator withdrawn that support; He said he was Brother Christian gious garb, and yet they never do. The Rev. William Monahan, who egree in'Engli.sh. the Holy Rosary parish. be modern, fireproof, aiid have a he has made it extremely difficult Francis, FrS.C. But he wore the The sun-browned visitor, who is last year was a student at the Cath­ During her seven years of teach- The threat of death and a sen­ such improvements as a communi­ for the clergy to find support in suit of a lay person. He had on a olic university in Washington, ing journalism at Cathedral high tence to 18 years at hard labor cations and alarm system, ventila­ other sources. They may neither necktie. There was nothing reli­ D.C. has been appointed as tem po-; school, the Hi-f'al, high school pub­ have prevented the .Archbishop tion, glazed tile walls, acoustical collect offerings nor ask for them. gious-looking .ibout him, except rary chaplain at St. Francis’ hos­ lication, ha.s never failed to win from entering hL« diocese for the tile ceilings, wardrobe and storage Only what comes to them freely, maybe his strongly chiseled face, pital, Colorado Springs, to replace ; the coveted honors of All-Catholic past three years. The .sentence was spaces. in the church itself, may be ac­ which was half-.smiling and half- the Rev. Harley Schmitt, who will and .All-.American every year. The passed on him, tn aheentia, on The main entrance to the build­ cepted. serious. journalism pupils have been award­ .Aug. 26, 1946, after he had left ing will be at 3301 S. Sherman go to Rome early in September for The instruction of children is Brother Christian Francis shook ed the high-ranking Medalist Ljubljana. The charge, “ an street. There will be two exits advanced studies. (Turn to Page 8 — C olum n i ) hands vigorously. The Mexican award from Columbia university. enemy o f the state,” means, o f from the rear of the building, The Rev. Felix Reitlingshofer,' New York, for outstanding work course, only that he is loyal to opening directly onto the play­ O.F.M., pastor of St. Elizabeth’s, in journalism in this section of the Sitter Blandine the Holy See. ground. There will be an uppei Denver, has been tranferred to country, and Cathedral high is the The Archbishop has received playground under the trees to the New York city, where he will • only school in Colorado to hold the Stagecoach to Trinidad. Often only indirect information of con­ 2 Widely Known Sisters back o f the buHding and a lower serve as pastor of St. Bonaven-1 journalistic honors o f Medalist, scribbled on wastepaper, her notes ditions in his diocese— indirect playground adjoining in the 15 ture’s. I All-Catholic, All-American, All- were written for only two per­ but nevertheless accurate. For no lots on Lincoln street. The Very Rev. Angelus Tintle, Coloradoan. International Honor, sons, herself and her sister. Sister one in Yugoslavia dares write to The sexton’s house was moved O.F.M., superior at St. Elizabeth’s, Get New Appointments has Iwen named pastor of the par­ and George H. Gallup awards. (Turn to Page 11 — C olum n 3) the exiled prelate. It would mean this week to lots adjoining the an immediate prison sentence. ish in .addition to his post as : Two nuns widely known and highly regarded in Denver playgrounds at 3360 S. Lincoln. superior. The garage on the school grounds HALF OF 700 PRIESTS The Rev. Boniface McClonville, are affected in new appointments at St. Joseph’s and Mercy will be removed later. 3-Day Institute Planned IN ARCHDIOCESE GONE O.F.M., of St. Francis’, New York But this he knows: Before hospitals. The contractor hopes to have city, has been named an as- . Tito’s seizure of Yugoslavia there Sister Mary Linus, superintend the building under roof by the sistant at St. Elizabeth’s, and the To Mark Ozanam Sunday were 700 priests in the Ljubljana ent-superior at St. Joseph’s hos­ time cold weather arrives. Rev. Sebastian Egan, O.F.M., has archdiocese. Now there are only pital for the past six years, will be Regis Downtown been transferred from the New i Ozanam Sunday, the annual ob­ ciety’s committee on the care of three or four hundred.