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Volume 17 Perryville, Missouri, October, 1946 / No. 1 CONFRERES STAFF NEW SEMINARY

Faculty Row and Classrooms with Chapel in Distance

Pict:res Courtesy Southwest Courier High School Dormitory Student Dining Room

His Excellency, Bishop Eugene J. Mc- homa. It is the completion of a hope Conscious of the grave obligation, the Guinness, has entrusted to the care of long cherished by Bishop McGuinness. Community feels honored in the part the Community the new Preparatory His Excellency is well aware of the it is to take in this new project. Seminary that is destined to serve the need of such a Seminary, and is con- Catholic interests of the State of Okla- fident that the advantages of train- At the present the arrangement at the Seminary is only provisional. It homa. Located at Bethany, the in- ing future priests within the Oklahoma consists of about ten small stitution is about five miles from Okla- City-Tulsa Diocese will more than off- units with homa City and is conveniently reach- siet the sacrifices entailed in the in- two larger houses. These buildings were formerly used for an old folks ed by interurban and bus. Under the auguration of the new Seminary. home rectorship where they would be two in a of the Very Rev. D. F. Mc- Once again Divine Providence has unit. All the buildings have been fresh- Neil, C.M., S'. Francis Preparatory ly painted, Seminary began classes Sept. 12 with chosen for the Community a prominent refurnished, and equipped part in the formation of the secular with asphalt tile floors. One of the an enrollment of 31 young men. Fr. clergy of this country. Almost from larger ,buildings will serve as a dormi- McNeil is assisted by Fr. Edmund Can- the beginning the, confreres of our tory, the other as a kitchen, dining non, spiritual director, and Fr. Gerard room, and Stamm, prefect of Western Province have devoted them- quarters for the Sisters. The discipline. selves to the instruction of the clergy, smaller buildings will be used for a col- The opening of the Seminary begins a work close to the heart of St. Vincent lege dormitory, residences for the fa- a new era for the Church in Okla- and left to us as a priceless heritage. (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) Page Two The De Andreift ST. FRANCIS SEMINARY DE PAUL SANITARIUM, NEW Recent Appointments ORLEANS. (Continued from Page One) Rev. Bert Cunninghan, C.M. culty, and classrooms. PROVINCIAL COUNCIL Very Rev. Michael J. O'Connell, C.M. ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL, LOS On the property adjoining the Sem- Rev. G. Cyril Le Fevre, C.M. inary is an orphanage under the dir- ANGELES ection of the Trinitarian Sisters who MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA Rev. Thomas J. Reynolds, C.M. have been most kind to the ,seminary BAND ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL, priests. The imposing chapel on these Rev. Walter M. Quinn, C.M. SHERMAN, TEXAS grounds will serve temporarily for the Rev. Dimond Ryan, C.M. Rev. Richard W. Lang, C.M. seminarians' spiritual exercises. There CHINA is also a large playing field near by ALEXIAN BROTHERS NOVITIATE, Bereswell, C.M. which will afford the young men ample Rev. Louis M. CLAYTON, MO. C.M. opportunity for recreation and exer- Rev. George Yager, Rev. Martin V. Moore, C.M. cise throughout the year. Rev. Leo Fox, C.M. Rev. Francis J. Kunz, C.M. ST. JOSEPH'S HIGHLAND, MO. Despite. the scarcity of many ma- Rev. Harold J. Guyot, C.M. Rev. Jeremiah Hogan, C.M. terials necessary for such a project, Rev. Hartrick Sullivan, C.M. much new equipment has been pro- ST. JAMES,' CROSSTOWN, MO. cured. A deep freeze, large refrige- ST. MARY'S SEMINARY Rev. Charles Rice, C.M. Rev. John Brosnan, C.M. rator, and a new stove have greatly ST. FRANCIS SEMINARY, Rev. Henry J. Piacitelli, C.M. facilitated matters. Our confreres BETHANY, OKLA. Hogan, C.M. have been most fortunate in acquiring Rev. Jeremiah Very Rev. Donald F. McNeil, C.M.,. Parres, C.M. the assistance of two Sisters, Adorers of Rev. Cecil Superior Rev. Nicholas Persich, C.M. the Most Precious Blood. The Sisters Rev. Edmund Cannon, C.M. reside at the seminary where they have DE PAUL UNIVERSITY Rev. Gerard Stamm, C.M. complete, charge of the kitchen and Rev. Merlin A. Feltz, C.M. ST. THOMAS SEMINARY refectory. This situation is ideal as it Cl.M. Rev. Joseph Edwards, Very Rev. Francis B. Koeper, Superior assures the boys of excellent meals and Rev. Ferdinand J. Ward, C.M. relieves the faculty of all worry in the Rev. Edward T. Whooley, C.M. culinary department. DE PAUL ACADEMY Rev. Francis Hynes, C.M. On the Sunday preceding the begin- Rev. Dennis J. Flynn, C.M. ST. JOHN'S SEMINARY ning of classes Bishop McGuinness in- Rev. James J. McHardy, C.M. SAN ANTONIO vited the faithful of Oklahoma to at- Rev. Arnold Martin, C.M Rev. Jerome Jourdan, C.M. tend an Open House at the Seminary. Rev. William J. Gillespie, C.M. LOS ANGELES COLLEGE The number of people who came to in- KENRICK SEMINARY Rev. Maurice J. Singleton, C.M. spect the setup was an inspiration. Rev. George C. Tolman, C.M. Rev. Edward Virgets, C.M. There were more than five hundred Rev. Ralph F. Bayard, C.M. visitors icn the grounds that afternoon, Rev. Anthony D. Fassbender, C.M. ST. VINCENT'S COLLEGE and most of them brought provisions of Very Rev. Charles E. Cannon, C.M., foodstuffs to help stock up the, sem- ST. LOUIS PREPARATORY Superior inary larder. The diocesan clergy were SEMINARY Rev. Joseph Wagner, C.M. also Rev. Edward Danagher, C.M. present in large numbers and ST. VINCENT'S LOS ANGELES showed great interest. Some, came over ST. JOSEPH'S, NEW ORLEANS Reiv. Frederick Marsch, C.M. two hundred miles to bring their boys. Rev. James N. Thompson, C.M. Rev. Harold E. Dicharry, C'M. This happy i.begig'iing has meant ST. PATRICK'S, LA SALLE ST. VINCENT'S KANSAS CITY much to our confreres who face a busy Rev. William:J. Stack, C.M. and difficult year. May it ibe a presage, Rev. Raymond F. White, C.M. of the success that, with God's help, HOLY SOULS, PAMPA ST. STEPHEN'S, NEW ORLEANS will crown their efforts... Very Rev. Otto M. Meyer, C.M. Superior Brother Clarence Seyer, C.M. ... ·: -:·:::

( ourtesy Southwest Courier College Dormitory-Four Brick Cottages The -DeAhndrein Page Three CAMP AGAIN! It was with great pleasure, very great pleasure, that the Students re- turned to camp after a lapse of five years. As was to be expected, a re- building program had to be introduc- ed. Three large substantial sleeping huts were constructed, each accommo- dating comfortably sixteen or eighteen occupants. The new huts are as large as the Chapel Hut. A group of fif- teen students worked hard and long during most of June building our quarters. The last roof was completed the afternoon of the arrival of the Student body. Lumber, cut during the winter by the Students, was hauled from the Seminary. A large cement ice-box, insulated with sawdust, was installed where the old pantry stood in the refectory. During the regular session, a large raft was made, a pier erected, kitchen drains fashioned, and the grounds cleaned. Two more huts are being planned for next year. Camping period extended from July Before the Jam! second to August tenth. Hiking re- them. Evenings snacks, closed with the usual Field Day and ceived much attention because of the We thank climaxing the day, were likely to be Swimming Meet, with the awarding of newness of the country, this being the followed by group-singing. prizes at the banquet. There is no first camping trip for all of the Stu- through- doubt in our minds but that we bene- dents excluding the Rev. Subdeacons. The weather was excellent must be fited in an extraordinary fashion from One of the latter spent the closing out our stay. Even more for which we thank almost six weeks in the Ozarks. two weeks of camp with us; the others said of the food, with the Our many, many thanks to all those were only able to visit, taken up as Mr. James Elder who worked who by their activities or by their good they were with the duties of Motor assistance of the Cares of Kitchen, made camp possible. Missioners. The country was beauti- Messrs. McKinley, C.M., Hickey, C.M., will, was ful beyond our imaginings. Marble and Sheehy, C.M. The season Creek, Faro Tower, Silver Mine Dam, and the Jesse James' caves were the ordinary hikes; Faro Tower via Saco, Religion Course Gets Saco itself, the old camp site, and Blue Mountain were the extraordinary. The State Accrediting canoe trips were frequent; the fishing It was another triumph for Father expeditions, numerous. Benefactors Michael Ries, C.M., when the Texas donated a new canoe and row-boat. State Board of Education gave final approval to his Bible Study Course for Catholic students attending non-cath- Father Stack Aids olic high schools. Carmelites The Course, the work of four years Stricken for Fr. Ries, consists of one series of We extend heartfelt sympathy to the studies on the Old Testament, and members of the Order of Carmelites one o;n the New Testament. Eighty- on their great loss of three leaders of five class meetings of at least forty- the Order. We reprint extracts from five minutes each represent the mini- a letter of Fr. Stack: .mum for each course. (Each course "It was just a week ago that I re- requires two years to complete.) turned from Shamrock where the three Carmelite priests were taken The Board of Education will grant after that dreadful wreck at a point one-half credit for each of the cours- near Allanreed, about 27 miles from es comuleted under the plan. The Pampa. The three Carmelites includ- Bible will be the only text-although ed the Superior General, the Father it may be supplemented with syllabi- Secretary of the General, and the and will be taught "for its literary, Provincial of the Texas-Oklahoma historical, and moral values." province. The Course must be non-sectarian. instantly, "The Provincial was killed The school board incurs no expense Dr. James M. Voste, O.P. as was the brother of the Baptist except that of furnishing the use of minister who was driving the other the class room. In many districts the The distinguished Doctor of Sacred car. The Superior General died at Course will be given at school during Scripture and Secretary of the Pontifi- 2:23 that morning while his secretary school hours; in San Antonio, outside cal Biblical Commission lectured on passed away at 8:40. The accident of school hours in the respective par- "St. Paul-the Apostle of the Gentiles" passed away at 8:40. The accident hap- ishes. before the Community at the Barrens lened the evening before about 7:29. on June 30. The plan has been heartily approv- ed by clerical and secular leaders. In matter for effective teaching of the a letter to Fr. Ries, Archbishop Lucey Bible." I CONGRATULATIONS of San Antonio stated: "You have in- To Messrs. William McCarthy, augurated a great work not only for The Course before receiving alprov- Donald Ryan; and Willi m Gan- our beloved State of Texas, but it al from the State had been passed on non, C.M., who recently pro- seem- to me for the whole of our by the Confraternity of Christian nounced their Holy Vows, the country." A director of the State Doctrine, the NCWC, and the Catholic first two on July 19, the last on Department of Education of Texas Biblical Association. Father Joseph September 15. wrote: "We appreciate the work of Lilly, secretary of the last-named so- Fr. Ries in planning and shaping up ciety, edited the plan. Page Four __ The De Andrein VINCENTIAN CLIPPINGS CHICAGO, ILL. will be conducted by Frs. Raymond Very Rev. Comerford O'Malley, C.M., O'Brien and Daniel Martin. Fr. Degan delivered an address to the Catholic will direct a correspondence course for Lawyers Guild, assembled in Holy those unable to attend. Name Cathedral on September 29 for Total registration at St. John's this the annual Red Mass. year is 141. A new building, to con- The new Dean of Commerce at De tain five classrooms, science labora- paul University is Fr. Edward Kammer. tory, and an auditorium, is under Fr. Joseph Edwards, recently returned construction. It will eventually be to De Paul after his Naval chaplaincy, a part of the Minor Seminary after will be Dean of the Downtown Liberal the division of the Seminaries. Arts College to succeed Father Kam- PARIS mer. Another returning chaplain, Fr. A motion picture, "Monsieur Vin- Joseph Ward, recently of the Army, is cent," is scheduled to appear some- now Professor of English in the Col- time in 1947, according to a report lege of Commerce. issued by a society of French histor- De Paul Academy has enrolled 870 ical documentation, as part of their students. Fr. William Ryan assumes program to present the contributions his new position of Assistant Princi- made by leading Frenchmen to the pal, and Frs. Frank O'Malley and Wil- world. liam Gillespie are Coordinator and As- PERRYVILLE sistant Coordinator of Sports, respect- The class of Subdeacons was busy ively. most of the summer on the Motor Mis- At the 49th convocation exercises of sions. Crowds were relatively small De Paul University, held in St. Vin- God Speed You! Bishop for the White Church Unit, headed by cent's Church on August 10, We dedicate our first issue of Fr. Dimond Ryan, assisted by Rev. Charles W. Quinn, C.M., was present- THE DE ANDREIN for 1946-47 to of doctor Messrs. Francis Gaydos, and Jacob ed with the honorary degree the members of the Double Fam- Johnson, but the interest of the young of laws, and afterwards addressed the ily, who are preparing to leave people was pronounced. The Jefferson graduates on the subject of meeting for China: Bishop Charlscs of tomorrow. City Unit was made up of Fr. Oscar their postwar problems Quinn, and Fathers Fox, Kunz, Miller, Rev. Messrs. Robert Brennan CAPE GIRARDEAU Bereswell, Guyot, Yager, and conduct- and Bruce Vawter. Fr. Miller also Father James Saracini is Sullivan, together with six acted as prison chaplain for two ing a special men's choir from St. Vin- Daughters of Charity. To you the "Local Catholic weeks during the absence of the reg- cent's Church for all, and in an especial way to -the ular chaplain of the State Penitent- Hour," over station KFVS. Priests last-named, who was one of us the College will give the talks on iary. Fr. Joseph Wagner and Rev. Mr. from it the. Barrens such a short 1ine Stephen Ganel were located at the these programs. ago, we promise our affectionate is the new Pre- Troy center. All three groups report Fr. Joseph Wagner remembrances, our letters, and excellent cooperation from the zealous fect of Students. we ST. LOUIS will keep you always in our secular priests of their respective cen- of the "Liguorian" earnest pleas to God to bless and ters. The August issue received on published an interesting article on protect you, and make your work Four new Novices were Study fruitful! September 7. During the summer five Father Lester Fallon's "Home Postulant Brothers were admitted. Service," which was reprinted in the THE DE ANDREIN "St. Louis Register" for August 23, 1946. LOS ANGELES the second Auxiliary to Archbishop SORRY! Total students registered at the John J. Cantwell. The customary six or e'ght Preparatory Seminary are 275, 48 of Fr. Maurice Singleton, former Navy page first issue has been m- de whom are boarders. Special Latin chaplain, is teaching Mathematics and impossible by reason of a paper classes have been instituted for the Science. shortage. war veterans, who are receiving their CHINA seminary training under the G. I. Bill. Latest divisions of territory give Fr. Edward Virgets is the Assistant Vincentians over 65,000,000 souls, of Prefect of Discipline. whom about 1,000,000 are Catholics, On October 15, in the Cathedral of and about 80,000 are catechumens. Saint Vibiana, the Faculty and Stu- CAMARILLO Published monthly by the Stephen dents will assist at the consecration of Eighty students are enrolled this Vincent Ryan Unit of the Catholic Bishop-elect Timothy J. Manning as year, including six veterans. Six more Students' Mission Crusade. students are expected from Ireland. FATHER ROBERTS DIES Twenty catechists in the Gold Coast, Subscription: $1.00 per year (nine On August 2, 1946, Father Frederick British West Africa, have been enroll- issues). Roberts, C.M., passed away at Holy ed in the Seminary's Correspondence Please notify us of change in ycur Trinity rectory after forty-five years in Course. (A similar arrangement has address. the priesthood, at the age of seventy- been made with other seminaries Editor...... John F. Lenihan, C.M . six years. Father was well-known for throughout the country, including St. Associate Editors his twenty zealous and priestly years Mary's of the Barrens.) William Pittm.n, C.M. as a chaplain at Charity Hospital in WASHINGTON, D. C. John Richardson, C.M. New Orleans. The Ladies of Charity of Baltimore- Exchanges Washinston are snonsoring a national James Galvin, C.M. contest for a window design, in stain- Business Manager CONFRERE DIES SUDDENLY ed glass, to depict St. Louise de Mar- Robert Stack, C.M. After a brief illness, Father Thomas illac, for the National Shrine of the Circulation Manager Devine, C.M., died on August 14, 1946, Immaculate Conception. Manuel Pelleteri, C.M. at the age of sixty-nine years. Or- SAN ANTONIO Faculty Advisor dained in 1901, he had been a class- An archdiocesan two-year course in Rev. James F. McOwen, C.M.. mate of Father Roberts. Father had religion to prepare the laity as certi- - - been stationed at St. Louis Preparatory fied cathechists was opened by Arch- Let us love God, but let it be at the Seminary, but was vacationinw in Los bishop Robert E. Lucey on September expense of our arms and in the swedt Angeles when illness overtook him. 30. Classes, to be held in the evening, of cur brow. St. Vincent de Paul olisrn7 e M Nbe Volume 17 Perryville, Missouri, November, 1946 NO. 2 MISSIONERS DELAYED BY STRIKE European Relief Terminated Five Tons Shipped in Year The new ruling of the NCWC War Relief Services that each individual shipper muct pay the ocean freight charges, hitherto borne by that or- ganization, makes further handling cf our relief work to our houses in Europe impracticable. All the material now on hand will be sent to the warehouse of the NCWC in New York for general distribution. Previously, it was learned that indivi- dual shipments to designated persons in Poland could not be continued, for undisclosed reasons. The last ship- ment destined for our Confreres and Sisters in Poland has had to be con- signed to His Eminence Adam Cardin- al Sapieha, in Cracow, who will dis- tribute it where needed. A chalice and paten recently donated for a Polish priest is to be handled in the same way. Five tons of food and clothing, most Father Harold Guyot Father Hartrick Sullivan of which was contributed by our Sisters, have been dispatched in the Bishop Departs Alone Father Guyot was ordained in 1941, pa,st year to our houses in Poland, and besides a term spent at Catholic de- Holland, Belgium, France, and Italy. Bishop Quinn, deeming further University, has taught at "Cape" and Ameri- Nineteen hundred pairs of shoes were lay inadvisable boarded a Pan at the Barrens, where he also acted Monday morn- the total. can plane for China, on as pastor of the mission church at part of our six The balance of the cash account, ing, October 14. Meanwhile, Highland. Father Sullivan was ordain- must remain about $250.00, is to be expended for the confreres and six sisters ed in June of this year. strike eleven pound parcels of in the States while the shipping purchase of of San Father Lloyd In Hospital food, distributed by CARE (Cooper- continues around the docks were ative for American Relief to Europe), Francisco. Original sailing dates Father Paul Lloyd was to have ac- a non-profit organization. These will Septemnber 20 and 28. companied Bishop Quinn on the flight be sent to our houses in Italy, where Four of the priests are veteran mis- to China, but was stricken with illness food is still very scarce. sioners-Frs. Bereswell, Kunz, Fox, shortly before the scheduled depart- and Yager. The others, pictured above, ure. He is now at Mary's Help Hos- De PAUL HOLDS are new to the Chinese apostolate. pital in San Francisco. U. S. RECORD "MILES CHRISTI SUM" De Paul University, with 11,150 stu- Te igitur, clementissime Pater,... Space does not allow for an ade- dents is the largest C~tholic Universi- supplices rogamus ac petimus uti ac- quate description of what took place ty in America. "G. I." enrollment in cepta habeas .... sancta sacrificia il- at the St. Louis Cathedral on the 8th all schools is 4575, 250 of whom are libata. In primis quae tibi offerimus of October, the day that the new registered in the newly acquired Col- pro.... Antistite nostro JOSEPHO. Archbishop was formally installed. lege of Physical Education. Since the time that St. Mary's of Nor do we deem such a description All available space in both the the Barrens first saw the territory of necessary; for the details are known downtown divisions has been exhaust- St. Louis made into a separate bish- to most of our readers. Thousands of ed. More than three thousand ap- opric her sons have been continually the faithful filled the huge Cathedral plications had to be rejected. Seventy imploring God's blessing on the dio- to its full capacity, while other thou- additions have been made in the cese in the person of each of its suc- sands, unable to gain entrance, waited teaching personnel. ceeding Bishops and Archbishops. It olutside to catch a first glimpse of the Father Comerford O'Malley recent- was in 1827 that the Most Rev. Joseph new Ordinary. In addition to the most ly made public an expansion program RP'sati, C.M., was appointed first Rev. A mleto Giovanni Cicognani, that includes plans for endowments Bishop of St. Louis, and now after Apostolic Delegate to the U. S'., there for faculties, fellowships and loans for having witnessed the elevation of the were also in attendance 11 Archbish- students, and development in build- diocese to the status of an archdiocese ops, 38 Bishops, 8 Abbots, and hun- ings, grounds and equipment. and having seen the late Archbishop dreds of other prelates. These facts Larger and better facilities are pro- made a Prince of the Church, it is alone are indicative of the grandeur jected for the downtown section. Up- interesting to note that once arain of the ceremony and of the hivh es- town, the program calls for a new li- the words "Antistite nostro Josepho" teem in which Archbishop Ritter is brary building, an addition to the fac- are being uttered daily in our Masses. held by all. ulty house for priests, enlargement of This time it is for the Most Rev. Jos- the science building, a new wing for eph E. Ritter, the fourth Archbishop "Miles Christi Sum" is the motto the arts building, and a fieldhouse. of St. Louis. on the Archbishop's Coat-of-Arms. Page Two The De Andrein been founded for vocations to the experimented and introduced into News From Brazil Congregation. One of our professors Australia the X-ray. Later too, he A recent letter from our Students directs and guides this work. was responsible for the first wireless at Petropolis, Brazil, gives an inter- "Besides these human means, there message out here, sent from St. Stan- esting picture of their activities and are others, more efficacious: prayers islaus' College, actually. Well, along the works of the confreres in spread- and sacrifices and the zeal of all for with the Missions and this one Col- ing the Gospel: attaining the spirit of the first mis- lege, other works came under the (Translation) sioners. From these efforts we con- charge of these Missioners, mainly "Petropolis, Sept. 27, 1946 fidently hope that God will choose parishes. from the large number of Students "May Jesus Christ be blessed many priests with which the Visitor At present we have charge of five "Dear confreres, may satisfy the wishes of the Bishops parishes. I don't know exactly how "We are very happy to reply to the and restore the missions to their first or when it came about, but at present letters which we received before we splendor.... we are also running two Colleges with- went on vacation. Your Brother Students of in the Universities, one at Sydney and "Since 1942, we have had a summer Brazil, C, M." at Brisbane. Recently (it was in 1934) house in the small town of Pomba, the National Seminary of New Zea- where during June and July we are land was given over to us. All the 125 miles away from Philosophy and Correspondence With time, of course, there has been one of Theology and enjoy pleasant weather the Confreres Spiritual Director at and frequent hikes, before beginning Australia Resumed the Diocesan Seminary here in Syd- ney. the second semester in August. Vincentian Fathers I'm afraid this has developed into "The Catholic people, agricultural too much of a catalogue At all St. Joseph's Eastwood, events, people, have the faith which alone N.S.W. that covers most of our works. gives simplicity of life. Here we cele- The missions are at present showing brated the Feast of St. Vincent most Dear Confreres, much promise. Some of our young fittingly, which feast was preceded, at Gratia D.N.J.C., etc. men have been given a great oppor- the wish of the pastor, by a novena, Your letter came to us some time tunity in being placed in the Mission made in part by our Deacons, chant- ago, and we are very glad to be in School established here in the Sem- ing the hymns and responses of the contact with our confreres of other inary. Needless to say, there are many office. lands again. It is a long time, now, aspirants amongst us to that great since we were in touch with any of privilege. "On the 19th, the day closed with a the Vincentian Students of the dif- literary and musical entertainment, ferent Provinces-let's hope things will You are wondering I suppose how and a theological discussion: Concern- improve so that we may experienc 0 many there are that go to make up ing the personality of St. Vincent. what it is to belong to the big world- the "we" and "us." It's rather an an- "The 21st, the feast day of the wide family. ti-climax, after expanding so profus- Parish of St. Vincent, was a Lunday. ly, when we tell you that at present There was a Solemn Mass at 10 End You say you are interested to know we are very low in numbers at the in the afternoon Solemn Vespers and all about the conditions and works of Seminary, seven of us Students, four the Procession of St. Vincent through our Province. Of course, you know Seminarists. I think it must be the the streets of the town, the students that as a re-arate Province we have lowest we have ever been since the walking in procession and chanting. not existed very long. Our present Seminary opened. That was in 1922. Before Benediction, one of the Dea- Visitor, Fr. Nicholas Rossiter, appoint- Since that time over fifty priests h ve cons delivered a panegyric. ed at the beginning of this year, is gone through here. But things are our third. For in the beginning, Aus- "At Sao Paolo, the Shrine of Saint much brighter now. Our Missionary tralia was part of the Irish Province. work is expanding. It is to be hoped Vincent w.s blessed in our arish It happened in this wise. When Car- church. His Eminence Cardinal Car- many young men will be inspired to dinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney joining the Little Company when they olus Carmelus Mota assisted ponti- at that time, went to Europe to look fically at the Mass celebrated by our see our Missioners at their work. for priests and nurs to come with him There certainly is no dearth of as- Very Reverend Visitor, Father Godin- to helu build up the Church in Sydney, ho. Close to the church, there is the pirants among yourselves. Your prov- he asked Fr. Fiat for some of his ince may be called upon to help in parish moving picture theatre, which priests. Fr. Fiat referred him to the seats about 1400 persons, the returns the i:arts badly set back by this past Irish nrovincial, Fr. Duff. In 1P95 or war. from which helped to erect the Shrine. so, two Irish confreres were sent out This parish, a true laborers' cen*er, to examine conditions, and to send At present we have no Deacons embraces in miniature all Vincen- home a renort on the possibilities of among us. This year is a blank as far tian activities: The Daughters of establishing the Congregation in these as ordinations. We have one who Charity have a house there and the parts. The two men found that there hopes to step up for the Subdiaconate. Vincentian sodality has establishei were abundant work for Missionaries. The rest of us are still waiting Minor its headquarters there for the whole At the time, Diocese were very ex- Orders. It's the first time we've had province.... tensive, pr'ests relatively few, the a year without Deacons, and we miss "Belo Horizonte, among the prin- population w's scattered. Missions the little discussions during Common cipal cities of Brazil, has well-ordered were a great boon, for they brought Recreations about what Antinhons are worship, and the piety of the clergy the consolations of religions to neople said at Vespers today or the second and an Archbishop who knows the who, thou-•h strong in the Faith, had scheme of Psalms at Lauds or the necessities of the times stimulates re- few opportunities of gettinr to Mass Confitemini cum symbolo at Pr'me. ligious life. The Archbishop recently and the Sacraments. F~en in the A sub-deacon-to-be's first look into instituted a meeting of Catholic Ac- parts more populated, Sydney and the Breviary is like a boy's first joy tion, and he is its ardent supporter. Melbourne, etc., the Missions were a with his mechanical set. It's a real "The laity help the work of securing great success, for Missioners were thrill. However that is all still in vocations. Last July 27th, the Apos- rather scarce. It was not long before store for us. tolic School at Caracas had the recond was a very they decided that Australia To conclude, we want to thank meeting of its Association of the and the you good field for the Mission'rs, for your good wishes to us. We w'sh Alumni of the Lazarists and the of men was gradually increas- number all the best to yourselves. We must Friends of Caracas, which has for its next offered a combin- ed. They were pray for one another, that we whole purpose to help the poor stu- and College-St. may ation of Seminary receive grace to become earnest dents, whose priestly vocations, there- Bathurst. In 1888 the Vin- work- Stanislaus, ers for the spread of the Kingdom. fore, depends on them. Caracas, the centians took the place over. It is no cradle of the Congregation in Brazil, longer a seminary, but we still have Very sincerely yours in St. Vincent, an ancient and celebrated college, charge of the college for boys. One STUDENTS' OF THE AUSTRALIAN flourishing Apostolic today has a truly of these early Missioners made a mark PROVINCE School.... for himself in the early days. This "Here at Petropolis, burses have was Fr. Slattery. He it was who first per A. Commins, i.c.c.m. The De Andrein Page Three ST. PAUL'S HOSPITAL OBSERVES JUBILEE a separate unit for the Mexican dis- ed the Sisters in rendering thanks Daughters Care for trict thus making it possible to pro- to Almighty God for the material and vide lunches for school children and spiritual blessings that have been 300,000 Patients complete service for adults. In 1938, granted through the instrumentality This year marks a half century of the last unit was added, consisting of of St. Paul's. On this occasion His achievement for those who have de- a free clinic and a children's hospit- Excellency paid a glowing tribute to voted themselves to the service of the al with forty beds for those under the unselfish deeds of those whose sick and needy at St. Paul's Hospital, twelve years of age. service had made the hospital such a Dallas. The institution, owned and Jubilee Celebration notable success, recalling in particular operated by the Daughters of Charity, In order to honor this anniversary, the Sister Servants of the hospital:' is self-supported and dependent up- a celebration was held at the hospital Sister Mary Bernard, Sister Lucia, on pay and part-pay patients for its last summer. His Excellency, Most Sister Olympia, Sister Camilla, Sister revenue. Since its founding it has Rev. Joseph P. Lynch, Bishop of Dal- Margaret, Sister Vincent, Sister Aga- admitted approximately 300,000 pa- las, together with the clergy and many tha, Sister DePaul, and Sister Antonia tients. of the laity of the diocese join- who is now in charge of the hospital. From a small beginning this refuge -- of the sick has become, through the 19I~n~a~ab 1~118~1 I~ICBgr I" II~C CONFRERE GETS NEW Providence of God and the generosity of those serving it, a 350-bed, approv- CONDOLENCES DIGNITY ed, Class A, well-equipped, modern We extend our heartfelt sympa- hospital. At the present time Sister thies at this time to two of our In the changes in the Hierarchy of Antonia is in charge and she is as- Scholastics, Messrs. Ra y m o n d Peru, recently made known by the sisted by twenty-six Daughters of Ross and Louis Derbes, on the Vatican City, Father Fedrico Perez, Charity. death of their fathers, that of the formerly Apostolic Administrator of Historical Sketch former, on October 12, the other, Cajamarca, and Superior of the sem- In answer to an appeal from Most on October 11. inary there, has been appointed Titu- lar Bishop of Carystus, and will serve Rev. Edward Dunne, Bishop of Dal- May They Rest in Peace las, and several laymen, the Daugh- as Auxiliary to Cardinal Guevara, ters of Charity of Emmitsburg, Md., r3 Archbishop of Lima. agreed to open the first general hos------pital in Dallas. On July 16, 1896, the original hospital of one hundred beds was chartered under the state law T h i s informal for the care of the sick and indigent snapshot of Arch- of all classes, races, and creeds. The bishop Ritter and first patients were received that win- Father Brennan, ter in a cottage which served the Sis- was taken in front ters temporarily. The present main of the Administra- buildings, including the power-house tion Building on and steam laundry, was built on a October 28, as His four-acre tract of land partly donat- Excellency was ed by the citizens of Dallas. The cor- preparing to leave r e-tone of this building was laid in after a brief call at 1897, and its doors were first oren- the Barrens, with ed to patients in June of the follow- the promise to ing year. come, back and The early years of the hospital were meet all the mem- characterized by the undaunted spirit bers of the Com- of the Sisters who met and overcame munity. He was hardships of all kinds. It was during accompani ed by these trying times that those in Bishop Donnelly charge, encouraged by doctors and and Msgr. Charles friends, ventured to establish a train- He msin g, all of ing school for nurses. In 1903 the WIIUIII W C 1 e UrJ first class of three young women was their way to the funeral of the late Bishop Morris, in Little Rock, Arkansas. graduated. This school of nursing has so deve'ored that today it has an average enrollment of 175 students CONGRATULATIONS per year. The Daughters of Charity of the past few years she has been stationed With the steady growth of Dallas Western Province have felicitated at St. Ann's Home in St. Louis. the number of patients to be cared for eleven of their number thus far this The eleven others who have cele- was greatly increased. A larger build- year on their Golden Jubilees. On.No- brated their, fiftieth year of vocation ing seemed the only answer to the vember 5, two more w'll be added to in 1946 are: Sisters Sienna Wrenn, St. problem, so in 1916 the present east the list, and on December 17, a final Joseph's Hospital, St. Joseph, Mo.; annex was opened, thus increasing the pair bringing the total for the year to Apolline Lancaster, St. Vincent's Sani- hospital's capacity to about three fifteen. tarium, St Louis, Mo.; Vincent Mey- hundred beds. The two November jubilariars, are ers, Charity Hosnital, New Orleans; In the last year of World War I, the Sister Hilda Doyle and Sister Regina Clare Hoch, St. Vincent's Day Nurs- institution opened is doors to the Gunn. The former will be joined on ery, Evansvil'e; Josephine Donnell, Army serving as a base hospital for her anniversary by her brother, Rev. St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Joseph; the soldiers of the nearby camps. John Doyle, of St. Francis Convent. Christina Pearce, St. Paul's Hospital, Thousands of our young men, victims Loretto, Pennsylvania, of the Third- Dallas; Cecilia Moran, Marillac Sem- of the influenza epidemic, received the Order Regular of St. Francis, who will inary, Normandy, Mo.; Adele Sloan, best of medical care from the Sisters offer the Holy Sacrifice for his sister. The Louise Home, New Orleans; De and the rest of the hospital staff. Sister Hilda has been stationed at Sales Loftus, St. Margaret's Hospital, St. Paul's continued to grow in the Marillac Seminary for many years. Montgomery, Alabama; Estelle Mur- post-war period. In 1922 the present Sister Regina Gunn w s for many phy, Los Angeles Orphan Asylum; nurses' home was completed. The out- years at St. Vincent's Hospital, in and Estelle Rogers, Villa St. Louise, patients department had so expanded Kansr-s City, and later at St. Vincent's Normandy. that it was deemed advisable to open Infant Asylum in Milwaukee. For the The De Andrein Page Fouir Pag Fot The De Andrein·----~----- V NCE N T I AN C LIP PINGS SAN ANTONIO treat for the Daughters of Charity to ly. Father Rice spoke and introduced Father John O'M. Sharpe, C.M, de- be held at St. Elizabeth's Asylum, be- to the parents the professors and the livered the opening address at the ginning October 18. new officers of the guild. archdiocesan Catholic teachers insti- KANSAS CITY CANAL ZONE tute on October 14. Father John Walk- Sister M. Louise, St. Vincent's Hos- Father Leary is making a visitation er, C.M., discussed a guidance program pital, has been selected to speak at of the houses belonging to the Eastern for high school students before the the diocesan religious program for Province. assembly. vocations for the current scholastic CAMARILLO The Seminary choir, directed by year. The Students, under the direction Father Lee Zimmermann, gave a se- The Students of St. John's sang at of Father Richard Gieselman sang at lection cf ecclesisastical music over the cathedral for the opening Mass the consecration of Bishop Manning station KCOR for half an hour on of the N. C. W. C. Convention, with in the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana on September 28, with Father Donald Fal- NORMANDY October 15. Ion presenting the commentary. At the close of the recent Sister Father Winne conducted the annual The Students' annual Retreat, which Servants' Retreat, conducted by Fath- retreat for the seminarians October commenced October 27, was conduct- er G. C Lefevre, Archbishop Ritter 28-31. ed by Father Raphael Kuchler. Fath- celebrated Mass at Marillac Seminary, Bishop Manning will give Tonsure ers Bagen, Kavanaugh, Zimmermann, and delivered an address to the re- and Diaconate on November 9th. and Riley held missions in various treatants. CHICAGO country parishes while the Students PERRYVILLE Father Alexander Schorsch in col- were on retreat. Fathers Piacitelli, Parres, and Per- laboration with his sister, Sister M. CAPE GIRARDEAU sich delivered the Forty Hour sermons Dolores Schorsch, O.S.B., has writ- The annual Students: Retreat, Octo- ten a new series of eight religion ber 24-27, was conducted by Father at the Seminary Church of the As- sumption, on October 30, 31, and No- texts, titled A Course in Religion, now John F. Zimmerman. being used throughout the United Foley attended the vember 1. Father Ignatius The Barrens was represented at States. "Cape" Bingo Party at St. Stephen's Father John Murphy was recently in New Orleans as the representative ,the funeral of the late Bishop Morris of Little Rock by Fathers William elected Vice-President of Chicago of the College. Catholic Science Teachers. The of- Cheering and a wild ovation greeted Brennan, Brosnan, John Danagher, and Fischer. ficial organ of that society, the Aug- the announcement made in the Study ust edition, carried his discourse on a Hall by Father Charles Cannon that The pray rs of the Community were asked for Bishop Winkelmann, of comparative study of evolution of the Students were to receive a two-week macrogametaphytes of the plant king- Christmas vacation at home, the first Wichita, a devoted and beloved friend of the confreres, whose condition is dom. time in several decades such a privilege On October 23, Father John Cortel- has been granted. very critical at this time. BETHANY you delivered a lecture for the nurses ST. LOUIS of St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital, nam- The audience of 225 Catholic teachers on Father Owen Quigley has been "The Teaching of Science Courses in ed Director of Studies and Vice-Rec- assembled at the annual Teachers' In- stitute in Tulsa, on October 18, heard Schools of Nursing." tor of the Preparatory Seminary. De Paul University recently receiv- Bishop Paschang, M.M., visited and Father D. F. McNeil speak on the subject "The Fostering of Vocations." ed a citation for its work in training gave a talk to the students of the military personnel under the Army Prep October 20. On October 29, the Seminary was host to His Excellency, the Most Rev. Specialized Training Program. The Father Gilmore .Guyot is scheduled citation Eugene J McGuinness, who celebrated ran: "...thanks of a grateful to deliver a talk, "The Holy Bible, per- government for the unstinted and ennial 'best seller"' on November 5 Mass, and, in. solemn proclssion, ble:s- ed the vrounds and buildings. wholehearted co-operation given to the over Station WEW. conduct, and successful completion of NEW ORLEANS the Apostolic Delegate pontificating. Father Robert Rice has been givinm programs of instruction for Army per- At the Metropolitan Council of Holy War Department in the preparation, Name Societies rally, pageant, and a series of lectures to the Sisters of sonnel." Holy Hour on October 13, Father John various Kansas City schools on movie- L. O'Regan, C.M., led the men in the projection. JUGOSLAVIA renewal of the society's pledge, and On October 1, Bishop O'Hara was It has been reported that about Father James Connors assisted in lead- guest at a tea at St. John's. After forty Daughters of Charity have been ing the prayers during the Holy Hour. Benediction, the Bishop greeted the barbarously executed by the Tito Father O'Dea will conduct the re- mothers of the seminarians individual- regime. _ ,, Catholic Mission, things sent are appreciated more than Linchwan, Kiangsi, you can easily understand. What a The De Andrein September 21, 1946 pleasure it is having a good cup of Dear Confreres, coffee for breakfast instead of tea! Published monthly by the Ste-hen Gratia D. N. J. C. sit semper nobis- How we enioy lighting a Camel or Vincent Ryan Unit of the Catholic cum! Lucky, or filling our nipes with fresh Students' Mission Crusade. Walter Raleigh We would like a little space in your after the "stuff" we've Subscription. $1.00 per year (nine paper to send a word of thanks to the smoked these years! The same holds issues). Confreres of the Province. for tasting a piece of candy, having Please notify us of change in your When Fathers Vincent Smith and a slice of Snam, a bowl of soun, or a address. Vandenberg returned to China they nip of 50 Grand. But what the men carried with them thirty or forty box- here appreciate, perhaps more than Editor es, the contents of which were to be the pleasure of the palate, is the fact John F. Lenihan, C. M. distributed to the Confreres of the that these are gifts from our own Associate Editors Vicariate. Some of the Confreres in Confreres; given at no small sacrifice William PittmAn, C.M. the out-the-way Missions have not yet to their pocketbooks. To know that John Richardson, C.M. received their portions, but most of us we are not forgotten, and that Vincen- Exchanges have,. We understood that this gift tian charity prevails among our Con- James Galvin, C.M. was made possible by the Vincentian freres. Business Manager Foreign Mission Society, through the So, in the name of all the Confreres Robert Stack, C.M. zeal of Fathers Lloyd and Mahoney of the Vicariate, I send you our hearty Circulation Manager and the generosity of the Confreres thanks, and God bless you. Manuel Pelleteri, C.M. throughout the Province. Sincerely yours in St. Vincent, Faculty Advisor After seven lean years the C. S. Dunker, Iscm, (Signed) Rev. James F. McOwen, C.M. A JOYOUS CHRISTMAS TO ALL c-a i c - S ^ ((Jtee~nuwn Volume 17 Perryville, Missouri, December, 1946 NO. 3 BARRENS CELEBRATES --- 1886-1946 Archbishop Ritter UNVEILING OF PORTRAIT CROWNS Confers Diaconate MEMORIAL PROGRAM SUPERIOR OF VISITOR WELCOMES. PHILIPPINES NEW ORDINARY PRESENT FOR "'Select from among you, men CELEBRATION of good reputation, full of the Spirit Modest and unpre- and of wisdom'... And after they tentious, like the event had prayed they laid their hands it was commemorating, upon them" (Acts vi, 3, 6). On a program of speeches November 30, His Excellency, Arch- and songs, on Saturday bishop Joseph E. Ritter, in his evening, December 7, first ordinations at the Barrens, at honored the memory of 8:30 a. m. in the Church of the As- the reopening of the sumption, elevated to the Diacon- Barrens as an Apostolic ate Rev. Messrs. Robert Brennan, School in 1886, and C.M., Francis Gaydos, C.M., Jacob paid tribute to Our Johnson, C.M., Stephen Ganel, C.M., Lady of the Immacu- and Bruce Vawter, C.M. "Send Sa t e Conception, on whose feast, sixty years forth upon them, we beseech Thee, ago, six boys gathered O Lord, the Holy Spirit that they Sina shingled, log hut may be strengthened by Him, to hear their first talk through the gift of Thy seven- from Father Daniel Mc- fold grace, unto the faithful dis- Carthy at the Apostol- charge of Thy service" (Ordination ic School. Names like Ceremony). Glass, Fee 1y, Ryan, Welcome Program Hoover, and Hueber At seven-thirty, Friday evening, evoked pictures of prim- November 29, a short program was itive days in the early presented to welcome Archbishop years. Just recognition Ritter to St. Mary's Seminary. The was paid' to Father Community's sentiments were ex- Thomas Smith, under tended by Mr. Lawrence Leonard, whom the Western C.M., who greeted His Excellency Province was formed in in the name of all as our Father in 1888, and to Father Christ. Barnwell, under whom (Continued on Page 3) the material, as well as Ven. Felix De Andreis, C.M. the spiritual, Barrens made strides. Student speakers, and their themes were: Mr. John Vidal, "The Immaculate Conception"; Mr. John Farris, "In Re- trospect"; Mr. James Towns, "The True (Continued on Page Five)

SMISSIONERS SAIL Fathers Bereswell, Guyot, and Sul- livan, in company with the Daugh- ters of Charity, left for China on De- cember 2; Fathers Kunz, Yager, and Fox, on December 8. This after long delays, is good rews to us all. We re- .'re that details are lacking for a fuller accounting of their voyage, a lack we hope to make up as soon as we can contact them. We know we speak the mind of all in assuring them of earnest prayers for a fruitful harvest. May their first Christmas in a land already made very dear to Vin- centians through the memory of Bless- ed Francis Regis Clet and Blessed John Gabriel Perboyre be joyous and The Deacons: Rev. Messrs. Ganel, Gaydos, Brennan, Johnson, and Vawter, glad! shown with his Excellency and the Very Reverend Visitor. Page Two The De Andrein WELCOME TO AMERICA AND THE WESTERN PROVINCE, FATHERS GERMOVNIK AND SOKLIC! impossible to obtain the necessary per- mission to return from T...... to Rome. Thisn came a year full of events in the Eternal City. On July 19, during the. Pontifical Mass in our chapel, Rome was bcmkbarded the fir-t time. Some days after, in the night :'etw:en July 24 and 25, Mus.solini's rule fell. Some week- later, Rome suffered a new heavy bombardment; in the evening of Septzmber 8 we knew that Italy had sio-ned the Armi-tice. In the first day: of February, 1944 we heard the growling of opening guns from Anwio beach. Tbh, rumble increased steadily, until .Jne 4, when the last Germans left the City, and Allied soldiers entered. "A ysar later the first refugees from Jugo-Slavia arrived in Rome, and more and more it became clear that my hopes were futile, and that we should not see our homeland for many long years. "In the beginning of this year, Father Germpvnik and I fini.hed our studies. The months passed, and we waited. In April, 1946, our confrere, Father Francis Germovnik Father Anton Soklic Msgr. Gounot, Archbishop of Tunis. He was willing to recive Refugees from the'r Jugoslav home- was in Rome. Pope Grants tactics us in Africa, but we had no passports. land where Tito's Neronian Fortunately, the International Red Special Indult are accounting for the lives of hundreds was giving passes, recognized of Catholic priests and sisters, Fathers Cross His Holiness, Pius XII, has recently also by the United States. In this renewed the indult Anton Soklic, C.M., and Francis Ger- we were able to obtain th.. which permits the. m:vnik, C.M., have found a haven of ma.nner, SuIreior General of the Congregation permission to leave for Africa. Four of the Mission to peace in America. The former arrived we crossed the Mediterran- be the Superior Gen- at the Barrens on November 19, ac- confreres, eral of the Daughters of Charity as, after ean Sea in a French 'Junker.' We we'l. This indult is of supreme companied by FathTer Winne, were in Africa in three hours. Father im- having spent a few days at the Pro- re- portance in maintaining the close re- Ger- Germpvnik and another confrere lation which has flourished between vincial House in St. Louis. Father mained with the Archbishop, another movnik has been assigned to St. John's a the members of the Double Family confrere was assigned as chaplain in since Seminary in San Antonio. ho-pital. I was appointed to the its foundation. St. Vincent Fathers Soklic and Germovnik arriv- himself conceived this arrangement an Cathedral in Tunis to replace come of led in America on October 18, aboard the priests who were on vacation. It which in his time was a unique situ- American freighter, and were welcom- was hot there, but I was glad that I ation, and which even today is very ed by members of the Eastern Province. was occupied. unusual in the Church. Were the in- Aft,.r passing through Philadelphia and dult to be denied, the Daughters Washington, D. C., they arrived at St. "At this time, one of our confreres would have only a Mother General. Louis. As Father Soklic confessed, in Rome was appointed Vice Visitor The Holy See first approved of this "On the way, I had m?ny occasions to for di-Ianded confreres of the Yugo- arrangement in the Bulls of Founda- know and admire a good part of my slav Province. He had received a fra- tion. All went well until the French new home. And also to rscognize the ternal invitation from the confreres in Revolution drove so many religious really Vincentian charity of my new America that Father Germovnik and I out of that country. Under Napoleon confreres." should come there. Naturally, this was the Daughters continued their work We are happy to print here Father a happy piece of information after all in France and one confrere was allow- Soklic' account of his and Father Gler- the bad ones. The Vice Visitor wrote ed to remain in the country to direct movnik's years since 1942: us his wish: he could send other priests them. It was at this time, 1804, that "It was in the autumn of 1942, in the to Tunis if the Archbishop desired. Un- Pius VII granted a decree favoring ,sad days of German and Italian oc- der the circumstances it was very easy this bond between the two families of cupat on, that my confrere, Fr. Ger- for me to see in the wish of my sup- St. Vincent. Fr. Fiat obtained further' movnik, left for Rome. We had been perior the Wýill of God, and at once I approval through an indult given by together for m,any years. However, took the first steps to obtain the nec- Leo XIII in 1882. Providence ordained that we would still essary permits. Since the codification of Canon Law: be some years together: three months "The American Consulate in Tunis in 1918, continuous efforts have been later, in January, 1943, I, too was sent is at the other end of the Cathedral made to adjust the rules of the two to Rome. kSquare. I encountered no difficul- Communities according to the common "As I looked from the train at the ties there, and the employees were lw of the Church. The difficulty is familiar mountains, twinkling, like very kind to us. As we brought them. that Canon. 500 -forbids a community gold in the setting sun, I did not think of men to exercise jurisdiction over a for many years. all the required documents, we receiv- that I would see them ed our 'visa' at once; and in the last community of Sisters without a special; I was hopeful that I would return very apostolic permission. Fr. Robert, our. and days of September we were ready to soon to our country, in freedcm leave. We had spent a little more than Vicar General, reported in his Circu- peace. We were all the time confi- three months in Tunis. lar Letter of July 2, 1946, that he had dent that the triumph of liberty and snoken of this matter to the Sacred' justice would come. "Fortunately, we did not have to wait Congrevation of Religious in Rome. "But God had other plans. The first for a ship. In the harbor of Tunis Fr. Robert while humbly and resbect- summer we did not return to T...... was anchored an American freighter, fully awaiting the apostolic decisions, because the bombardments were so 'Thomas Eakins'. The first lights of showed how the Church had always heavy that most of the railroads were the New World we beheld at two approved this arrangement -and how destroyed; also, it would have been o'clock, the morning of October 18." (Continued on Page Three) The De Andrein Page Three ARCHBISHOP WELCOMED PHILOSOPHERS MARK Confreres Lose Friend (Continued from Page One) FEAST OF PATRON To acquaint the new Ordinary In Death of with the Barrens, a short and con- The program in the evening of No- Bishop Winkelmann cise history (see page 3) drawn vember 25th, Feast of St. Catherine of up by Rev. Mr. Bruce Vawter, was de- It was with the realization of a very Alexandria, was held against a back- personal loss that the news of Bishop livered by one of the Students. The ground of wheel and book, the Saint's ten-minute resume stressed the si- emblems. The opening paper, by Mr. -Winkelmann's death was received here multaneous beginnings of the Com- Carl Callier, C.M., was on the mean- at the Barrens. All who knew him munity in the United States and the ing of Philosophy. Two numbers were were deeply impressed by his many Archdiocese, as well as the position of sung by the Falso Bordoni, "Jeiu Cor- virtues, not the least of which was as the Mother-house of his tireless zeal in working for the the Barrens ona Virginum," and "Sero Te Amavi." spiritual the Province. Mr. Wilbert Bruns, C.M., treated the and temporal interests of the were interspersed with rural populace of the St. Louis Arch- These talks problem of knowledge, and conclude diocese. two numters by the Folso Bordoni with a tribute to St. Catherine. This In this he stands out for "S'ero Te Ama- us as a shining example of laboring Choir, St. Augustine's was followed by a piano selection by "pauperum rusticanorum saluti." vi," with music by Vito Carnevali, and Mr. Martin McHugh, C.M., Leybach's without Sin." It was in June, 1907 that the then the "O Mary, Conceived "Fifth Nocturne." The final Student Rev. Mr. Christian H. Winkelmann Then, the Very Reverend Visitor, speaker, Mr. James Galvin, C.M., spoke on was ordained to the priesthood at welcoming the Archbishop, to "the cra- the fundamental doctrine of Kenrick Seminary. From that time dle of men sent to be new shepherds Aristotelian-Thomistic Philosophy, po- on, his many accomplishments in the of the diocese" expressed real plea- tency and act. The Allocution was de- various functions and offices to which sure that our men were to be ordain- livered by Father John LeSage, C.M., he was assigned were both admirable ed by His Excellency, making "our who stressed the necessity of Philso- and inspiring. We recall with grati- priests, your priests." Closing, he phy and particularly, of Ethics. The tude the kind services that he has promised our fealty, loyalty, and love evening concluded with the presenta- rendered the Community. More par- to Archbishop Ritter. tion of Bachelor of Arts degrees to the ticularly will they remember him who His Excellency expressed his grat- First Year Theologians, and a short were ordained at the Barrens in the itude for the program. I-e then re- talk by the Very Reverend Superior. years 1934-39 and 1941; it was he who marked that it was a consolation to conferred on them the sacerdotal ,him, upon hearing of his appointment, FAREWELL! character. to know that the Vincentians worked The esteemed prelate was buried on here in the St. Louis Archdiocese. He The announcement of the recent ap- November 22 in Wichita, Kansas, the had always felt close to us through pointment of Bishop Geo. J. Donnelly diocese over which he had held juris- the Daughters in Indianapolis, and he as the new Bishop of Leavenworth, diction since 1940. Rev. William was especially glad that he was going Kansas, occasions both joy and sad- Winklemann, C.M., and his. brother, again into the midst of a familiar at- ness. We are indeed happy to see him Rev. Thomas Winklemann, nephews of mosphere. receive this well-merited honor and. the Bishop, were Subdeacon and Dea- Continuing, he said that the qual- feel certain that he will be well receiv- con, respectively, at the funeral Mass. ity of our work was self-evident. And ed by his new flock. At the same time -as Rosati, Kane, and Kenrick, to- it is with much regret that we bid him together with the beloved and esteem- HISTORICAL SUMMARY good-bye. When we consider all that In keeping with the celebration of ed Cardinal Glennon received from us he has meant to us, since the time he our loyalty and devotion, so he would came to replace the late Bishop Wink- our Sixtieth Anniversary, we print receive it and in return be grateful elmann as Auxiliary Bishop in this here the talk delivered to his Excellen- to us, feeling that vweare a part of Archdiocese, we are filled with deep cy on the occasion of his visit. him and his work. He said that he appreciation and gratitude. May the Your Excellency,- the coming to- knew the work of the Congregation of Divine Shepherd see to it that his gether this evening of the Diocese of the Mission would always be a source work in Leavenworth shall be equally St. Louis with the sons of St. Vincent of genuine satisfaction to him, and as fruitful as it has been here. de Paul at St. Mary's of the Barrens, that his priests would receive the is symbolic of more than a century of spirit of St. Vincent de Paul from our co-laboring for Christ: the Congrega- priests as long as we should bring to NEW SERMON BOOK FOR tion of the Mission in the United them t'hat burning zeal and love for States and the Archdiocese of St. souls that characterized S'~. Vincent. ST. THOMAS' STUDENTS Louis were born together; they have His Excellency asked for our gener- The sermon classes at St. Thomas grown up together; their histories ous prayers and hoped we would be, Seminary, Denver, have long been in are inextricably interwoven. Together, as the Philippines were for St. Paul, need of a practical manual to guide they have even called upon the same "my crown and joy." Assuring us of the student, step by step, in the work heavenly advocate, S't. Vincent de Paul, his devotion. he blessed us. of sermon composition. To meet the our Holy Founder and second Patron need, a manual was recently compos- of St. Louis. ed by two professors of the Seminary It was just 124 years ago yesterday, JUBILARIANS Faculty. Intended for students of November 28, 1822, that St. Mary's of The DE ANDREIN offers theology, it deals with the dogmatic the Barrens was incorporated under heartiest congratulations to Sis- sermon, moral sermon, sermon homily, the laws of this territory. Ten years ter Ambrosia Woods of St. Vin- exegetical sermon, occasional sermon, later it was empowered by the State cent's Infant Asylum, Chicago; and the extempore talk. The final Legislature to grant the degrees of and Sister Cecelia Higgins of S't. chapter offers practical recommenda- Bachelor and Master of Arts. It be- Mary's Hospital, Evansville..They tions concerning the reading of an- came, thereby, the first institution of will celebrate their Fiftieth Year nouncements, Gospel and Epistle; and higher learning west of the Mississ- of Vocation on December 17. concludes with a list .of sermon topics. ippi River. St. Mary's of the Bar- In fifty-five pages this mimeograph- rens was the third theological sem- SPECIAL INDULT GIVEN ed manual proposes a practical method .inary to be established within the ter- from Page Two) of procedure-which includes also the ritorial bounds of the United States, (Continued in it had been blessed by God. gathering of sermon material-and ex- preceded only by Old St. Mary's In recognition of the great benefits emplifies the procedure by building up Baltimore and by Bishop Flaget's derived from the relation between the actual sermons of the various types. wilderness seminary of S't. Thomas, at two Communities, Pius XII has grac- Father Kenneally, who ,is teaching Bardstown. This news sermon work to the first and second The foundations of St. Mary's of the iously renewed the indult. laid early in the nine- which has been the object of much year theologians, reports favorable Barrens were a cause of relief and progress, and a perceptible awakening teenth century, when a band of pion- prayer, is now here from Kentucky. happiness for all the members of the of interest among the members of eers had come Double Family. these two groups. (Continued on Page Four) Page Four The De Andrein Seminarist, Jailed By Tito, Tells Experiences OZNA TITO'S GESTAPO stood simply because I was a 'cleric.' There one evening he came upon a "In August, Tito proclaimed an am- young priest addressing a group of (The following letter, smuggled nesty. In this OZNA jail, out of 1500, laymen. After he had listened for a through the censors, was received by only sixty were released. Of course, few minutes, Bishop DuBourg turning a confrere from a Slovene seminarist, as a cleric I did not enjoy the priv- to his companion, said that such were who had been imprisoned in X...... ilege. In a near-starved condition, I the priests he would desire for his For the sake of security, all names was transported to N...... before the diocese. are withheld.) martial court. But it was suspended This young priest was the Venerable "I was arrested June...... 1945. Then after three days, and I was returned Felix De Andreis, whose body lies here began long interrogations on all pos- to Central jail in X...... Then be- in the church at St. Mary's and whose sible 'charges.' Already on the sec- gan the old story....We were pitiful- cause for canonization has been pre- ond day, one of the commissaries warn- ly weakened, but the shameless guards sented to the Holy See. Fr. DeAndreis ed me to be ready to be 'liquidated,' would eat white bread before our was professor of Theology at Monte- because by my propaganda against eyes, and throw away large pieces, to citorio and also at Propaganda; he Communism I had 'seduced' very excite still more our hunger and suf- was acknowledged to be one of . the many people, and therefore, would fering. Such people will not escape best preachers in Rome; Pius VII had have to pay for this crime with my the judgment of God! ... if they can spoken favorably of him regarding a own blood. Fortunately, thanks to be called men at all. Otherwise, I can bishopric; he was an expert linguist the intervention of some civil offic- only explain it as that they are ob- and deeply read in Theology, patrol- ials, that did not occur... I was trans- sessed... ogy, and the mystical writers. But ported to X...... where we were treat- "After seven months of this cruel e bove all else, he was a very saintly ed in a truly harsh manner. imprisonment I was at last brought to man and desirous of going on the "Every day at the fixed time we trial. OZNA accused me of different foreign missions. would be beaten. The food was ter- 'crimes'. . and if it were all true I As we know of course, he was rible, beyond description: twice a day should no longer be alive... But the to head that band of Vincentians a small cup of a thin soup made of 'Committee of Liberation' in...... which included Fr. Rosati, who came green beets. I remember that my sent only favourable declarations for to America to help Bishop DuBourg. mother had fed the pigs with much me and 1 received the lightest penalty; He was the first Vicar General of better. In the room large enough to two years of hard labor, because I Louisiana, and he helped Bishop Du- hold eight persons they had packed in was a 'victim of clerical education'.... Bourg to build the first Cathedral in over forty. You can imagine how we For some time I was detained in a St. Louis, at a time when that city slept, and the condition of the air very cold and wet cell. But it was a boasted but one Catholic church,, and in that room! .. .Lice and fleas and little better, because I could now get that fallen into ruins. bedbugs there were in such numbers something from the outside. After Here at the Barrens, the people had that they were dropping from us. The this I was transported to ...... and built themselves a church, but they first three months there was no am- there I wasa cowhand at the farm of had no priest; and so, they set aside bulance to remove our sick. Some lay *Mr...... which had been seized and a great tract of land to offer Bishop in our midst sick from typhus, insens- nationalized. It was not so bad there DuBourg for a seminary. By so do- ible for fourteen days, but no one .... After a month I was transferred ing, they hoped always to have resi- took care of them. Many of them died to...... There I had to work very dent priests. Thus it came about that as a result. hard, removing ruins, building a the motherhouse was established here, "The martial court in the beginning new street, working in the limekiln, -along with the seminary to train pronounced only capital sentences. and in a mine. A month later I was priests both for the diocese and for You can imagine how the condemned transferred to the kolhoz (sic!). There the Congregation. Fr. Rosati was cried out every night during the I labored in the fields. The food was named superior by Fr. De Andreis. months of June and July, when they very bad and very scarce. Without In those days the appointment of were called from their cells and, with the help of certain good people, I rector of a seminary preceded the hands and feet tied, were cast like could not have kept up even a week. seminary itself; and for a long while sacks into cars and driven away for Then I found an opportunity and es- superior and students had to divide 'liquidation.' From the courtyard of caped into the woods. The first night their time equally between classes, the jail, the brutal guards used to I encountered a wild pig, and I climb- building, cooking, and canning food. shoot at the windows, so that some ed a tree. When the danger passed, I The cornerstone of the new church of the prisoners were killed. During continued on my way to liberty..." was laid in 1827, the first consecrated the hearings, torture was usually ap- church west of the Mississippi. plied in order to extort the 'confession.' HISTORICAL SUMMARY In 1826, Pope Leo XII had named There was no change of linen for Fr. Rosati the first Bishop of St. Louis. three months. We were completely iso- (Continued from Page Three) He built what is now the Old Cath- lated from the world. For four These were English Catholics, des- edral, to replace Bishop DuBourg's, months none of my people knew where cendants of Lord Baltimore's colon- completing the work in 1834. He I was. Our condition was such that ists in Maryland, who had been held also the first synod of the clergy only one who had strong nerves was hounded out of their homes by the in 1839. (Following in his paths, a able to bear it. One of these, thanks very persecution they had hoped to whole series of Vincentians of the be to God, I was. Many of my com- eccape in this country. The land Barrens became in their turn, mis- panions lost their minds in the cir- which is now Perry County was ced- sionary Bishops in the United States. cumstances, and they would beat their ed to them by the Spanish Crown, and There was John Joseph Lynch, heads against the wall until they died. because it resembled the land in Ken- founder of Niagara University and S'ome of them committed suicide by tucky which they had left, they call- first Archbishop of Toronto; John hanging or poisoning themselves, giv- ed it by the same name, "The Bar- Timon, Prefect Apostolic of the Re- en the opportunity. This was my life rens," by which they meant land public of Texas and first Bishop of in June, 1945, in the Central jail in which had been cleared of woods for Buffalo; Stephen Vincent Ryan, also X ...... cultivation. Bishop of Buffalo; Leo De Neckere, "In July I was transferred to the Shortly after this the Louisiana ter- superior of the Barrens at twenty-five prison of the OZNA (Tito's police, ritory passed from Spain to France and Bishop of New Orleans at thirty; like the Gestapo in Germany) There and then to the United States. Over Thadeus Amat, Bishop of Monterrey I spent two months, in a dungeon, this great diocese extending from the and Los Angeles; John Mary Odin, where it was dark night and day. Great Iakes to the Gulf of Mexico first Bishop of Galveston and Arch- That is where I suffered the most. The and from the Mississippi to the Rocky bishop of New Orleans; Michael Dom- greatest pain was. the lack of any- Mountains, was appointed Bishop enec, Bishop of Pittsburgh, and thing to do. The hours passed very Louis DuBourg. In Rome, for his others.) slowly. I was busy only with my rem- consecration and also to obtain priests In 1842 there was a separation at iniscences .... The guards were ex- for this vast see, he stayed at the Vin- the Barrens, and the diocesan part of tremely rough. How much abuse I centian motherhouse of Montecitorio. (Continued on Page Six) The DeAndrein _ ~ Page Five I Felix De Andreis, to have caught so well his determination, purposefulness, and humility. Full lips and slight curves at the corners of the mouth reflect, said Mr. Aspinwall, Father Felix' poetic nature. A detail that serves perhaps better than anything else to prove that the artist approach- ed his work with understanding and informed sympathy can be detected by close examination of the eyes in the four-by-four portrait: in each of them is shown the tiny reflection of a crucifix. Other minutest details are wrought with precision: the "corpus" on the mission crucifix at the cincture, and the reproduction of Father Felix' sketch of the original Barrens in the right hand corner. The rays in the up- per right-hand corner recall the mirac- ulous star that appeared after Father De Andreis' death and guided the funeral procession to Perryville from St. Louis. The scroll, with the words "Dio Solo," gives the motto of our Old Theology Hall and Brothers Building beloved confrere. the new portrait of one whose work It is our fervent and confident pray- BALRRENS CELEBRATES began at the Barrens in 1817 was er that this new, inspiring reminder about to be uncovered for the first of one (Continued from Page One) to whom all American Vincen- time before the Community. Venerable tians owe, under God, their very ex- Growth of St. Mary's of the Barrens," Felix De Andreis, first superior of the istence, will be a sharp spur to our In two brief intermissions, the Com- Congregation of the Mission in the devotion, both in striving to imitate munity sang the traditional "Ave Ma- United States, had a place of pre-em- his consuming, prayer-born zeal for ria," and Sancte Vincenti." inent right on the commemorative souls, and in petitioning God to raise program. He had laid the foundation At the conclusion of the program, him soon -to the sacred canon of His upon which others built. brief addresses were made by the Very c'aints. Reverend Visitor, and by the Very The story of the new oil-painting We feel it opportune to quote again, Reverend Superior. Each emphasized was told by Rev. Mr. Bruce Vawter. as did Mr. Vawter at the closing of his the necessity of not resting on the Before Father Winne arose to ascend "Preface to a Portrait," a sentence laurels won by our predecessors, and the stage and draw the curtains back, from the editorial in the October, 1945 urged more and more devotion toward the Community heard how the picture issue of THE DE ANDREIN: Mary as the assurance of success in came to be. ONLY WHEN WE ARE ABLE TO God's work. The Artist RE-ESTABLISH HIS SPIRIT IN Quite unexpectedly, we were then The artist is Ernest Aspinwall, a OUR ATMOSPHERE; TO favored by a few words of congratu- thirty-seven year old inmate of the BREATHE THE AIR HE BREATH- lation from Father Maximo Juguera, Missouri State Penitentiary, who is ED; TO LOOK OUT INTO THE Provincial Councillor for the Philip- working on a set of Stations of the WORLD WITH HIS EYES; TO pine Islands, who had escorted our Cross for the prison chapel, and has FLOOD OUR SOULS' WIH HIS three confreres here from Spain. Fath- already executed murals, including ZEAL; TO INFLAME OUR HEARTS er hoped they would be welcome in our cne of Blessed Philippine Duchesne, WITH A LOVE OF GOD LIKE midst, and extended an invitation to for the foyer of the institution, and HIS - THEN WILL HIS LIFE visit our houses in Spain whenever numerous other religious works, such TAKE ON A MELLOW BEAUTY possible. Father Juguera remembered as portraits of Pius XII, and Cardinal AND ADMIRABLE DIRECTNESS. a visit of Father Brennan there many Glennon, although he is not a Catho- years ago. His remarks on Franco lic. were enlightening: despite the realiz- Contact was first made with him ation that a large part of-the world is by the Motor Missioners visiting the arraigned against his government, prison; and largely through the media- Franco recently declared that it wor- tion of the chaplain, Father S'chlatt- ried him not at all, because "God is man, Mr. Aspinwall agreed to proceed with us, and that is enough." with the new portrait. All available The New Portait biographical, pictorial, and historical The setting on1tne sage displayed d ta were lent him, that the new large portraits of St. Vincent, and the painting might be as authentic as Blessed Mother With St. Anne. In the possible. At least five extant likeness- center hung two white drapes, deco- es of our Venerable Confrere, none of rated with the seals of the Barrens and which bore much resemblance to the of the community. Behind those veils, others, were used. The artist stud'eJ The Old Well-Now a Monument Father De Andreis' character, his life, temperament, and talents, and sub- mitted a rough sketch for approval. Stggestions were made, and the sketch returned for the final work. What ought especially to stimulate our prayers for him, who- refused all payment for his painstaking labors, is the fact that he has shown some in- terest in the Church, and might even desire to enter "if the hate that per- meates his entire being can be erad- icated." Details of the Picture M~ainEntrance AsIt W;as The artist surely felt the spirit of OldN~ovitiate ReceptionHall' Page Six The De Andrein VINCENTIAN CLIPPINGS

SAN ANTONIO DENVER A recording room has been fitted out on the second floor of the Scho- Enrollments in the new Confratern- Father Edward Whooley is happily lasticate Building. Each Student will ity Religion Courses are about one recovering from his recent illness, and make at least one recorded speech a hundred for the lecture classes in fund- hopes to be able to resume his teach- semester, as required for the course in amental moral and dogma, and 600 ing taken over by Father Simon Sacred Eloquence. for the correspondence course. Other Smith during his convalescence. Latest addition to the Sheehan diocese are beginning to show inter- Memorial Museum is a full-color SAINT LOUIS por- est in the plan. trait of Bishop Charles Quinn. Father Edward Riley addressed the At Kenrick, the post of Director of SPAIN participants in the Annual San An- Students, left vacant by the trans- The Church of St. Vincent de Paul, tonio sodality procession on December fer of Father Simon Smith, has been at the Central House of the Barcelona 8th, at Mission Conception. filled by Father Clarence Corcoran. Province, burnt by the "Reds" in 1936 On November 10, Father John is undergoing reconstruction work. Sharpe presented a review of "Freder- BETHANY HISTORICAL SUMMARY ick Ozanam," at the Fulton Sheen The students had their first Hallo- guild, as part of the archdiocesan ob- we'en party, modeled after the tra- (Continued from Page Four) servance of National Catholic Book ditional "Cape" celebration, with an the seminary was removed to St. Week. immense bonfire, and refreshments, Louis. In 1843 the classical part of and appropriate decorations. the curriculum was transferred to the CAPE GIRARDEAU A recent donation of some hundred new St. Vincent's College in Cape Father Marshall Winne preached, volumes by a wealthy benefactor lays Girardeau, and St. Mary's became and Father William Brennan was cel- the foundation for the students' li- solely for the education of Vincen- ebrant, at the closing of the Forty brary. tian priests. Hours Devotion on November 26. On All S'aints Day, Father McNeil As the years progressed, secular Father Myles Moynihan has obtain- was celebrant at the first Solemn Mass priests began gradually to replace the ed a 1946 48-passenger Ford bus for held at St. Francis' Seminary. After priests of St. Mary's in the many mis- the pupils of Holy Family school, completing their first Novena in hon- sion parishes about the Barrens. Fi- or of our Lady of the Miraculous Med- nally, in 1867, the motherhouse of the through the generosity of the Rural Congregation Life Conference in St. Louis. al, the students were enrolled in the of the Mission was Father Cary Newsum recently ad- medal on the Feast. transferred to Germantown, Pennsyl- vania. For nearly a score of years it dressed the Newman Club of S'tate LOS ANGELES Teachers College on the subject of remained until in 1886 the Barrens Marriage. Father Robert Brown addressed the was reopened as the Apostolic School, annual Holy Childhood Association an anniversary which we shall com- CHICAGO services in the Cathedral, on Novem- memorate on December 8. Two years ber 10. later the United States was divided in- Father Joseph Edwards, past lieu- Father George Brennan addressed to two Vincentian provinces, and St. tenant-commander, spoke on Armistice the Woman's Club at the Cathedral Mary's of the Barrens was restored to Day to the members of the Holy Name Chapel on November 18, on Cardinal her former prestige. Society on his experiences as a Navy Newman. The same group heard Since that time, it has so remained, Chaplain. Father Bernard McCoy at an earlier the motherhouse of the Vincentians The Convert Class, conducted by date on the Church in California. of the Western Province. Here have Fr. Coyle meets Thursdays in the rec- Bishop Manning paid his first of- been formed all those who have in tory of St. Vincent's Parish. Also a ficial visit to the Prep on November turn gone forth for the education of Religion Discussion Club-open" to 15th and spoke to the students. a large part of the clergy of the West. teen-agers attending Public High Now, as then, it is true what was Schools-holds a weekly meeting in PERRYVILLE said of her by one of her sons, Fr. the Parish Rectory. Joseph Ryan, the poet-priest of the On November 30th, Archbishop Rit- South: "Sweet St. Mary's of the Bar- Father Joseph Phoenix was ap- course of his visit pointed assistant to Father Schorsch ter in the rens in Missouri's wild's! Thy chil- of to the Barrens, solemnly blessed the dren never can forget thee!" as Dean of the Graduate School, new "Felix De Andreis Press," which De Paul University. will be used for the printing of com- The sanctuary and complete inter- munity programs, forms, etc., and The De Andrein ior of St. Vincent's Church are under- may soon be available for other job- going remodeling; the sanctuary is printing. The Press is to be operated Published monthly by the Stephen expected to be finished by Christmas. by the Brothers. Vincent Ryan Unit of the Catholic -· - · · Students' Mission Crusade. From left to right Subscription: $1.00 per year (nine Fathers Balbino Mon- issues). Please notify us of change in your real, Maximo Juguera, address. Rafael Bernal, and Samuel M a n znana a Editor Juguera accom- Father John F. Lenihan, C. M. panied the three others Associate Editors to the Barrens, where William Pittm-n, C.M. they are beginning the John Richardson, C.M. last step in their theol- Exchanges o g y training before James Galvin, C.M. proceeding to the Phil- Business Manager ippine missions. They Robert Stack, C.M. are from our 17th cen- Circulation Manager tury house in Cuenca, Manuel Pelleteri, C.M. uiefruiicu.±v_ I~l ll iii~~~~r-• JLC-IU VIIIC• U. .V.Lcl,- Photographer drid, Spain. Their journey here took them through London, Paris, and Northamp- William Mahoney, C.M. ton, Pennsylvania, The three were ordained in October of 1946. (The issue was Faculty Advisor too far along to give this its just place in these pages.) Rev. James F. McOwen, C.M. rhet Atbrein Volume 17 Perryville, Missouri, January, 1947 NO. 4 Fire Destroys Brewer Church WAS LARGEST OF FR. MISSION CHURCHES BONAVENTURE DURBIN DIES CHRISTMAS NIGHT The night of January 4th was a tragic one for St. Vincent's Church of On the Feast of the Nativity of Our Brewer. This is the largest of the Lord, just five days after he celebrat- mission parishes attended by the sem- ed the fortieth anniversary of his or- inary priests at Perryville, and is now dination to the priesthood, Almighty under the care of Fr. John Danagher, God, in His Providence, put an end C.M. Fire swept through the building. to the years of ill health and suffer- shortly after ten o'clock Saturday ing of Father Bonaventure Durbin and night and was seen by several of the took him to Himself. The illness, townspeople almost simultaneously. which resulted in his death, lasted only Fr. Danagher, who had just returned a few days. to the seminary after hearing Con- telephoned The Solemn Mass of Requiem, pre- fessions in the church, was ceded by the Office of the Dead, was immediately, and the parishoners celebrated in St. Vincent'8s Church in gathered to fight the fire. S't. Louis at 10:00 a. m., December 28. Evidently the fire started in the Father Winne was celebrant, Father basement and had reached such an in- George O'Malley deacon, and Father tensity before it was discovered that Hug subdeacon. Father Marshall Le- all attempts to stop it proved futile. Sage delivered the sermon. Father's The pastor, speeding to the scene last remains were laid to rest in Cal- over the icy roads, could read the vary cemetery. whole story in the red glow in the Father Durbin was born in Modoc, sky discernible just outside Perryville. Church of St. Vincent, Brewer Illinois, December 26, 1877. He pro- By the time he reached the church nounced his vows in the Community the entire building was in flame, the Church of the Assumption. The great on May 1, 1902. He was ordained on smoke .and blaze forcing their way distance and the condition of the December 20, 1906, and was subse- through the belfry. roads in inclement weather led to the quently assigned to the Barrens, to Despite the assistance rendered by establishment of the parish. A former Cape, Kenrick. St. Vincent's in Kans- the Perryville Fire Department it was salcon was renovated and served as as City, and St. Vincent's in St. Louis impossible to save anything. The the first provisional chapel. Fr. James where he spent his last days. church was of brick construction, but Foley, C.M., the first pastor, then Three sisters survive: one a Sister the inside was so completly gutted by found a more suitable location in a of St. Dominic in St. Lawrence's the flames that the rcof collapsed hall above a general store. When this school, Penfield, Illinois; Mrs. William leaving only the bare brick walls proved too small it was decided that Wright of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois; standing. The next morning the a permanent church should be erected. and Mrs. Alice Knott of Chester, Il- church bore a striking resemblance to It was under the guidance of Fr. Ro- linois. many ill-fate- European churches bert Power, C.M., that the necessary destroyed in the recent war. funds were secured, and on November 22, 1910, the brick church was dedicat- An Historic Past ed in honor of St. Vincent de Paul. The year 1907 saw the first Mass From that day the parish continued celebrated in the town of Brewer. Up to grow until at the present time it until this time the Catholics of the numbers some 100 families, or about settlement had to make the long trip 350 parishioners. into Perryville in order to attend Mass Hopeful Future and receive the Sacraments at the The present misfortune has been ac- L L. •U I.4•- n ,"j-rlil- I-P Christian subjection to the Divine will and there is pres- ent that zeal and perseverance that made S't. Vincent's such a flourishing parish. The loss was partially covered by insurance, and it yet remains to be seen how much the cur- rent shortage of building materials (Continued, on page . 3. CUI.ra 3) Fire leaves this shell Fr. Bonaventure Durbin, C.M. Pa°,e Two Andrein PaIoTwo _ I_ _ The_The _I De Andrein

MINSTREL-1946 Shaughnessy), 'an d "The Crows Fly South," Mr. John 'Chick, Chick" (Mr. Vidal's contribution to Minstrel an- Lamy). nals, was presented Monday, Decem- ber 30, at 2:30 p. m. In the audience, The members of besides our four European confreres the orchestra were: attending their first American min- Rev. Mr. Stephen strel show, were many of the delegates Ganel, Messrs. T. from the Assembly, and a few di- Meik, R. Ross, Mich- ocesan priests. a e 1 McHuo'h, M. Barr, I. Melito, Mar- The Ring, dressed in evening clothes, tin McHugh, H. Per- lapels edged in white, sat uopn cot- sich, and Donald ton bales arranged in "v" formation Ryan. on the deck of the Mississippi River The Minstrel Show boat, with Mr. Charles Herbst turn- is an ideal vehicle ing in a Nugent Medal role for 1946 for lighter enter- The Minstrel Setting as. the silent but effective helmsman. tainment and is well The rear of the set was a soft, blue adapted sky, sprinkled with fleecy clouds; o the Barrens holiday mood, "The Flying Cabaret" large black crows in antic disport as its reception each year testifies. The decorated the walls of the ship. felicitous "ad lib,'" the parodied songs On Christmas Night, "The Flying Messrs. John Richardson, Robert provide rollicking informal merriment Cabaret," guided in its three-act flight Stack, and Stephen Luedtke were the -as much for the spectators as for the by Rev. Mr. Francis Gaydos, was pre- Cesigners. actors. Throats may be husKy sented for the entertainment of the from singing the Christmas No- Community. It proved to be that and While the stage was being -put in vena, rehearsals, the exacting Mid- more. Father. Malachy, attempting to order after the Prologue (set in the night Mass music, the inevitable fa- show that God's power and providence house of a theatrical bcoking agent), tigue of the season, b'it he scales are are still very close to His people, moves to the accompaniment of the orches- usually balanre-l by the enthusiasm a noisy dance hall from the annoying tra and quartet in "Basin Street" a and verve of the performers and a : proximity of the new srene of his paper stern-wheeler amused the aud- audience that comes to be amused, labors, a town parish in Scotland. Mr. ience as it followed at snail-pace an not to expect professional execution Jerome Calcagno portrayed, with wis- erratic course along the Mississippi of vocal and instrumental numbers. dom and feeling, the difficult role of River, traced against a black back- Father Malachy, who comes to, the drop. A painstaking assignment confronts assistance of Canon Geoghegan, dis- the director of every Minstrel. Songs gusted with the state of plain chant The Ring included Mr. T. Munster and jokes must be chcceh whose ap- and liturgy in the parish. (Interlocutor), and Messrs. Ruiz, peal will not be mainly local, and so S'haughnessy, Pittman, Lamy, Olker, be lost on a laree part of the audience. Mr. Edward Wilson (Canon Geighe- Fe'leteri, Bruns, and R. .Miller. In Nor must they contain ary slight to gan) enacted a consistently smooth his final appearance on the Barrens the colored people. Caricatures of the role as the conservative and at times Minstrel stage Rev. Mr. Ganel was race, stressing of weaknesses, the use severe pastor who nevertheless thor- forced to repeat "Atlanta G.A." Other of certain well-known names, offens- oughly appreciates the success of the members cf the Ring gave individual ive to the colored, must be avoided. miracle. The Canon in turn is assist- offerings of "Plant a Watermelon' on There is high entertainment value in ed in the parish to some degree by My Grave" (Mr. Ruiz), "Ephasapha the music and anecdote lore of our a football-minded curate. This was Dill (Mr. Pelleteri) "There's No One colored brothers. Modern audiences made pleasant and enjoyable by Mr. but You" (Mr. Olker). "Mammy's demand much more than the rolling Donald Ryan with his Irish accent Shufflin' Dance" (Mr. Pittman), of white eyes in charcoaled faces or and enthusiasm. "That Chick's Too Young to Fly" (Mr. an accent, howsoever authentic. , ~ -- __ Also connected with the parish are was well-chosen and contributed por- two lay-brothers, Mr. Arthur Daspit "Judgment Island " trayals which struck a high level of and Mr. James Towns, both playing "JUDOMENT ISLAND," presented excellence. Mr. Roger Yergeau as the their roles with understanding and by Mr. William Mahoney, C.M., on the boatman, Mr. Maurice Sheehy and Mr. vivacity. Thomas McIntyre night of December 27, proved to be a as the menservants The immediate mystery play far superior:to the av- got the play off to a smooth start. Mr. cause of the miracle Raymond Ross as is the disbelief of a neighboring Pro- erage and the best of its kind seen Sergeant Massbrt testant minister, by this reviewer on the stage of St. handled the role of a wise-cracking, very modern and self-assuring G.I. very sceptical, portrayed by Mr. John Mary's. An all-male adaption from with ease and fi- Fitzgibbon. Agatha Christie's novel about the nes, e. Mr. Julius Schick, playing The cabaret is moved by Ten Little" Indians, it unfolds the Sergeant West, the slower-witted and the power of God to Bass Rock, a tiny much less cosmopolitan "buddy" rock jutting tip from the sea, to the story of how. the unknown.owner: of of constertntion of James the house on Judgment Island -Jures Masson, did a splendid job on a role Bell, the own- that ran the er, and Georye Bleater, the entertain- ten people to the island, cuts them- off gamut from comedy to ment manager. The from all contact with civilization, ac- horror, to hysteria. Mr. William Gan- former was given cuses each of some murder .which has non, as Gordon Dunstan, was the flip, (Continued on Page Four) escaped legal punishment, and then thoughtless, excitement-loving Mod- proceeds to carry out the executions ern Youth, while Mr. Louis Derbes according to a design suggested :by gave life and conviction, without car- varying moods of worry, anger, and the nursery rhyme: icature, to the role of a second-rate nervous desperation in a very able "Ten little Indian boys went out to but zealous private detective. portrayal. The part of Justice Mock- dine, The senile General Grosvenor, a role ridge, a role that demanded grea.t One choked his little self and then somewhat difficult to determine in the ability and versatility, received a there were nine. script, became logical and convincing. smooth and very effective presenta- Nine little Indian boys sat up very late, on the stage, thanks to Mr. George tion at the hands of Mr. Lawrence Eirich's t One overslept himself and then there fine interpre ation. Mr. Fran- Leonard. were eight. cis Lenihan portrayed the puritanical, little Indian boys, etc...." self-righteous Jonathan Hall with a The play provided an evening of Eight wise restraint that saved the charac- fascinating suspense, Much of the effectiveness of the ter from becoming merely a type. Mr. and the cast and play came from the way in which the William McKinley, as Doctor Camfi-i1. director deserve enthusiastic thanks various roles were handled; the cast combined professional dignity with and congratulations. The De Andrein Pagfe Th De Andei PaeTheThreeI The Crusade Courses Confrere Shows CLIPPINGS Father Alexander Schorsch observ- 1946 Pacific War Films ed the fortieth anniversary of his or- Cognizant that the effectiveness of Mr. Terrence O'Donnell, N.C.M., at- dination to the priesthood, and offered the COURSES is not to be expressed' tached for about four years to the MVIass of Thanksgiving on December in mathematical terms,, we believe a medical corps of the United States 22, at St. Scholatica's Academy, Chi- recapitulation of lhe year's activities Army in the capacity of First Ser- cago. may be indicative of our progress or geant, entertained the Scholastics on * * * * * regress. Summarily our records show: January 4th with a showing of color- -Sunday, December 29, from 9 to 1946 1945 ed eight mri. movies, covering three 9:30 a. m., over the Church of the Air years activity in the South Pacific. program, on the coast-to-coast CBS Text Books sent out ...... 352 396 network, Father Jeremiah Lehane New Correspondents ...... 226 208 His commentary sketched a vivid spoke on the Sixth Commandment. St. background,, as he unreeled adventures G raduates ...... 110 90 Vincent's Parish Choir, Chicago, pro- in Hawaii, -Oahu, Gaudalcanal, New- vided the background music, under the Tests answered ...... 1110 994 Britain, Negros Island and Panan direction of Dr. A. C. Becker, of De Conversions reported ...... 18. 18 Island. There were scenes of pictur- Paul University. esque island beaches, volcanoes, fish- * * * * * The most encouraging note of this ing trips, army maneuvers and pa- comparison of 1946 with During his visit to the Barrens for 1945 is the rades, native customs and villages, the Minstrel Show, Father O'Dea re- higher percentage of New Correspond- native dances and celebrations. ents in relation to the books sent . marked a coincidence that bears re- out peating: while in the Priests' Recrea- and especially the higher percentage Other shots recorded combat in the of graduates. Philippines tion Hall he remembered that on the The interest and per- and the shocking trail of spot occupied by his chair was once severance of the correspondent is, we mutilated humans and destruction left and believe, in direct proportion to the by the enemy. Mr. O'Donnell explain- the cube he lived in as a novice; diligence and promptness of the in- ed, as he ran off pictures of sugar Father Cecil Parres, who was sitting structor. cane and pineapple plantations, that across the room from him, was bap- the pineapple the soldiers ate, al- tized by him on his first assignment Of the good done for souls, of the twenty-seven years ago. though growing only a few yards * * * * * richer knowledge and appreciation of from their encampment, actually trav- the Mass, of the increased reception eled many hundreds of miles, to ship- Four students represented De Paul of the Sacraments, of marriages recti- per and back, before they got it. University at a conference at the Un- fied, of vocations encouraged, of con- Mass, being celebrated under all iversity of Chicago December 28-30, versions to the faith we hesitate to sorts of conditions-even in the midst to discuss, preliminary to the World say anything, for, though Paul and of long-deprived, very devout, natives Student Congress at Prague, the need Apollos may have planted and watered, -was shown. for and nature of the national student any increase is from God alone. Man- organization. Catholic students of ifestly, God has blessed in the past Striking and pathetic were the pic- America were conspicuous for their and is blessing the work of the Cru- tures of victims of numerous jungle absence in the last Youth Congress sade. May He continue to do so, and diseases among the natives. As for the held in Europe. may we be made less unworthy instru- work of the army personnel, Mr. * * * * * ments. O'Donnell said high praise is due to Father Francis Meade, Eastern Pro- the combat infantryman, and espec- vince, vice-president of Niagara Uni- Among the new correspondents are ially to the combat medical soldier versity, in an address to delegates at two African Catechists: Paul Ameba (Company and Battalion aid men). the meeting in December of the Na- and Cleophas Defoe. Eighteen other tional Catholic Educational Associa- catechists and teachers in the Gold tion, told them that Catholic institu- Coast area of Africa have been sent tions must face the problem of paying materials; consequently, we expect FR. JOHN MURPHY'S their lay faculty members a just living branch of the service this "foreign" RADIO WORK CITED wage in keeping with Papal encyl- to develop considerably in 1947. cicals. * * * * * At present 65 inmates of the Mis- The Radio Corporation of America souri State prison are taking one or lists as one of the outstanding tele- The Barrens Archives now possesses other of the courses. Father Schlatt- vision broadcasts in 1946 the "Micro- a valuable trophy of the war. It is mann, the prison chaplain, is most en- view" programs of Father John Mur- Father Wendelin Dunker's diary, ex- thusiastic and cooperative. While these phy, over Station WBKB. Father tending from June 26, 1932, to October correspondents present some unique Murphy, professor of biology at De 27, 1935. It turned up ten years later problems, for example, consulting the Paul since 1938, has been bringing on Iwo Jima, on the person of a dying be- microscopic studies into the home via Japanese soldier to whom a Father corrected test of a fellow-inmate Bradley fore answering one's own test, much television, and the results have been administered the Last Rites good has been accomplished. Litera- highly gratifying, according to a series of the Church. The last half of the of check-up tests conducted among the diary is in what is probably Japanese. ture from the Crusade Lending Libra- * * * * ry is constantly being sent to the pris- listeners by WBKB. The visual-aid oners, and very profitably so, says method has enabled students with no Captain William A. Flynn, C.M., Father S'chlattnTann. Whether or not previous acquaintance in the biolog- 'reached Chicago from Yokohama on there is a causal relationship between ical field to acquire a surprising com- Christmas Eve to surprise his family. prehension of the subject in a very He was released from the service, but this "Literature Crusade" and Father will Schlattmann's current undertaking, short time. This is a new step in ed- be on terminal leave until early we do not know; we do know he is ucational methods and opens up enor- in February. setting up a Catholic library at the mous possibilities for the future. The prison.. broadcasts are to continue during 1947, BREWER FIRE in half-hour programs. (Continued from Page One) Father Prindeville's CHAPTERS IN can impede the erection of a new RELIGION, the text church. In the meantime the people on which our ad- Divini Illius Magistri, vanced course is based, is currently Divini Redemp- will fulfill their obligations in the out of print. For the time being, toris, Mystici Corporis Christi, Casti parish hall. therefore, we-are accepting no rew Connubii, Summi Pontificatus, and We are confident that it will not be students for the advanced course. We Sertum Laetitiae. long before another church will be are,. however, inaugurating a new erected to the honor of God and as course based on Mr. Sheed's book, We beg all members of the Double a monument to the zeal and piety of THE MAP OF LIFE. Supplementary Family to remember in their prayers -the priests and people of Brewer. At reading matter in this new course will the mnany correspondents whO are present Father Danagher is trying include simplified editions (Paulist to gather together ve-tments and Press) of the following encylicals: Li- seeking the truth but at yet lack the furnishings to enable him to offer bertas Humana, Quadragesimo Anno, gift of faith. Mass for the parishioners. Page Four The De Andrein Page~~ ~ ~ ~ ForTeD nri CHRISTMAS-1946 Canonization of Blessed L s ar Catherine Laboure CONDOLENCES NOTES ANDJOTTINGS Please remember in your pray- The reading of the Martyrology for The Catholic Press recently carried ers the soul of Mr. John O'Con- Christmas Eve that sends a shiver the account of the reading of the nor's father, who passed away on of pure delight down your spine as "Tuto" decree, under order of Pope December 14. We offer sincerest the chronology of the world ends in Pius XII, and issued by the Sacred :,ympathy to our fellow-Student the glorious words, "Jesus Christ is Congregation of Rites for the canon- at this time, and to the surviv- born in Bethlehem of Juda," and ev- ization of Blessed Catherine Laboure. ing members of the family of the eryone in the refectory removes his The decree emphasized particularly deceased. May God giant him biretta... The last night of the Christ- her humility and her forty-seven year repose. mas Novena with a month of prepar- silence concerning her apparitions. t ~s~p~--~bg~ ~Y ~r~e~aa~- c -- , ~B~Bi~ ation and expectancy about to close She died on December 31, 1876, in 3 Paris. .... The last few hurried visits by "THE FLYING CABARET" some of the Students and parish priests to the pitiable shacks of the serve Mass for the Assembly delegates (Continued-from Page Two) poor in the vicinity, bringing food and .... Our Spanish brothers and Fath- a thorough, facile handling by the Rev. toys and small amounts of money.... er S'oklic enjoying their first Chr,>,t- Mr. Bruce Vawter; the latter, was mas in America, the former making presented by Mr. Edward Rowland The hush of the student chapel during with conviction and effectiveness in the visit before Mass... The crowd numerous efforts to tune in a Spanish of happy Students on their rounds to broadcast over the radio in the Rec- his first role on the Sudents' stage. wake the Novices with carols and to reation Hall... Christmas day in St. Another person affected was the Louis for two of them... Garden of Eden:s best customer, the see their Christmas decorations .... Bishop's drinking brother, Andrew Gil- The Novices' Recreation Hall and Dice and shouts of laughter and their chapel in red and white, and despair at the Bunco Party Saturday lespie (played by Rev. Mr. Rober Bren- strings of cedar, and the startlingly night... The first snow powdering nan), who resents the interference of real snow scene in their front en- down ... .All the welcome guests from Father Malachy in the lives of so trance .... the Assembly coming down for the many people. Despite a very short The first time you enter the sanc- minstrel and. banquet.... Father Hug notice to prepare for the role, Mr. Mass and catch Brennan's competent treatment add- tuary for Midnight all smiles from jokes aimed at him to his numerous successful the full glory of the silver draperies, by the Ring ..... Father Vidal who ed another set with boughs and flaming poin- hadn't seen a minstrel here in 31 interpretations on the Barrens' stage. settias, rising as a backdrop to the years.... Father Marshall LeSage The Bishop was made a very lovable altar.... The failure of the Hammond ccmpletely taken by the little boy with character by Mr. Robert Stack, sid- organ, and the brief moment of con- golden crown and sceptre against the ing whole-heartedly with Father Mal- fusion until the pipe organ could be dark blue of the large picture of "Ec- achy, demanding only to be warned nearly adequate service r ext time the latter is to perform pressed into ce Homo" in the student chapel.... not .... The whole packed church filing The Priests' Banquet ... .Chats with a miracle, a bishop who would up to the Communion rail.... The pastors and old friends.... Community miss his tea for the Pope himself. wildly joyous "Venite" with Novices singing the glorious Solemn "Te De- Complications set in when Messrs. and Students putting heart and soul um" to close 1946 ... .Novice-Student Bell and Bleater, realizing the tre- into it, as they've been doing for Banquet... The "Martyrology' and mondous publicity advantages of the years and years.... craning necks to see where the victim new location of the dance hall, refuse Standing in the hall about noon sits .... to respect the place unless Father singing the Christmas "Mass" over The Orchestra playing for the meal Malachy makes good their financial again "for the fun of it"... Reading ... Voting for the Nugent and Linne loss. The latter tries to prevent the cards from old friends ... Opening medals-the latter for meritorious irreverence. One scheme seems about Christmas packages from'"the folks" reading in the refectory during the to fructify with the introduction of .... The first big play Christmas night past year.... The hilarious results and the mor eyed American who is to fi- and another world for a few hours the shy speeches of acceptance ... rance Father Malachy's articles for with Father Malachy. .. Final "good nights" and "Happy New American papers. But this idea dies Shivers and much guessing, about Years" to the Novices.... The heart- aborning with the visit of Cardinal the "who-done-it," "Judgment Island," felt "Auld lang Syne".... The New Vassena (Mr. Lowell Fischer), who on Friday night... Six Students off Year Mass and the beginning of a brought to the stage the authentic at- for St. Louis to wait on table and glorious 1947. mosphere of Rome. Mr. Carl Callier - ~ I-- -~ - - - - I a - was the dynamic American press agent. The climax comes when Father Mal- achy in desperation visits the cabaret's opening night to attempt to stop the desecration with a plea to Mr. Bell. On the latter's refusal, Almighty God Four of moves the dance hall and all occu- the Sisters pants back to the original spot. This of Charity second miracle converts the BBB-the who sailed Bishop's Bad Brother-and he and for China Miss McNab (an entertainer at the on Decem- cabaret, who never appears, on the ber 2. Left stage) live happily thereafter. to right, Mr. Raymond Kellner as hat-check Sister M a - clerk and bartender at the Garden of r y, Sister Eden is to be commended on his de- Phi lomena lineation of an outspoken, dogmatiz- Sister Ver- ing personality. Mr. Clarence Miller onica and had a small, but stormy role as the Sister Jane. local sheriff, interested only in the The Sis- lawfulness of such a miracle. The ters spent part of Mr. McNab who attempts to C hr istmas withdraw his daughter from the cab- in Shang- aret's stage was taken by Mr, An- hai, after thony Rechtin. The production was which they well-cast and Rev. Mr. Gaydos de- were to serves many thanks for his direction travel to and sound-effects, especially his own Poyang, where they will serve the poor and sick in the House of the Mirac- off-stage rendition of the Tantum ulous medal. Ergo as the loud Mrs. Clancy. Andrein TheThe.D De An.rei..... PePage FivFive quarters. STATUE OF CHRIST-CHILD Daughters to Operate Children of a pre-school age whose mothers work during the day will be ERECTED ON SCHOLASTICS' Chicago Relief Center cared for by the Sisters, while those GROUNDS "The poor you will always have with of the 5-6 age will attend the kind- you." Not simply is it poverty in the ergarten. Under the guidance of a abstract, but very concretely it is the gym teacher and lay leaders children poor whom we have wvith us. The needs of the ages 8-12 will engage in off-the- of the poor are the needs of real per- street activities in the play-lot, game sons-men, women and children. The room and play club. These activities needs of the poor are economic, but will include such things as the organ- also, spiritual, physical and social. ization of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts; Resourceful must be that charity the teaching of Catechism, Crafts, which would answer such a diversity Sewing, and Woodshop; Music, Dra- of needs. The motive and incentive matics, Movies. for such charity comes, of course, Four separate groups of boys and from that clear vision of faith which girls of the ages 13-15 and 16-19 will reveals Christ in the person of each comprise Teen Town. The girls, un- of His poor. The example for us in der the supervision of lay leaders and these recent times comes from the a sister, and the boys, supervised by Church's Universal Patron Saint of priests, Brothers and lay leaders, are Charitable Works, the Father of our given the opportunity to form clubs own Double Family. in their own separate groups accord- In an extensive, thickly-populated ing to such interests as Reading, area near the central part of the City Photography, Arts and Crafts, Science of Chicago, the varied needs of the and Travel-with films and lectures. poor have long been the special con- In addition there will also be oppor- cern and problem of the Daughtersof tunities for joint participation of all Charity. This month, thanks to God the members of Teen Town in com- and to the Charity of many benefac- petitive games, bowling, skating, ath- tors, they take a great step towards letics, music, dramatics, etc. the solution of that problem in the There will be classes in Religion for opening of Marillac Social Center, a each separate age group. Other classes, Catholic Hull House. especially for the adult groups, will Former Episcopalian Center include courses in Home Making, Child The new house, formerly known as PRearing, Citizenship, English, Labor "St. Mary's House for Children," and and Social Justice, the use of the Soc- conducted then by Episcopal Sisters, ial Encyclicals of the Church. Dis- is situated at 2822 W. Jackson Blvd. cussion clubs will treat of religious, The establishment is to be staffed by social, familial and recreational top- In the small evergreen grove, about five nuns, Sister Bertrande being Sis- ics. Guest speakers, authors, jurists a hundred feet to the east of the ter Servant of the group, and it is and noted Catholic actionists will be Scholasticate building, this terra cot- sponsored by Catholic Charities of presented at the regular Forum as- ta figure of the Divine Child was Chicago. This is not entirely a new semblies, while at 'the Town Hall erected recently, and blessed by Fath- experience for these Daughters, for meeting both sides of controversial is- er James McOwen in a simple cere- preceeding the opening of Marillac sves will be Presented with the aud- mony, followed by Benediction of the House they conducted Catholic Social ience participating. Most Blessed Sacrament, Sunday aft- Center at 947 W. Jackson. "Visitations" and Summer Camps ernoon, the Feast of the Holy Fami- All Ages Benefit Not the least among the works of ly, at which the entire Community was The Center will consist of several Marillac House will be the visitation present. Father John Zimmerman units, suited to different ages and sex- of the poor-so dear to St. Louise and spoke briefly after the blessing, de- es. There will be a day nursery de- the first Daughters-work with the claring that the Students have in partment which will be known as Juvenile Court for the rehabilitation this statue a perpetual reminder of "Tiny Tot Town," and accommodations of young people and their families, and the model of obedience appointed for for children from 6 to 13 will be had the seeking of employment for office them in the Common Rules by St. in "Kiddieville." "Teen Town" will be and factory workers. Vincent , himself with the words: for adolescents and "Town Hall" will Plans for seasonal activities l'st "Erat subditus illis," and urged that cater to the adults. Finally, for those- such items as summer vacation camps frequent visits be made to this newest who have passed 65 there will be the for bcys, girls, and mothers with small of Barrens shrines. A red-stone ped- "Chess and Chatter Club." children; winter indoor sports in the estal Will eventually support the three- For a program of such magnitude as gym and outdoor ice skating and ire foot, eight-inch statue, a product of the above outline envisions, the four- carnival on a flooded lot; and glee the Kaletta Statuary firm. It is the story building, basement and anr ex clubs, music appreciation, nature study gift of unnamed berefactors. at 2822 W. Jackson will offer no su- and garden clubs for autumn and perfluity of room. Every available spring. THE De ANDREJN soace will be utilized. Provisions are This, in broad outline, is the wide Published monthly by the Stephen being made in the remodelling of the scope of charitable enterprise to be Vincent Ryan Unit of the Catholic plant to include the following facili- carried on at Marillac Social Center. Students' Mission Crusade. It is a tremendous program-equalled ties: administrative offices, an audi- Subscription: $1.00 per year (nine torium (seating 600), assembly rooms, only by the tremendous needs which must be satisfied. issues). a cafeteria, a large chapel and a med- - - -- ical clinic; several waiting rooms, con- Editor sultation offices, examination rooms NOTE TO OUR John F. Lenihan, C. M. and a child-study clinic; classrooms PARISH PRIESTS Associate Editors William Pittman, C.M. for groups of different ages and spec- We have long desired to include instruc- John Richardson, C.M. ial requirements, a commerce more parish news in THE DE Exchanges tion department, an employment agen- ANDREIN, and appreciate the co- game rooms for various age groups James Galvin, C.M. cy, operation we have already receiv- Btrl1 neFs Manager guest rooms, a dining room for the ed from a few parishes. Your chaplain and a gymnasium equipped Robert Stack. C.M. weekly bulletins-if one is pub- Circulation MWnager for year around activities; a home lished, or a brief note to us each t economics department, a library suit- Manuel Pelle eri, C.M. month (before the 22nd) would Contributors ed to the age requirements of all, a give us the help we need to make living room for tired mothers, a nurs- Rev. Mr. Robert Brennan, C.M. our Community paper representa- Lawrence Leonard, C.M. ery department, sleeping rooms, re- tive of all the Community works. Mr. search bureau, office for youth per- Thank you. Faculty Advisor sonnel service and resident help ir9r~rrs a lesp~r Rev. James F. McOwen, C.M. PaPre Six The De Andrein PL' Six~L - I Th Dos Andrenl

1. The Refectory 5. Scholastics' Chapel 9. Community, Chapel 2. Church 6. Scholastics' Crib 10. Refectory 3. Novitiate Chapel 7. Crib in Church 11. Scholastics' Recreation Hall 4. Novices' Recreation Hall 8. Novitiate Crib MPPI, Anbttt Volume 17 Perryville, Missouri, February, 1947 No. 5I CIVIC HONORS FOR NATCHEZ CENTENARY BARRENS OFFERS CIVIL WAR HEROISM RECALLED IN DOUBLE Father Lewis SOLEMN MASS ON ANNIVERSARY Dies Suddenly COMMUNITY FEAST A two-day celebration. was observed We have been saddened by the word last month in Natchez, Miss., to com- of Father J. Frederick Lewis' death, On Feb. 14, 1946, the Sacred Congre- which occurred suddenly at St. Joseph's gation memorate a double centennial, the of Rites granted to the double hundredth anniversary of the Daugh- Rectory, New Orleans, the morning of family of St. Vincent, permission to ters of Charity in Mississippi and of February 11. Born 52 years ago in celebrate the Feasts of the Prayer in the foundation of historic St. Mary's Canada, Father was ordained in 1931, the Garden (Tuesday of Septuagesima Orphanage in Natchez. The Sisters having pronounced his Holy Vows May week) and the Passion (Tuesday of and their little charges were joined 2, 1927. He left for China in 1931, in Sexagesima week). The privilege hav- by dignitaries of Church and state in company with Fathers Stephen Dunk- ing been granted too late for use in marking the event with a celebration er and Paul Lloyd, and spent the next 1946, the Community at the Barrens well befitting the dignity of the oc- five or six years there. Father was a this year offered Solemn Mass in the cousin .of our late revered confrere, casion. Father James Lewis. The funeral was Community Chapel on February 4, On Tuesday morning, January 28, Feast of the Prayer in the Garden. held Friday, Feb. 14 at St. Joseph'S the Most Reverend R. O. Gerow, Bish- Church. Since both are special feasts of the op of Natchez officiated at a Solemn Archconfraternity of the Holy Agony, Pontifical Mass in the cathedral, at- the forerunners of the many Daugh- it is hoped that this special favor will tended by numerous prelates and a ters of St. Vincent who have devoted encourage all to spread devotion to large number of the clergy. On the their lives to the care of God's little our Lord's passion, a work entrusted previous evening a civic reception and children. in a special way to us. dinner were held in one of the city' Civil War Era The Archconfraternity of the Holy hotels. The mayor on this occasion Agony was founded in 1862 by An- commended the Sisters for all they had Buit St. Mary's was not without the toine Nicolle, C.M., at that .time pas- accomplished through the instrumen- constant impediments that usually ac- tor of the parish of Notre Dame, Val- tality of St. Mary's Orphanage. company such an undertaking. It fleury, France. What impelled Fr. The celebration was also a tribute was many years before suitable ac- Nicolle to establish this devotion to to the generous people of Natchez of commodations could be found to house was the great similarity the large number of girls that gath- the Passion all faiths. It is in large part due to The Civil War he noticed between Christ in Geth- their aid that the institution has been ered about the Sisters. semane and the sainted Pius IX at brought its own miseries. Natchez able to withstand the storms of the Federal forces in the mercy of anti-Catholic forces past one hundred years. Many of was shelled by the Papal 1862, and the Sisters were forced to which eventually confiscated the these people availed themselves of the seek refuge in an old plantation five territory. The holy priest was also opportunity of viewing the historic miles outside the city. The procession saddened by the indignities and in- orphanage during the three days of they formed as they led the children juries inflicted on the Mystical Body open house held from Sunday through to safety beneath a canopy of gun- of Christ in the persons of the bishops, Tuesday, Jan. 26 to Jan. 28. fire must have presented an inspiring priests and laity of his day. The four- Foundation sight. All the while the little voices fold end of the Archconfraternity is, The annals of history record the in- chanted our Lady's Litany, trying in then, to secure the peace of the auspicious inauguration of St. Mary's. vain to lessen the roar of the deadly Church, the preservation of the Faith, Just ten years after the diocese of Nat- guns. the cessation of the scourges that af- chez had been erected the Bishop ap- flict society and grace for the dying. pealed to the Daughters of Charity for During this same conflict General At first membership in the Arch- assistance in caring for the parentless Blanchard of the Confederate Army confraternity was' lmited to the faith- children of his territory. His, request urgently requested the Sisters' aid in ful of the diocese in which Valfleury was answered by the appearance of nursing the wounded and dying. Un- was situated, the diocese of Lyons. In three Sisters from Maryland on the der the cover of darkness the Sisters the course of time the work spread to nrlht of Jan. 28, 1847. These were eluded the patrols, crossed the Miss- places outside this territory. In order issippi, and began a work which mer- to affiliate these groups to the main COMMUNITY LOSES FRIEND ited the grateful thanks of an agoniz- body the Holy Seen was petitioned to ing countryside. The little French On February 6th, Isadore B. Dock- lamp with which the Sisters signalled extend the Archconfraternity to the weiler died in Los Angeles, his home whole of France. In 1873 the permis- their safe crossing of the river is now city. A Knight of St. Gregory, this preserved at Marillac Seminary as a sion was granted and at the same nationally-known attorney and father time its headquarters were transferred relic of God's protection in those of eleven children was one of the first troublesome days. to the Vincentian Mother House in graduates of Old St. Vincent's College Paris. In due time the Archconfra- of Los Angeles. Mr. Dockweiler was Post-war days brought additional ternity was extended to the whole intimate with Bishop Glass and Fath- hardships to the Daughters at St. world. Upon the death of Fr. Nicolle er Aloysius Meyer, and all his life Mary's. Though food and money were in 1890, Leo XIII named to replace remained loyal and devoted to the especially scarce in Mississippi, the him, as Director General, the Superior sons of St. Vincent. Doctor Robert number of girls in the orphanage in- General of the Congregation of the Dockweiler, a' son, recently died leav- creased continually. With what as- Mission and his successors. ing two burses to the Community for sistance that could be spared by the Mention ought to be made in passing the education of priests. The legal Bishop and the people the Sisters not of the Scapular of the Passion. It was practice of the deceased is being con- only provided for the childrens' needs, given in an apparition by our Lord to tinued by two other sons, Henry and but they laid that solid foundation on a Daughter of Charity, Sister Apolline Thomas" Dockweiler, the latter the which the successful development of (Continued on Page Three) attorney for Archbishop Cantwell. St. Mary's has depended. Page Two The 'De Andrein First Row: Very Rev. Francis Koeper (St. Thomas', Denver); Rev. John Murphy (De Paul Uni- versity); Very Rev. Robert Brown (Los Angeles Prep); Rev. Leon- idas Moore (Dallas); Very Rev. M. J. O'Connell (De Paul Uni- versity); Very Rev. Marshall F. Winne, Provincial; Very Rev. William Barr (St. John's, Cama- rillo); Very Rev. William Bren- nan (St. Mary's Seminary, Per- ^ ryville); Very Rev. Donald Mc- " Neil (St. Francis, Bethany); Rev. William Stack (St. Vincent's, La- E Salle). S Second Row: Rev. James Cody * (Los Angeles Prep); Very Rev. Otto Meyer (Pampa); Rev. S Francis Lynn (Pampa); Very . Rev. Michael Dillon (Dallas); . Rev. Thomas Coyne (Cama- rillo); Rev. Thomas Cahill (Ken- S rick Seminary); Rev. Joseph S Lilly (Washington, D. C.); Very 2 Rev. Emmett Gaffney (St. Louis . Prep); Very Rev. James Stake- .lum (San Antonio); Very Rev. ^ Eugene McCarthy (La Salle); " Very Rev. William Ward (St. 0' Vincent's, Los Angeles); Rev. John Donohue (St. Vincent's, . Kansas City); Rev. John Taugh- er (S'. Louis Prep). Third Row: Rev. John O'Re- ' gan (St. Stephen's, New Or- leans); Rev. Robert Miget (St. Q Katherine's, New Orleans); Rev. o John Tackaberry (St. John's, z Kansas City); Rev. Daniel Mar- fr tin (San Antonio); Very Rev. S Charles Cannon (Cape Girar- deau); Very Rev. Willis Darling S (St. Katherine's, New Orleans); £ Very Rev. Joseph Donovan S (Kenrick Seminary); Rev. Jos- S eph Dyra (S't. Vincent's, Los W Angeles); Very Rev. John La- S velle (Washington, D. C.); Rev. John Vidal (Denver); Rev. Ro-ý bert Power (St. Vingent's, St. 3 Louis). SFourth Row; Very Rev. James - O'Dea (St. Stephen's, New Or- §_ leans); Very Rev. John Conroy (St. John's, Kansas City); Rev. Comerford O'Malley (De Paul University); Very Rev. Marshall LeSage (St. Joseph's, New Or- leans); Rev. Thomas Lilley (St. Joseph's, New Orleans); Very Rev. George O'Malley (St. Vin- cent's, St. Louis); Rev. Edmund Cannon (Bethany); Very Rev. Peter Frommell (Rosati, Chica- go); Very Rev. James Flannery (St. Vincent's, Kansas City); Rev. G. Cyril LeFevre (Kenrick), The De Andrein Page Three FROM CUENCA, SPAIN MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA BAND "...The actual prosperity of our Pro- vince could be judged by the ever in- creasing number of boys being edu- cated and trained to be priests in our Apostolic Schools. We actually have over 800 of them. Besides, we have 120 Seminarists and Students of Phil- osophy. Counting the Students of Theology we are altogether over a thousand. "...We are also grateful to you for the great interest you are taking in our beloved Spain; but above all for the prayers you daily offer to God for her. We admire, too, your great country and in return we earnestly pray for the whole of the U.S.A. to become a Catholic nation, so that the hope of our Holy Mother the Church may soon be a reality. In spite of all the calum- nies against us and all the privations the enemies of God have forced upon us, we are glad and proud of the prosperity and well-being of our Fath- erland at present more Catholic than ever) and of our 'Caudillo,' as Catholic and as holy as our holy king, Saint Ferdinand."

; II _1--- GOLDEN JUBILIARIANS On January 21, Sisters Stephan- ie and Generosa, at Villa St. Louise, Sister Josepha at St. Mary's, Natchez; and on January 27, Sister Gervase at Hotel Dieu celebrated the fiftieth year of their vocations. Our heartiest congratulations and felicitations! • · . .- ·

COMMUNITY FEAST (Continued from Page 1) Seated with Father Winne is Father Murphy, Director; standing, left to Andriveau, and entrusted to the zeal right, Fathers Walter Quinn, Dimond Ryan, and Edward Roche. Father John of the Vincentian priests for its dis- Hogan, not shown, is the other member of the Band. semination. The Archconfraternity is but the application of the devotion of in West the scapular. Novena Flourishing Excerpts from a circular letter of The work of the Miraculous Medal Novena Band grows daily, and new re- Fr. Etienne to the double family are quests for the Novena are pouring in at the office at 1427 South Ninth Street, similar- very apt today because of'the St. Louis. Father Preston Murphy, Director of the Band, is gratified ity in world affairs: "The devotion to the holy Agony of our Lord presents- with the way people everywhere are responding to the devotion to Our Lady itself to the world as a source of con- of the Miraculous Medal. The present series of Novena sermons features the solations which ought to sweeten all importance of the family in attaining to iiternational and economic peace, its bitterness, as a remedy destined to and is encouraging familial virtues and a revival of lost standards of home heal all its .evils..:. It presents itself. especially to the: souls of the faithful life. The following schedule shows the present demand for the Novena: as a light illuminating them concern- Father Quinn-St. Patrick's, Racine Wisc., Jan. 26-Feb.3; ing the nature of the evils which af- Father Hogan-Sacred Heart of Jesus, St. Louis, Feb. 2-10. flict the Church and the Vicar of Jesus Father Ryan-St. Gabriel, St. Louis, Feb. 3-11. Christ, ahd as a means of fortifying Father Quinn-Sacred Heart, Racine, Wisc., Feb. 9-17. themselves in the. battle engaged with Father Murphy-St. Anthony, Sullivan, Mo., Feb. 9-17. the enemies of.. the true Faith; of Father Hogan-Resurrection, St. Louis, Feb. 16-24. bearing with submission and with Father Ryan-Holy Name, St. Louis, Feb. 16-24. merit the burdens of present tribula- Father Quinn-Assumption, West Allis, Wisc., Feb. 28-Mar.3. tions and those which the future holds Father Murphy-St. Boniface, St. Louis, Feb. 23-Mar. 3. in store for the true disciples of the Sav- Father Hogan--St. Andrew's, Lemay, Mo., Mar. 2-10. ior... Everything .proclaims that our Father Ryan-St. Augustine's, Brighton, Colo., Mar. 2-10. two families have been chosen by God Father Murphy-St. Engelbert's, St. Louis, Mar. 9-17. to spread throughout the whole world Father Quinn-St. Katherine's, New Orleans, Mar. 9-17. this new mieans:of reviving the Faith Father Roche-St. Anthony, Long Beach, Calif., Jan. 5-13. and of drawing down upon the Church Father Roche-St. Joseph's, San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 19-27. the blessings of heaven in these times Father Roche-Cathedral Chapel, Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 2-10 of suffering and alarm.. .Let us give Father Roche-St. Anselm's, Los Angeles, Feb. 16-24. thanks to the God of St. Vincent for Father Roche-St. Bridgit, Los Angeles, Mar. 2-10. this new favor :and let us be eager to Father Roche-St. Timothy, Los Angeles, Mar. 16-24. respond to his idesigns of mercy.:" Father Roche-Cathedral Chapel, Los Angeles, April 3-6. Page Four The De Andrein VINCENTI AN CLIPPINGS

CHICAGO NIAGARA The Retreat given to the University Father Francis J. Meade has just students at De Paul on January 27, been appointed president of Niagara 28, and 29 by Father Preston Murphy University, succeeding Father Joseph was one of the best attended and the M. Noonan, who held that office since most successful in years. Among the 1932. Father Noonan will remain on young men making the retreat were the University campus for an indef- two, a former captain and a former inite period. During his tenure of of- corporal, who had belonged to Father fice, the enrollment rose from 527 to Murphy's outfit in the army. Both of 1701 students; Varsity Village, a mod- them were happy to renew acquain- ern student housing project was set tance with their former Chaplain and up; the three year college course was at the rectory fo a special vis- inaugurated at Niagara; and Niagara called was chosen as one of the 14 colleges it with him. and universities to act as a key cen- De Paul University now has two ter for war infor mation in civilian vice presidents, a' layman, Mr. David morale and training programs. Father Sharer, having been recently appointed Noonan was president of the seminary by Father O'Malley to collaborate with department of the NCEA in 1928, and Father Kammer in that office. president of the Association of Colleges Father Lehane was appointed Chair- and Universities of the State of New man of the O'Riordan Endowment York in 1941. Fund at De Paul University for the sity the early part of January. In the promotion of Irish culture. The Com- DE PAULIA for January 17, the ap- CHINA mittee has outlined plans to use part preciation of the team was expressed of the Fund to enlarge the Irish Li- in an article that recounted the hos- The six confreres and the Daughters brary and to make De Paul the center pitality shown them, and particular arrived in Shanghai in time for a Chi- of Irish Culture in Chicago. The Irish thanks were given to Father Hymel, nese Christmas. After a little rest Clubs in the city which have been who guided the team around New Or- there was the long tedious pull into contacted by Fathers Connolly and Le- leans during their stay. the interior. Now they are at work in ,hane are enthusiastic in their support the province, the two new men prepar- of the project. BETHANY ing to take their place in the mission De Paul Academy became the first On January 29, the Seminary cele- work as soon as possible. of the Chicago Catholic boys' high brated its first patronal feast day. A schools to enroll in the Legion of Mary. newly-formed choir of students sang LOS ANGELES Father Fiztgerald will act as moder- the Mass. The Sisters provided a fes- ator. tive banquet in the evening. Several Princess Sepulveda Pignatelli, writer A new gymnasium, costing approx- of the diocesan priests attended. with the "Los Angeles Examiner," car- imately $150,000 is being planned for ried in her column of February 4, the Academy. The parents' clubs and The retreat for the students was 1947, a tribute to the work of the alumni will assist in meeting the ex- held February 12, 13, and 14 by Fath- Daughters at St. Vincent's Hospital, pense. Four years' time should see the er Finn, a diocesan priest. where she had spent some time. In completion of the new building, to be ST. LOUIS part, it reads: "I have nothing but erected in a corner of De Paul field. admiration and affection for the order Father August Alt has been appoint- who live up to their name every hour CAPE GIRARDEAU ed chaplain for the Alexian Brothers of the day and night, alleviating suf- at Glennondale, Missouri. Bazaar will be Novitiate ferings, bringing a smiling counte ance The Annual Students' for the downheart- held February 18, 1947. Word has been received from the that brightens life Vicar General in Paris that no def- ed or ill: ... Thanks to Sisters Alphon- ST. LOUIS inite date has yet been set for the sine, Irene, Alice, and Mary Bernard canonizdtion of Blessed Catherine, and for their myriad kindnesses." Father William Casey gave the postponement until October is seen three-day Retreat at the Prep last as a possibility. month. THE De ANDREIN PERRYVILLE Published monthly by the Stephen SAN ANTONIO Father Juguera stopped off here on Vincent Ryan Unit of the Catholic During January Fathers Jo'h n February 2 and 3 on his way to San Sharpe, Edward Riley, and Bernard Francisco, where he will shortly em- Students' Mission Crusade. Degan held Retreats for the students bark for the Philippines. Fathers Ber- nal, Manzanal, and Monreal enjoyed Subscription: $1.00 per year (nine of Incarnate Word College, the nurses issues). at St. Paul's Hospital, Dallas, and the a pleasont reunion with their recent nurses at Seton Hospital, Austin, re- escort to America from Spain. Editor spectively. Father Anton Soklic assumed pro- John F. Lenihan, C. M. fessorial duties in Sacramental Theo- NEW ORLEANS logy, and French (for the Novices) at Associate Editors semester. William Pittman, C.M. Sister Bertrand addressed 500 re- the opening of the new ligious attending the fourth annual Fathers Parres, Persich, and Piaci- John Richardson, C.M. teachers' meeting in January on telli filled in for Fathers Joseph Bren- Exchanges "Teaching of Poetry as an Aid in Com- nan and McDonnell at the High School James Galvin, C.M. were making their an- position," "Vocabularly Enrichment" while the latter Business Manager and "Training to Think." nual Retreat, January 25 to February 2. Father Persich will continue there Robert Stack, C.M. Fathers Helinski and Hopp last class in Psychology for the month welcomed the Most Rev. George with a Circulation Manager Caruana, Titular Archbishop and Pa- teaching Sisters. Manuel Pelleteri, Q.M. pal Nuncio to Cuba upon his arrival BROOKLYN Contributor in this city. Father Joaquin Garcia, of St. John's John Hickey, C.M. St. Stephen's, St. Katherine's, and college, has been elected president of St. Joseph's parishes were hosts to the the American Catholic Philosophical Faculty Advisor basketball squad of De Paul Univer- Association. Rev. James F. McOwen, C.M. opp,

luir arba~in I NO. 6 Volume 17 Volume~~~~ ~ ~ ~ 17 Perryville,Perve Maissouri,Missuri Mllarch,Mach 1947194 NO POLISH CONFRERE THEOLOGIANS' FEAST DAY Vice-Postulator OBSERVED WITH SLAIN BY TRADITIONAL PROGRAM Tells Progress CHINESE REDS Since time out of mind the Barrens of Cause of PROTESTS IGNORED "Kalendarium" for the date of March Father Casimir Skowyra, C.M., was 7 has been carrying the announce- Mother Seton burned to death in a pool of gasoline, ment: "Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, following brutal torturing, for his re- Patron of Catholic Schools. Solemn Providential Act Saves fusal to confess to accusations of pro- Mass at six o'clock. Benediction of the Documents Japanese and pro-Fascist Most Blessed Sacrament in the Com- activities. munity Chapel at five-thirty. At sev- This is the latest word to reach us, Dis- The following excerpt from Father after it became known en-thirty p. m., Public Scholastic that' a series putation in 'Aula Magna' in honor of Burgio's account in the MOTHER SE- of persecutions have begun, serjpusly St. Thomas. 'Vacat.'" Filling in the TON GUILD BULLETIN for Feb- involving 26 ecclesiastical divisions, ruary is submitted to our readers to and details for this year's celebration we less acutely 21 others, which are note that at the Solemn Mass, cele- acquaint them with the present status under Communist rule. brated by Father Charles Rice, Father of the Cause of Mother Seton, the Bishop Ignatius Krause, Polish Vin- John LeSage preached the encomium foundress of the Daughters of Charity centian of Shuntehfu, in the Province to the Saint. The evening program in America in 1809. of Hopei, with seven Polish confreres featured the Scholastic Disputation on and three Chinese priests and a the subject: "The Sacraments are the When in 1944 word reached this Brother Chang, were roughly bound instrumental causes of Sanctifying country that military exigence had de- and thrown into prison by the Reds Grace, and they produce their effect manded the sacrifice of the famous on December 4th. Also imprisoned as causes in the true sense: that is, Benedictine monastery of Monte Cas- were two Daughters of Charity and physical and perfective," Rev. Messrs. sino, we could not have anticipated two Josephines. Later, they were all Bruce Vawter, Robert Brennan, and that this tragic event could have had assembled before the villagers and Francis Gaydos the participants. any relationship to the Cause of accused of various political and baser Additional offerings were: Mr. John Mother Seton's Canonization. Yet... crimes. Fitzgibbon on "St. Thomas and the the destruction of any hope for the It was after this indictment that Beatific Vision"; and Mr. John French successful outcome of Mother Seton's Father Skowyra, in company with with a paper entitled "The Incarnate Cause was avoided only by a two-dafy another priest, was hanged from a tree Word and Faith." Memrbiers of the margin. Fcr it was at this famoul( and beaten unmercifully. The Bishop Falso Bordoni sang "Verbum Super- center of Christian culture that Dom and Brother Chang were next ar- num," and the entire Community ren- Mauro Inqueanez, distinguished schol- raigned and beaten, the latter becom- dered another of St. Thomas' own ar and consultor of the Sacred Con- ing insane from the treatment. The works, the well-known "Adoro Te De- gregation of Rites, was engaged in Polish Vincentians' mission has been vote." Father John Brosnan delivered the expert examination of the letters completely plundered. Several em- the Allocution. and documents pertaining to her bassies, notably that of the Polish The first paper, that of Mr. Fitz- Cause. Had not the Very Reverend charge d'affaires in Nanking, protested gibbon, was an interesting develop- Ferdinando Antonelli, O.F.M., Re- to no avail. The laity is also reported ment of the argument, "since man has lator-General of the Historical Sec- undergoing ruthless persecution for a natural desire to know what is the (Continued on Page Two) their religion-stonings, burnings, and (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3) butcherings occurring daily. _ -- -r

COMMUNITY BENEFITS FROM WILL OF ISIDORE DOCKWEILER A bequest of $10,000 was made to the community by the late Isidore Dock- weller to establish a burse for the ed- ucation of priests. In the will, Mr. Dockweiler explained the gift with the following words: "I feel that under God and my parents I am indebted to the Vincentian Fathers for my educa- tion, religious and secular. "True, my parents paid the charg- es for tuition, but no amount of money could compensate the Vincentian Fathers for the training I received at Old St. Vincent's College, and my con- tacts with them in subsequent years." As reported in the February DE ANDREIN, we lament the going of one so generous and devoted to the com- munity, and request the prayers of MARILLAC SOCIAL CENTER the Double Family for the repose of This latest work of the Daughters of Charity in Chicago (see January his soul. DE ANDREIN) opens formally this month. Staffing it are Sisters Bertrande (Continued on Page Three) Beatrice, Rosalie, Mary, Ann, and Antoinette. Page Two The De Andrein Page Two The De Andrein Spanish Double Italian Missions MOTHER SETON Family Flourishing Progress Despite (Continued from Page 1) tion of the Sacred Congregation of The following is a condensation of Anti-Clericalism Rites, in view of the danger to the the article that appeared in the Feb- Monastery, urgently requested that ruary issue of HERI-HODI. Letter from Turin Confreres Gives this invaluable material be returned Post-War Pictures to Rome (where it arrived only two In Spain, four-fifths the size of Texas, days before the bombing and shelling there are more than 300 priests and Turin, cf the Monastery) perhaps all of 'it Brothers in the Congregation, plus 375 January 1, 1947 would have been lost in the fire- priests and Brothers on foreign missions "Beloved Brothers: blackened ruins of Monte Cassino. chiefly, South America, Mexico, India, "Gratia Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Of course, it may seem surprising the West Indies, and the Philippines. sit semper nobiscum. that this work of documentationr had Allowing for the loss of more than "We received your letter a long time not been already completed. In the twenty percent during the five-year since, and enjoyed it very much. We ordinary course of events, it would in- course in the apostolic schools, there received also... THE DE ANDREIN; a deed have been finished several years will soon be almost one hundred en- few among us are familiar with your ago. But the very war which endang- tering the Novitiate each year. Both tongue, and these are able to tell the ered the acts of the Cause, itself was in the Madrid and Barcelona provinc- rest of us what news you send... responsible for the delay in the com- es, vocations are increasing rapidly, "We also hear from the Brazilian pletion of this laborious task. Though despite the Civil War in 1936. Scholastics, and have sent them the process of the Cause has been set stamps and some sheet music. back for some years, it is now confi- The giving of missions is the pri- "On December 21, eight Scholastics dently expected that the documen- mary work of the Provinces. Two years from our number were ordained to tation of the Mother Seton material ago the Madrid Province was re- the Priesthood by Cardinal Fossati; will be soon printed and that after sev- quested by His Excellency, the with a special dispensation from the Bishop of Pamplona, to give a mis- Holy See on account of their age. Two sion to his diocese of more than 70,000 others will be ordained in March. souls. For two weeks thirty-two mis- "Because of the war and its conse- sioners conducted this mission simul- quences, vocations both in the Apos- taneously in the 14 churches of Pam- tolic School and in the Internal Sem- plona, a city well known for its vibrant inary have become scarce; there is Catholicity. Prior to the mission the particularly a lack of lay brothers. confreres addressed all the clergy of "In our country the "filii tenebra- the district, secular and religious, five rum" are employing grave calumnies hundred in all. A procession from the _ . " church of this meeting to the Cathe- I I dral marked the formal opening of the Mission for the people. A sermon was NECROLOGY delivered in the Cathedral before the Smissioners betook themselves to the Suffrage numbers thus far is- different churches. For the next two sued in 1947 are 1 to 10, inclu- weeks the priests of Pamplona heard sive. over 65,000 confessions, and distributed r wv in a like number of Communions. Before I the mission had come to an end, Bish- against the Sovereign Pontiff and op and clergy alike were amazed at the priests. Many have been deceived by blessings it had brought upon their their specious arguments and novel city. doctrines; but the young people of Catholic Action and the loyal faithful, Other works of our Spanish confre- who are in the majority, remain unit- res include the operating of small ed with their pastors. In some places colleges to prepare laymen for advanc- priests have been killed or severely ed university work; schools specializing beaten. This state of affairs grows in labor-ethics; clerical and lay re- worse and worse because of the great treats; and various literary ventures, scarcity of wheat. ranging from the religious novel to "We read in THE DE ANDREIN that Scriptural and meditation books. Fathers Guyot and Sullivan have de- Mother Elizabeth Seton Daughters of Charity parted for China; our Vicariate (Kian- eral years necessary for the fulfillment Kiangsi) is also in need of workers; of further essential requirements, In all Spain there are 13,500 Sisters, but because material necessities are Mother Seton may be acclaimed "Ven- 3500 of whom belong to the French lacking at this time, some of our mfs- erable." ... Province. Vocations are increasing, sionaries cannot be sent to China, and How different is Mother Cabrini's with 350 entering the Seminary every are remaining in Italy awaiting better- Cause from that of Mother Seton! three months. In Spain, where there times. On the other hand, there are In the former case, the number of per- are more Daughters of Charity at work at present many country missions, the sons still living who knew her per- than in any other country, their works more so since they could not be giv- sonally was legion. There was no dif- are exactly the same as established by en during the war. Generally they are ficulty, therefore, in gathering the St. Louise and St. Vincent. very fruitful, although atheistic doc- facts of her life and virtues from wit- trines are preventing better results... nesses who were intimately acquainted St. Vincent refused to let one of his "Our life in this seminary, among with her. Her cause could proceed very missioners write a history of the Com- rapidly for that reason. munity's work in Ireland. His motive the hills of Turin, is serene and peace- was that God sees the good done and ful. This location serves us for semin- But in our case, in the Informative that is sufficient. This is a character- ary, country, and villa; nevertheless, Process which began in 1907,i eighty- istic mark of the Double Family. The we are glad that you were able to six years after Mother Seton's death in facts set forth in this article are not spend the summer in the open, on the 1821, only one witness was able to to show the greatness of the Com- banks of a river in which you can even say that she knew Mother Seton munity-there are many larger in swim. With us, rivers are only to be personally. The documents of the In- Spain-but to illustrate the life of the enjoyed from the shore. Here, in the formative Process lay idly in the Church of which the Double Family's summer holidays, except that there Archives of the Sacred Congregation heart-beat gives evidence. (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Three) The De Andrein T D A PgPage ThreThree ON FATHER LEWIS' DEATH PROSPERE, TURIN (Reprinted from St. Joseph's (Continued from Page Two) Weekly, New Orleans) PROCEDE, REGNA! was no class, there is little variety; in Vincentians in the St. Louis Arch- July we passed four days in the moun- While he lived, Father Fred Lewis diocese are rejoicing over the new was accustomed to act quickly. Death tains (Mon-Viso, 3841 metres), where- dignity of the episcopacy to which there was still snow. Afterward we came to him suddenly Tuesday morn- their good friend and benefactor, Msgr. ing, February 11, the feast of Our Lady came back to Scarnafigi, where at that Mark Carroll has just been elevated. time our seminary was transferred. In of Lourdes. He had been staying at The Bishop-elect is one of the best- our house since last November, recup- August we came to Turin, to this place, known and best loved clergymen in from which a short time before, the erating from previous illness. his native St. Louis, where he has At 5 o'clock that morning, when the convalescent soldiers had departed; spent his entire life. Besides being pas- for this house had been turned into Superior awakened the Community, tor of St. Margaret's Church, he was Father Lewis was heard to respond; a hospital. Since then we have done also a director of the Propagation of no moving, quite content to return to the water could be heard flowing into the Faith, a consultor fororthe Arch- the wash basin, and his footsteps along our seminary from which we had been diocese, and was named a Domestic absent for three years. hDuring the the corridor. He was in his place for Prelate by the Holy Father in 1943. prayers that began at 5:30 with the summer holidays four Scholastics of From 1929 to 1941 he was Vice Chan- the Jugoslavian Province stayed with opening words, "Let us place ourselves cellor of the archdiocese. His appoint- in the presence of God." But the pray- us, but are now back again at their ment to the see of Wichita fills the studies in Rome. ers had not long progressed when vacancy created by the death of Bish- Father left the chapel and returned to "We number twenty-three-one is op Winklemann. very sick in the hospital. How many his room on the second floor. Perhaps, At the farewell dinner given for him it was thought, he had a weak stom- are you? ... Are there many Italian scores of people assembled to pay him Scholastics among you?"... ach. Two of the priests went to say their respects, for he was appreciated their Masses. Father LeSage remained Theology Students not merely by Catholics, but by Prot- the Province of Turin. in the chapel. Close to 6 o'clock our estants and Jews, also, who had come sacristan crossed paths with Father to see his value to their community. Lewis who told him that he would be THEOLOGIANS' FEAST DAY down shortly to say his Mass. Not WILL OF ISIDORE DOCKWEILER (Continued from Page One) long afterwards Father LeSage heard (Continued from Page One) cause and to know its very essence someone calling for him. He went to As one of his last official acts in when he sees the effects, and since a footothe of the stairs. Heknew then the Archdiocese, he was instrumental natural desire cannot be in vain, it was Father Lewis. Hurrying to in sending a donation of $2000 to the therefore to know the essence of the Father's room, he found him suffer- Brewer church after the recent fire.. First Cause does not seem impossible ing. There was a severe pain in his Our wishes to our departing friend to man." Taking up the estrangement chest. Father LeSage tried to relieve were anticipated in his own farewell of the modern positivists from the him, but when he felt Father's pulse, speech when he said: "It has been my First Truth, and showing how incap- he hurried to the chapel to get the good fortune to walk in the shadow able they were of ever treating, even Holy Oils. Father Lewis was soon un- of great ecclesiastics, particularly the from the rational ground, of the ques- conscious and dead. The electric clock ,late John Cardinal Glennon. I pray tion of the Beatific Vision, the dis- on his desk showed that it was about God that I may have a modicum of cussion went on to explain the com- 6:30. his spirit, his achievements, and mon opinion of the Thomistic school, Father Lewis was 52 years old. He above all, his fatherly concern for the as already stated. (Continued in next column) religious and laity of St. Louis." Rev. Mr. Vawter upheld the thesis of the debate, against the single note- MOTHER SETON worthy objection of the "arguentes," (Continued .from Page 2) CORRIGENDA led by Rev. Mr Brennan-that is, of Rites. For under the ordinary pro- that the thesis was invalid as is shown The name of Father Zimmer- by the fact that when a Sacrament has cedure of Canonization the Cause of man, delegate from Mother Seton was helpless. St. Mary's been received where an obstacle to Seminary, was inadvertently omit- its effect is present, the grace of the What revived hope was the decis- ted from those in the third row in Sacrament is revived later with the re- ion of His Holiness, Pius XI, embodied the picture of the Provincial As- moval of the obex, and hence, the in a "Motu Proprio," dated February sembly, appearing in last month's Sacrament could not be a physical 6, 1930. The Holy Father realized DE ANDREIN. In the same con- cause. Distinguishing between the that Causes like that of Mother Seton nection, Father G. C. Lefevre was "Sacramentum tatum," the "res Sacra- could not be considered under the erroneously listed as a delegate menti," and the "sacramentuim simul procedure dating from the time of from Kenrick Seminary, instead et res," the objection was easily coun- Pope Benedict XIV, in the eighteenth of as Provinicial Procurator; also, tered, and it was shown that the lat- century. He, therefore, modified that Father John Murphy was one of ter was always present to produce a procedure by recognizing what are the two confreres from Rosati physical effect. called "historical Causes," those name- Hall, and not from De Paul Uni- Enlarging upon the words of Christ, ly, in which there is neither contem- versity. "I am the Way, the Truth, and the porary testimony to the facts in ques- Life," Mr. John French, in "The In- tion nor any certain proof of dispo- carnate Word and Faith," first point- sitions of witnesses properly taken at (Continued from Column One) ed out the value for Faith in the fact the right time... had served in China for about six of the hypostatic union, wherein the There are over a thousand Causes years. Last year he recovered rapidly possibility of the union of the human before the Holy See and among them from a rather serious stomach opera- intellect with the Divine Essence was Mother Seton's enjoys a high priority. tion. He came to the south in Novem- made evident to all. And, further, In my audience with the Holy Father ber and resided with the Priests here. since we have as the object of bur he expressed great personal interest He "took" to the South, for among his Faith Divine Revelation, the fulness in Mother Seton's Cause and expressed writing he scribbled, "New Orleans is a of Revelation is Christ, inasmuch as delight in the progress made. On sever- grand old town, as good as St. Louis -He is the express Word of God in the al occasions His Holiness has expressed or Chicago, and I'll say that again!", Flesh. Various errors arise from an his wish that her Cause be advanced But the most significant fact about this over-emphasis on one aspect of as rapidy as the officials of the Sacred modest and jovial priest was a motto, Christ's Personality, even though Congregation of Rites deem possible written with a red pencil on a scrap these anet never explicitly fo r m - .... I have been urged to have those of paper, "A man can rise above ANY ulated by the Christian. Christ is also interested in the Cause to do every- ADVERSITY if he has COURAGE our Life, and that is found in our thing in their power to help it, by enough"-"and USES IT," he em- living, by Faith, in the Mystical Body, their prayers and sacrifices especially phatically added to this motto in his whereby we are enabled to continue, to the end that miracles be obtained. day book. the Incarnation. Page Four The De Andrein VINCENTIFAN CLIPPINGS

LOS ANGELES --- -I -- The annual retreat at Catholic Girls' I The Crusade Courses received High School was given by Fathers the following letter from a new Richard Mathews and Edward Roche. correspondent, extraordinary even Father George Brennan will conduct among the many singular ones a retreat for 800 students at Mount that have been coming in from Carmel High School early this month. other remote places like Africa: CAPE GIRARDEAU "R. A. F. Station India The first quarterly edition of THE COLLEGE MESSAGE appeared in "Sir: I would like to introduce February. Recalling the personnel of myself. I am a young man of 17 past years' staffs, the unforgotten and years, a born Catholic. My an- unforgettable Father Abram J. Ryan, cestors are Catholics from the remembered as the "Poet-Priest of the time of St. Francis Xavier, S.J. I South," was mentioned a's the edi- am very proud to notify you that tor of a column of verse. the first Indian Bishop of the The priests of the College are giv- Latin Rite is from my own com- ing a series of Lenten sermons each munity and of course, he is a week in the churches of Cape Girar- close relative of mine. During deau and surrounding towns, six in all. The past three years I served in A one-week mission was completed the R.I.A.F.; after, served His February at St. Vincent's Majesty as a leader of War Pro- at the end of pagation Mass-contact scheme. Church, under Father Coupal. Father John Danagher wishes Now I am to write "vernacular ar- Father Ignatius Fo'ey reviewed the to thank all those who assisted ticles concerning our Mother popular "life" of Cardinal Newman, 'by him in meeting the emergency St. Vincent's Altar Church, and go to remote villages Moody, before the occasioned by the fire at his where the people are completely Society. mission church in Brewer. Father Joseph Wagner journeyed to ignorant of our Divine Lord Jesus. Chicago last month to deliver talks Some of my college mates, spirited vocations to the school children. 1 young men, also are associated on ing themselves under the protection of with me... It would be much BETHANY her who is shown on the medal stand- pleasing to Our Lord if you would ing on the top of the earth's globe. help us to preach His religion in Civic notice was taken of St Fran- this pagan country...." PERRYVILLE cis Preparatory Seminary in an ar- (signed) ticle in the TRIBUNE-REVIEW of Sixty members of the De Andreis January 23, 1947. The account describ- Circle, Daughter,s of Isabella - -- -- ' ed the work of the confreres and gave were conducted on a tour of I a brief sketch of the history of the the places of interest at the Barrens of this city. Father Taney spoke on Community. on the evening of February 25. Places the Tenth Commandment. seen included the church sacristy Father Maurice Kane conducted the SAN ANTONIO with its altar furnishings; the rare Forty Hours Devotion at St. Mary's, in book display in the Library; the Leavenworth, Febraury 14, 15, and 16. A group of 105 men and women, rep- Sheehan Memorial Museum; a special On February 23, he was guest speaker resenting the combined parish choirs display from the De Andreis Museum; at the Holy Name breakfast. of the diocese, meets once a month and the new Felix De Andreis portrait, to study and practice appropriate lit- now hanging in the Students' Recrea- THE De ANDREIN urgical music, under the direction of tion Hall. Father Lee B. Zimmermann. Published monthly by the Stephen ST. LOUIS Vincent Ryan Unit of the Catholic CHICAGO Students' Mission Crusade. Of the six new Catholic high schools Passionists Fathers will give a mis- planned for this city, one will be Subscription: $1.00 per year (nine sion at St. Vincent's Church, from named after Felix De Andreis, and issues). March 16-30, one week for women and another after Blessed Catherine La- one for men, with one of the priests boure. Editor catering especially to the Italian- John F. Lenihan, C. M. speaking parishioners. KANSAS CITY Associate Editors The children of St. Vincent's were William Pittman, C.M. "Youth Looks With the proceeds of the recent Al- heard on the W-G-N tar society card party, new lighting John Richardson, C.M. Up" program, in conjunction with the Exchanges of Christian Doctrine, equipment is being installed in St. Confraternity Church. A rose narble altar James Galvin, C.M. February 23, at 9 a. m. The Vincent's Sunday, been installed by the Kaletta Business Manager program, consisting of hymns and has and a Statuary. A white, hand-carved "cor- Robert Stack, C.M. recitations by the children, pus," on a gold-trimmed crucifix, and sermon by Father Michael Burke, was a red and gold canopy, complete the Circulation Manager introduced on the air by Father John new sanctuary furnishings. Manuel Pelleteri, C.M. Overberg. St. John's seminary choir, under the Faculty Advisor ANTARCTIC CIRCLE direction of Father Henry Gagnepain, Rev. James F. McOwen, C.M. was heard on the February 23rd The naval expedition to this region Church-of-the-Air, which featured an Let us love God, but let it be at the began a Novena to Our Lady of the address of Rev. Edward J. Taney, di- expense of our arms and in the sweat Miraculous Medal on February 3, plac- rector of the Catholic Welfare bureau of our brow St. Vincent de Paul A JOYOUS EASTER TO ALL!-

Anb~itr Volume 17 Perryville, Missouri, April, 1947 NO. 7 Aid Asked By Death Takes Safe After Italian Religious Father De Francisco Communist Brutality The last solemn rites of the Church Bishop Ignatius Krause, C.M., and were accorded Rev. Manuel de Fran- other Polish confreres and Daughters Communists Using Russian cisco, C. M. in the chapel of St. Thom- of Charity who were seized by the Funds to Proselytize as' Seminary, Denver, Saturday, Mar. Chinese communists and subjected to 15. With Archbishop Urban J. Vehr prolonged tortures, have been releas- presiding and giving the final absolu- ed after seventy-eight days of imprison. From the School of the Sacred Heart, tion, a large number of the diocesan ment. Besides the murder of Father in Turin, we recently received this cleirgy of the Archdiocese joined with Casimir Skowyra already reported, it moving cry for assistance, just one the community in paying a final tri- is known that a Chinese confrere, such instance in the many thousands bute to our confrere. Father Koeper Father Kiao, has succumbed from the in post-war Eurone. The Students re- repeated mistreatmnent. plied with a small offering for so great officiated at the solemn funeral Mass a need. and have sent CARE parcels (A in the absence of Father Winne whose Three U. S. planes evacuated Bishop arrival had been delayed. Some forty Krause and the others, with several non-profit European relief plan). We priests were present to feel certain that others who read it chant the Of- missionaries, including one non-Cath- will agree that this need is pressing. fice of the Dead before the Mass. olic. The evacuees were met at West In his sermon the Very Rev. Harold Field, Peiping, and conducted to Peitang "Reverend Father, We are religious Campbell of the Denver Archdiocese Cathedral, where a group of Daugh- of the Sacred Heart who have here showed how Father Francisco had ex- ters and veteran missionaries welcom- only charitable institutions: primary emplified throughout his priestly life ed them. school, Sunday School, needlework, etc. the true spirit of charity bequeathed The evacuation service was made The lady who gave us the house gave the Congregation by St. Vincent. possible through Myrl S. Myers, at- us also a big house in Turin from the Father Francisco passed away some tached to the State Department as inromrIe we live, but the house was de- time consul general in Peiping. stroyed by the bombs; and now we the previous Thursday night and live from alms which was found dead in his room the next we receive from morning. The exact cause of his death our Motherhouse in Rome. is not known. For some time he had "But we will not abandon the children ibeen subjiect to attacks of diabetes. FATHER DANIEL MARTIN who come-to us at the age of three During the night he must have had TO STUDY AT ROME years to fifteen, and also all the girls one of these attacks, gotten up to take who come for needlework, nearly all insulin, and was overcome. As he had Father Daniel Martin, on or about girls of workingmen, some of commun- lived so, he died, peacefully and quietly. April 9, will board a plane in New York ists. We hope to save this young peo- for Ronme to begin his immediate pre- ple and save also their parents The Missionary Life paration for the Baccalaureate in Sa- public schools give books, copy books, A native of Spain, Father was born cred Scripture. Father Martin receiv- food and other gifts. Very often this New Year's Day, 1881, in Barcones, Pro- ed word from Father Voste that the things are sent from the Russian com- vince of Soria. He entered the Con- )examination will be held in the early munists for propaganda gregation at the Motherhouse in Madrid days of June, Dominican students from "We ought also to be generous but on October 30, 1896 and pronounced the Ecole. Biblique in Palestine being how. Everything here is very high his holy vows two years later. His ed- expected about that time to take the prices and of bad material. If your ucation was received at the mission same examination. Paternity knows some rich and chari- house in Teruel, Spain, his ordination Father Martii's voyage-will be the table Catholics who could help us to coming in 1905. first of this kind undertaken by any of be able to give Pt least prizes at the Not long after his 'ordination he left our Wesltern Province confreres since end of the school year, it wouild be a Spain and began his missionary labors before the war, at which time the, Eur- real work of charity. Everything is in this hemaisphere. He served for opean educational centers had become useful to us, copy books, pencils, soap, awhile in South.- America and later jiaccessible to foreign students. We thread and cotton for mending, wool taught in the seminaries at Tacubaya offer him a hearty Godspeed. to make stockings and gloveis, pull- and Chihuahua, Mexico. His life be- came extremely active at this time. over for the winter, material for mak- and looking after ,ing little dresses He served as a chaplain in the Mexi- ing in the University and underwear. For the poor Mexicans of the city. the little ones and the sick: sugar, can army until the revolutionary party chocolate, cocoa in one word every- became too strong. When a price was In 1927 Father Francisco went to thing that charity gives. set on his head in 1914, he was forced Spain for a short visit. Upon his re- "We cannot show our thankfulness to seek safety in the United States. turn he was transferred to St. Thomas' except by praying for you and our ben- It was while enroute tb this country Seminary where he remained until his lefactors; and also our poors will join that his train was raided and captur- death. A professor of:Spanish :and in prayers for you. The Sacred Heart ed by the notorious Pancho Villa: How- Latin in the college department, he of Jesus will nay you divinely. ever, the rebel spared Father, and al- had also beien chaplain of the Good "If you will forward the package lowed him to continue his journey un- Shepherd convent for the past eight please will you send it at the harmred. years. Superiora della Scuola del S. Cuore Together with several other con- Father Francisco will be deeply Villa S Tommaso freres who were expelled from Mex- missed. He was consulted regularly on Avigliana (Torino) Italy. ico, Father Francisco joined the fac- matters regarding the spiritual life, "Asking your benediction I am res- ulty of the University of Dallas. Here was always interested in the students' pectfully, Father labored thirteen years teach- welfare anid in the good of the entire M. Maddalena Malichi" (Continued in Next Column) community. Page Two The De Andrein PagTw h e nri REGISTER FATHER SOME OBSERVATIONS CARRIES ARTICLE ON FRANCIS ON ARGENTINA CELLII AND THE PHILIPPINES FATHER GERMOVNIK CELLINI The ALAMO REGISTER carried an Father Maximo Juguera, C.M., who account of an interview with Father He Knows and Can Do Anything will be remembered in connection with Gernmovnik, at St. John's, San Antonio, the arrival of our three Spanish con- bringing to light various details con- One of the most colorful Vincentians freres was contacted by the ST. LOUIS cerning his past experiences in Yugo- ever to sail from Italy to young Amer- REGISTER with a view to learning of slavia. Father mentioned that it was ica in the first years of Father Felix the conditions of the Church in Ar- on the very day on which he said his De Andreis' New World apostolate was gentina (which Father visited recently) First Mass that the Germans marched Father Francis Cellini. He was thirty- and the Philippines (the present mis- into his native village and began their seven years old at the time he left his sion field for his labors). We sum- reign of terror. "They first took pos- benefice in the Hospital di Santo Spir- marize one such printed interview. session of the schools, churches, and itu in Rome to be clothed in the garb all the benefices; then they dismissed of a Lazarist. Before that he had been In Argentina, where considerable re- all of the teachers, police, and city of- surgeon and chaplain in the Italian ligious ignorance prevails among the ficials. ... The Germans and Italians army. large proportion of Catholics,'an ed- were always bickering as to who should Assigned to the American mission, ucational bill is under consideration occupy the town. It was rather comic Father Cellini with several other cler- to offer Catholic religious instruction to see them-the Germans were sure ics, after a voyage of eighty-eight in all schools. An expected backing of of victory, but the Italians were always days, arrived finally at the newly-set- 95 percent of the votes, and the en- hoping for victory." tled Barrens, on the Vigil of the Epip- couragement of the Catholic President Commenting upon his arrival in hany, 1819. This nearly middle-aged Peron, assures success of the bill. Texas, he remarked, "San Antonio is man, of whom Bishop Rosati wrote Catholic Action is very strong in Ar- so spacious it has made a great im- that "he knows and can do anything," gentina, and is influencing to a great pression on me. The winters are much was now to occupy himself with the extent the projected social reconstruc- different from Slovenia's." Father stat- discipline of the Internal Seminary, tion, having particular care for the ed that current newspaper stories were while practicing the varied crafts of protection of working youth and liv- for the most part true in recounting "Procurator, Physician, Mailman, and ing and recreational facilities for conditions in Yugoslavia today. He is Mason." young women. convinced that the people of his coun- Father De Andreis' letter of July 7, try are not in favor of the present gov- 1819, to his Superior in Rome, refers Philippines ernment. to that .multi-form activity: "Father Twelve and a half of the sixteen Cellini has to be occupied at many million people are members of the things, rather unfavorable GROTTO ERECTED to recollec- Catholic Church. And while the lot of tion; yet Bishop DuBourg writes to me the populace was virtually that of BY SODALITY that he is a valuable subject, and slavery during Japanese occupation, Father Rosati is most pleased with This grotto pictured below, dedicated their religious liberties were not mo- him." Then, on October 7, 1820, Father lested and the Church has come to Our Ladv of Lourdes, was conceived De Andreis wrote again to announce and partially erected by the Sodality forth from the war stronger than that "Father Cellini has made his could have been expected. of the Miraculous Medal of Holy Souls vows to our mutual satisfaction. He Parochial School, Pampa, Texas, dur- can now talk English sufficiently and The attitude of the new government ilg the Pastorate of Father William exercises the holy ministry. Moreover, will mean much in the Catholic recon- Stack. Requiring four months to build, he is the only one among us who has struction effort. During one period of it contains eighty tons of native Texas any understanding of temporal af- former President Quezon's administra- stone, donated in great part by one fairs. Accordingly, I have appointed tion, Masons were in almost complete Pampa family, and is finished in Mis- him Procurator." control of the government; but when The grotto was blessed souri granite. "Laboring like a hired workman," and President Quezon renounced the order by Bishop Laurence J. Fitf7Simon. D.D., and became a Catholic much of the Monday, May, 20, 1946. His Excel- "helping to carry lumber, remaining on the whole day in the heat of the sun," difficulty disappeared. The President lency in the sermon preached on the Roxas, also join- the or again, "spending recreation days at this time, Manual occasion remarked upon some of ed the Church shortly before his in- likenesses he observed to the famous (Continued on Page Four) auguration. Lourdes prototype.

FATHER SCHORSCH FETEDI ON ANNIVERSARY Last month, Father A. P. Schorsch was honored in the presence of 135 friends at a testimonial luncheon in the Belden-Stratford Hotel on his fortieth anniversary as a priest, and his twentieth as dean of the De Paul Graduate School. A testimonial book sined by his friends was nresented to Father Schorsch during the luncheon. Many of the pares of this book were illuminated by the nuns who have at- tended De Paul under his tutelage. Father was presented with various gifts as well.

Fathers Joseph Donovan, Comer- ford O'Malley, and Michael O'Connell, together with the Reverend Gerald PI'eran, secretary of the Medieval In- stitute, delivered addresses of congrat- ulations. The De Andrein Three Page I VINCENTIAN CLIPPINGS

ST. LOUIS zanal won a place in our hearts even though he was with us only a few The Serra club of this city presented months. At the little farewell treat a trial showing of a new color film the night before he left, all joined in on vocations. A year in preparation, "Auld Lang Syne" and "The Bells of the film gives scenes from the pre- St. Mary's" paratory, college, philosophy and maj- and tried to show Father or seminary periods of training the that we would miss him. priest-to-be; a sound-track will be The remembrance cards for Father supplied for national showing. Fath- Fred Lewis were distributed recently. er Orlis North collaborated in the work Several of his letters written of the scenario. from China have been discovered in the Archives, and the style and vivid- SAN ANTONIO ness make them outstanding as mis- The cornerstone laying of St. Mary's sioners' writings. hall on the campus of St. John's, post- Clare Booth Luce's "The Real Rea- poned from January 19, has now been son," the story of her life and conver- pet for April 24. Cardinal Samuel A. sion, is being read at noon in the re- Stritch, accompanied by Bishop Wil- fectory. Monsignor Sheen has called liam D. O'Brien, will officiate. her the most profound convert in America since Orestes Brownson, SPAIN experience in the Medical Corps, U.S. whose biography, by Maynard, is the For the first time in the history of Army, qualified him for this assign- subject of our supper reading. the Indian missions, five natives of ment. The treatment seems to have The Community participated in the India recently entered the novitiate of successfully prevented "flu" casualties. Solemn Miraculous Medal Novena held the Daughters of Charity here. Ten in the Church of the Assumption from Spanish Sisters have departed for the The stage-setting that was to be used the following day for the St. March 16 through March 24. Father Indian missions, as well as five priests John Hogan, of the Novena Band, con- and three brothers. Thomas' program, and part- of the flooring were destroyed by fire during ducted it. Most of the Students had MOBILE the night of March 6. The stagemen Father Hogan as professor at Cape and by dint of speedy replacements had were glad to renew an old friendship. Sister Gertrude has retired from her Sanother beautiful set ready for the Since there were no Vespers on the position as Sister Servant, after many program. years of unselfish and devoted service two Sundays during the Novena the at Allen Memorial Hospital. Sister Vin- The jumble of paint cans and lad- Students listened to Monsignor Sheen cent, coming from Sherman, Texas, ders backstage while repairs and re- at five o'clock. The one on March 22- will replace her. painting are going on has not been able the tribute to the Russian people-pro- to interrupt rehearsals of "Savonar- duced a deep impression on all. CHICAGO ola," the play scheduled for Easter Father Jeremiah Hogan conducted a Students of the University observed night. retreat for the nurses and employees the ccmmendable practice during Lent of St. Thomas Hospital, in Nashville, The problem of our recreation hall has Tennessee, during the last week of of helping to support the Vincentian been settled with the recent installation missions in China by placing contri- March. By request, Father Hogan de- of a soundproof ceiling. Conversations voted an extra conference to the in- butions ii little containers distributed can now be carried on while games of throughout the Uptown college build- struction of the many non-Catholic ping-pong and billiards are being nurses of the hospital on the subject ing. played and the radio going. A disastrous fire was averted when a of the Church's teachings on marriage parishioner of St. Vincent's, dropping Several of the Students have been and the Sixth Commandment. into the Church for a visit, discovered occupied in converting the two corner (Continued on Page Four) a burning waste 'basket in the vesti- rooms on the northeast wing of the bule and immediately called the fire second floor of the Scholasticate THE De ANDREIN department. No damage resulted. Building into two chapels. One, the De Paul Academy has purchased a Gesu Bambino Chapel, is in ivory and Published monthly by the Stephen school bus, decorated in red and blue, red; the other, the Maria, Mater Gra- Vincent Ryan Unit of the Catholic to be used to transport the athletic tiae Chapel, shines in blue and white. Students' Mission Crusade. teams to practice fields and places of Masses are said there each morning. games. The basketball team captured Subscription: $1.00 per year (nine the North Sire championship this year, A work has been started here at the issues). but in the City Tournament for Cath- Barrens during the last few months grow and bring Editor olic Schools lost to Mt. Carmel. that we all hope will John F. Lenihan, C. M. The newly - organized University much fruit. It all started at the sug- Fund, under the direction of Father gestion of Father Fitzgerald of De Paul Associate Editors Academy. He called upon us to assist William Pittman, C.M. Coupal, has already reached beyond John Richardson; C.M. the $10,000 mark. him in putting out his new one-page religious bulletins, treating of general Exchanges Father John Murphy, as vice-presi- spiritual matters and special problems James Galvin, C.M. dent of the Catholic Science Teachers that face the Academy students. These Business Manager Association, will speak at its thirtieth are drawn up as interestingly as pos- Robert Stack. C.M. annual meeting in Joliet, on April 7, sible, illustrated, and sent to Father Circulation Manager on the subject of "The Physical Basis Fitzgerald to be mimeographed. Manuel Pelleteri, C.M. of Life." Faculty Advisor PERRYVILLE March brought a loss to our com- Rev. James F. McOwen, C.M. munity here when Father Samuel "Flu" shots were administered to Manzanal unexpectedly left for Denver Let us love God, but let it be at the the Students during March by Mr. to fill the vacancy caused by the death expense of our arms and in tile sweat Terrence O'Donnell, N.C.M., whose long of Father de Francisco. Father Man- of our brow St. Vincent de Paul The De Andrein Pa;ePar FouFour s Th De Andrein r FATHER CELLINI ST. VINCENT IN (dontinued from Page Two) Students' FRENCH CINEMA either in the garden or the fields," We are able to add more details to Father Cellini, who had resigned a the brief account printed in a past benefice to labor with the community BAZAA R DE AND,REIN concerning the forth- in the foreign missions; still devoted coming film based on the life of Holy himself with true zeal to numerous April 29 Founder. These details appeared in the spiritual offices. In those early years 7:30 P. M. January-February,1947 issue of: "LES the pastoral care of the Barrens per- MISSIONS DES LAZARISTES sonnel was far more extensive, ex- ET ALL WELCOME FILLES DE LA CHARITE des Pro- tending to Ste. Genevieve, Frederick- vinces de France," published at the town, and numerous other places that Motherhouse in Paris. were eventually taken by the diocesan Grand Prize The picture is the fruit of a national clergy. Father Cellini's parish was a popular movement French settlement, of seventy families, Men's $75.00 Wrist Watch depending upon the Chances: 10c; 3 for 25c investments of private share-holders, at New Madrid, "at a distance of more who will receive than two hundred miles from the 90% of the gains, 5% -r going to the Community, and is being Seminary. Thither he goes three or sponsored by the OFDA, a kind of four times a year and remains each French historical society. Members of time four or five weeks. These poor lini's care for medical service. Several the French episcopate have given people had no priest for twenty years. years before, Father Odin revealed in hearty approbation, in particular, His Ignorance could go no farther than it a letter to Rome how sorely-missed Eminence Cardinal Gerlier and His did with them. It. is a tangled forest, Excellency, any person. were Father Cellini's curative powers Monsignor Courbe, auxil- wild enough to affright at the Barrens, where, before his dis- iary bishop of Paris, Secretary general Still Father Cellini has found there of Catholic Action. very good moral dispositions. He went pensation, he had made himself in- there for the first time in the month of valuable in that capacity. He was lat- Maurice Cloche, a recognized French er to be somewhat of a founder of pub- film producer, worked five years with March (1821), baptized a large num- his collaborators ber of persons, even adults, and ten lic health in St. Louis, and children on the scenario. Some Protestants. He urged the people to were regularly brought to him to be of the greatest living French actors build a church, and when it is finish- vaccinated. and actresses who have accepted roles ed (which in this country does not Four years after Bishop Kenrick in this "cinematographic fresco" have take much time) he will go there named him his Vicar General in the declared that they regard it as the again." So wrote Father Rosati to Diocese of St. Louis, which was in most important engagement of their Montecitorio on May 4, 1821. 1845, Father Francis Cellini, physician careers. Father Cellini's sermon-formula was of soul and body, died on the Feast of Definitely termed "non-propaganda," stated by himself quite simply: "Miss the Epiphany, 1849. All his possessions 'the movie will depict the condition of Mass on S'unday, mortal sin; slander he left to found a home for priests slaves in Africa at the beginning of your neighbor mortal sin," and so on. broken by age or ill health. the 17th century; the contemporary But its effectiveness can be vouched life of "gay Paree"; the miserable con- for, after reading the account of some ditions of hospitals; luxury of the of his conversions. Still, preaching VINCENTIAN CLIPPINGS court of Queen Margaret; provincial life; plight of the galley Sunday after Sunday in French or (Continued from Page Three) slaves;, the English, he never acquired the perfect death of Louis XIII; France under in- mastery and easy fluency he possessed CAPE GIRARDEAU vasion; the battle of the Fronde; Car- in his native Italian. But besides that dinal Mazarin's flight before the Fron- language deficiency he was troubled Father Joseph Wagner addressed the dists, etc. by an occasional stammering when upper grades of St. Vincent's and St. Father Edouard Robert, vicar gen- lost for the correct word. And so it Mary's schools on the subject of voca- eral of the Little Company, comment- often happened that while delivering tions the latter part of March. ed on it as follows: "It seems to me, a sermon he would pause, look down The Tre Ore at Benton, Missouri, after having reviewed the make-up into the first pew at one of the parish- was conducted by Father Foley.t and dialogue, that it is an exact por- friend, and trait of St. Vincent and his charitable ioners, an old and intimate CAMARILLO by his look plead for assistance. The and patriotic works." "prompter," from long familiarity with The Installation of Bishop Willinger Father Cellini's sermons, would sug- as Coadjutor and Apostolic Adminis- gest the missing word in a low, but trator of the Diocese of Monterey-Fres- PAST PRESIDENT OF perfectly audible tone. With this help no, on February 27, was attended by Father would then be able to continue. Father William Barr from St. John's ST. JOHN'S DIES Father Edward J. Walsh, of the Cellinian Balm Seminary. Father James Richardson is currently Eastern Province, president of St. Perhaps the most curious detail that employed as Advocate in the Los John's University, Brooklyn, from 1935 remains of his long and varied life, Angeles Matrimonial court drawing up to 1942, died March 22 in Providence only five or six years of which were case briefs. Hospital Mobile, Alabama, of a heart ailment. passed 'in the Congregation-he was Father Peutler is planning a trip to received into the diocesan clergy in Mexico with some of the students of 1827, by Bishop Rosati of St. Louis, St. John's Spanish classes. release from the having obtained his Father Coerver addressed a meeting NECROLOGY Community in 1826-the one most Number 11, the Suffrage for this is certainly his reputa- in Ventura on the Catholic stand on curious detail labor, and later conferred with the month, includes: Goebbels, Fran- tion as a pharmacist. A contemporary Cellini professors in the Philosophy Depart- cis, Priest, Germany, January 13, has left this account: "Father ment at the University of California was the compounder of a medicine at 1947. Sournac, Stephen, Priest, for sale at Los Angeles on the teaching of one time quite famous. It was philosophy in the respective colleges. Abyssinia, January 21, 1947. Mor- by all druggists in St. Louis and was ra, Laurence, Brother, Scarnafigi, called 'Cellinian Balm.' " NEW ORLEANS But Father's skill as a physician had February 14, 1947. Nutten, Alex-, as far back as 1819 entitled him to a At the invitation of Father Marshall ander, Priest, Lippstadt, January Papal Rescript giving him permission Lesage, St. Joseph's Church will be 26, 1947. Galan, Alexander, Broth- host to the Catholic Order of Forest- to practice. Bishop Rosati, having er, Tardajos, January 31, 1947. previous knowledge of his ability, in ers in Louisiana during its 35th anni- 1845, placed himself under Father Cel- versary celebration, on April 23. VI -- 00, Xn&~m Volume 17 Perryville, Missouri, May, 1947 NO. 8 "Savonarola," Historical "Msgr. Van" Dies in Fr. Wendelin Dunker Drama, Presented 84th Year Back From China Several priests and the Scholastics Eight years ago Father Dunker re- Easter Sunday Night from the Barrens participated in the turned to the missions of China where "Savonarola," in prologue and'three Office and Mass of Requiem, at Ste. he had already spent seven arduous acts, portrays the last seven hectic Genevieve church, Monday, April 28, years since his ordination in 1932. Now years of the enigmatic Dominican who to honor an old and revered friend, again, he is back at the Barrens hav- for awhile converted Renaissance the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Charles L. van ing passed through an eventful and Florence from a plaything of Lorenzo Tourenhout, administrator and pastor exciting period in the very center of the Magnificent into a God-fearing of Ste. Genevieve for 58 years, and the Chinese-Japanese theatre of World theocracy. Beginning with the Pro- Vicar Forane of the Ste. Genevieve War II. He was given a great ovation Deanery since 1926. The Solemn Pontif- in the refectory on logue, when Fra. Girolamo Savonarola, ical Mass was celebrated by Arch- when he appeared from the pulpit in San Marco's de- bishop Ritter. The sermon was deliver- Tuesday evening, April 22. nounces Lorenzo De Medici, as the ed by the Very Rev. Msgr.. Martin Opportunity to hear Father's par- source of all the woes of Florence, Hellriegel, life-long intimate friend. tial account of his second stay in Chi- right up to the last drollery of stoop- The entire Student Body from the na came two nights later in the Stu- ed and white-haired Fra. Ricardo, Barrens chanted the Mass. dents' Recreation Hall. All were es- watching the flames of Savonarola's Msgr. van Tourenhout, long a fa- execution pyre rise into the sky, there miliar figure at Vincentian functions, was sustained and lively characteriza- despite his 80 years, delivered the tion .and plot,' colored as much by pr:ncipal address at the "Cape" Cen- moments of genuine comedy as by the tenary Triduum in October, 1943, with richness and opulence of the costum- much of the eloquence and power that ing. The play was directed by Mr. has impressed hearers during the span Thomas Parrott. of his sixty-two priestly years. May Opening the first act, Lorenzo (Mr. he find eternal rest. Louis Derbes), appears at the Domini- can monastery of San Marco, returns the challenge flung at him by the Daughters of Charity preacher, and departs without seeing Sentenced in "Trial" Fra. Girolamo. When Savonarola (Mr. Robert Stack) arrives his broth- in Jugoslavia er-friars urge greater moderation with In Ljubljana, Jugoslavia, the Daugh- the powers of the city and the tradi- ters of Charity conducted a grammar tional benefactors of San Marco's. A and high school for girls, as well as newcomer to Florence, Fra. Ricardo several other institutions. Named after (Rev. Mr. Bruce Vawter) draws Sa- its founder, Lichtenturn's College was vonarola's scorn, and is condemned for suppressed in 1946 and most of the his cowardly role of cynic. Throughout buildings were seized. Only a small the action of the whole play it is Fra. edifice was left to the Daughters for Ricardo who supplies calm analysis of living quarters. the events as against the wilder en- February 11, 1947, the government thusiasms of Friars Bartolomeo (Mr. decided to expel them from there and William Pittman), Umberto (Mr. a pretext was found for summoning Thomas Munster), Silvestro (Mr. Jer- them before the court. The war now ome Calcagno), Domenico (Mr. John being over two years, the government O'Connor), and Enrico (Mr. George "remembered" that the Sisters com- Eirich). Comic touches were lent by mitted many "crimes," as follows: the erstwhile rake, Fra. Benedetto (Mr. pecially eager for news of the mission 1) Sending pupils to anti-Commun- recruits, Fathers Guyot and Sullivan. William McCarthy), uncomfortable ist meetings; under the restrictions of monastic dis- Father Dunker had met them both 2) Inducing pupils to take part in re- about February 20, and found them cipline, and by the Lay Brother (Mr. ligious penitential processions; Lowell Fischer). both well and happy. He reported that 3) Warning pupils against reading Father Sullivan had progressed so far, Three years lapse and Fra. Giro- anti-religious papers; thanks to his Seminary studies of Chi- lamo reluctantly accepts the rule of 4) Refusing to join associations of nese, that he could converse with the Florence, now that the nobles have teachers with communistic tenden- children over there. Father Wu, who fled before the army of Charles. Sa- cies; will be remembered from his Novitiate vonarola shows mercy to his foes by 5) Receiving pupils who had been ex- days here about a decade ago, teaches arranging for a safe-conduct for the pelled from public schools because him Chinese. Father Dunker thinks disguised and fleeing Cardinal Gio- their parents had been "traitorous they will both be ready for active mis- vanni De Medici (Mr. Edward Wilson), and reactionary." ionary duty soon. brother of the slain Lorenzo. The Sisters were also censured for in- But the De Medici family does not ducing pupils to tear from the walls The topic of Chinese inflation never accept its deposition passively, and pictures of Tito. fails to provoke astonishment. Father Fra. Girolamo is certain that their Sister Servant was sentenced to Dunker's shoes cost him $95,000, for influence at the Holy See has brought three years imprisonment at hard la- the present rate of exchange is 12,000 about the papal brief enjoining ces- bor, two others, to two and a half, and Chinese dollars to one American. Cur- sation of all preaching in Florence. two more to one year. Two were re- rency is usually carried in two thou- While he is still weighing the issue, leased. Lichtenturn's 'College, along sand dollar bills; the government had Msgr. Gerado (Mr. Joseph Falanga) with many others, has been confiscat- issued some five thousand dollar bills, arrives from Rome with anri offer of ed because it was "dangerous for the but recalled them lest they encourage (Continued on Page 2) people." (Continued on Page 2) Page Two The De Andrein Pag Two The De Andrein FATHER DUNKER (Continued from Page 1) greater inflation. When Bishop Quinn began the work of rebuilding the Seminary he had to provide for cur- rent expenses with such fabulous sums as three or four millions. When asked about China's present economic condition, and whether the people were suffering from food short- age, Father was on the point of say- ing there was no shortage of food. But as a matter of fact, by comparison with American standards, the daily bowl of rice for the ordinary Chinese would be considered starvation diet for us. Nevertheless, even during the war there was no famine. Industri- alization of the Chinese people still seems a far cry, for their lives are maintained by closeness to the soil, de- pending on it both for food and cloth- ing.. Salt was the one privation all experienced during the war when It Act 1, Scene 1 could not be gotten through the cus- Friars Umberto and Ricardo hear Lorenzo the Magnificent deliver his ulti- tomary import channels. From 1942 matum for their prior. until the end of the war importations dropped almost to nothing but the SAVONAROLA senger, Della Vecchia (Mr. Harold people survived on their produce. Persich) with terms of the surrender. (Continued from Page 1) Unable to choose any other course, Everyone was eager to hear Father's the cardinalate, on condition that Sa- Savonarola yields to the proposal and side of the narrow escape from the vonarola accept the terms of the so falls into the hands of the nobles Japanese when they were scouring the Pope's brief. Impulsively, Girolamo who had striven for the rule of Flor- country for Doolittle's flyers. He re- destroys the document, and delivers ence since their defeat four years be- counted the event, adding little details a sharp reply to the messenger, until fore. of human interest-the wild scramble under the quieting force of Fra. Ric- into a tiny valise; The third act begins in the prison to pack everything ordo's counsel, he yields to the com- groans and tosses on the meticulous concern about locking mand of silence, but rejects the offer cell. Savonarola buildings; his cot, tortured with the pains of his the doors of the mission of the red hat. endeavor the frantic mile and a half run to For a year Savonarola, restive un- latest ordeal as his captors Steve Dunker, to arraign him for heresy and con- catch up with Fathers der the pirohibition, casts about for a of papal orders. Fra. Ricardo, Murphy, Vandenburg, and Moore who way to undermine the prestige of the tempt into unfamiliar hill having bought his way into the jail, had gone on ahead DeMedici at Rome. At length, he se- comforts Girolamo, trying to lighten country, and having them continually cretely dispatches messengers to the his sig- the burden of responsibility the latter outdistancing him, mistaking rulers of Europe, urging them to have feels for the sufferings his friars are nalling to mean that the Japanese a General Council convoked by the But he quickly pass- being put to for their part in'the the- were in pursuit. Pope. One of his couriers falls into the ocracy. After Ricardo leaves, in five ed over details of the courageous re- hands of papal soldiers, and shortly sentries to separate visions, there appear to him, turn through Japanese afterwards the brief of excommunica- as reproachful, gloating, apologetic, or reach the Blessed Sacrament and res- tion indirectly reaches Savonarola. articles left behind. silent, Lorenzo, Pope Alexander, (Mr. cue the necessary In the final scene of act two, April John Richardson), Silvestro, Francesco 8, 1498, San Marco is under siege. Valori and Fra. Domenico. Kiangsi Province has been hard hit While swords clash outside, and can- by the war. Six or seven missions were non balls boom against the Church of Friars Umberto and Ricardo watch wholly or partially burned, the rest San Marco, where the besieged Friars the flames of the executioners fire put looted, and only one mission ,center and loyal supporters are vainly trying an end to the tempestuous career of in the whole territory was overlook- to stand off the attacking Florentine Fra. Girolamo Savonarola, in the cur- ed by the plunderers. Signory, a council of war is held in tain scene of the play. "I foretold every step of the way, and no one hails The Diocese at present is about ten the Common Room among the mili- tary leaders, Francesco Valori (Mr. me as a prophet," says Ricardo, recall- ,priests short of the number there ten ing how he had in the moment of Sa- years ago. Some of the other priests James Towns), Piero Capponi (Mr. Charles Herbst), and Francesco Da- vonarola's triumph foretold the event- may be back in the States by the fall ual fate of the zealous Italian. for a much-needed vacation, provided vanzati (Mr. John Fitzgibbon) and surrender is voted down over the pro- Messrs. James Towns and Charles their places can be taken by new mis- Herbst had charge of all the costum- sioners. Father Dunker thinks he will testations of Savonarola. Another friar, Fra. Malatesta (Mr. Manuel Pelleteri), ing. Messrs. John Richardson and Carl return to China by around niext Callier were stage managers. Christmas. finding the Common Room deserted a little later, surreptitiously waves a flag of truce from the window., As the resistance is crumbling, the faithful Piero Capponi staggers into CONGRATULATIONS NOTICE the Common Room and pitches for- We offer our heartiest wishes ward, mortally wounded. In one of the the following and beg the blessings of Almighty Please observe highest dramatic points of the play, will change of address: God on our five Sisters who Savonarola, the head of his wounded mark their Fiftieth Anniversaries ST. LOUIS PREPARATORY lieutenant cushioned on his lap, in- on May 19: Sister Leonie, and SEMINARY vests the dying man with the scapular Sister Esther, Villa St. Louise; Sis- formerly 7300 Well Avenue of the Dominican Order, and choked ter Dorothy, Kansas City; Sister with sobs, berates himself for his now, 5200 Glennon Drive Dolores Carlos; and Sister Marcel- death and that of so many of his de- la. St. Louis 19, Missouri. voted followers. Having seen the flag of truce, the Signory send their mes- TheTh De Andreinr I IA ' PePage ThThree "IN MEMORIAM" MOTHER SETON sterling silver medals for honorable mention winners, and medals of Moth- The secular press in Dallas paid ap- ESSAY CONTEST Seton for the nearly 500 medalists preciative tribute to the memory of er Reports received at the office of the of the competing schools. The plaques Sister Brendan O'Beirne, following her and the medals are the work of the death after forty-four years of devoted VINCENTIAN magazine indicate that its contest has drawn over 27,000 en- Pope's personal engraver, and they service in the Double Family, forty- have been blessed by the Most Rev. three of which were spent in Dallas. tries from among the students of Catholic high schools in the United Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostol- One editorial compared Sister's ic Delegate to the United States. death to the "voyage of delight" of States. Essays must be between 2,000 the Irish Saint-Traveler, Saint Bren- and 2,500 words on some aspect of the life of Mother Elizabeth Bayley Seton, The winners in the contest will be dan, who "having well served God announced in the latter part of May and man, set out with a goodly com- founder of the Sisters of Charity in the United States, and conductor of before the close of the present school pany of saintly brethren to find the semester. The final judges are the Promised Land." The editorial contin- the first parochial school in the coun- try. Rev. James M. Gillis, C.S.P., editor of ued: "The legend comes to mind at the CATHOLIC WORLD, and Kath- the death in Dallas the other day of Prizes are awards of cash, $75, $50, erine Burton and Theodore Maynard, a Sister of Charity of St. Vincent de and $25; sterling silver plaques of noted Catholic authors who have both Paul. You see, a lovely lass gave up Mother Seton to the next ten best, written about Mother Seton. the pleasures of the world to lend 'bash- .1 her life to what she called the the interest of a less earthy standard ful poor.'...It is true that the most "FALSTAFF" of humor. But for all that, the dia- prominent citizens in Dallas honored It all goes to show that there is a logue and character-drawing retained Sister Brendan and recognized her the brilliance and ,heartiness of the officially and publicly for her distin- little of the "groundling" in the most sedate of us. original; and the gales of laughter that guished service here. But she herself greeted line after line would, despite liked best the tear of humble grat- On the night of April 15th, Mr. their somewhat greater restraint and itude, the flickering smile on the face Lawrence Leonard, C.M., presented for dignity, have reminded the man from of an ailing child, the tense hand- the entertainment of the community Stratford of his,most successful mo- clasp of a comforted soul about to take "Sir John Falstaff," a play in four ments in the Globe. flight forever from all sorrow and pain scenes, excerpted from Shakespeare's The director and the cast are to be .... She has departed on her Voyage "Henry IV." Centering entirelyaround congratulated for approaching Shakes- of Delight." that enormous "creature of bombast," peare as he might have been approach- Sister was a worker in the social ser- with only incidental references to the ed in his own day,-with ease and vice department of tHe outdoor clinic historical drama in which the scenes confidence and an appreciation of a of St. Paul's, and founder of the Mar- were originally set, the play stressed good playwright's work, but without illac Clinic and social center for Mex- one facet of the author's genius which the awe and the heavy breathing that icans. She was born in Rochester, N. is only too often overlooked or but sometimes removes the presentation of Y., and has four brothers surviving, partially appreciated by the average his work from the field of warm hu- Msgr. Patrick O'Beirne, Wichita Falls; student of a survey course in English man drama to the rarefied solitude of Bernard, Bridgeport, Conn.; James, Literature. To such a student, "Sir "Shakespearean art." Port Gibson, N. Y.; Joseph, Rochester, John Falstaff" would have been a les- Rev. Mr. Francis Gaydos, padded to N. Y. A sister also survives, Mrs. Maria son and a great revelation. Here was true Falstaffian proportions, played Gartland, Rochester, N. Y. the Shakespeare who wrote to please that "fat rogue" with obvious relish the "groundlings" who filled the pit and contagious good humor. Glance, CANCEL TEXAS of the Globe Theatre, horseplaying and gesture, pause,-all were used with a CELEBRATION dicing during the serious scenes and comedian's instinct to translate the Galveston gave of- guffawing their appreciation at every bare words of the Shakespearian text Bishop Byrne of of broad farce. Here was (sans stage directions, of course) into ficial notice, following the recent ca- introduction that the cele- the character whom these same the living antics of one of the Bard's tastrophe in Texas City, "groundlings" loved so well that the most popular characters. bration planned for April 29-30 would Newspapers of author must perforce prolong his stage Mr. Ray Ruiz, as Prince Hal, sparred have to be cancelled. existence "out of all compass" and verbally with "lean Jack" all evening, the "Register" system carried his- Galves- keep him strutting pompously about tossing off difficult lines with ease torical summaries of the plan in which it was ad- the stage long after the original and naturalness and maintained at ton diocese, would have dispatched him. These the same time the suggestion of a mitted that "it is largely a record the members of the Con- were lines carefully geared to more complex character than that of of the work of "groundlings." any of his dubious companions. Poins gregation of the Mission." John French), Gads- The record is familiar to us since And the community here at Perry- (played by Mr. the appearance last year of Father ville thoroughly enjoyed it all. Which hill (Mr. Douglas Lange), Bardolph Ralph Bayard's "Lone Star Vanguard," goes to prove the thesis mentioned in (Mr. Morgan Barr), and Dame Quickly the story of the Catholic re-occupation be (Mr. Robert Olker) were shorter roles, we shall give here the the opening sentence above. To of Texas, but were capably handled by a cast incidents in the earlier years in which sure, the Gentle Bard had to submit, but the Community figured. to certain revisions and omissions in alert to their possibilities. In 1838, the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith em- powered Bishop Anthony Blanc of New Orleans with jurisdiction for extra American affairs. Bishop Blanc en- trusted Southeastern Texas to the Vincentians, headed by Father John Timon, C.M., who was appointed Pre- fect Apostolic of Texas in 1840. Occu- pied with his duties as Visitor, Father Timon appointed Father John Mary Odin, C.M., his Vice Prefect. Two years later, when Texns was made a vicariate, Father Odin was consecrated Bishop of Claudiopolis and Vicar Apostolic. When the vicariate was abolished in 1847 Bishop Odin was named first ordinary of the Dio- cese of Galveston. Simultaneously, Father Timon was consecrated first Bishop of Buffalo, N. Y. Page Four The De Andrein VINCENTIAN CLIPPINGS

CHICAGO of the Naples Province, we learn that their Philosophers now number 50, The Annual Retreat for the members with only 10 Theologians. Confreres of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul STUDENTS BAZAAR are chiefly occupied in giving missions of the Archdiocese of Chicago, April to the country poor. 16-20, was given by Father Frederick The Students thank all their Coupal, at Holy Name Cathedral. Confreres and others who had any De Paul University was represented part in making the Bazaar a great DE PAUL PRESIDENT of the success. The proceeds are used at the 44th Annual Convention for the Chinese missions and for CONDEMNS A. Y. D. National Catholic Educational As- Student activities. sociation in Boston, Massachusetts, When asked recently whether De early in April, by Fathers Comerford Paul University would support on its O'Malley, Edward Kammor, and Theo- redestal of the same material was re- campus a chapter of the American dore Wangler. Youth for Democracy, Father Comer- Father 'John Murphy was elected cently provided for the statue of the Divine Child. ford O'Malley declared: "We do not Editor of "The Proceedings," the an- have a chapter of American Youth for nual publication of the Chicago Cath- The Crusade Correspondence Courses Democracy. On the basis of our in- olic Science Teachers Association at received an extraordinary letter re- vestigations and the reports we have its meeting of April 7. cently. It was a request from a form- received, we do not intend ever to er pupil, the first graduate of the Ad- NORMANDY have one. We do not tolerate thieves vanced Course, for a copy of the diploma who organize to disrupt the security On Sunday, April 20, at 10:30, Fath- he had lost. Since 1939 he had proud- of the individual and his home. It er George O'Malley, Spiritual Director ly displayed it, duly signed by his in- is much more important that we be for the Ladies of Charity at Guardian structor, now Father George Brennan. intolerant of those who organize to Angel Settlement, celebrated High NEW ORLEANS attack our principles and Christian Mass coram episcopo, for the General democratic thinking and living." Meeting of the Ladies at Marillac A record class of nurses just com- The A. Y. D. was denounced as a Seminary. Archbishop Ritter, who pre- pleted their studies three nights a week soviet-controlled organization by the sided at the Mass, addressed the mem- on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, house committee on un-American ac- bers afterwards. The sermon at the under Father Hymel, at Hotel Dieu. tivities. Mrs. Mollie Lieber, state co- Mass was delivered by Father Gilmore Father James Connors addressed the chairman of A. Y. D., admitted she Guyot. The muic was provided by the gathering of the Legion of Mary in was a Communist. Seminary Sisters. its annual general meeting at the CAMARILLO Church of St. Mary's Assumption on April 13. Oscar Miller delivered the ORDINATIONS Father KANSAS CITY address at the recent triple dedication The conferring of the Sacred of church, school, and convent at St. Father Conroy gave the three-day Priesthood, of the Subdiaconate, Bernard's Parish, Bellflower, Califor- retreat at De Chantal Academy, El- and Minor Orders by His Excel- nia. findale, Missouri, March 27-29. lency, the Most Rev. Joseph Elmer The Tre Ore at the Motherhouse of The three-day retreat for the nurses Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis, the Sisters of St. Joseph, St. Marys of St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Joseph, will take place in the Church of Academy, Los Angeles, and the one at Missouri, April 24-26, was conducted by the Assumption , at St. Mary's Santa Monica Church were conducted Father Raymond White. Seminary on May 31. by Fathers Coyne and Miller, respect- ively. A booklet to foster vocations has Fathers Eberhardt and Coerver will recently been published by St. John's be added to the faculty of De Paul Seminary. The forty-eight page pros- THE De ANDREIN University for the summer sessions. pectus, prepared by Father Rice, shows The clergy retreat at Leavenworth pictures of faculty members, students, Published monthly by the Stephen during June will be given by Father buildings and grounds, and explains Vincent Ryan Unit of the Catholic Coyne. the functions of the various depart- Students' Mission Crusade. ments of the Seminary. PARIS, FRANCE year (nine JUGOSL'AVrA Subscription: $1.00 per On April 18 and 19, leaders of the issues). St. Vincent de Paul Society from all The Jugoslav Province lost another parts of the world, at the conclusion confrere, Father John Strasek. The Editor of their conferences on world-wide or- report says he was killed "at the hands John F. Lenihan, C. M. ganizational techniques, attended Mass of a criminal" on Palm Sunday in Associate Editors at the tomb of St. Vincent de Paul at Croatia, where the confreres have a William Pittman, C.M. the Motherhoise.. parish. What the report intended to John Richardson, C.M. convey by "at the hand of a criminal" SAN ANTONIO we can easily guess. Exchanges James Galvin, C.M. Father Lee B. Zimmermann con- ducted the singing by hundreds of DENVER Business Manager school children and seminarians of Subdiaconate was conferred at St. Robert Stack, C.M. the "Ecce Sacerdos Magnus" for the Thomas' last week. May 31 and June Circulation Manager procession from the Seminary Chapel 1 are the dates for the Priesthood and Manuel Pelleteri, C.M. to the site of the new St. Mary's hall, MVinor Orders, respectively. on April 24. Contributor at the cornerstone laying C.M. Father Degan assisted Cardinal Stritch On April 19, Archbishop Vehr visit- Rev. Mr. R. Brennan, during the ceremony. ed St. Thomas' and the next day ad- Faculty Advisor dressed the members of the Confra- Rev. James F. McOwen, C.M. PERRYVILLE ternity of St. Vincent de Paul. it be at the a new Let us love God, but let Students are constructing NAPLES expense of our arms and in the sweat concrete and red granite bridge over St. Vincent de Paul the small stream at the Grotto A In a recent letter from the Students of our brow rIwe e Xtrbuein Volume 17 Perryville, Missouri, June, 1947 NO. 9 ARCHBISHOP RITTER ORDAINS AT BARRENS -- Five Confreres Raised to Priesthood, Subdiaconate Conferred on Eight His Excellency, the Most Reverend Joseph E. Ritter, D.D., Archbishop of St. Louis, celebrated Mass at 8:30 May 31 in the Church of the Assumption, at St. Mary's of the Barrens, and dur- ing the Mass conferred the Sacred Priesthood on Robert Brennan, C.M., Francis Gaydos, C.M., Stephen Ganel, C.M., Jacob Johnson, C.M., and Bruce Vawter, C.M. Also ordained to the Sacred Priesthood was Leo W. Figge, O.M.I. (Father Figge will celebrate his First Solemn Mass on June 4, at St. Joseph's Church, Zell, Missouri.) Those who received the order of sub- diaconate were Messrs. John O'Con- nor, Vincent Kaiser, William Mahoney, Douglass Lange,. Raymond Ross, Ray- mond Ruiz, Thomas Munster, and Lawrence Leonard, all of the Congre- gation of the Mission. Nine others re- ceived the orders of porter and lec- tor, and twelve the two highest minor Rev. Robert Brennan, C.M. orders of exorcist and acolyte. The Rev. Francis Gaydos, C.M. First Tonsure was administered by His Excellency to the former group on the previous evening in the Students RECEIVE THE HOLY RECEIVE THE POWER TO Chapel. GHOST; WHOSE SINS THOU OFFER SACRIFICE TO GOD SHALT FORGIVE, THEY ARE AND TO CELEBRATE MASS FORGIVEN THEM; AND FOR THE LIVING AS WELL WHOSE SINS THOU SHALT AS FOR THE DEAD. RETAIN, THEY ARE RE- TAINED.

Rev. Jacob Johnson, C.M. LET US PRAY, DEARLY BELOVED BRETHREN, TO GOD THE FATHER AL- MIGHTY THAT HE MAY MUL- TIPLY HEAVENLY GIFTS UPON THESE HIS SERVANTS Rev.StephenG~anel, C.M. WHOM HE HAS CHOSEN. Rtevi.Bruce Vawter, C.M.I Page Two The De Andrein ParTw 111 1I Th ·De1· AndreinIII11 The New Priests NEW PROVINCIAL HOUSE REV. ROBERT J. BRENNAN, C.M. Born: July 28, 1920, La Salle, Ill. Educated: St. Patrick's School, La Salle, St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, Mo. Entered Community: May 30, 1939. Vows: May 31, 1941. First Solemn Mass: June 8, 10:30 a. m., St. Patrick's Church, La Salle. Ministers: Very Rev. Eugene McCar- thy, C.M., Archpriest. Rev. Joseph Brennan, C.M., Deacon, (brother). Rev. George Brennan, C.M., Sub- deacon, (brother). Preacher: Rev. Wm. Ryan, C.M. Reception: June 8, from 2:30 to 5:30 Sp. m., parish hall. -0- REV. FRANCIS A. GAYDOS, C.M. Born: September 14, 1921, St. Louis, Mo. Educated: St. Michael's School, Fred- ricktown, Mo., St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, Mo. Entered Community: May 30, 1939. Vows: May 31, 1941. First S'olemn Mass: June 1, 10:00 a. m., This building on Loughborough Avenue in St. Louis, will shortly house St. Michael's Church, Fredericktown. the headquarters of the Western Province, for many years situated at 1427 S'. Ministers: Rev. John Bauer, Arch- Ninth Street, the parish house of St. Vincent's. priest. Rev. Raymond Gaydos, C.Ss.R., Dea- con, (brother) WELCOME! Rev. Robert Gaydos, C.Ss.R., Sub- deacon, (brother). To the seventeen new members of St. Vincent's "Little Company" who Preacher: Rev. John Zimmerman, C.M. were received into the Internal Seminary on May 17, 1947: Messrs: Thomas Reception: June 1, from 7:30 to 10:00 Harrington, Martin Culligan, Alphonse Hoernig, Michael Boyle, Lee Trapp, p. m., at home. William Tuke, John Burger, Kenneth Grass, August Boudreaux, Robert WooQ, -0- James Ross, James. Collins, Charles Miller, John Conlon, Jay Prost, John REV. JACOB R. JOHNSON, C.M. Kearney, Walter Housey. Born: September 25, 1921, New Or- leans, La. Thomas Seminary, Denver, Colorado. Educated: St. Joseph's School, New Entered Community: September 11, 1947 "Cape Trip" Orleans, St. Vincent's College, Cape 1942. On May 7 the students from "The Girardeau, Mo. Vows: September 12, 1944. Cape" arrived for their annual "Perry- Entered Community, May 30, 1939. First Solemn Mass: June 8, 9:30 a. m., ville trip." Much of the morning was Vows: May 31, 1941. St. Patrick's Church, Fort Worth. spent in becoming acquainted and re- First Solemn Mass: June 8, 8:30 a. m., Ministers: Rev. T. J. Taaffe, Arch- acquainted, in viewing the grounds and St. Joseph's Church, New Orleans. priest. buildings. Ministers: Very Rev. Marshall Le Rev. Omer Foxhoven, Deacon. Sage, C.M., Archpriest. Rev. Charles Welter, C.M., S~ubdea- In the athletic contests held in the Rev. Paul O'Malley, C.M., Deacon. con. morning Messrs. Thomas Meik and C.M., Subdea- Mantel Pelleteri opposed the Cape Rev. Francis Pennino, Preacher: Rev. Ernest Langenhorst. and con. Reception: June 8, from 3:00 to 6:00 tennis team of J. Ross, Conlon, Preacher: Rev. John O'Regan, C.M. p. m. Sullivan; Messrs. John O'Connor, Reception: June 8, evening, St. Jos- Raymond Ruiz, and Lous Derbes were Auditorium. matched in handball against Charles eph's New Hospital Plan Derbes, J. Haley, and J. Franz. The -0 Students won the tennis match in two REV. STEPHEN J. GANEL, C.M. Affects Daughters sets, but lost the other contest two to Born: September 25, 1922, New Or- one. leans, La. The newspapers of Mobile, Alabama for May 14, carried an account of the After dinner, the Cape visitors hav- Educated: St. Stephen's School, New to change the St. Vincent's College, Cape proposed legislation ing paid their long-awaited respects Orleans; control of the City Hospital. This leg- to the Novices, all adjourned to the Girardeau, Mo. remove the institution Community: May 30, 1939. islation would ball diamond. A spirited Cape team Entered from the Daughters of Charity and lost the game to their older brothers. Vows: June 13, 1941. of June 8, St. Ste- place it in the hands of a board Supper was followed by "The Green First Solemn Mass: trustees. Years," the absorbing motion picture phen's Church, New Orleans. Mayor Robin C. Herndon denounced Ministers: Very Rev. M. J. O'Dea, C.M., based on the novel by Cronin. The Archpriest. the plan. He called it "another effort visitors departed almost immediately to raid the treasury of the city." afterwards on chartered buses, and all Rev. Joseph Wagner, C.M., Deacon. would give the Mo- Hymel, C.M., Subdea- Claiming the bill the Students had but one regret: that Rev. Maurice bile County Medical Society control it was impossible to meet and talk con. board of trustees Preacher: Very Rev. M. J. Dillon, C.M. of the proposed with each of them. We were elad to and hence control of the hos- have been their hosts for one happy Reception: June 8, from 5:00 to 7:00 pital, the mayor asserted: "The day. p. m., St. Stephen's Parish Hall. Mobile County Medical Society, -0 as long as I have been here, has been REV. BRUCE VAWTER, C.M. shot with strife and politics and I DELEGATES TO THE GENERAL Born: August 11, 1921, Fort Worth, think it would be a sad day in Mobile ASSEMBLY will sail June 18 on the Texas. when the City Hospital becomes a S S. America, and plan to leave August Educated: Texas Public Schools, St. pawn of the Medical Society." 8. The DeAndrein Page Three De Paul Academy Father Wieberg Moved JUGOSLAVIA Several interesting facts were learn- Community Charged with St. It has been definitely ascertained ed about our Chicago high school dur- Boniface and Silver Lake that our confrere, Father John Strasek, ing a recent visit by four of the fac- reported in our last issue as hav- ulty members, Fathers Bernard Fitz- Parishes ing beer slain "at the hand of a crim- Gerald and Clarence Bogetto, and Rev. Ferdinand G. Wieberg bade inal" was murdered for his faith. Messrs. Frank McGrath and Anthony farewell to the Community at a sup- Tracy. The latter The latest report says that Father two are attached to per in the refectory on Ascension Strasek had been appointed last au- the athletic department of the Acad- Thursday, at which he and the Rev. tumn pastor of the parish X...... in emy; Mr. McGrath, besides his teach- Felix Sommerhauser, newly-appointed Croatia. Since the neighboring parish ing duties in the French and Latin Dean of Ste. Genevieve, together with remained without a pastor Father department, is coach of the football several diocesan priests were guests. Strasek used to say Mass there also. and basketball teams, and Mr. Tracy, Father Wieberg, after many years as On Palm Sunday, April 30, having of- director of the intramural sports, an pastor of St. Boniface Parish, takes up fered Mass there, he was returning to important feature in the lives of the a new assignment at the Immaculate his own parish to celebrate a second more than eight hundred students of Conception Parish in Jackson. He Mass when he was shot. the rapidly growing school. The Scho- expressed regret at leaving Perryville, lastics here are indebted to these two with its close association with the The bullet penetrated his chin. The gentlemen for the showing of several Seminary, an association which he said killer then struck him in the head with of last season's De Paul University has been of the friendliest. some sharp object, probably a small ax, basketball "movies" durin? their visit. Father Wieberg's transfer affects and dragged him off the road and into Father FitzGerald brought encourag- the Seminary inasmuch as Father Os- the woods where he covered him with ing news of the progress of the re- car Huber has been named the vicar some boughs. Father Strasek proba- cently-inaugurated "DePaulway," re- econome or administrator of St. Boni- bly did not die at once, for in his ligious bulletin issued twice-weekly at face's, while remaining pastor of the hands were found small branches the Academy. The bulletins, single Seminary Church. from the bushes he had grasped when mimeographed sheets, printed on both In another appointment, Father the killer was pulling him away. sides, are composed by the seminary James Fischer was named vicar econ- When the people found him he was students and are an attempt to assist ome or administrator at the Silver already dead. His face had been seri- the students at De Paul with various Lake St. Rose of Lima Parish. ously bruised, but it was in repose. We principles and suggestions for integ- may regard Father Strasek as a mar- rating their school, social, and play FELICITATIONS! tyr, according to the report, for it is life with their Catholic Faith. A great The DE ANDREIN joins St. certain that he was slain because he many of the De Paul students had al- Thomas Seminary in extending was a priest. If there had been a rob- ready sent down their opinions of the best wishes to Father John Vidal bery the murderer would have taken new bulletins and it is apparent that upon his completion of a quarter his money, but the fact that he did the idea appeals to them. To many of a century of service in their not, together with other circumstances, of them it is a revelation to discover midst as Director of Students. We suggest the first possibility. that Seminarians can offer suggestions needs of modern are happy to read of the place he so pertinent to the has achieved in the hearts of the Last year the confreres of the Jugo- high school students. men of St. Thomas'. We are slav province reopened a small apos- As an even more effective influence tolic school connected with their on the students the plan is being con- grateful to THE GUILD MAGA- cen- sidered of having the Scholastics make ZINE for their tribute to our con- tral house at Z...... (Slovenia). They two-to-three minute recordings which frere! (Continued on Page Four) could be played over the inter- communication system at the Acad- YOUTHFUL PILGRIMS AT BARRENS emy. The inter-communication system, Children of the seventh and eighth grades, accompanied by three of installed at De Paul the past year, has their teachers, Sisters of Loretto, and several of last year's graduates, came already become an important element from St. Pius V School in St. Louis on AscenSion Thursday on pilgrimage in the direction of curricular activi- to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, where most of them ties. Contact can be made with any were enrolled in the medal by Father John Danagher, assistant director of room in the building. Announcements the Association. The group had a picnic lunch on the front lawn, and later are made, disciplinary directions giv- toured the grounds, seeing the Grotto, the sacristy furnishings, library, etc. en, even morning prayers directed over the loudspeakers, with intermittent "spiritual reminders" carried through- out the day. A factor of growing weight for the spiritual weal of the students has been the advent of the Legion of Mary to the Academy. It is an ideal form of Catholic Action, and depends for its results on the spiritual and corporal works of mercy carried on by the members, who endeavor to encourage the saying of the Rosary daily, or more frequent reception of the Sacra- ments by fellow students. Largely as a result of this apostolate the noon- hour May DevotionS and the daily Confessions have been gratifyingly at- tended.

CONGRATULATIONS We extend felicitations and best wishes to the Nursing School, St. Vincent's Hospital, Indianf ýolis, Indiana, which marked its Golden Jubilee on May 20. Page Four The De Andrein VINCENTIAN CLIPPINGS BETHANY JUGOSLAVIA St. Francis Preparatory Seminary (Continued from Page Three) closed on May 29, and its 29 students completed the first year in the life had twenty-eight boys. Now the insti- of the new seminary, a year that saw tution is in great danger of suppres- the little "Motel seminary" slowly take sion, if is has not already been sup- shape, even coming to meet state re- pressed. quirements for their 350-book library, catalogued according to the accepted The communist-ruled government standards. would transfer all education of youth into the hands of the State and elim- Starting the 29th of May, Father inate the last Catholic educational in- McNeil began the annual retreat for stitution that still remains open. It the Missionary Sisters of the Most was to this end that the communist Blessed Trinity (founded by Father newspapers published in March of Judge, C.M.,) at the St. Joseph Orphan- this year very bitter attacks against age. He will likewise give the com- the "black boardinghouses." The tone mencement address at St. Joseph's of those articles was that such private school in Oklahoma City. institutions in the hands of "monks and nuns" must be closed immediately Father Gerard Stamm preached the and replaced by institutions of the sermon at the Pontifical Mass at the State. Then, on April 5, the local gov- Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual "VOLUME 17, NUMBER 9" ernment of Slovenia published a de- Help in Oklahoma City on the Feast cree by which all private educational of Pentecost. THE STAFF thanks all who have houses were suppressed. assisted during the past year, especial- Father Gerard Stamm preached the of news, been acting chaplain at the St. Jos- ly by their unsolicited items This decree concerns all minor sem- prepared a large class by letters of appreciation, and by inaries; hence, the apostolic school is eoh Orphanage, financial support. To our Eastern of children for their first Communion their not excepted, but was, in fact, ex- on Ascension Thursday. confreres and sisters we feel particu- larly indebted, since they, who had plicitly mentioned. Some days before CHICAGO least to gain, were among the most the decree was published our confreres generous. At this last issue of the received The De Paul University Baccalaur- a special notification that the 'year we feel obliged to request our State was thereby establishing in their eate sermon will be delivered in St. Sreadersto continue their prayers for 'Vincent's Church by Father Thomas 'the cause of our venerable confrere, boardinghouse a State-controlled in- Connolly. FELIX DE ANDREIS. His cause is yet, stitution. At the same time they re- On May 25, at the banquet for the as always, the prime purpose for this ceived a request to evacuate the rooms new members of the Knights of Co- community paper. Although plans have and halls of their apostolic school and spread the knowledge of lumbus at Bloomington, Illinois, Fath- been afoot to even other rooms in their house, e.g., er J. C. Lehane was guest speaker. his heroic life and virtues over a wider range than ever, they are still unreal- the recreation hall of the priests. PERRYVILLE ized. We hope that the first issue of The confreres appealed to higher be able to carry Twelve Daughters of Charity, mem- the next year will authority, but there is little good news in this respect. hope for bers of the faculty of Laboure High any satisfaction. School in St. Louis, paid a visit to the Seminary on Ascension Thursday. CAPE GIRARDEAU Those who remember the artist who Father Robert Corcoran conducted THE De ANDREIN portrait of Ven. Felix the retreat for the sisters of St. Fran- painted the new May 25. De Andreis, C. M., Mr. Ernest Aspin- cis Hospital here, the week of Published monthly by the Stephen wall, an inmate of the penitentiary at NEW ORLEANS Vincent Ryan Unit of the Catholic Missouri, will be inter- Jeffersoii City, At the golden jubilee Mass for Students' Mission Crusade. ested to learn that through his con- Sister Gervase a month ago, offered tacting Bing Crosby, a fund was start- at Hotel Dieu chapel by Fathers Mar- Subscription: ed at the prison for covering the ex- $1.00 per year (nine shall LeSage, James O Dea, and Wil- issues). penses entailed in the purchase of ma- liam Hopp (celebrant, deacon, and sub- terials the artist plans to use in re- deacon), in the presence of Archbishop decorating the prison chapel wallswith Editor Joseph Rummel, a letter by Most Rev. John F. Lenihan, C. M. a series of 20 religious themes. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani convey- At the final meeting for 1946-47, the ing the blessing of the Holy Father to Associate Editors Stephen Vincent Ryan Unit of the Sister Gervase, was read by Father William Pittman, C.M. Catholic Students' Mission Crusade James Thompson, who also delivered John Richardson, C.M. elected for next year Messrs. William the sermon. Pittman, Thomas McIntyre, and Ro- CAMARILLO Exchanges bert Lamy, to the offices of president, Fifteen were ordained to the priest- James Galvin, C.M. vice-president, and secretary-treas- hood last month from St. John's, Business Manager urer, respectively. thirteen for the archdiocese of Los Robert Stack, Angeles. C.M. ST. LOUIS Father Coerver conducted the retreat Circulation Manager Father Raphael Kuchler, chaplain on Sunday, May 4, for 41 Newman Manuel Pelleteri, C.M. of De Paul hospital in St. Louis, has Club members from six local colleges, been named to deliver the sermon at at Immaculate Conception Churchi Faculty Advisor the Mass on June 22 which will open Los Angeles. Rev. James F. McOwen, C.M. the day's ceremonies attendant upon Father James Richardson will at- Let us love God, but let it be the cornerstone laying at the new tend the convention of the American at the building of the St Joseph's Hill In- and Catholic Library Associations, be- expense of our arms and in the sweat firmary, in Eureka, Missouri. ginning June 30, at San Francisco. of our brow. St. Vincent de Paul