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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Vincentian Journals and Publications at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in De Andrein by an authorized administrator of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact [email protected]. eIht 47) r sAnbrtin Volume 2 Perryville, Missouri, October, 1931 Number 1 i - Student to be A Chinese Im- Classes Resumed Ordained This pression of Amer- as Scholastic Year Month for China ican Missionaries Gets Under Way Mr. Charles Quinn, C. M., wil be ordained this month in Los By E. J. Kammer, C. M. The melancholy days are here; Angeles by Bishop Cantwell, i was announced last week. He An interesting and interested camp is over, the mechanics and will sail for Europe, October 23 visitor at St. Mary's of the Bar- near-mechanics have put away where he will take a course ii rens for the past month is the their overalls, wrenches, ham- Theology at the Angelico ii Rev. Francis Teng, C. M., one of mers, and doodads, in favor of Rome. At the completion of his the Chinese 'members of the the cassock and tome. Some- Western Province. Father studies abroad, he will go t< Teng, how, everybody gets somebody China to teach in the Seminary who is on his way to Rome to else's cassock with the result that is under the jurisdiction of pursue graduate studies leading Bishop Sheehan. to a Doctor's degree in theology, that some twenty-odd gentlemen Mr. Quinn studied at the Cape is a plesant personality, always have none at all. Once again the coming to the Novitiate in 1923 smiling, always on the go. The halls of learning are reverberat- He pronounced his Holy Vows impression he creates is an ex- ing with scholastic dictums. in 1925, and after a year in th< Camp A Great Success This Year cellent one. He is, indeed, a Venerable volumes are taken philosophy department went t< worthy representative of the na- down and dusted. Hustle-bustle Dallas University as a professor tive Chinese clergy. R. T. Brown, C. M. Sdone this year than ever before, The Bulletin Board In 1929, he was sent to St. Thomr Father Teng wa. born of everywhere. Many visitors came to see us as Seminary, in Denver, to con-- Under the able leadership of Christian parents in 1896 at Poy- groans under the weight of at Saco. tinue his Theology course, re - Messrs. Daspit and Miget a pio- The student body is ang (or Jaochow), Kiangsi, many notices. For the first week turning to the Barrens the fol.- neer crowd of select workers left glad to take this opportunity to China, only a short distance or so, an older student does not lowing year. the Barrens for Saco on July 19. thank our kind confreres for from the mission residence. His have a chance to view these no- While we all join in congratu- That this galaxy of camp-pitch- their interest in our regard. Es- early education was received in tices as the Board is constantly surrounded by a bevy of Philos- lating Mr. Quinn on his appoint- ers was well chosen was attest- pecially do we wish to thank a private school. At the age of ment, we regret to see him leave eleven he entered a preparatory ophers, trying to figure out the ed by the orderly condition in our Chinese Missionaries, Fath- us. He was prominent in stu.- seminary. In November, 1914, class schedule. Mr. Moynihan, a which the student body found ers Lloyd and - Dunker, for their dent athletics and entertain. camp St. Vincent a few days he was received into the Vincen- mathematician of note, tells us pleasant company ments-an excellent student and later. On the foundations so ana inspiring tian novitate at Kiashing, near that the ordinary class schedule a fine fellow. firmly laid by a generation of talks. The Boy Scout Rangers of Shanghai. Two years later he that is in use today is based on students, this year's working St. Louis camped near our place made his vows and began his the same plan as the Bulgarian Old Resident of Perryville crew prepared camp in such for a short time. They challeng- philosophical and theological Time Table, and might possibly and Friend of Seminary wise as to merit the high esteem ed us to a game of indoor and studies in the scholasticate at the be solved with logarythms. Passes Away. and sincere gratitude of their were decisively defeated by our same place. He was ordained to Starting with this as a basis, Mr. 1fellow students. To Father Coup- champions. the priesthood Feb. 19, 1921. Singleton has brought forth a Mr. Felix DeLassus, business al and his pioneers we are deeply People are more impressed by American missionaries soon theory of his own: at the first man here for many years, died indebted for one of our most what they see than by what they entered into the sarcedotal life sound of the bell, leave your last month from complications successful camping trips. hear. During the years the stu- of Father Teng. In 1923 he met room and follow the crowd-any that set in after a minor opera- Indeed, the dents have camped at Saco the (Continued on Page 3.) crowd. When the roll is called, tion. Fr. John Platisha sang students were agreeably prejudice and bigotry of the na- if your name is not mentioned, the solemn Requiem High Mass surprise on reaching Saco this year. Earth and saw- tives have been transformed into leave the room and go on to the for the repose of his soul and Chinese Missioners Feted I dust floors of previous admiration of Catholic princi- next class. This movement may Fr. Joseph Lilly preached the years had by Missipn Society. given way to ples in theory and practice. Stu- be repeated until you run into sermon. A special student choir, comfortable wood- en flooring; dent life at Saco has been very Fr. O'Malley, when, per force, conducted by Fr. James Sara- two chapels enabled On September 21, the Stu- us to offer greater conveniences beneficial to our religion. In- you must desist. cini, assisted during the Mass. dents' Mission Society honored to our ever-welcome stead of gross ignorance of our Mr. DeLassus will be remem- confreres. our Chinese 'Missionaries and An ice plant doctrines and abnormal fear of bered by all who had the pleas- solved the difficul- Father Teng with a farewell TWO NEWLY ORDAINED ties which confronted the com- our practices, the people of ure of knowing him as a good banquet, held in the Old Hall, PRIESTS TAKE UP missariat Saco have now some knowledge Christian gentleman, charitable of former years; a new scene of many festivities. Hos- DUTIES HERE water heater brought a great of the Catholic Church, and and very accommodating. tilities commenced at 11:30, and deal of consolation to the royal have learned that Catholics can at noon things werte ezll under Two members have been add- order of dishwashers. All things be good citizens and even loyal MISSION SOCIETY way. A spirit of general com- ed to the Seminary Faculty for worked in harmony to bring friends. ELECTS NEW OFFICERS raderie pervaded the assembly. the coming year. Fr. James cheerfulness and comfort to An article on camp would not be complete without a few words Cares were speedily forgotten Stakelum, of the class of '31, has In their first meeting of the those in need of rest and vigor. amid song concerning those who made it and laughter. As G. been appointed Assistant Master present scholastic year, the Stu- The weather was remarkably R. Clark once remarked, "The of Novices. Besides the duties dent's Mission Society elected adapted to camp life. The warm possible and pleasant. First of all, we same number of men could not connected with this office, Fr. the following men to offices: Mr. calm days brought joy to our owe a tremendous debt of gratitude possibly have made more noise!" Stakelum is teaching first year Tom Smith was selected to take fishermen and gave them an op- to our thoughtful Superior, Lastly, the speeches made by the philosophy. Fr. Joseph McIn- over the President's chair; Mr. portunity of convincing us that Father Levan, for his great interest guests of honor, Frs. Dunker, tyre, the other appointee, will Gerald Mullen was selected to the fishing line is not the line of in providing this season Lloyd and Teng, plus those of arrive in this country from fill the office of Vice-President, least resistance. Timely rains of rest, and especially for giving Messrs. Hogan, Cahill, Murphy, Rome at Chrstmas. He was or- and Mr. John Battle was the settled the dust and persuaded us an opportunity to visit the Big and J. Walsh, the toastmaster, dained with the class of '29, members' choice for Secretary- the squirrels to give our hunters Springs at Van Buren, Missouri. Our failed to have any sobering ef- whereupon he was sent to Rome Treasurer. It is our humble an opportunity to try their worthy Director, Father fect on the audience, and the ;o study for a Doctorate in Phil- opinion that three better men marksmanship. The weatherman O'Malley, labored dili- gently to party broke up at 2:30 with osophy. Fr. McIntyre will be could not have been elected. Long also favored hikers, and as a make camp life as con- venient and congenial as pos- everyone saying they had a good the Assistant Director of Stu- Inay they reign! Ij eonspnut-nep. zsw.. um. morpAm-uru Iiikinc'-WA-ninizIZLDJ wa (Continued Ullon 1-ii8ePa.- 4192 1 ;ime, and meaning it! lents. THE DE ANDREIN, OCTOBER, 1931 A Chinese Impression of za~r Vr A American Missionaries.
Published monthly by the Stude (Continued from Page 3.) Barrens. Father Misner, who was then teaching in the major seminary Subscriptions 15c per copy; $1.5( at Kienchanr AA frw month., -- J. G. Phoenix, C. M . 1 ...... X& . . I later he became acquainted with STAFF They do not keep a diary of Fathers, James, Lewis, Alten- the Editor-in-Chief - - SJ. J. Walsh, C. M. camping trip in this day and berg and Coyle. Thereafter, Associate Editor - - - - - J. J. Battle, C. M. age; but it used to be done. And with the exception of three Business Manager - - - - - J. W. Richardson, C. M. just a few days ago I was look- years, he has been working with Circulation Manager S- - - - - L. T. Fox, C. M. ing through one such record and Americans. He speaks English Sports Editor ------J. J. Roche, C. M. in so doing meeting with many well, having learned the lan- Faculty Advisor - - - Rev. C. J. O'Malley, C. M., D. D. strange and interestings things. guage from them, and shows the th rPorldinO nf which T will frnit+ f +their1ohrbr hio o.lonr leave to other more able and is quite up to date. Catholic newspapers have given well-deserved attention to daring spirits. Yet some few Americans learn Chinese the death of our confrere, Father Ryan, of Kenrick Seminary. lines from that diary will not be haiolanaiav- h1mnn V i-ov%- m in At the funeral in St. Louis Cathedral, His Grace, Archbishop ucI etasier ailn Europetans, amiss at this time, close as it is according to Father Teng. "This I Glennon, gave eminent public witness to the virtue of Father Frs. Murphy and Teng. to the recent camping trip. statement is confirmed by my Ryan, to his touching devotion toward his mother, and to his in- I- experience," he says. "This is dustry and zeal in the service of the priesthood. There remains to CAMPING ON THE GASCON- e:rally they have no trouble in particularly true of the dialect be remarked at present only his Vincentianism-a quality that ADE, 1907. in our Vicariate. You know, of r(eaching their various mission now, God grant it, entitles him to the corresponding high reward. "The interest in fish is lag- course, that dialects differ in the sltations because the principal Michael Ryan was about to turn his sixteenth year when the ging. We have had so much at different sections of China. In 0ones are located on or very near Little Company welcomed him December 7, 1891, at the Barrens. many express them- meals that six months Americans can hear ri ivers. A Christmas morning two years later saw him kneel before the selves as being sick and tired of confessions in Chinese, starting to "consecrate himself by vows to the holy service of Our "In general, the Americans altar fish-and asked the fishermen to out with the orphans. Within a protection of St. Vincent." The diary a re very adaptable and are Lord under the fatherly kindly desist fishing." Listen to year they are giving simple in- only a few other incidents in the four years of his m briefly notes that, Preston! Desist fisning! structions. It does not take long naking a success of their work. diligent application as a student. Within two years after vows Rank heresy in a camper. before they are quite fluent. Of T'here is a glorious future be- finished Zigliara, composed a poem in Latin for Father he had Nonne ? those who are in China at pres- f Continued from Page 3) THE CROSSROADS Fr. Levan are busily Avorking out ways Continued from Page 3) and means whereby tugal, and in Spain, dictators a new High School may be built. Fr. Oscar Huber, of the class reign supreme. While Europe of '31, was appointed Procur- staggers backward in its march Students Triumph Over Novices No Match for Stu- Boy Scouts of America In- ator here at the Seminary. towards democracy, a new epi- Faculty in Annual Base- dents-Lose, 11-0. door Team Defeated by Heavy on the butter, Father! demic has swept over Latin ball Fracas, 6-2 Students, 18-5. America. In Argentina, Brazil, In their tilt with the students CAPE G'IRARDEAU. Peru, Cuba, Bolivia, Chile-- The Students, captained by on July 19th, the Novices were On August 12th the Students The Apostolic School opened dictators, calling themselves Charles Quinn, came out on the held scoreless while the Scholas- exhibited their prowess in th( its doors to the largest number "Provincial Presidents," have grand old game of indoor, by heavy end of a 6 to 2 score tics rolled up 11 runs on 16 hits. of pupils in its history. Forty- seized governments with their handing an 18-to-5 defeat to a armies and rule by force. Has against Fr. O'Malley's faculty The Novice batters couldn't three Freshmen have increased picked team of the St. Louis the world been made safe for nine. fathom Mahoney's slants, and the figure to one hundred and The game was a loosely play- Chapter of Boy Scouts, who democracy? got only five hits, none of them ten. Chicago and New Orleans ed contest, with frequent errors chanced to visit us at our sum- again lead the field in represen- Everywhere one goes, from being registered by both teams. for extra bases, and coming at mer camp. The boys in kahki tatives, the former having forty- Japan to Egypt, the Orient is Fr. Burke, clergy moundsman, inopportune times with the were no match for the big bats of two, the latter, thirty-three. seething with turmoil. The dis- hurled creditable ball, but his sacks empty. On the other hand, the Students, and at no part of Frs. Kuchler and William Vi- order of the world reveals itself the contest did it look like a ball teammates failed to hit behind Whalen's tossings were to the dal, recently ordained, have been in a gigantic Asian uprising. game. him, and his nine-hit effort was older men's liking, and they added to the faculty at the Cape. "Asia for the Asians" is the The Scouts, who, by the way, in vain. The faculty stickers clubbed his offerings far and We know that their pupils will cumulating slogan of the conti- were Ranger Scouts and were could only manufacture two runs near. Runi were easily pushed profit greatly by the words of nent. A terrible hatred for the mounted on horseback, arrived off the sturdy pitching of Mul- across and the result was never wisdom that fall from the lips "foreign devils" is rising among at Camp St. Vincent in the early len, cleric hurler, and these were in doubt. of such masters, but just am- the Arabs, Mesopotamians, Syr- afternoon of August 12th. They made on Fr. Burke's home run For the Novices, McDonald, agine the football and baseball ians, and Turks. Across the had been cruising on their horses in the third inning with one Mathews, Lindenmeyer and Mil- teams that they, in cooperation China Sea, brown-skinned Fili- through the Ozarks mate aboard. Fr. Huber, who ler performed well. While Ma- for about with Fr. Paul O'Malley, will pinos vociferously demand their ten days previous to their visit, had previously singled. The honey, Wangler, Hogan and Mul- turn out! independence from the United and perhaps were somewhat other innings were scoreless as len did heavy duty for the Stu- States. In India, a peaceful re- worn out by the long jaunt. May- far as the priests were concern- dents. ST. LOUIS. legious leader, Mahatma Gandhi, be their weakened condition had ed, although they theatened once The score : The St. Louis Preparatory bravely leads millions of his in the sixth. something to do with the Stu- Seminary began its scholastic people in passive resistance to Novices. dent's easy victory. The Students did all their R. H. E. year with an enrollment of the heavy rule of the bankers, scoring in two innings, the first McDonald, c. f...... 0 1 0 around two hundred and fifty. manufacturers and soldiers of Along with malaria, the cork and fourth. In the first, after E. Cashmai, 3b...... 0- 0 2 Fr. Thomas Schmucker has been the British empire. Does all ball fever was very much in evi- two were out, Mullen walked, Gaughan, 2b ...... 0 0 3 appointed to the faculty as pro- this disorder show that the world dence last summer at camp. So Roche singled into left field, but J. Cashman, lb...... 0 0 0 fessor of philosophy, and Fr. has been made safe for democ- much was this the case that Fr. Stakelum fumbled and it M iller, 1. f...... 0 2 0 Thomas Vaile will be the new racy? eight teams fought it out for went for two bases, Mullen scor- Lindenmeyer, c..-...... 0 1 1 Procurator. Fr. Feltz has joined And what of these United honors in a tournament. This ing on the play. Watterson, next Wise, ss...... 0 0 1 the faculty at Kenrick Semin- States? Are we not showing game has its thrills as many a up, singled another run home. Mathews, r. f...... 0.. 1 0 ary. signs of the unrest and disorder- looping and fast breaking curve The priests came back in their Whalen, p...... 0 0 0 liness that marks other lands? half of the third and knotted the can be thrown with these tiny KANSAS CITY. Witness the hordes of jobless score at two-all with Fr. Burke's 0 5 7 spheres. Wrenched backs are Fr. Flannery, prefect in the workers in the midst of un- four-base swat. It was a hard common casualties and elicit no College department at Denver ,.tudents. dreamed-of physical riches. Not smash out into the orchard in sympathy whatever. Well the last year, has been appointed to R. IH. E. less than 8,000,000 men wislk left field. However, this home tournament was a huge success the Prep in Kansas City. The Wangler, c...... 1 2 0 America's streets pleading for run seemed to tell on pitcher as long as it lasted, but camp number Egan, 2b ...... 2- 2 0 of pupils there is very the fulfillment of an inalienable Burke, for he weakened in the broke up before it was complet- Hogan, ss...... 2 3 1 gratifying, it is reported. right to a job. In our larger fourth, giving up four hits ed, with four teams tied for first Mullen, lb ...... 1 2 0 cities, bread-lines and Rolls- which netted the Clerics four and four for last. Watch this DENVE(R. Roche, 1. f. :-...... 1 2 0 Royces keep intimate company runs and the ball game. Hits by column for cork ball news in the The new Chapel and Refrec- Watson, 3b ...... 2..22 0 with one another. Overwhelm- Hogan, Wangler, Quinn and Mc- future. tory building has been complet- Quinn, r. f; ...... -.2 2 0 ing wealth and poverty-stricken Carthy accounted for these runs. ed and is being occupied this Abbott, c. .-...-....-... 0 0 1 misery exist side-by-side. This, The best performers for the term. Mahoney, p ...... --..-. O0 1 1 Checker Tournament Fr. James O'Sullivan, re- of all things, shows lack of in- priests were Frs. Burke and Nearing Finish cently returned from Rome, has telligent control. O'Malley, who collected four hits 11 16 3 been appointed to take up his It is evident that there is but between them; Fr. Prinderville, With only one more bracket duties at the Seminary. one conclusion to draw from who distinguished himself in to play before the semi-finals, such facts. The world has NOT center field, and Fr. Vidal be- LOCAL IGH SCHOOL four great possibilities for this LOS ANGELES. i been made safe for democracy. --- ifcnxte uat. BOASTS GREAT TEAM year s crown stand out. Take The Preparatory Seminary in Will the present state of dis- your choice of Messrs. Thomp- Los Angeles reports a large en- order resolve itself into a state According to the treasurer of The St. Vincent's High School son, Rebenack, C. LaFevre, or rollment, due, no doubt, to the of order within the next thirteen the Mission Society, the bottom football team, under the expert Hogan, because one of these is fact that Fr. Michael Burke has years? We shall see. has completely fallen out of coaching of Sam Baudendistle, going to be the victor. Rumor been stationed there. Fr. O'Mal- Amalgamated C. S. M. C. stock a De Paul grad, is making good has it that Mr. Singleton may be ley reports that attendance at Rev. Visitor sent Fr. Modde to and therefore October 31st will in a big way this year. Belleville a dark horse in the semi-finals St. Vincent's Church is very en- take up the good work. Accord- just be the Vigil of All Saints High School has already fallen because of his overwhelming couraging. We believe that Fr. ing to all reports, Fr. Modde is and not Hallowe'en. If there I a victim to the local Red Shirts victory over Mr. McWilliams in Hug's appointment to the parish doing fine work down there. are any festivities at all, it will by a score of 13-0, and Char- the first bracket, but lack of ex- has brought this about. probably be in the form of a manade College of St. Louis was perience seems to be against PERRYVILLE. hard-times party (bring your held to two lucky touchdowns. him. Be that as it may, it is our NEW ORLEANS. Frs. Malloy and Coupal will own refreshments). This year's team may be the wish that the best man may win! When Fr. Fischer was chang- conduct a Mission in our parish lightest one in the school's his- ed to the Prep in Kansas City, here beginning on Sunday, Oct. Fr. Coupal has just finished tory, but we're inclined to be- A new stone statue of St. Vin- Fr. Reynolds was sorely in need 18th. Having two such brilliant conducting a novena at St. lieve that it is also the "fight- cent has been placed on the front of another good assistant at St. missioners the success of the inist." of the new Students' Agatha'sv Church in Chicago. Building. Catherine's Church, so the Very Mission is already assured. S C V cS R 1 M U EIe e AnrEin C Volume 2 Perryville, Missouri, November, 1931. Number 2 SYMBOLISM IN CHURCH AUTUMN AT THE BARRENS ARCHITECTURE Once more the majestic spirit of Autumn set- Symbolism has always occupied an important tles upon the Barrens and brings with it that part in the ceremonial of the Church. Symbols are charming facination which confreres, young and signs or emblems used to represent solmething old, cannot forget. The golden rays of the break- than appears at first to the eye. higher and nobler ing day fanned by the brisk morning air heralds From the earliest days of Christianity, in the cata- the gay pageant of color which pervades our ven- combs of Rome, we find evidence of the use of symbols to teach the faithful and to recall to their erable seminary at this season. From then until minds the truths of religion. the western waves of ebbing day recede, forming But in the Middle Ages, the great ages of faith, one of those beautiful Missouri sunsets, everything we find the use of symbolism in ecclesiastical archi- seems to glisten and shine. The old walk culmin- tecture reaching its apex. The churches of the me- ating in our Lady's mound, that walk which has dieval days were so designed that they might set been the silent oratory of how many Little Hours, forth the truths of religion and render them into Rosaries, and Imeditations, first catches our eye. a symbolism that was readily understandable by It is all aglow with autumn fire. The stately ave- the rudest serf. nues of trees on its borders seem to be guarding it The medieval cathedral was cruciform in shape with jealous care, now scattering its rich mantle to represent the Latin Cross. The apse, or the of golden leaves over its surface. Looking to the Eastern end, represented the head of Christ. The right and to the left we see the horn of plenty. The circle of radiating chapels around the apse signi- trees in the orchard are actually groaning under fled the Crown of Thorns. The Eastern end was their heavy weight of large ruby apples. But a often bent to the North to repre- figure going in and out of the sent the Head of Our Lord rows of trees now engages our drooping to His right side at His Dedication of Students' attention; who is it? It is none death. It also symbolized His Chapel other than Brother Fred, reaping turning to the penitent thief. the fruit of his diligent labors. The North and South wings of ,On the fifteenth of October was The "soul" of the seminary's the transept represented the written the last chapter in the his- beauty now comes into view- hands of our Savior and the tory of the new students' building, the grotto. Many confreres now West front, His feet. The main here at St. Mary's of the Barrens. out in the "Field" have given the pomp and ceremony Amidst all hours of labor and toil to give doorway at the West was often which Holy Mother Church demands triple to represent the Three Di- for such occasions, the altar in the us this beauty spot. Let them vine Persons, while a double chapel was solemnly consecrated by know it is now more glorious door under a single arch symbol- our Very Reverend Provincial, Fr. than ever. Rustling poplars and ized the divine and human na- Barr, and dedicated to St. Vincent red maples shed their leaves be- de Paul. Those assisting Fr. Barr The Baptistry fore our Lady, who, if she has tures in Christ. on this happy occasion were the as was placed on the North side to Reverend Fathers Quinn, O'Malley here reigned triumphant symbolize the approach of the and Tolman, and the Reverend Mr. Queen of the May, more trium- unbaptized person from dark- Brown. Besides the priests, stu- phant is she as Queen of the ness, paganism and unbelief. dents, and novices of the Semin- month of the Holy Rosary. was also in attendance Figures, from, historic times, ary, there Winding our way up the hill we Mrs. Kulage, accompanied by her in the Novices' have always been used as sym- sister-in-law, Mrs. Backer. It was find ourselves bols. The circle symbolizes the the benerficence of the former that grounds. There among the ced- sun, and because it has neither a had made this wonderfful building ars nestles the little community and magnificent altar possible. cemetery, the resting place of beginning nor an end, it also The ceremony of consecra;tion hav- our departed and s.aintly con- and infinity. ing been completed amidst the chant- signifies eternity freres. Our mind naturally turns The equilateral triangle is a fa- ing of psalms by a select choir, there followed the first ,Solemn High Mass to the spiritual, and like Father miliar symbol of the Triune God. in the history of the new chapel. Tabb we see our lives reflected (Continued on Page 5.) (Continued on Page 5.) (Continued on Page 5.) Two Two __,L1_L.: The De-De AndreiAndrein World News News of the Province Perryville News ,China! Do you realize that this is The annual three-day retreat for The parish of the Assumption here the largest in population of all the the boys of the Apostolic School at is in the midst of a two-weeks' mis- countries in the world? Perhaps you Cape Girardeau will be preached this sion. Father Coupal and Father Jos- do. But do you know that the Lazar- eph Lilly are giving the evening year by Father James O'Malley of in- ists have charge o'f one-third of the structions and sermons; the priests Catholics? No doubt this is news to the Kendrick Seminary faculty. of the house are giving the morning you. Father Paul O'Malley has been ap- instructions. Certainly Saint Vincent Among the many missions con- pointed Assistant Prefect this year. smiles down from heaven upon the ducted in China, foremost in inter- Father Kuchler is teaching Greek renewal of this work in our parish. est to us is that of Yukiang in the and Physics and together with Fath- province of Kiangsi. This mission is Father Farrel, a. confrere from the er Paul conducted by our own friends and is putting the football team Eastern Province, spent a few days former classmates under the able di- through its paces. Father Vidal is with us recently. He is "very edified rection of Bishop Edward Sheehan, holding down the chair of history. with the students and novices, and C. M., D. D. In this mission, alone gratified with the buildings they thirty-four thousand 'Catholics are The Los Angeles Preparatory Sem- have." He has just completed his cared for by the Lazarists. The larg- inary is entering its sixth year under twenty-second year on the missions, est of the other missiions in the care the capable guidance of Father Win- and during all those years he has of the Lazarists is that of Peking. ne with an enrollment of 91 boys. been attached to the Germantown In this great mission the Lazarists Father 'Clarence Hug is reported to house. At present he is the patriarch have charge of three hundred thous- be in the hospital with a bronchial of the house and devotedly attached and souls. infection. to his new work among "God's poor," In the various other missions, the as he calls the unemployed that seek his protection. number of ,Catholics varies from Father Thomas Daniel Coyne of twenty to thirty thousand. The sac- the (Cape faculty, our esteemed for- As this goes to press, plans are rifice and labor that the care of these mer Superior, recently preached the being made for the annual Hallow- souls entails cannot be realized by annual retreat at Kenrick 'Seminary. e'en celebration in the form of a us. Father Feltz is teaching philosophy "Hard Times" party. The most shab- That this work was ever dear to and sacred eloquence. Father Miller bily dressed guest will receive a the heart of their holy founder is evi- is teaching Mathematics at the new worthwhile prize. The preparations dent from the words of the Catholic Saint Louis Petite Seminary. Encyclopedia: "The large-visioned are being organized on a broad scale. founder of the Lazarists had never Father Quinn, Master of Novices, October ninth Father Lloyd, limited them to any one country and preached the annual retreat to the IOn Father Steve Dunker and Father from the beginning foreign missions students at ISaint Thomas Seminary, Fred Lewis sailed from San Francis- had been one of their objects.", As Denver. He went to Denver from St. co for China. Father Teng, Father early as 1697 the Propaganda sent Loujis, where he had preached a re- Tolman, Father Charles Quinn and two Lazarists, the first of their con- treat for the laity at Our Lady of Father Koeper sailed from New York gregation to arrive in ,China. One Lourdes Parish. of these,. Appiani, settled in Szech- for Rome on October twenty-third. wan. This was the beginning of the, Father Marshall Le Sage, pastor Lazarists in 'China. of Saint Vincent's 'Church Chicago, The football season is here and all This humble start is as the mus- is now conducting a special religious .the football enthusiasts are daily tard seed, and as the mustard seed instruction class for converts to the hurling the pigskin about the camp- it has grown into a large tree. No ,Catholic failth every Tuesday eve- us. Thanks to the work of Mr. Fox less than one, million souls now rest ning in the De Paul University Li- and other handball fans, the new in the arms of the followers and brary. An average attendance of 150 alley is now in fairly good condition brothers of Appliani. to 200 persons has been reported. A and is being used regularly. The number of convert ministers and golf course has been cut and a few of the golfers are daily seen on the During the past month Niagara lectureras are scheduled on the list links. University celebrated the diamond of speakers. Father John Kearney, jubilee of its foundation. Many con- professor of philosophy at De Paul Father Oscar Huber is harvesting frere's of the Western Province at- for the last ten years, sailed on Oc- the great fruit crop for future ref- tended the celebration; among them .to'ber 16 from New York for Rome, erence. With this and his other pro- were the Very Reverend Visitor, where he will be engaged in research curatorial duties and teaching al- Father Barr; Father 'Corcoran and work for the next two years at the gebra at the parochial high school, Father Hueber. Saint Mary's of the International House of Studies. Fath- he keeps well occupied. Barrens feels proud that her Father ers Frommell and Norman are Pre- P. V. Byrne is Niagara's oldest liv- fects of Discipline in the Academy. ing alumnus. Father Nichols, who was stationed at The students are no'w selling Cape last year, has been appointed ,Christmas cards for the benefit of the Father Doherty and two other Dean of Religious Instruction in the Students' Fund. These cards are ob- confreres of the Eastern Province University. tainable at a greatly reduced price. are holding up a heavy burden of work in Panama, the oldesit diocese Father Coupal will preach a no- at Saint Joseph's 'Church, New Or- in the Western World. Through lack vena in. preparation for the Feast of leans. (Continued on Page 5,) Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (Continued on Page 5.) November, 1931 Noveber,1931T~re ThreetA I e 2 nbretn 1000 VER Let us love God, but let it be at the expense of our arms 'and it the sweat of our brow. - St. Vincent de Paul Published monthly by the Stephen Vincent Ryan Unit of the Cathouic Students' Mission Crusade. 1902. Feb. 3-"The students gave an entrtain- Subscription: 15c per copy; $1.00 per year (nine issues). ment in honor of Father Smith. After the enter- Editor - - - - - J. W. Richardson, C. M. tainment, through the good nature of Father Le- Assistant Editor - J. F. Zimmerman, C. M. van, Father Smith declared the students' examina- Business Manager - - - J. L. Daspit, C. M. tions off." Circulation Manager - - - - V. D. Smith, C. M. Associate Editors -- R. T. Brown, C. M.; E. J. Kammer, 1902. July 4-"Was ushered in by three great C. M.; W. J. Kenneally, C. M.; G. H. Guyot, C. M.; C. A. cannon shots fired by the boys at 12:00 o'clock Corcoran, C. M.; E. V. Rebenack, C. M. sharp. In the morning some went for berries." Knowledge is said to be the 1902. Aug. 5-"This night mother of love. And it might Blessed there was more noise than ever be added that she is the mother John Gabriel made in the history of the place. of interest, of zest, and of ac- erboyre In honor of the new pope every complishment. bell in the house was rung. Bar- The De Andrein Fulfilled in hi m was the dream of fully intends to act on this prin- youth renites were running from all di- ciple by letting every part of To cross the sea-to save a soul, rections to help put out the fire. our province know everything of To bring to others the light of truth, They thought we had a fire out interest aabout every other part. And diel for 'Christ was his cher- here." goal, Such was its original purpose ished 1908. Aug. 26-"The students beans in the garden. and such a purpose it now in- Mid combats fie rce he never shrank are picking tends to further in accordance Until with jo3yful breath Father Hueber is pickling with its human limitations. He from his meartyr's chalice drank them." The news of the Little Com- The ruby wir ie of death. 1910. Apr. 4-"Messrs. Cou- pany throughout the world Saint Louisle pal and McCarthy did some fine aned down from his work on the tennis court." means much to each of its mem- throne abo ve, bers. Some of this world news Now well ind,eed he knows 1920. Oct. 7-"Students go on will be incorporated in each is- That in many a son of the France of a hike to Twin Springs. The sue. Happenings around the his love commissary started about 9:30; various houses of the province The blood of a hero flows. the spring wagon and team, en- and concerning gineered by Messrs. Prindeville the confreres Saint Vincent smiled in his kindly stationed in them, usually prove way, and O'Connell, who took an un- of even more immediate inter- For wondrou:s pleased is he fortunate turn to the right, after es't and as such they are to be To see his child:ren his wishes obey various hair breadth escapes, given merited consideration. With such gl orious constancy. arrived at Twin Springs at 2:30, And, within having spent five hours on the due limits, the De With the coura,ge of youth and the Andrein will broadcast the news vigor of ze,al road. At dinner, Brother Walter it knows best-that of the Bar- Go Vincent's sons today; regaled us with army stories." rens, mother-house and nursery The woes of my rliad souls to heal of the province. In treating all Where China' s harvests sway. criticism, be given quite freely. such items it will concern itself May the spirit o It can serve only insofar as it f Perboyre lead them not with what is of interest on, understands the sort of service that is wanted. mierely to Perryville, but with May Louis an.d Vincent aid, what is of interest to all the con- May Christ, thei r 'Captain, bless those freres of the province. In addi- gone November places herself un- Afar in a nev tion to the several columns that Afarin a v Cru sade. der the powerful guidance of the received approving criticism last whole blessed company of saints. Then by a beautiful magnanimi- year, there will be articles on subjects of presum- ty it makes provision for a more extensive company able worth and practicality. To give a true provin- of saints by recommending the Poor Souls to the cial character to such articles, the De Andrein will charity of men on earth. Her saints are numerous, have as many of them as possible written by priests but particularly cherished are our Chinese martyr, who are out in the midst of community activities. Blessed John Gabriel, and our patroness of philos- ophy, Saint Catherine of Alexandria. To the hon- To check its correspondence with these ideals, or of Mary and her Miraculous Medal, it dedicates this little publication requests that comments and its last days. Kn,- l·5 The De Andrein Tn4 Th D Adrit NOTABLE VINCENTIANS A MOTHER'S RECOMPENSE Felix de Andreis. Unparalleled examples of heroism, have been Felix de Andreis was born of devout parents on given to the world by real Christian mothers. And December 13, 1778, in Piedmont, Italy. Even in not the least among those Christian heroines are early childhood love of God was his chief char- those noble souls who by their teaching and ex- acteristic. He attended the schools of Demonte ample, their prayers and sacrifices, have given and Cuneo. During school days Felix once came their sons to carry on the work of Christ's Eternal near losing his life while crossing the river Stura. Priesthood. As he was being carried along by the swift cur- Indeed, the first blessing God bestows on a man rent, he invoked St. Anthony and at the same mo- destined for the priesthood is a pious mother cap- ment saw, or thought he saw, the saint handing able of instilling in her child the lessons of Christ him a rope by which he was saved. and willing to sacrifice her son for the exalted Felix entered the Congregation of the Mission work of Christ. Human nature would have the in 1797. The young student became a learned phil- youthful aspirant remain at home, sometimes for osopher, theologian and scientist, and was well the sake of consolation and again for material in- versed in the Romance languages. Had he devoted terests. But the generous Catholic mother rises his attention to literature he would undoubtedly above these thoughts and gladly witnesses her boy have attained to great renown among men of let- heed the divine call. ters. God is not outdone in gener- The Holy Priesthood was con-. Song of Thanks osity. As the dying Redeemer ferred on him in 1801. After during his sacrifice on the cross Father de Andreis ordination 0 heart be thankful and await His did not forget his mother, so the astounded both clergy and laity time! of Rome by his learning and elo- If not a sparrow falls but His grateful priest, as he ascends the quence. All his undertakings quick eye altar to offer the sacrifice of met with success. Will note the fall, be sure life's Calvary remembers her who first silver chime In 1817 Felix de Andreis was Will reach His listening ear. Put formed his heart and mind in the chosen to lead a band of mission- all doubt by love and service of God. What im- aries to Bishop Doubourg's And lift to Him a song of thank- great consolation must the moth- mense diocese in the heart of fulness America. This band arrived in For silver dawn, blue noon, and er of a priest feel at the hour of St. Louis on October 17, 1817. gray twilight; death! For her the day of merit of Sunshine and shadow, rain that The zeal, piety and kindness comes to bless is almost passed and the night is the servant of God were never The thirsty earth and make it cool at hand. But death will be forgotten by the people who met and bright. stripped of its terrors for her. him in America. He did mighty For the mother of a priest leaves things for God's church. Just one day at a time we have to A small temporary seminary live, this vale of tears with the con- And living is a joy if we obey was formed in St. Louis and en- The wee, small voice that ever seeks soling thought that she will al- trusted to Father de Andreis. to give ways be remembered at the holy His students readily imbibed his A needed word to guide us on altar of God by her own son life's way. apostolic spirit. It was Felix de whom she has given to be or- Andreis who began the Vincen- For He who made the lightning and the sun dained to offer sacrifice for the tian missionary work that has Will perfect that His hands have living and the dead. gone on so successfully through- once begun. out the West. His life, so replete with noble missionary labors, was crowned with an edifying only when the funeral ceremonies were concluded. death in St. Louis on October 15, 1820. After his The precious remains of the venerable servant of death a sick woman was immediately cured by God are now resting beneath the historic Church touching the feet of the corpse. of the Assumption here in Perryville, Exactly over the spot where the body lay ex- and are posed a beautiful large star suddenly appeared in justly considered the greatest treasure of old St. the sky while the sun was shining. It disappeared Mary's of the Barrens. A],-7/p^.i7,^ 10 • 1 Five Arv q~i~iirjI/ur...1 10 1/ · ··· Iiv Frv The Rock Garden Symbolism in Dedication of Students Church Architecture Chapel During the recent summer months a small but imposing rc6k garden (,Continued from Page 1.) (Continued from page 1) During the mass, Fr. ,Stephen Paul was constructed by the novices. Sit- Animals, also, have figured promi- uated on the site where the well-re- Hueber delivered the address, and nently in symbolism. The fish, from membered Guardian Angel Group taking insp)iration from the occas- once stood, it can easily be seen as the days of the catacombs, has al- ion, exhorted the students and nov- one comes up the novitiate walk. Due ways represented Christ; so, too, the ices to so ground themselves in the to the fact that the builders of this lamb. The dove symbolizes the Holy habit of prayer that they would beautiful little rock garden placed Ghost. The serpent and dragon are a small statue of Saint Joseph, the never lose it. The mass coming to symbols of iSatan, while the gar- patron of the Novitiate, in a niche an end, the Te Deum was solemnly goyles and grotesque figures on the among the rocks, many have mistak- chanted to the praise of God in his enly thought the garden to be a grot- exteriors of churches symbolize the newly consecrated tabernacle. to, which, however, it is not. expulsiion of evil spirits from the Everything was now complete, ex- The first thing that catches the6 building. cept for a word of thanksgiving to eye as one approaches the garden is Numbers also have had their sig- our worthy benefactress from Fr. the ingeniously planned artificial Barr. He assured her that we were nificance in Christian symbolism and waterfall. A small stream of water truly grateful for the favor she had form a most fruitful source for sym- bubbles up at the base of the statue conferred on us, and that our thanks- and goes tumbling down the moss- bolic application. The number one giving would take the shape of pray- covered rocks to a basin below. On stands for the One God; two, for the er offered to God for her welfare. each side of this .is a beautiful two natures in Christ; three, for the Thus was another chapter written in brush." Among the tiers of the history of St. Mary's of the Bar- "burning Holy Trinity; and the theological roick that form the sides of the gar- rens. virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. den, beautiful zinnias and wild ferns Te Deum laudamus, te Dominum grow in all their splendor. Two little Four symbolizes the Evangelists, the confitemur. Sanctus, ;Sanctus, Sanc- rock castles, made of variegated Major Prophets of the Old Testa- tus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni stone, grace the entrance to the gar- ment, the cardinal virtues and the sunt caeli et terra majestatis gloriae breezes den. When next year's spring seasons of the year; five, the Sacred tuae. de- blow, gorgeous flowers of every Wounds of Christ and the Mysteries heads scription will rear their colored of the Rosary; and six, the days of does the Autumn at the Barrens in this little garden. Truly creation. Seven represents the Sac- rock garden add to the beauty of the raments and the Gifts of the Holy (,Continued from Page 1.) already attractive Novitiate grounds. Ghost; eight, the beatitudes, and in the falling leaf and we wonder nine, the choirs of angels. While how many hours will pass before News of Province ten symbolizes the Commandments; our autumn comes. But the time is eleven, discord and sin; and twelve, growing short; the declining day (iContinued from Page 2.) which is exceedingly rich in apt sym- beckons us return. Back we go to in Forty Hours' Adoration began bolism, stands for the twelve Apos- our work, convinced that the mother Saint Vincent's Church, Kansas City, tles, the tribes of Judah, the months house is rather a beautiful old on (Sunday, October 25, the feast of of the year and the signs of the mother. Christ the King. The sermons were zodiac. preached by Fathers Flannery, Thus the Church, following the The DE A,NDREIN extends con- Foulkes and Overberg. Father example of her Divine (Spouse, has dolences to Father McHugh on the Foulkes was recently stationed at adapted all things for portraying the death of his mother, and to Mr. Mich- ,St. Vincent's. truths of religion and explaining ael Casey, N. C. M., on the death of them to all men. Thus the rich sym- One of our Kansas City corre- his brother, John. bolism of the:Church has increased spondents reports the prevalence of and flourished exceedingly, embrac- hard times. Yet out of his poverty he Father Patrick Schmucker, biology ing all figures and forms of nature, is sending a prize for the coming professor of the Saint Louis Petite so that she portrays to us "sermons "iHard Times" party. Seminary, came down to the Barrens in stones, and good in everything." during the last week-end to search The parochial schools at Saint out a few botanical specimens from Stephen's in New Orleans and at World News among the luxuriant variety that the Holy Trinity in Dallas are at capacity Seven Hills and the Missouri bottoms mark for members. Part of the old (Continued from Page 2.) offer. Dallas University building is being of attention in the past the people utilized for the Holy Trinity School. had almost lost the faith. Our con- Imagine that your brethren are so freres are carrying on under great many sculptors, hammer and chisel Nothing enables a person better odds and stand in urgent need of in hand, and ,that you are placed be- to appreciate a rwork of art than try- living quarters, a chapel and com- fore them like a block of stone, in- ing to produce one himself. A well- plete furnishings. tended in the designs of God to be known scholar once remarked that fashioned into a sattue representing he never really appreciated Friitz The success of a democracy de- the Man of ISorrows, reproducing in Kreisler until he bought a violin and pends on the conscience of the indi- every feature 'Christ crucified.-Saint tried to fiddle for himself. vidual citizens. John of the Cross, Six The De Andrein -- ~~ --- , VINCENTIAN FOREIGN THE PHILOSOPHER BOOKS MISSION SOCIETY "iSon coeur est un luth suspensu; During the past month the fol- What is the Vincentian Foreign Sitot qu'on le touche il resonne." lowing books were added to our Mission Society? It is an organiza- De Beranger. steadily increasing library: It seems tion for assisting by prayers, good almost preposterous that The Psychology of 'Character- Allers. works, and alms the Vincentian mis- the student body of ISt. Mary's Sem- MKicrobe Hunters---ruif. inary should have so advanced in sionaries of the Western Province of SinistertShadows---Hadley. cultural and aesthetic directions that the United States, who are laboring The Man Who Made Gold---Belloc. in eastern Kiangsi, China, to spread the ever-generous and faithful Fr. S. (Drawings by G. K. Chesterton.) the Kingdom of Christ under the P. Hueber, recognizing these qualities Mirror of the Months--Sheila leadership of Bishop Edward T. should have presented it with a play- Kaye-Smith. Sheehan, C. M. All the funds collect- er piano; and even though we are The Venerable Don Bosco-Le- ed by this society go to help these moyne. forbidden the practice of remunera- missionaries in their work and to 'Shadows on the Rock--Cather. furnish them with the creature com- tive personal profession, yet some of The finest tribute that can be giv- forts procurable in the interior of the more able bodied are found, now en a writer is that he (or she) has China. and then, doing a bit of "peddling"!! made the characters of his (or her) Look to this column for the latest book live-has clothed them with activities of our missionaries. "Laugh and the world laughs at flesh and blood. Wiilla iCather de- you-." Father Dunker reports from Hon- serves this tribute. In her latest olulu on the three new recruits, him- Ben Franklin. book, "Shadows on the Rock," this self, Father Lloyd and Father Fred The election of new officers to the authoress transports us to Quebec of Lewis: "The trip so far has been a official chairs of the Mission Society the late seventeenth century and there-we walk with Euclide Au- huge success." involved the usual details this year clair, the apothecary; we form a trio Bulletin from Father Moore on as in all past time. But of note there with Cecile and Jacques; we pass the flood: "The big thing here now is was the "rising to the occasion" of the winter with the French colony; high water, it having risen to a point Mr. Jack Battle, the newly-elected we mingle with the joyous crowd that higher than it has been since 1901. hails the ships from France; we as- It came up just before rice harvest, secretary. It seems that the boys just sist at the bedside of the dying Count which is bad for the people, and of refused to cease giving that man a de Frontenac. This book, combined course bad for us, as, after all, they hand. "Such popularity must be pre- with a previous one, "Death Comes are our people." Undoubtedly great served." for the Archbishop," entitles Miss demands will be made on the mis- "Nescio quomodo nihil tam ab- Cather to a place among the ranking sionaries this winter by a starving surde dici potest quod non dicatur ab litterateurs of the day. people, for rice is the staff of life in aliquo philosophorum." China. Cicero. The missionaries cannot do much "King for a day." during the summer months because With the opening of the scholastic Modern verse. of the heat; they go out only on sick year the Barrens oftimes becomes News has reached our ears from calls, and that in the evening or at a veritable den of curios. It is in- the far, but golden, West that the night. Father Misner takes delight deed an educative occupation to lend Rev. 'Clarence, of late, assistant in saying that a man who has lived ear to the disputations as depicted pastor of 'St. Vincent's Church, Los in St. Louis will have no heat prob- by the first year philosophers upon Angeles, has suffered a second loss lem to solve in Poyang. (Editor's their inauguration into the garden of of voice. This is indeed disastrous, note: We are not responsible for Aristotle. There seems no terminus to say the least. What could have any statement appearing in this col- ad quem to the twists and interpreta- happened so suddenly to cause all umn.) tions they effect in the stagirites this trouble? The union of Fr. Hug Fathers T. Murphy and Bereswill "brain children." and his voice is so intimate that we are now actively engaged in the min- are unable to conceive of the one istry, starting out by hearing confes- "Nullus enim locus sine seniori- without including the other. We serious. sions. Here is how the new ones be-. bus est." trust that this trouble is not gin: A priest tells them the way Se'rvius. Christians are taught to confess, giv- After rallying from a temporary "Numeri essentiae rerum sunt." ing them the words, in Chinese style, indisposition, Rev. Peter Vincent Pythagoras. of the First 'Commandment, the ,Sec- Byrne, C. M., our senior confrere, A word must needs be said about ond, etc. They usually pick out some made his secondary debut into the our neighbors, the novices, across the school girls (not boys, as the girls dining room. It rejoiced our hearts way. They have increased well nigh are supposed to know the catechism to know that nothing serious afflicted unto our own proportions; so much better) who can speak clearly. In our beloved friend and we extend to so that more room had to be manu- that way it is easy for the new him our sincerest wishes for many factured. priests. happy days. Great credit is due the present P. S. What do you do with those class of novices for the many im- odd pennies, nickels and dimes helping the missionaries and at the provements that they have effected which clutter up your pockets? Why same time very effective. Our ad- on the grounds. We are glad to see not send us your name and address dress is: Vincentian Foreign Mis- them trying to help us students keep for a Mite Box to keep them in? You sion Society, St. Mary's Seminary, the grounds in condition. We en- will find this a painless method of Perryville, Missouri. courage them in their efforts. C 'I \YA aY/, iIEAnittr in Volume 2 Perryville, Missouri, December, 1931. Number 3 • . .. THE ASSOCIATION OF THE THE COMMUNITY CEMETERY MIRACULOUS MEDAL A small square plot bordered by aged trees, its The aim of the Association of the Miraculous centerpiece a large brownstone cross, and several Medal, namely, to glorify the name of Mary, under myrtle-covered mounds marked with identical the title of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, is white crosses-that, in a glance, is a picture well known to our readers. But another angle con- of our nected with the Association is not so familiar to little community cemetery, hidden away so quiet all. That angle concerns the gigantic proportions and peaceful in a snug corner of the Novitiate this work has attained within the last decade. grounds. Now, to the casual visitor there is noth- Perhaps, in no better manner can the successful ing at all strange or unusual about the little grave- issue of this work be gauged than by the removal yard. of the Medal Office from its former cramped quar- But to the son of Saint Vincent it means a great ters to the modern new office building, constructed deal. It is a sort of outdoor library where he may recently by the Association to facilitate the broad- receive inspiration and encouragement by reading casting of devotion to the Medal to more parts of there the records of the past-records indeed that the world. The phrase, "of the world," is used have long since been unrolled with joy in the great designedly, for the promoters and members are throne room of Heaven. The Latin inscriptions on taken not only from these United States, but also the small white crosses tell little. But the years from Canada, South America, the British Isles, they encompass tell much. They tell of toil and South Africa, India, the Hawaiian Islands and labor, of souls saved, of difficulties conquered. It other places. is now almost a century since the first corpse was Another even more glorious evidence that many laid to sleep beneath the green velvet carpet in the have come to know the Miracu- tiny cemetery. lous Medal through the work of There is something strangely the Association is the beautiful Christmas Week new shrine dedicated in 1930, to sweet about the little plot. One never feels Our Lady of the Miraculous Med- "The Bells of St. Mary's, the slightest dislike al. Funds, collected by the Asso- Ah/,hear they are calling - or aversion for entering as is ciation through Promoters, "Oh, yes, and there is the Christ- sometimes experienced even in Members, and others made pos- mas week program to be looked the vicinity of cemeteries. In sible this artistic monument of after," remarked the Doyen in Sep- fact, one likes to go there. In the love. This shrine has very fit- tember. Publishing houses responded summer the novices gather at tingly become a part of the glori- with long lists of three-act plays capable of being staged in any girls' the end of recreation to pray for ous tradition of the Church of academy, 'Fanny's Sister," a melo- those who are resting there. the Assumption. drama in three acts. Requires one The excess funds of the As- male and seven females," etc. The There is no aversion to sitting, sociation are devoted to the ed- Doyen grew frantic. The twice daily on a warm day, beneath the mail poured in new prospects. Event- ucation of the Seminarians at shade of the giant trees that the Barrens. Moreover, five hun- ually the Doyen emerged from a huge pile of books holding in his hand stretch their protecting arms dred dollars are donated annual- two volumes carefully selected. over the white crosses, or in the Jy for the upkeep of the Scholas- These two he dispensed to the first tic Library. And for the past two students who suggested that dark winter evenings to stop and two years Father Joseph Finney, the Doyen remove his furniture out say a prayer when passing be- the Director of the Association, of his new library. The Doyen gave orders that the plays be rewritten to cause there in truth the Vincen- enabled the Scholastics to swell meet all requirements of scholastic tian feels that he is among his the student fund by donating thought and attire. The results were confreres, as indeed he is. And surplus Christmas stock. These eminently -successful, and prepara- known material blessings and tions for staging the two plays are so very naturally it happens that countless spiritual treasures well under way. the little cemetery plays a very have been obtained by the tire- The Minstrel, each year termed important and intimate part in "different," again lays claim to the less work of the Association. (Continued on Page 4.) the lives of us all. Two The De Andrein Two The Dc Aidrein World News News of the Province Perryville News At Vichy, France, a rest house for The faculty and students of De On Armistice eve the postponed Hallowe'en entertainment was exe- invalid Paul are sponsoring a banquet at the missioners, due to the zeal cuted in the old students' hall for and .initiative of one of our French Belden-iStratford Hotel, December eighth, for Father McHugh, who has benefit of "Hard Times" customers. confreres, Father P. Wattke, has re- recently completed twenty-five years Boughs of varicolored autumn leaves, cently been dedicated by the Bishop as a priest and as a professor at De Jack-o'-lanterns, and a stray witch or" of Moulins. This house will be open Paul. Plans are in the hands of so breathed the atmosphere of Hal- lowe'en; and the old Broadway gas to any missioner, without distinction Father-T. C. Powers and Mr. Clarke and Mr. Becker. street lamp became the rallying post of nationality or institute. for the ragged patrons. Playlets, The De Paul football team has novelty features, refreshments, and News has just been received that been encouraged by the manifest songs made up the order of the eve- one of our Chinese confreres, Father support of Father Blechle, faculty di- ning. Mr. Wangler came away with Joseph Chow, has been recently con- rector of athletics, and Father Corcor- the costume prize. Thanks to the of- secrated as Vicar-Apostolic of Pao- an, and Father Levan. The two for- ficers of the Mission Unit-Mr. Tom ting-fu, thus becoming the first native mer confreres have accompanied the Smith, president; Mr. Mullen, vice- head of the oldest Christian center team to Arizona and San Francisco president, and Mr. Battle, secretary in Northern China. Until March of for games during the latter part of -and their aides-de-camp, very this year the Vicariate of Paoting-fu November. Father Levan with other creditable entertainment was furnish- was under the administration of our priests of the Barrens saw a De Paul ed. French confreres; at that time it was victory over Illinois Wesleyan and confided to the care of the native another victory at Louisville. November 4th, the football squad clergy, and Bishop Chow, by his re- of thirty boys from the Cape stopped cent nomination and consecration, Temporary chaplains are being off at the Seminary before and after becomes its first native Vicar Apos- supplied from St. Stephen's Church, their game with Saint Vincent's tolic. This is the first time in China New Orleans, for the National Le- High School of Perryville. Father that foreign missionaries have turned prosarium at Carrville, Louisiana, Kuchler and Father Paul O'Malley over to the native clergy an entire which is under the care of the had put the squad so well through vicariate with all its institutions. Daughters of Charity. The former its piaces that it took a well-fought Heretofore only sections of vicariates chaplain, by reason of age and fail- game-13 to 6. The students and enjoyed their few were assigned to native priests, the ing health, can no longer handle the novices thoroughly with the boys and their fac- missionaries remaining at the center work. hours of the vicariate. ,Since August Father Thorpe has ulty, been confined at Hotel Dieu for heart November 20th, the first year class On the third of October, the feast trouble. of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, of novices reached the twenty-seven Patroness of the Missions, Mgr. De- During the week of December 10th mark with the reception of Mr. Che- from Chicago and febvre, Vicar Apostolic of Ningpo, a to 17th, a mission by Father Coupal lowa, who comes De Paul. He is the sixth received French confrere, ordained to the is planned for St. Vincent's Church, from the Cape. priesthood five Chinese students of Brewer, Missouri, subsidiary church since the class the MajoroSeminary of St. Paul of of the Seminary parish. Ningpo. Four of the newly-ordained Proximity* of Perryville to Saint priests belong to the Vicariate of At Denver, Father O'Sullivan is Louis and perhaps some stories told Ningpo and one to that of Taichow. adapting himself to a multiform of Perryville brought a number of On the same day Mgr. Faveau, Vicar position as professor of Greek, Latin, Daughters of Charity here early in Apostolic of Hangchow, also a French Cannon Law, Singing and Sacred Elo- November: Sister Theresa, sister confrere, raised to the priesthood quence and as prefect in the college. servant at Santa Barbara; Sister Vin- another 'Chinese student of the Sem- cent, sister servant at Price, Utah; inary of St. Paul of Ningpo. This Sister Genevieve, sister servant at the seminary, conducted by our confreres, On the evening of November Mexican school in Dallas; Sister Cath- has given ecclesiastical training not twenty-fifth, the traditional program erine, who has charge of all the only to the clerics of the Mission of was presented in honor of our patron- Daughters in Porto Rico; and Sis- Ningpo, but also to those of Hang- ess of philosophy, Saint Catherine of ter Laurentia Feltz. chow and Taichow. Since May, Alexandria. In the opening address, 1927, when the students of the Mr. Brosnan paid tribute to the vir- The students here, all due permis- three Vicariates were reunited, the tue of the saint. Two philosophical sion being had, are raising funds for Seminary of St. Paul has seen dissertations by Mr. Battle and Mr'. a talkie outfit, with the hope of hav- thirty-two priests ordained by the Fox were both timely and entertain- ing it for Christmas week. three Vicars Apostolic, of which ing. Mr. Toribbio, breaking away fifteen were for the Vicariate from his syllogisms with difficulty, chosen musical sele.ctions, presented of Ningpo, nine for that of Hang- entertained with unique quips and under Father Saracini's direction. chow, and eight for that of Taichow. puns. By way of closirig, Father Both IMr. Clark's solo and Mr. Gra- The Vicariates of Ningpo and Hang- Lilly enlarged upon the freedom ham's received deserved applause. chow are under the administration which 'Catholic philosophy enjoys of our French confreres, while the within the limits of defined doctrine. The DE ANiDRlEIN wishes to thanlk Vicariate of Taichow is administered The elevated tone of the, entertain- the confreres, who sent in corrections* by the native clergy. meit iwas :further sustained by well- for our mrailing list. December, 1931 Three load was too much for the mules to pull and several ~~P ~E Anbrrcin remained home while the others went to Brewer." Aug. 12, 1912: "The first Sisters of Charity Let us love God, but let it be at the expense of our arms B. V. M. to set foot in Perry County, came here last 'and in the sweat of our brow. - St. Vincent de Paul week as the guests of Mr. Walter Quinn." Published monthly by the Stephen Vincent Ryan Unit of Aug. 20, 1912: "Students enjoyed a delightful the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade. ride to Burnt Hill. Through a kind donation from Subscription: 15c per copy; $1.00 per year (nine issues). Father Alt, we were enabled to secure two teams Editor ------J. W. Richardson, C. M. and busses from town." Assistant Editor J. F. Zimmerman, C. M Nov. 8, 1914: "Mr. Sheehan made candy for the Business Manager - - - J. L. Daspit, C. M. Circulation Manager - - - V. D. Smith, C. M. students today." ASSOCIATI E EDITORS Jan. 25, 1917: "Students granted permission to J. M. Hogan, C. M. W. H. Hopp, C. M. go to priests' recreation hall. R. T. Brown, C. M. G. H. Guyot, C. M. Time spent playing E. J. Kammer, C. M. W. J. Kenneally, C. M. billiards and listening to graphaphone." Jan. 28, 1917: "The past few Sundays Mr. Through the weeks of Advent the clear, sweet O'Dea has provided us with popcorn." strains of the coming "Adeste Fideles" that will Feb. 26, 1917: "Received a very interesting let- rouse the Barrens early Christmas morning, are ter last night. The first from the facile pen of the subdued but not unthought-of. Advent draws Rev. Mr. Lewis, Who is in Mullanphy Hospital in St. Louis." meaning for us from the depths of mystery in Our Lord's Birth. This intimate relationship between NOTABLE VINCENTIANS feast and preparation is pointedly symbolized in the little custom among children who put one straw Right Reverend Stephen Vincent Ryan. in the manger for each good work or mortifica- Stephen Vincent Ryan was born on January 1, tion done during Advent. May the Babe Jesus 1825, at Almonte, Ontario. After making his pre- find a soft resting place on the coming Christmas. paratory studies in St. Charles College in Phila- delphia, he entered St. Mary's of the Barrens and One may seriously speculate how little material completed his studies for the priesthood, and Was ordained in St. Louis in the year 1849. His first cause for happiness there will be in many Ameri- mission was teaching in the seminary at Perry- can homes this Christmas. The tribe of the poor, ville and parish work in Perry County. the unfortunate, and the jobless now comprises an In 1855 he was made President of St. Vincent's astounding number. They have a friend, however, College in Cape Girardeau and faithfully fulfilled who even now must be planning practical relief his duties there until he was appointed Visitor of measures. Saint Vincent de Paul from heaven is the Vincentians in the United States. Under his certainly calculating the needs of his poor "Mas- able guidance the Congregation labored most dili- ters" on earth; and on the feast of his .patronage, gently and successfully for the glory of God. December twentieth, the poor and the friends of In 1868 he was appointed Bishop of Buffalo, the poor can invoke him as Universal Patron of which position he occupied with great distinction of Charity-and consequently, Patron of the Un- until his death in 1897. A renowned preacher and employed. learned theologian, Bishop Ryan was frequently called upon to take charge of most important af- fairs. Among the most notable works accomplish- LOO VE ed during his episcopate, we will mention the founding of the College of St. Canisius in the epis- copal city; the House of the Catholic Association of Young.Men; the establishment of the periodical paper, "The Buffalo Catholic Union and Times," whi'ch records the Catholic interest of the diocese. July 13, 1904: "Rev. J. McWilliams and Rev. J. During his regime miany churches and schools W. Blechle depart for St. Louis to enjoy the World's were built and Catholic education made rapid Fair." strides. The presence of Cardinal Gibbons and so July 20, 1904: "Picnic. Mr. O'Brien, one of to- many other prelates at his funeral speak in elo- day's cooks, got sick after dinner from his own quent terms of the great esteem manifested by all cooking. ' for the pious, learned and truly Apostolic Prelate, Jan. 15, 1905: "Students go sleighing; The SStephen Vincent Ryan. Four ..The De Andrein VINCENTIAN FOREIGN THE PHILOSOPHER BOOKS MISSION SOCIETY "OF that the earth which kept the The Monstrous Regiment, world in awe, Christopher Hollis Should patch a wall to expell the Minor Prophets ...... -..-Pusey winter's flaw." The Fine Gold of Newman--...... -Reilly Shakespeare. Judgment on Birth Control, It might interest you to know that Raoul de Guchteneere Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, some centuries ago Shakespeare enun- ciated this principle in which the Hilaire Belloc The Case present-day bio-chemists take such Against Birth Control, E. R. Moore pride: the constituents of the human The Spiritual Life--..--..--....Tanquerey body after death resolve themselves Jacques Benigne into the earth from whence they Bossuet, sprung. From thence we know not E. K. Sanders The Autobiography into what they are likely to be con- of Knute K. Rockne. certed, perchance the clothing we wear or the food we eat. Who knows? We are indebted to Father J. Lilly for his donation of a Polyglot Bible "Quand un bon vin meuble mon es- to library. Its worth needs no com- tomac mentary. Je suis plus savant que Balzac-. -French Vaudeville. The Doctrine of the Mystical Body The night of the annual masque- of Christ, by Abbe Anger; translated rade, this year metamorphosed by from the French by Rev. John J. force of circumstances into a 'hard Burke, C. S. P., S. T. D. Net $4.50. times" party, was a huge success Publishers: Benziger Brothers, viewed from any standpoint that you New York. choose to take. Games of all de- The author in this work has com- scriptions were indulged in; jokes piled a synthesis of the doctrine of were told and some retold. The na- the Mystical Body of Christ, as con- ture of the party portrayed in a tained in the several Epistles of St. The street between the residence and striking manner the ingenuity of Paul dealing with this truth, and as the Church at Poyang during the those who sponsored the fete; e'en supplemented by the teachings of the recent flood. though hampered by the depression Fathers and of St. Thomas. It is The safe arrival of Bishop Sheehan they staged a gala performance. from the last-named that the Abbe is reported by the missionaries. He draws his principles. received a royal welcome from the ---- all people went In the first part the author treats Chinese, particularly from the or- Upon their ten toes in wonderment." of Christ as Head of the Church and phans. Firecrackers played a prom- -Satires. its members; of the perfections of inent part in the reception. There are few, if any, that do not Christ, of His earthly life and of The flood waters have receded, look forward to Christmas week as justification by grace. In the sec- but they have left desolation in their one of the most important periods in ond part, he treats of the Mystical wake. As Father Misner puts it: the year. At what time are we wont Body in its relation to the Sacra- "The effects of the flood, however, to have more enjoyable recreation ments; in the third part, of the will be with us for a long time to permeated with a spirit that has long Church and the Hierarchy, with come, in the shape of sickness, and since been among us? Let us co- special emphasis on the Holy Sacri- death, and lack of food." operate one with the other to make fice of the Mass, the Divine Office Last year's recruits, Fathers T. everyone spend a happy Yuletide at and the liturgical year, and Mary*as Murphy and Bereswill, were to re- the Barrens this year. Our contribu- the Mother of the Mystical Body; and ceive their first appointments after tions, although they seem small and the fourth part, of the Mystical to con- the retreat at Poyang, which takes perhaps unrecognized, tend Body in Heaven, or the Resurrection could place in November. We presume stitute a unified whole which of the Body and the Communion of that they are now at their stations, never exist without that cooperative Saints. but have not yet heard where these spirit. The work is not intended to be stations are. exhaustive; in his introduction the Father Dunker writes on a post. Christmas Week author states that his book "is after card dated Oct.- 29th: "It's been a all but an outline." great trip. . .. Tomorrow morning (Continued from Page 1.) we'll be in Shanghai." title and with good reason. A Min- Christmas season. Work for the The functions of the missionaries strel, properly so called and at the Christ Child will prevent many desir- in China are various. One of them same time "different," will contribute ous of enjoying Christmas at the returning from a sick call thus re- its portion to the joys of Christmas Barrens. But, will not the same ported: "I gave her Holy Commun- Week. Christ Child make possible for some ion, Extreme Unction, the last bless- Then there is the hoped-for re- a visit to the home of their youthful ing, medicine, and a dollar." turn to the Barrens of confreres. Our community life where He inspired Don't forget to put the missionar- Mother, the Barrens, offers a special them to be announcers of the good ies on your Christmas gift list. welcome to her children duringkthe tidings of great joy? E o~o retn · _ Volume 2 Perryville, Missouri, January, 1932. Number 4 THE SEMINARY FARM FRIENDLY VOICES "Those boys down at St. Mary's Seminary sure- "The December number of "The De Andrein" is ly know how to raise hogs", said the radio an- at hand, together with note of inquiry. Do I want nouncer of station KWK, last September fifth, in my subscription continued? Certainly! ! You farm, which praise of hogs raised on the Seminary might better have asked me if I wish to see the brought the extreme top of the market price. world go around. How are we in the distant fields These were some of the 280 raised during the past year. of Texas to know that the wheels of the Little Not the least important of the stock is the herd Company are still turning? How are we to know of 19 Holstein milk cows, which supplies the tables that the spirit of De Andreis and Rosati and with pure, fresh milk three times a day. This Timon still lives and that the Little Company is herd recently placed first in a milk production still functioning as of old ? In a word, how are we contest conducted by the "Holstein Dairyman". to know what transpires at Perryville, Cape Girar- Besides this there is a large herd of steers, fifty deau, of which have been killed for our use during the De Paul, Denver, and far-off China? past year. "Comrmunity news would be a scarce article in But stock raising is not the only thing of the these parts were it not for the De Andrein. I farm worth recording. Despite the fact that this liked the November number very much and was be- was the second consecutive year of drought-no ginning to boost for the appreciable amount of rain falling from the first new management, but the part of May to August 17-the crops were above December number shows that the first fervor has the average. Thus 1800 bushels of wheat, 1100 died out somewhat;" (Editor's note: We suppose bushels of oats, and 10C bushels of rye were that you refer to the size of the paper, Father, for threshed; the wheat averaging 30 bushels per acre. we have tried to maintain the same type of mat- Approximately 3200 bushels of corn were pro- ter. The diminution in size comes from financial duced, and more than enough hay was put up to last for the year. poverty-not literary poverty; for we always have Besides this the truck garden supplied enough much more to print than we can afford to potatoes to last for the year. include.) "however, I am not Fresh tomatoes, peas, carrots, inclined to be critical, and can cabbage, lettuce, etc. were had in ME MORIES truthfully say that I have en- season, from early spring till joyed the De Andrein very frost, and besides, hundreds of Gone the old year, and faded into gallons of vegetables were past; much."-Father Henry Moore, canned.canned. Gonepast; the montths upon the fleeting St. Vincent's Sanitarium, Sher- The orchard and vineyard both wings of ti me; man, Texas, shared in the universal plen- Gone are the dEays, the sorrowful and ty. The vineyard produced its glad "What a whale of a difference usual quota of grapes, while the Mem'ries only have they left behind. a little paper like the "De An- orchard was laden heavier than drein" makes to a fellow out ever, and, as a result, approxi- bitter and the sweet, Mem'ries of the here in the Westland."-Father mately 1100 bushels of apples Seasoned by the mellow hand of time, are buried for winter use, to say Purged of wh at the tender heart Michael Burke, Los Angeles Col- nothing of the hundreds of gal- doth heat, lege. lons canned, cooked, eaten, made That e'en the b)itter gladdens musing into vinegar, and sold. mind. "It is very kind of you, indeed, These few facts should make to count on my interest in the it clear that the farm is not a Ah, blessed is 4God's gift of memory, journalistic work of the students liability. Of course it is not a The storeroom of the treasures of the at Perryville. The greater the gold mine by any means, but by past, success of the De Andrein, the management and super- Magic wand reecalling from eternity capable happier I shall be."-Father Cor- vision it holds its own with any What else wou Id soon as happening in Perry County. be lost. coran, DePaul University. Two The De Andrein Two The De Andrein Province News Kernaghan brought in only one duck, World News tho he professes to have had a Sunday, December 20, was the great time hunting. This one-duck There are only four confreres sta- sacerdotal silver jubilee of Father record should be balanced with the tioned at the Vincentian Procure in Durbin, Father Rootes, Father record of several obnoxious dogs that Shanghai, China, and these are all he and Brother Walter killed Schorsch, and Father Donovan. On at the men who have spent twenty years or Barrens around 1923 to save our the Tuesday before the Kenrick facul- more on the missions. This is but a ty and students had honored Father sheep. small part, however, of the number Donovan; the faculty and students Recently Father Dowd conducted a of confreres one may see there at any of St. Louis Preparatory, Father a nurses' retreat at Hotel Dieu, New time. Father Murphy of Poyang has Rootes on the Friday before. On Sun- Orleans; and Father Nuss, a similar likened it to headquarters behind the day, the anniversary day, Father retreat at Charity Hospital. firing line, where men are reporting in Durbin celebrated Solemn Mass at St. Father Weldon, Father Peter Fin- and checking out at all times. Vincent's Church with the two other ney, Father Hurley, and Father During these times when priests St. Louisian jubilarians as deacon and Thorpe have been kept at Hotel Dieu must be exceedingly cautious in going subdeacon. It is regrettable that by ill health. Father McCabe has been about on missions, the Sisters of Father Schorsch could not be there at St. Stephen's for a month or so to Charity in their orphanages are carry- to take part. condition himself for further work ing on the work without hindrance about the province. and with ever-growing success. Such The National Leprosarium at Car- ville, Louisiana, referred to in the School closed at Los Angeles Col- December DE ANDREIN, is the bene- lege on Friday, December 11, and an- Father Barr spent practically the ficiary of a $30.000 appropriation, nual retreat for the priests com- whole of Christmas week here. For a made by the Extension Society for a menced Saturday evening. few days Fathers Monaghan, Blechle, suitable chapel to replace the present Father Michael Burke of the Col- Fischer, Feltz, Sheldon, Foley and small, frame chapel. lege faculty began his first year after Coupal also helped increase the merri- Father Cronin stayed a day at the ordination with four Latin classes and ment of the holidays. Fathers T. C. Leprosarium during his recent ten- one History. He is filling the post Powers and Father Frommell spent day visitation of the houses of the well. Besides five classies, Father part of New Year's Eve here; Father Daughters of Charity in Louisiana. Frederick Martinez is engaged in Kuchler and Father W. X. Vidal came Father Berkowski and Father Ker- coaching the boys' basketball team, just for the minstrel, Fathers Mc- naghan have been serving there alter- which he directed to a victory in the Williams, Coyne, and G. O'Malley for nately as chaplains. Carville is evi- first game of the season. the banquet. It is needless to comment dently a duckless country, for Father (Continued on Page 4.) on the good spirit of such visitors. Christmar Week Review actors know their cues and what is ul- thing. The action dragged a bit dur- timately more important, they act. ing the first part, threatening once or There were out The cast was well chosen, the scenery twice to halt completely. But Mr. three offerings excellent. Special mention should be Bill Hopp and Mr. Amby Durbin ral- this week, contra- given, we think, to Mr. Singleton, a lied around in time to save matters, ry to the time Bertie Wooster sort of Englisher, and and shortly the second part proved honored custom to Mr. Kenneally playing a dual role better things in store. Some of the of three one-act of father and son and acting like two jokes received rather rough treatment plays a night different characaers. And likewise considering their age, but on the whole with home spun Mr. Zimmerman as Lady Elliot, Mr. were above par, since minstrel jokes vod-vil in be- Daspit as the colored servant and Mr. are by their nature somewhat feeble. tween. Compared with the generality Miget as the old retainer deserve The quartette, Messrs. 'Cahill, Kam- of past efforts the plays this year praise. The rest, Messrs. Mullen, Tom mer, dClark and Graham, offered sever- might be called productions. Smith and Yallaly, formed a good sup- al pleasing numbers as a unit and in- Mystery and farce are usually well porting cast. Credit is due Mr. Yallaly, dividually, especially "That's Why received and consequently the first manager, and Mr. Phoenix, director. Darkies Were Born" and "Sweet and play this year was "The Whispering Lovely". The show ended with a par- ade of the Grand Knights of the An- Gallery," a pleasant little mystery in Next is the minstrel, always the big cient Order of I Will Arise, in full re- three acts, not too grotesque and with show of the year. The first and most galia manuevering hither and yon for a plauisble solution. The play was de- lasting impression was the stage a curtain of the best effect. To cidedly English from start to finish. setting. Each year men sit up nights mention all that did well would take The scene is laid on the ancestral thinking up novel ideas, new stage too much space; suffice it to say that acres of the Condell Family on the devices for the minstrel. Surpassing all did creditably. Messrs. Kenneally coasts of Cornwall. Early in the first last year's stage property seemed a and Kammer who promoted the show act when the guests are assembled in tough proposition but they did it. And receive our congratulations. the drawing room, the lights are sud- also the costumes were the most ela- denly extinguished and the host is borate thus far. This together with Before we draw the curtains for murdered. Immediately Mr. Hogan several tuneful melodies helped make another year let us say that all those as Bell the Scotland Yardsman insti- the minstrel a success. However, one that sat in the pit really appreciated tutes an investigation in which things thing might be objected to, the radio the efforts of those that helped make happen. The action moves fast, the gag seemed like too much of a good the vacation nmore enjoyable. January, 1932 Three Janar, 93 Tre seminary at Bardstown, Kentucky, he was sent ^Vn*reUe to do missionary work in St. Louis. From here he ®^le went to Perryville in charge of the first Vincentian Let us love God, but let it be at the expense of our arms expedition to Perry County. He was the first and in the sweat of our brows. -St. Vincent de Paul president of the seminary and first pastor of the Published monthly by the Stephen Vincent Ryan Unit of church of the Barrens. The log house occupied by the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade. Father Rosati at the Barrens is still standing Subscription: 15c. per copy, $1.00 per year (nine issues). and speaks in eloquent terms of the self-sacrifice and zeal of the pioneers of old St. Mary's. Editor ------J. W. Richardson, C. M. Father Rosati was consecrated bishop at Don- Assistant Editor - - - - - J. F. Zimmerman, C. M. aldsonville, La., March 25, 1824, as coadjutor to Business Manager ------J. L. Daspit, C. M. New Orleans. Three years later he was made Circulation Manager ------V. D. Smith, C. M. first bishop of St. Louis. While in this office many ASSOCIATE EDITORS churches were built, numerous religious or- R. T. Brown, C. M. E. V. Rebenack, C. M. ders introduced, schools established and the people W. J. Dunker, C. M. G. H. Guyot, C. M. kept well instructed. A home for orphans, an in- E. J. Kammer, C. M. J. J. Battle, C. M. stitution for deaf mutes, Mullanphy Hospital and a stately cathedral were made possible by his zeal. A new year is here. There is a distinct pleasure in putting 1932 at the head of letters and lessons. In 1841 the Pope charged him with an important mission This change of routine has a way of stimulating to Haiti. Having brought a successful re- port to Rome, he died there individuals and organizations with new animus. September 25, 1843, honored by all for his virtues and Plans for the next twelve months are being learning and the ability displayed laid out by confreres from St. Louis to in the administration of his diocese. Los Angeles, from Chicago to Long Beach, and a successful issue by the Divine aid is forecast. Into the midst of these confreres the DE ANDREIN has found a way-heartily devoted to whatever LOO 0VGIER can further the work of the community, anxious to be in touch with that work, and broadcasting far and near news of the work. In spite of its faults, may God grant it some success. God called Father Francis Monaghan by a sud- den death at St. Vincent's Parish House, St. Louis, Jan. 7, 1913: "As an evidence of our deep re- shortly before Christmas. Had he lived till Christ- spect and gratitude toward our Reverend Director, mas, he could have celebrated his fortieth anni- Doctor Barr, all the students assembled in the versary in the community. With Father Ryan, Theology Hall shortly before class this morning, who died during the summer-God rest His soul-, and when the Director arrived presented him with Father Monaghan had spent his novitiate, made a gift of $20 as a birthday remembrance, this be- his vows, and received minor orders. These two ing his natal day. With the money we asked that loyal confreres make an excellent illustration of he purchase a new set of breviaries and a pipe, so the two phases of community work-one with the that whether he be hymning God's praises or be clergy, the other with the faithful. While Father wrapped in his studies the threnody of the good Ryan was teaching in our seminaries, chiefly at will of the students of 1913 may be ever throbbing Kenrick, Father Monaghan was engaged in the a peaceful, rhythmic, stimulating cadence until divers duties of parishes: in Chicago, in Fort Worth, in birthdays come for him no more." This respect St. Louis. Thus has God always utilized for their former director has not diminished with the sons of St. Vincent for the various functions the lapse of years and changes of position. of His Militant Church. July 30, 1913: "Word was received today that Mr. Sheehan won the Tea Set raffled at the Brewer Picnic." A fitting prize for one destined to labor NOTABLE VINCENTIANS in the Orient. Right Reverend Joseph Rosati, C. M., D. D. Feb. 22, 1919: "Washington's Birthday Pro- gram at 8:00 P. M. Mr. Kernaghan's Oration Joseph Rosati was born at Sora, in the Kingdom exceedingly good." The same may now be said of Naples, Italy, January 12, 1789. Having com- of Father Kernaghan's sermons. pleted his Novitiate and Scholasticate at Rome, he was ordained there February 10, 1811. His first June 27, 1919: "The new Grand Stand at the mission was to assist Father De Andreis in teach- Baseball field was completed today." It has char- ing and giving missions. His great success caused tecristics of the One Horse Shay. Father De Andreis to choose him as an associate Sept. 27, 1923: "The old custom of having can- for the American Missions. dy on feast days was revived." The time is at Father Rosati arrived in America in 1816. After hand for another revival. spending some time as rector and professor of the (Continued on Page 4.) Four The De Andrein Four Te De ndrei VINCENTIAN FOREIGN TOPICS IN BRIEF BOOKS MISSION SOCIETY The beautiful statue of our Blessed Charles of Europe, Mother in the main corridor of the D. B. Wyndham Lewis Highlights of Father Dunker's let- new building needs a suitable pedestal. ter describing the Liturgical Law ______-Augustine trip of the three We would like to make it a Christmas new recruits to the Chinese The Origin and Growth of Religion, missions- present for Our Lady. Please direct At 4 p. m., Friday, Oct. Schmidt 9th, the Presi- contributions to the Reverend Mr. dent Grant slowly moved from the Preston Murphy. The Love of God St. Francis de Sales pier and they were off ... Passengers: Extreme Unction_- __-____Kilker Having returned from a Jesuit priest and lay brother, three Rome last Self-Discipline and Holiness, month, Father McIntyre is expected Protestant missionaries, the Jew who Weld-Blundell was going to China because one Amer- at Perryville after the holidays. The Mystical Knowledge of God, ican dollar was worth five over there, The basketball season has been in- Louismet the rest mostly army and navy offi- augurated at the Barrens. Despite cers with their families going to their Moral Values and The Moral Life, set-backs from practices of Christmas various posts . . . A parting tribute Gilson music and entertainments, games have from one of the officers: "You men L'Evangile de Pierre ----- Vaganay been played somewhat regularly with- were certainly real fellows on this out regular teams. The students M. Coste, C. M., who accomplished trip, you're a credit to the garb you owe considerable appreciation to Mr. a monumental task in editing the Let- wear" . . . At Honolulu a squadron of Moynihan for the sixteen basketball ters and Conferences of St Vincent, twenty planes flew out to meet the trunks and jerseys that he procured. is now preparing a new work: Le ship to greet their new major general, (The small gym with its low ceiling Grand Saint du Grand Siecle: M. Vin- who was asleep in his cabin during allows only four men to a team.) The cent. This work will be published in the whole demonstration . .. A swim Reverend Mr. Phoenix has been a per- three volumes and will be issued at one of the beaches in Honolulu ... severing promoter of the game. within a year. The burial at sea of a Filipino baby . At Yokohama on Oct. 25th and Ping-pong had begun to exert its Father J. Finney, Director of the from there to Tokyo by taxi. .. fascination over the students during Association of the Miraculous Medal, Catching the train for Kobe just as it recreation hours. Mr. Zoeller is an has added to our collection of books was pulling out of the station . .. On adept at the Tilden smash; Mr. Sin- on Art by donating three volumes shipboard once more at Kobe after a gleton consistently uses the steady on The Sacred Scriptures in Art. delightful trip through Japan ... In lob; and Mr. Paour varies his stroke Shanghai on Oct. 30th where Father with great success. Michael Williams, in a recent issue Misner and other confreres from the of The Commonweal, called D. B. Procure were on hand to greet the Wyndham Lewis a disciple of Hilaire Belloc. Lewis' latest book, "Charles new missionaries . . . Twelve days in PROVINCE NEWS Shanghai at the Procure where nine of Europe" bears out this statement; pationalities were represented . . . A (Continued from page 2.) in the Preface the author lays down banquet at the home of Lo Po Hong, this 'Bellocian' principle: History is From Rome Father Teng writes the "St. Vincent of Shanghai", in com- not merely a repetition of human ac- that he has changed the direction of pany with seventeen other missionar- tions but an interpretation of them in his studies from Theology to Canon ies. A twenty course meal was the light of human experience and Law. He remarks in favorable lan- served ... Attended the decoration of philosophy. the French guage his iempression of the spirit at a Daughter of Charity by Wyndham Lewis is one of the finest service to the Barrens. government for 25 years' selective writers of the day; he is par- soldiers and sailors in the hospital .. . ticularly adept in the art of character in shop- The rest of the time spent Father T. C. Powers acted as chair- analysis and description, as the chap- a ping . . . On Nov. 10th boarded man of the DePaul All University ters on Charles V, Henry VIII, and was supposed Yangtze steamer which Charity Drive launched just before Francois I so strikingly manifest. to leave at 1 a. m. and left at 1 p. m. . . Christmas. The success in actual "Charles of Europe" should rank as Four days later in Kiukiang where figures has not yet been received. one of the best books of 1931. our confreres have three houses, two Father McHugh represented De churches and a secular seminary with Paul at the annual meeting of the thirty-five theologians . . . Nov. 16th American Association for the Ad- LOOKING OVER vancement of Science held on Decem- started on the final lap, arriving at THE ANNALS ber 28. For some time, he has been Poyang at five the next afternoon . .. (Continued from page 3.) a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical All the confreres there on hand to Society. Jan. 25, 1924: "A large yellow extend a welcome, including Bishop aeroplane circled the seminary and The turken is a promising biologi- landed in the field back Sheehan . . . "The Bishop, what a of the 1Vund cal hybrid produced thru the experi- this afternoon. A friend of Brother man! He leads the crowd in song, ments of Father Ordonez by crossing Walter's was the owner." The pilot in sports, in prayer; an inspiration to an Australian white turkey and a was no other than the renowned Colo- all." Rhode Island red hen. nel Charles Lindbergh. 0 jtn Volume 2 Perryville, Missouri, February, 1932. Number 5 KANSAS CITY PREP THE LIBRARY Dear Editor: Back in the early fall of 1922 when the plans for Answering your request for a few lines about St. a new library were first described, the vision of an John's Seminary in Kansas City I prefer the infor- mality of a letter. Bishop Hogan selected some institution necessary to the seminary, adequate local clergy to begin the Seminary about thirty and up-to-date, well-established and permanent, years ago. A classroom in the Christian Brothers' must have been in the minds of those most inter- De la Salle Academy was used for a while. Second ested. The Seminary Library today is the realiza- year classes did not materialize and the project ton of that vision. A collection of some seven was discontinued. Next the Jesuits were asked to thousand volumes constitutes the body of the Li- admit into Rockhurst High School-their local in- brary. Besides, the library holds subscriptions to stitution-boys desirous of entering the ranks of no less than twenty-five religious and secular ma- the local diocesan clergy but success was small gazines. and only spasmodic. Finally, in 1928, a private There was, without doubt, always some kind of house was turned over to the Congregation of the library in existence here at St. Mary's. But the Mission whom Bishop Lillis had long desired to present library with modern equipment and sys- open a preparatory seminary. tem is the result of the zeal and fore-sight of some In September of that year the work was begun priests and of not a few students. There are two with one class of eighteen boys and a faculty! of two priests in particular who are responsible for the professors. The success of the pro- year ended with ject of transition thirteen of the and modernizing. boys in attendance, The diary in- eleven of whom re- forms that the raf- turned for the sec- fle of a twenty-five ond year and six of dollar gold piece whom are at pres- was held for the ent in the fourth New Library Fund year. Each Sep- in November, 1922. tember a year has Father Robert been added, giving Powers and Father us now a full high Joseph Finney school course in were the men who operation. Thirty- conducted the raf- five boys, most of fle, and it is noted whom are promis- that Father Pow- ing, are enrolled at ers went far and nresnnf_ A .small a nlliV1 C number, indeed, it St. John's Catholic Seminaryf Father Furlong Photo t ic k et s. Seven is but encouraging hundred dollars when one remem- was the amount bers that had we not started, few, if any, of them realized. With this money the novices' old chapel would be thinking of the holy priesthood. was renovated and equipped with shelves. Unfor- Since September last a new building is in use tunately the diary does not record the names of the with accommodations for one hundred and fifty students who were conspicuous for their services. boys and suites for six professors. The building, The large tables for the two ends of the library modern in conveniences, is in Lombard monastic were the donation of Father Byrne. architecture, giving an impression of solidity and The library since that time has enjoyed a regu- simplicity. While entirely under one roof, the lar means of support and subsistence. The Asso- faculty wing is so distinct as to afford the privacy ciation of the Miraculous Medal granted one-half and home-life of a separate building. of the proceeds of the votive lights burned at the The main chapel is Roman in architecture with Shrine; after a couple of years this was increased early Christian altars recalling the days of the to the existing foundation of five hundred dollars catacombs and early Catholic history. In the a year. All of this money is spent either for the community chapel we have, rebuilt to conform to purchase of books recommended by the professors the general design of the building, the altar on or other competent judges, or for library equip- which Bishop Lillis said his first mass almost fifty ment and magazine subscriptions. years ago-the only relic in the institution. The excellence and value of the library is further Yours sincerely in St. Vincent, enhanced by the possession of several old literary T. J. Flavin, I. S. C. M. (Continued on page 4.) Two The De Andrein Tw h eAcri World News Province News Perryville News In the Vincentian vicariate of On Christmas day Father Schorsch A note of thanks and of gratitude Abyssinia, the land where the vener- celebrated Solemn Mass at St. Vin- is due to Mrs. Mullen of Chicago, to able de Jacobis and Blessed Abba cent's Church, Chicago, in honor of Mrs. Graham of Kansas City, and to Ghebre Michael struggled against the the Silver Jubilee of his ordination. Father Cronin for their generous do- Monophysite heresy almost a century Father Corcoran served as deacon; nations for a new pedestal for the ago, several confrores are now work- Father Rootes, fellow-jubilarian, as statue of Our Lady of the Miraculous ing in missions and schools under subdeacon. A great number of Fath- Medal in the main corridor. great difficulty. The procurator at er Schorsch's former pupils, many of one of the houses is considering the whom were religious, attended the Our new talkie machine was sale of his mules and donkeys before Mass. kept busy during Christmas week with four they die of starvation. This fact is In early January a succession of lengthy pictures. It is a gift very but a faint suggestion of the hard- important changes in office took place. much appreciated. Father Coupal ships the missionaries themselves are Father T. C. Powers went to Los An- has the thanks of the community here enduring from hunger and poor dwell- geles to assume the pastorship of St. for his substantial donation to the ings. Father Moulet, C. M., works Vincent's Church. Father Martin purchase of the machine and for the with such good humor even in these O'Malley,'former pastor and superior, excellent shows he, has procured circumstances that his brother mis- had finishd his six years at that post for it; Mr. Thompson, also, for the sionaries say that he could be cheer- and had been appointed to take Fath- tiresome work of operating the ma- ful anywhere. er O'Connell's place at Kenrick Semi- chine; Mr. Mullen, for managing the nary. Father O'Connell has gone to purchase; and a host of friends who The see of the Lazarist bishopric at DePaul to teach classes formerly held joined in the sale of the Christmas Urmia, Persia, is witnessing the re- by Father Powers. Father O'Connell Cards. building by confreres and Daughters has been appointed vice-president of of Charity of the mission works de- DePaul. On New Year's Day, the Christmas stroyed during the World War. The week's entertainments were brought to St. Vincent's Church, Brewer, Mis- priests are already operating an ex- a close with the presentation of the souri, was twenty-five years old on cellent seminary for the native clergy. comedy mystery play "The Valley of January 27. The Sunday Mass that At Teheran, royal capital of Per- Ghosts". The combination of four initiated the mission parish twenty- sia and residence of the Apostolic "niggers" and a number of "ghosts" five years ago was celebrated in a Nuncio, Daughters of Charity are is hard to beat andt the community, building formerly used as a saloon. managing schools and hospitals and together with the Daughters of Chari- Twelve confreres have had care of the confreres are rebuilding St. ty, spent an afternoon of enjoyable successively since its be- Louis College, which before the war the mission entertainment. had 400 pupils but lost them when ginning. Father Joseph Lilly, the present incumbent of the office, cele- war depleted the faculty. Now, how- The semester examinations took ever, many-some even the noblest of brated Solemn Mass on January 24 in thanksgiving for the Silver Jubilee. place on January 20, 21 and 22; with Persian youth-are looking again to these out of the way every one is their Lazarist professors for the bene- During the week following January 10, Father Coupal stirred the Brewer looking forward with renewed interest fit of an education. The Propaga- to the last lap of the school year. tion of the Faith thinks the best op- parishioners by their first regular portunity for exercising Christian in- mission. Every element of success fluence on the country is thru the attended the giving of the mission. Al- With the arrival of this issue of the schools. Protestant efforts, backed most thfee hundred attended morning DE ANDREIN the community here by abundant resources, have checked and evening services in the small at Perryville will be completing the nearly every other method. During church and fifteen hundred Holy last day of our annual retreat. The the past century of Vincentian effort, Communions were dispensed. retreat began Sunday evening, Jan- 15,000 Persian Nestorians have, re- uary 24, and finishes Monday evening, turned to the faith. For two months Father Keclly, pas- February 1. tor of St. Patrick's, La Salle, has been kept from service as a result of On January 5, Father ICoupal led The Very Reverend Francis Xavier a critical operation; at present the out some twenty students on the sec- Lobry, C. M., for forty years provin- doctor refuses to allow him to resume ond annual Epiphany hike to Twin cial of the Turkish Province and direc- his pastoral charge for at least Springs. A fine chicken dinner with tor of the Daughters of Charity in the another month. Father Connor, one all the trimmings was Father Cou- Orient, recently died. The French of his two assistants, has been sick pal's treat to the hikers. After an ambassador at Constantinople praised for weeks at St. Joseph's Hospital, enjoyable afternoon spent at the club- him as the greatest Frenchman that Chicago. Shortly after Christmas house there, the majority of the hikers had come to that country for forty Father Fischer was sent to assist in were content to ride back to the years. He deserved this recognition the parish work at La Salle which Seminary. Thanks for the fine day, not merely because of his faithful had fallen rather heavily on Father Father, and we hope to see you there service in his double office., but be- Brannon. next year. cause of his general usefulness in the again affairs of the Orient. His profound Starting January 7, Father Hug knowledge of this land and the high preached a three-day retreat to the Father Levan has been under the esteem he enjoyed made him counsel- Holy Name men of St. Vincent's care of the physicians at Saint Jo- lor to the highest ecclesiastic and Church, Los Angeles. seph's Hospital, Chicago, for the last (Continued on page 4.) (Continued on page 4.) week or two. February, 1932 Three Feray193 The Barrens he gave conferences in Italian, French, un br riu German and English. zZlt je When Bishop Joseph Rosati was permitted to de- Let us love God, but let it be at the expense of our arms cline the See of New Orleans and become Bishop and in the sweat of our brows. -St. Vincent de Paul of St. Louis, he strongly recommended for the vacant see the saintly and eloquent Father De Vincent Ryan Unit of Published monthly by the Stephen Neckere. Notwithstanding his protests, Father the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade. De Neckere was consecrated Bishop of New Or- Subscription: 15c. per copy, $1.00 per year (nine issues). leans June 24, 1830, by Bishop Rosati. Bishop De Editor ------J. W. Richardson, C. M. Neckere quickly acquired the esteem and con- Assistant Editor - - - - - J. F. Zimmerman, C. M. fidence of his diocese and inspired his clergy with Business Manager ------J. L. Daspit, C. M. zeal that soon bore much fruit. By reason of his Circulation Manager ------V. D. Smith, C. M. infirm health the labors of Bishop De Neckere ASSOCIATE EDITORS were limited, but he ceased not to edify his flock R. T. Brown, C. M. G. H. Guyot, C. M. by his holy life and the exact discharge of his E. J. Kammer, C. M. D. E. Kane, C. M. duties. In 1833 the yellow fever pervaded New Orleans. February, though the shortest month, contains Bishop De Neckere was away from his see when more than its share of feasts and holidays. It the fever broke out and he hurried home to brings two feasts of special moment to us-one administer to his flock. He gave himself entirely most solemn, the other of great joy. During the to his ministry among the plague-stricken and second week of the month Holy Mother the Church took all possible measures for their relief. His places ashes on the forehead of each and pro- enfeebled constitution soon yielded, and on Sept. 5, nounces these words: "Memento homo quia pulvis 1833, he fell a victim to his fearless zeal. es, et in pulverem reverteris." With these words on her lips, she bids us pause to consider our last end. With her wisdom, borne of the ages and iLo Osjj_1VirE Rt heavenly guided, she places this day of ashes at the beginning of her Penitential season, the holy season of Lent, in order that we may be motiv- ated in our Lenten practices of mortification and self-denial. Surely we will not be afraid to mortify these bodies of ours which so soon-in a few years at the most-will be mingled with the dust of the November 30, 1911: "Numbers of the students earth. are constructing traps for rabbits. The several Later in the month comes a feast of joy to all of cliques vie with one another to make the biggest us; for on the seventeenth the Double Family cele- catch; the averages are kept and posted in the brates the feast of our first confrere to be mar- recreation hall, and are watched with interest and tyred in China, Blessed Francis Regis Clet-that excitement." Numbers of students are still trap- holy old man who after thirty long and trying ping, but it is useless to VIE as long as Messrs. years in the apostolic ministry, consummated his Watterson and Durbin are in the game. life's work with a glorious martyrdom. His whole life may be admirably summarized in the words of June 27, 1911: "Father Hager reached here at St. Paul: "For to me, to live is Christ; and to die 3:00 A. M. this morning. He had arrived at 11:00 is gain." Let us hope that our blessed confrere A. M. the previous day at Claryville, but owing to who during his life-time felt so keenly the cross of the failure of the Perryville Flyer to show up he persecution, war, flood and famine, will aid his con- was detained until 11:0 P. M. at Claryville." freres, his successors in the Chinese missions, and Somewhere in the annals "Houck" is referred to as will bring to that land the peace of Christ which "a train of happy memories." We of this genera- surpasseth all understanding. tion should be thankful that this mode of travel is only a memory. NOTABLE VINCENTIANS November 8, 1914: "The students with Father Joe Finney went to Harrington's Caves. Day en- Right Reverend Leo Raymond De Neckere, C. M., D. D. joyably spent. The cooks were Messrs. McDonnell Leo De Neckere was born at Wevelghem, Bel- and Misner." Fathers McDonnell and Misner are gium, June 6, 1800. While a seminarian at Ghent, referred to frequently as cooks. Bishop Dubourg secured him for the American Missions. Completing his studies at the seminary May 12, 1915: "In honor of Rev. Messrs. Burke, of the Barrens, he was ordained priest in Perry- Quinn and Navin the students took a ride in two ville on Oct. 13, 1822, at the tender age of twenty- busses to Allen's Landing. A good time was en- two years. For the next three years his time was joyed by all." What is the secret of this honor, divided between missionary work and teaching in Rev. Messrs. of former years ? the seminary. When only twenty-five years of age Father De Neckere was made superior of St. July 25, 1920: "Entertainment in honor of Mary's Seminary. Though gifted with extraor- Bishop Glass at 5:00 P. M. Mr. Saracini made a dinary talent; his zeal and piety were more re- big hit." Father Saracini has made many "hits" markable than his learning. While superior of the since then. Four The De Andrein Four Th DeAdr VINCENTIAN FOREIGN George Washington's BOOKS MISSION SOCIETY Birthday L'Evangile selon Saint Jean Lagrange Fathers Murphy and Bereswill The twenty-second of this month is L'Evangile selon Saint LucLagrange spent Christmas out on the missions. the Bicentennial of George Washing- Foundations of Thomistic Philosophy They had been hearing confessions ton's birth. Every loyal American Sertillanges for some time at Poyang, but this was Catholic reverences Washington as Essays of a Catholic_------Belloc in actual mis- worthy, in practically every sense, of their first experience The Catholic Church: The Renais- the title, "Father of Our Country". sion work. sance and Protestantism Baudrillart Under his leadership in the Revolu- Donjon of Demons _---__ Fitzpatrick Father Coyle has gone to his place tionary War and in eight years as in a parish about 60 miles from Poy- president, American citizens were as- LaSalle _--__------Jacks ang. So far none of the others have sured for all times of the free exercise King Spider ______- Wyndham Lewis left, though Bishop Sheehan is anxious of their civil rights and of their reli- Historical Criticism and the Old to send them as soon as conditions gious practices. In December, 1789, Testament ------Lagrange will permit. Washington addressed special thanks Prayer and Intelligence -- _Maritain to the Catholics of the United States St. Ignatius ------Hollis Quoting Father Dunker: "The wed- for their unstinted Aervice in the History of England: Vols. II, III, dings and funerals are the funniest war: ". . . . I presume that your IV ------Belloc things I've see thus far. You can't fellow citizens will not forget the pa- Cayre tell one from the other until you see triotic part which you took in the ac- Precis de Patrologie __------the coffin or the bride. Both are the complishment of their revolution and occasion for lots of fun and lots of the establishment of their government, Fr. McIntyre, Assistant Director of firecrackers." or the important assistance which Students, has given to the Library they received from a nation in which John Gibbons' "Afoot in Italy". This Catholic faith is pro- book was the January selection for the The Chinese boys are taking up the Roman This spirit of Catholic Book-a-Month Club. golf! The priests have a pee-wee fessed (France)". to country must be course at the Poyang residence. The Catholic devotion Chinese youngsters, after seeing the perpetuated. There are biographies and biograph- priests play, have so taken to it that ies. Some are remarkable, many are they make balls and clubs from any- The Library not. L. V. Jacks has written one of thing handy and play the game even (Continued from page 1.) the remarkable biographies; "La this attractive going to and from school. Basketball treasures.. Among these are number- ,Salle". Throughout the author evidences in un- is another game popular with them. ed a few of the so-called incunabula volume language a thorough Father Dunker says he gets "big face" or fifteenth Century Books, such as mistakable of his subject. La Salle- by shooting goals from midfield. the "Scholastica Historia" by Peter knowledge eager and full of ardor, Comesto printed in 1486, and the the youth who found not his vocation in the of the Tower of Babel: "Opus Aureum S. Thomae super Sad result religious life, the mature man who the Procure in Shanghai) I Quattuor Evangelia" published in "(At satisfied his adventurous spirit in the (Father Lloyd) sat next to a Chinese 1493. Besides a copy of one, of the effort to discover the "Father of Wa- confrere. He speaks Chinese and first English Bibles printed in ters", the famed explorer who finally Latin. Well, I let the Chinese go, be- America there is the Douay Bible of found his end at the hands of Du- ing in the country only a few hours 1609 and 1610, the first edition of the haut's servant, L'Archeveque. Thus and not having time to pick up the whole Bible in English by Catholics. Jacks paints La Salle: with the surety language. The confrere gave his La- It is the best kind of gratitude to of an artist long-used to the brush. tin an airing, using phrases I am sure those men who made the library what (Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, he got out of books for just such an it is, to know that the students are occasion, like asking me from what not unmindful of this great store of New York.) country I came. I wanted to keep the the best in literature. conversation on a high level so I break World News in, just when he was making the Province News (Continued from page 2.) third gesture in Cicero's First Ora- (Continued from page 2.) diplomatic officials. He did honor to Oration, 'Quot litteras habet alpha- Father Ordonez of De Paul has his Church and to his country. betum?' 'Quid?' said he. So I repeat made successful experiments in the it again, but his face goes from blank use of electricity as an anaesthetic. The Apostolic Delegate to China, to blanche. I bethink myself to say He has been applying his theory in the His Excellency Celso Constantini re- to the Vicars something else to him: 'Carpe diem!' vivisection of various animals. cently issued an appeal Apostolic for a campaign against the The smile of defeat was on his face; The combined weekly service of use of opium among the Chinese gen- so I figured I ought to leave the class- Holy Hour Devotion and Novena in erally. One of the salient suggestions ics out of our conversation and try honor of Our Lady of the Miraculous offered was that this work be taken lesson number three on him. 'Ubi Medal has been inaugurated at St. up by "Catholic Action" and the "As- habitat magister?' slowly and dis- Vincent's Church, Kansas City. Con- sociations of Catholic Youth". The gregational singing constitutes part Delegate encourages such organiza- tinctly. 'Oh well,' said I to myself; of this impressive devotion. A simi- tions to contribute to the campaign 'there is no use making it a monolog'; lar weekly service is conducted at our by the concerted force of their exam- so I reached for the vin." parish in Los Angeles. ple and their speech. ', ^ihrOpp, Anttrtin Volume 2 Perryville, Missouri, March, 1932. Number 6 GLENDALOUGH CARRYING ON FOR DE ANDREIS I for one was skeptical as we headed across the Three sons of Saint Mary's of the Barrens have choppy brown lake to the distant rocky cliff. My been called to an early ordination. Messrs. Wen- companion, though wondrously versed in the New delin Dunker, Thomas Smith and James Richard- Code, was no longer agile; and delving in the Di- son of the Little Company will be raised to the gestae had not made him thin. All in all, I con- Holy Priesthood in June. They are in their third cluded, his attempt to ascend to St. Kevin's bed year of theology, and so will reach their coveted will be a "parlous" one. Nor was I free from goal one year in advance of the ordinary course of doubt of myself. events. For they have been judged worthy by Ignorance, I think, was an asset to us. We sim- their Superiors to undertake special assignments ply entrusted ourselves to two Irish countrymen in the community, tasks requiring more than or- whom we found waiting at the base of the cliff; dinary generosity and devotion. and they, by directing our hands and feet, got us Saint Mary's is sending them to the East and to up to the chair and to the bed. the West, Mr. Richardson to the Capital of The climb to St. Kevin's chair, a little indention Christendom, and Messrs. Dunker and Smith to above a ledge in the cliff side, where the saint used one of its farthest flung frontiers. to rest and pray, was not very The road to Rome and the difficult. But to get to the bed, way to China are not unknown - --- _ - -_ - /» ji tn thLI n Uf S-P il ti MIU/rLIJa a small cave lurtner up, one naa LU LeLC oUIni U.L aCnllL.IiJ-C _ o. to swing around a projecting The history of the Barrens be- rock which bent the head back gins in Rome. On September 27, whilst the feet and hands had a 1815, Pope Pius VII determined precarious grip. It was there I that the Venerable Felix De An- feared for a while that Kenrick dreis, C. M., be sent to America, Seminary would lose a famous and under his guidance Saint lawyer, But we both accom- Mary's was founded at the Bar- plished the feat; though I rens. From very early days grunted less! young priests of Saint Mary's The bed is a tiny cave about have travelled the road back to four feet in height, offering Rome there to deepen their shelter to no more than three knowledge o f ecclesiastical people. And sharp below is a science at its very fountain-head. sheer drop of forty feet to a very Nor has the Barrens been un- cold deep lake. One guide told us, mindful of the zeal that burned without a grin, that by sitting in the heart of Father De An- in the chair one is permanently dreis for the spread of the faith cured of chills. "And", he added, in foreign lands. It was once his " 'tis well known that any three ardent wish to go to China. wishes made here in the bed are God's will called him elsewhere. orarntd." T think our thnouhts But today the men chosen for were the saime. Since our first GIendalou.gh the distant field, who during glance at the lake below we had their student days have knelt so been wishing. often at his tomb, are carrying The descent was more terrifying than the climb his spirit out to the work he loved-to the out- but we obeyed those sure-footed guides and came posts he would choose for his portion today. They down quickly. Then to the boat-and we were take with them his benediction. They take with who, soon adrift. We were not twenty yards from the them the prayers of their fellow students, pray that God will shore when the heavens opened-one of those whilst they regret to lose them, work abundantly. straight abundant showers so frequent in the bless their To the young priests-congratulations! vales. The Lawyer was wearing a straw hat-a To their Alma Mater, St. Mary's of the Barrens curio in Eirinn. This we wrapped in a newspaper, -length of days and ever increasing life! and he used another journal for a canopy. We To His Excellency, Bishop Sheehan, Vicar were a droll sight by the time we reached the dock Apostolic of Yu Kiang and the other men of and the nearby trees, which already sheltered a the Barrens there with him, whom these dozen pilgrims waiting for a pleasant sailing. tidings will rejoice-continued success and Our boatsman who stopped beneath the tree more recruits! with us, waiting a lull, was a colossal liar. In "Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus (Continued on Page 4) imperat !" Two The De Andrein Two L The De Andrein * World News Province News Perryville News In Shanghai, four Catholic priests Among the noted authorities who On the evening of February ninth, were among those received' by General delivered addresses at the regional Shrove Tuesday, the Stephen Vincent Kai-shek, until recently President of conference of the Catholic Association Ryan Unit, of the C. S. M. C. held its China, shortly before his withdrawal for International Peace held in St. annual Mardi Gras celebration to- from office. They were Father Mou- Louis on Washington's Birthday, was gether with the monthly meeting lis, C. M., superior of our procure in Father Donovan of Kenrick Seminary. of the Unit. Needless to say, there Shanghai; Father Gerey, P. F. M., Father Donovan spoke at the luncheon- was plenty of sandwiches, cake and of the procure of the Paris Foreign afternoon isession in; the Coronado ice cream for the benefit of those who Missions; Father LeFevre, S. J., and Hotel on "The Disarmament Confer- began the Lenten fast the next morn- Father Jacquinot, S. J., both of the ence-Why Limitation Should be Ef- ing. Mr. Stanton, who made his vows Aurora University, Shanghai. After fected". The discussions of the day on the third of the month, was wel- a lunch in the city the missionaries centered around ithree principal comed into the Unit and responded were conducted to the home of the topics, "Why Nations Arm", "Why with a short talk. A week later, Mr. president in the country near the Nations Should Disarm", and "The Mullen, the capable Vice-President of tomb of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. He' asked Church and Disarmament". Arch- the Unit, entertained the members the missionaries to pray for himself bishop Glennon spoke at the evening with a short playlet. The experienced to pray for ,China in its present diffi- session on the attitude of Catholics cast presented a very enjoyable come- culty with Japan and especially its toward the problem of world disarma- dy. It is hoped that they will enter- danger from communism. Father ment. The Conference was sponsored tain us again at some future meeting. Jacquinot assured him of their by the Most Reverend Archbishop and prayers. held under the auspices of the De On March nineteenth, our venerable Andreis Council of the Knights of confrere, Father P. V. Byrne, will Father Legris, Visitor of the South- Columbus. celebrate the sixty-third anniversary ern Province of China, has just re- of his ordination to the priesthood. ceived word from a Christian peddlar Contrary to the belief of Fr. Mc- The DE ANDREIN congratulates Carthy that there is no extraordinary that Father Henry Von Arx, C. M., a the Reverend Jubilarian on celebrat- down Swiss confrere, who has been held activity worthy of the "calcium" ing an anniversary that few priests captive by the Reds since October 16, at Dallas, Texas, we certainly deem live to celebrate. the success that has 1930, has finally succumbed to the it fit to mention by the sufferings of so harsh and lengthy a attended the efforts expended As the Most Rqverend Archbishop the captivity. priests of Holy Trinity towards of Saint Louis ordered in his recent promoting of frequent communion pastoral letter, a Solemn Mass for and converting of those not of the Peace was sung During the past month, there died on Washington's Fold. To further these works Fr. Birthday, in Paris, a humble! Daughter of Char- February 22. Father Lilly McCarthy has enlisted the services preached a splendid sermon ity, Sister Genevieve, who for the on the of Father J. Elliot Ross of the New- Christian concept of World Peace. past seventeen years has directed an man Foundation at the University of important and unusual form of relief Illinois, for a mission beginning The priests of the Seminary are work. When in 1915, Madame Girod February 28. de l'Ain proposed to the Archbishop preaching a series of Lenten ser- mons in the Seminary Church on Sun- of Paris that he form an organiza- Our faithful correspondent, Father day evening. The subjects treat of tion for the restoration of the church- Fisher who has been assisting at St. the Church and her influence on mo- es devastated by the war, he referred Patrick's in La Salle, reports that his dern society and modern conditions. her to Sister Genevieve. Junior Holy Name Boys in Kansas The work accomplished by the or- City have entereid a Catholic Basket ganization under the direction of Sis- Ball League and have won their first sion at the P'arish of Our Lady of ter Genevieve is most remarkable. Of game. Also that tho Grammar School Lourdies in Chicago. If the success the 2.726 ruined churches for which boys at La Salle, having won fourteen attained at the recent Mission given the association assumed responsibility, straight games with their Basket Ball at Brewer can be received as an indi- only twenty remain in need of restor- Team, are entered in the Statei Final cation, great indeed, will be the work ation. However she did not confine contests. accomplished in The large Lourdes here activities to the restoration of parish. ruined churches, but she also assisted Fr. Coupal gave a three day retreat priests who, at the eind of the war St. Louis, February at St. Vincent's in Information has been received; that returned to ruined and destroyed 3-5. It was conducted for the men held in Fr. Lilly's parish churches and rectories. At the time the Mission and boys of the Parish. recently was not the first regular of her death she had equipped some 'Mission given at Brewer. In 1915 6000 priests with cassocks, shoes, Quoting the Saint Joseph's Herald a father Daniel McCarthy from Ire- furniture, chalices, altar linens and from New Orleans-"We are charmed land gave Missions at the three par- whatever else might be needed. When and impressed each week by the in- ishes attended by priests from the structions given on Tuesday morning the news of her death was announced Seminary; namely, Brewer, Highland by our Reverend Pastor, Father and Crosstown. Father John O'Regan her community received thousand's of Dillon". of St. Stephen's, New Orleans, con- letters and telegrams from Cardinals, ducted a Mission at Brewer in 1919, as bishops, priests and seminarians whom Frs. Quinn and Coupal have been also did Father Stephen Paul Hueber she had assisted. conducting a regular two-week Mis- in 1925. March, 1932. Three Mach 192 -- - Three--I ~t~ ~e ub ri u L 0 VE It Let us love God, but let it be at the expense of our arms and in the sweat of our brows. -St. Vincent de Paul Published monthly by the Stephen Vincent Ryan Unit of the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade. Subscription: 15c. per copy, $1.00 per year (nine issues). Dec. 29, 1911: "The students with Father Editor ------J. F. Zimmerman, C. M. Power drove out to Brewer in a cold drizzling rain Assistant Editor ------D. E. Kane, C. M. to get the new moving picture machine. After Business Manager ------J. L. Daspit, C. M. supper all assembled in the recreation hall for the Circulation Manager ------V. D. Smith, C. M. pictures but the machine baffled the skill of the CONTRIBUTORS operators." Tradition assures us that' the opera- R. T. Brown, C. M. G. H. Guyot, C. M. tors redeemed themselves the following morning J. L. Daspit, C. M. E. J. Kammer, C. M. to the great enjoyment of the community. March 17, 1912: "Entertainment in honor of St. Behold a true religious! St. Joseph, clothed in Patrick a splendid success. Our orchestra, made his smock of sack-cloth, the poor struggling arti- up of piano, violin, guitar and mandolin, made its san of sun-drenched, dusty Nazareth; the angeli- first appearance and received well merited ap- cally pure man, the worthy guardian of the Divine plause. Mr. Lavelle surprised all by his skill at and the Unsullied-the Holy Child and His Virgin the piano. The papers of Messrs. Sheehan, Flavin, Mother; St. Joseph, the believing, the blindly Dowd and Lavelle captivated the auditors." Ac- obedient servant, in the dark of night, leading an cording to the Annals the students have always unhappy world's Hope and sinful man's Heavenly given their best efforts to duly commemorate Intercessor into a dangerous country for safety; Hibernia's Champion. the steadfast, the constant, blissfully content with his portion of worry and sweat, with his barley- Oct. 16, 1915: "It should be noted here as a tes- bread, and camel's milk and yaltri; Saint Joseph, timonial of Father Souvay's self-sacrifice that he whose whole life is the avatar of those sublime is conducting a private class in scripture for three virtues that constitute the fulfilfment of our Holy of our specializing students." These students have Vows. proved their gratitude by their eminent success. TO THE RUINS OF CONG ABBEY Aug. 21, 1919: "Father McCarthy to see the Unroll before me, magic shrine, students after supper. Talked of his experiences The scenes of faith that once were thine with the army in France and Germany." All gen- 'Ere statesmens' wrath and soldiers' guile erations of students enjoy Father McCarthy. Laid low this great monastic pile. July 18, 1917: "Messrs. Joe Ward and Bran- Call thou forth from the sleeping clay non brought Mr. Platisha home from the picnic on Prelate and priest of another day; the wagon. It seems that some one threw mud Bring thou back to the living sight and broke his glasses. Mr. Platisha is very much Abbot, Monk, and acolyte. frightened." From this note it appears that Then let the long procession pass Father Plaitisha was rather timid in his younger Thru pathways fringed with dew-kissed grass. days. The abbey church let it enter in; Then bid the chanted Mass begin. On the great high altar of marble fine, NOTABLE VINCENTIANS Once more let the glimmering tapers shine, Most Rev. Thaddeus Amat, C. M., D. D. And bid me remember that often there King Roderic O'Connor knelt in prayer. Thaddeus Amat was born December 31, 1810, at Let the solemn chant of the abbey choir Barcelona, Spain. He entered the Congregation of Resound o'er Gothic arch and spire. the Mission in 1832, and six years later was or- Let me catch the gleam of a chalice fair dained priest in Paris. Later he came to Perry- Or the white of a host upraised in air, ville and labored as professor and Master of While thru the mullioned windows bright Novices, and served as Pastor of the Church and Streams in the radiant morning light Superior of the Seminary for several years. Then On censers swinging to and fro his superiors wisely appointed him first Pastor of Like distant Shannon's, gentle flow. St. Vincent's Church in St. Louis. From here he The Mass is done; the certain falls went to St. Vincent's College in Cape Girardeau as I see again the roofless walls, President of that Institution. The Seminary of The shattered arch, the weed-grown floor; St. Charles Borromeo in the Diocese of Philadel- For Cong and its glories are no more, phia prospered under his able guidance from 1847 No more-and now the sighing breeze until Pope Pius IX appointed him to the See of Resounds o'er broken traceries. Monterey on June 29, 1853. In spite of his pro- O Ireland-land of memories, tests Father Amat was consecrated Bishop at Of laughter, tears, and tragedies- Rome on March 12, 1854. A few years later Los Will these bright scenes we no longer see Angeles was included in his diocese. Appear in days that are yet to be ? (Continued on Page 4) Four The De Andrein Fou Th De Andre VINCENTIAN FOREIGN Glendalough BOOKS MISSION SOCIETY (Continued from Page 1) How to Live ------Arnold Bennett St. Francis of Assisi - Jorgeinsen Fathers Murphy and Bereswill response to our query he said Caliban in Grub Street -,---- Knox "have broken into the majors", as they never had an accident when Evolution and Theology _Messenger Father Misner puts it, and now go out taking people up the cliff. We looked The Russian Church _Brian-Chaninov to their respective missions every sec- incredulous. "Oh, there was one acci- The Growth of Europe Through the ond Sunday. The intervening time is dent last year," he amended. "My Dark Ages ------Barrow spent in preparing their sermons. sister fell in ovor there. And d'ye St. John Damascene ------. Allies While at their missions they are out know where she came up?" "No, The Foundations of Bible History for anything in their line: Mass, con- where?" "In Manchester, England." Garstang fessions, Extreme Unction, preaching, Soon the sun repulsed the rain for The Wandering Scholars -- Waddell baptizing, etc. a bit again, and we started back up Sacred Signs ----- Guardini the winding road. As we turned the The Church and the Gospels_-- Huby bend at the top I glanced back into Christian Social Manifesto Husslein Last year's recruits, Fathers Lloyd, the Glen of the Lough. Only the Dunker and Lewis, are finishing up George Washington ------Fay gorze-studded slope of the other side their theology course and' trying to Catholic Journalism -- Baumgartner caught the western sun. The oval lake learn Chinese. Father Dunker main- looked black and depthless. Above tains that he knows about a hundred "How t'o Live" gives a practical and beyond' our road the massed pines characters and can use philosophy on the usage of the; twenty- about fifty were still. At the far end beyond the words. four hours of the day-for seventy- lake where the heathery hills closed five pages. The author, unfortunate- the vale a purple mist was gathering ly, could not be so brief; he adds over Christmas at Poyang: a Missa Can- -the herald of another shower. The three hundred pages-to undo the tata at midnight and a solemn Ponti- scene was a sombre one. And it came seventy-five. When Mr. Bonnett states ficial Mass at nine. The missionaries to me that for all that web of laughter that the question "whether we have spent the rest of the day holding open which Celtic roguery spun about there, free will or are puppets of determin- house and allowing the country Chris- it was suggestive of penance, and ism" is "fascinating and futile", he tians to get a good look at them and' benediction. no longer te!aches us how to live. at their belongings. Further does he deviate with the pre- Notable Vincentians sentation of his evolutionary ideas of Father Misner comments on the human nature. And when he delves missionaries' Christmas: "Outside of into marriage-the end of the rope is (Continued from Page 3) its religious aspect Christmas over reached. "Marriage, with its conse- heire is rather like Hamlet without Bishop Amat brought the first Sis- quences, is a matter of personal incli- Hamlet. The Christmas festivities, as ters of Charity from Emmitsburg to nation and convenience," "People we know them at home, are rather California wheire they opened an Or- marry from sheer selfishness". conspicuous for their absencq. Even phan Asylum, a Day School, and dir- No man can put pen to paper and the Christmas mail is wanting. Folks ected the County hospital in Los An- not reveal his philosophy of life; Mr. back home forget that it takes at least geles. This work well begun, the good Bennett cannot claim exemption. The a month for a letter and sometimes as Bishop planned two missions for the philosophy of Mr. Bennett is summed much as five months for a package to Franciscans, one in the northern and up by Ronald A. Knox in "Caliban in reach here, and as a consequence, we one in the southern part of his diocese. Grub Street": "Mr. Bennett is a are now (Jan. 16) enjoying our He then made a visitation of all the Kentian". "I should rather be in- Christmas letters, and around Easter, churches of his diocecse and diligently clined to attribute to him (Mr. Ben- we will celebrate the arrival of the set to work improving the old ones nett) a deistic notion of God's Nature" Christmas packages." and building new ones in spite of in- S. .. . and, too, he thinks of the numerable obstacles. human conscience as an organ design- The missionaries' diet, according to He visited Europe in 1860 and re- ed, by slow evolution, to transform Father Dunker: "We get chicken quite turned with a good number of priests, the human species into a pattern more worthy of its high position." To read? frequently, all kinds of pork, beef ecclesiastical students and Sisters of occasionally; in the line of vegetables 'How to Live" is to agree with Father Charity. By 1866 the Diocese of we have cabhage, carrots, a fe•w pota- Konx. Monterey and Los Angeles had twen- toes, and lettuce, rice every day for Jorgenson's book is a very beauti- dinner and supper. For desseirt we ty-two priests, twent-one churches, a ful story of the Saint of Assisi-so eat peanuts, oranges, rice and peanut seminary, St. Vincent's Collegei, the realistically told, and with such inti- candy, and sometimes cake. For Franciscan College at the Mission mate d'etail that St. Francis again food we eat crushed wheat; walks through the towns and villages breakfast of Santa Barbara, and four houses of coffee, tea, cocoa, and wine make up of Italy-carrying the Gospel of the Sisters of Charity. the beverages." Christ, "as the herald of the Great Bishop Amat was universally ad- King". The Spirit of St. Francis and If you would like to write to any mired for his holy zeal, loved because his love of Christ are here. portrayed so perfectly that the book has a uni- of the missionaries, the address of of his unselfish devotion to his flock versal appeal. The author is thor- and highly their central house is: Catholic Mis- esteemed as an administra- oughly acquainted with the Francis- sion Residence, Poyang, Kiangsi, tor. He died at Los Angeles May 12, can tradition by reason of long studies China. 1878. on the history of the Order. Volume 2 Perryville, Missouri, April, 1932. Number 7 ST. THOMAS SEMINARY CHAPEL STUDENTS' ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The St. Thomas Seminary Chapel is a monu- The Alumni Association of the Barrens was ment designed to express the gratitude of Colora- founded in June, 1929. For three years this Asso- do Catholics to their first three pastors, Most Rev- ciation has remained practically unknown and has erend Bishops Macheboeuf, Matz and Tihen. In boasted of a very meager membership. However, realizing its aim the edifice triumphantly combines in recent Tnonths the seed sown three years ago devotional inspiration, liturgical adequacy, and ar- has begun to sprout, and on its third birthday the tistic splendor. Fundamentally and by a wealth of little organization will be able to boast of a much applied ornament within and without it arresting- increased membership. Indeed, it is sincerely ly emphasizes religious symbolism. Like the other hoped that by the end of this year the personnel of units of the Seminary architectural plan, it is the Western Province and the roster of the Alum- Lombard. ni Association will coincide. The structure lies from west to east at the north The aim of this Association is two-fold: To in- end of the administration building, with which it terest the priest confreres in the student body and is joined at right angles by a square entrance student activities, and to increase in the students tower one hundred and thirty-eight feet high. The zeal for the works of the Congregation as per- exterior of the chapel proper is cream-colored formed by the priests. The material feature of brick, symmetrically ornamented with emblems in this program is cared for by the De Andrein, red-brown gla z e d which in its 44-n1 -,rr 1,11 _ present lie. Ine ruoo al- form was prescribed ternates black and by article 6 of the red tiling. Constitution of the Including vesti- Association. T h e bule and sacristy Association mem- the interior is two bers manifest their hundred feet long. interest in student The nave with its activities both by parallel ambulator- their annual dues of ies is forty-five feet $5.00, which in- wide and thirty- cludes the sub- eight feet high. scription to the De The sanctuary, Andrein, and by which is identified sending news items with the transept to the De Andrein. and is approached This money is used by five steps extend- to finance student ing the width of the activities in drama- nave, forms a six- tics and athletics. .idpid figuirep of un- ThinF iit ,/l -0-r4 IIUe rPIIUiai i eat-- usual spaciousness The St. Thoma,s Seminary Chapel. ure of the organiza- and meets the ex- tion consists in the actest requirements of the complex ordination mutual spiritual offerings made by the priests and ritual. Its floor plan is ninety by forty feet, the students. Articles 8, 9 and 10 of the constitution width more than doubling the depth because three read: "Each member will make a memento for chantry chapels at each end make the edifice cru-* the spiritual and temporal welfare of the student ciform. A lantern, thirty feet square, whose ceil- body during Mass each day of the month of May." ing is fifty-four feet above the center of the sanc- "The student body shall make a novena of Beads tuary, crowns the crossing of nave and transept. at the Grotto and a novena of mementoes at Mass Heroic figures of the eight great Church Fathers sometime during the month of May, along with will adorn its walls, and it is illuminated by two any other offering they may care to make." "For groups of windows, the east and west frames being each deceased member of the Association one high unlighted iron lacework. Beyond the lantern a Mass shall be offered in the community chapel, fan-vaulted ceiling serves as a baldachino for the sung by the students." high altar. The sacristy stretches behind the al- As is seen this Association was formed to forge tar to a further depth of thirty feet. a little more strongly the bond of fraternity now The walls and arches and arch supports existing between the student body and the priest throughout the building are buff-and-green tinted confreres. This is attained by keeping the priests brick, stone-trimmed and decorated with terra interested in the students, and by arousing (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 4.) Two The De Anidrein Two The De Andrein World News Province News Perryville News The "Panagia Kapouli" at Ephesus, On Sunday, March 13th, the new The "Programma in honorem Sancti the house in which, according to tradi- Municipal Auditorium at Long Beach, Thomae Aquinatis, Doctoris Angelici" tion, the Blessed Virgin died, has been California, was dedicated with Solemn this year was exceptionally worthy of recently returned to the custody of our High Mass at twelve o'clock. The the day. Father Stakelum spoke at confreres there. In 1892 the Daugh- Most Rev. J. Cantwell, Bishop of the Solemn Mass. Besides the songs ters of Charity came into possession Los Angeles, appointed Father T. C. and the orchestrations, the evening's of the house and later handed it over Powers, pastor at Saint Vincent's, events consisted of an address, two to Father Poulin, Superior of the Vin- Los Angeles, to preach the sermon on papers and the feature-the debate. centian Mission in Smyrna. At his that occasion. Father Powers spoke The Rev. Mr. Phoenix in the "Oratio death the house was confiscated by the on the Catholic philosophy of civil Feativa" eloquently portrayed the An- Turkish government. When Father authority as coming only from God. gelic Doctor as the Patron and Model Euzet, successor to Father Poulin of those in the pursuit of Sanctity tried to reclaim the property in May, Father Coupal and Father Quinn and Wisdom. Mr. Rebenack's paper 1931, he was told that it had been preached a very successful mission at was a theological dissertation on confiscated by the Treasury. A law- Saint Catherine's Church, New Or- "Mary, the Mother of the Church". suit followed which ended in a pro- leans, from March 6 to March 20. "The Primacy of the Roman Pontiff" nouncement by the tribunal of Kouch- Father Reynolds, the pastor of Saint was ably established and proved in the Adassi in favor of Father Euzet. Catherine's, took sick during the mis- exhaustive arguments contained in This decision has just been confirmed sion, and so Father Quinn remained Mr. Daspit's paper. This year the by the Court at Sski-Chekir, the high- there to help with the Holy Week Rev. Mr. Cahill was the "Defendens" est court of appeal. Services, and Messrs. Richardson and Zimmer- man were the "Arguens" in the The services of the "Tre Ore", in- scholastic disputation. There were of the Double Two more members troduced into this country by Felix De two theses propounded and' defended, have been Family of Saint Vincent Andreis, were conducted in most of "Mysteria fidei sunt rationabiliter cross of the Legion decorated with the our churches on Good Friday. Father credibilia" and "Christus vere resur- Rev. of Honor. They are the Most Ries preached it in Saint Vincent's rexit a mortuis". Father O'Malley C. M., Vicar Apos- Andre DeFebvre, Church, Chicago; Father T. C. Powers who gave the "Alluctio" speaking of tolic of Ning-Po, China, and Sister in Saint Vincent's -Church, Los Ange- the debate said that it compared with of the foundling Geny, sister-servant les, and Father Comerford O'Malley the best of any conducted in the past at Alexandria, Egypt. Bishop asylum in the Church of the Assumption at on Saint Thomas' Night. DeFebvre was sent to China as a Perryville. young student and completed his stu- dies at the Seminary of Kashing, in During this month the priests sta- The feast of Saint Patrick was, as the Vicariate Apostolic of Pekin, the tioned at Saint John's Seminary, Kan- usual, celebrated here at the Barrens. scholasticate of the Northern Province sas City, are preaching in the various At six o'clock Solemn Mass was sung of China. After his ordination in parish churches of that city on voca- in the Seminary Church, which was 1910 he was sent into the Vicariate of tions. well attended by the parishioners. In N'ing-P'o to work under the Most the evening the customary program in Rev. Paul Reynaud, C. M., the former honor of the Apostle of Ireland was During the first part of March, Vicar Apostolic. In a few years he presented by the students. Mr. Mul- Coyne of Saint Vincent's Col- was made Director of the Major Semi- Father larkey delivered a masterful address Girardeau, preached the nary of Ning-Po, in which work he re- lege, Cape on Ireland. The paper by Mr. Kane on Sisters of Mercy, mained until May, 1927, when he was annual retreat to the Saint Lawrence O'Toole and the paper Missouri. The annual consecrated bishop and successor to Webster Groves, by Mr. Clark on Irish Wit and Humor for the students of Los Ange- Bishop Reynaud. Though his vicar- retreat were very well written and appre- preparatory seminary iate has met with many difficulties les College, the ciatively received by the audience. will be preached this during the past few years, Bishop De- for that diocese, The selection read by Mr. William C. Powers. Febvre has carried on courageously. year by Father T. Mahoney, the solos by Messrs. Clark, As a result the number of Christians Cahill and Thompson, and the or- On Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- in his vicariate has steadily continued chestrations served to fill out a well day of Holy Week the students of De to increase. balanced program. The entertain- con- Paul Academy, Chicago, were ment concluded with an address by exercises ducted through the various Father Gregory and with the singing Retreat. Father To commemorate the centenary of their Annual of a hymn to St. Patrick by the Master. year of the Apparition of Our Sherlock was the Retreat audience. Lady of the Miraculous Medal, there was recently erected on the maculate by the first missionaries, Island of Madagascar, five kilo- was again placed under her protection. Due to the fact that our President meters from Fort Dauphin, a large of the Students' Mission Crusade will statue of Mary Immaculate. The The Sacred Congregation of the be ord'ained in June and so must needs huge concrete pedestal, five meters Propaganda has nominated Father be concerned with things liturgical square and seven meters high, stands John Odendalh, C. M., rector of the till then, an election was conducted to on the summit of a hill one hundred interdiocesan seminary of Tegucigal- fill that honored and onerous position. meters high. The statue itself stands pa, as national president of the Pon- Mr. Thompson was almost unani- two meters high. Thus Madagascar, tifical Work of the Propagation of the mously chosen as Mr. Thomas Smith's which had been dedicated to Mary Im- Faith, for Honduras. (Continued on Page 4) April, 1932. Thiee April 192 Thie cumstances. Yet we marvel at the tremendous ,Tl~ePt~nb'riin progress Bishop Timon ~made in his diocese. He Let us love God, but let it be at the expense of our arms trained up a worthy clergy, and diligently cared and in the sweat of our brows. -St. Vincent de Paul for all the Catholics in his See. He found time to preach priests' retreats; lent his eloquence to in- Published monthly by the Stephen Vincent Ryan Unit of the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade. numerable occasions; and forced our government Subscription: 15c. per copy, $1.00 per year (nine issues). to recognize Catholic rights. His cathedral was built by donations he zealously acquired in his dio- Editor ------J. F. Zimmerman, C. M. cese, South America, Spain and Germany. A per- Assistant Editor ------D. E. Kane, C. M. sonal interview with the Business Manager ------J. L. Daspit, C. M. King of Bavaria secured Circulation Manager ------V. D. Smith, C. M. the costly stained glass windows. Pope Pius X CONTRIBUTORS happily recalled the day he had the privilege of Rev. R. A. Bayard, C. M. J. W. Richardson, C. M. carrying Bishop Timon's valise from a European R. T. Brown, C. M. G. H. Guyot, C. M. Seminary to a station. E. J. Kammer, C. M. G. M. Mullen, C. M. By 1852 his diocese had 70 churches, 58 priests, a seminary and many charitable To our reabers, confreres anr frienbs, . institutions, and schools. Bishop Timon ruled zealously, courage- Iay ttlhe ^iseen (ristrhestoftx on gou tFe prace anb ously and successfully until his most edifying joU of t1is blesseb pasclyal season. death on April 16, 1867. a;tfe ^e ^nbrein "Haec dies quam fecit Dominus ... " Yet why LO 0 VER single out Easter as the day of the Lord's making, as if some one else were making the other three hundred and sixty five? One day at least-Good Friday with its awful Tre Ore- appears to owe its making to man. And mankind in bitter regret has sorrowed over its handiwork, Oct. 28, 1906: "Students, Priests and Novices until the Lord God Himself rolled back the gloom are taking up a collection for a Graphophone. It of Holy Week Tenebrae by the springtime splen- is the intention to buy a $100.00 Machine." Quite dor of an Easter morn. Certainly the Lord Christ a contrast, quite a contrast, only a little while alone has made this triumphant day, and made it back the Priests, Students and Novices were tak- ing up a collection to buy a talkie machine. How so astonishing and significant to sorrowing man times have changed. that its echo rings distinctly on for forty days and more. ". . . exultemus et laetemur in ea." Aug. 21. 1907: "The Students spent the day mostly in bed." Again I say, "How times HAVE changed". NOTABLE VINCENTIANS Most Rev. John Timon, C. M., D. D. July 2, 1911. "Mr. Coupal arrived on the noon train looking much worn out by his train ride." John Timon was born at Conewago, Pa., Feb. 12, Sez you! 1797. In early life he engaged in commercial af- fairs, but, like St. Matthew, left the counting desk Sept. 17, 1912: "NOTA-Mens sana in corpore to follow Christ. While a student at the Barrens, sano. From this day forth, lunch EVERY DAY for the Students with the exception he labored in the missions of fast days. with Fr. Odin, who After due consideration the Very Rev. Visitor called him "a seminarian full of talent, zeal and sanctioned or rather revived this old custom, as it virtue." After his ordination in St. Louis, June seems to have been in existence at one time. Pro 24, 1825, Fr. Timon distinguished himself as a bono proprio see that this good custom does not missionary throughout the Middle West. In 1835 go into destitute again." Alack and alas can it be that the above was written in vain. As Father he was appointed Visitor of the Congregation Finney would say, "The Canon itself is very clear which office he successfully held until appointed and it needs no explanation". Prefect Apostolic of Texas in 1838. Renowned ad- ministrative ability, combined with energy, learn- June 22, 1919: "During the week Fathers ing and experience caused the reluctant Fr. Timon Barr, Coyne and Sheehan of Kenrick Seminary sent us twenty-five dollars worth of to be consecrated Bishop of Buffalo on October 17, baseball goods." What we couldn't do with twenty-five dol- 1847. lars worth of baseball equipment right now. Oh No bishop ever met with more discouraging cir- boy, oh boy! Four The De Andrein Fou The Do Andrein VINCENTIAN FOREIGN St. Thomas Seminary Chapel BOOKS MISSION SOCIETY (Continued from Page 1) Jesus Christ, His P'erson, His Message, Chinese New Year began Feb. 6th. cotta plaques and medallions symbol- His Credentials, Vol. II Father Dunker describes what took izing the Angelic Doctor, the Apostles, Grandmaison place on that day: "Everybody takes and the Evangelists. The one excep- Freemasonry and the Anti-Christian a bath, gets his hair cut, and walks tion to the brick mural design is. the Movement - _---______Cahill around with a big smile. Many of the entrance wall. The principal door, America's Foremost Philosopher Christians brought presents to the typifying on its stone-carved lintel the Raemers Bishop and the priests. One would attributions of the Divine Trinity, is Foreword by come in with a chicken, another with J. P. Donovan, C. M., flanked by raised choir-stalls and' sur- J. U. D. a dozen eggs; this one would have a mounted by a ceiling-high wood-and- pound of Danton ______Belloc sugar, that one some cakes, cloth grille screening the pipes and or peanuts, or oranges, The or watermelon other mechanism of the organ. The Pope is King _"Civis Romanus" seeds. We had quite a ritual to go Stations of the Cross are incorporated Twelve Modern Apostles through. At 8:30 in the morning we into the piers between the ambulatory ,Chesterton & alii gathered on the first floor, the Bishop bays. Eighy-five arched windows Evolution and Theology, by E. C. sitting in the center and the rest of light the chapel, five in the wall en- Messenger, Ph. D., with Introduction us on either side of him. Then all circling the altar, six in the lantern, by Rev. C. L. Souvay, C. M., D. the servants of the house, the teach- D., eighteen in the chantry chapels, four- D. S. S., etc. ers from the school, and all the work- teen in the ambulatories, and forty- hands gathered in front of us to "pi two in the clerestory. nin", which consists in joining their The vaulted ceiling of the nave is a The relation of Evolution to Theo- fists and making three little bows. mosiac-like series of painted celotex logy is apparent. This cannot be This is the Chinese way of saying panels relieved by stained wood ribs, said with respect to the question: Just 'Happy New Year'. After that they from which will depend fourteen how far is evolution theologically came up two by two, knelt, kissed the wrought-iron chandeliers. Frescoed true? May we accept in view of Theo- bishop's ring, and he blessed them. plaster is the ceiling material of the logy, 'extreme' evolution or may we That being finished we crossed the lantern, the sanctuary vault, and the only assent to 'mitigated' evolution? street to the orphanage. There were chantries. This question will find an adequate four different sections to be visited The floors complete the ensemble. answer in the scholarly monograph of there, and at each place we ate candy, By their arabesque patterns in pearl Dr. Messenger, professor at St. Ed- oranges, peanuts, figs watermelon and red terrazzo they suggest an mund's College, Ware, England. seeds, and drank tea. The bigger or- architectural symphony in line, light, With painstaking care Dr. phans put on a little show for us." Messen- and hue. Most of the nave floor space ger discusses the thorny problems of will be covered with pews arranged the origin of living being and the evo- An experienced missionary, who to accommodate two hundred' and fifty lution of man. These problems he at- knows what he is talking about, has students. Forward amid the pews the tacks from the viewpoint of Tradi- this to say of the Sino-Japanese con- organ console is placed. tion and Scripture-the fontes reve- flict: "We are watching these events At this writing the chapel lacks lationis, with great interest for we feel that many of its furnishings. The high His conclusion that the Scriptures both the future of China, and especial- marble altar is being finished in Italy teach spontaneous generation will come ly the future conditions of the mission and two of the six chantry altars have as a surprise; more surprising yet will are to a great extent bound up with been ordered; only half of the nave be the discovery that Tradition up- these events. The whole status of contains pews. The other altars and holds this conclusion. As for the foreigners in China cannot but be pews, the Stations, the statues, the origin of man, Dr. Messenger shows effected. The principle for which Ja- stained glass windows, the chande- that the Scriptures are negative. On pan is fighting is the clarification of liers, and new sacristy equipment this point Father Souvay in his ex- the position of foreigners in China await donors. cellent introduction says: "He (the and the safeguarding of their rights. author) shows that neither do Scrip- There is a lot of misinformation and ture and Theology actually disprove propaganda concerning the whole Perryville News (Continued from Page 2) it, nor have the Biological Sciences situation being broadcast in America, so far proved it. But this conclusion, and our State Department seems to succssor. A rising vote of thanks merly, negative though it is, needed to be badly mistaken. Our great hope was given Mr. Smith for his faithful be solidily established in the face of here is that the foreign powers will and effective service as President of superficial and erroneous opinions to not interfere and prevent a settle- our Unit. Mr. Thompson promised the contrary." ment." close imitation of his predecessor's method. The author likewise considers the views of modern theologians, the de- Students' Alumni Association For almost two weeks this month crees of the Biblical Commission, as well as other Roman documents. (Continued from Page 1) Mr. Rebenack was the Professor of Third and Fourth Year Latin at the The "summing up" or "conclusions" among the students interest in the Cape. Father Coyne gave a retreat in at the end of each chapter as well as priests' work-the work of the Com- Saint Louis, hence the need of an ex- a complete summary at the end of the munity. The fact that the Association tra member for the College's Faculty. book enables the discerning reader to is growing in membership is the Mr. Rebenack says that he enjoyed grasp the subject matter within a greatest possible proof that it is at- the respite from the Scholastic Curri- short time. An unusually fine Index taining its two-fold purpose. culum very much. is also a splendid aid. ell 9t Volume 2 M~ay,1932. Number 8 Volme2 P~erryville,eryvlie M~issouri,Mssur, ayft~Z Nmbr A MISSION IN CHINA OUR LADY OF THE BARRENS A "mission," in China, is the annual visit of a A paper whose aim is to cherish the best tradi- priest to a country station, for the purpose of tions of the Barrens cannot fail to speak of the making a thorough examination into the state of chiefest of those traditions; a record of life at St. religion at that station, and of giving to the Chris- Mary's would belie its title if it Were mute con- tians an opportunity of fulfilling the precepts of cerning the vital spark of that life; devotion to annual Confession and Communion. Our Lady. This visit takes on many of the aspects of a The title, "Our Lady of the Barrens," is found mission at home-there are the daily sermons in no litany, it is privileged with no special feast; and religious exercises and the constant drive to yet to the Alumni of St. Mary's it recalls the bring back to their duties the careless ones-but it deepest and dearest memories. It conjures up the goes even further than this and strives to com- picture of student days, days lived in the sunshine press into a few days the parochial work of a year. of Mary's smile, hours spent before the shrine of One of its principal features is the individual ex- Our Lady. It is the picture they have carried to amination of the Christians of the district. Each the South, to the North, to the Rockies, to the appears before the priest and is examined in the ever restless Pacific. By the Yangtse, by the Catechism and Prayers. Only when he has satis- Tiber you will. find hearts that echo the verse of factorily passed this examination is he admitted Father Ryan: to Confession. The "conditioned" one must re- "Far from where the roses rest, turn for a second Round the altar and examination. This the snrine examination is of Which I loved of all great importance in the best," the life of the sta- wrote the poet as he tion. These Chris- hearkened back to tians are cut off the songs and si- from the ordinary lences of our own Christian associa- St. Mary's, tions, and are sur- "Back to where the rounded by pagans. roses rest They are deprived Round a shrine of of Mass and the Sa- holy name." craments for long Our greatest periods of time. In treasure is an altar these circumstances and a shrine of the their knowledge of holy name of Mary. their religion and It was she who their fidelity to our Ladly of the Barrens watched over the prayer is their youthful days of greatest safeguard. Our Great High- They are supposed to assemble in the station Priest. It is Mary who guards every young stu- chapel on Sunday for the recitation of Prayers and dent who will one day become an "altei~ Christus". the Cathechism. From their knowledge of these, Mary was Queen and Lady of Nazareth. It is one can judge, with a fair degree of accuracy, as right then that Mary should be Queen and Lady of to their fidelity. the Barrens. The altar and shrine of the Miracu- But the work of the mission does not end here. lous Medal are constant reminders of Our Queen During the year, children have been born and bap- and Lady. They are tokens of the trust and love tized by either the teacher or by others. These for Mary that have always flowered at St. Mary's. baptisms must be investigated, their validity es- Its pious founders learned well of their Father tablished and the ceremonies supplied. Marriages Saint Vincent to place their hopes and cares at have taken place according to the extraordinary Mary's feet; they too had found the secret of her form allowed by Canon Law in such circumstances. power with God. In her name they consecrated to These, also must be carefully examined, any de- God the church that has stood for well over a cen- fects supplied, and the nuptual blessing given. tury-the Church of the Assumption. Father Other baptisms and marriages await the coming De Andreis could have given the infant seminary of the priest. Catechumens are to be received and of the Barrens no greater endowment than the examined. The aged, whose feeble hold on life name and protection of Mary. gives no assurance that they they will be alive As time went on, devotion to the Virgin did not (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 4) Two The De Andrein Two------·- _ Th De- Andrein-I World Ne ws Province News Perryville News In Bishop Hartley's diocese in Ohio, On April 4, the Mother House re- Our Assistant-director, Father McIn- our Eastern Province confreres will be ceived notification that Father Flavin, tyre, was forced to undergo an opera- represented in a few months time. At superior of Saint John's Preparatory tion for appendicitis at St. Joseph's Grovesport, a Mission House will be Seminary, Kansas City, had been ap- Hospital in Chicago. Having recovered established as the headquarters for pointed visitor of this Western his health and strength with unusual several mission bands. These men will Province. Priests, students, and rapidity, he returned to Perryville after be available to the surrounding country novices are wishing the wisdom and about a three weeks absence. Father for missions, retreats, and works of a strength of Saint Vincent to accom- McIntyre resuned his classes on the similar nature. pany him in the task. They further third Monday in April. hope that he will be able to make an Our confreres of Hang-chow in the early visit here. province of Tche-kiang are nearing the Sister Benedicta, one of the Daugh- completion of the restoration of their Sunday, April 10, Feast of the Trans- ters of Charity stationed at St. Vincent's church which is perhaps the oldest in lation of the Relics of Saint Vincent, School, succumbed to an attack of China. It dates back to 1660, having was the occasion of a Solemn Mass Scarlet Fever on April the Fourth. She been built by the Jesuits. In 1730 a "coram episcopo"-our Los Angeles is interred in the Community Ceme- violent persecution broke out and the correspondent reports. Bishop Cant- tery. Chinese at the command of their em- well presided and Father T. C. Powers peror destroyed the young Christendom preached on the five virtues of Saint Sunday afternoon, April the Third, and converted its church into a pagoda, Vincent. the Novice Baseball Team met the In 1861 it was restored to the care of its The Confraternity of the Rosary be- Scholastic Team and were defeated 7-0. rightful possessors only to be taken longing to that parish and established The game far surpassed any played in back again a short time later. How- by the saintly Father Meyer, C. M., the last few years for interest and fine ever, it was again placed in the custody gives evidence of vigorous life. On the playing. A few costly errors commit- of our confreres. Restored many times, first Sunday of each month the mem- ted by the Novices increased the score this old church remains a precious re- bers meet at the church to the number in the final innings. Mr. Mathews membrance of the heroic times in the of about 3500, and march around the pitched a fine game and deserved more evangelization of China. church reciting the Rosary. This beau- support than he received. Mr. Ma- tiful testimony of devotion makes an honey, the Students' Pitcher, accom- In the Vicariate of Pao-Ting-Fou, impressive spectacle. Afterwards Father plished the unusual, a no-hit, no-run there is the great shrine of Our Lady McDonnell gives a short talk pertinent game. of Tonglu noted for its miraculous to the purpose of the Confraternity. cures. It is called the "Lourdes of April the Tenth was a joyful day at China." In China only one out of Father Fischer reports that he is still the Barrens. After a comfortable ride every two hundred persons is a chris- assisting at LaSalle. Father O'Connor up from the College, the Cape Boys ar- tian, and their small number makes suffered a relapse after returning from rived here at 10:30, in time to make them feel only the more their weak- the hospital the week after Easter. He new and renew old acquaintances ness. Times are bad in China: war, will not even be able to say Mass for among the Students before the bell for communism and.bandits, is the terri- some time. dinner. The visit with the' Novices ble scourge of the people. Very often was at 1:00; the ball game was at the christians are persecuted, dishonor- Father Kuchler has been called away 2:00. But the Cape Boys, even though ed and scoffed at; lost in the mass of from the apostolic school at Cape in they had a well balanced, hitting team pagans, oftentimes they become dis- order to finish the school year teaching and were heartened by the pitching couraged and abandon the practice of at Saint John's Preparatory, Kansas of Dick Geiselman, were defeated by their religion and apostatize. The City. On April 24, Mr. Joseph Daspit the Students by the score of 8-3. Mr. great pilgrimages to Our Lady of Tonglu left Perryville for Cape to carry on Gene McCarthy was the Students' that take place several times a year Father Kuchler's Greek and Science pitcher and did every bit as well are attended by christians and pagans classes. as the score indicates. The feature alike from miles around. These pil- of the day was furnished by the Cape grimages unite and encourage the The annual Faculty-Boys baseball Orchestra,-"The Cape Rhythm Kings" christians in their faith and not infre- game at Cape, April 13, went to the in the proper title. These musicians, quently, through the intercession of Faculty, 15-9. Fathers O'Malley, twelve in number, entertained the Our Lady of Tonglu, are many pagans Stakelum and Huber went from the Priests, Students and Novices for the converted to the Catholic Faith. The Barrens to participate in the game and space of an hour and a half after pilgrimage is characterized by deen Father Levan to, winess it. supper. The musical arrangements recollection, prayers and hymns on were excellent and original. The the part of the pilgrims, followed by During the week of April 3 to April program was interspersed by songs by a good Confession and fervent Com- 10, Father Joseph Lilly preached a re- hoth the Cape entertainers and the munion made at the Shrine. Only last treat to the Third Order Sisters of Students. At about 9:15 the Cape said, year a poor paralytic, who had been Saint Francis at Saint Francis Hospi- "Goodbye" to their friends at the Bar- brought to the Shrine carried in a tal, Cape Girardeau. Father Coupal rens; some said "Until April the chair, was cured so effectually and conducted the retreat for the Daugh- Twenty-seventh," others, "Till the home. auickly that he was able to walk ters of Charity at Saint Vincent's Foot-ball Trip," and more, "See you A recent pilgrimage was attended by Sanatarium, St. Louis, starting April 7. next year." the Apostolic Delegate of China, Mgr. and three Vincention Constantani, Father S. P. Hueber, C. M., the spirit- Fr. Lilly sails for Paris on May the The Shrine is in the Monsignori. ual director of the Ladies of Charity in Fifteenth. He will study at the Mother our confreres. charge of St. Louis, headed the celebration of House in preparation for the Licentiate NOTICE the Diamond Jubilee of the organiza- in Sacred Scripture examination. In The Novena of Rosaries, recited by tion's establishment in St. Louis. (The November he will go to Rome for the the Students in procession to the Grot- organization itself is 315 years old.) examination, thence to St. Stephen's to for the members of the ALUMNI The day was the feast of the Transla- Convent, Jerusalem, where he will ASSOCIATION, will begin on Mon- tionr of Saint Vincent's Relics. Father study for the Doctorate at the Domini- day, May the Sixteenth, and will con- Hueber celebrated Solemn Mass at can Scriptural School there. clude on the Feast of Our Lady Help Marillac Seminary. On a of Christians. Sunday in May for each of the Our two Ordinands past two years, the Ladies of Charity for China, spon- have made a Messrs. W. Dunker and T. Smith are The Annual Students' Bazaar, pilgrimage from St. Louis at De Paul Hospital for the time being, sored by the Stephen Vincent Ryan to the Miraculous Medal Shrine at be held in the sec- Perryville. fortifying themselves against the dead- Mission Unit, will On both occasions they ly microbes that might attack them in ond week of May. Donations of any have swelled the numbers in the par- kind will be thankfully received. ish May Procession to the Grotto. (Continued on Page 4) May, 1932. Three May 1932 ThreeII Fathers and the Sisters of the Incarnate Word z~epr A br ei established themselves there. Bishop Odin was appointed Archbishop of New Let us love God, but let it be at the expense of our arms and Orleans in 1850. The Civil War had already begun, in the sweat of our brows. -St. Vincent de Paul and when New Orleans was taken, all the pru- dence and charity of the capable Archbishop were Published monthly by the Stephen Vincent Ryan Unit of required. The wise administration of the diocese, the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade. his prudence during the trying days of the war, Subscription: 15c. per copy, $1.00 per year (nine issues). and the success that accompanied his efforts speak eloquently of the ardent zeal, indefatigable Editor ------J. F. Zimmerman, C. M. courage and remarkable ability of Archbishop Assistant Editor ------D. E. Kane, C. M. Business Manager Odin. He was untiring in procuring shepherds Circulation Manager - - - - - V. D. Smith, C. M. for his flock, His repeated appeals to Europe for aid were not unheeded, and in April 1863, a CONTRIBUTORS number of seminarians for his diocese arrived Rev. Paul B. Misner, C. M. J. L. Daspit, C. M. with Bishop Dubois, who also brought over five R. T. Brown, C. M. G. H. Guyot, C. M. Ursuline nuns. Many churches and schools were E. J. Kammer, C. M. J. W. Richardson, C. M. erected throughout the diocese. His success in repairing the ravages of the war was remarkable. " 'Tis the month of our Mother !" Truly indeed The diocese of New Orleans was in a flourishing May is everywhere Mary's month, but nowhere condition when Archbishop Odin departed for the more so than here at her Seminary of the Barrens. Vatican Council. His declining health forced him Here Mary Immaculate rules as Queen Supreme; to leave the Council before it was concluded. He and all hearts seem to quicken with renewed love died at Amberlie May 25, 1870. and devotion during this blessed month. Nature itself, casting aside the bonds of winter, with boundless prodigality scatters forth its myriad LOO 0 VER buds and blossoms to pay homage to the Immacu- late Lily of the vale. So too, should it be with us. Each recurrence of Mary's month should find us further advanced in our devotion to her; and as May finally leads us to June so too, on the great Reckoning Day, Mary Immaculate will lead us all, her faithful children, to the Sacred Heart of her March 7, 1914: "Annual St. Thomas Day Enter- Divine Son. tainment. Mr. Flavin defended the thesis 'De Sa- cramentis', and deserves special credit for his pro- The DE ANDREIN heartily welcomes the new batio thesis." novices to the Barrens. May our Blessed Mother Feb. 22, 1916: "In the evening an entertain- under whose patronage you begin your community ment of four numbers, the first of which was a life, teach you to become true sons of Saint Vin- piano duet by Messrs. Lewis and Lilly." We will cent. remember this and have Father Lewis favor us The DE ANDREIN is also happy to congratu- with a few selections when he visits us. late the vow-men and those who made their good Oct. 11, 1917: "Messrs. Taugher, Joe Ward and purposes. May you enjoy many happy and fruit- Prindeville dug sweet potatoes after dinner." ful years in tjhe Little Company. Nov. 6, 1919: "The pool tournament that has been going on finished today. Messrs. Gaffney and NOTABLE VINCENTIANS Frommell winning team. Messrs. Cahill and Pla- tisha won second prize." Most Rev. John Mary Odin, C. M. D. D. June 4, 1926: "Fathers Schorsch, Lilly and Pla- John Mary Odin was born Feb. 25, 1801, at tisha staged a foot race. Father Lilly easily grab- Amberlie, France. Having completed his studies bed first honors. The distance was from the rail- for the Priesthood in the United States, he was road track to the priests' house. Father Schorsch ordained at St. Mary's Seminary, May 4, 1822. for a while looked like he would end up in the After opening St. Vincent's College in Cane Girar- kitchen. He succeeded in running Father Lilly a deau, Mo., much of, his young and robust manhood close second. Father Platisha also ran. He held was spent as a zealous and eminently successfu1 his own until Father Schorsch uncorked a real missionary in Texas. Pope Gregory XVI appoint'ed Leibnitzian sprint which completely took the wind the reluctant Father Odin Bishop of Claudiopol's out of his sails. However, far from being discour- and Vicar Anostolic of Texas. In 1847 the same aged, in his usual manner of driving the Coop, Pope made him Bishop of Galveston. In spite of Father Platisha stepped on the gas and finished innumerable difficulties the cathedral of Galves- fast and furiously." ton was completed two years later. Bishop Odin's Sept. 6, 1926: "Fathers Flannery, Wilson and eloquent discourses drew vast concourses of people Darby, along with Mascot Mr. Jourdan, motored to and his zeal was rewarded with a large number of the Cape to take up the reins of teaching for the converts. During his regime in Texas the Oblate year." Four The De Andrein Four The DeAdri VINCENTIAN FOREIGN Our Lady of the Barrens BOOKS MISSION SOCIETY (Continued from Page 1.) Bishop Sheehan has called all the American priests to Fu-chu, a much fail. Some seventy-five years ago, it is larger town than Poyang. Only an related, the students placed a statue of Italian confrere, a Chinese secular, and God's Mother in their study hall "to Father Moore are now in Poyang. This keep the studies." Fu-chu district was given to Chinese We have a record of those days in the seculars five years ago and since that glowing words of Father Ryan: "Sweet that time no foreigners or Chinese con- Saint Mary's of the Barrens in Mis- freres have worked there. The priests souri's wilds! thy children never can left for their new mission on March 20. forget thee! Ah, well do they remem- ber the Presentation feast when thou However, Father Coyle is still sta- didst dedicate thyself to God. The tioned in the famous porcelain manu- great altar in that seven-altared facturing town of Kintehchen. church was radiant every year with lights and fragrant flower.s; and the setting sun shone through the western The exodus of so many priests window, the while the Litany sounded caused wild rumors to be circulated before the Benediction. And then the about Poyang that the Reds were cer- names of many who yearned to be tainly coming and that the foreign priests of thy only Son were placed in priests had received word to that the Silver Heart hanging from thy effect. Of course, these rumors have no statue's neck in promise made to thee foundation because things have been that they, like thee, would leave their quite peaceful about Poyang for some father's house and dedicate themselves time. The fighting at Shanghai had no to the service of the Temple." The Sil- reverberations in the interior. ver Heart still hangs about the statue's neck in the study hall of Saint Vin- How does a missionary spend his cent's Preparatory Seminary. It bears time? Father Moore tells how he the names of those who heard the call spends his time: "There is always the language that can take up the slack of Mary's Son-names written by the pretty well most any day. Confessions, eager hands of those who trust in baptisms, and sick calls, though not of Mary's help. Le Judaisme avant Jesus Christ. every day occurrence, take up a good Later eager hands of another gener- Lagrange part of the time. Then a little looking Le Catechisme par l'Evangile after the schools hereand tere, if it is ation of students labored to erect the no it Abbe Chrlies more than just -to-bethere, stop a Grotto. Out amid. the silent hills Vocabulaire-Technique et Critique de fight now and then, or be with them stands a tribute to Our Lady of the la Philosophie...... Lalande during the recess time. You must be Miraculous Medal from the students of Cursus Philosophicus Thomisticus with them when they are in church, be- 191'7. Joannis a Sancto Thoma cause if you are there you have more Tractatus de Matrimonio ... Gaugnard face to get after them for not coming. "God comes closer to me here- 'These are some of the things we do.'" Back of every rose leaf there M. Andre Lalande has given the He is hiding-and the air philosophical world a much needed Thrills with calls to holy prayer; work; a vocabulary, technical and criti- Perryville News Earth grows far and heaven near." cal, of Philosophic terminology, in two (Continued from Page 2) In 1928 when it seemed there would volumes. The author, rather compiler, is professor at the Sorbonne and is the Far East. They are also taking a be no camping trip, the student body General thorough physical examination. Secretary of the "Societe turned to Mary. For nine days they Francaise de Philosophie". He did not The Call to Orders named twelve for walked to the grotto en masse reciting work alone; many members and cor- Ordinations this year, the rosary. Mary did not fail them. respondents of the Society aided in including the compiling this Dictionary of Philoso- two men who are to go to China next A year later, at the suggestion of phy. Fall. Next June there will be eight Father Lilly, the students gathered new Sub-deacons-the present Third Philosophical terms-Logic, Meta- Year Theologian Class. And the men every month at the Shrine to pray for physics, Psychology, Sociology-are ar- who are to receive Minor Orders num- a new building. Today that building ranged in alphabetical order; the French, German, English, and Italian ber twenty. The news was announced is a reality. on April the Eleventh. From the DE equivalents of the term in question are It has been the purpose of this article ANDREIN-Congratulations one and first noted; followed by the various all! to point out the friendly union that significations of the term. A critical has always joined Our Lady to the investigation concerning the usage of ill-wind again blows some good. the term and its synonyms is next. The Barrens. If but one reader agrees that Copious footnotes-the work of various When the Flu laid low about twenty of the Mother of God would not resent the Students during Easter Week, the members of the "Societe Francaise de the title, "Our Lady of the Barrens," it Philosophie," M. M. Blondel, Mentre, to other Students were told to get out-of- will not have failed of its purpose. mention only two-discuss the term doors into the healthy sunshine. The under different aspects. Such briefly is following week those who had been the treatment accorded each word. prostrate were able to attend classes For a professor of Philosophy the A Mission in China two volumes are invaluable. This is and so the regular order was once (Continued from page 1.) particularly true with respect to the again established. many Pyschological terms that have when next the priest returns, must be been coined within recent years. The anointed. An old Camp friend of many years only drawbaqk is that of language; These are but a few of the things French; but a work of such merit will standing passed away during the which keep a priest busy, when on the not long remain untranslated. month. Mr. Andy West died early in "mission," and prevent him from get- Publisher: Paris, Librarie Felix Lecan April. ting homesick. (Price, 140 Fr.) ~ ~tz~~~nbei00, Volume 2 Number 9 Volume- 2- Perryville,Pervle Missouri,Missuri June, 1932.1932 Nube RETROSPECT THE BARRENS WELCOMES I believe we are all conscious that each year sees BISHOP LILLIS some change in-us. We are not quite the same when the Grotto Walk is bordered with autumn To his Excellency, Right Reverend Thomas F. leaves as we are when it is gay with emerald green Lillis, D. D., Bishop of Kansas City, Missouri, we early in the Spring. So it is that any retrospect extend our sincere greetings. by its very nature is something more than a collec- Your Excellency, Saint Mary's of the Barrens tion of past events expressed by mere flowers of deems it a singular privilege and honor to welcome rhetoric which spring lightly to the surface, then you within her sacred portals hallowed by the are as quickly out of sound and out of mind. memories of those saintly Bishops of the early For us at the Barrens the past year will ever American Hierarchy-Rosati, Timon, Odin and awaken memories bound to glow brighter as time Ryan, to mention but a few who, too, brought grows longer. In the first place who else can re- Christ, the True Light, to shine so brightly in the trovert from Ordination to Ordination ? The diary young Church in America. of a happy scholastic year, bound cover and back We greet you as a most dear friend who has by the supreme attainment and joy of the ever shown a great interest in our Congregation Holy Priesthood. From June to June a pure and its works. And we hope that you will find in flow of the river of the water of life, clear our midst that same "charm" that Bossuet always as a crystal proceeding out of the Throne. found among the sons of St. Vincent. The middle of June'and Your untiring efforts summer school. Even if this in recruiting and train- does come liKe rate's re- ing young men for the lentless hand it cannot ranks of your diocesan shake nor ruin our hope and clergy has won for you our longing for Camp. Father admiration and praise. Coupal's and Father Lilly's Your new Junior Seminary sacred eloquence classes, of Saint John, the realiza- along with Father Pat Fin- tion of your dreams and a ney's and Father Prinde- monument to your zeal, has ville's latin conversation proudly taken its hour, filled each morning place with and kept us inside the cool the leading preparatory house while the June sun seminaries in our country was high. -the crowning glory of July 20th; the dust be- an already brilliant episco- gan to gather on the books and empty desks. Over the pacy. study and lecture-rooms We single out this one crent peace and quiet-the of your many achievements dream had come true and Ordinationss at the Barrens because it is the most im- we were back at Camp. There's enough in the sim- portant work in the Church ple suggestion of this word -the training of holy and to cheer any student's The Soldi er of the King learned priests-and we heart. Days of fishing and take this opportunity to swimming in the St. Fran- "Thou art a prilest forever l congratulate you upon its cis, early morning hunting The world is th y domain smell of trampled Broad earth anui sea with souls abound success. May it continue trips, the { grass at the indoor field, For thee to los e or gain. to prosper and may God long hikes and short walks, "Go forth and teach all nations bless your work with num- food that tastes so fine and You hear my ro)yal command erous vocations. rare to a keen strong appe- I set for thee no boundary, tite, nights of song, music But souls in eve:ry land. We hope, your Excellen- and rest around the great cy, that this is but the first log fire, the hearty com- "Behold I am allways with thee of your visits to the Bar- radeship of real confreres, My help will nfever fail. -not to intrude upon pri- March out and thrill all Christendom rens and that you will soon vate special recollections of My Knight of the Holy Grail." again honor us with your (Continued on page 6) presence. Two The De Andrein SAd Multos Annos The Rev. J. J. Casey, C. M. The Rev. J. G. Phoenix, C. M. 1 Thel. R.vi JTrThn ••1-clcT wTag. Thi a vt JTP-R / wl TGhiV X. L... X,I .. I . v ,V*.e) .U.1 ./1kj.a0,y v tao iC I-eC V. oUsepil Uk . 1 IlUtiiIA born October 3, 1904, in St. was born in Chicago, August Louis. His education, started 27, 1904. Educated at Our in the schools of the Sisters of Lady of Lourdes School and at St. Joseph, was continued at De Paul Academy, he entered St. Vincent's College. He en- the Novitiate, September 16, tered the Novitiate May 27, 1923, and made his vows in 1923, and made his vows in 1925. He taught at DePaul 1925. During the scholastic Academy for the year ending year of 1926-1927 he taught June 1927. at Dallas University. Father Father Phoenix will cele- iCa wooill c l br/nfat hM fi cl kazk-y YYWil Ues;rs•K E 11 II; 1 brate his first Solemn Mass at Father Casey Solemn Mass at St. Rose's Our Lady of Lourdes Church Father Phoenix Church, St. Louis, on Sunday, Chicago, on Sunday, June 19. June 19. The sermon for the occasion will be de- The ministers at the Mass will be: Assistant livered by Rev. James O'Malley, C. M., of Kenrick priest, the Very Rev. J. M. Scanlan, L. L. D., pas- Seminary. tor of Our Lady of Lourdes; Deacon, the Rev. J. D. Hishen; Subdeacon, the Rev. E. J. Cannon, C. M. The sermon will be preached by the Rev. T. C. The Rev. J. M. Hogan, C. M. Powers, C. M., pastor of St. Vincent's Church, Los Angeles. Th RRv M HT/Tr.anon XL q11,p .IUV I. TrlihVIIII . VllJ. j CAI l was born in Chicago, July 18, The Rev. W. J. Jourdan, C. M. 1905. At St. Vincent's Paro- The RevT JQvr7 i Jv dI- chial School he received his . JLW . v .* U t o i, M ; UL U1allI grammar school education;-at was born January 1, 1902, at St. Vincent's College, his high Newton, Illinois. He studied school. Having entered the successively at Vanderhoof School, Novitiate May 27, 1923, he Newton High School, made his vows in 1925 and and St. Vincent's College be- taught a year at Dallas Uni- fore entering the Novitiate versity, beginning in the Fall September 27, 1923. He made of 1 QO9 his vows in 1925 and went back to St. Vincent's College Father Hogan Father Hogan's first Solemn Mass will be celebrated in St. September, 1926, to teach for Vincent's Church, Chicago, June 19. Assisting a year. Father him will be: the Rev. Ralph Bayard, C. M., Assist- Jourdan's first Sol- Father Jourdan emn Mass will be celebrated ant priest; the Rev. James O'Sullivan, C. M., Dea- on Tuesday, June 14, in St. Thomas' con; the Rev. John Wilson, C. M., Subdeacon. Church, New- ton. Those The Rev. Bonaventure Durbin, C. M., of St. Vin- assisting at the Mass will be Assist- ant priest, the cent's Church, will preach the sermon at the Mass. Rev. John Lupton, pastor of St. Thomas' Church; Deacon, the Rev. Robert Brown, C. M.; Subdeacon, the Rev. Willis Darling, C. M. The Rev. George C. Fuller pastor at Sigel, Illinois, The Rev. T. J. Wangler, C. M. will deliver the sermon. Thn R.v Thnodorrp J Wann'- The ler was born in St. Louis on Rev. R. T. Brown, C. M. rTPl, D ,,, DT. . , ,,,. ,,,"r. August 8, 1905. He was edu- hile JLtnev. obLVUerIt DrUWII Wtas cated at Our Holy Redeemer born at Perryville, Missouri, School, Chaminade College, on October 17, 1905. He was and St. Vincent's College. On educated first at St. Vincent's May 27, 1923 he entered the grammar and high school, Novitiate; in 1925, made his then at St. Vincent's College. vows; and taught at Dallas He entered the Novitiate May University for a year, 1926- 21, 1924, made his vows in 1927. 1926, and in September, 1927, Tho first Sonlomn Mass. of went to St. Vincent's College Father Wangler Father Wangler will be cele- to teach for a year. brated at the Church of Our The first Solemn Mass of Holy Redeemer, St. Louis, on June 19. At the Father Brown will be cele- Father Brown Mass the Rev. J. C. Fehlig will be Assistant priest. brated in the Church of the The sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Thomas Assumption, Perryville, on Sunday, June 19. The D. Coyne, C. M., D. D., of St. Vincent's College. (Contiunued on page 6.) June, 1932 Three In Vinea Domini _ I _ _ C I _ I ~ _ _3 ~ _ _ _I_· _ I~ _ _ __ _ ~ _ _llsl _ YL III The Rev. W. F. Darling, C. M. The Rev. W. J. Dunker, C. M. Th TP TITevillia TDpnrri txTas TIhe PRPr Wpnidrllin J Dunn- X 11r I V I011,I i g WaoVll J lit; JIVt vV .;. vY r .t . i C.U. .0 -/l-L-..L born near Sparta, Illinois, on ker was born in Perryville, on November 20, 1907. He was January 7, 1906. After his educated at St. Patrick's education at St. Vincent's School, Alton, Ill., and at St. grade and high school, he en- Vincent's College. On May tered the Novitiate May 11, 21, 1924, he entered the Novi- 1925, and made his vows in tiate and made his vows in 1927. He taught at St. Vin- 1926. For the scholastic year sent's College for the year be- 1927-1928 he taught at St. ginning September, 1928. Vincent's College. Father Dunker's First Sol- Father Darling will cele- a M111 I qSSL-CI(- dn-IT JT 1 Q - Father Darling brate his first Solemn Mass at will be celebrated in the Father Dunker St. Patrick's Church, Alton, Church of the Assumption, Ill., on June 19. Assisting him at this Mass will Perryville. Those assisting at the altar will be: be Rev. F. B. Kehoe, pastor of St. Patrick's, Assistant priest, the Rev. Oscar Huber, C. M.; Assistant priest; and the Rev. Michael Kearns, Deacon, the Rev. Paul O'Malley, C. M.; Subdeacon, Deacon. The Rev. Frederick P. Coupal, C. M., will the Rev. Merlin Feltz, C. M. -The Rev. James deliver the sermon. Huber, pastor of St. Boniface Church, will deliver the sermon. The Rev. T. Smith, C. M. Tmhililt IAOUeR?a e . 1TVlmhIIUIIIU6 o a 01111QmSm.Vitvh The Rev. J. G. Abbott, C. M. was born on April 21, 1909, at Th R Pv Jy.mpe CG Abbott New Orleans, and received his New Orleans on education at St. Stephen's was born in Vincent's June 18, 1907. Having re- School, and at St. ceived his education at St. College. He entered the No- Thomas' School, and at St. vitiate on July 19, 1925, and Vincent's College, he entered made his vows in 1927. the Novitiate May 21, 1924, Father Smith will celebrate and made his vows in 1926. his first Solemn Mass in St. Father Abbott's first Sol- Stephen's Church on June 26. emn Mass will be celebrated Those assisting him at the on June 19, in St. Stephen's Mass will be: Assistant priest, Father Smith C(hiurih New Orleans. The The Rev. J. L. O'Regan, C. M., Father Abbott sermon will be delivered pastor of St. Stephen's; Deacon, the Rev. R. J. by the Rev. J. L. O'Regan, Kuchler, C. M.; Subdeacon, the Rev. J. G. Abbott, C. M. The sermon will be delivered by the Rev. C. M., pastor of St. Stephen's. Thomas D. Coyne, C. M., D. D., of St. Vincent's College. The Rev. P. P. Murphy, C. M. The ev. reston . IMur- The Rev. J. E. Cahill, C. M. phy was born in East Chicago, The RePv- JTampr Cahill was. Indiana, on April 21, 1901. He born on August 27, 1907, in studied at St. Mary's School, Chicago. He received his edu- at East Chicago High School, cation at St. Vincent's School, and finished College at De Chicago, and at St. Vincent's Paul as a Bachelor of Arts. College, prior to entering the On January 8, 1927, he enter- Novitiate on May 21, 1924. ed the Novitiate, and made He made his vows in 1926. his vows in 1929. The first Solemn Mass of Father Murphy will cele- Father Cahill will be cele- h-rbt4-i hi. fir.+ Qoleq1mnn M assU on brated in St. Vincent's June 19, in St. Mary's Church, Father Murphy Church, Chicago, on Sunday, East Chicago. The assisting Father Cahill June 26. His brother, the ministers will be: Assistant priest, the Rev. J. W. Rev. T. V. Cahill, C. M., will Blechle, C. M.; Deacon, the Rev. D. A. Duggan, be Assistant priest at the Mass. The sermon will C. M.; Subdeacon, the Reverend J. E. Cahill, C. M. be preached by the Rev. Francis V. Corcoran, C. The Rev. Walter M. Quinn, C. M., Master of Nov- M., D. D., President of De Paul University. ices at Perryville, will deliver the sermon. Four The De Andrein Fou ____ ~_1_ _~ ______~II · __P____ _ I~_ _I _____11_1_ _ The_I De Ancirein World News Province News Perryville News One hundred years ago, 1832, the On June the Fifth, Father Michael On Monday, May the Twenty-third, province of Kiangsi was confided to the O'Brien celebrated the Twenty-fifth our Director, Father O'Malley, was care of the Vincentians. This province Anniversary of his Ordination to the called to his home in Chicago because had been previously under the care of the Jesuits, Franciscans and Domini- Priesthood, in Saint Vincent's Church of the death of his father. Mr. Austin cans respectively. Our confreres had at Chicago. The Solemn Mass cele- O'Malley was the father of a large and in the past labored under the direction brated by Father O'Brien was attended eminently successful family. Three of of these orders. by many of the more prominent priests his sons are priests of the Congregation, In 1832 Fr. Bernard Laribe was ap- of Chicago. The Mass was also part of Fathers George and Paul, Prefects at pointed administrator of the province the baccalaureate exercises of the with four assistants. At this time the Apostolic School, and our Director, there were only 6000 christians. The senior students of De Paul Academy Father Comerford; and the only surviv- missionaries labored under great haz- and the De Paul Loop High School. A ing daughter is Sister Mary Paulina, ard. They were sought out and cruelly testimonial banquet was given for B. V. M., of Chicago. Two of his sons persecuted. Hence the missioners used Father O'Brien and his friends at the are doctors practicing in Chicago, to administrate the sacraments and hold all their services at night In the Belden-Stratford Hotel. Among the another is a lawyer and Austin O'Mal- daytime they travelled to the next mis- more distinguished speakers were ley, Jr., is a journalist with the New sion in diguise. Fathers Corcoran and Reis, Father Eu- York Sun. Solemn Requiem Mass was In 1832 Msgr. Alexis Rameaux was gene O'Malley of the Paulist Choir and celebrated by his three sons in Saint appointed the first vicar general. He re- the Very Rev. John P. O'Mahoney, C. Vincent's Church, where Mr. O'Malley ceived his appointment while a fugitive S. V., Provincial of the Viatorian Or- had been a parishioner for thirty-five from the Chinese authority. He de- voted himself for four years to the exe- der. De Paul Academy has been favored years, Father Corcoran delivered the cution of this duty. He was the first with the services of Father O'Brien for funeral oration. Mr. O'Malley was born bishop the faithful .of Kiangsi saw. twenty of his twenty-five years in the in Ireland in 1849 and he came to the During this period France made a Priesthood. Father O'Brien has taught United States in 1871. He had been treaty with China in which liberty of religion was an outstanding point. economics and history during the en- employed at Marshall Field & Company Many favors for the missionaries were tire time of his Professorship. for more than fifty years. obtained. In 1845 Fr. Laribe became bishop of Father Reis has been appointed the On June the Eleventh, Messrs. Paour, labors Kiangsi. Despite his manifold Pastor of Saint Vincent's Church in McCarthy, Singleton, Hoppe, McWil- he found time to correct and enlarge on Chicago. He is succeeding Father the catechism then in use. He was liams, Richardson, Kammer, and Das- succeeded by Msgr. Danicourt. Marshall LeSage who has been assigned pit were ordained Sub-deacons. Those Shortly after Bishop Danicourt took to the giving of retreats on the West who received Minor Orders are Messrs. te reins a grave persecution broke out. Coast. Father Reis assumed his du- Thompson, Stubinger, Miget, Moyni- A rebellion against the government ties the latter part of May. han, Mullarkey, Egan, Durbin, Corcor- arose and it was believed that Dani-. leaders. He was an, Vandenberg, Lynn, Yalally, Mullen, court was one of its The Graduation Class of Cathedral seized, cruelly tormented. After suffer- Kenneally, Whooley, Bray, Smith, P. ing much he was finally freed. He con- High School in El Paso was addressed LeFevre, Roche, Yager, and C. LeFevre. tinued his labors as bishop for ten by Father Foley of Kenrick Seminary years. During this persecution the He was in El Paso to visit his sister On June the Third, the Novena in number of christians dwindled from who is a Sister of Loretto in that city. 12,000 to 6,000. honor of the Sacred Heart for the sal- Next followed Mgr. Baldus, a veteran vation of the world was begun in the in the field. He had been the A Solemn Novena in honor of the Parish Church. There was Solemn the superior of Blessed Perboyre. Mgr. Sacred Heart was concluded on Mass on the Feast Day and the Mgr. Baldus. Now fol- Bray succeeded feast of the Sacred Heart at St. Vin- Blessed Sacrament was exposed the lowed a period of peace and prosperity. cent's Church, Chicago. High Mass of Bishop entire day. Each evening during the Under the able guidance was offered each morning for the in- Bray the Missions flourished. The num- Novena Father Saracini preached a ber of missioners increased. The suc- tentions of the League of the Sacred sermon consonant with the needs of Heart and in particular for the unem- cess was so marked that it was de- the times and of society. cided to split the province of Kiangsi ployment situation. The Novena was into two sections. The southern sec- conducted by the Pastor, Father Reis, tion was held by Mgr. Bray. Later and Father Cannon. The May and Corpus Christi Pro- this section was divided again into four cessions were held this year as is cus- sections. One of the sections was given Father Imgrund, who has been sta- tomary and were attended by the usual to Mgr. Vic, a zealous missionary who tioned at Saint Vincent's, Chicago, has had spent thirty years in the field. been transferred to New Orleans. large amount of people. His chief labor had been in the semi- Father Brannan is now at Chicago nary, forming other Christs. from Saint Patrick's, LaSalle. Father Dennis Duggan and Father From 1912 to 1924 Bishop Clerc Re- Feltz were here for a short visit the end Kiangsi Saint Louis University held their naud governed that section of of May. Father Duggan gave the bac- ruled by Mgr. Bray. We know of his Commencement Exercises on June the at the Commence- many labors and successes. Seventh. The Baccalaureate sermon calaureate address High Finally we come to our own Bishop was preached on June the Sixth at ment Exercises of Saint Vincent's Sheehan, and his confrere, Bishop Saint Francis Xavier's Church by School. O'Shea. We know of their labors and Father Martin O'Malley of Kenrick Seminary. trials as well as those of our confreres One of our Confreres from the East- who are laboring under their direction. ern Province paid us a visit on June More power to them! the first fifty years the number re- the Fourth. Father Thomas MacFad- Despite the persecutions which have mained stationary, between six and den from Saint Joseph's College, been going on ceaselessly the number twelve thousand. In the last twenty- Princeton, New Jersey, stopped here of converts has been increasing. For five years it has jumped to 100,000. on his way East. . June, 1932 Five Jue 193 I ~ __ ~~~~_ __ F iv ing in the East chose the poorer, the Western ^^ 2 11n&reT Province, as the field of his labors. Well is he styled the maker of the Western Province. Let us love God, but let it be at the expense of our arms and On February 2, 1904, on the occasion of Father in the sweat of our brows. -St. Vincent de Paul Smith's fiftieth anniversary as a member of the Community, he was given a purse of eleven thou- Published monthly by the Stephen Vincent Ryan Unit of sand dollars. Father Smith used this sum to erect the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade. the water tower and install water works in the Subscription: 15c. per copy, $1.00 per year (nine issues). seminary. Many other like works of charity were performed by him who reestablished St. Mary's Editor ------J. F. Zimmerman, C. M. of The Barrens. Assistant Editor ------D. E. Kane, C. M. On September 23, 1905, Father Smith gave up Business Manager his noble soul to God at Perryville. His last words Circulation Manager - - - - - V. D. Smith, C. M. were. "Introibo ad altare Dei; ad Deum qui laeti- CONTRIBUTORS ficat juventutem meam. Ora pro nobis peccatori- Rev. R. T. Brown, C. M. J. M. Mullarkey, C. M. bus nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen." With E. J. Kammer, C. M. L. T. Fox, C. M. reason were the words of the Holy Ghost: "the J. W. Richardson, C. M. W. J. Mahoney, C. M. zeal of Thy house hath eaten me up," used as a G. H. Guyot, C. M. J. C. Lehane, C. M. summary of his life of unselfish devotion to the community. With this issue, the DE ANDREIN completes Father Thomas Shaw thus describes Father Father, confrere, counsellor, exemplar, its second year of publication. The staff wishes to Smith: "A T. J. Smith, now no more, in each of these thank the many confreres, both priests and stu- Father dents, who have whole-heartedly supported the relations to us adhuc loquitur. In everyone of the he portrayed ardent zeal. As Father, his DE ANDREIN by their articles, their news-items, above commanding form compelled reverence, and his their subscriptions and their helpful and construc- tive criticisms; and it is our sincere hope that the expression showing the tenderness of his heart, won all. As a confrere he was ever a leader, and DE ANDREIN has drawn together, ever more though in the highest office after the Superior- closely the bonds of brotherly friendship between General, he despised insistence on superiority. As the priests and students of the Western Province counsellor, in civil suits he would have of the United States. occupied an enviable position, and, as his long career of visitor- ship proves, few Father Joseph Theunissen, who passed through judgments were more evenly bal- anced, whether the judgments were delivered to this country last fall on his way back to Bishop his own or to outsiders, to ecclesiastics or to lay- Sheehan's Vicariate, writes to the editor as fol- men. His high praise is that he made few blun- lows: "I wish you would make mention in your ders for the sagacity of St. Vincent had been his worthy paper of my sincere thanks to all the con- study. As an exemplar, in all the details of his freres of the Western Province for their "ever- busy and eventful life, the forty-eight years of his ready" attention that my short visit among them priesthood, the twenty-seven of his visitorship, he would be most pleasant and one-long to be re- is before membered ...... You can be sure that when us simple yet cautiously prudent; hum- ble, yet conscious of his high character; meek any of the Fathers visit China and venture to yet just; mortified yet judicious; zealous yet come to my mission, I shall not spare myself in rational." making their visit very pleasant." The esteem in which his acquaintances hold him is ample proof of the sincerity and truth of Father DE ANDREIN extends its most sincere The Shaw's to Father George, Father Comerford description of the devoted follower of St. condolences Vincent, Father T. J. Smith. and Father Paul O'Malley on the sudden death of their beloved father. May he rest in peace! L OOOiL 6iVQRBE NOTABLE VINCENTIANS Very Rev. T. J. Smith, C. M. V. Father Thomas J. Smith was born in County Cavan, Ireland, in 1830. He came to America at an early age and made his studies for the priest- hood at St. Mary's of the Barrens. After ordina- Dec. 14,. 1921: "Mr. Flannery begins work on tion he successfully filled various important offices the laundry. Everyone well pleased with his of the Congregation. In spite of his many duties efforts." as parish priest and superior he found time to give Sept. 17, 1925: "Mr. Frank Murphy still work- missions, the fruit of which abundantly testify to ing out on his dumbells up in his private gym." his zeal, holiness and ability. He had the honor of Feb. 15, 1924: "Elmer Modde came today. He building the first building of what is now Niagara is to postulate for a few months." We receive University. some very fine reports of Father Modde. In the year 1878 Father Smith was chosen Visi- Nov. 27, 1924: "Program 7.45 P. M. Very good. tor of the Congregation in the United States. Father Coyne addressed an eloquent exhortation When the country was divided into the Eastern to the students to perpetuate the good work of and Western Provinces, Father Smith, though liv- past generations." His words fell on good ground. Six The De Andrein Six _ _ The De Andrein VINCENTIAN FOREIGN Retrospect BOOKS MISSION SOCIETY (Continued from page 1) Fontes Juris Canonicae, Card. Gasparri choice events and cherished deeds,- Father Malachy's Miracle Here are some of the highlights of such thoughts drive away all care and the American missionaries' move from stir the song within our hearts. .Bruce Marshall Poyang to Fuchow: September 8th; we broke camp in the Jesse and Maria Before the move could be made Bis- fullest sense of the term, intending to Enrica Von Handell-Mazetti hop Sheehan had to get the general of ,spend next summer at a different site. Christus ...... Huby Rather hard to leave the splendor of Histoire de Philosophie..... Barbadetti a Chinese army to move some of his out-of-doors, still it's good to be home troops from the residence. . . . Seven feeling fit for work. Now to undertake The Priest of Today left Poyang: Fathers Misner, Altenberg, with energy and bravery the task of T. J. O'Donnell, C. M. Murphy, Bereswill, Lloyd, Dunker, and self-improvement, which is pleasant Toward the Priesthood Lewis . . . . They left Poyang on and encouraging when both sides, the C. A. Bubray, C. M. teachers and the taught, cooperate with Saint Anthony of Padua, Alice Curtayne Palm Sunday with about two hundred such a zealous esprit-de-corps for our Christians on hand to wish them bon great objective. Just about this time Les Points Fondamenteaux de la Philo- voyage . . . . The trip from Poyang we enjoyed the warm good will of the sophie Thomiste...... Matussi to Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi, customary farewell banquet for our be- Old Errors and New Labels..... Sheen loved Chinese brothers, Fathers Dunker, used up a day and a night. The fifty Principles of sycho - physiology, Vol. Lloyd and Lewis. Not long after we Troland miles were covered on a small steamer bade God-speed to Fathers Quinn, III ...... There are no foreigners in Teng, Tolman and Koeper. Beachcomber...... By the Way Nanchang. The passing of the mis- In the October sky the clouds we so The Shadow of the Pope, by Michael sionaries was quite an attraction, but much dreaded were big with mercy and Williams (Whittlesey House, McGraw- broke in blessings on our heads. On there was not the least sign of hostility the 15th of the month the Very Rev. Hill Book Company, Inc., New York). manifested .. . . Between Nanchang Father Barr, Father Stephen Paul Heu- Michael Williams, editor of The Com- and .Fuchow there is an automobile ber, accompanied by our Benefactress, monweal, used his position to great ad- road. This road is sixty miles long. Mrs. Kulage, came from St. Louis to vantage, as his book, entitled above, ex- place the brightest jewel in the build- hibits. He gathered material of all The trip was made in buses (Chevrolet ing their combined efforts had given trucks with cabs on them) in five to us,-the solemn blessing of the al- sorts, so that, as he himself asserts, hours. This is real speed for China tar in our Chapel. the very bulk confuses. Out of this . .At the Fuchow residence they November; and Fathers Coupal and matter he gleaned the blight that was were greeted by two soldiers on guard. Lilly conduct a mission in our historic exercising its baneful effect on this church. -The steady grind of class Shadow of the Pope- The soldiers had vacated the second work was broken by the annual Fall country. The floor of the residence, but were still party sponsored by the ever active Mis- "the mist of ignorance and misappre- occupying the first floor. Bishop Shee- sionr Unit. Any Saturday afternoon hension of the awful Shadow of the han was glad of this because another found wild eyed students clustered Pope". about the radio for the football games. Prejudice, which is decidedly un- army with a bad reputation was com- December 8th; our movie sound ma- ing through town in a few days and chine arrived thanks to the kindness of American, will find a sting in this book. probably would have commandeered many friends. December 25th-Joyous For religious toleration is fundamental the whole plant if other soldiers were students kneel on Christmas morn be- to our constitution, "the unique contri- not already on the scene . . . . But side the radiant manger wherein their bution of the United States to the po- Lord was born. Their hearts are full of the world." the first army was bad enough. There of laughter, their souls are full of bliss litical and social theories was absolutely nothing in the mission- for Jesus on His Mother's lap. Their aries' rooms but a bed and a candle; breasts become the cradle of a King. ter Benedicta, who was laid to rest in even the locks had been taken off the January brought several events. The our cemetery. On the 20th in the hike to Twin Springs, classes resumed, person of the Cape student body the doors. The house was like a hog pen Father McIntyre comes to join our with rats running wild. Fathers Mur- future Novices and Students spent a faculty as our sub-Director. Mid-year really delightful Sunday wtih us. phy and Dunker spent the first night examinations followed by the annual "Frankenstein" made its appearance looking at each other and calling the Retreat. from the garage and still draws great soldiers all the nice names they could February; Messrs. Thomas Smith attention. The Seniors from Cape think of . . . . Our church in Fuchow and Wendelin Dunker found that they arrive for their novitiate. will seat nearly two thousand. Soldiers were selected for this year's Contingent had been living in it about two years to China. The last day of this month May; "'Tis the month of Our and it was like a stable. All the stained was saddened by the news of Mother," Vow and reception day, the glass was broken by them. When the Father Barr's resignation of the Visi- blessed and beautiful days. On the Bishop's "boy" was asked if they had tor's office. The love of each individual 10th the Bazaar nroved a mighty suc- shot out the glass, he replied: "No; they student for Father Barr is something cess. The novena of rosaries to the couldn't hit a window if they shot at permanent, it is not like a mere blaze Grotto for the Alumni Association. one; they threw rocks through them." in the stubble and then darkness and Final examinations,-O Mother of Good forgetfulness. Counsel, lend intelligence to us. They March ushered in a month full of. are over, another year has passed The Rev. R. T. Brown, C. M. solid study with its scholarly St. formally closed with the banquet for the Ordinands. Our young priests are (Continued from page 2) Thomas Day programme, relieved of course, by the jollity of St. Patrick's leaving us yet we are proud and happy other ministers at the Mass will be: As- celebration. Holy Week was spent in for we know- sistant priest, the Rev. J. B. Platisha, C. union with the Passion followed by the "Dominions kneel before Him, and M.; Deacon, the Rev. O. C. Huber, C. rejoicings on Easter Sunday with Our Powers kiss His feet M.; Sub-deacon, the Rev. Mr. R. L. Mc- Risen Savior. Yet for me He keeps His weary watch Williams, C. M. The sermon will be April; the appointment of the Very in the turmoil of the street, preached by the Rev. Stephen Paul Rev. Father Flavin as Vistor. We en- The King of Kings awaits me, where- joy a visit from him and have the op- ever I may go, Heuber, C. M., pastor of St. Vincent's, portunity to pledge our enduring loyal- O who am I that He should deign to St. Louis. ty. We assisted at the funeral of Sis- love and serve me so?"