DENVER CATHOLIC 1952 Indicate a Total of 15,497 Seven Hospitals in 1942 Re Twice the Figure Reported in Diocesan Priests, 126 (124) There Are 254 Priests Serv 1942
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Phenomenal Growth of Archdiocese in Decade Is Noted Official Caiholic Directory priests number 90 in 1952; grade schools 10 years later. special sanatorium reported 1952 also show a general in Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation figures for 1952, just com there were 49 in 1942. In ad Six orphanages and infant 56 patients in the year. crease over corresponding Baptisms Doubled figures for the preceding Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1951— Permission to Reproduce, Except on piled, reveal the amazing dition there are now 10 par asylums reported care for Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue. ' ishes with non-resident pas 766 children in 1952; in 1942 In 1942 Baptisms of 3,234 year. A partial recapitula growth and progress of the tors. four institutions reported infants and 671 adults were tion shows: (Figures in par Archdidcese of Denver in the 15,497 Students care of 493 dependent chil reported for a total of 3,905. entheses are from the 1951 decade since the installation Pupils in academies and dren. The 1952 report shows Ten years later 7,166 infants Directory): of the Most Rev. Urban J. parochial schools numbered in addition that there are 251 and 904 adults were baptized, Priests of archdiocese, 254 Vehr as first Archbishop of 9,778 in 1942. Figures for children in foster homes. a total of 8,070, more than (244) Denver, Jan. 6, 1942. DENVER CATHOLIC 1952 indicate a total of 15,497 Seven hospitals in 1942 re twice the figure reported in Diocesan priests, 126 (124) There are 254 priests serv 1942. in Catholic grade and high ported care of 27,108 patients Parishes, 100 (94) ing 119,828 Catholics of the schools, a phenomenal in Marriages, which num Parishes with resident pastor archdiocese in 1952, as com crease. Reported in 1952 are in the previous year, and bered 1,279 in 1942, jumped 90 (84) pared with 196 priests and 26,102 youth under Catholic listed 464 student nurses. to 1,981 in 1952, of which 839 Parishes with non-resident 87,907 Catholics jn 1942. Of instruction, 8,213 in vacation Eight general hospitals in Were mixed. pastor, 10 (10) the clergy, 126 are diocesan schools. The 31 parishes with 1952 reported care of 53,422 Deaths also showed an in Chapels, 37 (37) REGISTER priests in 1952, as compared parochial schools in 1942 had patients during 1951, and the crease— from 1,152 in 1942, Chapels with resident chap with 107 in 1942. grown to 10 parochial high four schools of nursing had to 1,311 a decade later. lains, 17 (17) VOL. XLVIl. No. 22. DENVER; COLO. I TWta. rti-Tii. i-tu. M.M.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1952 wwkw. Parishes with resident schools and 41 parochial 356 students. In addition one The Directory figures for Chapels with non-resident chaplains, 20 (20) Missions, 65 (68) Brothers, 10 (11) Boys Town 'Cattlemen' Walk Off With Top Honors at Denver Stock Show Religious orders of women, 26 (26) By Frank Morriss for the show’s best carload and Z-K ranch of Joe C. Thiesen at Chapman, Neb., and John Fleury “ THE RANCHER in the Roman with several hundred dollars in Long Pine, Neb. The Boys Town from Helena, Mont. But there are Sisters, 947 collar’’ is what some of the top premium. The remainder of the cowhands fatten them up at Boys also Arthur Foad from Los An Seminary, diocesan, 1 (1) cattlemen in the West call Mon- Boys Town fat cattle took fourth Town and then exhibit them under geles and Edward' Coyne from the Students from archdiocese, signor Nicholas Wegner of Boys and fifth place in the judging. the institution’s banner. Cattle steel city, Pittsburgh. 60 (55) Town, Proving th a t his young * * * men know that when Boys Town It was the famous Father Flan GRAND CHAm N charges are cowhands with the WINNING BLUE RIBBONS is enters a stock showing, it will be agan’s notion that if you put a m m Studen'ts from other dio best, the Boys Town priest brought nothing new for the Boys Town a close race for top honors. boy in the country he will get a ceses, 150 (145) a carload of fat cattle to the Den ranchers. Their cattle have won- Some o f the other animals ex firm hold on some fundamental Students of archdiocese in ver Stock show from Nebraska grand championships in San Fran hibited by Boys Town that took virtues such as humility and love other seminaries, 1 (1) rand walked o ff with top honors. cisco, Louisville, Ky.; and reserve fourth place in the show are Colo oFhard work. You could tell by Colleges and universities, 2 It was “ fourth time’s a charm” championships in Omaha. rado animals, bred by Joseph the look o f pride in the young men for the B o p Town ranchers, led by The honors were a matter of Winkler of Castle Rock. from B op Town, as they displayed (2 ) a personable young farm super special pride for the young 4-H * * » their prize animals, that Father Men, 423 (568) intendent. Bob Steffen, and Ron club members accompanying Mon OF THE YOUNG CHARGES of Flanagan was right Women, 729 (760) ald Hutchings, Boys Town herds signor Wegner and those at Boys Monsignor Wegner who came to The carload of 15 champion Total students, 1,162 man. Their show cattle have trailed Town. More than 50 per cent of take care o f the Boys Town cattH, steers sold Wednesday at $45.50 a in Denver judg^ing three times be the animals that took the judges’ some are ranch bom and bred. hundredweight, about $10 over the . (1,328) fore, but the quality of this year’s eyes in Denver were 4-H club There are Jim Wehbey from market price. 'The animals weighed (Turn to Page S — Column 4) entrants paid off with blue'ribbons calves. The calves are bred on the Omaha and Ray Lilienthal from 15,260 pounds. Dodge City See Religion and Charity Receive June J Date Set Is Deeded Ranch For Ordination of $100,000 From Nicolino Estate 4 to Priesthood The last will and testament of Mrs. Annie O. bishop for the benefit o f distant relatives in Italy, By Non-Catholics The clergy of the Arch Nicolino o f Arvada, who died Jan. 9, reveals that a sister-in-law and three nieces. Provision was diocese of Denver will receive Mr. and Mrs. P, C. Pitson, an estate, including all real and personal property, made that these sums revert to the residue of the reinforcements Saturday, a non-Catholic couple now liv estate if these relatives should predecease Mrs. of more than $100,000 has been left to religious June 7, at 9:30 o’clock when ing in Colorado Springs, have and charitable works in the Archdiocese of Denver. Nicolino. deeded a 1,920-acre wheat four deacons now completing Archbjshop Urban J. Vehr of Denver was The entire residue of the estate goes to the their studies at St. Thomas’ semi farm in Finey county, Kans., Queen o f Heaven orphanage, where Mrs. Nicolino named the executor of Mrs. Nicolino|s estate, a MONSIGNOR NICHOLAS WEGNER of that won top honors at the Denver Stock show. nary, Denver, will be ordained to to the Diocese of Dodge City. large part of which will go to the Missionary asked that an elevator be installed in memory of the holy priesthood by Archbishop The property, which is about 20 Boys Town and some of the ypung ranchers Left to right are Jim Wehbey, Omaha; Ray Lilien Urban J. Vehr. Those to be or Sisters of the Sacred Heart for the benefit of the her mother, Mrs. Aridanas Dill, and her brother, miles northeast o f Garden City, is from the Nebraska institution made famous by the thal, Chapman, Neb.; John Fleury, Helena, Mont.; dained, in ceremonies that morn evaluated at nearly a quarter- Queen o f Heaven orphanage in Denver. Dr. Dill. • late Monsignor Edward Flanagan show the ani Arthur Foad, Los Angeles; Monsignor Wegner; and ing in Immaculate Conception Ca million dollars. The entire'real estate owned by Mrs. Nicolino Mrs. Nicolino was well known in Arvada, but mals from the blue-ribbon carload of fat cattle Edward Coyne, Pittsburgh, Pa. thedral, are the Rev. Deacons John The Pitsons have reserved all in Arvada and Jefferson county is left to Ardi- her many acts o f private charity and her financial Anderson, James Rasby, Edward rents and incomes from the land bishop Vehr for the use and benefit of the Shrine assistance to many needy causes were never adver Madden, and John McGinn. for their lifetime. The deed speci Tonsure, an official induction of St. Anne, Arvada, as a memorial to her husband, tised. She was a native of Humansville, Mo., and fies that the land be held for St. into the clerical life, will be con Mary’s church. Garden City, "pre Marcello Nicolino, with the suggestion that a came to Colorado to teach school in Telluride, ferred by Archbishop Vehr in St. ferably for a Catholic school.” suitable memorial plaque be erected in St. Anne’s where she met and was married to Marcello N ico Thomas’ seminary chapel Saturday Bishop John B. Franz o f Dodge church. lino. The couple operated a drug store in Arvada evening, Feb. 2, on William Gart- City in referring to the generous hoeffner, a student for the Dio The sum of $12,000 was left to the Archbishop from 1925 until the death of Mr.