r Louisville Parish-New Plant Within Decade Moving 6,700 Mt. Calvary Graves Is Mammoth Task Ah ordinance will be introduced ih the City council meeting Mon­ in negotiations is foreseen, it was declared by the Mayor’s office, since day evening, April 24, for approval of a contract by which the City everyone seems "favorably disposed.” and County of Denver will take over Mt. Qlvary cemetery from the The 6,700 bodies to be removed from Calvary cemetery in Denver Archdiocese o f Denver. The matter has been thoroughly discussed if the tract is taken over by the city wilt be reinterred in a separate by the council members and Mayor Quigg Newton. N o undue delay new section of Mf. Olivet. Removal of the bodies will be made under the direction of the Very Rev. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Monsignor James P. Flanagan, superintendent of Mt. Olivet cem­ Contents Copyrighted by the C h o lic Press Society, Inc., 1950— Permission to Reproduce, Except on etery, and Elroy F. Goebel, direc­ Articles Otherwise Marked, Given A her 12 M. Friday Following Issue. tor of the cemetery. Arc'hbishop Urban J. Vehr ia a letter to Mayor Newton on April 17 formally offered to give the 19-acre tract of Mt. Calvary ceme­ tery, adjacent to Cheesman park, DENVER C/OUOLIC to the city, with the proviso that the city bear the expense of mov­ ing; the bodies. Cost of this oper­ ation is estimated at $122,000. City equipment and labor will be used in the project of moving the 6,700 bodies, according to Mr. St. Louis' Church, Dedicated in 1942,'and Newly Renovated School Goebel. Some three to three and a half feet of earth will be taken o ff + + * f + + + + REGISTER Price per copy, three cents the top of the cemetery, section by section, and then the individual graves will be opened by hand. The $35,000 Modernizing Program Completed VOL. XLV. No. 35. THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1950 DENVER, COLORADO remains in each grave will be placed in an individual box for re­ interment in Mt. Olivet, To Delight Audiences in Charities Opera It is planned to begin work early in June, with an estimated four months required for completion of the project. A complete card index Louisville School Is Rebuilt and the land book of Mt. Calvary cemetery are in the hands of the A $35,000 modernizing and remodeling program on the Mt. Olivet cemetery officials. parochial school in the past year has given St. Louis’ par­ Plats based on these have been In Fort Collins drawn up for each individual block ish, Louisville, an up-to-date plant. The new church was of the old cemetery. built in 1940 by Father Benedict Ingenito, O.S.B., and was Mr. Goebel stressed that any­ formally dedicated'by Archbishop Urban J. Vehr on June one who wishes to have Mt. Cal­ 27, 1942. * $140,000 Parish Hall vary remains of a relative or rel­ atives reinterred in a family lot The school was originally a four-room frame structure, owned in Mt. Olivet cemetery may 50 by 70 feet, built in 1904 by Father Cyril Rettger, O.S.B. do so by notifying him. There will Structurally it is still so sound that it did not have to be torn down be no charge made for this serv­ to make way for a new building. Instead, it was brick-veneered and Erected at Half-Price ice, he said. the new roof was stained to match the colors of the church. A cor­ By Guy R. Calleo The history of Mt. Calvary ceme­ ridor was constructed to connect the four schoolrooms and to end The new hall in Holy Family parish, Fort Collins, that tery dates back to Feb. 7, 1874, in two new wings, 17 by 24 feet, with two outside entrances equipped when Bishop Joseph P. Machebeuf with panic doors. The two wings provide office apd lavatory facilities contractors estimated would cost $140,000 has been con­ purchased a 40-acre tract for $50. for teachers and pupils and offer ample closet space for school and structed for half that amount. This task was accomplished Twenty acres of this tract were set janitor supplies. under the direction of the pastor, the Rev. John R. Fullana, aside for use as a cemetery. No in­ Full Basement Excavated C.R. He recruited the labor of his parishioners, obtained a terments have been made in the cemetery since 1908. The basement was completely excavated to offer space under great deal of material at cost from The first public announcement both the main structure and the wings. The excavation was an both Catholics and non-Catholics, and employed professional help of negotiations between the Arch­ engineering feat done by bulldozer while the building was propped Denver Seminarian, diocese of Denver and the City and up on timbers. New walls were erected fcom the floor of the base­ only for the'finer finished work. Work on the building was begun County of Denver for .disposition ment to the roof of the building. Access to the basement is had of Mt. Calvary cemetery was made from the outside by a separate entrance and from the inside by John Edw. Cotter, on July 16, the Feast of Our Lady a stairway. of Mt. Carmel. Today, although in the Denver Catholic Register of Dec. 29, 1949. The remodeling included the installation of new heat and venti­ not completely finished, the build­ lation units, insulation of the building, new plaster, celotexing of To Study in Rome ing is already being used for a the ceilings, the laying of larger water mains, and installation of number of educational, social, and drinking fountains, a fire-hose, and hot-water facilities. Larger win­ John Edward Cotter, a student athletic functions. It measures Census Taker Finds dows of latest design and fluorescent lights solved the illumination for the Archdiocese of Denver in 128 by 50 feet and is of cinder problem. St. Thomas’ seminary, will begin block construction. It has-a brick Except for the brick, heating, plumbing, plastering, and exca­ his study of theology next M l at veneer front, with the other walls Necessity of More vating, the work was done by local labor under the foremanship of the North American college in stuccoed in contrasting colors. It Anthony J. Madonna. The architect is James M. Hunter of Boulder. Rome, it was announced by Arch­ contains six classrooms, a base­ The present pastor of the parish is the Rev. Thomas L. Zabolitzky, bishop Urban J. Vehr. Cotter is ment, kitchen, rest rooms, show­ Donations to Burse O.S.B. the son of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence ers, and rooms suitable for meet­ Cotter of 1350 Clayton street, ings and motion picture presenta­ The calls of Uie census taker at Parish Has 220 Families members of St. Philomena’s par­ tions. the homes o f ‘ Denver Catholics St. Louis' parish has approximately 220 families. There are 110 ish. Much work remains to be done serve to emphasize the amazing pupils in the eight-grade school, 15 more than last year. Although Bom in Las Animas Sept. 11, and the raising of funds, a diffi­ growth of the see city and the en­ the school has four classrooms, only three are used, because the 1928, he received his elementary cult task at best, is handicapped by tire state in the past several years, • order of teaching nuns can supply only three teachers for the school. education at Columbian grade the poverty of the Spanish-speak­ I'Elisir' Is Called and the fact that there are sev­ The extpa classroom is used for meetings of parish societies. school there and attended the Bent ing parishioners and the transient eral parishes in newly developed County high school'for one year, nature of much of their employ­ areas of Denver and in other com­ The parish has a remarkable record of material achievement for munities of the state that are the past decade. The chu^^h, erected when building costs were much After a year in Maur Hill high ment Father Fullana, recently re­ school in Atchison, Kans., he com­ turned from a two-month stay in awaiting pastors. On their_ own less than now, entailed a cash outlay of $30,000. In addition, a great Perennial Favorite initiative. Catholics in some of the deal of the work was donated by the parishioners. pleted his secondary education Mexico, where he was forced to with two years at Regis high school go because of his health, is by no When the dress rehearsal of UElisir d’Amore is pre­ Denver sections have started to in Denver. For the past four years means discouraged. • gather funds to begin building he has studied the liberal arts and sented in the Denver City auditorium Sunday, April 23, at churches as soon as a priest can Upon hit return he teamed Betty Jackson philosophy in St. Thomas’ semi 2 p.m., members of the religious sisterhoods, orphans, and be assigned to, serve them. The New Members Are Invited that the mop factory he intti- Archbishop, however, cannot as­ nary. A sister is a member of the tuted tome years ago at an em­ ambulatory patients from several sanitariums ■will be spe­ Among the cast * of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, cial guests. This is a continuance of a tradition established Catholic Charities opera sign priests that he does not have. Kans. ployment aid for hit parishion­ He looks to the archdiocesan semi­ ers was in need of business.