m • <s -1 s Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Contents Copyright by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1955—Permission to R«roduca, Except W 590 Families Are Given Aid Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue By St. Vincent de Paul Men DENVER CATHaiC Report Also Shows Many Spiritual Works of Mercy REGST School of Instrucfioni + + + + + VOL. LI. No. 21. THUlfcDAY, JANUARY 5, 1956 DENVER, COLORADO To Be Conducted for Doctor Prayed to Save Prospective Members B y J ack H eh er Life of Stricken Tot The Denver Archdiocesan Particular Council of the St. Vincent de Paul Societyj which in the Grim Firemen Join in Entreaties past year formed five new conferences and reacti By Lou Smith sponse he asked permission of the take him to Colorado General Hospital. There six doctors vated five others, will conduct an Ozanam School THE PRAYERS of an Au­ parents to perform an operation. They consented. awaited him. They opened his rora Qtholic doctor while he of Instruction for prospective members of the Fire Chief Orville Boston and windpipe and inserted a tube 'to massaged the stilled heart of a society. Asst. Chief Tex Sussman admin­ ease his breathing. four-year-old boy to resume action istered oxygen while the doctor Dr. Squire? said the child's The plans for the school were revealed in a have been taken up by thousands operated. \^ e n the boy’s heart recovery hinges on how se­ report from T. Eaber Taylor, president of the in the Denver area as the child began beating again the fire de­ verely the central nervous sys- -I* I Particular Council, to Ardibishop continues his fight for life in the partment ambulance was used to (Tum to Page 2 — Cohimn 3) i f ' Urban J. Vehr, Mr. Taylor’s re- Colorado General Hospital. At press time his condition was still Eleanor Friel, Convert Personal Servicer critical. The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Jo The prayers were murmured by Second Denver Blind Girl seph P. O’Heron, s p i r i t u a l Dr. Robert Squires of St. Pius X J s First Rule of moderator of the charitable or^ Parish, Aurora. 'While his fingers ganization, will conduct the probed the emergency incision Revealed in Convent Life Ozanam School, which has been made by a razor blade, his other De Paul Society most successful in the San Fran­ hand clutched the religious medals A story in last week’s Denver agree on the type of sisterhood. The sale of day-old bakery Maria Montano, one of two girls who are Catholic Register concerning a Miss Alarcon is entering the The Society of St Vincent de cisco Archdiocese. he carries with him. Beside him Paul—a world-wide charitable Tasty Display goods at,the St. Vincent de kept busv handling sales, is shown above waiting blind girl -who is leaving for the Franciscan Sisters at Rice Lake, organization of Catholic laymen Also announced in the letter Paul Salvage Bureau store, 1951 Lawrence on a customer. The pastries and bread are sent grim firemen, one of them hold­ convent brought to light the Wis., whereas Miss Friel was — was founded in 1833 in Paris was the fact that the meeting of Street, Denver, is a very successful venture, ac­ to the store from Bender’s Bakeries.— (Register ing a huge lantern to illuminate story of another Denver blind among the first American postu­ photo) by Frederic Ozanam, a young the Particular Council at All cording to reports from Leo Keleher, manager the doctor’s dining-room table lants to join a French congrega­ man of 20. The first- American of the store. tion called Friends of the Sick, Saints’ Parish Thursday, Jan. 12, emergency work, prayed too. A newly established in the United conference was organized in St. - f -f -k Louis, Mo., in 1845. The so­ would focus the attention of all 4- -f- - f few seconds later the boy’s heart States the past fall at Devon, Pa. ciety was first established in Den­ the parish conferences on the began beating again. Talented and ver in 1877 and re-established in needs of the Goat Hill and Col­ Bakery Department Proving Popular • • • Enterprising .May, 1914. Since 1914 the soci­ lege View areas. Like Hortense Alarcon, Miss ety has been carrying on its work THE DRA.MATIC rescue fol­ Friel was talented and enterpris­ in Denver. The Particular Coun­ Advance Shown lowed a freak accident Dec. 31 ing in secular life, despite her cil was formed Feb. 27, 1916, At St. Vincent de Paul. Retail Store in the home of Mr.^and Mrs. Earl handicap. Baptized as a convert The society was incorpor­ In Every Area in the Cathedral June 25, 1949, ated as a Colorado corporation Demers, 893 Revere Street. Their The membership in e v e ry girls work at top speed to an- manager of the St. Vincent de she had lived in recent years at on March 29, 1939, under the A new venture at the Sl Vin­ son, Neal, had just been given a St. Rose's Residence, Denver, ‘title: “The St. Vincent de Paul branch of the society increased in cent de Paul Salvage Store, sw a the requests of the cus- Paul Salvage Bureau and the bath and was playing on the liv­ Prior to that time she had kept Society.” The Denver confer­ the year, according to the report. tomas, who sometimes number store. He planned the venture her own apartment while oper­ ences assisted more than 4,000 1951 Lawrence Street, Denva, ing room floor, "nie tracks of his There are 148 active members in 100 or more.-, with his son, Andy, the man­ new electric train ran around the ating the lunch counter in the needy poor during the fiscal year the sale of day-old bakery ending Sept 30, 1954. 17 conferences, an inaease of 10 The bakery goods are good, ager of Bender’s, which has 10 Christmas tree. The parents heard State Office Building. It was to goods, is enjoying phenomenal her customers that she turned St. Vincent de Paul Society per cent; 50 honorary members, and cheap, and one old gentle­ stores throughout the Denver a scream and a crash as the Christ­ when her interest was aroused in members believe that by helping an increase of 50 per cent; and 62 success. man with an eyic for taste treats area. mas tree toppled over. Catholicism. They directed her save the souls of those they are subsaibers, an inaease of 26 per Everything sent from Ben­ called upon to assist they will At about 11 o’clock evecy was ovajoyed find-nout that "The father found the boy, to the Cathe'dral convert class, cent. ■— morning a crowd begins,To the cherry pie h e was contem­ der's to the De Paul store is which resulted in her Baptism by help save their own souls, and clothed only in a pair of shorts, the Rev. Duane Theobald, now on Judgment Day will hear the The Particular Council pro­ gather at the store, awsKting plating waj/priced-At only 15 sold at half price and if it is unconscious, his head on the track. pastor of Holy Redeemer Parish, consoling words of Our Divine vided the funds to purchase the the shipment of bread arid pas­ cents. / kept over another day it is sold The Christmas tree lights, some Colorado Springs. Master—"For I was hungry and at quarter-price to clear the you gave Me to eat . Amen, necessary religious articles for the tries from Bender’s Rakcries, The,/nan responsible for the of rhenr shattered, had shorted She continued to be self-sup­ formation jof a Holy' Name So­ and for an hour and a half two bakery boom is Leo l^eleher. cases for the new. shipment. out on the tracks, sending the vol­ porting when living at St. Rose’s, I say -to you, as long as you'did , Eleanor Friel working in the box department it to one of these, My least ciety in the State POTitentiary, Bender’s also donated the cases tage through his body. 'The father of the American Macaroni Com­ brethren, you did it to Me.” Canon Gty. Numbers Above 2,000 Members used tp displa^fhc pastrjes. called the Hoffman Heights Fire girl, Eleanor Friel, who left in pany. She also kept up her in­ Special Work* August, 1955, to begin the reli­ A sound slide film, entitled yHow popular the Ijakery sale Department and Dr. Sqjjires. "My terest in housework and knitting It is said: “No work of char- gious life. Adding to the remark­ and_ sewing, her favorite hobbies. , i^ " fs foreign to • the society.” But Who It My Neighbor?, Was Denver K. of C. CouncU ^5 can be judged by. the rise in boy is htiL He> stopped-breath­ able coincidence ie the fact that This may be explained by prepared to help in acquainting volume since it began in Febru­ ing,” he told the' doaor. the two girls are good friends, Brought others what is known as the special ary, 1955. In the first month • • • and, indeed, influenced each To Conversion new members wfth the work of Now Ranks 13th in World A one-woman apostolate ever works, whereby, in addition to sales grossed $300, and in THE DOCTOR administered other toward a vocation. visiting in the horoes of the poor;- the society and to help in the re­ Denver Council 639 is now the Knights of Columbus- Both Miss Friel and Hortense since her conversion.