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Xavier's Hand Still Blesses Japan
Thursday, June 2, 1949. Seventy-sixth Year.
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Pope Blesses India NEW DELHI India, May
CARDINAL GILROY PAPAL LEGATE By REV. PATRICK O'CONNOR Society of St. Columban
20-(NC).-Replying to a message of congratulations sent to the Pope by Chkra-
varti Rajagopalachari, Governor General of India, on the occasion of the Pon-
only 48 years after Xavier first apostolate to Japan. In Kagotiff's golden jubilee as a preached Christ in his halting shima, where he landed in Augpriest, His Holiness Pope ust of 1549, they began a NoJapanese (Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service). Pius XII. has expressed his Thereafter the pilgrims went vena of Grace on May 31. The gratitude to the Governor TOKYO.-Across 400 years and 15,000 miles, the by train and bus to the prin- fourth day of the Novena found General and has extended them amid cipal towns the and ruins cities associated and Xavier reaches out again hanto touch the right hand of his blessing to India and with Xavier's crowded 27 -month new -timbered houses that is now all her people. diwork of Xavier. A reliquary containing the right arm Hiroshima. of St. Francis Xavier arrived here from Rome for celeCardinal Gilroy is all the more w elcome because of his kindlibrations marking the fourth centenary of the Saint's comness, shown on a previous vSsit ing to Japan. Sunday, May 29, saw the beginning of to Japan in December of 1946, the celebrations in Nagasaki, the old Christian centre, His visit to Nagaski means a reTOKYO, May 1.-(-C). --The scene of sixteenth century martyrdoms and target of the union of two former fellow stu- Rev./ Henry J. Reid, of the dents. The Cardinal and Bis- Australian Province of the twentieth century atom bomb. Sachop Paul Yamaguchi, of Nagas- red Heart of Swillington, -Villagers Mission Society, has Taking the form of a pilgrim- zone, by Royal Australian Air aki, were classmates in Rome. near Leeds, Yorkshire, have come to Japan to study for his age, the celebrations will last Force plane on May 23. Lieut. collected £120 to send an Popular imagination here has congregation the possibilities of two weeks, reaching their climax General Robertson, commandin.s 11 -year -old non-Catholic been captured by the coming of undertaking mission work in de. British occupation forces, the on Sunday, June 12, with a Pongirl, Barbara Campbell, the relic. The celebrations will some part of this country, six representatives, tifical Mass in Tokyo's vast Meiji signated paralysed since birth, with certainly increase Father interest Reid expects to spend in toheaded by Rev, Eugene Hogan. Stadium. her parents and brother on day's living, growing missions five or six months visiting the t'olonel-Chaplain, to meet Carthe Leeds diocesan pilgrimAll Japan is interested in the dinal Gilroy and accompany hist founded by this enshrined hand missions here, and will then reage to Lourdes next month. centenary. Even non-Christians to Tokyo and throughout the slhich first raised the crucifix port on his findings to the ProMethodists, Anglicans and realise the historic significance of pilgrimage. and poured baptismal water in eincial of his Society in AustrapilJews are among the' Xavier's coming to Japan in the Japan. lia United States pilgrims are led grims, who will be led by year of 1549, He was the first by Bishop Thomas J. McDonBishop Henry J. Poskitt, of to introduce Japan to the out- nell, Auxiliary of New York and Leeds. side world and the outside world National Director of the Pontito Japan. The Japanese recog- fical Society for the Propagation nise that the Faith he planted of the Faith. Spanish pilgrims, here has survived with marvel- bringing the relic of Xavier, toe TSINGTAO, China, May 17,lous vitality and heroic fruits, largest group of pilgrims, left wherein even non-Christians take Tokyo by train, the Xavier Spe(Radio, NC).-Reliable sources pride. hers report that the Rev Ancial, on May 27 for Nagasaki. thony Ma, a Catholic priest of The foremost pilgrim is His Cardinal Gilroy officiated at the The priest had already been Thomas CarNorman LONDON, May 19-(NQ:- the Chefoo diocese, was put to dinal Gilroy, Archbishop of Syd- afternoon, May 29, on the hill A huge wooden cross containing death near Pingtu, in central sought by the Shantung Communists as far back as August, ney, Australia, who is represent- hetwen Nagasaki and the Catho- a relic of the True Cross, which Shantung, last month. 1147, when two of his co-working His Holiness Pope Pius XII lic settlement of Urakami, where left Jerusalem on Holy SaturTwo years a refugee from the ers, the Revs. Joseph Teng and Accompani- the atom bomb' dropped. Twenty day, and has been carried through as Special Legate. Communists, Father Ma return - James Chang, were killed at ed by five other Australians, the Japanese martyrs and six Span- Syria. Lebanon, and Italy to At that time Father Papal Legate arrived at Iwak- ish Franciscans suffered cruci- Rome for the Holy Father's de to Pingtu from Tsingtao for Pingtu. the spiritual care of Catholics Ma escaped. Father Ma was uni, in the British occupation fixion for the Faith on this hill blessing, is to be shouldered over Easter. He was hearing over 50 years of age. For a long through France and Belgium and confessions at the time of his time he had been pastor at St. eventually to come to London, it rest A brief trial preceded arhis Mary's Church in Chefoo, an imwas learned here, execution. portant seaport. The cross will later be taken to Ireland, and possibly to the United States, it was said. The cross, ten feet high and Dr. Moedder's finding contradicts the results of studies made five wide, is being borne by by other experts in the past, but young Belgian men and women appear to be well substantiated who have been distributing reby the detailed data submitted lief goods brought by the Aid to By MAX JORDAN Palestine Refugees Fund (Staff Correspondent, N.C.W.C. in his report News Service). COLOGNE, May 12.-Experi-
Mary Draws All
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They Help Carry The Cross
Real Cause Of Christ's Death
M.S.C. Mission?
Two Chinese Priests Killed
11 Year Virgin May Be
Canonised Next Year
By REV. JOSEPH J. SULLIVAN ments recently carried out at St. (Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service). Francis Hospital here, under the direction of Dr. Hermann MoedVATICAN CITY, May 20.-Hope has been expressa leading LONDON, May 19.-(NC)-Frank Sheed, der, who is in charge of the Xed among Vatican officials that the cause of Blessed ray department, have led to the British Catholic lay thinker, told 1,500 people at a Duir Maria Goretti, Italian -born modern martyr of chastity, conclusion that Christ died on dee, Scotland, meeting that Stalin, present dictator the Cross from an "orthostatic Russia, though comparable as a ruler with Diocletian, is will be completed in time to canonise her during the collapse" resulting from a cessaHoly Year, it was learned here. tion of heart and cerebral func- actually no Communist. If she is canonised next year, coli. The fact that the average Communist regards him During her process for tions which, in turn, were caused by insufficient blood circulation. as above criticism, takes one back 3,000 years to the idea hers will be one of the shortest beatification he was one of the processes on record in modern principal witnesses, He reportDr Moedder reports his findings of the tribal chief and the tribal god, he added. times. Blessed Maria died in ed that he had several visions of in the Jesuit magazine, "Stimto 1902 in defence of her chastity. the girl while he was in prison. The present government and of Munich men der Zeit," Her mother, brother, two sisRussia is typical of the despotBlessed Maria was beatified Freiburg. ters, one of them a nun, and the in April, 1947, and at that time The editors, in an introductory ism Asia always produces when man man one who left only attacked her are still to herself; her mother, then 83, and partialnote, state that the article goes ly paralysed, was brought to St. Hun- alive. HONOLULU-(NC), far toward providing a satisfact- matters; government is by secTwo miracles proposed for her Peter's in a wheel -chair and ocory answer. to the problem so recy and terror; illimited lies dreds of Japanese Catholics in long discussed as to what was can be propagated, because the Honolulu observed in advance canonisation have just been con- cupied a place of honour near the not do sidered by the Sacred Congrega- altar. opinions of the people landthe fourth of the centenary the real cause of Our Lord's matter at all, he ras,d. ing of St. Francis Xavier at ton of Rites at a preparatory death. A modern saint whose process However, considerable was completed In a critical survey of Com- Kageshima, Japan, with three session. the author recalls in this con- munism in shorter time and its prospects, Mr. work remains to be done before nection that a Paris physician Sbeed said the three main ob- days of religious ceremonies for official acknowledgment of her titan that of Blessed Maria-if the success of the coming celeshe should be canonised next by the name of Dr. Barbet had sanctity can be given. its spread were Rus- brations in Japan. year-is St. Therese of Lisieux; proven in 1935 that the nails of stacles tonon-Communist governBlessed Maria was attacked at she died The St. Francis Xavier Club, in 1897 and was canonthe Cross did not piece the palms sia, theof the world, and the Caments of Honolulu, composed of Catho- the age of 11, fatally injured be- ised in 1925. or Our Lord's hands, but rather was a trag- lics of Japanese ancestry and cause of her resistance, and died It Church. tholic His wrists-a statement which he added, that his others interested in the spread in a hospital. Her assailant, may well be of consequence in edy for Marx, doctrines were tried out in a pre- of the Catholic Faith, among the Alessandro Serenelli, who was LANSING, Mich.-(NC).-Cathe case of stigmatics. dominantly agricultural country Japanese people, sponsored a ari- Inter given a 30 -year prison sen- tholic school children in MichiThe Cologne experiments were whose people were politically duum from May 19 to 21, with tence, obtained her forgiveness gan may ride public school buses conducted with the help of medi- unprepared for Marxism. services in three different Hono- from her hospital bed before she along established routes, accordcal students who volunteered to ing to a Bill which was passed The services of died. If Russia had not gone Com- lulu churches. have themselves suspended as munist many After serving 27 years of his here by the Michigan State Sennations the second night were held in other though on a cross. Their heart might have done so, and thus, the historic Cathedral of Our sentence he was pardoned, and ate. The Bill had been approvcondition, blood pressure and the example of Russia has saved Lady of Peace, where Father on his release from prison enter- ed earlier in the lower house of pulse ws:re carefully measured. the world, he argued. ed a Capuchin monastery at As- the State legislature. Damien was ordained.
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