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Eight Nations Celebrate Corpus Christi at Hiroshima
Holy Father Proclaims
W.A. Airman Represents Australia
A Parish Priest who Fought
Two New Saints Jansenism On Sunday last the Holy Fat her added two more names to the
roll of Saints: that of Father Michael Garicoits, founder of the Institute of Auxiliary Priests of the Sacred Heart, and Elizabeth Bichier des Anges, co-foundress of the French Community of the Daughters of the Cross.
SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR. Like them, his missionaries were to take life vows and to spread far and wide. Associates gathered round him at Betharram, and all seemed promising when a check came from an unexpected quarter. The bishop, who had been his patron and had ordained him, was replaced by another who viewed with disapproval his idea of founding a new Congregation. His constitutions were subjected to a fundamental revision. He was told to confine himself to the diocese, and to work only under the direction of the bishop. Not till 1852 was the community allowed to choose its own superior, and even then it was tied down by regulations which hampered its activity. Father Garicoits submitted, but with a heavy heart. "What pangs accompany the birth of a congregation!" he once said to one of his sons; but generally he bore his trials in silence. He died on Ascension Day, May 14, 1863, at Betharrarn. Fourteen years later, in September, 1877, the Institute of Auxiliary Priests of the Sacred Heart was approved in Rome, and sanctioned as a separate congregation on the lines St. Michael had laid down.
SAINT MICHAEL GARICOITS, two or three companions he CONF. (A.D. 1863). started to live a community life, Towards the close of the and then, in order Mat he might better know God's wilL he went the century, and in eighteenth early part of the nineteenth, to Toulouse to attend a Retreat there was living in the Lower given by Father Le Blanc-a To this good priest he Pyrenees at the hamlet of Ibarra, Jesuit. a family of poor peasants named opened his heart, and was en"You Their cottage was couraged to persevere. Garicoits. humble enough to human eyes, will be the father of a Congrebut God's blessing must have tion that will be our sister," said rested upon it, because its hos- the Jesuit, and Father Garicoits pitable door was always open to drew up in 1838 a constitution receive the proscribed priests, largely based on that of the sons who, from time to time (luring of St. Ignatius. the French Revolution, and the years immediately following, came to minister in secret to the faithful. Here on April 15, 1797, there was born to Arnold and Gratianne Garicoits their eldest son, Michael. Life is hard in those mountain regions, and the boy was a mere child when he was hired out to be shepherd boy to a farmer. His own often expressed desire was to be a priest, but his parents always replied, "No, Metropolitan Gregory, of Len- derground. It would be treachingrad, a representative of the ery against the new Christian Seven nationalities at the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. we are too poor." The old grandmother thought Soviet -dominated Moscow Pat- martyrs who languish in Russian Let to right are: LAC P. F. Mc Adam (Australia); the Deacon, Father M. J. O'Brien (Ireland); Warrant Officer E. B. Robertson otherwise. One day she went riarchate of the Russian Ortho- prisons to recognise the apostate (India); the celebrant, Father Aruppe (Spain); Wing Comman- to talk the matter over with the dox Church, is on his way to Red Church. der S. G. Quill (New Zealand); Wing Commander D. F. S. Shaw parish priest of St. Palais, who in America and a tour of the 300 "The action of the Cleveland times past had often found a Russian Orthodox parishes in the Sobor in 'recognising' Moscow (England). hiding -place in the Garicoits' cot- United States, Canada, and Alas- was the product of the familiar techniques by which Communist from a young Japanese, who had re- tage. wasThrough his efforts the ka.The Airmen and soldiers imminent visit of the Rus- minorities control lethargic mareceived first into the England, India, Australia, In- mained faithful to Christianity boy sian College of St. churchman has Palais and afteroccasioned a jorities in other fields. Strange land and New Zealand were in the face of threats and pres- wards Bayonne, arrangements statement by Archbishop Vitaly, emotional appeal, based on love among hundreds of Catholic men, sure from the Japanese "Thought having atbeen made that he should of New York, on behalf of the of homeland, was used with skilwomen and children of nine na- Police" before and during the he no charge upon his parents, four Archbshops of the Russian ful effect. A false picture of a tions who recently celebrated the war. but should earn his expenses by Orthodox Church in America, free church in Russia was brazFeast of Corpus Christi in ;he the Holding canopy over the working out of school hours for that "the true American Ortho- enly painted," grounds of the Jesuit Novitiate, celebrant and two deacons were priests and in the bishop's dox Church was not and is not which is perched on a wooden four British Commonwealth Oc- the It was a strenuous time subject to the Moscow PatriarReligious Task Force. hillside a few miles north of cupation Force men, Wing Com- kitchen. for the young peasant, but he chate the true church in RusArchbishop Vitaly stated that Hiroshima. mander D.F.S. Show, of Surrey, was clever and healthy. sia is underground." Metropolitan Gregory will be acU.K.; Wing Commander S. J. Recognised in U.S. companied to America by a group Moreover, he was working to They were friends and ene- Quill( of Invercargill, New ZeaArchbishop Vitaly criticised of secretaries who "will be no attain his heart's desire. Philmies of each other who had been land; Warrant Officer E. B. Robthrown together by the war. ertson, of Lucknow, India; and osophy he studied at Aire and the action of his church's Eccle- strangers to the Kremlin." This siastical Sobor (formal Assem"religious task force," he ..said, Many were Religious flotsam L.A.C. McAdam, of 98 Angove- theology in the grand seminary at Dax, where he was nicknamed bly) in "recognising" the Mos- will attempt to establish permanfrom the so-called "New Orders." street, North Perth, W.A. "Our Aloysius Gonzaga." Whilst cow Patriarch Alexis as spiritual ent relations with, and "political There were French Nuns from Most of the Japanese congre- still a seminarist he took a class head of the church in America. control over," the Russian Orthothe Hiroshima Convent who had spent eleven years in war -torn gation were youths and young in a preparatory school near by, He said that this action, taken at dox Church in America. China; Monks from Spain and girls dressed in clothes cut to a and in December, 1823, he was or- Cleveland last November, was in Germany. who, persecuted by rough European style, with here dained priest in Bayonne Cathe- violation of canon law, has been His revoked by the American Arch- AIM OF CHRISTIAN DEMOFascism, had fled to the Far East and there older men and women, dral by Bishop d'Astros. and found sanctuary in a Bud- wearing kimonos and walking first parochial experience was bishops, supreme governing body CRATS. solemnly in telling procession gained at Cambo, whither he was of the Russian Orthodox Church dist and Shinto country; children outside of Russia. their rosaries. sent to act as vacaire to the cure, made homeless and parentless by "We have repeatedly been acThe Moscow Patriarchate, In the atom bomb, and now cared Flower girls; their heads and who was in feeble health. of weakness, indecision and for in the Catholic Monastery. shoulders shrouded in white lace the two years he remained there through the visit of Metropoli- cused love tan of compromise," said PreGregory, seeks to establish a he did much to revive religion, veils, scattered petals at the The celebrant was a Spanish altars and behind the chanting combating Jansenism by the cus- relationship with the American mier de Gasperi in a recent ad"But our quest for a tom of frequent Communion as Orthodox group in order to raise dress. priest, who had been forced to choir. line derives from the same leave his country during the civil Peasants ii, the flooded paddy well as by intr011ucing Sacred its own prestige in the eyes of middle war of the middle 1930's; the dea- fields below the monastery occa- Heart devotions. He tackled the Russian people and other be- idea that inspired 'Rerum NoSocial justice must be con was an R.A.F. Padre from sionally glanced up to watch the freethinkers with so much fer- lievers in Europe and the Near varum.' BCAIR Station, Iwakuni, Squad- procession as it slowly wended its vour that one of them was heard East, Archbishop Vitaly explain- attained without loss of liberty. Rev. M. J. way along the earthen path, then to exclaim. "That devil would ed. "We have collaborated with ron Leader the everybody, showing much patiO'Brien, of King's Terrace, Wat- bent their hacks again to plant give his life to save the soul of Sufferance of Kremlin. an enemy.,." ence and tolerance. We are still erford, Eire; the sub -deacon was rice seedlings in the mud. "It should be borne in mind," Father Garicoit's next call was he added in his statement, "that willing to do our duty to our to a professorship in the Great more than 200 bishops of the country; but it is not true that Seminary for priests at Bethar- Russian Orthodox Church are we want to impose our domination ram, and then to be superior- still in Russia only on sufferance upon others or seize dominating a congenial post which he filled of the Kremlin. They have pur- position. We Christian Demowith conspicuous ability and suc- chased their freedom at the price crats will continue to do our duty cess. The bishop, however, sud- of political subservience. Nine - whenever the need of the counin relation to denly decided the sem- tenths of the clergy, however, try demands it... DVERTISERS inary with thatto ofmerge Bayonne, and who were imprisoned under vari"For us political action is not St. Michael found himself with ous waves of persecution, still re- an end in itself, two other priests left alone to fuse to compromise, and continue ment for social but an instruprogress. There SUBSCRIBERS CAN SUBSTANTIALLY ADVANCE THE carry on the services. During their via dolorosa until death. are victories and setbacks in polithis period, when he was more or A post ates. tical life. INTERESTS OF "THE RECORD" BY CONSULTING WITH However, we mean less stranded, there began to take "The true American Orthodox to go on working to win for the shape in his mind a scheme for Church was not and is not sub- Italian ITS ADVERTISERS FOR ALL THEIR REQUIREMENTS. people their right to live training priests to do mission ject to the Moscow Patriarchate. and to keep Christian civilisation work among the people. With The true church in Russis is un- upright."
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