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The Australian National Pilgrimage pictured outside the Basilica of St. Mary Major, one of the four churches which pilgrims must visit in order to gain the Holy Year Indulgences. (Photo by courtesy of "The Advocate Press.")
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Monsignor James Knox to be Secretary was promoted to the important 11011111EM0111111111111 FEAST OF OUR LADY Junior Rector Propato Japanese Delegation post CARMEL. ganda of
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During the war, Monsignor His Grace the Archbishop will The above Feast will News has been received from Rome that Rev. Dr. Knox was actively connected preside at Solemn High Mass at be observed at the Carmthe location of Australian Queen of Martyrs Church, May - James Knox has been appointed a Monsignor, and with elite Monastery, Dalkeith, prisoners of war-a work carlands, on Sunday next, 16th. has been transferred to Japan on Sunday, July 16th as secretary to the ried on by the Vatican Radio Ininst., at 11 a.m., the Silver JubiMissa Cantata will be formation Bureau. After the lee of the Dedication of the Apostolic Delegate, Most Rev. Dr. sung at 8 a.m. In the aftMaximilian capture of Rome, he acted as ernoon at 3,30, Rev. Fr. Church. Furstenberg. chaplain to the Allied troops. Dunphy Confirmation at St. Peter's, C.Ss.R. will For the past two years, Moned for three years with preach Ahern's the occasional Bedford Park, 3.30 p.m. Ltd., and then deciding on the signor Knox has been attached sermon. Benediction of 1111111111111111EMINMill priestly vocation, commenced to the Vatican SeEretariat of the Blessed Sacrament In 1947, after an abwill then follow and the his studies with the Benedictine State. veneration of the relic of Community, New Norcia. He sence of twelve years, he return10,000 Young St. Simon Stock. sailed for Rome in September, ed to this State on a visit to his relatives. 1935, and was ordained at Propaganda College in 1941. Aftqr Farmers in Paris post -graduate studies he was awarded the double doctorate CHILDREN AND PARENTS HAVE NEW For four days Paris witnessed a (Divinity and Canon Law), and peaceful invasion when an army of 70,000 young people descendPATRON ed on the city from farms in all VATICAN CITY, June 26. New Type of Mission parts of France. Arriving in 35 His Holiness Pope Pius XII held up St. Maria Goretti as special trains and hundreds of LONDON, June 8 (NC.) an automobiles and buses, they new -type mission, beginning a inspiration to purity for the modern world and lame to celebrate the 20th. ancampaign intended to follow up entrusted both children and their parents to her niversary of the founding of the the great general mission of last Jeunesse Agricole Chretiefine year, has been introduced in St. protection against the dangers of modern immor(Young Christian Farmers). Augustine's parish, Tunbridge ality, in his homily during the canonization Wells, Kent. Their convention, one of the Catholics are admitted to the ceremony. largest ever held here, was at("Beseeched and ensnared by a Alessandro, mission services only if they wanton was contended by members of the youth. -years-old Ales- victed and senthowever, to prison for 30 bring along a non-Catholic sandro Serenelli, 19who lived in the years, but repented long French Hierarchy and high govbefore the same house," the young girl who expiration friend. Each night the missionthe sentence. After ernment officials. sin more than death itself serving his of ers deal with a different aspect feared term, Alessandro became resisted constantly all temptations a gardener for the Capuchin monTo lodge the delegates a huge of the Faith and reply to quest- and all threats, until, on the aft- astery at camp was built in Issy les Moulernoon of July 5, 1902, she fell under seclusion. Ascoll, where he lives in ions submitted. the steel of the wicked youth and ineaux, in the Paris suburbs, Maria was pictured by her neighThe mission is organized by the white gown of her immaculate bours as having a radiant personality. where 10,000 of them slept in became stained with the blood She was by the villagers. the Catholic Missionary Society, purity of her martyrdom. She was taken She was ofidolized tents. "thers were housed in fair complexion and had which was responsible for the to the hospital at Nettuno where bright chestnut hair, schools, invents and private she died on the following day, July general mission. The The mission canonization Maria took homes. For most of the "Jac- RT. REV. MGR. J. KNOX, D.D., for Before her death she forgave her place 48 years after of non-Catholics was preceded 6.killer, death and prayed for him and asked three years after her her istes," many of whom had workbeatification). D.C.L. by a week's mission preached that he be pardoned. ed overtime for months to earn (Further references, Page 15) by the Revs. John Heenan and enough money to come to the Monsignor Knox, D.D. John Callaghan, both of the convention, it was their first trip is well known in Perth. D.C.L., Son of Catholic Missionary Society, to to the capital. the late John and Alice Knox, prepare the Tunbridge Wells STEPHEN'S CROWN TO RANSOM During the convention, dele- he received his early educatioit parishioners for their apostolic gates attended religious cere- at "Mary's Mount," Gooseberry task. monies and study sessions and Hill, and at St. Brigid's Convent, CARDINAL The mission for non-Catholics staged pageants in which they Midland Junction. opened with a crowded meeting WASHINGTON (NC.) If ange. The American Hungarian displayed their various provinAfter leaving school he work- in the local opera house. the Crown of St. Stephen i'lergymen's Association cial costumes. Attendance was should be used as a ransom it ested to President Truman protand so great that many events had to should be to free His Eminence the State Department that such be held in the Pare des Princes Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, imp- a "deal" would "kill outright Stadium, largest in Paris. At risoned Prinrtte of Hungary, the Hungarian national soul and HOW THE FAITH CAME TO KOREA the closing Mass, it took 120 the United Catholic Organization resistance." The crown is "the priests to distribute Holy ComSEOUL, Korea, June 26. The welfare of for the Freeing of Cardinal embodiment of the Hungarian munion. told the U.S. State national Constitution," the clergthe small, thriving Catholic community in South Mindszenty Department. ymen said. "We believe that no The convention was attended The organization which has human being has the right nor by His Eminence Emile Cardinal Korea stood gravely imperilled this week with the Rogues, Archbishop of Rennes; launching of full scale war by the north Korean headquarters in Jamaica, N.Y., the authority to barter such a made the sdggestion after hear- relic." His Eminence Achille Cardinal ing rumours that the Hungarian (The United States came into posLienart, Bishop of Lille; Arch- communists on the south Korean republic. Catholic faith came to Korea trained the first Korean priest, Bles- communist regime has offered to session of the crown in 1945 when bishop Angelo Roncalli, Papal in (The a unique way, having been int- sed Andrew Kim, who was martyred release an imprisoned American American soldiers discovered it in an Nuncio to France; Archbishop roduced by a layman who was bapt- a year after returning to his native Austrian salt where it had businessman, Robert Vogeler, in been hidden mine by retreating nazi Maurice Feltin, of Paris, and 45 ized while at the Chinese Imperial land, Since then the Hungarian in Peking in 1784. He insBy the time the Korean dynasty return for the crown. Mr. Vog- troops. other Bishops. The Govern- Court tructed and baptized others on his granted religious freedom in the eler was given a 15 -year prison regime has several times requested ment was represented by Pre- return the U.S. to Korea. When the first, mis- 1880's, Korean lay Catholics and in Budapest last Febr- urn it. State Department to retmier Georges Bidault and Min- sionary priest, Father Tyou, a Chin_ Parts missionaries had gone through sentence The crown has long been one of entered the country in 1795, he wave after wave of persecution. In uary on charges of spying and ister of Agriculture, Gabriel "se. the most venerated objects of Hungfound 4,000 They increas-. 1925, Pope Pius XI beatified 76 sabqtage. arian Catholics. In their hearts it Valay. Observers were sent by ed to 10.000 Catholics. before he was martyred Korean martyrs. Today it is common At the same time two other ranks with the holy right hand of the United Nations Educational, ten years later. to meet Korean Catholics who can Stephen which each year was martyrs among their, recent organizations in the United St. Scientific and Cultural organi- Then, after 30 prieartless years, claim in impressive procession States have expressed their op- carried ancestors). came the Parts Foreign Missionaries, through Budapest until the Reds sations. also to meet martyrdom. They (Further references, Page 7) position to the rumoured exch- stopped the practice).
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