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discusses the
commercialism of
Christmas this wook
on page four.
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Dedication of the new
three and a half million dol
lar addition to Good Samari
tan Hospital, Zanesville will
be held at 4 p.m. next Wed
nesday, in the gymnasium of
the Nurses Home.
The seven-floor, L-shaped
addition to the fifty-four-year-old
hospital which is operated by the
Franciscan Sisters of Christian
Charity, was begun in December
1954, after a local fund raising
drive.
Bishop Ready will preside at
the dedication ceremonies next
Wednesday and will Rive the
principal address, according to
Roy V. Plummer, chairman of
the dedication committee and
the Advisory Board of the hos
pital.
Monsignor William E. Kappes,
Diocesan director of charities,
will offer the invocation which
will be followed by an address
by Governor and U.S. Senator
elect Lausche.
Dr. R. S. Martin, general chair
man of the fund campaign, will
speak for the Sisters, followed
by Dr. J. Herbert Bain, president
Crooksville
Church Is
Redecorated
CROOKSVILLE Bishop Rea
dy will offer a Pontifical Mass,
at 10:30 a.m., and preside at cere
monies in celebration of the re
decoration of the Church of the
Atonement here this Sunday.
According to Fr. Andrew H.
Hohman, pastor of the Crooks
ville parish, the interior of the
church hes been completely re
decorated during the past year
by the Lisk-owiak Studios of
Milwaukee.
The ceiling has been painted an
off-white and the side walls are
now grey, with a dark blue-grey
wainscoting. On the wall in back
of the Mgh altar and back of the
statues of the Virgin Mary and
St. Joseph are painted after a
famous Venetian tapestry. This
is a predominantly red back
ground with gold leaf.
The border between the ceiling
and walls bears an “Alpha and
Omega” design symbolizing that
“God is the Beginning and End
of all,” according to Fr. Hohman.
Thd new altar was constructed
of oak bv the Snider Flautt Lum
ber Co., New Lexington. The new
lectern is also made of oak.
A beautiful gold tabernacle is
on the main altar.
Life size statues of the Blessed
Virgin and St. Joseph are of sol
id oak and were hand-carved in
Switzerland. The figures in Sta
tions of the Cross, which were al
so done in Switzerland, are hand
painted on copper after the style
of Feuerstein. The frames are
oak covered with gold leaf.
Electrical work was done by
Jack McGeevy of New Lexington.
Light fixtures are wrought iron,
octagon-s’iancd lanterns which
wec d” 'coed b- Witold J. Lisk
owiak. Tie sanctuary has Ram
busch rcto-snots.
Ove’’ t’5e entrance of the bap
tistry are the symbols of the Sev
en Sacranents. The wrought iron
work in the baptistry was made
and designed by Joseph Mc
Greevy Sr.
Flee coverings "ere installed
by Bi in- ci’s of Lancaster. Plas
tering v as done by Richard Houk
of Crooksville.
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Good Samaritan Hospital Zanesville
S’/j-Million Dollar Addition
Dedicates
of the Good Samaritan Staff, who
will speak for the medical staff.
Zanesville Mayor Sherman
Johnson will give the response
on behalf of the city, followed
by the main address by Bishop
Ready.
Blessing of the Hospital will
take place in the lobby followed
by Solemn Benediction in Sacred
Heart Chapel.
Open House Saturday and
Sunday
According to Sister Mary Vic
tima, administrator of Good
Samaritan an Open House for
the general public will be held
Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 15
Bulgarian
Kurteff Officially
Under Arrest by Reds
VATICAN CITY__ (Radio, NC) Bishop Cyril Kur
teff, Apostolic Exarch for Bulgarian Catholics of the Byzan
tine Rite and last free Bulgarian bishop, has been arrested
in Sofia, it has been confirmed here
Bishop Kurteff had already been described as “probably
detained” in the Red Book of
the Persecuted Church, which
was published here in May, 1956,
by the Commission for the Per
secuted Church.
Bishop Kurteff had been re
ported in 1952 as having been
arrested. It is now known that
he had at that time been ex
pelled from his residence, and
that afterward he lived in a
small room in the basement of
the Sofia cathedral until he was
arrested.
The arrest of Bishop Kurteff
leaves the Church in Bulgaria,
long suffering under relentless
but little publicized persecution,
without any free bishops.
In July, 1952, the Bulgarian
Reds arrested Bishop Evgen Bas
silkoff of Nikopol on various
trumped-up charges.
The following September the
Bishop was tried, with 39 priests,
nuns and laymen, on charges of
“spying for the Vatican, possess
ing firearms, and spreading re
actionary and anti-popul-ar
propaganda”
Bishop Bassilkoff and three
Assumptionist priests were sen
tenced to death.
Since that time there has been
no certain news of him. It had
earlier been reported that he was
being detained in an insane asy
lum, but now not even that re
port may be held entirely cred
itable.
Bishop Ivan Romanoff, Vicar
Apostolic for Sofia and Plovdiv,
was arrested by the Reds around
the time of Bishop Bassilkoff’s
“trial” and was summarily con
demned to imprisonment without
any legal formality. A Red Bul
garian judge sentenced the Bis
hop. who was then 72 years old,
Local Notre Dame Club
Holds Family Communion
The Notre Dame Alumni Club
of Columbus will hold its annual
Family Communion, Sunday, Dec.
9, at 9 a.m.. in St. Joseph’s Ca
thedral.
Fr. John Doll of Notre
Dame University, will be the
principal speaker at the break
fast at Kuennings Restaurant I
.following the Mass.
___________________ Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, December 7,1956
and 16, 9 a.m. urttil noon, 1:30
to 4:30 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Sister Victima said the Sisters,
student nurses, graduates, mem
bers of the Charity Circle and the
Auxiliary of the Medical Acad
emy will conduct tours through
the modern 224 bed unit.
The new building is the work
of Dan A. Carmichael, archi
tect Columbus Knowton Con
struction Company, Bellefon
taine the Limbach Company
and the Electrical Contractors,
Inc., Columbus.
Besides the new bed space the
addition houses operating rooms,
delivery rooms, nurseries, office
Bishop
to 20 years imprisonment. He
died in prison within six months.
The arrest of Bishop .Kurteff
is the latest tragic event in a
seven year period of frequent
ly occurring tregedies for Bul
garian Catholics.
57,000 Ro
Bulgaria’s
Of these
In 1949 there were
man a o 1 i.c s in
8.000,000 population.
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space, emergency suite, physical
therapy, X-ray and children’s de
partments plus pharmacy and
laboratory sections.
Good Samaritan History
The Hospital had its beginning
in a 13-room frame structure
built at the request of Mrs. Mar
garet Blue, one of Zanesville’s
philanthropists, in memory of her
invalid daughter. It was incorpor
ated as the Margaret Blue Sani
tarium in September of 1895.
Franciscan Sisters
By 1900 the Board of Directors
had turned the operation of (he
hospital over to the Franciscan
Sisters and the nuns had enlarg
ed the facilities by purchasing
Brush family land and George T.
Orr land plus several other lots.
On Juna 27, 1902, Bishop
Moeller then Bishop of Colum
bus, dedicated a 12-room addi
tion formally naming it the
Good Samaritan Hospital.
In 1906 Bishop Hartley dedi
cated another addition, costing
seventy thousand dollars.
A year earlier the nursing
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Entrance Exam
For St. Charles
Saturday Dec. 15
The entrance examination
for St. Charles Preparatory
School, 2010 E. Broad St., will
be given at the school Satur
day, December 15, 1956, at 1
p.m. Any eighth grade boy who
is planning to enter St. Char
les in September 1957 is elig
ible to take the examination.
'w'"'
dear Brethren:
The past eventful weeks in Hungary and Eastern Europe
given good evidence .of your fervent Catholic spirit. Your
and prayers have brought great edification to us and untold
solation to anguished people. In the Church, the Mystical
y of Christ, we are members one of another. If one suffers
all suffer. In reply to the numerous inquiries made by
tors and the Faithful, I assure you that gifts of money or
hing will b. received at the Bishop's Office at the Chancery,
East Broad Street, Columbus, or the Catholic Welfare
eau, 246 East Town, Columbus, for sending directly to the
holic Relief Services, N.C.W.C. now operating in Austria
Hungarian refugees and throughout other countries in Eu
t, Asia and Africa for poor suffering people. This i$ the
opt of the United States official world wide agency for
ef of distress among persecuted and needy .people. It works
ler direction of the Holy Father and the recognized universal
ritabfe agencies in the Holy See.
We earnestly solicit your alms and prayers for the brave
pie now enduring untold hardships because ef their desire
religious and civil liberty. We should try to match their cour
with our sacrifices.
Pastors are requested to arrange suitable novenas and ether
otions asking God's help in the present crisis and pleading
His consolations to the many victims of Communist cruelty,
request, too, homes for the refugees among our cherished
holic families.
With my blessing,
Some of these messages—one
from a youth about to be exe
cuted—have now been brought
into Austria. One 16-year-old
girl named Ilonka wrote her
mother:
"The last 48 hours have been
frightful ones, and it seemed
a* if we wouldn't be able to
live through it The night
of interminable nightmare
spent in the wagon will never
leave my memory. We were lit
erally packed in the wagons,
the air suffocating. My dear
Mother, I can't write any more.
Will I ever see you again?"
The picture emerging from the
messages is that the initial de
portations were made the week
following the springing of the
Soviet trap in Hungary on No-
Forty-eight year-old St. Ladislaus parish
church (left) was torn down this past week to
make way for the new church which will be con
structed immediately according to Father Francis
Riehl, pastor.
The new structure which will be completed
in about six to eight months, will seat approxi
mately 500 parishoners and will cost nearly 200
thousand dollars.
General contractor for the new church will
be Kent Brothers while Carlisle Plumbing and
Devotedly in Christ
MICHAEL J. READY
Bishop of Columbus
‘We Were Packed in Wagons’
Messages From Behind
Iron Curtain Prove
Hungarians Deported
GRAZ. Austria (NC) While the Kremlin and its
parrots in the satellites have been charting “no deporta
tions from Hungary, no deportations from Hungary,”
refugees still trickling into Austria have evidence to the
contrary: pitiful messages from their loved ones now in
CP’Jlivily the Soviet Union.
The Hungarian patriot* who
were deported in sealed rail
read car* were for the most
part young men and women,
some' of them girls of 16 and
17. The messages were given
to parents and loved ones by
members of a group of about
40 who returned. Wounded and
too weak for manual labor, they
were shipped back to Budapest,
after being screened by Soviet
doctors. Many brought messag
es written by their compatriots
on odd scraps of paper.
vember 4. Soviet secret police
rounded up hundreds of Hun
garian youth at a time, took
them to the restored A.V.O.H.
(Hungarian secret police) head
quarters
then off
prison in
toon.
for interrogation, and
to the Gellert Hill
Buda to await deporta-
they were taken to the
Thence
railway station at Cegled in
army trucks guarded by Red
Army tanks. At Cegled they were
herded into a special tram and
taken by way of Szolnok. Debre
cen and Zahony to Uzhgorod, the
former Hungarian town of Ung
var annexed to the Soviet Ur
raine in 1945.
The messages bear this out. A
girl who had been attending an
arts college in Budapest sent
following to her parents:
“At the Uzhgorod railroad
tion, as the boys passed by
wagon door, they bade us good
bye. The sight was tragic. Many
of the young freedom-fighters
were badly beaten by guards
“I saw 'oung boys unable to
walk one strong student was
beaten so terribly that he was
moaning in the wagon. Many
young workers had their hands
bound behind their baeks. A
priest also had his hands bound
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Construction Begins on New St. Ladislaus Parish
Church, As 48-Year-Old Structure Is Leveled
Heating and the Electric Power and Heating will
complete the sub-contracts.
Mass is being offered in the school during
the construction.
The parish which was organized by Father
Robert Paulovics at the request of Bishop Hart
ley in 1908 was originally predominantly made
up of people of Hungarian descent.
The school which was opened in 1917 in a
frame building is now in a beautiful brick struc
ture, with a 350 student capacity, which was com-
RO
Bishop Hits
Movie Code
Advertising
Fr. Sullivan
Observes
Golden Jubilee
Father William Sullivan, chap
lain of the Shrine of St Theresa.
5277 East Broad Street, yesterday
celebrated the fiftieth anniversa
ry of his ordination.
A Solemn Mass, attended by
Bishop Ready and several mem
bers o* the Diocesan clergy, fol
lowed by a quiet reception, mark
ed the Golden ordination jubilee
of Father Sullivan who was born
Fr. Sullivan
in Cleveland and attended ele
mentary and high school in To
ledo.
Fr. Sullivan attended Notre
Dame University during the last
decade of the nineteenth century
and St. Mary s Seminary, Balti
more. Md.
He was ordained by Bishop
Hartley. December 7. 1906.
Fr. Sullivan has served as as
sistant
parish.
and at
town.
the
sta
our
pastor of Holy Family
pastor at McConnelsville
Crooksville and Johns-
He served as chaplain at St.
Joseph Academy before his ap
pointment in January. 1952. to his
present post at the Shrine.
Holy Dav Dec. 8
Saturday, December 8 is
the Feast of the Immacul
ate Conception and a Holy
Day of Obligation. A I I
Catholics must attend
Mass.
Remember Christmas is
Christ's Birthday
Send Christmas Cards
with a religious theme.
Price Ten Cents $3.00 A Yeer
Asks Everyone to Renew
Legion of Decency Pledge
In a letter to all the clergy, religious and faithful of the
Diocese, to be read at all Masses, Sunday. December 9,
Bishop Ready struck out at those factions which promote
lewd movies and urged everyone to renew the Legion of
Decency pledge.
“The Catholic rejoices”,
the Bishop said “in the sin
lessness of the Virgin Mary and
pours forth its gratitude to God
for His Providence in giving us
Our Immaculate Mother,” on Le
gion of Decency Sunday which is
annually held on the Sunday with
in the octave of the Feast of the
Immaculate Conception.
In the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy
Ghost. Amen.
I condemn indecent and im
moral motion pictures, and
those which glorify crime or
criminals.
I promise to do all that I can
to strengthen public opinion
against the production of in
decent and immoral films, and
to unite with all who protest
them.
I acknowledge my obligation
to form a right conscience
about pictures that are dan
gerous to my moral life. As a
member of the Legion of De
cency, I pledge myself to re
main away from them. I prom
ise. further, to stay away alto
gether from places of amuse
ment which show them as a
matter ot policy.
“for men and women who lov
ingly call upon such a Mother.”
the Bishop continued, “there will
be a .ready response to condemn
the lewdness and vulgarity which
unfortunately characterize much
of the Hollywood p’ oduct.”
Hitting out at those “greedy
and unprincipled men" who
would ruin “such a fine modi
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Confirmation
For Adults
At Cathedral
The Sacrament of Confirmation
will be administered by Bishop
Ready at 3 p.m.. December 16. at
St. Joseph Cathedral to any adult
in Franklin County who has not
yet received the sacrament.
Any adult Catholic who has pot
received this sacrament for one
reason or another is urged to con
tact his pastor so that instruc
tions may be given prior to the
rehearsal and instruction at 7:30
p.m. on December 9 in the Ca
thedral.
Those being confirmed will be
required to have their baptismal
certificates at the time of re
hearsal.
pleted in 1950. The students are taught by the
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky.
The new church (architect’s drawing, lower
right) will have an unusual glass front with two
beams forming a cross above the doorway.
An additional wing may be added to ths
new church if expansion is necessary in the fu
ture, Father Riehl said.
Fr. Riehl, right, center below, and Fr. Fran
cis Miller, assistant pastor, rip the first board
from the old church.