TABLOID EDITION, PLATTSMOUTH JOUBNAL
PAGE KO. HB.
OCTOBEB, 5. 1939
ilANLEY CHURCH AN EAEXY MISSION
(Continued from Page 8)
About 18 SI, land was secured at Col
Iftre Hill and a frame church erected, dedi
cated to St. Patrick by the Rev. Patrick
S. Lynch of Plattsmouth. Two acres of
la rid were secured for cemetery purposes.
The first resident priest was the Rev.
F. J. .Nugent, who came in September,
IS 5 4. He boarded with the Schlater fam
ily until a small frame residence was
built. In July. 1902. the church was
struck by lightning and destroyed.
Or. the return of the pastor, the Rev.
John Hennessy, from a trip to Ireland,
steps were taken to erect a new brick
ihr.rch in town. Five lots were bought,
and the cornerstone was laid by Bishop
Bonacuni June 2S. 1 f 0 :i . He dedicated the
church, which cost about $20,000, May
2U. liiOl. and confirmed 21 persons the
same day. A two-story frame residence
v. as erected adjacent to the church.
Before the church was built. Mass was
celebrated at the home of Patrick Blessing
ton and Frank Slander and in the section ,
house at Louisville and a school house a
mile west of the present cemetery. j
Priests who attended the church or were
pastors of it were Fathers Bobal. Lynch.
Nugent. John Lawless, John Hennessy.
William Higgins. Wattelle. Harte and J.
J Kaczmarek. The Rev. James Hennessy
is the present pastor, with Elmwood as a
mission.
The original Stander home is still
standing. Mass was celebrated in it over
sixty years ago.
Farmers predominate in the parish, al
though there are some workers from the
Louisville cement plant and Weeping
Water quarries. There are 4 8 families.
Raymond Haith, Miss Eleanor O'Brien,
Thomas Stava, O. M. Kintz, Mrs. Baltz
Meisinger.
RT. REV. AGIUS CLASSMATE OF POPE
The Rt. Rev. George Agius was born in
the island of Malta. Europe on January 10,
1S72. He studied in the Seminary of Vic
toria, where he was ordained to the priest
hood in lf'Oo. He went to Rome in 1896
and frequented the Pope's University,
when he bec ame Pod or of Divinity and
Doctor in Canon Law. It was at that
time when he met the present Pope Pius
XII with whom" he was a classmate for
(our years.
Father Agius came to America in 1902
at the invitation of Bishop Bonacum,
whose Secretary and Chancellor he was
for ten years. He was in charge of Seward
from 1912 to 1916. of Geneva from 1916
to 1927. "and of Plattsmouth from 1927
to the present time. He was made Domes
tic Prelate of His Holiness in lf'3f and
Dean of the Plattsmouth Deanery n 19 37.
ANNIVERSARY DONATIONS
The following were contributors to the
special collection for the SOth anniversary
observance:
Contributed $3.00 Dr. W. V. Ryan.
Contributed $2.00 Mrs. E. J. Richey,
Francis Hetherington, John Bergman.
Contributed $1.00 Philip Horn, Mrs.
C. Bintner, Mrs. Peter Claus. E. Fitzger
ald. Frank Xeugebauer. L. W. Lorenz, A.
R. Case, George Jaeger. John Bajeck, Mrs.
E. J. Doody, Edward Stava, Dr. L. S. Puce
lik, Frank Smith. William Halmes, Dan
Reichstadt, M. Hausladen, Mrs. Anna Pitt
man, Mrs. Frank Molak, Mrs. Thrall, Fran
cis Toman,. Edward Kelly. Joseph Schla
ter, Frank Libershal, John M. Meisinger,
John Libershal. John Cloidt. W. M. Wool-
cott. Frank Mullen, Edwin Schulhof. Mrs.
J. C. Petersen, Miss Alice Rohren, W. M.
Brink, E. A. Lorenz, Carl Ulrich. Richard
Otterstein. Miss Nora Kennedy, F. I. Rea,
Mrs. Penny, Mrs. E. Ulrich, Mrs. L. Free
man, Miss Margaret Scotten, Miss Gene
vieve Whelan, Mrs. M. D. Brown, Mrs.
Elmer Webb, Mrs. Edgar Creamer.
Contributed 50c Mrs. Julius Pitz, Mrs.
Phillip Born, Mrs. John Gochenour, Mrs.
Helen Toman, John Tomas, J. Bierl, Ken
neth McCarthy, Mrs. LeFter Gaylord, Mrs.
HEALTHY CATHOLIC
GROWTH IN DIOCESE
ONE THRIFTY HOUSEWIFE TELLS i
FRIEND IT PAYS TO TRADE AT
ATnTisip-nnr fiporsrp Asrius. nastor of St.
John's church in Plattsmouth. who wrote
the history of the diocese under Bishop
Bonacum. and who is familiar with the
development of the diocese throughout the
fifty years of us existence, was recently
asked by Monsignor Helmann. editor of
"The Register." Catholic publication, to
write the concluding paragraph of an ar
ticle by Monsignor Helmann tracing Cath
olic growth in the diocese under Bishop
Kucera. Monsignor Agius wrote as fol
lows: "In these fifty years of its existence, the
Diocese of Lincoln has reason to rejoice
for God's having sent to it, according to
the times the rie-bt man to lead the peo
ple. First, he gave us Bishop Bonacum.
who for almost a quarter of a century laid
the diocese's foundations on a solid basis
and traced, as it were, its future course
of life. Other bishops followed him
Bishop Tihen. Bishop O'Reilly and Bishop
Beckman and continued his work. And
then, when other times came times not
of prosperity but of depression and dis
couragement God sent us another man
according to Bishop Bonacum's own heart.
This man is Bishop Kucera. Like Bishop
; Por.acum. he has put new life in the Dio
jcese of Lincoln. Not unlike his first prede
cessor, he is a fearless leader, and he al
ways has in view the best interests ot
religion.
"For that reason, he has used hercu
lean efforts to keep what others had built,
and it seems now possible that he will
save what only a short time ago, because
of the hard times, seemed almost irrepar
ably lost. No wonder that today then the
priests of the diocese are, as never before,
united with their bishop. 'Dominus con
servet eum et vivificet eum et beatum
facial eum in terra.' "
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