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HLtatg KMIC—(Special)—C&ina's faaioas Gate of Hesvea j leper colony i*as beaa takea over by the C«mmH»ists and the: man ksaown tao tboasaads of Americans as "Big Joe" Sweeney b u hesen dUpo*«tied.

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Bed officiates JornaaQy took ovtr f&e operation of the cotosay, after refralniaig fus s interfer-em* tor almost two years. For Father- Jaaente A. Sweeney. 56-year • old Mauryknoll Sllsstomer from New Earttain, Conit, this met is the closing dawn of his Ufe work eanong **the mamb ones' 'of South Chlria. A localj typhoon struck the Island. The

leper colony at <3*e Moon, 30 ro&sa sosth ot Sun Wtri on an, Island te a * sso«th ol the Kong- l moan River .

PATH£K SWKEStKf' cleared; the grows! himself and began ta erect permanent buiidliigs. On !

Sept. 2.1937. when Gate of Heav­en was but half completed. a j

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Communist rt*s been placed In charge, and the Connecticut priest no longer has amy control over the lepra* asylum he found­ed and twice rebullt.

wind reacted a velocity of 164 mlka per hour, the higaeai ever | recorded in the region, end flat-1 tened every structure in thei settlement. i

FATHEB SWTEEXEY and hu! Father Sweeney rebuilt Gate I assistant, F a t h e r Carroll I • of Heaven. It opened in the sum-Qulnrs of Baltimore, Md.. are • mer of 19®. Witfcln a tew years.: •till living at the colony In;he was earing for nearly 450; formed circle* In Hans Kong feel I patients, comfortably housed in i that the misaaonera will only be j screened, brick - and - concrete i allowed to remain at the colony buildings. I ai long u *unds hold out. j DISASTER AGAIN struck the

Wtsen the money is iron*, it I colony, in the form oi Japanese' la felt that tfae priest* will be ex-1 goidlers, on March 23, IMS. They pelled, and t±»e colony shut down. (iTKrn o u t , n o s e \epnn who couW ] There U apprehension for i h f L j j , J ^ J }tii|ea the rest They, aalety ol tb« lepers, and many bumcj t^o 0 j the 18 buildings,; believe that the colony patients. converted the cpapcl into a' will toe put t o death by the Reds. stable. and used the remaining j

IT WAS I N 1933 that Father J structures as barracks until the Sweemey started to work among j war's end. the leperi ot the Kongmoon sec-tion of South China. Already a f ^ i p f e C e b b r d t e

»»*d*4 m *m. * mt*tisir of *te monk*. As a t*»t 61 good f»»h * track w*» load** with twa* vm and mm in Mom* aecotn' panttid by two ttwntas. When the

Di*S»iMi. toM htm the C M f f i p n i «« Its »»t* ajtrfwdl waached

veteran of twelve years in the missions ol China, Korea and! Manchuria, he had prepared lor Ii mew tjsfcs by aturtles In Dam ' len leper cokmg on Moloka! In j the Hawaiian Islands, In China's asyliun al Sheklung. and tn the . Icderal leprosarium in Louisiana

The first leper group he minis ' tered to lived In a dark bamboo gro-ve near the city of Tui Shaan

"Sitting around tn thai )unfile darttness v^ere deformod crea tures with only stumps where, hands or feet should have been." \ he recalls. "Many had distorted f a c e s . I saw o n e afflicted, Chinese woman, hideous to be hold, with a beautllul clfrht ; mcHT»th*old baby girl in her arms. The child, a s Is often the case with c-hfldren of lepers, was spotless"

When htas group errew too largo for the bamboo grove Father 8v«»««n»y moved to the hills north of Toi Shaan. to the Sun Wnl grsvelsnds. Alter three yemrs then? the Chinese govern ment recognized his work and granted him 300 acres for a nc*

Jubilee In Jail Statevtlle, IH- — (NO — An

Illinois Catholic couple who have spent their entta* wedded life in jail celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary here. Both their children have spent most of their lives In Jail too.

Tho couple are Sir. and Mrs. Joseph Ragra. Mr. Ragea has been warden of StatevUle pris­on for almost SO years. Before thst he uaa warden at Menard State prison and sheriff of Clin­ton County

The Bagen children lure spent their live* at the county Jail at Cartyie. IIL. sod the Stair pris­on* at Menard and Statevllle except when attending school. \ \ Ulaxn Is now • student at S t Ambrone College, Davenport, Iowa. Jane, a graduate of SL Msryu College, Notre Dame, IndL. Is society editor of the Joliet Herald Newt

Wrrden and 'Jim. Bagen are members of the Kt. Raymond Cathedral parish, JolieC

front line was t« b * laid thxovujli the town of Casatoa

Colonel Schkftl kniwpdjUfly realteed. that thin wight mean serious damage to tfi* ahbey. founded by S t Bentdlct to OXt, which had already been destroyed three times in its long history. It was Impossible for htm to al-tcr the commander's decision asd he set about persuading th* monks as discreetly as posulbJ* to leave the shbey and amvs Its* precious contents.

-OF WHAT GOOD would It be to the world if, after the building had beer, destroyed, the two sides begun to accuse one an­other of baving brought about the loaa of Europe"! moat prec­ious c u l t u r a l kerltastV he writes.

He first approached Abbot Gregorlo Diamare. "a roost ven­erable man over 80 years ot age," on October 14. 1943.

"1 could not reveal any mili­tary secrets to him and tell him that in a short while the front line would run through his sb-

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9m. Abbot. U» susjtldowt ftsayy vanl«toe4 and h« «H»d th« Ger­man nS^t t s M& hto all he coul4

COLONSU SOUUH.SL bti-mediately ocjtanlwdl a carpen­ter's shop in the abbey, vrtiere * few German toldlera and aomt Italian refugees ma4e hundred* of boxes and ca«es to contain paintioga ana other works o f art, A nuriflstr of German t)ryck« were provided and wen sent «M to the Vaticsa loaded witrj price­less treasurers. E ach mm ac­companied by two monka.

In this way, the colonel telli, "I succeeded tn saving soma 90,000 volumes from the library and the archtvtjs. Amdae them were the whole Pauhia Dlaconui collection dating from the eighth

Vatican Receives Finnish Minister

Rome - tRNSi - - Ake Henrik Gartz, new Finnish Minister to the Vatican, presented hie cre­dentials to Pope 1*1 us XII at an

bey," the German ofuoex relates » u m e n c e |„ We F»apal summer T o have done ao »-ould have | r,.^^,,^ a t csstel Gandolfo. meant a court-martial — all the | A n n n U h legation was estab-more ao as I had said nothing , U s h e d ln VaUcan Oty in IM2, to my commanding g e n e r a l bvU ^nxx 1947 o n l v g charge about my proposal" j &lkttmlrtt ^ ^^^ ln authority

HE TOOK HIS courage in both , h e r c

hands and saw «j» Abbot but, formerly Finnish could not Impress htm with the 1 ' idea of any serioui danger. He' Minister of Foreign Affair*, alto tried several times more as the , will represent hU country In Allied front line rolled nearer (Switzerland, dividing his time be-and the danger became more iro-1 m fta^ ^ Beme. mlnent and eventually had to r^.,., . . .^ . , _ _ <-„,<«,»„ t K . teU him flatly that If the attack ' ° u U l d e t h e I r o " C u r t a t e - t h e

era Isunced s fulUcale assault ton^ European countries still un-

or succeeded in landing In the, represented at tbe VaUcan are German's rear the monastery 1 Sweden, N o r w a y . Denmark, would be damaged. A German' Greece and Turkey. However, monk. Dom Emanuel Mundlng.: Greece and Turkey are reported and the prior, Gaetano FoTnari, in process of establishing dlpkv backed up his arguments. ma tic relations with the Holy

The Abbot was at fast per- See

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•raj Cotvirad; of wtiat Ivra*d6lnn unui m$ task **» ear adymneed, Spat whett t # 1 ao, not without *ome trepidation, t was MAT. aJsle to conviivce hirh ot the !RV portance ot the work, and b* twt otily i tve wd€ta that it ihouM be co»Unyt4 but sent addUtowl kt'pat*. *

"This was very neceaaary lw caase to addition to the abbey* own treasures the content* ot •evttral covefl)ment*owne4 laUef. Mt had been deposittd there tor safe custody. Among #m palnl« tegs were on* by teonardo d» VSnd, two by Raibail three by Tltttn, and a*vewil by Tlatorelto, GhlrUndalo. Piettr Brtugh*l and others. Trier* wert ajio the pm* tous vasea from Pompeii and the armor oi the aCmperor Chafl«

The government-owned proper­ty was moved to • caatle In Spateto. At the Abbot's request the colonel a t e transporled some TO refugee nuns to the Vatican. The latter convoy w« bombed, but without casualties.

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