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NEW JERSEY LAWYER ORDAINED IN ROME FOR SOUTH CAROLINAFather Smith to Serve Diocese of Charleston—Charlestonian to Be Ordained(Special to The Bulletin)CHARLESTON, S. C. - The Rev. Mr. Laurence Sheedy, an alumnus of Bishop England High School and a native of Charleston, will be ordained to the priesthood in May at the Cathedral here by the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D. D., Bishop of Charleston.(By K. of C. News Service)ROME. — The Rev. George Lewis Smith, state advocate of the Knights j of Columbus of New Jersey, and for- j merly a widely known practicing attorney of the state, was ordained to the priesthood March 13, at the Basilica of St. John Later an by Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani, and offered his first Holy Mass at the Church of Santa Susanna in Rome on Passion Sunday, March 14, 1937. The • Very Rev. Michael Browne, O. P., rector of the Angelicum, the Dominican University, was assistant priest, and the sermon was preached by Rev. Thomas L. O’Neill, C. S. P., the Superior of the Paulist Fathers in Rome.Father Smith was a lawyer at South River and an active member of the New Jersey Bar for almost 10 years. For the past five years he went to Europe part of each year to pursue his ecclesiastical studies at the Beda College.He is a member of Our Lady of Victory Council, Sayreville, New Jersey, present Navigator of the Fourt Degree Assembly of Our Lady of Victory, a past District Deputy in New Jersey, and one of the pioneer promoters of the Laymen’s Retreat Movement in New Jersey. He has been a member of the Speakers Bureau of the Knights of Columbus, and has taken an active part in the affairs of Columbianism in New Jersey. He traveled extensively in Europe and the Near East and was in much demand as a speaker at Knights of Columbus events.Father Smith was ordained for the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina, where he intends to go as soon as he lias finished his studies in Rome.m
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Monroe Bulletin
Monroe, Georgia, US
Fri, Apr 30, 1937
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