TEACUP 'CHALICE' IN RED PRISON

Missionary used it for Requiem Mass
WHEN Fr. Albert Martinez, a Jesuit missionary whose home is in Bogota, Colombia, arrived some days ago at the Hong Kong border from Red China, be had with him a tiny teacup.
It was his prison chalice.
For 100 consecutive days Fr. Martinez had been forced by his Communist guards to sit on the floor in a cell in the Livan prison in the Anhwei province. He was not allowed to stand up or lie down, and was forbidden to speak to the 23 other prisoners in the cell.
One day a small piece of bread was smuggled into him. In it was a note telling him that his mother had died.
That night Fr. Martinez memorised the words of the Requiem Mass, and next morning he offered Mass for her. The teacup was his chalice and his altar consisted of the small block of wood given to prisoners as a pillow.
Fr. Martinez was imprisoned with another Jesuit, Fr. Sicard, but they were put in different cells. They never saw each other, and Fr. Sicard is still in the prison.
Irish Bishop stoned
NEWS that reached London this " week tells how the Irish Bishop of Nancheng, 66 year-old Mgr. Patrick Cleary, was marched through the city after a Communist "accusation meeting " at which youngsters threw dirt and stones and spat at him.
With the Bishops were two Irish priests of St. Columban's Society and two Chinese priests.
Last Christmas Bishop Cleary excommunicated all Catholics who signed a manifesto in favour of the "reformed church."
At the accusation meeting he and the four priests were lined up and forced to listen to denunciations for two hours.
The Bishop and the two Irish priests were sent back to their residences under armed guard. The Chinese priests were jailed.
Bishop Cleary comes from Kilysart, Ireland. He was ordained in 1911 at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, and taught moral theology and canon law there until he joined St. Columban's Society in 1918. He went to China in 1931 and was consecrated Bishop in 1938.