Page 8, 4th March 1955

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Mother of five priests dies

Mrs. Mars losephine Scannell, who died on Friday at Selby. Yorks. was the mother of five priests and the widow of Dr. Patrick Scannell. who died in 1945.
Three sons are parish priestsat Keighles. Batley and Sheffield— one is a Jesuit serving in British Guiana. and the fifth is a Cistercian at Mount St. Bernard's Abbey, Leicester A sixth son is a doctor. Of three daughters. one is a nun.
The last brother
The last of tour priest-brothers in the Salford diocese. Fr. George Callaway. 74-year-old parish priest of St Gilbert's. Winton, Lanes, collapsed and died outside his preshv• iery on Thursday last week Fr Callaway had heen i Si Gilberts since the parish was was founded in 1917. before that at All Saint's. Barton, near Manchester. There were no bright coloured feathers, no romance. Just squalor and life lived at a low level.
To be a typist in Chicago may not seem much to aspire to but it would be heaven compared to that situation. To be a Christian, too-well, that would he heaven indeed.
Below zero
By the time we left, a blizzard was sweeping frozen snow across the prairies, and as we raced back the 60 miles to the city 1 thought of the patched-up draughty shack, with its occupants sitting all day in the half dark feeding the stove with corn cobs and now enduring the full blast of a prairie blizzard in temperatures already below zero.
And I thought, too, of the priests and nuns who, in the heart of prosperous America, where the general material level is so fantastically high, have chosen to work in such conditions—to save anentire people from physical extinction and to save its soul at the same time.




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