BROTHERS' TOUR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 10

BROTHERS' TOUR

CATHOLIC PRIESTS g PASSENGERS ON MONTEREY ' V EXPERIENCES IN EUROPE The coincidence of having visited Auckland on the only two occasions they have left Australia in company for a holiday was mentioned yesterda'j by three middle-aged brothers wh(i" were through passengers for Sydney by the Monterey. They are all diocesan priests of the Roman Catholic Church and all served in the one city Adelaide. They are the Ilev. Fathers J. A., F. C., and I*. J. T. Gatzemeyer and all were born in Australia. The brothers left Australia last year partly to attend the Eucharlstic Congress at Budapest, after which they travelled extensively through Europe and the United Kingdom. At Rome they had an audience with the late Pope Pius, being among 1200 people admitted to a gigantic room kept for the purpose in the Vatican. The three brothers were in Austria shortly after the anschluss and in Germany some time before the Nazi measures against the Roman Catholic Church reached their peak of severity but it was apparently in both countries that the Church was going through a period of great stress. Italy was in a very different category. Father F. C. Gatzemeyer recalled on his arrival at Auckland that the last time he and his brothers had gone beyond Australia for a holiday was in . 1934. On that occasion they were passengers by the Strathaird on the first tourist cruise undertaken to New Zealand by the P. and 0. Line.