Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
At the end of the year 404, in the seventh month of his exile in the mountains of Armenia, the deposed Archbishop John of Constantinople chastised his disciple Olympia because she had fallen into despondency.
The year was 1942, 10 years before I was born, and just a couple of years after my family had moved to Gastonia. My grandfather, who by this time had eight grandchildren (with many more to follow), just kept on bothering his good friend, Father Alphonse Buss, the Benedictine monk from Belmont Abbey who was the pastor of St. Michael Church.