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Show j 'Religious Intelligence. 'i ; - ; Rev. Patrick" V.TIartigan. prior of Holy Rosary church, Minneapolis, after lingering for weeks between be-tween life and death, "'passed away on Friday of last : week. at midnight. The cause was congestion of the brain, from which he had been suffering for some time. . . . Father Parkinson, S. J., -who died recently at Stonyhurst college, was a convert to the faith and Mas at one time the Protestant ''Vicar of Wakefield' Wake-field' . ' : f The Catholic Poles of Chicago will erect a monument mon-ument to the memory of Tadensz Kosoiuszko in Humboldt park, for which ground has already been broken. The monument will bcjuncovcred Sept. 11. v. 4 - St. Joseph's convent chapel, Charlottestown, Prince Edward's .Island, celebrated its centennial last week. It was erected at St. Andrev'sas a churcli 100 yesrrsv.ago and was 'transferred from there to ChavlottestpwjjjOii the ice in March, lS'U. It measures 00x30 fect and Mas hauled by 120 horses. . , The;late Bishop Moore of BallaraU- Australia,. M-as deeply mourned ly rioii-Catholics. Protestant .clergymen and prominent officials attended the Ju-neral Ju-neral and the local Jewish congregation adopted appropriate ap-propriate resolutions. At the funeral of Father Cunningham of La uncos ton.,,, Australia, were present pres-ent a somewhat similar assemblage. Bev. Fathers Digman of Rosebud and Lindolin-ncr Lindolin-ncr of Pine Ridge, -two missionaries M"ho have been working among the Sioux Indians for the past twenty-five years, were both expelled from Germany 'at the time the Jesuits Mere ordered out of that country. - Rev. P. A. O'Riclly, pastor of St. Paul's church, Birmingham, Ala., and chaplain of ihe Third regiment regi-ment of the state militia, mIio died as a result of a fall from his, horse M"hile at a brigade encampment, was a popular citizen. The funeral precession was a mile long, and business was suspended in ihe city during the services. A mass meeting held there raised over $1,000 in twenty miimtes for a monument monu-ment upon which it is proposed to spend $7,000. At the consecration services of Armagh cathedral cathe-dral the collection amoumed to 0,000 a magnificent, magnifi-cent, example of Irish faith backed up by substantial Avorks. . His grace of San Francisco, Most Rev. Archbishop Arch-bishop Montgomery, dedicated the n"ow Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor Wednesday, Wednes-day, Aug., 10, to the honor of God under the patronage patron-age of St. Anne, the mother of the Blessed Virgin. Over a score of priests and nearly 1,000 laymen and , women' attended the services. ''The woman question" in church choirs does not exist in the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The great provincial council, held in Cologne in 1800. enacted a law excluding women from church choirs, which law Mas at once carried into execution execu-tion throughout the. province. ' , George II. Conley, the new superintendent of Boston's public schools, is a Catholic, and a graduate gradu-ate of Holy Cross College, Worcester. At this year's commencement he received the degree of doctor of laws from his alma mater. Mr, Conkey is '"52 years old and has had years of experience in educational edu-cational work. ' What promises to be one of the most interesting conventions held during the progress of the World's Fair is that of the St. Vincent de Paul society, the largest Catholic charitable organization in the world, which is arranging to hold an international convention next September in St. Louis. " Thursday, vthe 11th day of August, is an eventful event-ful one in. our diocese, says the Record of Louisville. Louis-ville. It is the golden jubilee' day, or fiftieth anni-" versary of the founding' of the American province of the congregation of the Xavierian Brothers. Fifty Fif-ty years ago the first colony of these humble, teaching' teach-ing' religious arrived in Louisville from Belgium. w The Annals of the Propagation of the Faith just at hand states that the receipts of the society for the year 1903 Avere ,$1,247,421. This is a decrease de-crease of $72,187, as cdmparod with the amount given in the previous year. Crippled Ira nee contributed con-tributed $701,071, or little less than one-half the total to-tal amount donated by the Catholic world. From the United States a trifle over $92,o00 was received. . - ' Minneapolis is hot to'-be-'outdone by the cathedral cathe-dral builders of St, Paul'who contemplate erecting one at a cost 'of $1',000,0()0. The Immaculate Conception Con-ception parish of the fornier city has pledged $150,-000 $150,-000 toward erecting a pro-cathedral which is to cost $300,000. ..' , Mgr. Falcqnio, the apostolic delegate, has re-reived re-reived a brief from Rome appointing the Rev.- J. B. Delaney as bishop of Manchester". "X. II. lie succeeds suc-ceeds Bishop 'Bradley, wlio died' some 'months ago.. Father Delaney. was born in Lowell; Mass.. 39 years ago. lie was. graduated (from Boston college and from the seminary of St. Sulpiee at; Paris. His pastoral life has been spent entirely in X'ew Hampshire:" Hamp-shire:" . .- . ; Rev. Mother M. Veronica, who .recently died. Mas mother superior general of the Sisters of. the Divine . Compassion. Her death occurred in the convent of Our Lady of Good Counsel, at White Plains, X. Y., the mother house of the order. She Mas (5(3 years old. Before entering the religious life she M-a.s M-idcly interested in the charitable work in Xew York, and in 1870, with otli,er wellknown Catholic Cath-olic women, founded the Association for Befriending Befriend-ing Children and Young Girls. ' |