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Show : 1 ; Religious intelligence. There are .5,$21 Catholics in Japan and '2i0 Catholic churches and chapels. Among those who welcomed Archbishop Harty to Manila was Mr. Lim Change Sue. who ,came to give the greetings of 4,000 Catholics of the Chinese race dwelling in the archipelago. A fresco of great beauty, -representing the Blessed Virgrin and four saints, was discovered last month in the Roman catacombs. Though dating-from the fifth or sixth century, it is said to be in an excellent state of preservation. ' ." " ' The emperor of China has made Bishop La vert of 'Kwang-si a mandarin of the second degree on account of his devotion to the people of 1 hat province pro-vince during a recent famine. Th American governor in the Samoan inlands has proclaimed a law forbidding Protestants to annoy any of the nativ; Catholics, on account of their religious opinions. ! Bishop Streicher of Xortherri Nyanzza, Africa. recently ordered a triduum of prayers against further fur-ther spread of ihe fatal "sleeping sickness," which is devastating Uganda. . .. President Roosevelt has donated an autograph portrait of . himself for the cathedral bazaar to be held in Rochester, X. Y. The picture js a large one, 24x16 inches in size. - German workiiiffmeu pilgrims to the number of 600, under the leadership of Mgr. de Waal, had a j special audience the other day with the Holy ! Father. j. Rev. Francis J. Txbin has again taken cdiiovi.il charge of The Josephite. which- ho relinquished about three years ago to open a mission for colored people in Houston, Tex. Early during the coming 'summer a handsome i : school building will be erected in Omaha, Xeb.. The school will be in chargeof the Dominican Order. There is a movement on foot in Trenton, X. J., for the building of a suitable home for the various Irish Catholic societies of that city. . Ou the evening of Holy Thursday King Alfonso of Spam washed the ieet ot twelve poor men at ' the royal palace at Madrid, and afterward distributed distrib-uted gifts to the poorjofthe city. ; A papal bull has been received at' St. . John's creating Xewfoundland an ecclesiastical province, and elevating Mgr. M. F. Howley, the' present bishop bish-op of St. John's to the archbishopric. : The Countess -de Castellane, formerly Anna Gould, has become a Catholic. Both the Marquis de Castellane and his son are fervent Catholics. It is said that the countess never misses one tiny's service in her private chapel. " The cathedral of St. Francis. Yincenues, Ind.', contains; a letter,. written by St. Yincent do Paul. .It was recently discovered by accident aud is a most precious treasure. . , - A. marble bust of the late Archbishop Croke has just been completed and erected in the ?nortua-ry ?nortua-ry chapel of the cathedral, Thurles. '7 . .- Rev. Dr. De Costa is progressing- wonderfully in health, says one of his friendsJ He was seoeu re-" cently getting into a tramway in' a crowded part of Rome. . .He has, made up his mind to leave the Eternal City for the-United States at a comparatively compara-tively early" date, say three or four or five '-weeks hence. - . - - San Fernando cathedral of San Antonio,' Tex., was among the buildings brilliantly illuminated with electric, lights .during the week of carnival-in carnival-in that city. The Catholic club of Cleveland has turned over to Rev. Francis Moran, pastor of St. Patrick's church, the sum of $1,000 to be Used in furnishing a library in the new club house. It is said that Professor C, F. McCarthy of the Philadelphia Catholic High school will be offered the chair of American history in the Catholic University Uni-versity which was endowed by. the Knights of Columbus. Co-lumbus. . Mr. Henry Harland, author of "The Cardinal's Snuff Box," "My Friend Prospero' and "Tho Lady Paramount," is a convert to , the faith. He is a J past-master in clothing serious philosophic thought in light, airy, poetic language.; j Since the restoration of the hierarchy in Scot-"! land, in 1878, the Catholic population has increased by more lhan 40 per cent; missions have increased by more than til per cent; churches by .V,) per cent; priests by M per cent, and schools by 08 per cent. The emperor of Germany sent a telegram from Xaplos to the Pope saying that it would jrivu him great pleasure to pay his holiness a visit if bis trip were not of a private character. His holiness re plied by telegraph. 1 he abbot of .Monte ( assmo and the rector o the monastery were invited to dine, with the emperor. The Daughters of the Confederacy. Savannah. Ga.. recently presented to Bishop Keiley and the cathedral cemetery committee a monument to confederate con-federate sodliers buried in the cemetery. - The unveiling un-veiling took place before two camps of eonf y v.'ate veterans, the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Sons of Confederate Yeterans, the Children of the Confederacy, the Benedictine' cadets and the Em-met Em-met Rifles. Arrangements' for the consecration cf Auxiliary Bishop Cusack'havc been completed. 'I hi bishop will spend the week prior to his consecration in retreat re-treat at the Jesuit novitiate," St.-Audrew-on-lhe-Hudson. He will return to Xew York on the evening- of April' 24. and the consecration will be performed per-formed in St. Patrick cathedral the following morning. Archbishop Farley will be assisted by Bishop McFaul of Trenton and Bishop Colton of Buffalo. The Benedictine Fathers at Guthrie. Okla., arc preparing for the erection of a new church at the abbey of the Sacred Heart, in souriii-astern Oklahoma, Okla-homa, and a Catholic college H hdwuc. Abbott Felix de Grasse, in charge of Sacred Heavr, a lineal descendant of tho admiral who aided the Americans in the revolution, will leave'iumicdialrly for Rome to lay before Pone Pius aud the provincial of the Benedictine order the plans-for .'these buildings. Archbishop Messmcr has. adopted a .diocesan seal for the diocese of Milwaukee. The seal is designed de-signed in usual form, showing: three Ashes on one .side and a sheaf ioft wheat on the other..1 Underneath Under-neath the latter are. the words "In Ubertate Tcrrae." in the richness of the land. The latter, a scriptural quotation, refers to Milwaukee, the meaning of which is "rich land." Heretofore-the. di.iccsc did not, have an official seal, the personal seal of the archbishop being lised. . Iu the town of Texcoco. across the lake from the City of Mexico, a monument . is ..to be erected to commemorate the founder' of the first primary school on' tho American. .continent. ' His -name was Vntlif.i- Tiimtfi a iiiilivp of Flanders: ' and bettcV known in Mexican history as ' Brother Peter " of Ghent. The Franciscan friar established his school in Texcoco a hundreds ycars;"boforc any 'institution of the same kind arose in th'e presc.it territory of the United States. As a friend. of th.-;. Indians, the name of Father Gante. is second 'only Jo that of the illustrious ami saintly Bishop Las Casas. |