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Show ' v i burcft iiniwal ! i 1 ; ! I - " I CHURCH CALENDAR. I fllli.i.v. 15 Second after Epiphany. 1 iioiv XaniP. Su' Paul, Hermit. y.ws'.ry. lfi St. Marcellus. ' r-i:..s,y. 17. St. Anthony. I v, . ;ii.wl;y, 38. St. Peter's Chair at I iW. 1 I r .i;iMiriy, 19. St. Marimas and Com- ' j Hilton. j l j y, JO. St. Fabian and St. Sebas- , i-'u'Hay, Jl. St. Agnes. I v.t itior.s for prayers from associates rf League of Sacred Heart Sunday for vni'k. means; Monday for the clergj; I '.:--sdr1y for religious; "Wednesday for 1 f..v lrarisis. novices; Thursday for I vatione; Friday for parishes; Satur-I Satur-I f;,.v ;'.! schools. I I Hew Church, a Christmas Gift ;ji iiiuo Christmas present was I j i" the congregation of St. Pat-! I . -hv .huroh, Norristown, Pa., by the ! "j . e j!", Lev. Francis L. Carr, who an-j I , '1 that he would give them a new , utIi next year, and that in honor of I t o 1 citron saint of that church ground I , i i !? broken on March 17. The news I x-ht hfiiled with delight by the congre- I iM'ioii, which is worshiping in an edi- I i , nutted by lire five years ago. The ! ,. j ttrncture has been sold to the Penn- I t, , niiia Railroad company j . To the Credit of Gen. Miles. nm-f when an Irish Catholkj soldier f j.-. h'p command lay dying and' asked -.ue eervleee of a priest, .no priest J cculd easily be" found 'by -.his non- ." i'-,;holic comrades, and it seemed the ' j.vor filow would be forced to die. un- i ! rived. But in some way the gen- f era! came to know. -Calling a young ! artilleryman, he mounted him on his i J n horse' and ordered 'him on a life id id death ride of fourteen miles for I ii;p nearest Spanish clergyman who j nulii Fpeak English. The priest ar- i lived in time and the poor soldier I j! ude his peace with God before' he J jrissd- beyond the t-ound of war. I ;i?holi-s will grant that this action is 1,. ihe credit of General Miles. It is true in every detail The young ar-ii;i"iy ar-ii;i"iy officer wrote an account of it V thortly after, and his article entitled, V J "With Miles in Porto Rico," was re published by meet of our American S Catholic journals. Later General I y.V.o? corroborated its statements in a I -tter to a Catholic editor. f All for Charity. j The will of the late Right Rev. Rich- ' rid Phelan was filed for probate in the ; ccur.ty register's office. He leaves all l.is individual estate to Right Rev. J. j F Regis Canevin, bishop of the diocese , . i f Pittsburg, it trust for charity to be I 1 distributed in his discretion. The Vi i hurch property of which the dead ; I J l.Whop was trustee is also given to 7'ishop Canevin, subject to the trust i f the deceased. Bishop Phelan's es- l tqte. it is said, is not large, owing to j 1 lis liberality to charitable institutions. I V estimate of its value ie given, f i I "Ex-PriestM Loses. At Grundy Centre, Iowa, the other I ':-, tne jury in the suit for $50,000 outrages brought by the notorious j ( x-Priest" Seguin against citizens of J i!,;,t place for alft-ged personal injuries, 1 .'(turned a verdict for the defendants, t 'i ! defense offered no evidence and the . : dict w as in accordance with the In l .auvtioi:r; of Judge Piatt. . . j: Ht'ore directing the verdict Judge j Piatt made a f t suggestions that were : i i trcM.d tsnte and that may prove a v;. rning to the ex-priest adventurer in i h nam e. He said it had been clearly I s:."n that some of the defendants I1 "V" entirely innocent and that no tase J. d been made agaiiit those who j ; icin not b. He inflicted a scathing 1 ; v.! merited rebuke on the plaintiff, j S'-guiii. and the despicable means he e:i 'plnyp f,)f making a livings He rec- , iiinvndeci that he discontinue his past f Vt.siness and tak up something honor- !:!. H said it was evident to the that Seguin grossly exaggerated j 1 '-; injuries when he testified on the I v .mess stand, and that he believed the i t- of his richt arm and right ear had j ' l'- ii lost, but that his actions were ! ' ;ic- jiur)ye of misleading the jury. ; ' judge stated that Catholics on the j ' ' "e- Linked ;is high in citizenship as ' ' "tlici- denomination and he con- i f . d- : :,,., the effoits of those who try to j i '-a:he!: tV.i ir creed by pulling anil an-il ..( O.i'vt!. Priests in Politics. I T.v archbislinp of Rouen, primate oyni;i ndy. in a letter addressed to ; ' ;ersy of hit archdiocese on the i ' v, i ti'Mi of juiestis in politics, says: ' ''t:-- ihjerference of the priesthood in affairs has always been fatal '" church. We have often said I - "lid we now repeat it that which f v '"''n "if" cause of death cannot ' ; ba.-k to life. Politics wMl not ;' -': l:t they have caused us to f "' There only one way in which i ' ' '"t can improve the political I lim. and that is by work inr. with I . '. ij e;j atu3 nj. aj.iostolic means I ' ' ' Hiictifli-ation of souls. The " ' ' ;;,'' !s w hich transform a people ; ' ": "f :hi .jrt conr5P(uem es of the ' .Mi...) ,,f souls. Everything i ' " " '' sieriio agitation, which does f " '""yond the surface and fails to " - !l !:"Jrt. in which is the root of i '1?,,"r and the source of all re- j 1 ' -'io ). H ordfr to weed out this f ' '" '" -auie this source to flow ! ' '' A" : -r.,i is rather saintly pastors f ';: 1' 'Htical priests." ? 0!d St. Mary's. San Francisco. ' ! 'dden Jubilee of old St. Mary's j '';'"';:!'' was observed Sunday. Jan. .d.,M fv Archbishop Montgomery ; ! " braiit of th" solemn pontifical '"' ;,d Mosi Fiev. Archbishop Rior-y, Rior-y, is pirrnt. Very Rv. Father !'a:-t, V. G.. reached the ser- Mary's church was for long . '.''v ;h,. !nst notable church edifice "fi. I"'an isco. Around it clustered "c"-d and tend-r memories than ;.!"',J' '" church in the city or diocese. j 'n "ceupation of California by ' ! niied States, it was for years the y ' of t!ip Caiholic life and activity. ' ! eHthednil and home of the first hl.is-i.fp. the sainted Alemany, the i.f Hi greater ecclesiastical ver is t ri- ordination of priests, the , 1 !,:ise( r;ji ion of bishops, th? holding of a ,:;:J- Millionaire Heiress Converted. !.':. don, dpc 31 .Deep interest has 1 -:i aroused among Roman Catholics ; ' d Americans resident in FTngland by t'" announcement that Miss Evelyn i H" Wart, granddaughter of the late -M:hail o. Roberts of New York, has i 1 "P:i converted to Catholicism and re- '.i'.er jnt0 the church. Miss Van Wart has never been . l i; rwn as a specially religious woman, 1 i H was something of a surprise to j ' er rf.sl of f,.jeJ1(ij, wnen they learned i ( i e .r.(i V.een for several months study- 1 i; ? the teachings and doctrines c.f the I Penman ehurrh. Her entertainments at ' , l inen park and at No. 32 Curzon street S 1 t een among the most splendid in 1 1- ' d..-.. ar.d lm twen .f-r0n-c. ! ' !v y Amerieans but by the best classes of English society. For Miss v ':-' -'a-t tins tiveo lie;- ma.iy years , fci;d has a:must as many English as ' I American friends. She has $75,000 a year for life, and when her grandmother, grandmoth-er, now Mrs. Ralph Vivian, dies will be j one of the heirs to the $8,000,000 left bv iBiTBhaI1 ' Robrts on his death in V If her yur!e uncle, Lieutenat I Marshall 0 Roberts of the Grenadier Guards, should die before her and leave ! no heir she will inherit all of it, but if she should die first without an heir all will go to him. He married recently a daughter of Sir George Herbert Murray. Mur-ray. Miss Van Wart separated from her father. Ames Van Wart, when he totfk a second wife, several years ago. She spends a great part of her time at Dit-ton Dit-ton park, her beautiful country place, where she gave a splendid garden fete lat August. It is there that she has her pet cats, which are famous as being be-ing among the finest specimens of their kind in the world. Her generosity has made her many friends, and a fine example of it was her munificence to her chum, Clotilde Hall, a penniless but prettv girl, who was married to Walsham Hare in 1901. Miss Van Wart gave her her trousseau, and a fine one it was, rented a fiat for her and furnished-it with the best that money could buy. It is also said that she insured her life for the benefit of the young pair. Miss Van Wart goes to America almost al-most every year. She has American Reauty roses sent over by every steam- er. packed in ice. and her pretty house j in Mayfair is always full of them. The announcement of her conversion has startled her friends, most of whom are Protestants, and one or two have been heard to wonder if they can continue con-tinue to know her. It is safe to predict that thy will. The i nly prominent American Catho- i lie here now 1st Mrs. Mackay. who is extremely devout and a very rigid adherent ad-herent of.th church. . |