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Show RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. The golden jubilee of the Grey Nun' of Toledo was celebrated with impressive impres-sive ceremonies recently in St. Franc , de Sales' church, under the auspices ff : St. Vincent's orrian asylum. j - f" j The Ancient Order of Hibernians bf I Scranton. Pa., i3 heading a movement to substitute street cars for carriages at funerals because- of the exorbitant I charges that liverymen are now mak-j ing. The movement is reported to have th' indorsement of Bishop Hoban. and I the local trolley -company has agreed to tit up a car for funeral purposes. In recognition of the fact that Memphis Mem-phis and the state of Tennessee has almost al-most miraculously escaped from the yellow fever scourge, the Right Rev. Thomas S. Byrne, bishop of the diocese of Tennessee, has issued a pastoral letter let-ter directing prayers of thanksgiving after all masses for the space of two mcuths. A cablegram. from Rome states that the kaiser has informed the Vatican that he intends, during the spring, to make a cruise of the Mediterranean and to stop at Civita Vecchia and pay a visit to the pope incognito. If as-imt as-imt the vatican wishes ir. he will i pav a formal visit 'similar to that which he" paid to Leo XI H- Archbishop' Kean of Dubuque, la., has removed the ban placed upon the C-itholic Benevoltnt society of Dubuque bv the late Archbishop Hennessy. With impressive cciemonies prescribed pre-scribed by the liturgy of the Catholic church. St. Peter's cathedral. Wilmington. Wilming-ton. Del., was dedicated on Sunday. I Oct. 29, by Mgr. Falconio, apostolic del- j egate. ! . Pote p;us .repCo'eceived in private I audience Bishop J. J. Hartley of Columbus, Co-lumbus, O., to whom he gave a large photograph of himself, autographed and appropriately inscribed. His holiness holi-ness told the bishop that he took special spe-cial interest . in ;the large number of I Hungarians living in Ohio. Steps are being taken to organize an i orchestra in New York City, to be composed com-posed exclusively of K. of C. members. Mgr. Francis Zabler. pastor of the church and congregation of St. Martin of Tours in Louisville, died last week, in his fifty-third year. He was a native na-tive of the Grand Duchy of Bade'n. and made his theological studies at Salz-bure. Salz-bure. where he was ordained on Sept. 21, 1S7S. . f In the death of Thomas H. Carr the city of Montgomery. Ala., has lost its first Catholic mayor and one .of its most honored citizens. Dr. Patrick Cahill of Dublin, one of the most, distinguished ; oculists of Ireland, Ire-land, for eleven years oculist to the late Pope Leo XIII. and now performing perform-ing the same offices for Pius X, was received in private audience recently and presented the Holy Father with a hinocular field glass and enerold barometer,- and a pair of lenses of the most perfect make, all of which were made in Ireland.fi --' Itiis understood; that the English pilgrimage,' pil-grimage,' which was brought to Rome a few days ago by Monsignore Bourne, archbishop of Westminster, is but the first section of a-Jarge pilgrimage to 'come to Rome some time in December. Warned by his physician that he had less than a year torl.'ye, the Rev. Henry Boeekelmann; pastor of St. Vincent's Catholic church. Elkhart, Ind., announced an-nounced to the members of his congregation congre-gation last week that he would give $2,0C0. practically all he possessed, if they would raise $S,nQ0 more before he died to lif..the.iio.n the church.. Hif ambition .is to, die leaving the church free from debt i - ... . .... ,-. 'Speaking of" a. rich Irish farmer in Crystal, N. D.. Mr. John J. O'SulIivan. a contemporary cites him as a shining example of the way God blesses those who serve him. When Mr. O'SulIivan. years ago, worked as a laborer on the ' C. P. R. near Fort William, he thought j nothing of walking eighteen miles to mass, and now. he thinks nothing of. i buying up nine of his neighbors' farms and clearine$11.0'00 off oe cron. I |