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Show .. : Religious Intelligence. j .- ' " - - i - 7. r Cardinal Gibbons celebrated the eighteenth an-- an-- n i versa ry of his elevation to the cardinalate on Thursdaj-, July 7. On July 23 the American primate pri-mate observed his seventieth birthday. . Dom Gasquet, the well known historian and scholar, will come to this country next month. He is to lecture in the ecclesiastical seminary in St. Paul, the University of Notre Dame and St. Mary's academy, Xotre Dame, Ind. When Sir Henri Taschercau presented himself ' to the king the other day 1o take the oath as privy councilor, he was informed that there was a special form for him as a Catholic. - The employment of women as compositors is not, as many suppose, a modern innovation. Within half a century after the invention of printing, nuns were busy setting type at the Ripoli monastery press, in Florence. Pledged to fight vice and immorality in Scran-ton, Scran-ton, Pa., a federation of the Catholic societies of that city has been formed with a membership of S.000. Right Rev. Bishop Hoban is the moving spirit of the society. Among numerous old instruments to be seen at the Music Loan exhibition in London this month was a 'cello presented by Pope Pius V to Charles IX of France. Which reminds us that an autograph auto-graph letter of this same sainted Pontiff is pre served at St. Augustine, Fla. I The will of the late Mrs. Gillow of Holdbrooke House, Hereford, England, leavese the. bulk of an estate valued at $100,000 for the purposes of education educa-tion and charity, the principal beneficiaries being the Blind asylum, Boys' Home. Girls' Orphanage -'and. Good Shepherd convents in the diocese of Liverpool. Liv-erpool. , The signal honor conferred by King Edward on Admiral Lord Walter Kerr by appointing him additional admiral of the fleet, "in recognition of the great value to the navy of his fifty years of naval na-val service," will be a matter of congratulation to all Catholics. "Apart from the manner of .the promotion," pro-motion," says an English paper, "we believe him to be the only Catholic who has held that highest rank in the navy." . ' A committee' of ladies has been formed in New 'Orleans with the object of preparing and presenting present-ing to Pope Pius X a pair of sandals, richly adorned with precious stones, to be worn by His Holiness at the pontifical mass he is to celebrate on the jubilee anniversary of the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. 4 Archbishop Iveaue of Dubuque refuses to sell a valuable plot of ground of which he is trustee to that city, to parties who wish to erect a department store on it, because, in his opinion, the department store is an injury to any. 1 own of Dubuque's size or of Ics size. The Sioux City Retail Merchants' association, as-sociation, noting the bishop's attitude, held a meeting, meet-ing, passed resolutions of thanks and. appointed a-committee a-committee to. forward the same to him. -. ' ' Cardinals composing the commission appointed to codify the canon low held a meetine in the Vati can a few days ago, in the presence of the Pone. Contrary to hopes and' expectations, the work proceeds pro-ceeds very slowly and it is prophesied here that it will not be concluded during the reign of the present pres-ent Pope. Much time is taken up by the fact that church laws which are not adapted to present times cannot be absolutely rejected without long study ' and discussion bv the commissioners. Georgetown university celebrates a double jubilee jubi-lee this year. One is the hundredth anniversary of the restoration of the Society of Jesus, vhieh began its new life in Georgetown college in 1S0-1. The other is the golden jubilee of the declaration of lhe Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Man-. It was under this title that the College Sodality So-dality was founded toward the beginning of the . past ccutury. . : - 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. This" Will he the first gathering of the. society since the one held in Washington, D. C, sixteen years go. The assembly will bring together representatives of the society from all parts of the world. Rev. C. O'Byrne, pastor of St. Nicholas diurch. Buffalocelebrafeed the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood on the 27th ult. The. event was fittingly honored by his - brother priests in the diocese of Buffalo, and deserved honors hon-ors also came to him from mainy other places in the 1 nited .Mates and Canada. A massive monument, of Bapy granite lias been erected to mark the resting places of the late Archbishop Arch-bishop Katzer and his father and mother in the little lit-tle cemetery at St. Francis' seminary. Milwaukee. The. monument was erected by ihe archbishop's es- ' tate. It is cut, from a solid block of granite, is twelve feet high and weighs about igli: Ions. Monsignor Falconio will return to' his post' in .Washington; he is even now on. the oc'an bound for this country. But it is very likely that he will be transferred to Manila.. a position of greater importance, im-portance, made vacant by the recent death of Monsignor Mon-signor Guidi. With its receipts of lnsl year (including $103,-000. $103,-000. from the diocesan collections), the Catholic university has paid up all its deficits and a floating indebtedness of two years' standing. Its funded debt is only $100,000. '., The Pope assisted at a solemn nass in St. Peter's Pe-ter's Saturday morning, July 30. the anniversary of the death of Leo XIII. Tbe ambassadors and ministers, min-isters, the cardinals and about 5.000 other persons were present. Cardinal Agliardi officiated. The Pope blessed the catafalque and said a short prayer before the provisional tomb of Pope Leo. afterward returning to his apartments in the Vatican. A new encyclical of Pius X is announced. It is on the duties of Catholic laymen, and maybe considered con-sidered as a corolhiry'fo that on the duties of the clergy. - The encyclical treats of the duties of family fam-ily life, and postulates from those who stand at the head of our Catholic undertakings a consistent life of good example. , -4 The report from St. Louis to Paris that Boeufve, ihe French representative at the exposition, has resigned his position in favor of ",M. Girald, because of the hostility he extended to Cardinal Satolli during dur-ing the period of strained'relations with the Tati-can, Tati-can, which is said to have offended the home authorities, au-thorities, is denied at the foreign office; where it. is pointed out that M. Boeufve is not,, a deputy commissioner, com-missioner, but a diplomatic agent. The alleged motive mo-tive for his resignation is declared to be absurd. - . In the city where he was born, baptized in the Catholic faith and received, his early education, lit. Rev. Joseph J". Fox was on. Monday, July 2.i, consecrated as the bishop of Green Bay. Hi. which he has served continuously as parish, priest-and later as -vicar general to his prcdecissor, the Most Rev. S. G. Mepsmer, archbishop of Milwaukee and formerly bishop of Green Bay, ever since his ordination ordi-nation to the priesthood. . The Sacred Heart Review informs us thar at their annual meeting the public school board of Boston elected George H. Conley superintendent of schools. Mr. Conley is a Catholii-. And don't forget; this occurred in Boston. . , - A report comes from ichang. China, to tbe e fleet that a rumor is current there that the French bishop, bish-op, a priest and two converts have been killed, another an-other priest taken prisoner and three chapels burned at Sichuan, near Singan Fu. Two hundred "soldiers have been dispatched from Ichang for the scene of the outrage. . Sister Marinas, one of the oldest sisters of the Xotre Dame Order, died suddenly, shortly after f o'clock Sunday morning, July 10. at the academy of Notre Dame. Santa Clara. Cal. For the past ten days she had been at the convent in San Jose, where she made her annual retreat. Saturday evening the retreat concluded, and the sister, in company with several other sisters, returned here. She appeared ap-peared in the best of spirits and health, and retired at the usual lime. Sunday morning, shortly after ." o'clock as she was arising, she suddenly was attacked at-tacked by a fainting spell, rapidly grew weaker and soon expired. The cause of death was said to be heart trouble, from which she was a sufferer. The deceased was a native of Belgium, and was in her 80th year. In 18.13. in her native land, she joined the Order of Notre Dame. f |