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Show Relfaiotis Intelligence, A dispatch from the City cf Mexico, Dee. 10, says thousands of pilgrims are arriving to take part in the festival of the Virgin cf Guadaloupe, to he held in the neighboring town of GuadaloupJ Hidalgo on Monday. The great church where the picture of the Virgin is enshrined en-shrined is handsomely decorated and thousands . of camellias' have been 'brought from the hot country for the floral display. Several archbishops will . be present. " It is estimated that 20.0o(J j persons will take part in the festivities. Mgr. Serafini, the papal visitor, will be ' present. 4 A dispatch from Rome on Saturday last says? the foreign bishops now ir. Rome are so nu.nerous that it. would take weeks for the pepe to receive 'hem singly, and he has decided to give them a collective audience on Monday, exeepr. those having personal or important matters to disvuss with the pontiff. . ! i The corner-sloiie of a new $70,000 ' j aivchial school was laid Sunday. Dec. 4. with imposing ceremonies in the parish par-ish of the Car.nelite Fathers, New j York City. j In Africa, where Catholic missions j have sprung up within the last fifty I years, the total nunib?r of convert -t is 'climated at 631.SoO. At the beginning of the nineteenth century there was not ; one. The mother superior cf the Order of i the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in 1 France arrived in America recently to 'make a tour of ihe various houses of t he Good Shepheid through -ut the j United States. . I Scu'ptor James K. Kelly executed the bronze tablet. "Washington at Valley Forge." unveiled last Saturday by Mis.--Helen Gould in the Young Men's Chris-i Chris-i tion association building in West Fifty--I seventh street, New York. In reply to the repnrt rent out from ' Ft. Paul, Minn., that Father John T. Harrison, former pastor of St. Joseph's parish, had won his appeal to the holy see at Rome, Archbishop Ireland has explained that it was he himself who, of his cwn volition, absolved Father Hartison and restored him to his former for-mer landing. f Rev. M. P. Dowling. president of Creighton college, Omaha, speaking on the occasion of the .fiftieth a universe ry c.f St. L-uis university. - said: "I ! am the representative of ihe only free Catholic college that I know of in the United States. With a modest enrio-.v-mopt. less than the mere annual revenue rev-enue of many colleges in this country, we have educated almost an entire generation gen-eration cf' Catholic youth and given them reason to bless the honored name of Creighton. Where are the other Creightons?" A stonemason named .Tohann Lentz, living in Neugrun.'near Saiuian. in Bohemia, Bo-hemia, has just finished building on a Plot of his own land outside tne village vil-lage a church, all done with his own hands, in fulfillment of a vow. From foundation to cross, on the srteeple everything ev-erything is Lentz's own work. He-chiseled He-chiseled the stones and mixed the mortar, mor-tar, fashioned the woodwork, glazed the' windows and even cast the bell. It toyk him ten years, and now the churcn is regarded with peculiar veneration and has become the object of several pi'grimagea - |