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Show ' Church j i which over- I 1 n .9 w Cometh the ; universal. I ' ' : , 1 . UNSEEN". 1 ' : . I 1 ' "And whore is God?" the Doubter asked, I ' do ncit nee him anywhere, ; I'.chind what creature is He masked. In sea. on earth, in clouds, in air?" i -And where is death?" the Mourner f ; siched, And cct I know. that lie is r.ear: j ' '. There lies niv dearest friend that died, i Nor voice, nor footsteps did I hear. ' "Where ::re the violets?" asked the i child. i- l do nor see mem. yci i mi'v. Although the winds are blowing wild, t 1 Tliev :r. alive beneath the snow." ! Maurice l- Egan. in Dc.nanoc s. Lenton Admonitions. , Kishop (.'osprove of Davenport, la., i ' in his Lenten pastoral, makes some I suggestions to those absolved from the f fast in oriier lo cany out the spirit j ' of the holy season. He says: '.. ! The best mortification for Lent is i to abstain from the use of intoxicating I . - drinks in honor of the Sacred Thirst I ' ' and Agony of our Lord on the cross. It Because drunkenness is such a withering wither-ing scourge and counts its victims by many thousands, on its extirpation defends de-fends the blessings of health, the hap- piness of homes and the salvation of ; many souls. I Hence the choicest self-denial for the J ' holy season is to make in your heart j : ' and to carry out in practice the following fol-lowing promises: : , First To abstain from all intoxicat- j ' Jug drinks during Lent. . j Sec ond To keep out of the saloon, f ' Third To say one Our Father and I ; three Hail Marys every day tor me I Huppression of intemperance. OFFERINGS FOB, MASSES. ' Funeral Services Over the Poor and i , i Rich. f ) "Does a poor person dying in t' faith receive by right the office of the dead, or Mass, or is an offering neces-,? neces-,? 8.ry?" ' ' Answer. 1. All persons dying in I communion with the Catholic Church I have a right and do receive Christian 1 burial from the duly ordained priests of the same, no matter wliether the j dead were poor or rich: and this Chris- i tian burial is to be accorded without ( i any charge or offering or any financial J return whatsoever. Hut the saying of ' a Mass for the dead is not a regularly t i prescribed part of the burial service ; and is added only when the officiating priest chooses to do so. Being, there- i fore, a purely free act on his part, an ' ' act which often puts him to serious !i inconvenience in the way of fasting till j a late hour and often to some expense j in the way of hiring an organist, singers. sing-ers. Inivinir candles and other sneh in- cidental expenses, the custom has I sprung up of offering to the priest (iome monetary consideration as a re turn for his own inconvenience and these expenses, whensoever the Mass is offered up. It is to be noted, however, how-ever, that once a year, on All Souls' I ' day, there is a Mass prescribed by the I Church for the repose of the souls of all the faithful departed, and this : Mass must be said by the priests throughout the world, whether any offering of-fering be or be not made. And besides this the Church causes all the souls in f Purgatory to be prayed for at every Mass offered up throughout the world. DEATHS OF MISSIONARIES. One Hundred and Seventy-one Suc-; Suc-; cumb During 1900. The "Propaganda Fide" has just ? f compiled the yearly statistics of mis- i f sionaries who have died throughout the world during the year 1900. Noth- f ifig could be more interesting reading 'ban the account of how these brave ;: soldiers of the cross met their deaths while fighting for the faith and for ; ' the salvation of their brethren in dis- t ; tant lands. i Tim lie i,.l,,rJo 1-1 : i !.. - '"nuura in jni.-ion.uiai les, oi whom nine were bishops. Of the lat- I ; "". f'ur were French, three Italians, j who were barbarously put to death by f, the Chinese: one Canadian, one Dutch , nd Mgr. Hamer. who was burned alive I in Mongolia. Among the 16 simple i'l iests no fewer than eighty-three were f French, while the rest were divided as I follows, according to their nationality: : Seventeen Italians, fourteen Belgians, len Dutch, eight Alsacian. five Spaniards, Span-iards, five Irish, four Germans, three Canadians, three Chinese, two Mexicans, Mex-icans, one English, one Austrian, one Luxemburger, one Singalese, one Syr-' Syr-' ' i ! iiin- one Venezuelan, one Peruvian and "tie Brazilian. Nothing could give a better idea of the ratholieity of the Church and of )tne indomitable courage which animates ani-mates her ministers than a perusal of these most interesting statistics. ! Bishop Farley May Be Named. I .,Xou" York, Feb. -21. Bishop John M. I-alloy of New York, says a Borne cor-'-'siiondont of the Tribune, has been deputed as the adversary of Archbishop Arch-bishop Conigan. as after the death of ! ardmal McCloskey he opposed Areh- ; l'ish,.p Conigan's nomination and was favorable to Dr. McGlyr.n. I Although sin.-e then 'every see in the i .. Wovnice ,.f Kew York has been vacant I except Rochester. Bishop Farley has 1 1,f,,n excluded from promotion.. " T" "p Vatican denies that Bishop Don- I .to hp appointed coadjutor to j -Timoishop t orrigan. and savs that if I ? .'nyone is chosen it will be Bishop Far- I I ; I?"-, a .An'hV,shP n igan himself I ' -Wese of Xew York be divided. Then I inMioj) Parley will be nominated to the J iev bisiiopne, "c I Cardinal Moran Kesigns His S.s. I ' . 1,is Eminence Cardinal Moran, hav- I h reached ih? advanced' age of 72 I - vtars. has resigned the archbishopric I of sVdney and primacy of Australia, . t and. has been appointed resident pre- i iiX l'n Roman curia. This vener- i able son of Mother Church has accom- ? Plished untold good for the thousands I "r, ath-'lics in the far-off land .ver winch he has wielded the sceptre-for I ma'P" years, and a story of his life- j ,. work would be Interesting reading He ; as born in County Carlow. Ireland Hnd ai 12 years of ae as entered as a student in the Irish college at Home "huh afterward he was vice rector ? ;,r"' w,lih he will now spend' the j evomnK of his days under the shadow . ' the atican. He was beloved as a j 1-nest. bishop, archbishop and cardinal. J "'I iim dejartu'-e fro,,, Australia is I fl.-eply mourned by his devoted chil- I Bok of First Maccabees, , rh' discovery quite rec ently of a lie- i f brew MS. of the book of Fir'st Macca- ; ; 1,v s. Js 1,k,J'v tfl have an important ( -S i be aring on the question whether sacred ! writing? excluded from Protestant ao- f p.tation as "a1.ocrypha" can be any I longer rejected as portion of the gen- j ' ' oral body "f inspiration. Protestants 1 apree with the Jews in regard to both ,he Books of Maccabees: the early fa i ; Jhf" of the Church decided that thev t i . belong to the canonical Scripture a's ' 1 ? ' ; - st Augustine testiHes in bis "City of ' - God." The Second Maccabee i espe-'''ally espe-'''ally distasteful to Protestants ' be- cause it shows that the Jews of the I I : I pre-Christian epoch used to pray for the repose of the soul after death; and since souls in heaven stand in no need ! of prayer of that kind, and those who are eternally lost cannot be helped by prayer, the argument for another state wherein prayers are helpful to souls and acceptable to God rests upon the most ancient authority and is supported support-ed by revelation. Those who dispute the canonicity of Maccabees argue on the fact that the early MSS. of the books were written in Greek, but the foChcc liotl Choi Choi's T-ou ,i I original: and this' is the point which I the recent discovery may help scholars and experts in archaic forms of lan-I lan-I guage to elucidate. Standard and I Times. Meaning of Fast and Abstinence. Fast and abstinence are two words whose meaning is often confounded in ; the minds of some. In the language of the Church, we fast when we take but one full meal a day. Ye abstain, when we refrain from taking meat. AVe may abstain and take three full meals. Most of us do this on the Fridays of the year. As originally ordained, all fast days were days of abstinence as well. The law has been relaxed somewhat some-what and now we have fast days which are not days of abstinence. Thus, on the Wednesdays of Lent, those who fall under the law are obliged both to fast and to abtain. Whereas, on the Thursdays of Lent, they are bound to fast but not to abstain ab-stain from meat at the principal meal. Catholic Transcript. More Catholic Americans. The probable cession of the Danish West Indies consisting of the islands of St. Thomas, St. John's and St. Croix to the United States, will give our country in round numbers 13.000 Catholics Cath-olics more. St. Thomas contains 7,000 Catholics, St. John's 1.000, St. Croix 7.O00. The convent academy of St. Thomas is for young ladies; St. Thomas Thom-as college for young men. St. Thomas island also has a high school for young girls and four other schools for girls, and three for boys, together with a boys' free school; St. Croix has four school for girls and boys, and an efficient effi-cient hospital. The college and boys' schools are chiefly conducted by the Redemptorist fathers; the academy and girls' schools are in charge of the Sisters of the Sainte Union of the Sacred Sa-cred Heart. Most of the inhabitants of the islands are able to read and write. Pope Leo's Tomb. The Holy Father has expressed a wish for interment in the Basilica of St. John Lateran. A monumental tomb is ready. It is the work of the famous sculptor Guiseppe Luchetti, and its cost has all been raid. It is in the sculptor's sculp-tor's studio. It is a beautiful work of art. The sarcophagus is surrounded by a recumbent figure of Leo XIII in full pontifical robes. Guarding the tomb are life-size statues of St. Thomas Thom-as and St. Francis, and also a statue of the Virgin and two angels, all in white Carrara marble. A Jesuit on Oranges. In the February number of his charming magazine. Out West, formerly former-ly The Land of Sunshine. Mr. Chanes F. Lummis has a notable article on "Orarrges 230 Years Ago." He shows by a work in four books, written in Latin by a eJsuit, Rev. John Baptist Ferrarius of Sena in Umbria, and printed in Rome in the year 16i6, that more was known about citrous fruits then than now. Teh Jesuit enumerate five varieties of citrons, five of limes, forty-seven of lemons and twenty-one of oranges. He quotes 14S still earlier writers on the same topic. He treats of planting, budding, wall training, etc., and gives ninety-eight full page copper plates, giving accurate drawings of the fruits and the methods of cultivation. He even describes and pictures seedless oranges, and goes so far as to mention i the naval variety, which he calls by that very name umbilicus. Mr. Lummis gloats in the good work o ftelling: us "Anglo-Saxons"' of the twentieth cetnury that we don't know it all, and that we can still learn something some-thing about oranges from this old Jesuit Jes-uit who is in heaven, we hope, for the last. two centuries and a half. Priests' Holes in England In England many secret chambers are known as priests' holes, having been constructed with the object of affording af-fording refuge to the priests of the older form of faith during the stress of religious persecution. In the latter years of Elizabeth's reign the laws against Roman Catholics were made more and more severe, and the penalties penal-ties of celebrating mass, even in private, pri-vate, became very heavy. As, however, how-ever, many of the families of the nobility no-bility remained Roman Catholics, tne mass continued to be performed in secret in out of the way parts of rambling ram-bling old houses, most often the garrets, gar-rets, where hiding places both for the priests and vestments and sacred vessels ves-sels could be contrived. A large number are the work of one man, the Jesuit Nicholas Owen, who devoted most of his life to their construction. con-struction. He showed extraordinary skill in selecting positions not likely to excite susnicion. and in dis-iiicinr iv,i entrances to the lurking places, and I number of recusant priests owed their lives to his ingenuity. After the discovery dis-covery of the gunpowder plot, poor Owen, alas, who had saved the lives of so many recusants, was himself arrested ar-rested at Handlip hall. Worcestershire. It was hoped that the secret of many places of concealment would be wrung from him by the rack, but the man's spirit remained unshaken, and he died under the hands of his torturers, his heroic death apparently being given out as a case of suicide. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. On the 1st of the present month the memoership of the Catholic Order of Foresters For-esters aggregated 9.1.3U7. There are more than 1.2(hi courts. Most Rev. Archbishop Ryan of 1'hila-(ielnhia, 1'hila-(ielnhia, j a., on Feb. 22 completed- his dst year. Holv Redeemer Church. Madison Wis will soon have three new altars in white and gold. Rif,s of riht families of the parish. 1 hey win be erected at the celebration of the pastor's sixer jubice. New stations othe Cross, statuary groups, have been erected in si tk. hurch. thicago. They were presented bv members of the parish and are pronounced pro-nounced as modes of artistic beauty. The diocese of Louisville has a Catholic-colored Catholic-colored .population of about S.5e0 people! The Pious Union of St. Anthony, whose head.ntarters are in Cincinnati, has Just Irom which it was ascertained that 1 wi new members were enrolled durinir the fort,hT.r' Tkin " Snd total-of 3S.SI5 lor the local center. I . s"''ri' s,a,UPS have been presented to the Church of Our Ladv of i'erpetu M: M ffa i N" I' The injects a're s Mary Magdalen. St. Paul of the Cross and St. John the Baptist. I At lioxmgton. Ky,.he Sisters of Xaza- i reth have c harge of a colored school numbering about pupils. In eonse- uuence the physical, moral and intellectual intellec-tual improvement of the pupils is great. An unknown beneiactor has presented Rev. Father Desmond of Huron. S. D., a sufficient sum to build a tower ami spire on St. Martin's Church at -hat Place. His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons has personally per-sonally contributed the sum of $IMA and His Grace Archbishop Kyan of Philadelphia Phila-delphia $2,777.07 for the Indian schools. Right Rev. Bishop Moeller of Columbus. Colum-bus. O.. has issued a letter to the clergy of his diocese, suggesting means of improving im-proving the parochial schools in his jurisdiction, juris-diction, and has recommended the ap- I oointment of a diocesan school inspector. The bishop is endorsel in this by many leading Catholics. The Pilot's protest against the use of Guest's "Lectures on tl-e History of England." Eng-land." in the Newton. Mass., High school, has been so far successful that the scurrilous scur-rilous book has been withdrawn from the school library: but it still remains in the recitation room. The persons who introduced it into the school in the lirst place cannot evade responsibility in this wav, There's no mercy in cutting a dog's tail off an inch at a time. The papal brief was received by Rt. Rev. Bishop Burke during the week naming nam-ing Very Rev. Rean MeDermott. pastor of St. Mary's Church. Albany, N. Y.. a monsignor, with the title Kt. Rev. The investiture of the venerable priest with the insignia of his high office will not take place before the month of May. Bishori Burke and a largo number of priests will attend the ceremonies. The new Borgesshospital at Kalamazoo. Kalama-zoo. Mich., costing $5,W, is completed and opened March 1. Australians are now agitating the question ques-tion of religion in the public schools. Catholics do not stand alone for the principle. prin-ciple. Their efforts are earnestly seconded sec-onded by ministers of the Presbyterian denominations. The pilgrimage from Great Britain and Ireland to Rome for the Pope's jubilee, which will leave London on Tuesday, May K. will be headed by the Right Rev. Dr. Patterson, Bishop of Kmmaus. It is announced that during the year a Catholic congress will be held in Spain. Madrid has been chosen as the place and the sessions will consume several days. In addition to distinguished laymen, mgn dignitaries of the church will also be In attendance. Very Rev. M. J. Marsile. C. S. V., president pres-ident of St. Yiateur's college, Bourbon-nais Bourbon-nais Grove. 111., is the only priest in the country who has become famous as a playwright. A recent tea given by St. Agnes' church, Pittsburg, Pa., realized the su mof $6,009. Division No. 1. Ancient Order of Hibernians, Hiber-nians, of Davton. O.. has donated $100 to St. Elizabeth's hospital at that placo, and division No. 2 the sum of $30 to the same institution. The new school building of Holy Name parish, Sheboygan. Wis., has been dedicated. dedi-cated. The new building cost $40,000 and is one of the largest and handsomest church school buildings in the state. A church for Spanish-American Catholics Catho-lics is to be opened shortly at 22! West Fourteenth street. New York, under the direction of the Fathers of the Assumption. Assump-tion. The Holtzman memorial chapel at St. Vincent's Orphanage. Washington. D. C, win oe solemnly aecncaieu on niarcn a uy His Eminence. Cardinal Gibbons. It is the gift of Mrs. R. O. Holtzman, as a memorial to her husband. S-. In the neighborhood of $300,000 worth of diocesan property was destroyed during the Paterson. N. J.. conflagration. St. Joseph's church costing $217,XK, was entirely en-tirely ruined. ; Sister Agnes of the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis died last week at the St. Clare Convent. Hartwell. O., at the age of 64. She had been a religious worker for torty-one year sand before entering the convent was Miss Anna Lang. 5 A new St. Mary's church will soon replace re-place the old one of the same name in Jersey City. Work will be commenced at once. The structure will cost about $3!).-00u $3!).-00u and will be one of the tinest in the east. The famous church in Iguala. state of Guerrero. Mex.. was among the many buildings destroyed in that city by the recent earthquake. The Archduchess Magdalen of Austria, the; holy daughter of Ferdinand I. of the' House of Hapsberg, will probably be de- ! clared venerable by the church this year l"- "iei vi uif isuigms oi Loiumuus now stretches its line of councils from the Atlantic to the Pacific. On Jan. 19 a council was instituted in San Francisco, and on Jan. 20 another council was instituted in-stituted in Los Angeles. The. two tipper stories of the new parochial pa-rochial school of the Sacred Heart parish. par-ish. East Cambridge, Mass., have been practically destroyed by tire. The building build-ing was nearly completed, but damage will amount to $30,tH)0. It had never been occuuied. It is a five, storv brick building, build-ing, costing $130,(100. The loss falls on the builder and is largely covered by insurance. insur-ance. A monument is to be erected bv popular popu-lar subscription in Jeffersonville. Ind.. to the memory of the Rev. Father Ernest Audran. who. after more than thirty vears as rector of St. Augustine's church in that city .died in 1!)00. The poor of St. Mary's parish, Georgetown. George-town. Mass., have recently come into possession of a fund of $l.iX0, by the will of the late George Carleton. esq., a Protestant Pro-testant gentleman of that place, who. In leaving Jl.oOo each to the churches- of that town, for the poor, did not discriminate discrimi-nate against St. Marys. This broad spirit of charity is highly commendable, and in marked contrast to that which, too often, ignores the Catholic poor. One of the immediate and practical effects ef-fects of federation is the protect now under un-der consideration by the Columbus o Federation of Catholic societies to erect a handsome building to be the home of all the Catholic societies in that citv A committee was appointed at the meeting last Sunoay to negotiate for a site within with-in a few squares ofthe state house. Miss Abigail Campbell, who was recently re-cently married in San Francisco to In nee Kiiwananakoa of Hawaii bv Archbishop Arch-bishop Riordan, is a graduate of the college col-lege of Notre Dame, where she became a convert to the Cathjilic faith. j The. Catholic club of Philadelphia cele-' brated its silver Jubilee last Wednesdat-Among Wednesdat-Among its guests were Cardinal Gibbons' Archbishop Ryan. General Joseph V heeler General James H. Wilson and Hear Admiral George W. Melville Th (atholic club is the representative Catholic Cath-olic organization in Philadelphia and in-the in-the laity"10" US membors tno 1est of Since the epidemic of smallpox has become be-come prevalent in. New Jersey there have beer, special devotions in honor of' St Roth, the patron saint agaln.st contagious diseases conducted in the beautiful and "fa,J LL" 'nurtl1 which bears his name at Bedford street. Newark. N. J R,n-1-ather Zuccarelli. the rector, holds special spe-cial services every Thursday evening t W clock, with benediction of the Mont! Blessed Sacrament. These special ceremonies cere-monies in honor of the saint will be continued con-tinued until the disease has abated Burglars entered thr- 1ir,m u oi . torn of St. Anthony's Catholic church" Evansville. Ind.. Sunday night, and secured se-cured Syj.i in money, besides some valuable valu-able silverware. The parochial residence of Rev. lather Scholt was also entered and considerable money secured. Archbishop Elder quietly observed the twenty-second anniversary of his an. nointment to the see of Cincinnati recently. re-cently. Hia Grace Is quite well arid hearty, though rounding out his eighty-third eighty-third year. fc ' Cardinal Ciaska isead. Of late he has attracted a good deal of attention because of his pronounced views on American questions. It was thoue-ht th,t he would in all probability Seed Carl clinal Ledochowsky in the prefection of he propaganda. It will soon be as deadly dead-ly to name a successor to this stately Bole as to the august Perugian. - |