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Show I p- Y L I I "This is the j ' ' f" " I IF W FS U victory which i n h h Li)iiixh universal rie I ; II . faith-" j j j CHURCH CALEXDAK. ' . V I I ,1' in!" 1'votion Seven Dolors of Mflrv. I 1 v. i -Fif Uf-nth aft-r IYiileeot. Trans. Rfl- 1 St. Cuthl'ort. St. Kosc of Yitcrbo, vir- I Y..i.-i. St. Lavrciiee Jutiniau, bishop,' St. I ' j;,.rtin. abbot. . I 1 -j-,,, s,I;iy. 0 Si. Bcga, virgin. St. l'ambo, abbot, f I j'n.plx-t Zai-bary. I; I -., . "lay, 7 St. Hadrian III, vy: St. Rcgina, I vir.in ami martyr. I I Ji.iu-'1-I.v- Nativity of Our Lady. St. Hadrian, I I ,irirtyr. St. Zono, martyr. Si I I-,.--, 1 v. . St. Oorjroiiius, martvr. St. Kyran, ab- I I 1 "),.-. St. Peter Claver. f ! s.;u:,j;.y. 10 St. Nicholas of Tok-ntino. St. Hi- : I I ;.;;. St. Finian, bishop. I I pATKEFv JOGUES, NEW YORK SA INT. I ,,-.v it is saivl that soon Now Turk may have a I iatli' r I.aac doguos, the fatuous Jesuit I 'i'l'y martyrod by the lo'nawks two liun- I (jr.il lifty-ninc years ago, may lo canoni.ed, I ,!,( .-.idinjr another name 1o the J Ionian mar- I J ...)..;. and welding another link to the endless j saints f the church. Under ibe direction ( V ,,; :!;. Kev. I fither Wynne, S. J., -and other Je'-uils I ,...ii:i"-t'd with the local houses of ibe Order, the. I ...jn'r.- "lata for the process of the canonization lias I j,. ,;i aihercd and forwarded to llonio. Father 1 t .niiilius Beearri. S. J., who is stationed at Koine, ! :.. be the postulator of the missionary's cause t I ;,n,l will present to the Human congregation hav- jjic el large of sueli serious busine.-s one hundred I i t wenty-eix "reasons'' or "points" in the I ' ,;,.!:, ration of the missionary's holiness of life and I v:ir. i-e. The most powerful argument, however. will i"' the proof that Father .login's "shed blood -.. ilie iaitb," together with an authenticated list , f , : inirri'-les wrought tit the shrine erected in "bis ! L.'ii'T at TuriesviUe. New World. I j AFFAIRS OF CATHOLIC MEXICO. : A press dispatch from Austin, Texas, states that ' s n rrd conference of the Catholic chureli I ;,atii..rities in ..Mexico will be held in the City of j. ; Ii-.relia in October. The conference will open j ( 1,1, .!.: 4 and continue twelve days. The seven I f Ar. liln'shons Mexico, all the bishops and many I vrif-i will attend. t will be the first conference . '.l.c kind in many years, and matters of import-;.!:!' import-;.!:!' 10 ilie Mexican church will be discussed. The ; li-lt to Mexico of Mgr. Seranni, the papal dele-1 dele-1 ; p:i''. and the courteous treatment accorded lum liy the government authorities have revived the report ; that the church in Mexico is to be honored by the. ! I !. afi-'ii of a cardinal. The bitterness That resulted ' ir.iin ilie separation of church and state in Mexico i- dying out, and the authorities and clergy are . i"'.v ijnitf- generally on friendly- terms. . If a ; mrdinal is created ibe honor Avill, it i said, go to . ''id'er Archbishop (ijllow, of Oaxaca, or Areli-Silva, Areli-Silva, of Morclia. GLIMPSES OF THE SUPERNATURAL. Spirit' time ago. ,m excellent young married m;m, by no fault of his own, lost, a busino.-s posi- i !"", and ibe outlook for him was unpromising.-JIo . : nly worked hard to retrieve hiinscff but, T I A i.-i.-d iht lie jmd bis wife -went lege t her to Holy I t "ninnitiion several' times, as if making a novena I "t .l))ses. About the end of the devotion' he se- 'ur-l a lucrative position at the North. An elder-! elder-! ly ent leman with a dependent wife and family. r using his wits in various ways, come to a -ri'l where destitution seemed almost inevitable. ' II" had some special gifts and experience that ":-!!' to have been in request, but were nor. lie H;id ben in the habit, though often he could ill stfV.rd it. of lacing niekels in ibe candle frames ii"dieated to the TJlessed Virgin and St. Anthony. hire lie said, as he resorted to one-cent contribu-I contribu-I and eventually had to relinquish copper 1 "ri' rings: "You see, Blessed Mother, I cannot pivr you any more money. You must help me 10 ako -ornc dollars if you cire to hare me continue ; pi vine: to -harity, in your honor." Very soon, nui;e unex)eetclly, he was invited to take a posi-i;"t! posi-i;"t! in ihe line of his talents and the nickels began iiow into the treasury once more. Of course, he ! v'i!t in his religious duties regularly and often, -!';. ling for aid in extremity, attended daily and made the Stations of the Cross. He says f.f t this simple prayer, "Dear Ixrd, inspire those , ; vh., ;ire powerful to help me, if it be Thy will," more than once, been answered. T relate these "! :"idents to encourage others, in difficulties that 111 insurmountable. "Labor as if everything v- i i I .Ti yourself : pray as if everything de- s '-i d. d on Cod."' Randall's Letter in Catholic ( '"i'ulnbiail. I TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL PUNISHMENT. I mc questions which impinge on the nicet ;"!! 'ins in theology were lately sent 1 '' ti.e Standard and Times by an es- I .: d siiberibcr. One. in especial related to a I ; di.-puted point the matter of eternal punish- I j v;' for sin. and the pains of the purifying state j 'j ' igh which the holy souls are decreed to pass. 'ho latter point we can do no better than quote '.vplanation offered by Cardinal Newman in ' J : tauiuus work, "The Grammar of Assent:" 'n tiote iii.. p. .01. eha)ter x., the Cardinal goes I ' 1 1 10 matter at some length. After alluding to 5 ' 1 li; be saiil on page 4'Ji to the effect that a re- j " riuni was conceivable, he continues: "The v t ' well known of ihe. monk who, going into I v,..cd to meditate, was detained tliere by the ' v ' - "'' a bird fot. three hundred years, wiiieli to his i ' "' 'i 'ti-iK'ss jissed as only one hour. Now, pain j : - 1 I! as joy may be an ecstasy and destroy for the I ' v ;hr s.ene of succession: even in ihi life, and I v ti-.t great, it sometimes lias this effect; and j iny such an insensibility to time to last fur ': . hundred years, for three hundred years pain I !: 1 be gathered up into a point; and there I v ''. d be, for ihat interval, a refrigerium. And if I ' '( e hundred years, so it might be for three , j T:! 1 -!!. or million million, acconling to the,, de- I v:-i. - -, puilt with which individual sotils were I "r'v rMy laden." (The Cardinal then resolve? I . objections which, he says, might be raised I '!-';;;',-( ihis theory.' and among others ibis, that I ' "' "'ige.-t. )ossible series of refrigeria would be 'i 1,'niiing eojnpared with an eternity, of punish- ''"-ic. 1 "But," he says, "this is to misconceive what j be,. 11 advancing. As belonging to an cter- r,,r. ihe refrigeria which I contemplate match in I ir'r recurrence, and reach as far as that eternity, I re themselves in number infinite, as being I ''Options in a course which is infinitel" He thus .j r," li:d' s: "The song of the bird which the 'monk 4 !rd without taking note of the passage of time I 11 "sin have been, 'And they shall reign for ever and r'.rr; 1hough of ihe many ihousand times of-the '':r'i repeating the words, there sounded in the llK,)k s ,.ar bt one song once sung. And if this I ',f in the case of holy suuls,. why. not, if it If I y" nld please God, in the instance of the unholy ( I 1 have been saying I have.' considered ' ,rr!ity i.j. iufUii((. time; and. this' is the received - AN OLD AMERICAN SCHOOL TEACHER. John Davis began parochial school teaching at St. Mary's school, Monroe, Mich., fifty years ago the 0th of September, lie is still living hale and hearty. Many of his former pupils hold responsible positions in every walk of life. They have arranged for a semi-centennial celebration of the event. The day will be a gala one for the venerable jubiliarian. Among the honors which will be conferred upon the kindly old gvullcman will le a special blessing from Ilis Holiness Pius X, signed with his own hand, and a magnificent medal blessed and forwarded for-warded by the Pontiff to commemorate the event. This singular and exceptional recognition was secured se-cured through His Eminence, Cardinal Martinelli, at the suggestion of some of Mr. Davis former pu-pils. pu-pils. This will be the first time .that Papal honors have been conferred on a layman in America for such services in parochial school work. It is an evidence of how the Pope is a father to all the j faithful. lie willingly joins with Mr. Davis' former i pupils in celebrating the unusual event. It also , I makes manifest that any faithful service ever rendered ren-dered the Church, no matter how insignificant , does I not escape ihe watchful attention of the Shepherd of Shepherds. 1 Mr. Davis is a convert to our holy faith. He j taught six years in ihe non-Catholic school before beginning his parochial school work. A NEW INDULGENCE. ! An indulgence has been granted by the Pope to all who recite the office of the Sacred Heart each day for a month. This decree, which was deated March 1, is of special interest to league members who frequently recite this office. Any day of the month may be chosen for gaining gain-ing the indulgence. Desidcs Confession, Holy Communion Com-munion and prayer for the intentions of the Holy rather, a visit to any public church must, be made on the day on which the indulgence is gained. This favor was granted by Pope Pius at the request re-quest of the Bishop of Angers, ''in order to increase still further the love so much to be commended for the Divine Heart," a love -already greatly fostered, the bishop said, by the recitation of the little office. of-fice. "We are persuaded," said the Holy Father, "that this favor will greatly contribute to the spir-iutal spir-iutal good of the, faithful"; while he recalls that by the daily recitation of the little office during the year they gain an indulgence of L'OU days for each recital. Church Progress. BISHOP'S MONUMENT. , Kt. Ilev. Bishop Burgess, the third bishop of Detroit, died at Kalamazoo in lX). By the terms of the bequests of his will, a monument was to be erected over his grave. The creel ion of the same was deferred until now. It will be a handsome gran-ile gran-ile structure, with a shaft forty feet high, capped with a heroic tigiire of the late bishop in the atti-tude atti-tude of imparting his blessing. The work is now well under way. It. is situated on Nazareth academy grounds, Xazareth, Kalamazoo county, Michigan. It is expected that it will be completed before the winter sets in. It will be a handsome, ami unique monument to commemorate one of the great bishops of Detroit. . UNIVERSITY FUNDS IN PERIL. A sensation was caused in financial and real estate circles in Washington, D. C, on Tuesday, when il became known that a petition in bankruptcy bank-ruptcy had been filed by three of the leading national nation-al banks of that city against Thomas E. Waggaman, a prominent real estate and insurance agent of that city, and treasurer of the Catholic university. The petition at the same time seeks to set aside a deed of trust recorded Monday on Mr. Wagga-man's Wagga-man's property for approximately $S70.000 in favor of the Catholic university, cn the ground that it is void as being an attempt by an insolvent debtor to prefer one of his creditors. . The petitioning banks were the Second National bank the National Metropolitan bank and the National Na-tional Bank of Washington, each of which alleged it held overdue and unpaid paper of Mr. Wagga-man's, Wagga-man's, the total amount held by the three exceeding exceed-ing $40,000, of which $30,000 is' due the Metropolitan Metropoli-tan bank. EFFECT OF RELIGION ON MORALS. The population of Saxony, is. overwhelmingly Protectant. The Koman Catholics amount to only -4.7 per cent., though they have greatly increased in recent years, having nearly trebled since 1&80. The number of Jews is very small. As is everywhere every-where the case in Germany, illegitimate births and suicides are more numerous than in the Koman Catholic districts. The following figures show .this: i Suicides per ! Illegitimate lOO.OOO in- j births per habitants Ki (lyOOJ. (169.-10UU). Saxony 12. t 30 Kbinelaoid 4 U Westphalia 2.7 10 German Empire S.7 20 To prevent erroneous conclusions from being drawn concerning the influence of work and wages on illegitimacy and suicide it should be added that, both are lower in the purely industrial towns of Chemnitz and Zkickau than in Dresden and Leipzig. Leip-zig. The foregoing is not an extract from Father Young's book, "Catholic and Protestant Countries Compared," but from a widely different source. It is an extract from the special correspondence of the "Times" (London), and it is printed as a pamphlet by the United States department of commerce com-merce and labor for the present month. It is to be hoped it may not escape the vigilant eves of the "Christian Advocate" editor and of Bishop Burt, ex-Bishop Foss, "et hoe genus omne," who take a delight in showing what great saints they and their followers are, and thank God they are not as Catholic sinners arc. Catholic Standard and Times. PRINCE AND PRINCESS DOING PENANCE. A late dispatch from Vienna tells this story-; A prince and a princess are making a pilgrimage pilgrim-age of more than 400 miles on foot to Kome to appear ap-pear in penitence before the pope. These orsonagos in a romantic act of religion not unusual in the middle ages, but uncommon enough in these prosaic times, are the Prince . Frederick von Schoenburg-Waldenburg and his wife, Princess Alice, the youngest daughter of Don Carlos, the pretender to the crown of Spain. This couple married in 1S!7 in Venice, by the patriarch, now Pope Pius X, were divorced by the house of lords of Saxony last December. Each party to the suit charged the other with unfaithfulness, unfaith-fulness, to which the princess redded accusations of deprivation of her liberty and even of personal ill-treatment. ill-treatment. The proceedings at Dresden were secret. The report current at the time of the separation was that the princess had eloped with her' coachman, and , she threatened slander suits for damage - against the. persons whom she blamed for the story. It is presumed that the personal influence of the-pope,-who: is an old friend of both, was exerted to bring the pair to a reconciliation. - However that may be, they are walking hand in hand over a rough country to fulfill a lf-imposed penance before be-fore asking absolution for their sins, including that of obtaining a divorce, which the Koman Catholic church' cannot sanction. The princess wears a black gown of -severely plain cut. and unfashionable material. Her bead is covered with a dark shawl; Her husband wears a rough gray suit, with a band of black tied around ihe sieeve, in token thnt- he is'a pilgrim 'penitent. His feet are shod with sandals, and he wears a common gray felt hat. They stop at the nearest inns on. their route. At every halt they bestow alms through the parish priest upon the poor, and '-devote themselves 10 whatever work of pious merit may offer itself. Their road will lead them over the Austrian Alps . into Italy. ' The penitent pair, at last account, had. reached St. Veit, iii Carinthia, a small mountain' town thirty miles from their starting place, and ihe priycess' country scat, where their reconciliation todv place. Thby have announced, their, purpose to devote the remainder of their lives to .-religion and works of humility and charity;" ' ; The prince, who ' was .born"; in" the Protelanf ! religion, traces his aueesiiy.' back 1o. the year and since at one: time, Jrts'; forbear. rejgued in a small principality,' he wits eligible- to marry a daughter of the royal, ' if '.""not.; regnant Bourbon. Carlos. |