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Show RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. The rare spectacle of a Jesuit celebrating cele-brating the golden jubilee of his ordination ordi-nation was witnessed in Boston Friday Fri-day morning, Sept. 27. . The vene'-ab'e priest who has labored so long in th. Lord's Vineyard is the Rev. Alphonse Charlier. The observance was simple, in accordance with the reverend jubi-larian's jubi-larian's desire. One would think that the identity of the architect of such a superbly do-signed do-signed building as the Cologne cathedral cathe-dral could not possibly be lost to the world. But it Is. The cathedral took centuries to build, and many architects have modeled parts of it according Jo their own ideas. In the main, however, the original grand idea an idea whirl; simply astounds every modern architect, archi-tect, but the origin of which is abso-1 lutely unknown was carried out. ad the result Is the most beautiful cathedral cathe-dral in the world. An effort is to be made to pay off the outstanding debt on St. Pa-rick s cathedral. New York. The debt now remaining on the property is less than $250,000. The valuation is more than ten times this sum. and the programme by which the debt will be wlp I o'lt easily and without imposing too ha'-o and Immediate burden on the people is in process of incubation. Arrangements are being made for the holding of a Catholic congress Tor th- entire state of Iowa at Carroll. Oct. 9 and 10 next. Archbishop Keane i.i expected ex-pected to attend. -- The Vatican Press has issued a f. e-cially e-cially printed edition of Leo XIII.'s "New Century Ode," together with the various translations of it made into foreign tongues. A copy of the Aork has been sent to the various translators. transla-tors. Sister Mary Leonard, for sixty-tive years a member of the order of Visitation Visi-tation Nuns, died recently at the convent con-vent of the order, at Park avenue Pnd Center street. Baltimore, of which she was one of the founders. A special from Washington, T. C, says: Officials of the Catholic Church here have received information from the Propaganda at Rome that Bishop Lenihan of the diocese of Cheyenne, Wyo., is selected as bishop of the newly new-ly formed diocese at Sioux City, la. There will be no appointment to the vacant see and the jurisdiction over hs Cheyenne diocese will be attached to the Denver diocese, or erected into a vicarate. |