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Show - t : ; Religious Intelligence. ! 1 ' ' r; - : Archbishop Christie of Oregon, whose health has been suffering, is sojourning at Oakland, Cal., for rest and recuperation. Mother St. John, who had been a Carmelite nun for fifty -eight years, died at the Carmelite convent. con-vent. Baltimore, recently, aged 80 years. Cardinal Gibbons officiated at herfuneral. Mrs. Giilow. Hereford. England, who -tiled recently re-cently at the advanced age of ): years, left $50,000 to be distributed amongst Catholic charitable institutions. in-stitutions. A handsome cathedral, to cost $200,000, is being planned for Lincoln, Xeb. Bishop Bonacum only recently completed tlie erection of a large orphan-a orphan-a co. Mgr. Joseph J. Fox has been appointed bishop of Green Bay to succeed Archbishop Messmer. Father Fa-ther Fox was made a domestic prelate in 1808 and is at present administrator of the diocese. St. John's Jesuit college at Fordham, X. Y., will open in September as a university. It is prob-nble prob-nble that Judge Morgan O'Brien will be at the head of the law school and Dr. James J. Walsh of the medical school. Mgr. Archambaulf, vice rector of Laval university. univer-sity. Montreal, has been appointed bishop of ihe newly created Canadian see of Joliette. Although comparatively young, the bishop-elect has made a wide reputation for zeal and. has done much good work. " Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore' was elected vice. president of the Harvard Law School T association at its recent meeting. .Mr, Bonaparte . has been honored by his alma mater, in. several ways, i For years he was a trustee of the university at i Cambridge. ' His treatment at the hands of such an -illustrious -.'body as the law "school graduates, over whom as president no less a dignitary than Chief Justice Fuller presides, is another' tribute to his worth. : ' A Bishop Shanahau of Harrisburg. Pa., is an advocate ad-vocate of free parochial schools, whenever at all feasible.. He thinks thq exacting of: a tuition is calculated to form odious castes in a parish and to always keep the children of- the poor in a separate strata of society. -- ;' 4 A band of Redemptorist missionaries will soon take up their residence in Seattle, Wash:, with the purpose of conducting .missions along the coast. The missionaries belong to the St. Louis province l and went west with Very lie v. Joseph Firle. C. SS. j P., provincial, who is conducting ihe annual re-treat re-treat for the clergy of the Xe.-'qually diocese. j : -- ! The visit to the Pope two weeks ago of several ! large relays of English bluejackets recalls the fact I that Catholics abound in all the ranks of the Eng-i Eng-i lish navy. One of their number. Admiral Lord Walter Kerr, has been first sea lord of the admir-ali.v admir-ali.v these five years: another. Vice Admiral Sir Hilary Ahdoe. has been admiral superintendent of Chatham dockyard; a third. Rear Admiral Bick-! Bick-! ford, is. by the way. that "nice Captain Bickford"' ! whom R. L. Stevenson mentions in the Vailima Letters. ' The raising of Bishop Blenk of Porto Rico to ! the dignity of the archbishopric recalls ihe f act-that act-that Porto Rico is probably the oldest diocese on the western continent. It was erected Aug. 8, 1511. by Pope Julius IT, and has had forty-six incumbents. incum-bents. Archbishop 'Blenk was consecrated for the see of Porto Rico on July L 18!H, in Xew Orleans. Fifty male niembers of the Pittsburg, cathedral choir, who are now'in St.'Louis taking part in the choral contest at. Ihe World's fair, sang the Gregorian Gregor-ian chant at the Old-Cathedral-last Sunday morning. morn-ing. The plain chant was. beard for. the first time in St. Louis, in all its simplicity and purity. Catholic visitors to the World's fair in St. Louis will be specially interested in the old bell sent from Xew Mexico by Governor Otero. Jt is doubtless the oldest bell in the United States, having been cast in Spain in 1355, and brought to the Xew World by one of the Franciscan missionaries who accompanied Coronado. Its history is said to be well authenticated. Although antedating the discovery dis-covery of America by almost, a century and a half, this old bell is still in good condition, and has been in constant use. |