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Show 'religious intelligence. ! Archbishop Riordan's Cathedral Reopens. i St. Mary's Cathedral. San Francisco, was opi-n for services on Christmas day. the tivst time since j Ihe earthquake on April IS. ' j Orphans Entertained. On Sunday last in Baltimore eight hundred and twonty-tive orphans, inmates of Catholic institutions, institu-tions, were given their annual Christmas treat by the Knights of Columbus at the Lyric theatre. Cardinal Gibbous, Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte. Mayor Timanus and Judge Charles W. j lieuijder made addresses. I i I A "Degradation" Which Is an Honor. At Lille, on Dee. 10. a court-martial tried and degraded Captain Magniez for refusing to obey orders or-ders in connection with taking of the inventory of the chapel of St. John. Magniez, before the court, said: " am a Christian, and 1 prefer to be shot rather than commit a sacrilege. So orn has the ' right to make me renounce the vows I took at my First Communion." ! Eminent Catholic. Dr. Thomas I). Dwight of the Harvard Medical school, who fills the chair of the Parkman professor of anatomy, commands tho respect of his confreres not more by his eminence in his profession than by his. uncompromising stand for religion. A recent appreciation of him says: . "Dr. Dwight does effectively for Harvard what Louis Pasteur did for France. With graceful eminence emi-nence and fitness he combines with his duties as head of ihe medical school where he cares for the physical body, his work as head of the St. Vincent do Paul in this archdiocese, where his philanthropic philan-thropic work does so much for the soul with which he deals. Pasteur is well' portrayed in the charac-. ter of the Parkman professor and the medical world holds the one in as high esteem as they hold the other in fond memory. They meet on the common com-mon ground of Catholicity, and as effective and accomplishing ac-complishing Catholics. Pasteur was the type of past greatness; Dwight typifies the glory of present pres-ent accomplishment. Both were intensely humane and intensely Catholic." ' " ' '"" "Marisf Provincial Dead. T Very Rev. . B. Descreux of the Marist order died last, week in Lutcher, La., aged 64 years. He was a native of St. Fitemit. France. Father Descreux Des-creux was sent to the United States to establish Marist colleges in this country and founded the first at Vanburen. Me. He afterward became rector rec-tor of St. Michael's Church. St. James parish. La. He was sent to Washington as superior of the house of students, and while there was appointed, in 1900. provincial of the United States, and in 1003 to take charge of the newly created province of Mexico. |