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Show i : : : i t . CHURCH CALENDAR. " Month of Holy Rosary.) Sunday. Oct. 29 Twentieth after Ten- iet-ost. St. Narcissus. Monday, 30 St. Aljthonsus Rodrieuez Tuesday, SI St. Quinctinus. Vigil. cast. November Month of the Poor Souls Wednesday, 1 All Saints. "Thursday, 2 All Souls. -Friday, 3 St. Malachy. - Saturday, 4-St. Oiarles Eorromeo.'- Monument to Pius X. A monument to'. Pope Pius , X, &u-.cribed &u-.cribed for by Catholics all over the world, was unveiled Sunday, Oct 22 Bt Riese, the little village in the Venetian Ve-netian province where the ;ine was born. Uis holiness is represented in the act of administering: a" benediction. benedic-tion. , . The entire village was decorated and ! national flags were conspicuous every- l where, while the wall? were covered I with inscriptions, one of which read: i "Long live Pope Pius X, the first titizen of the world." I The authorities formed a procession, I headed by the Patriarch of Venice ana Mx bishops of the neighboring dioceses, to the house where the pope was born. The eldest sister of the pope and other relatives, who own an inn called "The Two Swords." where they themselves serve the customers, were th recipients recipi-ents of much attention. Many tele-I tele-I grams were sent to rs holiness. American College at Rome. Archbishop. Riordan of San Fran-tisco Fran-tisco took lunch Sunday, Oct. 22, at the J American allege. Rome, and warmly i:ongratulat.I Mgr. Kennedy, the rector, rec-tor, on the mdition of the college and Ihe appear'nee of the students. There ure 115 students enrolled in the college this year, a number never before leached, and surpesing the roster of Ftudents in all other foreign- colleges here. Fate of the Apostles. Matthew is supposed to have suffered suf-fered martyrdom, or was slain in a city I of Ethiopia, .A. D.- 6f. .... Mark was dragged thijgh the streets of Alexandria, FA-pt, until he cxr-ired. Luke was hanged mi an olive tree In Greece. John was put in a boiling caldron at Rome, but escaped and died a natural natu-ral death at Ephesms in Asia. James the Great was thrown from a Vinnacle and beaten to death. . Philip was beheaded in the year 52. Bartholomew was skinned alive. Andrew was crucified and pounded s While dying. Thomas was run through with a lance. Simon was crucified in the year 74. . F.arnabas was stoned to death. Paul was beheaded at Rome by order or-der of Nero. Judas Tiangpd himself on a tree. The f t-ope or limb broke and he burst as-un- 1 der' f Stephen, after an admirable defense. vas dragged oul'of the 'city and stoned to death. St. Feter, after nine months im-. im-. Trisonment. was brought out. seoutgecf, end then put to death on the cross, and et his own request with his head downwards. down-wards. St. Jude, who was Commonly. .'called Thaddeus, was crucified A. D. 72. Catholic Education in America. A press' dispatch from Rome says: 'Pius X has just announced his de-j de-j cision to send to Ihe United States a ' j "Sb Prelate to investigate all educa- I tional matters affecting the church in I America, iind to visit all tbe urinci- ' pal Catholic institutions in that coun- !try. "The working of the parochial schools will form a special object of inquiry on the part of the papal envoy, as infor-I infor-I mation has been received at the Vati- I can that, notwithstanding the large number of parochial schools established of late in nearly every parish, thousands thou-sands of Catholic children are still to be found attending the public schools. "Thip, it has been reported here, is particularly the case in New York with the children of Italian parenis, of whom more than 23,0(10 are enrolled in I the public schools. Pius X wishes to know if it is not possible to establish special church schools for the children of Italians in thore ins in which many ""The plan suggested some time ago Vy Bishop Conaty of Los Angeles, at the tim rector of the Catholic university univer-sity at Washington, which was to convert con-vert some of the Catholic colleges at present existing in America into regular regu-lar high schools, also is to be looked into." Archbishop Riordan at Rome. Saturday, Oct. 21. Archbishon Patrick Pat-rick AV. Riordan of San Francisco Was 8 received in private audience by the pope. The pope was most cordial and showed perfect knowledge of American affairs. He manifested great interest in the diocese of fr,n Francisco, inquired in-quired about the progress of the Italian Ital-ian society there and Italian immigrants immi-grants and expressed pleasure at the satisfactory reports received. The pope recalled that Archbishop Riordan had been in Rome in 1902 after the happy solution of the Pious fund question, ques-tion, while Pope Pius X was still patriarch pa-triarch of Venice. Archbishop Riordan Rior-dan found the pope in excellent health .and vigorous both menially and physically. phys-ically. Spiritually Darkened ' Dixie. It is a disagreeable surprise to learn that the Church is wholly unknown or has doctrines so -little appreciated in most parts of the south. There are many in the more remote mountain towns who have 'never heard of heV. teachings and to whom the word "Catholic,", when heard for the fir:, time, is associated with the idea of some new religious institution. Thi Roman collar is often supposed to be the distinctive dress of a railroad prospector. pros-pector. -This ignorance is often excusable, for these people have lived in the same locality for years. The country "in which they were born is their little world, and beyond it they have never ;onc. The Catholic priest is a stranger to them, and whatever knowledge ihy may have of Catholic doctrines anc practices they have learned from ignorant ig-norant or unprincipled cross-road preachers, who have reviled the 'hurch. misinterpreted her teachings and attributed to her practices which' are abhorrent to a Catholic mind. Living Liv-ing amidst such surroundings, in an at' niosphere of prejudice and bigotry, far from Catholic influence, with no one to teach them the truth and open to their inspection the teachings of Holy Church, they have grown up in ignorance ignor-ance of the true dotrine, and look with suspicion upon her minister?. Literature antagonistic to Catholic belief be-lief has been widely circulated, and has done much to poison the minds jr hearts of a people who are deeply religious. re-ligious. There has been a campaign of missionary mis-sionary work carried on all through the summer in many places in the south. In Tennessee the Paulists. and the ecclesiastical students associated with them, have done most excellent work. In the mountain regions ot Kentucky Fathers Punch and Coonc . of the Covington diocesan band have preached to thousands. Iw North Carolina Car-olina Father Price and his assor:ates liave evangelized in and about Nazareth. Naza-reth. "In other places snlendid work lfl? ten done. The Missionary. ! 1 I . ! PROTESTANT BENEDICTINES. ' ' - Follow the Rigid Role of the Order at Fond du Lac, Wis. The following is from the Living Church, a Protestant Episcopal paper of strong high church leanings. It seems strange to read of Protestant Episcopal Benedictine monks, following the rigid Benedictine rule: A Benedictine, community of the ''American church" has recently been established, with the approval of the bishop of the diocese, in the city of Fond du Lac, ' Wis. The community, which was started last year on the Pacific coast, is as yet small in numbers. It has no conr.ee-I conr.ee-I lion with the English Benedictine or-: or-: dev. though it follows the ancient rule of ;St. Benedict, which provides for the establishment of autonomous houses. A building, formerly used as a boys' school, has been placed in the hands of the community, giving them a commodious com-modious house and suitable grounds. Generous friends have put the building In complete repair, and it is furnished with a steam-heaiing apparatus. The members wear the black monastic habit and observe the other customs of the ! Benedictine order. i The community at Fond du Lac ad-i ad-i rr.its to membership both priests and j laymen. The members believe that there i are many laymen who da not feel called to the clerical life and who yet wish to devote themselves without reserve to I the service of God In the forward j movement of the church. To such the ! democratic constitution of the Benedic-I Benedic-I tine rule offers special advantages, j In a religious order, devotion should be pre-eminent: And the new eommu-! eommu-! nity emphasizes the Opus Dei. or work ! of God. in the maintenance of the di- vine office night and day. ! 'The routine of a day in the cloister ! is as follows: At 2 a. m. the community ' rise for Matins and Lauds. At th ! close of these offices they rest until 6 ! o'clock, when they again assemble in ! the - chapel for Prime. At 9 o'clock, i Terce: at 12. Sext; at 2, None: at 5. Vespers: at 7:30. Compline. The great silence is observed until after Compline, Com-pline, and lights are out at 9 o'clock. There are but two meals each day, with a slight refection, which is taken standing stand-ing and in silence. Study and manual labor occupy the remaining hours of ithe day. j But in addition lo the devotional life of the community, it is their aim to undertake, as soon as their numbers num-bers permit, various works. So far the ' order has confined its exterior labors j to the giving of missions, retreats and I conferences. Plans are now being made for several missions during the winter, j But the scope of the Benedictine rule would admit of every variety of corporal cor-poral and spiriiunl works of mercy, and the community looks forward to th time when it may be able, through houses in various parts of the country, to establish (1) a. "home for the aged and infirm clergy, r.ow so much neglected: neg-lected: (2) a school for poor boys; f3) the manufacture of church goods and altar ornaments.. The community aims to be entirely self-supporting and will engage in various handicrafts. The revival of the Benedictine life in the Church of England has met with marked success. The monastery at Llanthony, built by Father Ignatius, O. S. B., and the rapid growth of the or der at Painsthorpe, established with the approbation of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, are i,;tances of the abiding abid-ing attraction of the life in the Anglican Angli-can church. Henry VIII destroyed the monasteries, but the church never condemned the monastic life. In America Amer-ica the difficulties of the revival of the religious life are great. But there are many evidences that the life meets a want of the church of the present day, and will exert a beneficent influence upon an age distracted and worldly. The Benedictine symbol..' "Pax," in It--self has a message - for. the people 'oli today. w j Hubbub Oyer Sex of Angels. j "What do you think of the hub-bub over the sex. of the sculptured angels in the Protestant Episcopal cathedral of j St. John the Divine, "New York City? Please give us the Catholic, view of an-I an-I gels." ' : j Rev. John Price answers in the Pitts-i Pitts-i burg Observer: j We have our limitations: but, thanks ! to the. magisterium of Holy Church, it ! is within our power to offer a little j clearance. ! The twenty-odd centuries, if we state j the ease loosely, have not elapsed j without the question of angels, having i assumed some definite mode of presen-i presen-i tation. 1 1. "Angels have no bodies." Th's ! statement is assumed and beyond con-I'lesi. con-I'lesi. In the statement is implied the absence necessarily of all bodily func-j func-j lions or atf. ibutes. 2. "Angels are spiritual beings." An. 'gels belong to a sphere beyond- the ! human. Some persons say angels be-j be-j long to the supernatural world: others . that they should be designated super--j human: while others, again, state that, i properly classed, they arc preter-nat-I urnl. Now, we wi'.i not quarrel over j classification in s:rict scholastic sense, j but in any acceptance of the idea or j concept of an angel, it is understood jthct an angel is ar. unearthly, intellec-i intellec-i tur.l creature, void cf material comno-I comno-I skion, and as unallied almost with fiu-j fiu-j man make-up as "noihing" and "something" "some-thing" only with ihi difference that man and angel are "things" yet "toto j coe'o" diverse in nature and in cate-: cate-: gory. I This is a long way "round in saying 1 that angels are rciclier male nor fe-j fe-j male. But the artistic view has always i cpialined angels as male, not that they j are manly but because popular con-; con-; ceptiou has always made the male the j sex of might and sovereignty, just as ! God is classified as masculine. The artist in Nev York City who has defied precedent in the .manufacture ol I his angelic productions by forming I them after female models, is a true j Protestant. As the Protestant Episco-I Episco-I pal church throws overboard all Cath-t Cath-t olic traduion-df doctrinal Import, what i-a-email thing it is for a congregation cf iconoclasts to sweep into the refuse heaps all scholastic conceptions of angelic an-gelic nature, office, ministry and significance! sig-nificance! Testimonial to Marist Provincial. The Lawrence (Mass.) Daily Eagle of Oct. 16, contains a lengthy account of the farewell tribute to Rev. Faihe-Portal. Faihe-Portal. the new Marist provincial. W glean the following: St. Anne's new church was crowdco to the doors last evening, the occasion being the reception to Rev. J. M. Portal, Por-tal, who leaves this week to actively assume the. duties of provincial of thV Marist order, to. which position he wa.-chos'eh wa.-chos'eh a short time ago at an interna-tion interna-tion convention held in Belgium. Ji 'was hoped that Father Portal might find it possible o mr.ke' this city h:;-headquarto's. h:;-headquarto's. tut h- has decided to remove re-move to Boston and from that city he will manage th? affairs of the great order. or-der. The reception l.st evening wa: one of the most fervent ever intendn" to a departing pastor. The new churc: is one of the largest in the city and i' is estimated that there were ."..000 r.eopl in the main portion, while Old) childrer ocx-upied positions with the choir mem Tiers in the recess where the aitar wil be constructed. Father Peter Danis had complet' charge of the reception, and he man aged the Jtuge affair in a manner t caue the greatest admiration. Th gathering included members of near' every sect and creed in tbe city..'.HuT . dreds of the prominent business ., ar professional men of the city were present pres-ent and the reception as a result had very cosmopolitan aspect. During, th exercises tears were copiously sber" and when the departing clcrgyineir ad rxmmJ i ... , m ....... IU1 dressed the thousands for the last time as their pastor sobs could be heard throughout the edifice. The scene was a most touching one and was but one of the splendid testimonials tendered the honored clergyman. During the exercises Father Portal was presented with a-purse amounting to 51,900. and shortly after the check was presented to him, Father Portal presented the check to his successor, amidst the cheers of the hundreds present. pres-ent. Opposed to Catholic Militarism. The plan of forming a federation of Catholic uniformed orgairations under un-der the name of the Catholic Military federation, which has been contemplated, contem-plated, is meeting with much opposition. opposi-tion. Archbishop Messmer of Milwaukee, Milwau-kee, who is an ardent leader in the Catholic federation, does, not approve of the military federation. In a letter let-ter to the Catholic Columbian, he says: "I am entirely in accord with your editorial regarding the proposed fed- j eralion of Catholic military order?, i There is no doubt that the name is un- fortunate; a 'Catholic Military federa- j tion' must sound very- offensively in i the ears of every non-Calholic American. Ameri-can. It sounds badly enough in our own. Moreover, I can think of abso lutcly no reason why our Catholic mill- ! tary orders or societies should federate. feder-ate. We need no Catholic 'army,' nor any 'armed' Catholic rank in this country, coun-try, be it for actual work or mere parade. pa-rade. If others? wish to spend lots of .money for uniforms and helmets and sidearms, well, let them have their fun. But I could never understand why Catholic societies would railr throw, away their money for suc things than save it for mort important work in be- , half of religion and churc.." Sisters Bequest of a Million. The Catholic Union and Times of Buffalo Buf-falo sars: "And now comes Buffalo's Sis-ter of Charity Mary Rose who is giving the j $1,000,000, which she has inherited from j her two wealthy brothers, to the sub- lime charity to 'which she is devoting : her life. . j ' "We much fear we shall incur the . deep displeasure of humble Sister Mary Rose for thus heralding the secret, j which we have accidentally heard, of -the noble way in which she is dispos-j ing of her family inheritance. Rutl we do so thoughtfully, because we be- j lieve her munificence will redound to the honor of religion, and may prove j an inspiration to other hearts' to de-j tach themselves from the love of money j that so abounds in these covetous dayp. ; "'The noted ceremony that occurred j at the 'Providence Retreat' last Satur- ! day afternoon, on the occasion of bless- i ing and placing in position the cor- i ner-stone of the new and much-enlarged building of that institution, was key to the secret of how Sister Mary Rose intends to spend her fortune. The new building, or rather series of buildings, build-ings, with all their 'various up-to-date improvements, will be erected at the sole expense of Sister Mary Rose: and judging from the architectural plans and from what we .could learn of the details, the new institution will not be second to any in the land. . j "Ely Place" in Dublin. j Mr. George Moore, the novelist, lives! in a house in Ely placej Dublin, and in the same house lived John Philpot Cur- j ran. Thereby, says a write, Vhangs an interesting talc of a very successful piece of passive resistance." Curran ' had a, brother whose sole success in life consisted in getting money from the eminent advocate. "The time came when John Philpot decided on a strike, against further subsidies to the scape- 1 grace. He sent him word that under no circumstances would he ever give him a penny again quite certain that he had got rid of him. . Ely place was then a fashionable quarter of Dublin. "Great folk in carriages car-riages were accustomed to drive up to j. the home of John Philpot Curran. One i day the callers noticed that a cobbler's j stall had ' been erected right opposite I the door of Curran's residence, and in the stall, busy at mending brogues, was John Philpot's own brother. Worse, than that, the villain had put out a large, sign announcing that' his eminent brother lived in the house opposite! His determination notwithstanding, Curran was forced to surrender unconditionally, uncon-ditionally, and he had to pay the scapegrace scape-grace handsomely for removing the cobbler's stall and himself before his door." A Church-Building Priest. Father Boulet, ' a venerable" Oregon priest, blessed with, an abundance of this world's goods, has decided to dispose dis-pose of some of his wealth by building churches. He is now building a church at Blaine in. that state, and. ha? offered of-fered the Catholics, of Lyndon to. erect one there, provided only that they secure se-cure the site. ' |