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Show i . . : , j j Reliflious Intelligence, I The Si-icrs of Charity at Hotel Dicu. Xw 0r-I 0r-I leans, have opened a gymnasium for children, pat-j pat-j lerned after all that is best in like institutions, j through the north and ea-i. ! The 'bi.-hop of Cleveland has. a ten thousand dollar mitre. It is full of precious stones, the gift I of Mr. and Mrs. Cordon. Cordon was u multi-! multi-! millionaire of Cleveland. --- The diocese of Pittsburg is going to present iis bishop with a gift of a quarter "of a million on the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination.' The day will be celebrated on May I. ' K . Archbishop Quigley has accepted the position as high spiritual director of the Catholic Order of Foresters. Where hundreds of lodges and A. P. A. societies existed in Wisconsin a few years ago not. one exists ex-ists today. The last of the lodges to disband was Xo. 94, which had its headquarters in. tho northwest north-west section of Milwaukee, and this society, it is stated, went out of existence last week. Protestants have appropriated "Lead, Kindly Light." and given it a prominent. -place in their sacred hymnology. Both England and America are growing enthusiastic over "Tho Dream of Geron-tius.''' Geron-tius.''' "Parsifal' is the drannit it! sensation of the year. These poems are all intensely Catholic. If the human soul "is naturally Christian, the poetic soul is naturally Catholic. Attended by an escort of more than 100 priest-' and half a thousand .laymen, lit. Iev, Sebastian. Gebhard Messmer bade farewell to Green Pay last week and began his journey to Milwaukee to na-sume na-sume charge of the archu piseopal see. -There was little ceremony at the s.tat'ion, where a. great crowd gathered to bid the bishop good-bye and wish him. success in the new field. . The Catholic population of the diocese of Fargo, Far-go, X". I)., is at prcsenl about "2,000. It has been more than doubled, within the last ten years. There are nearly G.Ot'0 Catholic Indians within the limits of the diocese, During the past year, it is paid, twenty-eight new Catholic churches were' built in ihe diocese. '. ' A number of the. members of the sacred college, including Cardinals Satolli, Vincent Vannutelli, Segna and Martinelli, have written , to Cardinal Gibbons. expressing their 'sympathy, with the people of Tkdtimore on the losses sustained through the recent fire. . ' ",.' California 'exchanges announce the death of the Pev. James L. O'Xeill.'O. P., one of the most widely known Dominicans in this country, for many years editor of the Rosary Magazine, published at Somerset, Som-erset, 0., and later founder and editor of Domini-cana. Domini-cana. a Dominican periodical issued in California. Father O'Xcill was a native of Xew York. Ue was a man of .brilliant attainments and as a pulpit orator had few equals in this country. He was also a writer of note, and published a' few years ago a defense of Savonarola and a Guide to Good Reading, which have had a wide circulation. ' 4 : |