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Show RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. 1 The House of the Angel Guardian at Boston has just celebrated its golden i jubilee. -j The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial J school at Westminster has been opened ' 4 in temporary premises. 4 1 i A movement was recently inaueru- rated in Rome for the canonisation of A John Duns; Seotus. the famous Jj churchman of the Middle Ages., 4 i On Sunday, Jan. 8. the golden jubilee of old St. Mary's church in San Fran- i Cisco was celebrated with due pomp. ' St. Mary's is a. historic edifice and was M formerly the Cathedral church of the j Jj 'church. It was built under the direc- J h tion of Archbishop Alemany. and was 1 0 used as the cathedral until 1S01. On j Dec. !. 1804, it was placed in charge of the Paulist Fathers. Rev. II. II. Wy- man is now the pastor. i A l vl Mgr. Sera fini. apostolic delegate to v Mexico, has resigned, on account of ili VI health, and left, "f'-r .Rome this week. Mgr. Cerretti. secretary of the apostolic delegation, will perform the' duties of the office, until a new delegate is ap- pointed. Mgr. Sera fi no has suffered I from the effects of the altitude, but his physicians say he will improve in health on returning t Italy and the sea level. A dispatch from- Guayaquil, Kcuadot. on Jan. 11. stated that while a procession proces-sion was entering the Catholic church at Cayambe, near Quito, a thunderstorm thunder-storm broke anil the altar was struck by lightning, setting fire to the church. A priest and eight other persons were j mortally wounded. Two persons were J killed by lightning in the same storm. .' The strike of the S00 or more employes em-ployes of the Kelly Island Line & Transportation company at Marblehead and Kelly island, near Sandusky. O., I has been settled through the mediation of Bishop Horstmann of Cleveland. . t Signor Marconi, of wireless telegraph I fame, is, according to the Patria. en- S gaged to marry Princess Giacinta Uus- I poii, 21 years old, the youngest daugh- ter of Prince Francesco Ruspoli, mas- fc ter of the Holy Hospice, a high hered- itary Vatican position. . The Catholics of St. Peter's church of j Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. witnessed a won- derful event at the 5 o'cLck mass on h Christmas, morning. After walking 1 E several blocks, Mrs. Mary Shephard. j 'aged 101 years, appeared at "the first e mass. She was celebrating her 104th birthdav, having been oorn 111 tieianu. Dec. -i:, 1S00. The old lady had cer- E tainly contracted the good habit of go- ing to mass. Doubless fidelity to GjcI has brought her many blessings during H more than a century, of years. Catho- :j lie Universe. a The cathedral schools of Helensburg, Scotland, were last year given the : highest government grant in their his- tory, namely, 51.300. ! Prince Arthur cf Connaught termin- ated his official stav in Rome with a : visit to the Vatican, j A new home for Catholic working 1 boys has just been opened in Montreal, j under the directorship of Rev. Daniel i Holland, C. SS. R.vrector of St. Ann's I church. It is called'St. Joseph's Home, 1 and is already a great. success. ; Acceding to the request of Archbish- op Bruchesi of Montreal. Tope Pius X S has appointed Mgr. Zotique Racicot. the . present vicar general, as auxiliary bish- op cf the diocese. The news of the fall of Port Arthur ; was received in Rome at first with in- i credulity. Pope 'I'.ius,. on hearing the : news, exclaimed: '':Let us hope that it is an augury that the end of the war is near, now that both nations have g proved their mettle." I There recently died in Chicago a ! mother who had given seven children g to the church. She was Mrs. Catherine J Ilennessy. Rev. William S. Hennessy. pastor of St. Joachim's church; and jj Rev. M. D. Hennessy, pastor of All 3 Saints' church, are two of , the sons. There is another in a monastery and I? f .ur daughters in the religious life. She was truly a mother in Israel. , The Basilica . of St. Mary Major at Rome is one of the most celebrated shrines in the world.. . This year of t.he jubilee of the Immaculate Conception it has especially. centered the attention of Catholic Christendom. It is most renowned re-nowned because of the miracle of the snow, which is annually commemorated on the day of the rounding of the Basilica Ba-silica by a pontifical high mass in, the Borghese chapel, when at the offertcry showers of snowy rose, leaves are scattered scat-tered from the dome on the marble floor beneath, until this is covered with a fragrant summer snowfall, pure and sp thss as the miraculous snow by whose means Our Lady vouchsafed to designate the -site of her church 011 that burning August day of A. D. 3o2, and thus the Basilica came by its beautiful title of "Our Lady of the Mr. Sutherland of the war department depart-ment w ill be absent this month on a trip to California, where he and his wife will receive ab.ut Iwenty-flve Filipino . bovs and six girls, who will arrive there direct from the Philippines. On account of the severe climate in the ea-jt. they will for the winter be located in California, Cali-fornia, the boys in ihe Jesuit college -at Santa Clara, the girls in a convent :--chool at L?s Angeles. It is proposed J to place lm-nwl fall in such 'Catho- , lie -jrrstitutioitii in the east as are ..suites -to the particuVHi' -studies they desire, to 1 pursue. . '.' ''" . . '.H I t the churfh -parade on th'e -"Wanr h , defers'" ground. Johannesburg. . South H Africa, recently'rive Sisters of Nazareth 1 house. Johannesburg, with other relig- ions and secular nurses received med- j als from Lord Roberts in recognition of H their services to the sick and wounded during the late .war. The nuns were the j firsl'.to be decorated, and as; they ad- 4 vanced toward' the place ' where L' rcl Roberts was seated with Lady Roberts. their two daughters. Lord M liner, the mayor of Johannesburg- and others, the cheering applause from the tens of thousands assembled were beyond description. de-scription. Lord Roberts spoke kindly, to the sisters, and expressed great pleasure at meeting them again. Father Nau personally superintended' the transfer of. the famous theological semiuary from Price Hill to Cedar Point last summer, and also the erec- tion' of the large new building at the latter place, and these cares, together ' with his arduous duties as profess-or and disciplinarian, it is said, have been j gradually undermining his .health, h While resigning' as tector. Father Nau's H friends say be will: continue as profes- j sor of theology and canon law at'Mt. St. Mary's. It is stated that the financial man- agement of the seminary "will now de- mand the undivided attention of a j manager, who will not .be. required to act as professor. Hitherto- the rectors - of the school have plso, beri' in charge of numerous c-Ja'sse.s.v . The successor to Dr.; Nau has not yet J been announced rby.'Archbiehpp Moeller. -The names of .Rev...' Father Mackev, Rev. John Feldman. Rev. M.' Mulvihlll , and others have been" mentioned. j t-i.rr. .- ( It will come rVa: great surprise to th? local Catholic community to hear of the J regisnation of Rev. Louis :J. Nau as rector of the famous Mt. St. Mary's seminary. Cedar Point, near Cincin- i natk It was learned last week that Dr. Nau has handed In his resignation' of this, office to. Archbishcp Moeller, by' ' whom he was appointed several months ago. 4 ... .. j |