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Show 1 T j Religious Tnfelliflcnce. . j : . - 1 A solemn requiem mass was sung in St. Dominic's Domi-nic's church, San Francisco, for the repose of the soul of the late Hew James L. O'Xeil, O. P. Bev. William P. Kirby, pastor , of St. Agnes, j church, San Francisco, died hist week, after au illness ill-ness of several months. j . Bev. Patrick Maloncy. S. J.. one of the promising prom-ising scholastics of the Jesuit order, passed -peace-full away at. Santa Clara, college, Santa Clara, Cal., at an early hour Feb. 4. The body of Sister Mary tie Sales Bouse, who for several years had been superior of the Magdalen asylum, was laid to rest in Holy Cross cemetery, San Francisco- last week. ' Wo note with deep sorrow the death of good Sister Josephine, of the Order of St. Dominic, at the hospital of St. Mary and Elizabeth, in Louisville, Louis-ville, Ky., early Tuesday morning, the 2 inst. "She . was one of the invalid sisters conveyed to the hospital hos-pital shortly after the burning of St. Catherine's convent and academv. Bishops Messmer, Schwebaeh arid Lis. of the Milwaukee archdiocese, held a special meeting at St. Francis seminary recently, to consider the three names which are to be forwarded to Borne, from among which the congregation of the propaganda will probably choose a successor to Bishop Messmer Mess-mer in the see of Green Bay. Mr. Michael Jenkins, president of the Baltimore Safe Deposit & Trust company and one of " the most prominent men in Baltimore's financial circles, has been made a knight commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Pius X. This is one of the highest honors for a layman within the gift of the supreme pontiff and is bestowed only as a recognition of valuable ervices to the church. j It has been announced that the building of the new cathedral of the diocese of Indianapolis will begin in April and be carried on. until practically completed. It is also made public that Bishop Chatard has given .$20-000 toward the building fund. ' Archbishop Quigley of Chicago will inherit nearly $90,000 and Judge llanecy will receive a sum estimated at approximately $15,000 under the will of the late -Mrs. Margaret Hurtz. The will, probated last Friday, which bears date of Xov. 3 last, disposes of property figured to be worth $.la0,-000, $.la0,-000, which is said to have descended to Mrs. Hurtz from a former husband, the late Patrick Cash. ... The Abbe Delsor, an Alsatian priest, who is at the same time a deputy for Alsace-Lorraine in' the German rcichsfag. was to have givven a conference in the French frontier t6wn of Luneville recently, when, to the astonishment and indignation of everybody, every-body, he whs arretted and expelled by order of the government. M. Combes. was afraid, it appears, that the Alsatian priest in the course of his conference confer-ence would-make unfavorable comparisons between his treatment of religious' matters and their treat-' ment by the German government. The Pope issued an order by which the congregation congre-gation of indulgences and sacred relics is united with' the congregation of rites. Cardinal Cretoni, the prefect of the latter congregation, will be prefct of the united congregations, but as he is seriously ill Cardinal Tripepi, now prefect of the congregation congrega-tion of indulgences and sacred relies, has been appointed ap-pointed prefect of the united congregations. f- - . Bishop Burke, of St. Joseph, Mo., recently publicly pub-licly excommunicated a whole Catholic family of that city; a daughter for being married by a Protestant Prot-estant minister; the other members of the family for being witnesses and approving by their presence the sacrilegious ceremony. The mission for-non-Catholics conducted at St. John the Evangelist's church, Philadelphia, by the Apostolate Fathers 01 Xew York closed on Sunday evening. Twenty-one converts have been baptised, fourteen are left under th instruction of the priests of the parish and there are at least ten others who have attended the class of inquiry, several of whom have declared their intention of undergoing instruction instruc-tion for reception into the church. |