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Show IjilPCf) the victory I wblch oyer 9 cc-stli the universal. EABBONI. j St ! " ",uu- J 'Twas a MrimKcr'f vojc, at the break of tin morning srmy; AM a lonely lioart in its crirf replied, r I "Th-y lmvo taken Him away." "Whom sock st thou?" 'Tivas the p;irdi-ii'T's yoke. In tin throe? of f-ati divniny I Th InvMking heart could only siph, : "Tluy have taken my Lord iiway." " . "Mary." 1 1 o speaks. i 'Tis His centle voice in the old familiar ; way. t One eladpome cry. "Ralthoni !'' . - 'Twas .-ill that love oouW fay. M. J. Elaine in Catholic World. 1 CHURCH CALENDAR. Second Sunday after Kapler. Gospel, 5 Sunday, IS St. llermenepild. M. Monday, 14 St. Justin, M. t ' . Tuesday, lu St. Peter Gonzoles. jj Wednesday. 16 St. Hen. Joseph La - bre, C. I 1 Thursday. 17. St. Iludwlph. M. Friday, IS. HI. Mary of Incarnation. I Saturday, 19. St. Leo IX. I C. ! HORRIBLE DEED. ft, Desecration of Sacred Host Robbery ! I . the Motive of the Culprits. Thieves made valuable hauls during j . 'lie early hours of Holy Thursday in i I i im itv.i-w.i-i T,.,v,n r'.,i,ti,. II '"- ' " ii.jiii.ni -a.iii.Mi. .uiii.ii ji f St. Louis, at KUery street and Xos- ; ; trend avenue, and also in the German I '"atholie church of All Saints, at Throoii avenue and Thornton street. ; : Tb-ooklyn, X. Y. From the church of St. Louis the burglars not only sue- i I , ' reeded iii stealing: the pold and silver i ! i 'halices used on the altar, but still J ' , further desecrated the edifice by : . ; strewing the altar with the Blessed .; Sacrament or the Host. The altar was covered with the Blessed Sacrament, ' ' ' the robbers tramping upon the wafers, crumbling: them into dust. In the church of All Saints the robbers tam- j pored with the poor boxes, but it is not known how much money they managed I to carry off. i The Itev. Jules Jollen is the rector of ( . , ,. the church of St. Lolis. where he has been in charce for mnre than fiftv "i, years. The priest is more than 80 years I old, but is still very active. His con- I srresration consists not only of French. but also of German, Irish, Italian and j American Catholics. The entire con gregation is greatly exercised over the j -obbery and desecration of their church nd is determined if possible to bring '.-.' j the malefactors to Justice. The Church in the Danish Islands. The church in these islands is in the J diocese of Roseau, island of Dominica. - under the care of Rt. Rev. A. C. Ca-I Ca-I ron. D. D.t O. SS. R.. w ho was conse- I crated last year as successor to Bishop : Michael Naughten. w"ho died July 15, 1!,0. The diocese of Roseau embraces J 'he British islands of Antiqua, Anqui- ji lia, Culebra, Dominica, Monserrat (Lit tle Ireland), Nevis, St. Christopher and the three islands of St. Thomas. St. I 'roix and St. John. Monserrat is still ! called Little Ireland and has a most salubrious climate for invalids, nnd in the church register of the church on j the island St. Patrick's, under the I ; . fare of Rev. T. J. Fortupne. may be I i found some of the most honorable names on record. The new bishop of 1 ; Roseau will have the unique distinction ' f having both subjects of Kngland j "nd the Cnited States under his splrit- ; nal jurisdiction. The three islands, j ; soon to come under the jurisdiction of k this country, are entirely in the charge of the Redemptorist Fathers, priests of the Order of St. Alphonsus Liguori. Lev. L. W. Mulhane, in Donahoe's. DEATH OF A NOBLE SlfciER. j ' i Sacramento Nuns Mourn Tor Sister M. Antonio. . Sacrani --.to. April 2. Early on the , ! morning of the 24th of MarcTi the An gel of Death claimed the soul of Sister t M. Antonia Irwin of St. Joseph's con vent, and she went forth on that mysterious mys-terious journey we must all make, fortified for-tified with all the rites of our holy ! mother, the c hurch. Hers was a holy, liappy death, although it was a some- what sudden one. 'With perfeor reip- i ! imuuii i; iiun s iioiy win, sne vent to meet the Bridegroom she had loved and served so faithfully for over fourteen four-teen years, and those who knelt around her deathbed felt they witnessed the passing away of a saint. Sister M. Antonia wng the eldest J danghetr of William M. and Joanna 1 Irwin or Feenag'h House, county Lim- ; erick. Ireland. She was born April l'C. i 1scs- and was educated with th-? sis ters of Notre Dame, Blackburn. F.rg- land. slle came to Sar ramento in Svlfm-I Svlfm-I i '"'i". bSST. and entered Hi Convent "f Mcr.y. she was professed Sept. IS, I ln. and since then has bc-n one of the f ' most useful members of the communi- L, ty. Her last duty was among the hildren of "The Stanford-Uuhrop . - Memorial Hom'." and she labored I J there at the time of lier death. She f was loved and respected by all who j knew her and deserves the best praie J that can be bestowed on a religious she was faithful unto the end. Solemn icquiem mass was offered for 5 ' the rep(je of her soul on Wednosjjy ' in holy week. I 1 I Catholic Federation. I It is gratifying to learn that the Fed- I eration of Catholic Societies is pro- gressing by ieaps and bounds. Already t " i's membership is up into the hundreds j : of thousands, its greatest strides being ( among the Germans , the Central Yerein i . a: Chicago having federated all the German Catholic societies In fifteen! ; slates. The Ancient Order of Hiber-! i tiians. too, is about to make a move in j the same direction, according to the I intimation reported to have been made J by National President John T. Keat- 1 inj that the the national convention f Denver, Colo., in July, the organiza- i tion will resolve to connect itself with f the Federation. But the Knishts of I Columbus decline to federate. Such. ' : it is announced, was the decision of i i's recent convention at New Haven, j 'onn. No doubt they have some good reason. It would be Interesting, as f perhaps, as instructive, to know i , what it is. I : I , A BISHOP'S FAREWELL. Many of His Flock Knelt on Sidewalk ! i as He Departed. -v . ! . . Thp venerable and beloved Bishop van 1 xp. standing at the open door of S a carnage making the sign of the cross ov?r the bowed heads of a hundred J ' kneeling friends, was a scene the like J r,f which never before has been wit- ' nessed on Grace street, Richmond Ya. I ; The bishop mas leaving the episcopal is i ' mansion to start on his long and sad ! I I . , , journey to Belgium, where a brother is I " ttt tfie point of death. There was no I y t tirre after the mass early Mondav to f 5ay od-b'e. and so about 100 of th1 ' atvout parishioners assembled on the I Wdewalk between the mansion and the - i . ' I carriage to bid him godspeed as he started. h ; ip ciock me oisnop appeared at the door. Many kissed his ring and lagged God to send him back safe. All knelt in the street, and as the good s'hepherd opened the door of his carriage car-riage he turned and gave his blessing. There were many tears in the eyes of the people, for the bishop is deeply beloved be-loved and his sorrows are shared bv his fiock. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream'" was elaborately presented in Boston College Hall by the St. Cecilia Sodality of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. The charter of St. Yincent's Sanitarium Sanitar-ium cf Sherman. Tex., has been filed in the office of the secretary of state at Austin. The incorporators are: Sister M. Bernard Keardon, Sister M. Joseph Dris-coll. Dris-coll. Sister M. Juliana Fleming and others. A new church of the Italian renaissance renais-sance ptyle of architecture will shortly be erected by the congregation of St. Joseph, Jo-seph, Lake Linden. Mich. The Thibodaux. La.. Sentinel has opened a subscription list to raise funds I for reducing the indebtedness on the Mt. I Carniel convent in that city. The Sentinel i heads the list with a donation of $25, and j the local branch of the C. K. of A. contributes con-tributes a like sum. I - Rt. Rev. Bishop Maes of Covington. Ky., left on Monday last for New York, from which point he ttct sail for Kurope on Wednesday. His objective point is Rome. , A fine new bell weighing 1.300 pounds has been donated to the new Catholic church at Arlington. S. D.. bv Mr. Andrew An-drew Kuehn, a former resident of that city, but at present a wholesale grocer of Sioux Falls. A new institution, called St. Phillip's Home for industrious Bovs, has been opened at 417 Broome street, New York, for the accommodation of Catholic working work-ing boys whose wages are small and who are without relatives or home. Brother Barnabas is the director. The Catholics of Donora. Pa., who number more than eightv families, have taken initiatory steps for the erection of a nandsome new church during the coming com-ing summer. A committee has been chosen to select a site. Through the untiring efforts of the Ladies' La-dies' Altar society of the Church of the Immaculate Conception at El Paso. Tex., that edifice has been enlarged. It now has a seating capacity of more than 300. $- Plans are being prepared for an attractive at-tractive brick school building for the congregation of the Sacred Heart of Mary. It will be erected on the northeast north-east corner of Canfield avenue and Rus-J)CooDetroit' Rus-J)CooDetroit' at an estimatcd cost of A large new convent is being built bv the histers of St. Benedict at Covington La. hen completed it will be one of the finest and most commodious buildings of V0oond 1,1 thC state' 11 win cost abn"t The new addition to St. Yincent's hospital, hos-pital, Cleveland, O., for the care of surgical sur-gical diseases of women was formallv opened last week. It is a fine building .mo nas accommodations for about sixty patients It is in charge of the Sisters of Chanty. Old parishioner, lately deceased, has bequeathed be-queathed the sum of $500 to St Mark's church. Richmond, Ky.. for repairs to that structure. She also provided that at the death of her husband J7.O00 shall be given as a nucleus for a building fund to erect a new church. I Rev. William O'Meara of St. George's church. Armour, S. I)., will build a new church this spring at Belmont, a midway mid-way station on the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, between Tripp and Armour. Ar-mour. The new cathedral at Dallas. Tex. Is rapidly nearing completion. It is expected in two or three months the structure will be ready for occupancy. Contracts have been let for the erection erec-tion of new marble altars in St. Kliza-beth Kliza-beth s church. Chicago. The cot will be in the neighborhood of $12,000. Although no official announcement has been made, and may not be for the present pres-ent there is good reason for saving that Bellamy Storer will not long retain the Spanish mission. He likes the Spanish people and enjoys his environment. Hi reasons for desiring a change are wholly personal, and. it is honed, will not in- volve his retirement from diplomatic life. Mr. Storer is a convert to Catholicity. By-the will of the late Henrv Diesin-ger Diesin-ger Of Philadelphia. :.00 is left to the church of Our Lady Heln of Christians for a memorial window. Bishor, Messmer of Green Bay, Wis whom report has it will he made' Archbishop Arch-bishop of Manila, denies anv knowledge of the fact. If such action is conteni-nlated conteni-nlated he has received no intimation of John Lynch, a member of the famou papal guard that fought for the integrity of the papal government at Rome in 18.Vt died last week ot his home in Worcester. Worces-ter. Mass. Mr. Lvnch was li.". vears old. j He was born in Killarney, count v Kerry, Ireland. A wife, two sons and six daughters daugh-ters survive him. During a two weeks' mission given by the AusruFtinian Fathers in the church of the Nativity. Philadelphia, over 4.300 con-fessons con-fessons were heard and twentv-two adults applied for instruction in the faith. Plans for a new $3,000 church, to be erected at Georgetown. O.. are now readv and building will commence at once. The old convent building at Altata. So-nora. So-nora. adjoining the historical church of Cabac-a. has eullapsed. as a result of being be-ing undermined by the river. Fortunately Fortunate-ly no one was injured. Fifty pilgrims, representing the flower of the Catholic r.ristocracv of Holland will accompany the archbishop of rtrecht to Home, on a visit to the holv father early next May. a By the will of the late Mr. James F Lombard of Dublin. M each is bequeathed be-queathed to a number of Catholic chari- ties in that city. The holy see has issued decrees establishing estab-lishing cathedral chapters for the dioceses of AVaterlord and Galloway. The Most Rev. Dr. Donnellv. bishop of Canea. has been named dean of Dublin in succession to the late Mgr. Walsh. Rt. Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly has been one again elected chairman of the Thame hospital trustees of Auckland, X. z for the eusuing year. ' During an address a few evenings ago delivered at San Juan before the Federated Feder-ated Catholic associations of Porto Rico the distinguished Dr. Sandana insWted that the time has arrived for the holding . v.....j,n LMis.rws unuer the flag of the new world. The lat Mr. James Coghlan. J. p in.f. 'nvflf;tor. of Ballarat. N. Z.. 'in his will bequeathed Sv to Nazareth House. endouree. conducted by the nuns of the Order of Nazareth: 200 to Bishop Moore for church purposes, and 100 each to the Ballarat Hospital. Ballarat Benevolent Asylum and Ballarat Orphan Asylum. E.9Ui ,f ufif'y--Igln members in the second chamber o the Holland parliament, parlia-ment, twenty-five are Catholics, and 1 ''T -ye .5rel1 Catholics in the queen's cabinet. The advance of the faith in V I Holland during the last fifty years has I been little short of marvelous. The last census shows .'i.o'iu.Oy.i Protestants, 100,0;.) Jews and 1.7,n) Catholics. A Catholic young Spanish poet, whose first volume is highly praised, has appeared ap-peared in the ; person of Don Kiisardo '. Sayans Ocampo of Santiago. The work 1 I has a preface by the eminent critic and I poet, Don Manuel I'olysoron. which ns-I ns-I serts that the version of the younger writer is worthy of Spain's ancient davs. ' j A contract has Just been awarded for the erection of a large new convent at Maudeville. La. It is for the Sisters of : Jhc Holy Family. St. John's college. Toledo. O.. will be 1 dedicated on Wednesday. May 14. The beautiful new buildings will be entirely finished by that date and everything made ready for occupancy. A fine new church is well under way at Gedes, g. D. A sneak thief operated Mondav noon at the convent of the Sisters of St". Francis Fran-cis and at that of the Sisters of Chris- ; tian Charily at Syracuse, X. Y. The thief entered the convents while the Sisters Sis-ters were at dinner. At the former convent con-vent he stole $loo and at the other he Stole $1. j |