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Show I Diocese of Denver. ! . DENVER i ' j Interesting Paragraphs About Colo- I rado's Clergy and Laity. i (Special Correspondence.) The people of St. Leo's parish held a larpe and enthusiastic meeting: last I Tiiosday evening for the purpose of I junking arrangements for the fair ! vhich is to he held during the first 1 v.ck of Ft-bruary. Everything points I to the success of the enterprise. Prizes of $10. J20 and $30 are offered ! for the sale of tickets. I Kev. Father Robert 0. P. opened a i.V niision in Colorado Springs last Sun- ' rlav morning. He is being assisted by i i Father Gaudeutius, who left Denver j Monday morning. Father Frban left ! 3 he same uav for his home in Louis- , I ,ille. Ky. lie will leave immediately t 4 Ur Brooklyn, where the Passionist I j Fathers are about to give a series of ! j missions. j j Wot her Praxedes, superioress of the f Fisiers of Eoretto, returned on Tues- i : flay to the niotherhouse in Loretto, Ky. , ' niter a visit to all the institutions of j ' th order throughout the state. Mother S - J'raxedes' object in visiting Denver j , ;!s to perfect the document for the c;,io of four lots on the corner of j , Fifteenth and California streets, for j v liich the sisters reiceived $6,000 cash, j "Miss Pearl Marie Bent, a young Den- ' v r girl, returned with Mother Prax- l : i les to Kentucky, where she will en- f i-r ihe novitiate of the Sisters of f ; Jioretto. i Kev. Father Cantwell. C. SS. It., pas- lor of St. Joseph's church, left for St. Ixiuis last Sunday afternoon. The forty hours' devotion at St. Jo's Jo-'s Fph's church was very successful. It ifened on Friday morning with high f in;iss. The service' on Friday evening Mas preached by Father Cantwell. C. , ; SS. H., on Saturday by Father Eister, c. SS. R.. and on Sunday evening by s Father Gierman," C. SS. R. The.'devo-: The.'devo-: tion closed on Sunday evening with i Solemn benediction. Father Francis, ". F. M.. officiated, with Father Mc-: Mc-: Court as deacon and Father Ensebius, .j c.. F. M.. as sub-deacon. Father Her-( Her-( 7M, C. SS. R., was master of cere- monies. There were also present in the ' Fanctuary Rev. Fathers Eister, C. SS. 1 Fathers O'Brien, Stuart and Mor- f ; ril1- j Kev. Father Carrigan was summoned 1 to New York during the week. During ; Ms absence Father McCourt will be in ; charge of St. Patrick's parish. ' fit. Joseph's commandery. Knights of I f'- John, held their annual election of j ' officers Wednesday evening . The : names of the newly elected officers J will appear in our next issue. ' St. Mary's branch of the L. C. B. A. elected officers for the ensuing year last Tuesday evening. Branch No. 7, C. M. B. A., held an i V enthusiastic meeting last Tuesday evening. Rev. Father Lenart delivered k very interesting address. i rvf-v. rinpr ijto iieagan. . t'.. ot san Francisco, passed through Denver : early in the week en route to New j 1'ork city. Father Heagan was bor-jowed bor-jowed six years ago from the eastern province and during this space of time ' has been teaching in the western ; province . I Ttev. Father Daniel. O. P.. of Pom- 1 vierset, Ohio, is in Denver waiting to perfect arrangements for his being I transferred to the place of Father lleagan in San Francisco. jk Solemn high mass was celebrated in f-'t. Dominic's church last Sunday in H honor of the feast of the Immaculate , , 'oncepUon. Rev. Father Heagan. O. i I P- preached a sermon on the immac- ; ! ti'ate conception. ; I Mrs. J. G. Steiner was in Colorado i A Springs last week. The Aandern club held a very" in- 1' ii resting meeting at the residence of Mrs. J. J. Ryan. 1338 Downing ave- nue, last Wednesday afternoon. Miss I Julia Clifford, president of the club. J save an excellent review of Gilbert 1'arker's latest work, "The Right of j Way." There will not be another j Meeting until January S. j Right Rev. Bishop Matz arrived I home during the week. The bishop has I 1'een absent for three months, during I which time he visited Rome and Paris. ! 1 Mr. James Tomlinson, an old and !evout member of St. Leo's parish, was ,1 buried last Saturday morning. Rev. Father Ryan celebrated requiem mass. ; i The funeral of Mrs.. Joseph Dies took ' J place from St. Leo's church last Sun- : t ,iay afternoon. Mr. Dies was a prom- . I inent member of the Modern Wood- I t men. He leaves a mother, wife and i -" ,)V' children, to whom his lopg is in- l rstimable. i - |