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Show : RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. ! Domestic and Foreign Brief3 Selected From "Church Progress. DOMESTIC. .' An exquisite tablet of Italian marble has Just boeo placed in Sacred Heart chapel, Indianapolis, Ind., in honor -ol Rt. Rev. Mgr. August Bassonles, famous as a pioneer of the church in that state. rS, Rt. Rev. Bishop Burke recently laid the corner-stone of the new church of the Blessed Sacrament at Albany. N. Y. A grand demonstration of Catholic societies was one of the features. Five hundred dollars, recently collected at the dedication of St. Itrnatiiis church. Toledo, O., was stolen from the pastoral residence that same nhfht. Rt. Rev. Bishop Maes of Kentucky is expected home from Kurope about the 15th of next month. Last accounts tell of his presence in Louvain. " The Catholic church at Mt. Carmol. Ia., celebrated last week the thirty-third anniversary of its organization. About 200 Italian, workmen employed at the Philadelphia filtration plant were iin- j vested on Sunday of last Week with the scapular of Our Lady -of Mt. Carmel The I scene was one long to be remembered. Jeffersonville, Ind.,.. Hibernians celebrated cele-brated in elaborate manner the fifteenth anniversary of their foundation. - Three beautiful new statues of St Charles, St. Stephen and St. Mark will' shortly be placed in St. Alphnnsus' church, "Wexford, Pa. All ore of exquisite ex-quisite design. The general contract for the erection of the new fct. Joseph's college in Cincinnati has been awarded by Rev. Dr. Zahm C fe. C. the provincial of the order. The new (M i fi en -ii-i 1 ! nnc t W0.600. u.uB aoovo ? The annual pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Anne, at St. Anne, ills., was this year conducted under the auspices of the pastors pas-tors of Notre Dame and other French congregations of Chicago. Jt took place on Saturday last and was made up of increased in-creased numbers. "Work is progressing rapidly on the alterations al-terations to St. James' pro-cathedral in Brooklyn. It is now expected that the edifice will be completed by the 1st of December. The $30,000 addition to St. Anthony'B hospital. In charge of the Franciscan Sisters Sis-ters at Terre Haute, Ind., was dedicated with impressive ceremonies on Sunday of last week. Polish Catholics of St. Casimer's church, Kenosha, Wis., have just secured four lots in that place. This assures them of a new house of worship in the near future, fu-ture, as that is the purpose of the pur- ; chase. ; i The contract for the erection of a new ; convent on Arch street, Allegheny, Pa., i was awarded last week. The estimated cost of the new building is $20,000. On the occasion of the investiture of Mgr. Specht in the robes of his new office of-fice recently, the societies of St. Mary's cmirch, Columbus, O., made up a purse of $750 to present with their felicitations on the happy accosion. Thirteen societies, including the Children of Mary, were represented. rep-resented. A county federation of the Catholic societies so-cieties of Detroit was organized . during the latter part of last week, with a large representation. ! The new home of the Little "Sisters of i the Poor, on Lake street, San Francisco, was dedicated. It was a day of much genuine rejoicing for the good Sisters and the Catholics of that city. Miscreants broke into the church at Falls Creek, Pa., and defaced the walls, broke some of the furniture and did much other damage to the same. The purpose is not known, but seems to have been pure malice. . At the election held by the.'Ursuline Sisters Sis-ters at the Ursullne college, Cleveland, Mother M. Peter was re-elected for a term of three years. Mother-Alexis "was chosen first assistant. Mother Marv second sec-ond assistant and Mother Berchmanns procuratrix. ' A recent notable event in Catholic circles cir-cles of Central Illinois was the dedication dedica-tion of the handsome new church at Odell. Ills. The structure is of the English Eng-lish Romanesoue style: of nressed brfnU- with stone trimmings, will seat 1,500 and cost J35.000. -4: . Father Swift, who is so well known as a pulpit orator throughout Colorado. Texas Tex-as and New Mexico, who . has given so many missions in this part of the country, has been appointed Procurator of House, St. John's College and Missions in Belize, British Honduras. The Rt. Rev. Thomas M. Burke, D. D., bishop of Albany, was selected as an arbitrator ar-bitrator in the threatened strike of the United Traction company's employee, and gave up his proposed attendance at Archbishop Arch-bishop Feehan's requiem in order to fulfill the office given him. The contract for the building of a new Catholic hospital at Roanoke, Va., when the purpose to give Roanoke a new hospital hos-pital was made known, it was announced the probable cost would be $25,000. It has developed since then that the hospital's first cost will be $50,000. The Sisters who will manage the institution will come from Philadelphia and Baltimore, and will all be trained nurses. The hospital will be non-denominational, and will be in operation opera-tion by Feb. 1 nxt. Three very valuable pieces-of property adjoining St. Xavier's. convent in Providence, Provi-dence, R. I., have been acquired by the order. The purpose of the purchase has not been announced as yet. Archbishop Katzer will sail from Hamburg Ham-burg for home on Sept. 25. and expects to reach Milwaukee about Oct 30. At present he is visiting Linz, Austria, his birthplace. birth-place. Giovanni P. Morosini. the well known rsew lork banker, who has just presented the municipality of Venice with $100,000 for the rebuilding of the great Campanile,' or bell tower of St. Mark's church, is a native of the historic city, and is a devout de-vout Roman Catholic, and. although a patriotic American, is intensely proud of the glories of his race, FOREIGN. Cardinal Lozenz Sehlanrii TM-nn of Grosswardein, Hungary, "is dead at the age of 93 years. . T5cr?, ar,e now "about 400.000 Catholics mw'ViU,d majority of whom have veafs Ireland in the last sixty A company for the purpose of Insuring churches, convents and colleges has lately late-ly beeu organized in Dublin. .,Th? church of Stfoachim in Rome, the jubilee gife of the Catholic world to lope Leo. is now completed and is iu charge of the Redemptorist Fathers. Two churches were iniured by a severe fnVenelue.a.hat Shk th? City 0f Carac Welsh architects have decided that it is impossible to restore the ancient Cistercian Cis-tercian abbey of Baslnwerk, near Holv-wcll. Holv-wcll. builded nearly 1.000 years ago. According to the Koelnjisehe Volks-zei-timg as aggressive Protestantism dies, me Protestant urovinces o Germany arc-rapidly arc-rapidly becoming pagan. In the early autumn a new volume may be exDccted from Justin McCarthy, the distinguished Irish Catholic historian. It will be entitled. "A History of the Reigij of Queen Anne." and has been several years under way. Rev. Dr. Henry. Bishop of Down and Connon. has builded a sanitarium open to persons of every denomination at Ori lands, near Carrigfergus, Ireland. The corner stone of the Maronite college, col-lege, dedicated to St. Maron, was recently recent-ly laid at Rome bv Cardinal Vanmiiello. Priests of the Maronite rite will be trained in it for work in Syria. The Princess Auersperg, who recently died in the Dominican convent, near Vienna, Vi-enna, was a friend of Lizst, who often visited her. In religion she was calltd Mother Raymunda. - : In the studio of the sculptor, Chev. : AurelL ia a colossal piece of Carrara i marble, weighing thirty-five tons, from ( which wll' S wndiiw n statue of St ( John Baptist de la Salle, canonized two years apo. The statue will be placed in tit. Peter's. : - . Tha Celllte, or Alexlan Brotherhood, have bought the -country house of AU-huson's. AU-huson's. called. Twvford abbey, a few miles from London. It will be used as a convalescent hosoital and a retreat for eldtrly gentlemen. 3- , The famous tower of St. Mark, at Venice. Ve-nice. Italy, fell with a crash recently. It was first erected m 8SS. restored in the fourteenth century, and was one of the glories of Italian architecture. Glasgow's oldest priest. Father Michael Canon Condon, 'aged '85 years, died after a ministry of over fifty-three years spent in Scotland. He was .a member of the first Catholic chaoter. to be formed In Scotland after, the reformation. It is now definitely known that a total of twenty-four priests or brothers and sixty-three nuns- perished in the late volcanic vol-canic emotion in the island of Martin-itiue Martin-itiue Of the clergy eleven were secular ui-lests of the colonial clergy, of the nuns twenty-eight were, sisters of St. Paul of Chartrce. and thirtv-five Sisters of St. Joseuh of Cluny. " A relic of one of the recent Chinese inartvrs has reached Rome., an Ordo, be- I longing to Father Theodric. who, together with Bishoos Grassl and Fogolla. Father Klias and seven Kriinciscan nuns, was slain bv the Boxers in the la.it great rebellion. re-bellion. After death the heads of the martvrs were fixed, on noles and exposed on the ramnarts of Tav-l'len-Fu. The Ordo contains a touching record of events practically up to the day of execution. George. L.. Todd writing from Cuba in the Congregationalism notes that whereas where-as it was thought two years ago that Cuba was Protestant, "now the reaction is appearing, and many families which had beeu alienated have gone back to the mother church.'' Like his father, the voung marquis of Bute is a fervent Catholic. A recent indication in-dication of his fervor is tho erection on the family ground at Mount Stuart. Scotland, Scot-land, of a magnificent Calvary, surmounted surmount-ed bv a cross the whole cut from a massive mas-sive block of Dure marble. |