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Show ! RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. i The pope is about to issue an en-cyclial en-cyclial against the practice of duelling, j He will appeal to Christian govern- ments to suppress the practice, which he considers a survival of the barbaric days. - Dr. Loize Lapponi. the physician in ordinary to His Holiness. Leo XIII, has j this week expressed to an interviewer a most optimistic opinion regarding the Holy Father's, health. The physician says: "His Holiness is stupendously well, and has not been in better health for the last ten years." - The Holy Father, it is semi-officially announced, will hold a consistory in the month of February. On this occasion Leo XIII will pronounce an Important allocution in which he will briefly enumerate enu-merate the principal events of his long pontificate. & 1 Very Rev. Father O'Malley. P. P., of Huntley, Ontario. Canada, died recently recent-ly in County Galway. Ireland. He was related to both Archbishops MacHale and McEvilly of Tuam. He was in Ire- ( land on a visit. j The golden jubilee of the German i Catholic congresses will be celebrated !a.t Cologne from the 23d to the 27th of .'August. The history of the congresses , is practically the story of Catholic or- ganization throughout Germany since the days of the Kulturkampf. 3 The late Miss Ann Bohan of Bridgeport, Bridge-port, Conn., left her entire estate, estimated esti-mated at from $15,000 to S20.000, to the new hospital to be erected in that city, in charge of the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul. Mr. Thomas F. Walsh of Washington Washing-ton has provided a fund for the study of Irish history in Columbia, also that a gold medal for excellence in this department de-partment will be awarded annually. Documents elevating the Rev. Patrick Pat-rick F. O'Hare, rector of the Church of St. Anthony of Padua, Brooklyn, to the rank of domestic prelate have been received re-ceived in Brooklyn. This rank carries with it the title of monsignor, and en-v titles the holder to wear purple. Monsignor Mon-signor O'Hare's parish is one of the largest in Brooklyn, and it was only recently that the church debt was wiped out and the building consecrated. conse-crated. .The passing of the bill at Harrisburg repealing the law preventing the erection erec-tion of hospitals in built-up portions of cities removes an obstruction from the projected building of St. Joseph's hospital, hos-pital, south side. Pittsburg. The subscription sub-scription fund has now reached $35,000. The legislaiure is asked to appropriate ?75,000 toward the cost of erection. The golden jubilee Of the reception into the Order of the Christian Brothers Broth-ers of Rev. Brother Botulph, president of St. Michael's college, Santa Fe, N. M., has been observed -with appropriate religious and social exercises. Rt. Rev. J. E. Quigley, archbishop-elect archbishop-elect of Chicago, has made a gift of $4,000 to the struggling parish of the Nativity, Buffalo. 2- The Kentucky court of appeals in the ease of Coleman against the Rt. Rev. Bishop of Louisville, has handed down an ojplnion fully sustaining devises and bequests for masses. - There are thirty Catholic bishops in Mexico. The youngest is Rt. Rev. Dr. Leopauidus Ruis. bishop of Leon, who was educated in Rome. From 1877 to 1887 the Catholic missionaries mis-sionaries in Korea had 3,000 baptisms of adults; last year they had 5,203. In the last twenty-five years the native Christian Chris-tian population has risen from 11,000 to 50,000, and the priests from two to forty, besides eleven native priests. A double golden jubilee celebration occurred at Latrobe. ,Pa., Jan. 13, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Sister' Gabriel's and Sister Bernard's entrance into the order' of Sisters of Mercy. , The late Miss Ann Bohan of Bridgeport, Bridge-port, Conn., left her entire estate, estimated esti-mated at from $15,000 to $20,000, to the new hospital to be erected in that citv, in charge of the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul, and for which land has been already purchased in North Bridgeport. The Knights of Columbus' directors, in annual meeting last 'week, reported a more than 100 per cent increase in membership during last year. Death claims paid amounted to $231,000. The membership of the order is now 88,000, and the surplus in the treasury amounted to $814,000. The project of extending the order into Mexico was discussed. In all probability the year 1903 will see the standard of Columbus planted In the republic just south of us. The Catholic Converts' league of New-York New-York has been incorporated to support Catholic missions. Directors are Jesse Albert Locke, George D. Mackey. G. Stanton Floyd-Jones, John J. Delany, Whitman V. White, JIary L. iBerett, Edward L. Snyder, Stuart A. Coates and Rev. J. J. Flood of New York.. A few days ago fire created a panic at St. James' Catholic orphanage at Benson, Mich., a suburb of Omaha, and destroyed the north wing of the building, build-ing, causing a loss of about $35,000. partly insured. One hundred children were in the building when the fire started, but all were removed in safety, and are quartered in the convents of the city. The institution is outside the city limits and had no fire protection. The asylum was rn charge of the Sisters Sis-ters of Mercy and quartered 100 orphans. or-phans. The oldest school of music in the I world is in Rome. It dates back to the year 1566, and the great Palestrina was its first president. Pope. Gregory XIII formally recognized i its foundation in 1584 as a congregation of the musicians of Rome, under the invocation of St. Cecilia, rt still bears the title of the Academy of St. Cecelia. Its first centenary cen-tenary was celebrated with much ceremony cer-emony in 1648. The year 1770 was remarkable re-markable for having admitted the first woman Into the academy. The school now possesses an unusually fine chorus and orchestra, and whenever any great event is to be solemnized in Rome the academy is called on to direct the musical mu-sical part of it. In its concert rooms are heard the best musicians oi Rome and of the world. |