OCR Text |
Show ' RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Ecclesiastical Briefs Gleaned From "Church Progress' . DOMESTIC. vi During a recent mission at the Gesu church, Philadelphia, about 8,000 people approached the sacraments. A. class of '110 converts went under-instruction and confirmation was administered to a class of about 100 adults, most of whom were converts. i The Polish parish of St. Stanislaus Kostka. .Chicago, 111., had, at the latest count, (this year) 31,000 corciunicants. It is in the spiritual care of the Fathers of .the. Resurrection, . whose mother-house mother-house Is In Rome: The parish school is taught by the school sisters of NQtre Dame, thirty-eight In number, with , four, lay teachers; and the pupils are 1,873- boys and 1,802 girls; , - v- In the will of the late William Flani-gan Flani-gan of Detroit, were the following charitable char-itable bequests: . St. Vincent's orphan asylum, Detroit, $400; St. Anthony's orphan asylum, Monroe, $400; Little Sisters of the Poor, Detroit, $200; poor of Holy Trinity parish, par-ish, Detroit, $50; poor of St. Peter and Paul's parish. $50. He made provisions for masses and devised the eiijainder of his estate-to St. Anthony's orphan asylum at Monroe. A granite and marble chapel, costing i $6,000, has been erected in Calvary cem-, cem-, etery, Concord, N. H. to the memory j of Very Rev. J. E. Barry, V. G. Two i years ago Father Barry was killed by a ! street car in New York City. He never j , occupied but the one pastorate and ! that covered- a period of thirty-five years. . Boston, Mass.. will have the largest organ in the-world, the cost of which is estimated at from $20,000 to $30,000, when the alterations to the organ of the Immaculate Conception church are completed. These alterations will cost between $8,000 ai.d $10,000, and will greatly improve the organ in every way. .They are now under - progress., and are so extensive that they will not be completed before Christmas. , The great German publisher. Herder, will bring out in January.. the first number num-ber of a new Catholic magazine, "The Biblical Quarterly." More than sixty university professors and learned members mem-bers of religious orders, Jesuits, Benedictines Bene-dictines and others have promised their co-operation The name of the magazine maga-zine indicates its character. It will tj-eat of Biblical questions, with reviews, re-views, criticisms and notices of Biblical publications. Mr. James R. Lawrie has resigned the professorship of music in Santa Clara college, California, after fifty-one fifty-one years of continual service. A set of stations of the cross, made at An-f An-f gers, France, has been added to the college chapel. The stations are a me morial from the college alumni. The site at Cudahy, Wis., recently donated to the Sisters of St. Vincent's infant asylum is intended to be used for the erection of a summer home for the infant asylum rather than as permanent per-manent quarters. The asylum in Milwaukee Mil-waukee is crowded and in summer time the children suffer greatly from the heat. The sisters propose to build a summer home at Cudahy, where the children will be cared for during the heated term. At the quarterly meeting of the Jesuit Je-suit Alumni association of New Orleans, Or-leans, held the other day, a committee of three was appointed for the purpose of corresponding with other alumni as-I as-I sociations throughout the United States looking to the organization and to ar- , range for a meeting of delegates from all Jesuit alumni associations in this country, the meeting to take place in ' New Orleans, to go Into a permanent organization. , $ On Sunday last the handsome new convent at Pine Bluffs, Ark., was dedi- cated by Rt. ,Rev. Bishop Heslin of i Natchez. r' " A fac-simile of the grotto of Lourdes, with life-size 'figures, has just been completed at the com'ent of the Sisters of Mercy, adjoining Immaculate Con- d ception church, Newport. Ky. The ) ceremony of dedication took place Sun- " day of last week, and was well attend- ed by many members of the congrega- 1 tion. Mrs. Johanna Manning of Detroit left by will $100 for masses for the repose of hop oniil tn Ct Vlnunf'a n-V. . n 4 ner tsuui; 10 oi. vmcenis orpnanage, $200; to the Little Sisters of the Poor, $100; to the House of Providence, $200, , and to Bishop Foley, $100 for the education educa-tion of the priests of the diocese. Mother Mary Katherine Drexel Is soon to establish a. mission school for , members of the Navajo Indians In Arizona. Ari-zona. Her plans are drawn and more " than $100,000 will be spent on the main building of the institution. Henry Harland, the author of the brilHant story, "The Cardinal's Snuff- uua, ia coming DacK 10 America at tne i end of this month. Although a native of Connecticut, - he has lived most of i his life in Europe. He is a convert to the Catholic faith. . i The Ursuline nuts at Paola, Kan., are planning to build an academy, to cost $35,000. j The new hospital recently established A at Perham, Minn., by the Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls, was dedicated Dy w. itev. Bishop Trobec. According to official announcement, the Catholic Order of Foresters ha3 a membership at the present time of 103,-243.. 103,-243.. Ililnois stands, first in the list of states, with 29,569. The Church of the Immaculate Conception Con-ception at Newnnrt Tfv -hon onmn:,it ed in the very near future, will be one of the most beautiful church edifices In the state. In the past eight years Rev. Francis Mueller, pastor ,bf St. Albertus congregation, congre-gation, Detroit, has wiped out a church debt of $81,000. In the meantime he has also made many improvements. The latest is the purchase of a residence to enlarge the capacity of the parochial school so as to accommodate 2,000 pupils. pu-pils. $ FOREIGN. The new governor general of the Holy Land, Mouzafner Pasha, is a Catholic. ' The Catholic population of Ottawa celebrated in a worthy manner the twenty-eighth anniversary of the episcopal, consecration of His Grace Archbishop Duhamel. Rt. Rev. Bishop Thiel of San Jose, Costa Rica, has departed this life. 1 The holy father has appointed Doctor Meda a director of the Osservatore Cattollico, the editor of which was the late Father Abettario. The position of Chancellor of the Royal University of Ireland, which has been vacant since the death of Lord Dufferin, will, it is 'believed, be filled, by. the Marquis of Lansdowne. Mgr. Leoni,-. secretary of the papal embassy at Lisbon, has been promoted by the holy father auditor of the embassy em-bassy in Brazil, and Mgr. Vassalo, secretary sec-retary of the embassy -at Munich, has been appointed to the same position in Belgium. The body of the late Rev. William D. McKinnon, who died in Manila on Sept. 24, :s to be sent to his home in California Califor-nia for burial. ' Following quickly on the appearance of another Catholic lady on the platform plat-form in the north of England and Britain, Mrs. Craigie is to lecture in winter. $ M. Combes, it is reported, will ask the committee on the religious orders to grant authorization to six male orders, or-ders, namely, the Camilliens, Brothers of St. John of God, Carthusians, Trap-pists, Trap-pists, White Fathers and Fathers of the Holy Ghost. Credit is given by competent experts in this country and in Europe to Father Fa-ther Delatre, a French priest, for the remarkable , work he is doing in the field" of African archaeology. One of the best finds he. lately made was that of a white marble sarcophagus, seven feet in length and belonging to the Punic period. It is a masterpiece of Greek workmanship. The find -was made on the site of ancient Carthage near St. Monique. It is now stated "that his success in ' settling the complex agrarian problem in India caused the" selection of Sir Anthony McDonnell for Under-Secretary of Ireland. Sir Anthopy is a practical prac-tical Catholic. Monsignor Cagiano, papal major-! major-! domo, has taken special steps to prevent pre-vent the continuation of the wholesale forgery of cards of invitation to Vatican Vati-can functions, which has of late been carried on to a shameful extent in Rome. . 8 ' Very curiously, Father John, the miracle-working priest of Russia, has come nigh starting a sect against his wishes. . A peasant recently wrote a poem which almost put the priest equal to the persons of the Trinity. The priest at once condemned the poem and its author, but people began worshiping wor-shiping him and he was obliged to resort re-sort to strong measures to put the cult ( down. A valuable sword of honor is to be presented by many admirers to Colonel St. Remy, the brave and devoted Catholic Cath-olic officer, who refused to obey the requisition of the prefect of Morbihan, France, to head a squadron of Chasseurs Chas-seurs to Lanone in Brittany to assist the prefect in expelling the nuns who were teaching in the school of that town. |