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Show RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. The will of the late John A. Mooney, j LL. D., of New York, a well known I Catholic writer and biographer of Archbishop Arch-bishop Corrigan. disposes of large sums for Catholic educational and religious uses. Mr. Mooney had no blood relatives rel-atives living. Exclusive of one personal person-al bequest or $."),000. his entire fortune is devoted to the purposes nearest his heart. It is stated that Cardinal Rampolla is about to take his first holiday in six teen years. Only once in that period has he been outside the Vatican, and ! that was when he went to Frascati to attend his mother on her death bde. t- Two Polish priests. Rev. John Pitass of Buffalo, N. Y., and Rev. Wenceslaus Kruszka of Ripon. Wis., as delegates of a Polish Catholic congress held in I Buffalo in 1901, have lately presented ! to the Holy See a petition asking for j the appointment of Polish bishops for a number of dioceses in the United States. f A dispatch from Rome to a German Catholic paper announces that the I fisherman's ring belonging to the late I Pope, which was supposed to have been lost, was found on the writing table of J Leo XIII. Cardinal Oreglia examined the ring and, according to custom, removed re-moved the setting. f Cardinal Logue was the first Irishman Irish-man in history to vote at a Papal Conclave. Con-clave. In 1S78. Cardinal Cullen was prevented by illness from taking part in the election of a successor to Pius IX. Cardinal Gibbons was the first American Ameri-can to enjoy the same high honor. The first American cardinal. Archbishop McCloskey of New York, reached Rome too late to participate in the election of Leo Xlir. 4 One of the most interesting exhibits of the St. Louis exposition will be the work of the seven Jesuit colleges of the St. Louis province. It will occupy three sections. -- There are 40,000 Maronites in the United States, mtjst of them in New York city. Cardinal Vaughan's ' will, consisting of three lines, read as follows: "In the name of God this is my last will and testament, and I give to my executors all I might die possessed of." The executors ex-ecutors named in the. will are his brother broth-er (the Right Rev.. John Stephen Vaughan), the Very Rev. Thomas Dunn and the Very Rev. Francis Henry of Mill Hill. f Ever since- the announcement was made that-old jewelry of any description descrip-tion would be acceptable s gifts to the new Mission Jiouse now being built. at Washington, scarcely a day passes that the Rev. A. P. Doyle, the Pauitst. -who is gathering the funds for the new institution, in-stitution, does not receive many additions addi-tions to his already, large collection. J When the institution is eompreted- all this jewelry will be melted and formed into sacred vessels to be used on the many altars of the chapel. 1 St. Joseph's Society for Negro Mis-f Mis-f sions was incorporated under the laws of Maryland in 189S. The society is an offshoot of the Josephite Order, .which was organized by the late Cardinal Vaughan in England. The members of the old order in this country, were organized or-ganized into a new society about twelve years ago and are, directly under the Congregation of the Propaganda at Rome. Father Slattery's solection as superior was approved by that congregation. congre-gation. There are about thirty priests members of the: society, two of whom are negroes. The society conducts Epi phany Apostolic college, at Walbrook; St. Joseph's seminary on Pennsylvania 1 avenue and St. Joseph's College for Negro Catheohists at Montgomery, Ala., as well as missions in the archdioceses of Baltimore and New Orleans and iri the dioceses of Galveston, Little Rock, Mobile, Nashville, Natchez, Richmond and Wilmington. ' |