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Show RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Interesting Briefs Gathered Mainly From "Church Progress." DOMESTIC. In "addition to the recent anointment of Archbishop Ryan to the Indian Commission. Com-mission. President Koosevelt has also selected se-lected Charles . J. Bonaparte of Baltimore. Balti-more. The Fathers of the Holy Ghost have received official notice of tne death Irom burns of the heroic Pere Mary, who remained re-mained so long at Morne Rouge atter the eruution of Mont Pelee. He died at his Dost. It is stated ihat the Church or Our Lady of Deliverance is yet standing. ' , Notre Dame university, South Bend, Ind., has opened for its tifty-ninth veur with over 500 students, and it is tnougtit there will be over 1.000 when all -arrive. Among the pupils are some from the Philippine islands, Cuba, Porto Rico, Mexico. South America and Japan; also trom Ireland. France and Canada. s i In St. Agnes' church, Pittsburg, Pa., there was unveiled three new ttatues of Our Lady of the Rotary, St. Dominic and St. Catherine of Sienna. . The school of letters of Georgetown university, gives promise of large attendance at-tendance for the present scholastic year. All the students have not. however, yet returned. Its corns of instructors is now completed and busy with their respective respect-ive duties. The same energy is displayed in keeping the "boys" up to its high standard of interest and study. At the reopening' of St. Michael s parochial paro-chial school. Rochester. N. Y.. l.HtH imnils were enrolled. There are 'J2o puiriis enrolled en-rolled in the parochial school o xJlessed Sacrament, which was opened for the Cirst time Sept.. tf. The corner stone of the new St. Thomas church at Braddock. Pa., was laid l3st Sunday. It is being erected on the site of the old edifice. It Is to be of brick and stone and will cost $70,000, the entire amount being a gift from Mr. Charles M. Schwab. In the state of New Hampshire there are now eighty-six CathuUc churches and thirty chapels. .with 101 priests and over 100,000 people in their ca1"e.. There are four religious communities of men aad eight of women. 5 Archbishon Williams of Boston recent- ly confirmed twenty-five bovs at the re-I re-I formatorv. Rainsford island the first time his grace had ever visited an institution in-stitution of the kind for tliis purpose. At a cost of $3,000 the Gqorgetown University Uni-versity Athletic association has just purchased pur-chased a steam launch, which will be used in the annual training of its boat crew and in the regattas at Poughkeep-sie. Poughkeep-sie. : , $ Stockton. Cal.. 1s to h'ave a training school for young lady nui-ses. It will be opened at St. Joseph's hrtspital. A two-story two-story brick -building is to be erected at once. I .. , . The Catholic order 'of Efcresters, or Columbus. Co-lumbus. O.. recently Associated itself with the Ohio aux-y" ,-v fraternal congress, con-gress, with headqr, ers '""f.vcfond. . j$ " ' There ale twenty, fraternities now represented rep-resented I -. : A , . The S.feters of the " Precious Blood, Mancheaier. .H. II.. are to open a new house of their order in Havana, Cuba. Rev. Father George" 'Zwack, ' S. J., of Prairie d;i Chien. Wis., will depart for the Philippine islands in about a week, where he will be stationed in an observatory ob-servatory In ihe city of Manila. During he narade of the Spanish war veterans a: L'ctroit. Father Ralney, chaplain chap-lain of thfcvc-terans. was one of the first to be greeted by PrMident Roosevelt. He was chaDh'i" of the Olympia under Dewey at 3lanilU The Rev. Father Doherty, C. S. P.. chaDlain of the Eleventh cavalry, U. S. A., who was formerly connected with the church of St. Paul the Apostle, in New York City, is at present doing duty at Bigan. In the Philippines, in the center cen-ter nt tho ohnlprn-infepted district. Margaretta .Keller, who recently died -at St. Marv's h.ispital in Philadelphia, lert $500 to St. Vncent's orphanage and the residue of he; estate to the poor of St. Boniface's pa :ish. . $ The Relief society of St. Francis de Sales church. Toledo. O.. has decided to organize bands of ten or more lady members mem-bers to secure, aid for the worthy poor during the coming winter. . A Catholic lecture course will be given at Green Bay, 'Wis., during the winter months under tne auspices of -the Marquette Mar-quette club. Bishop Messmer has taken a great interest in the matter and invited in-vited the lectureis and made the arrangements. arrange-ments. Rev. Tiomas Sherman, s. J., will ooen the coirse Oct. 24. .. ' Bishon Camillus P. Maes, who has been absent in Europe Ince April, returned to Covinsrton last weak. The bishop visited Belgium, German'. France, Italy. Holland. Hol-land. Spain and E gland. He spent soma time at his old ftme In Courtral, Bel-glum. Bel-glum. $ Twenty-eight yowg ladies arrived in New York the ottvr day from Queens-town. Queens-town. Thev will -nter convents in the south. The Philadelphia 'protectory is now compiecea ior ow Dt. nuvieiuu, ever, is made for 300 more in all parts of the building. .A recent oDen-air tuchre held on the rectory lawn of the I'hurch of St. John the Baptist. Philadebhia, was participated partici-pated in by 1,500 persois. r- ! A building permit has been secured for the erection of a nep church at Wal-brook. Wal-brook. Md. The site las been selected and the new edifice willcost in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of $30.000. ' ' Ground has been bro;en for the new St. Stephens' church at Hazelwood, Pa. The total cost of the church buildlne proper will be $54,000, ircluding the site and parochial residence. tsO.000. There is talk that the Polish Cahollcs of the place will purchase the old church and residence. .; Tlie Gentlemen's SodUty Dramatic club (composed principally of graduates of St. Ignatius and Santa Clara, colleges, San Francisco), whose arnual representations represen-tations of high-class demas before crowded and cultured auilences, have met with such success, ae at present rehearsing a select play by a Father of the Society of Jesus, wilch abounds In thrilling situations. It is entitled "The Last King jjfJudah.' A subscrintlon list ' has ben opened at Stevens' Point. Wis., for tin purpose of securing funds for the eretlon of an $8,000 public hospital during the coming year. It is proposed to place t in .charge of some benevolent order t women, probably the Catholic sisters. , 4) The Saint Vincent de Paul society of New York is doing a good vork. The finance committee has made puilic its report re-port for the past six months, showing that the collection for the speiai worn of the society amounted to- 8,913. In the Children's Fresh Air Missiofi In Bay-chester. Bay-chester. six Catholic boys' clus have been organized. In the Free Emjloyment bureau 400 men and boys foundwork. The president's wife has sent! to the Rev. M. Bonfield. paBtor of St. igatha's church. Chicago, a tea cozy, wth her card bearing the words: "I sen a tea 'cozy' for your fair which 1 liope sViVDe a great success. Edith Kermit Roosevelt." Roose-velt." ! FOREIGN. I The Czech Catholic convention at Kon-iggratz Kon-iggratz was attended by 10,000 persons. A lost masterpiece of Sandro Botticelli, a sunerb Madonna, has been found in an old castle at Plancenza. The holv fatVer. recently received in audience the Syrian and Chaldean patriarchs patri-archs of Babylonjand Damascus. The pastor of the church in Buchen-bach. Buchen-bach. a parish of Baden, which at time of its erection In the eighteenth century, was endowed with certain mass foundations founda-tions from a Servian convent, is obliged to offer up the holy sacrifice ten times annually for the repose of Emperor Frederick Fred-erick Barbarossa. who. In June. 1190, perished per-ished In the river Salenh in southeastern Asia, while engaged in his crusade. - Clarence House. East Cowes, quite close to the residence of Princess Henry of Battenberg, has been bought by a community of nuns The -cure at Lourdes is announced, by the London Daily Chronicle, of a Mrs. Notterman. whom experts in London had treated without success for an internal in-ternal cancerous tumor. The doctors in London declare that it is an absolute cure. The bishop of St.- Brieuc- has- announced an-nounced that he will suspend the annual procession called the "Pardon," at Tre-guler, Tre-guler, Brittany, should the municipality ! sersist in its Intention to insult the faith t the inhabitants by erecting a statue to Renan. The monuments erected on the tops of various mountains in Italy in honor of the Redeemer, and for the commemoration commemora-tion of the beginning of the new century are twer.tv in number. Malta. Switzerland Switzer-land and the Argentine Republic have followed the example of Italy in this matter. The creneral council of the department of the Lower Loire adopted a resolution protesting against the closing of the Catholic schools, the vote being 31 against 8. Senator Pontbaird declared tluit the ministry must be Impeached. The council then voted 500 francs for the support of the needy sisters. $ In the railway accident in India the. Rev. Father Bernard and the bishop of Ouilon sustained injuries. The archbishop arch-bishop of Verapoly had a narrow escape. Gypsies attacked a band of 200 sleeping sleep-ing pilgrims at Maraaraban, Hungary, robbing them. The gypsies also fired the building in which the pilgrims were sheltered, shel-tered, eleven .of them being burned in the ensuing panic. . . Archbishop Begin of Canada has appointed ap-pointed a spiritual director of all the organizations of trades unionists and especially es-pecially of the three, brotherhoods of boot and shoe workers in the person of Father Alexis. O. M. Cap. The municipality of Brest has resigned, as a protest against the government's lalcisatlon of the girls' school recently Conducted by the sisters. The Martlnioue amunission of Paris at a recent meeting decided on sending Immediately Im-mediately $100,000 to Martinique, to be distributed amonESt the sufferers from the recent earthquake. One bv one the"cahimnles against the i church are vanishing. The Athenaeum in reviewing the "History of the Church of England" just published, says: "The author who is passionately Anglican, shows, nevertheless, the baselessness of the assertion that Pope Pius IV was willing to confirm the English prayer book provided his authority were acknowledged. ac-knowledged. At least the only so-called evidence is hearsay, and very poor hearsay." hear-say." That will do. |