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Show KELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Interesting Paragraphs Gathered From "Church Progress." DOMESTIC. By his will the late Francis Dugan of New York City leaves $7,000 to the Church of St. John the Evangelist; to the pastor of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, $2,000. to be used by him in charity char-ity as he sees fit, and to the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis, the sum of $1,000. At Massillon, O., a few days ago Rev. Father Kacrupker baptized twelve children chil-dren during the course of one morning. Rev. Francis Kensel of Boston has rewritten re-written his play, "Pilate's Daughter," which, contrary to rumor, he has not disposed dis-posed of, and it will be given again later in the season. Ground has been broken for the new St. Catherine's church in Baltimore. Its cost will approximate $24,000. built of" the. Romanesque style of architecture. The basement will be used for hall purposes. As a result of the recent mission given in Des Moines, la., by the Paulist Fathers Fa-thers about twenty-five persons have expressed ex-pressed a desire to become Catholics. Two postulants and nine novices pronounced pro-nounced their vows the other day at the Convent of the Holy Trinity, in New Orleans. A generous benefactor has donated two beautiful altars to the Church of St. Anthony An-thony at Washington, D. C. The same person has also given a statue of the Blessed Virgin and one of St. Anthony, which will shortly arrive from Europe. The regular fall conference of the bishops bish-ops df the Cincinnati province was held at the residence of Archbishop Elder on Wednesday last A parish for Portuguese Catholics, of whom there are 10,000 in New Bedford, Mass., has been organized in that place. A church will be erected next spring. Subscriptions are being taken up for the rebuilding of the church at Zachary, La. The same was recently blown down in a storm before completion. Brother Phillips Doran, the oldest inmate in-mate of Gethsemane monastery at Bards-town, Bards-town, Ky., died the other day at the advanced ad-vanced age of 95. Death was the result of a fall in which his skull was crushed. The handsome newpipe organ donated to St. James church. Pittsburg, Pa., by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, has arrived and is being placed in position. A new church, costing $10,000, will soon be commenced at Matthews. Ind. . The Catholic Institute of New Orleans was organized not only to continue the work of the Catholic winter school, but also to construct and maintain a building which shall be the home and headquarters of the various Catholic societies in that city. St. Rose's beautiful new church in New York citv is almost completed. It will most Ikely be dedicated early next month. s Fourteen handsome paintings and the stations which will adorn the walls of the Sacred Heart church at Dayton, O., have all been donated by members of the congregation. The Sailors' club house at Charlestown, Mass.. which is supported by the sodal-ists. sodal-ists. has had an overhauling during the summer and is now ready for the winter. j The new hail built bv the Catholic 1 Knights of America at Lake Charles, La., has been most auspiciously dedicated. dedi-cated. The principal address was delivered deliv-ered bv Hon. S. O. Shattuck. Verv Rev. Father Daugherty, S. J., president of Georgetown college, recently dedicated in Chicago a chapel erected oh the estate of the Hon. P. O'Donnell, an old Georgetown student In Milwaukee the Wisconsin society of Georgetown alumni tendered him a banquet at the Pfister hotel. On Monday a drunken soldier of the Sixth United States infantry broke into the church at St. Mary's, Kan., and did about $600 damage. The vestments were torn, soaked with water and scattered about, while the sanctuary was strewn with broken images and furniture. Catholic societies in Detroit and those throughout Wayne county, Mich., have effected a permanent organization and effected a nermanent organization and affiliated with the National Federation of Catholic Societies. The recently completed parochial primary pri-mary school of the Church of the Sacred Heart in Bloomfield. N. J.. which was erected at a cost of $15,000, has been ooened. At the annual convention of the International Inter-national Association of Fire Chiefs, held recently in New York, the Rev. William St. Elmo Smith. S. P. M.. of St Vin- I , cent de Paul's (French) church. New I York, and chaplain of the fire department depart-ment in that city, opened the convention by prayer and also made an address on I the duties of chaplains and the spiritual needs of the firemen, which was received with great applause. In the will of Mary A. Ryan of South Boston the following bequests are made: Two hundred dollars each to St. Vincent's Orphan asylum, the Working Boys' Home and the Home for Destitute Catholic Children. Boston: $100 each to Carney Hospital. South Boston: the Little Sisters of the Poor, and the Free Homes for Consumptives. Dorchester: $300 to St. Augustine's Conference of the St. Vincent Vin-cent de Paul Society: $500 to the pastor of the church: a like sum to the parochial school, and $100 each to the' four curates. The rest and residue of the estate is bequeathed to St. Augustine's Conference for the poor of the parish. Bishop Garrigan of Sioux City. Iowa, is interesting himself in the establishment of a rescue home in that city. He has conferred with Police Matron Thurston on the subject. She sneaks most highly of the work of the Sisters of the Good SheDherd in this field. The practical sympathy of the A. O. H. was substantially demonstrated a few weeks ago by the members in Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania donating $1,000 to aid the striking miners. FOREIGN. Mgr. Mantegazza, . coadjutor bishop of Milan, is dead at the age of 65. The little Earl of Bective, baby son of the Marquis and Marchioness of Wead-fort, Wead-fort, has been baptized in the Catholic church, hia mother's religion. The new city theatre of Cologne was solemnly dedicated recently in the presence pres-ence lof the chief officials of the province and Cologne. i M. Pclletan, it is announced from Paris, has abolished the annual Mass at the opening of the naval school. The recent Mannheim Catholic congress resulted in the affiliation of the Catholics Catho-lics of Alsace with the center party. The practical Catholics of Argentina are forming a political party representative representa-tive of their religious convictions. The movement is provoked by the attempt of the liberals to introduce divorce laws aill ; other anti-religious measures. Dr Santiago San-tiago O Farrell la the principal leader of I the new aarty. L'Eco d'ltalia announces the death of Father Albertario, from an illness contracted con-tracted during his imprisonment in connection con-nection with the socialist disturbances at Milan in 1S98. He was editor of the Os-servatorio Os-servatorio Cattolico of Milan, and for the greater part of his life had devoted himself him-self to journalis-m. His death at the early age of 56 will be deeply regretted by the Catholics in northern Italy. The Most Rev. Dr. O'Donnell and his cotrustees co-trustees of the Irish national fund have issued an appeal to the Insh people on behalf of the defense fund started by the National organization. Workmen engaged in repairing the decanal de-canal church at Klettan, Austria, lound frescoes dating, it is said, from the twelfth century and representing the twelve apostles and last judgment. ! J ! In an official report just issued a statement state-ment is made of the remarkable fac t that over 13 per cent of the children attending the Catholic schools of the archdiocese of Westminster, London, are non-Catholic. The king of England sent to the sovereign sover-eign pontiff a large gold medal in memory mem-ory of the coronation. The pontiff was touched bv this tender remembrance on the part of the English sovereign. ' According to official statistics recently r.i,hlichol in 'RnmA the citV WH9 visited the first six months of 1902 by 954.000 pilgrims, pil-grims, 65,000 of this number being English Eng-lish speaking. At Naples the periodical miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of St. Jananus took place in the cathedral on Sept 19 before a congregation of 4,000 persons, including in-cluding several French pilgrims. T.ne miracle was announced as usual by a salute sa-lute of twenty-one guns from the forts of St. Elmo. A number of applications for authorization authoriza-tion bv . religious orders will be laid before be-fore the French chamber next session. M. Combes, however, will previously make use of the opportunity offered by interpellations to express the opinion of the government on the subject. At San Giovanni, a village close by Vienna, Vi-enna, Austria, at the annual religious fete, Americans were surprised to hear the strains of a Sousa two-step played in the solemn procession of robed bishops and priests. |