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Show -1 ; I f ; ,tlil B e victory ' I -', ; vbicfa over- j f If 'cometh'thcf' ummrsal g?. ' , CHURCH CALENDAR. I Sunday, Nov. 9. Twenty-fifth . after Pent. Dedication of the'; Latferan I basilica. E. Col. iii 12-17 G. Matt, xiii 24-30. Monday, Nov. 10. St. Andrew Avel- , lino. Tuesday, Nov. 11. St, Martin of Tours. Wednesday, Nov. 12. St. Martin. Thursday, Nov. 13. St. Didacus. Friday, Nov. 14. St. Etanislaus Kost- ka. Saturday, Nov. 15.' St. Gertrude. Coming Bishop Spalding's Way. , i Rome, Oct. 28. The appointment of an archbishop of Chicago to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of Archbishop Patrick Feehan will "be , taken up on the reassembling of the ; congregation of the propaganda in No vember. . ; The election of Bishop John L. ! Spalding of the diocese of Peoria, 111., is probable, objections having been received re-ceived to the candidature of Bishop i Muldoon, administrator of the arch-' arch-' diocese, while Father Riordan, pastor . of St. Elizabeth Chicago, is not in ? good health, i ' ? Things seem to be coming Bishop Spalding's way. The president has named him for the commission to ar-. ar-. bitrate the coal strike. Rumor makes him Archbishop of Chicago. He will ' ) doubtless senve brilliantly in both ca pacities. His writings many and j, .' varied proclaim him to be a man of ' broad learning aid excellent sense. He 1 has given economic questions deep " study and he is a churchman, one 1 might almost say, by birth. His uncle ' was Archbishop of Baltimore and was Hot second in service to the great pre-, pre-, lates who had formerly presided over that ancient see. Was it not Dr. ! Brownson who said that the younger J Spalding was destined to outrival his , illustrious uncle in letters, if not in i ecclesiastical distinction? The chances ' ' are that he will in both. The bishops 1 and priests of the province of Chicago ' want him for their ecclesiastical lead- 1 er and there are thousands through- 1 out the country ho will rejoice if the J . appointing power gives them what they " ! want. And why should it not? Cath- ; , olic Transcript. j New Bishop of Lead, S. D. I Rev. John N. Stariha, pastor of the , Church of St. Francis, St. Paul, who i was consecrated bishop in the cathe dral of St. Paul, Tuesday, Oct. 27, was born near Laibach. Austria, in 1845. He came to this country when about i 22 years old and studied theology at I the seminary of St. Francis in Mil- j waukee and was ordained to the priest - I hood in 1869. He served a few years in Michigan, I coming -to St. Paul in 1S72. He was appointed by Bishop Grace to Marys-, Marys-, . j ' town, and the small parishes and mis-- mis-- ' sions in Scott county, Minnesota. Aft- s er a few years he was sent to Red Wing, where he took charge of many I new parishes growing up in Goodhue county. As the end of 1883 Bishop Grace found that owing to the in- - crease of German people in the West : Seventh street district, St. Paul, it ' i would be necessary to organize a new parish, and he appointed Rev. Stariha to take charge of it. In December, : 1897, on the death of Mgr. Caillet, he i i was appointer vicar general of the i , i archdiocese of St. Paul. He Loves the Light. 1 I When Leo XIII opened the Vatican C library to all scholars, he won the ' 1 pratitude of the studious public. Not 1 satisfied with this act of grace, the ' venerable pontiff has just purchased ' the Barberini library, which he like- ' vise places at the disposal of the ' learned. The longer this old man lives ' the more difficult does it become to 1 nurse along the anti-Catholic convic- 1 tion that Rome hates the light and ' withers away at its diffusion. There . ' are some choice records in the Vatican , ' ' library. Some of them do not tend to j canonize certain of the high ecclesias- ' tics of former days. Prophets, hopeful 1 of the speedy downfall of the papacy, had declared that none but priestly and lopish eyes would ever be suffered to ' pry into, the secrets hidden away in ' the bales of documents which tell the ; truth about the inner workings of the I Vatican. But the bars have been removed, re-moved, and the world has received no J new shock. The church moves on, and those who had identified her with the j woman of sin are finding it opportune I to withdraw their indictment. Leo ! XIII loves the light, and is ready to ' spend money to make it shine for all. ' And Leo XIII is the foremost repre- 1 sentative of the Catholic church. Cath- j olic Transcript. 1 America a Saint's Name. , Very few people have the least idea I what is the origin of the name America, , That the country was named from j J Amerigo Vespucci, maker of the first map and discoverer of some portions of j . the mainland, they will tell you glibly, but have not the least idea whence , Amerigo took his name, j Signor Vespucci, like most pious Ital- , ians, bore a saint's name; and the saint was the son of St. Stephen, .king I of Hungary in the eleventh century. , His name was Emeric, and his day is . celebrated on the 4th of November. He I was very holy and very clever; his , name was familiar to the people of all Europe, and in the fifteenth century j was much used in Italy in its Italian- I ized form. So the Hungarian saint I gave his name to our continent. ( The stigma which, in the opinion of , many, still rests upon the character of Vespucci for his supposed appropria- , tion of the credit, and honor of the dis- ' , covery of South America, which by pri- . ority belonged to Columbus, may yet be ' , removed. Columbus certainly did not I suspect Vespucci of any such preten- j sions; for when Vespucci afterward re- . i j turned to Spain, he gave to him an in- I . troductory letter to his son, then at the ( court, in which he (Columbus) wrote of j Vespucci as his very good or worthy j friend. Columbus died not long after, unrewarded, wofufly misrepresented, ! . though certainly not by Amerigo Vespucci. Ves-pucci. M. F.' N. R. in Ave Maria, ' j j '. j RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. , Interesting Paragraphs Gathered I From "Church Progress." I DOMRSTIC. ! "There are now almost 20.ono.000 Catho- 1 lice under the stars and stripes, and we , are the fourth greatest Catholic people j in the world. Rt. Rev. Bishop McFaul of Trenton. N. 1 J., blessed the corner stone of the new I monastery of the Dominican Nuns of the I Perpetual Rosary, at Camden, on Sun- 1 day last. , St. Francis de Sales church, Toledo, O., lias a relief society, which will work in . 1 hands of ten members, to procure aid ' for deserving poor during the winter. 1 $ A monument to Christopher Columbus 1 has been dedicated at Peoria, 111. The ' ttatue is of Bolid bronze, nine feet high, ,i end rests on a pedestal twenty-two feet ; high. "he Young Men's Sodality of St. Mich- ael's church,' Milwaukee, Wis., at a recent re-cent meeting, took preliminary action looking to the erection next spring ofan $8,000 casino and club house. e , Excavation has "been ' begun for the foundation of a $3t,000 addition to St. Francis' academy of the Sisters of Charity, Char-ity, B. V. M., at Council Bluffs, la. The ladies of the Dallas Cathedral Altar Al-tar society have purchased a carpet for the sanctuary and have bought new vestments. vest-ments. The former cost them $900 and the latter $550. The Rev. John P. Chidwick, chaplain in lection of Moro' weapons to the museum of Manhattan college, N. Y. Father Chidwick, who was graduated from Manhattan Man-hattan in the class of 1S83, is at present in the Orient, attached to the United States flagship New York. The Little Sisters of the Poor in Philadelphia Phila-delphia have been made the beneficiaries of the entire estate, about $4,000, of the late Elizabeth Gray of that city. A new writer, who"7s a Catholic, has come before the public. Mrs. Carter Harrison, wife of the mayor of Chicago. III., lately has issued a small volume of fairy stories, under title of "Prince Sil-i Sil-i ver Wings," which is being highly praised by capable critics. Several of the quoted passages we have seen are very beautiful. -4 "The Marriage Feast at Canaan" is to be the subject of the art glass window , to be presented the Gesu church, - Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, by the Young Ladies' Sodality. In a recent discussion pf the subject a member of the sodality suggested that the "seven wise virgins" would be an excellent subject for the: window. -. t .' Daniel Sullivan of Iowa City, la., who started out in life with a capital of only a couple of baskets of fruit and became wealthy, lately left by will $100 to each of the following Iowa clergymen: Fathers Fa-thers Smyth of Council Bluffs. Bulger, formerly of Riverside; O'Farrell of Ot-, tumwa. Very Rev. J. Davis of Davenport,' Fathers Flannagan of Davenport, Ma-honey Ma-honey of Parnell. Nolan of Nichols, Sink-ma Sink-ma yer of Iowa City, Ward of Iowa City, Walsh of Nolan Settlement. His home in Iowa City he bequeathed to the Sisters i of Charity. 7 - Rt. Rev. Bishop Forest of San Antonio, Tex., celebrated on Tuesday the seventh anniversary of his consecration to that see. Nearly $4,000 has been collected for the new Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, at Lowell, Mass. The Catholics of Xenia. O., celebrated the golden jubilee of their church on Wednesday and Thursday of the present week. Archbishop Elder and Bishop Moeller took active part. A fine parade through the principal streets of Newark, N. J., followed by an exhibition drill and dance in its halt, marked the first public appearance of the new Newark Catholic Infantry, until quite recently known as St. Mary's cadets. ca-dets. At a recent bazaar for the benefit of Holy Familv church, Chicago, it is stated Mrs. B. Thaw of Pittsburg, Pa., has sent her check for $1,000 to Rev. Father Gunn of Cedar Rapids, la., for Mercy hospital at that place., 5 The committee representing the new congregation being formed at Hays borough. bor-ough. Pa., has concluded the purchase from the Rjsher estate of the old family homestead and property in the center of the town. The price paid was- $14,000. The property will be used for the erection erec-tion of a new church: The late Mr. George W. Weeks, a Uni-tarion. Uni-tarion. former agent of the Lancaster mills in Clinton, Mass., bequeathed sums of money to the parishes in that town with the understanding that the income shall be used for the support of their poor. To St. Joseph's church he gave $1,500. A new church, under the patronage of St, John Nepomucene. is being erected at Cleveland for the Bohemians of that part of the city. The new structure, which will contain accommodations for a parochial school, will cost about $25,000. At the recent meeting of' the Alumni association of Mt. St. Mary's college, Maryland, the following officers were chosen: President, A. V. D. Watterson, LL. D., '75. Pittsburg, Pa,; treasurer. Rev. B. J. Bradley. Mt. St. Mary's college; secretary, sec-retary, Edmund J. Ryan, A. M., '88; Mt. St. Mary's college. Four Sisters of Nazareth academy, Kentucky, celebrated the other day their golden jubilee. These were the superior. Mother Cleophus Mills, and Sister Ephemia Morrison, Sister Johanna Lynch and Sister Mary Vincent Hardie, FOREIGN. The Pope has sent $10,000 to Cardinal Celesia of Palermo to be distributed among those injured in the late storm in Sicily-. . - i : The- Spanish government has .decided that all questions regarding the. religious orders of that country shall -be made as matter -of treaty with Leo XIII, after one consideration;- Until such treaty is ar- rAneWl thp statp will leav thp ordprs in peace. The government is resolved not to break with the Holy See under any circumstances. cir-cumstances. Stapinski. "leader of the Australian Polish People's party, is on his way. to the United States to appeal to his countrymen there to return to Galicia. . Rev. Joseph T. Gaugle. who; in December. Decem-ber. 1901, joined the Austrian "Old Catholic" Catho-lic" sect, has returned to the Catholic church and made public a letter of humble recantation. ' & A number of .Irish Catholics in Peru and Bolivia have contributed to the fund for erecting a Spanish chapel in the new London Catholic cathedral. Other contributions con-tributions were sent from Argentina and Chile. Mgr. Harmel, head of the democratic clubs in France, has presented to the Pope a magnificent chalice. The Holy Father expressed great pleasure In the gift and greatly admired the rich and artistic work. In Germany, archbishops, whether of the Catholic or of the Protestant church, rank. with commanding generals that is to say, with generals commanding army corps, , -!; . .' The Catholic mission at Vermillion, in the Great Slave Lake region, by .'Peace River, Canada, has a colony which does farming, manufacturing and its own milling, mill-ing, all after most modern methods. The population is mingled French and Indian. In-dian. A Jesuit congress was recentlv held Jn Rome under the presidency of 'Father .Martin, superior general of the congregation. congre-gation. Father Martin, in the .name of the Fathers and Brothers, sent hearty good wishes to the Pope. The Vatican has been Informed by the German ambassador to the Holy See that Emperor William will come to Rome by steamer, landing at Naples. The Pope has charged Cardinal Prlsco. archbishop of Naples, to greet his- majesty in the name of the Holy Father. Rt.' Rev. A. Cavadini, S. J.v bishop of Mangalore. recently blessed and dedicated the new Plague Hospital recently erected at Kankanady. Mangalore. The ceremony was witnessed by About 300 of the most prominent members of the Catholic community, com-munity, among whom were scattered some Europeans and representatives from the Parsee, Hindu and .Mahomedan Communities.. Com-munities.. There is now no doubt that Ihere is no little feeling in Catholic circles in London about the play, "The Eeternal City," at His -Majesty's theatre, the reason being the. introduction of the Pope on the stage in what Is considered a rather derogatory position. There are so many Catholics among the arsticracy and the middle classes that one hears the subject discussed dis-cussed almost everywhere. 5 The Rev. Amada Velasco, who has been appointed by the Holy See as bishop of Colima, Mexico, will shortly be consecrated conse-crated in the cathedral at Colima. Most Rev. Archbishop Oritz of Guadalajara will officiate, assisted by other distinguished distin-guished prelates. ,, .. ... Trustworthy news concerning the situation situa-tion in Mecadonia are obtained with difficulty diffi-culty and the various accounts that appear ap-pear are most contradictory. But one thing is certain: The wealthier class of J TtAnnl a nrp lfavincr f h pnunlrv. The royal rake of Beljium, Leopold, havin cruelly driven his sorrowing daughter, Countess Louyay, from the side of her departed mother, there have been sent to the princess-countess expressions of sympathy and indignation from 17,000 inhabitants of Antwerp as well as from numerous ladies of Brussels. 3- The Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald announces an-nounces that the Catholics of Carnarvon have arranged to start Welsh services In their chapel in Tuthill, and have secured the services of Breton priests who haive learned Welsh to deliver sermons in that language. A Catholic journal in Mexico suggested the happy idea that all Mexican children should, on Sept. 24, the feast of our Lady of Mercy, offer a Holy Communion for the French children who were deprived of shelter owing to the closing of religious re-ligious establishments by the government of that model republic? A dangerous fire broke out Monday night night of last week from some unknown un-known cause in the underground chambers cham-bers of the College of the Propaganda. The firemen had two hours' hard work in subduing the blaze. Cardinal Gotti, prefect pre-fect of the Propaganda, whose apartments apart-ments are in a distant part of the building, build-ing, did not know of the danger until the flames were extinguished. |