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Show Isiicrica and Its Rely Ones, (Rome Cor. Dublin" Catholic.) While his eminence Cardinal Moraln, archbishop of Sydney, is awaited in Rome on account of the sacred process of the Venerable Oliver Plunket, it is of interest to learn that another and celebrated cele-brated cause has reached a most promising prom-ising penultimate stage. This is the process instituted for the beatification of the Venerable John Scotus, O. F. M., the doctor of the Immaculate Conception. Concep-tion. Thanks to the devotion cherished in his own order for this historically celebrated servant of God, and to the energy in the promotion of the case which has resulted from this, the cause : of his beatification by Rome has now been secured, and it is only to be a question of immaterial delays hereafter. Side by side with Ireland may be mentionedjn this connection a country which has been most largely peopled by her children. The New World is claiming its own and a share never before accorded to it by the sacred congregation con-gregation of rites. Recently and previously, pre-viously, especially in 1S98, the Irish Catholic has dealt with the prosecution of the cause of the Venerable John Nepomucene Neumann, C. S. S. It., bishop of Philadelphia.- All the local or diocesan documents of the case were brought to Rome a couple of months ago by the secretary of the commission, and about the same time some Ameri- I can Vincentian Fathers came hither in order to set up the process of canonisation canonisa-tion of Father de Andreis, who died in the odour of sanctity at St. Louis in 1820. This priest of the Vincentian congregation con-gregation died at the age of 40. He lived in the St. Louis diocese only four years and spoke the language very imperfectly. im-perfectly. But, strange to say, he wa- rCDUted a saint hv pvcrvhnrlv in Tnia 1 lifetime, and since his death people have persisted in the belief that he was a saint. He was vicar general of St. Louis and the first bishop of St. Louis wrote his life. Fathers Solon and Zelos. The American Redemptorists are also prosecuting the local preparations for bringing before the Roman congrega-ticfn congrega-ticfn the cases of two other members of their institute. The first is the Rev. Father Solon of New Orleans, who died a victim of charity during the yellow fever epidemic in 1885. The second is Father Zeelos, who was born in South Bavaria in 1819. On May 16, 1843, he was received into the American branch of the Redemptorist order, and a year later was ordained. He was stationed for nine years in Pittsburg. He subsequently sub-sequently went to Baltimore, thence .to Annapolis, and afterwards in various places he was occupied in giving missions mis-sions and retreats. In the beginning of the year 1866 he was for a short time stationed at Detroit, and in the month of September of. the same year he was sent to New Orleans in charge of St, Mary's church. He had not spent a full year m the ministry at New Orleans when he was taken down with the yellow yel-low fever, which raged in the city. He died on Oct. 4, 1867, in his 49th year. Mme. Duchesne. Another candidate for the church's honors is a member of the religious order or-der whose life was spent in America. This is Mme. Duchesne, the promoter of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart. One of the miracles which . are being considered In the process of the foundress, Mme. Barrat, happened .in the United States, and evidence about I it is in consequence being taken there. This is the case- of Sister Catherine ! Burke, who is 36 years old. and is a : native of St. Louis. She joined the order or-der when 17 years old. Two years ago, when stationed at Omaha, Neb., she became afflicted with a stomach trouble. trou-ble. An Omaha physician said she had a caiietrous tumor, and he finally gave her up. The last sacraments of the j church were administered to her. The sisters derided to make a novena to Mme. Barrat, foundress of the Order of the Sacred Heart. They prayed for nine days, and a garment that had been worn by Mme. Barrat was placed Jon Sister Catherine. On the morning of the ninth day, it is stated, Sister Catherine got out of bed entirely cured, dressed herself and reported to the Mother Superior for duty. She is now said to be in perfect health. Mother Seton. Unike Mme. Duchesne, another American Amer-ican holy woman, was a native of the United States. This was Mother Seton, Se-ton, foundress of the American Sisters of Charity, who was received into the church on March 25, 1803, by the Rev. Mathew O'Brien, who, with his brother, the Rev. William O'Brien, of the Dominican Domi-nican Order, were two . of the four priests that ministered to the small Catholic comm&nity of New York in the early years of the past century. The cause' of this religious foundress is being actively prosecuted. Apostle of Chippewa Indians. Another person, whose cause is being pressed forward, did not belong to any religious, institute. This is the apostle of the Chippewa Indians, Bishop Bar-ago, Bar-ago, a fellow countrvman of the Ven erable Neumann. He' reached the United States in 1829. He began his ministry by preaching to the non-Catholics of the west. He relates an incident inci-dent of his preaching in a Protestant church in Ohio in secular clothes, and he adds' that . "I intended to ask my bishop for permission to let me always travel around in the country to seek such lost souls, and stay with each one until he should be thoroughly instructed, in-structed, baptized and strengthened in the faith." But his superiors considered consid-ered the ministry among the Indians more fruitful. He was sent to the northern peninsula of Michigan, and there for many years he lived and labored la-bored among the Indians. In his incessant in-cessant journeys as priest or bishop he often suffered untold hardships and bore miseries of every description, being be-ing several times in imminent danger of death. Nor did he flinch at the deadly cold of that climate, often traveling trav-eling many weary miles on snow shoes, packing on his back his personal baggage bag-gage and all the articles necessary for the Holy Sacrifice, sleeping under the open sky or in some wretched Indian wigwam. Meanwhile his abstinence was simply miraculous. He would travel all day, paddling, in a canoe from dawn to dark, or sliding painfully along on snow shoes through the trackless track-less forest, and first and last crave for his daily nourishment but a little bread and biscuits, cheese and tea. For the last twenty-odd years of his life he never at flesh meat. As to wine and all alcoholic drinks, he was a total to-tal abstainer of the strictest kind, practicing that virtue rigidly and preaching and enforcing It among his Indians universally. 1 |