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Show RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Madame Melba, the celebrated singer, sing-er, who has been visiting her native land, Australia, and who comes from a strict Presbyterian family, is reported report-ed to have been received into, the Catholic Cath-olic church. Brother John Dipple. S. J., for forty-seven forty-seven years in . the Jesuit order, and for thirty years stationed in Milwaukee, Milwau-kee, Wis., first at St. Gall's church and' later at Marquette college, passed away on Feb. 12 at the college. He was born in Germany and when quite young came to America with his parents, who settled in Evansville, Ind. At the ae of 20 the deceased entered the Jesuit order. He was formerly stationed in Chicago and Omaha. Archbishop Williams has appointed the Rev. R. M. Smith of Brockton, Mass., as pastor of St. Edward's churcn at Medfield, Mass. Father Smith was appointed a curate at St. Patrick's church, Brockton, immediately after completing his studies at Niagara university uni-versity and St. Mary's college, Maryland, Mary-land, in 1896. He was ordained by Cardinal Gibbons June 19 of that year. Five religious orders are recommended recom-mended by the French government for authorization. They include the Algerian Al-gerian white fathers and the St. Jean de Dieu brothers. The white fathers are not, however, to be allowed to keep their three seminaries in France. The St. Jean de Dieu brothers provide asylums for the aged, the insane and the incurable, also seaside sanitoria. Their establishments are accordingly to be authorized, but not their night refuge at Marseilles. Besides the members of the Biblical commission a number of consultors have been named by the Holy See to assist in the work. They include Professors Pro-fessors Bardenheuer, Munich; L. Schafer, Breslau; Hoberg, Freiburg-im-Breisgau; Vetter, Rottenburg; Gut-berlet, Gut-berlet, Fulda; s B. Schafer, Vienna; Hugo Weiss, Braunsberg; Dom Wei-kerb, Wei-kerb, Rome; Dom Schiel, Dom Lepidi and Dom Lagrange, Jerusalem; Father Comely, S. J., ' Father Prat. S. J., Father Balestri,' Augustinian; Father Creseto. Genoa, - and Father Marcati of the Vatican library. The greatest organ in the worldhas been installed in the cathedral at Seville. Se-ville. It' was" built by a Spaniard, Senor Aguilino Amezua. and is of truly gigantic dimensions. There are four metal flute stops, each sixteen feet long, such as no other organ in Europe Eu-rope possesses. It is also the only organ or-gan which has bass-bourdons which give thirty-two vibrations a second and produce a deeper tone than the organ in Murcia, which has hitherto been the deepest-toned organ in the worTd. There are altogether 200 independent stops and five bellows worked by electricity. elec-tricity. The cost was 6,400: Four ancient Byzantine holy water fonts from an old church in Treviso, near Venice, have been purchased and presented to the cathedral at Westminster. West-minster. One of them is very large, carved in rosso di Verona, with characteristic char-acteristic animals climbing down the side of the basin: the others are equally equ-ally curious for their Byzantine artistic decorations. They seem to need some repair and cleaning, which will bring out their partially hidden beauties. The Very Rev. J. A. Zahm, provincial provinc-ial of the Holy Cross in America, whose headquarters is at Notre Dame, Ind., has gone to Paris to look after the interests of his order in France, which is liabel to confiscation at the hands of the French government. The French chamber, after a sharp discussion, has decided to continue the embassy to the Holy See and the state subvention in aid of the schools in the east, far and near. A number of the Silesian fathers are going to Constantinople in order to develop the work of Don Bosco in the east. The Rev. Charies" Walter Davey, whose reception into the church by the Redemptorist fathers at St. Mary's, Clapham, England, is announced, was lately Angelican curate at Marnhull, Dorset. The clergy of the diocese of Bayonne have received an official notification from the French government 'that henceforth they are forbidden to use the Basque language in catechetical instructions. in-structions. A little while ago a similar simi-lar notice was sent to the Breton clergy, of whom fifty refused to obey and have had their stipends stopped. M. Combes is clearly determined to wean children from the tenets of the church by condemning them to ignorance, ignor-ance, i Archbishop Williams of Boston Mass., has assigned the Rev. P- j Lyons of Hopkinton, recently ordained' to succeed the late Rev. P. F. Egan as" chaplain at Carney hospital; the Rev Thomas E. Garraham of South Farm-ingham Farm-ingham as assistant at the Church of the .Assumption, Brookline, and the ReJ??n Jr Harrington as assistant at St. Mary's church, Medford. |