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Show J I 1 1 I i ! H Cl)UtCl). i?&7 . Unimvsm. sr" ,1; LJ J. 1 I RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. 1, - The Carthusian monks, lately driven from their ancient monastery in the French Alps by French troops, are negotiating for the purchase of the I famous island of Iona, in the Heb- , rides off the coast of Scotland. Eng- jf land is astounded at the prospect of the burial place of forty-eight kings ? k of Scotland, eight kings of Norway I and four kings of Ireland, pasing into the hands of the makers of the famed f ; Chartreuse liqueur. No fear need be ' entertained, for the monks will, if they become the owners, preserve ;f .t with religious fervor the sacred relics : j of St. Columba and the ruins of the I - , ( ancient abbey church. The island !' would to them be sacred as the home 1 and scene of the great labors of the t famous Irish missionary, Columba. It . ' will, indeed, be fortunate for the j sacred associations of Iona, should it pass into their hands. The place ! wTould be an ideal one for the reserved I ! I Carthusians, for it is one of the most : t secluded spots in the world. 1 1 Calling him a Catholic through . f 4 courtesy, it is noteworthy that Presi- .! dent Loubet is the first even nominal ' j Catholic ruler who will have visited 1 ) Rome officially since the virtual in- , I vasion of the temporal power. Nat- I j urally the vacation has little sympathy 'i the spoiler over at the Quirinal. j And now the press agents are slat- s Ing Cardinal Satolli for the bishopric I of Frascati. ' There is talk of dividing the diocese j of Davenport, Iowa. Rumor, too, is busy creating four new dioceses in the west. . If the proposition comes, the i ' list of bishoprics will swell up to 90. 1 1 The Secret Papal Consistory for the ' - ' creation of a fresh batch of Cardinals ( ; is now definitely fixed for June 15, to j be followed by a public consistory on the ISth. - t'l Beginning with the first of May, the I Marian Simms-Beaumont Medical col- lege, St. Louis, became the medical de- partment of the St. Louis university, I I which is conducted by the Jesuit Fath- j ; ers- f f Cardinals Agliardi and Casali del I j i Drago have been appointed members ( of the Congregation of Sacred Indul- : gences and Rites, and Mgr. Morecoui f I , has been named a consultor of the I same congregation. Archbishop Kain of St. Louis, who, f j on account of his health, retired re- ! j cently to St Agnes sanitarium, Balti- . ' j ' more, is already much improved. The I relief from official care, the change of II; j air, rest and the best of medical atten- i, j tion have proved very benficial. ) The rumor that Archbishop Ireland I is soon to be made cardinal is again '' revived. About half of the world thinks that his grace should be adorn-? adorn-? ' ed with the red hat. This is fame of the most flattering kind. It is a case wherein non-possession Is nine points of the law. ' I . "Krt a fw TTYonr'h officers nro hand. I J ing in their commissions. They are ; ready to defend their country against j the enemy, but stoutly refuse to !j march out against a body of harmless ! ; monks, whose only offense is that they j are leading lives of self-sacrifice be- f I . yond the conception of irreligious I j state deputies. It is not strange that remarkable i ; . public interest was manifested in ; j Paris recently in the confirmation of I , ' the son of President Loubet , at the church of St Phil- 1 ; lippe du Roul. The spectacle of a son's confirmation in a faith which Ii t ' his father is doing his best to under- ; , mine is one of the anomalies inevit- ! able to the situaton in which France j ! has placed herself. iWhen London was a Catholic city It . , was the custom for the clergy to go in . . j procession to the cathedral on the y Feast of Corpus Christi, chanting hymns and bearing the Blessed Sacrament Sacra-ment At the upper end of Chesapeake they began the Pater Noster, and the way is known to this day as Paternos-v Paternos-v ter Row; while the corner where they I sang the Amen has since borne the 1 name of "Amen Corner." The old English college of Douai in ' France, which is familiar to the Cath olics of all English-speaking lands as j the source of the Douai version of the Old Testament, has not been exempt i from the Tipr'SAnitine" nnlirv of thft I; French ministry. Naturally, however, ; the sympathies of English Catholics have gone out with unusual generosity to the Benedictines of Douai, and the Bishop of Portsmouth has turned over the college of Woolhampton to them. When the French government sup-' sup-' pressed the religious establishments I ' of France in 1789, Douai was left un- ; ; molested as English property; only to c be confiscated four years later, how- ( , ever, when England was at war with . ' France. It would require a volume to 1 ! detail the vicissitudes through which : I the college passed during the last cen- ; j tury; and the end, apparently, is not i yet At any rate, it is a curious in- ' stance of the irony of history that an 5 institution founded in France on ac- M count of the intolerance of Protestant ( t I England, should now be driven back ' ' M . to England through the intloerance of j i Catholic France. j " Pope Leo XIII has ordered the vat- , ? ! lean printers to carefully reproduce ; all his Encyclicals and different Pon- tifical acts and forward them as a gift to the president of the United States. They will form a magnificent set and will be very limited. Mgr. Volpini has been charged with superintending the publishing of this important work. Sister Superior Mary Agatha Lud-den Lud-den has passed away at Leadville, Colp., where for seventeen years she was superior of St. Vincent's hospital. She was a member of a family noted for the number of religious vocations it has produced. The Right Rev. Bishop Ludden, of Syracuse, N. Y., is a brother of the deceased, two of her sisters are nuns, and three cousins are priests. Sister Agatha was born in Ireland forty-five years ago. There is a monastery in the depths of the Black Forest in Germany, which is the most aristocratic in the world. All the monks there are of noble birth, and many of them bear some of the noblest names in the Al-manach Al-manach de Gotha. The two cooks of the monastery are Prince Edward of Schoonburg-Harhenstein and Prince Philp of Hchenlohe, who rilled, not so many years ago, two of the highest positions po-sitions at the German court. The Benedictine nuns include Prin- : cess Schwarzenberg; Princess Leich- , tenstein, the Princess of Salm, and ' the Conntps?! ITcih prist A?n ! The religious in charge of the Grotto Grot-to of Lourdes have left their post and been replaced by secular clergy. The concession has been by M. Combes for fear of a revolution openly threatened by the townsfolk and the people of the neighborhood if the Grotto were closed. A new Catholic orphan asylum for the archdiocese of New York erected at a cost of $1,200,000, was thrown open to the public week before last. The two buildings, one for boys and the other for girls, are situated at Kingsbridge on a tract of twenty-eight twenty-eight acres. According to a New York dispatch to the Catholic Union and Times, of Buffalo, it is expected that the pallium pal-lium will be conferred upon Archbishop Arch-bishop Farley on June 29, and that Father Calton, Bishop-elect of Buffalo, will be consecrated on the feast of St. James, July 25. Among the six hundred members of the first section of the German national na-tional pilgrimage who were received in audience by the Holy Father the other day, were fourteen members of Parliament Twenty-two railway carriages car-riages full of pilgrims en route for Rome left Munich on one day. A Rome correspondent writes that Isaac Henderson, the playwright, has entered the Church. The author of the "Prelate" and the "Mummy and the Humming Bird'-' thus makes honorable hon-orable amends for the outrages offered of-fered the Catholic world in his plays now holding the boards. Prayer did it. A novena, of which he had no knowledge brought him to a sense of the error of his ways. Some men go to Rome to scoff and then remain to pray. The Osservatore Romano has published pub-lished some remarkable details concerning con-cerning the significant attitude of King Edward VII at the diplomatic dinner in his honor given in Paris by M. Delcasse. The king never addressed ad-dressed a word to M. Combes, while his affability to the Papal Nuncio, Msgr. Lorinelli, was most marked. After dinner the king took the Nuncio aside into an embrasure of a window and chatted with him for a long time. When depatring the king somehow forgot to salute M. Combes! o |
