The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-16

queathed one thousand dollars eachtO
the three Catholic Churches in that
town. He also made other very libe-
raj requests to his relatives and
friends.
Sixty Roman Catholic priests ar
rived in New Orleans last week to
open schools for freedmen.
Bishop Rosecrans, Catholic Bishop
of Cincinnati, has been assigned to
the charge of St Patrick's Church,
Columbus, Ohio.
Right Rev. Edward Fitzgerald
Bishop of Little Rock, at the request
of Most Rev. Archbishop Purcell,
gave the white veil and religious
habit, last week, in the chapel Of the
Ursaline Convent, St. Martins, Ohio,
to Miss Ellen Collins, who took the
name of Mary Sebastian.
Right. Rev. J. nj. Henri, d. d.,
Bishop of Milwaukee, visited Cincin-
natl a few days last week. He has
built more than three hundred
churches in Wisconsin within the last
twenty years. The Roman Catholic
Church is a marvel IF growth in that
State, and much of its success is at
tributable to the untiring zeal of
Bishop Henri.
The PoPE's ADMIRATION OF AMER
ICA.-Rev. DIR. Lamy, who went to
Rome to bear the proceedings of the
late council at Baltimore to the Pope.
writes home: 1.-THE holy father was
reioiced and highly pleased with the
council at Baltimore, and also to hear
many particulars | gave about the
progress of our Church in the United
States. But what pleased His Holt
ness most, and gave him great con-
ISOLATION in the midst of the troubles
with which his paternal heart was
afflicted, was the letter addressed to
him by the fathers of the council.
He spoke of it In the highest terms.
His expression was, beautiful letter,
most beautiful; in a few sentences
they have written the history Of my
life" On the Sd instant [ had the
honor of serving the mass, and of
assisting him at the altar. / handed
him myself the beautiful copy Of the
DEGREES, so nicely bound. and he adj
mired it very much. . What beauti-
full things they make in Americal !"
said His Holiness, looking at the vol
ume, turning it over, and opening it.
The late Council at Baltimore has
produced wonderful effect, not only
in Rome, but also in France and Ire
land. The other evening His Emil
hence Cardinal Barnabo said to me,
" The Catholic Church has grand
arena in the United States of Amer
Iica; it is very consoling." .g
h The Roman Catholic Church in
Cincinnati and vicinity are putting
forth extraordinary efforts in BUILDING
matters The Jesuits are to com
mence Immediately splendid build
ing on the corner of Seventh and Syc-
amore Streets, adjoining the St.
Xavier's College, for college enlarge
ment and residence. The Sisters of
the Good Shepherd are about to erect
beautiful chapel, in the garden of
their property on Bank Street. The
German Catholics of the Seventeenth
Ward have purchased for $4,000 a
lot for a church from Mrs. Nancy
Terrence; and the German Catholics
of Columbia have purchased ground
from Messrs Joseph Longworth and
Larz Anderson, for the same purpose.
The Sisters of Notre Dame have
adopted plan for chapel adjoining
their academy at Mt. Notre Dame, on
the Reading road.
The Pope will be a contributor to
the Paris Exhibition in a manner
alike suitable to his own spiritual
character and interesting to students
of early Christian history. His Holt
ness is going to send model, con
structed of wood, lined with cork,
painted canvas, plaster, and ancient
terra Gotta slabs, according to the
imitation required, representing an
dmbuldcyuna and cubicul,tm Of the
Roman catacombs in state of perfect
primitive integrity.
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