The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-05-31
FOREIGN CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.

On April Goth, the Right Rev. DR.. Goss,
lord bishop of Liverpool, laid the foundation
stone Of the new church of st. Benedict,
Hindley, near Wigan. .-7 9f,3 -,
His grace, the archbishop of Westminster,
preached at high mass in the Carmelite
church, London, on April 26th, in aid of the
funds of the Kensington Dispensary.
The Able Leclerc, cure of Gremonville,
diocese Of Rouen, France, was lately struck
with apoplexy while praying at the altar
Death followed almost fundamentally. .
The Catholic bishops Of England have all
to grand synod, which is to be held under
the presidency of Archbishop Manning.
The venerable and sanity Herman de
Vicari, archbishop of Freiburg, Baden, died,
on the 18th of April, in his archiepiscopal
residence He was born on the 18th of
May, 1913, in Upper Swabia.
The Able Moreau, canon of Montreal, one
of the two chaplains of the Canadian vo1un-
teers, has been commissioned by the Arch
bishop of Quebec to lay before the Pope the
documents concerning the Qualification of
Marie de PIncarnation. She was the first
ada, and died in the odor of sanctity.
The Courier de Saigon publishes an inter-
esting account of visit lately made by the
French governor through the province in
Cochin China, subjected to the French rule.
1t appears that the number of Christians is
increasing every day, by voluntary CONVEX
sions-so much SO, indeed, that, in many
parishes, the governor counted them by
hundreds, and even by thousands.
At the Preston (England) police court, ON
April 25th, the Rev. Henry Trower, Catho-
lie priest, WoodplumptOn, was summoned,
at the instance of Mr.. Thomas Carlyle,
churchwarden, in Woodplumpton, for Cd,
being his proportion of church rates levied
in that parish. The validity of the rate
was disputed, and the magistrate conse-
quently decided that the court had no iu-
rsdictiOn.
Mother Mary Euphnalsia Pelletier, supe-
rior general and foundress of the Sisters of
the Good Shepherd, Anglers, France, died
ut six o'clock on Friday morning, Gath of
April. She was one OF the most remarka able
women of the age, having founded upward
of one hundred institutions of her invalua-
BILE society in the four quarters of the globe.
She had reached an extreme old age in the
perfect enjoyment of all her faculties.
The feast of st. Paul of the Cross, the
founder of the Order of Passionists, was
celebrated with due pomp and ceremonial
in the church attached to the Sutton Eng
land) Monastery, on April 2Sth. The cele-
hration began on April 25th, with iridium,
or three days devotion, and wound up with
Il solemn high mass, cOram episcoDo, on
April 2sth. The attendance of the faithful
WIS unusually numerous from the begin
hih%' and during mass every seat iii the
chMrch was occupied.
/ nc congregation of the Holy Ghost are
az thls time agitating the canonization of
us founder, Father Liberman, who died
about twenty Years ago in the odor of
5ahc!lty. This eminent priest, an Israelite
/ Wy Dlftll--AttS- given It's an example of the
iai"<t-fittucs, and his life, though retired
one one was, at the same time, one of great
H'pFrSt. His spiritual children have petit
tIonc" Mgr. Amanton, Archbishop of Theo-
" ,,'im =" preside over the commission which
WI. WI 5e occupied in furnishing Rome with
til" documents connected with this cansr
toNVEHsroN.-Th aidc-de-comn of tho