The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-11-01

pastor, urged upon the people the necessit,
of building q new church. After mass, b,
administered confirmation to 337 persons
The choir, on this occasion, under til,
direction Of Mrs. Mary E. McFadden, sanf
Mozart's Mass No. 12. It is sufficient {,
say that the leading solos were exquisitel,
rendered by the gifted directress. From
Hazleton the Right Rev. Bishop proceeded
to Beaver Meadows, and at four o'clock il
the afternoon confirmed 1O3 more persons
making in all 753 in one day.
Carbondale.-On Sunday, the 18th inst.
the Right Rev. Bishop O'Hara visited the
Church of st. Rose of Lima, Rev. Francis
Carew, pastor, and confirmed 400 persons
mostly children.-Phila. Cath. Standard.
DIOCESE OF CINeINNATI-St. Peters, NeS
.Richmond.-This church was visited last
Sunday week by the Most Rev. Archbishop.
1t was thronged morning and afternoon,
many of the hearers of the instructions
being non-CatbOlics. There were SIS per-
sons confirmed.
Mission.-By request of His Grace, the
Most Rev. Archbishop of Cincinnati, the
benefit of Mission was given by the Rev.
DIR. Kirner to the Catholics residing at
Buena Vista, McCullOch and Pond Creek.
In Buena Vista the Mission began on
Saturday, the Goth. Three instructions were
given daily to which the faithful, though
living at a considerable distance, attended
with great assiduity. Early in the morn
b.
ing men approached the holy communion,
in order to be afterwards at their work in
the usual time. There were about 100
communions. One Frenchwoman, 81 years
of age, walked distance of six miles, SO as
to be able to attend the Mission.-Cincin-
natl Cath. Tel.
DIOCESE OF LoUIsvILLE-Church Dedica-
ton IN Lexington, Hentucky.-Last Sunday
will long be remembered by the Catholics
and the citizens of Lexington generally, as
one of the most interesting in the annals of
the Athens of the West. 1t was the day
of the dedication of the beautiful new
Catholic Church of st. Paul. This church
is 145 feet long, 6S feet wide, 65 feet high
from floor to apex of ceiling, and adorned
with q most graceful tower and cross
crowned steeple, 225 feet high from level of
the street. The lot, which is $50 feet front
by 465 feet deep, and the church cost the
round sum of one hundred thousand dol
lars, of which eighty-tive thousand have
been collected and paid, leaving Il balance
of only $4,000, which, it is hoped, will
soon be cancelled.
The fourteen windows, each 25 feet high,
are the gifts of generous citizens, who each
furnished one at cost of one hundred
dollars.
A splendid chalice, bought in Rome by
Mr.. John Watts Kearny, son of Gen. Philip
Kearny, was by that estimable gentleman
presented to the pastor, the Rev. II. Bell-
kers.
The church was dedicated by Archbishop
Purcell, who, thirty years before, had offici-
ated Mt the blessing of the old church of st.
Peter, for which the new one, in a, more
eligible site, is now substituted.
The solemn high mass was celebrated by
the Right Rev. DR.. McGill, Bishop of Rich
mond.
The Archbishop preached, after the Cos
pei, from the words of the divine response
to the prayer of Solomon, I'd Paralip., 9TH
chapter, on Sacrifice. The church was
Tiled by most attentive and apprecative
audience, by not Catholics alone, but also
by persons of various religious denomina-
lions, and notwithstanding that one dollar
was asked and cheerfully given by every
one at the door as the price of admission
The day collection amounted, it was said
to over fifteen hundred dollars. =
In the evening, the Right Rev. Bishop OF
Richmond, spite of a heavy rain, which
commenced at 4 P. NJ, was greeted by a
respectable audience; the eloquent and
logical prelate taking for his subject the
refutaton of the ordinary objection to the
Real Presence.-Cor. Gin. Gath. TEL
DIOCESE OF PITTsBURG.-The Right Rev.
Bishop Domenec visited st. Joseph's Church,
New Brighton, on Sunday, the 18th inst.
At the early mass he administered the holy
communion, and ut the late mass he preach
ed, after the Gospel, to q very large congre-
CATION, and at the end of the mass he CON
hIhea oo persons, many OF whom were
ADULTS, ana some conyerts.-Cdth0iic.
DIOCESE OF MoBTLE-.The Weeks Ercr-
cises an the Catholic Church.-The week lust
passed has proved rather an interesting
one for the Catholic community of Mobile
On Sunday last the Right Rev. Bishop
Quinlan administered the sacrament of CON
frmation to the Rev. Mr.. Mcili, the late
Protestant Episcopal Minister at Tusca-
loosa.
On Monday, the priests of the diocese,
then in retreat, held the first session OF
their diocesan synod. On the following
morning, after the Episcopal high mass,
their spiritual exercises terminated with an
address by the Rev. Father Mprphy, S. j
On Wednesday morning Archbishop 0din
accompanied by the Vice Provincial of the