The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-06-14

BROOKLYN CATHOLIC COLLEGE. On
Thursday, ssth ult., the ground was broken
Queen of the Isles in the city of Brooklyn,
by the Right Rev. Bishop Loughlin and
Mayor Kalbfeisch, in the presence of nearly
six thousand people, including o number Of
distinguished guests. The orator of the
day was Ex-Governor Lowe, of Maryland,
whose Grafton was eloquent and powerfully
convincing, and met with repeated rounds
of hearty applause. The grounds chosen
for the site Of the college occupy a five
acre block, purchased for @36, 600, being
sixty lots at 5000 q lot. The college is to
be one of the educational establishments of
ton of the Mission" known in France as
the Lazarists; !" the prominent house of
the order in the United States being at
Philadelphia, where Right Rev. Stephen
Vincent Ryan is the superior.-Irish Amer
lean.
day at the Cuthedral.-On Pentecost Sunday
the Most Rev. Archbishop OfRciated in the
Cathedral, at the last mass, assisted by the
Very Rev. VIM. STAIRS, V.G., as assistant
priest, Rev. P. +. McSweeney, DID,. 40
deacon, and Rev. j. H. Mclean as sub dea-
Kearney We're masters of ceremonies.
Conf fr1nation*.-T Most Rev. Archbishop
administered the sacrament of confirmation
on Monday, 25th ult., in St. AIMS Church,
Eighth street, to one hundred and ninety
one persons, several of whom were converts
Gabriers Church, East Thirty seventh
street, to five hundred and four persons.
On Wednesday, 9th, in the Chapel of the
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Manhattan
vile, to twenty-One persons. On Thurs
day, 2Sth, in the Church of our Lady of
Mercy, at FOrdham, to one hundred and
seventy RESPONSIBILITIES.
DIOCESE OF CINCINNATI.-COufymu in
Zanesrillc.-The holy sacrament of con-
firmation was administered in GAINESVILLE,
on Sunday, 2:3d ult., by the Right Rev.
Bishop Rosecrans. Two hundred were con-
firmed, of whom thirty were converts. In
the evening, vespers were celebrated in
the German Church, of which the Rev.
Father Ranch is pastor. Here also the
congregation was very large; and, after
the sermon one hundred and fifty We're con-
frmed, of whom four were converts.
Emanuel Church, DaytOn.-There were
one hundred and ninety persons confirmed
in this church, last Sunday, by Archbishop
Purcell. OF those confirmed five were con-
verts.
Na-dreth.-On Monday morning there were
ffty-fOur confirmed in the Academy Chapel.
First Comn,union and Confirmation in CO..
lumbus.-On Pentecost Sunday, the last day
of the month of May, about one hundred
and twenty persons in st. Patrick's Church,
and one hundred in the Holy Cross, APP
preached holy communion for the frs time,
chiefly children of the schools. Catholic
Telegraph, June Sd.
On Sunday, June Sd, the ceremony of
laying the corner stone of the new church
of the Holy Cross, on Forty second street,
between Eighth and Ninth avenues of this
city, by Archbishop McCloskey, assisted by
several of the clergy, was Witnessed by
several thousand people. The sermon was
preached by Rev. Isaac T. Hecker.-Irish
american.
DIOCESE OF BALTIMoRE.-ConfY ma tions
The Most Rev. Archbishop, on the morning
of Whit Monday, administered confirmation
in the splendid new church of st. James,
corner of Eager and Aisquith streets. Three
hundred and eighty were confirmed, of
whom nineteen were converts to our holy
faith. About twelve o'clock the same day,
he confirmed nineteen young ladies at the
fOurishing Academy of Notre Dame, ad-
joining of these four were converts. In
the afternoon, at five O'Clock, after having
assisted at solemn yespers in the church Of
the Holy Cross, Federal Hill, he confirmed
ninety-eight, of whom four were converts
= DIOCESE OF PITTsBURG.-On Sunday,
the oath ult., the Right Rev. Bishop DOme-
nee visited st. lyincent's Abbey for the pur-
pose of administering the sacrament of con-
tirmatiOn. After high mass, the sacrament
of confirmation was administered to one
hundred and eleven persons of both sexes,
twelve of whom were adults and converts
to the true faith. In truly apostolic zeal
the bishop went some miles to youngstown
and administered confirmation to a blind
man, stretched on his last bed of sickness;
a man poor in the eyes of the world, but
rich in those of God, from the fact that at
this his eleventh hour, he had the han
piness to be called to the true faith, bless
ing that can be well appreciated by those
who know what it is to be tossed about by
ever wind of doctrine. On Monday morn
! ing the bishop went to st. Xavier's acade-
my, where, in the temporary chapel of the
holy sacrifice of mass. After mass, the
bishop administered the sacrament Of con-
firmation, addressing the young ladies botHt
before and after the reception of the sasrsk,
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