The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-05

On the 9th of July Eve fresh blocks Of mar
BILE were found one of which V Of Rarlan, oso
e African, and ONE q RsEsn Sanss. Ia, IN l the
Of Caristian yet discovered; ono Of African,
ono Of Porta Santa, ana an enormous one of
PoFrino. G.t ai ,3..tsf
The cause of the Venerable jean Baptiste de
In Sale, founder Of the Christian Brethren,
viii come before tho Congregation Of Rites In
Nay next Cardinal Pi..a i the raGpor.ssr 2:
France. A miraculous cure is said to have
taken place at tho Convent Of the Sisters of
Charity, at st, onofrio, last Laonth, by the in
tercession of the Cerean martyrs. The religi-
Gus cured was Dzdile. Catherine d,Heliand,
sister of Georges a'Heliand, the first martyr OF
Castelidardo. and cousin Of Bernard de seuatre-
barbes, who fell at Monte RotondO.
The feast of the Founder Of the Jesaits was
observed ON Saturday with great solernnity at
the Gesu. The masses were celebrated from a
very early hour at the tomb of the saint by
nearly all the cardinals and prelates in Rome,
as well as by the Father General, who, Your
readers will be glad to know, is looking re-
markably well, and carries his jubilee, WEIGH
| took place nearly at the same time as the
Pope's, as vigorously as does the Holy rather.
| RUSSIA, st. Petersburg, Aug. 7.-!Statstics Of
| the Catholic Church in Rnssid.-As you have
shown so great an interest about the Catholics
| in Russia, it becomes important that You
! should know their number. To-day am only
! going to speak about those who inhablt Russia
properly so,called, putting aside Poland, Mnepe
ted at five millions. Since IVA we nave had an
! Archbishopric at Mobilef, though the SEQ has
| been vacant sipce 1868, and six Bishoprics,
| Wilma, Telcheysk, Minsk, Tiraspol, Loutzk and
Jitomir; the two latter have lately been united
on the pretext of economy. havenow before
me the Ordo for the Archdiocese of Mohilef for
the present year. There appear to be 375 266
Catholics dispersed over the frontiers of Swe-
den and the borders of China and divided into
146 parishes, which are served by 3S5 priests.
Moscow numbers ~, 445 Catholics, Petersburg
20 272 and Tobolsk 5000. During the last
twenty -five years the number of priests in the
single diocese of MohileH has diminished by
far more than half, although the Nord pretends
that in no country is the Catholic Church more
literally treated than in RUSSIA BY the Ec-
! clesiastieal Calendar of 1S41 we see that there
were 4O1 members of the secular clergy, and at
least dozen religious orders, in the possession
of several converts. Under the terrible Mich
olas we had Carmelites Cistercians, Francis
cans, Trinitarians, and Domnicans, the latter
$50 in number. On my table is q catalogue OF
Al pages Pdtruia Ordinis PFdedicatOram FForinci@
RoroldRoe post ordinatiORcB tactHM &c ammo lSlu
In aRnaB 1S41 coRscripttts., Alas! all these are
dying or languishing i'll Siberia! The parish
of Tomsk alone now numbers 1900 Catholics,
| all exiles. In fact the Catholic population of
Russia, not including Poland, may be estimat-
| ed at more than two millions. Here Is a sub
| ject of the greatest interest to the Catholic
| world which it is to be hoped that the General
Council will take up. We hope much from
Rome, and also from the generous example
that England has set regarding Ireland. And
we ask ourselves why some ono of really eleya-
ted views should not be made Minister, and be
inspired with the noble ambition of becoming
the Gladstone of Russia.