The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-01-10

MORNING STAR AND CATHOLIC MESSENGER.
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rrw ORLEANS, SUNDAY. JANUARY TO- 1862
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DIOCESE OF PrTTsBURG.-The Right rev.
R;shop Domenec visited Brownsville on Hhe
21st Of December and in the even attssntiva an
cred an interesting lecture to an atten.ve NJ r
I;ance composed chiefly of Protestahts. ne
next day he administered the oacramenS oA
Confirmation to about thirty peisohS
n.aa,,sr Nv puu.ApEIpH1A-Rer John +. Mel
I've announce with much sorrow the aeatn
of Rev John F. Mellon, young pries1 oi Sn.s |
city. The sad event occurred at inc Iesitcm n.
Of his father, No. 51S South Eighteenth street,
on St. Johns day, the 27th ult., and the luneIai
took n Mace from St. Patrick's Church, at nine
o'clock ON the Wednesday following.
DIOCESE OF SCRANTON Sunday, the s.tn , o.
december. was great day among our people,
heconse thew witnessed for the first time in our
citv. the elevation to the dignity OF prlesthood
Of three Rev gegtleme1 Kev McMnrry ~ Right
Kew B;shop O'Hara celebrated Pontiical Mass
on the occasion. -, D.
on the Sunday preceding, the Right rev.
r;shon gave Confirmation to the largest num-
her ever instructed ut one time in this diocese
there were about five hundred boys. ana me me
same number of girls. In rev weeks st ;no
at Providence, mission attached to the parish
under Rev. NJ. Witty, but of this WILL speak
at another time.
DIOCESE OF WnMINGToN-Ihe hlg1 NJ rev.
Rishop Becker held an ordination at St. Mary's
= College and Seminary, on the 10th OF Decem7
her. whereat Messrs. Thomas Mullen, OF Hort
ford diocese, and James A. keIy, o. VILE nndaIss
ton. Del, received Tonsure and Minor orders.
On the same occasion Martin 4. Fallon, grad
nate and teacher at St. Mary, received SUD
Deaconship. On December ieths ieass " W;r ai
Exnectation of the Birth of the Blessed virgin
Mary, the same Rev. gentleman was prohlot eo
to the Deaconate. On Sunday, DECEMBER ~,
he received the dignity OF priest.-Ca'Ho"c
Standard.
D,ocpsr OF SAN FRANCIsco-Death Of Sister
s spernetua Shannon.-It is odf painful duty 70
~. chronicle the death of Sister perpetua onal
non, who departed this life at tne ~, Mn
~Iay Deceased was a native OF Ireland Du' a.
an early age emigratcd with her parents -
Baltimore, where, in her s,xteen'n year sne ~
,nnved to I1tica, N V, residing there until he
advent to California. which was about tW'
years since. Sister Psrpetua only suhe,ea ' ~
weeks illness but to one VINO ha. spth. q ',a n
100 lime in the service of her Maker, death was no
ROBBED with terrors for with the caininess anu re-
signation of one who had fought inc sGou , ~ ,
she deemed death but the prelude OF 1mmof..'
life Her funeral took place on Weahesu'as
from St. Patrick's Church: Requiem Mass W..
celebrated by the Rev. Father MoIr,ss ,, ;.n
an appropriate discourse delivered by tie h ''N
Father Gray. The orphans, to whom sne wa
q kind mother, assisted ut these las, o.aess
departed virtue, and their unaifec.ed, l.iio. ,n
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the inanimate form within the shroud OF deati
Conrert.-On Sunday, the sth November, III
Rev Father ". Riera administered cohoi.io y,
BAPTISM to Joseph Bureis, convefo 70 Sa Az
Ecity, at the Cathoiic Church AZ
docino county.
D,ocEsE OF CHICAGo.-From the correspond
e6re Of the New York Freemdn's Journal, "
gather the following particulars OF miss'e
.- given by the Passionist Fathers at 81 JONI
Church
The chief ceremony of last evening was u
reception and baptism OF converts VIZ 49,; 81,
the mission commenced, have been recelviil
instructions from the clerGymen. AiHf y y
Rosary had been chanted oy the choii, IN =.
Gaudeutius assembled to the pulpit, anu ueii
cred an instructive ana eloquent sclii s -
nlaipipr fully the Catholic ceremony Oh Da
tism, and defining the d difference between
Catholic and Protestant form OF BaptIsh.
After the discourse was ended, the kew. &c
tleman proceeded to formally TeceSe NV NV
Who were about to enter the Church. IL
,vare ARRANGED in the sanctuary, around I
Bantismai font, each holding hghteo c'in'
The grand and impressive ceremony, III c ~
ance with the rubric of the tathoic nm
having been performed the ohlciati iliso pi'
delivered n short congratulatory ADDRESS,
hortinn those who had been received TO rein'
firm in the faith which they had esponsea, !.
assuring them that if they perseVere" UNIV
end they would be saved
about twenty the greater part OF whom W.
men Five others were baptlSed IL lew a'
aco and about the same number are nov nov,
ceivinp instructions, and i'll lew DAYS III
baptised ;.od Comm
MON durino the mission, and such Is the pi
snre upon them that the missionary ii.'n u
have concluded to remain until heNI gum"
FOREIGN CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.