The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-27
CATHOLIC.


E-Archbishop McCloskey lately confirmed I3O
of the inmates of the almshouse and hospitals
Of Black wells Island,
The only daughter Of the Gear of Russia is
TO marry the King of Bavaria, and will leave
the Catholic for the Greek Church. This will
be the 6rst instance in the Russian Imperial
family of such an exchange of faith.
Religious papers are giving currency to the
absurd story that the Society for the Propaga-
ton of the Roman Catholic Faith whose head
quarters are in New York received last year
81, 100000, of which $500, 900 was from sub
scriptions of one cent per week. IndeDendent.
The Catholics, under the direction OF Bishop
Dubuis, have recently commenced the erection
Mn our city OF a charity hospital 1t is to be one
feet wide and two stories high. The intention
is to have it completed in three months from
this time, as it is now very much needed. 1t IS
to be situated next to the Catholic priests house,
near the San Pedro.-San Antonio (1e1as)
Herald.
The feast of St. Agnes was celebrated in
Rome, on January 2l with great devotion. The
crypt where she was confined, in the Lorum
Agonale, now Piazza Navona, was opened to
the faithful, and was filed from first vespers on
January 20 by crowd of the faithful. Tue
two lambs destined TO furnish the Pope's table
at Easter, and of whose wool are made the
Palla given TO the Legates, were blessed at
high mass at the Basllica OF et. Agnese Fuori lie
Mure, where the young virgin martyr won her
crown. On the 18th the horns were blessed at
the EsqulliLe being the feast Of st. Anthony, the
abbott by the superior OF the convent bearing
that name.
the Ursuipe Convent, Brown county, Ohio, Miss
Ca,barine Murphy, in religion Sister M. Louisa,
native OF Ireland, and Miss Marie Portal, a
native of France, made their VOWS at Mass, aud
received the black veil. In the afternoon of the
same day, the Right Rev, Bishop of Louisville
gave the white veil TO Miss Libby MMahon of
illinois, in religion. Sister Raphael and 10
Sister Mary de Nice. The Rev. Edward Purcell
i preached. The ceremony, as usual at this in.
stitution was conducted in the most graceful
STYLE and the music was exquisite.
We have learned, with much qualification,
that the Most Rev. Archbishop has succeeded in
carrying out an arrangement by which the
iOatholics of Upper Marlboro, Prince Georges
County, will have the benefit of resident clergy
- men, an advantage of which they have been so
long deprived through the want of clergymen.
The Rev. Dominican Fathers have for several
wears past attended this mission from Washing
ton. with much zeal and efficiency, thereby
meriting the gratitude and receiving the thanks
4 of the many and respectable Catholics of this
portion of the archdiocese, comprising the three
congregations of ST. Mary's Upper Marlboro
the Most Holy Rosary, and st. lgnatius' neal
Alexandria. The venerable and Very Rev, N
d. Young. o. 5. D., IN pSInc9iar' may be re
having devoted himself with so much zeal and
energy to its development, and having sue
ceeded in enlsrging its boundaries and increas
INC Its religious facilities, by erecting or caus.
\ ipssfo be erected the new Church OF the Most
|NU8oly Rosary, adjoining which building fol
pagiePal residence was designed and com
Itnced though it was not completed. -Bahi
baose Mirror.
\ W-Owing to a failure in ful1ling the offers frs
made. the Freewill. BAPTIST Theological Schoo
!. viii not be paSsed from New Hampton to HaVer
-A new era is dawning upon the Baptis
interests of the thriving city of Pittsburg, Pa
OF the nine churches, four are large aud EN-
ciept bodies, and the Others are making tai
progress.
The interest in the Fourth Church, Rev.
Mr.. Sage, Pastor, is also on the increase, anC
/ Is ofa specially encouraging character. Tvs
converts were baptized On the 18th instant
and seven more on the 2lst.
M -Ehe Bev. A. e. Anderson was recently i'm
"a ynersed by q Baptist minister, and installe
Daetor of Baptist church In Wilmington
# Ohio. He had been eleven years member an
minister OF the Presbyterian Church in Eng
land.
q. Lorimer ID. D., with the First Baptist Churc
al Albany, New York, has been so greau
blessed that more than one hundred additions
members have been received. Most interestin
meetings are yet in progress.
During the latter part of December dele
gates from fifty or more African BaotiI
Churches met in the First African Baptis
Church OF Montgomery, and organized I'll
1iahama Convention of Colored Bapti,
Churcbes-the first body of the kind ever exis
'ns r. Rev. DR.. Henson. Pastor of the Memori
Church of this city, has the constant tokens