The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-05-30
uoRxIHa STAR AND CATHOLIC MESSENGER.
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY. MAY 30. 1863.
pomEsrIc CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE

D,ocrsE OF CIsorsNATI.-.St. Aaa's { Col
x,redl Chsrch.-There were seventeen per-
sons of this congregation prepared for Con-
firmation in this church Sunday, 10th inst,
and all but two, who were SICK, received
Confirmation. The answers in catechism
were quite satisfactory, and much pleased
the CONGREGATION of white and cOiored
which filled the church.
ON Pentecost Monday, the Most Rev.
Archbishop blessed the partially rebuilt
church, of st. James, Mount Airy, injured
by the hurricane some two years past, and
confirmed sixty -four, chiefly youths of the
CONGREGATION, and one adult convert.-Ca-
tholic Telegraph.
DIOCESE OF CoLUMBUs.--On Sunday, 9th
inst. the cornerstone of n German Catholic
church, at Portsmouth, was blessed, under
the invocation of the Administration, by the
Right Rev. Bishop Resecrans, of Columbus,
in the midst Of a very great crowd OF peo-
pie of all denominations. On Tuesday,
nth inst, Pontificai Mass was celebrated
at st. Mary's, Rawson, and sixty EIGHT per
SONS tsix converts) confirmed. The Key.
M. j. Ahern, the devoted pastor of this
CONGREGATION, had spent nearly four months
in preparing his band of spiritual children
for the reception of the sacrament--Cor.
Cath. Tel. ..a.e., =
DIOCESE OF BosroN.-Died, at Boston
College, in this city, on the llth OF May,
Rev. John Prendergast. 8. j. The deceased
ireland. About twenty years ago he came
to the United States, and entered Holy
Cross College, Worcester. In August, 1851 (,
he was received into the Society of Jesus,
and after several years of study was or
dained priest, and occupied with distinc-
ton the Professors Chair of Poetry and
Mathematics in Georgetown College. In
1865, his health commencing to yield to the
sedentary iabors of the classroom, his su-
periors relieved him, and appointed him to
the ministry at st. Marys Church, North
End, Boston. a4
ON the Feast of the Ascensiols, some
eighty-five children, between tie ages of
ten and fifteen years. received holy Com
munion in the Church of st. Rose, Chelsea.
Pilot. 80, ~ sc.s 3, 7.s E
Right Rev, ]. F. Shanahan, D. D., Bishop
of Harrisburg, recently visited the Church
of Our Lady of the Seven Dofore, Middle
town, Dauphin county, Pa, and admins
tered the Sacrament of Confirmation To two
ladies lately converted to the faith, and to
twenty three children.-Cath. Standard.
DIOCESE OF NEW YoRK.--C Con formations.
The Most Rev. Archbishop administered
the Sacrament Of CONTINUATION on Tuesday,
1itfI inst, in the church of st. Boniface, to
24l persons. On Wednesday, 18th inst, in
the Church of St. Bernard, to 200 persons.
On Thursday, 18th inst., in the Chapel OF
the Academy of Mount st. Vincent, Font
Hill, to City persons.
DIOCESE OF BuFFALo.-Confrm ation at
ST. Josepk-s Cathedral.--Nearly one thou
sand children, male and female, were con-
firmed by the Right Rev. Bishop Ryan, at
st, Joseph's Cathedral, in Buffalo, Sunday,
the 10th inst. s The ceremonies were inn
pressiye and imposing, and attracted to the
church o large congregation.
DIOCESE OF BRooKIYN.-Co CONFIRMATION
Last Sunday, 18th inst, the Church of Our
Lady /" Star of the Sea.n was the scene of a
beautiful ceremony.-gpwards of a thou
sand children were confirmed by the Right
Rev. Bishop. The boys and giEls were
neatly attired, and offered q pleasing spec
tacle.
Confirmation was also administered in
the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, Debe-
voise street, on Tuesday, 18th inst, to
some 600 Enthusiastically Catholic.