The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-06-11
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C1NcINNATI.-1n this diocese general
Communion will be offered up on the 18th,
for the intention of the Pope, and Q grand
procession of all the societies will take
place on the same day in honor of this
great anniversary.
On the octave of the Ascension, in the
forenoon, st. Marys Nazareth, was visited
One hundred and ninety of the students
received at his hands the Holy Communion,
of whom thirty received it for the first
time. Thirty mine were confirmed.
On Sunday evening at 2 o'clock the Most
Rev. Archbishop administered the Sacra-
nent of Confirmation to forty children at
the Church of Our Lady of Victories, Delhi.
On Pentecost Monday the Archbishop
admin istered the same sacrament to seven
| teen of the inmates of the House OF the
Guardian Angel on Congress street, an 1n-
stitutiOn well-conducted by the Sisters OF
the Good Shepherd. At the same time he
conferred tonsure on Messrs. Gull, and
Windiorst of this diocese, and Mr.. Quinn,
of Little Rock. These clerics will be
raised To- higher orders in the Cathedral by
Right Rev. Bishop Wood, on the Ember
days of this week
At st. Joseph's Church, Dayton, 13S
persons were Confirmed on the 18th Of
May. The congregation has devoted
about six thousand dollars in two years to
church and school Observation-Disclosures
natl Telegraph.
Archbishop Purcell celebrated the forty
fifth anniversary Of his priesthood yester-
day, which was Trinity Sunday, by offici.
ating at high mass in Trinity Church, and
by visiting the institution of the Good
Shepherd, on Bank street; St. Anne's
(colOred) Church, on Longworth street; St.
Paul's, on Broadway aud Hunt street, and
the orphans in the Cathedral basement.
The Arch bishop is in the seventy second
nf ia n rNf in G<sHS
cation to the Church, the forty -fifth of his
priesthood, and the thirtieth Of his bishop
rio, aud is hale and hearty, full of energy,
CHEEKY in his spirit and manner as a outh,
and enjoys a health and vigor that give
promise of many years enjoyment and
natl Commercial. S.
Diocese Of Vincennes, st. Meinrad's Ab-
ben, Spencer Co., Ind.-On May 81, Ri.
Rev. Bishop St. Palais, blessed the frat
Abbot OF this new Benedictine Abbey, RI.
Rev. Father Martin Marty, appointed by
his Holiness Plus TX on the 3Oth of Sep
temher, 1870.
NEW YoRK.-The st. Peter, one of the
ablest Catholic Weeklies published in
America, is making a most earnest effort
to awaken the Catholics Of New York to a
sense of the propriety and, in fact, the ne
cessity of celebrating the twenty fifth an
niversary of the election of the Pope. No
Churches, and a half a million Catholics !"
as the st. Peter calls it, having yet been
taken, excepting in the German congrega-
tionS..
In St. Gabriel's Church, there were four
hundred and thirty children confirmed
dred and fifteen boys and two hundred
and fifteen girls.
St. Teresa's Ckurch-seven hundred
children, with many full grown persons,
were confirmed here on Thursday morning,
May 3lst., at half past nine o'clock, by
His Grace the Most Rev. Archbishop Nc
Closkey.
Comfrmations.-Conf was adj
ministered by the Most Rev. Archbishop,
on Tuesday, May %, in St. Mary's Church,
Grand street, to 80 persons. On Thursday
morning, May IS, in the Chapel of the
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Manhattan
noon,' May Is, in the Church , Of tSe Holy
Name of Jesus, Bloomingdale, to 14O per-
sons. On Friday, May Goth, in the Church
of the AnnunciatioD, Manhattanvile, to
$40 persons.
Lou1sv1LLE.-The RI Rev. Bishop con-
frmed so children at st. Michael Church
on the 28th of May.
DETRoIT.-The Catholics of this diocese
are making grand preparations to celebrate
the twenty fifth anniversary of the coro-
nation of the Pope, which occurs on the
2lst inst The collections for the Holy
Father in varinns parishes of the diocese
amounted TO $4,000.
Contirmatsons.-On Sunday, May 2ist,
in ST. Mary's Grand Rapids. to 100 persons.
On Wednesday, May Oath, in the Convent
of the Sacred Heart, Detroit, to persons.
On Thursday. May 25th, in St. Francis,
Ecorse. to 81 persons. On Friday, May
26th, in st. Mary's, Monroe, to IS persons.
ST.. PAUL, MINN.-CortSrmation the
2sth ult., the Rt. Rev. Bishop administered
the sacrament of confirmation, in the
Cathedral. The whole number confirmed
was lis ninety-two children and twenty
three adults, of whom seven were converts.
DIOCESE OF BALTiMoRE.-At the request
of Most Rev. Bishop Spalding the Rt. Rev.
James Gibbons, Bishop of North Carolina,
will make tour through Western Mary
land during the present month and the
early part of July, to administer Confirm
alton.
German Annual Conuention.-As an
bounced during several weeks past, the
grand annual meeting of the German Ca
tholic Union opened its labors in this city