The Irish standard., 1886-06-19
CATHOLIC NEWS.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES S-~SS-~~~~~
City, Missouri.
When the surgeons removed the
clothing from the Bishop of Madrid
lately murdered, they found a hair
shirt next his body.
The Bishop Of Leavenworth and do
cesan consultors have submitted to
Rome the names Of suitable persons to
be made bishops Of Wichita and Con-
cOrdia. Kansas.
A citizen of Grand Rapids, Mich,
claims to have a razor used by Father
Marquette in 1870. 1t was dug up from
an Indian grave near Harbor Springs,
and is pretty well preserved.
The marriage took place at lisbon On
May Is, CT Prince Carlos, Duke of Bra
ganZa. heir to the throne Of Portugal,
with Princess Marie Amelie, daughter
OF the Count de Paris, heir to the united
claims of the Bourbon and Orleanlst
parties to the monarchial throne Of
France.
The eighth annual convention of the
Catholic Uniformed Knights Of the
United States and Canada will convene
in Cincinnati OIL Sunday, June e. On
that day a grand parade will take place
which will be feature Of the proceed
ings. The convention will be held in
Washington Park hall.
THE IR1sR STANDARD has received
from Benziger Brothers, New York, a
copy Of the new catechism Of Christian
Doctrine, prepared and enjoined by
order Of the Third Plenary Council Of
Baltimore, and published by ecclesias-
tical authority. THE publication is
neat one and profusely illustrated.
Our Catholic societies are requested
to make free use Of our columns to
chronicle happenings of interest to
members or the public. Secretaries es-
pecially are urged to send us such ex-
tracts from their minutes" as the So
ciety would wish published. It IS not
necessary that everything be written
out in detail. But give us the bare
facts at least.
The Southern Cross, of Buenos Ayres.
publishes an interesting item copied
from the book Of interments Of San Lo-
reno parish, Seville, Spain. It states
that on the LIST of November, 178s, the
body of the Rev. John M. Bustamente,
ID. D., aged 1S1 years, was buried in the
vault reserved for priests in that
church. Some days before his death he
made his will before the escribano,
Jose Ortiz, and begueathed his prop
erty to the poor. He was for many
years in the Royal Navy, and under
stood eight languages. At the time
death surprised him he was engaged in
writing a treatise Oh devotion to the
Blessed Virgin.
There is an excellent school for the
instruction of the blind in connection
with St. Joseph's Academy .McSherrys
town, Pa 1t is under the direction of
a thoroughly competent member Of the
Community of the Sisters Of St. Joseph,
graduate of the Philadelphia Instisu-
tion for the Blind, who had several
years experience as a teacher there.
The school was opened four years ago,
with the appreciation of the Rt.. Rev.
Bishop of Harrisburg. Its existence
ought to be generally known through
out the Union, on account of the great
danger Catholic children run Of losing
their faith III state institutions, where
they are compelled to attend sectarian
religious services, and study from
textbooks written by Protestants or
infdels.
The pastoral letter of the Archbishop
and bishops of the province OF Milwau
kee, assembled in the first Provincial
Council, to the laity Of their charge, has
been made public. 1t defines the posi-
tion of the Church upon the school
question: ''Parochial schools have
been one of the principal subjects of
deliberation in the Third Plenary, as
we'll as in our own Provincial Council,
It will be our duty to enforce the rule,
that, within certain time to be deter
mined in accordance with local circum-
each Catholic parish must have
it's Catholic school. The priest who
should neglect this sacred duty would
certainly be unworthy of his position:
and congregation which should prove
careless in the erection and mainten-
ance of a parochial school, could not
hope to enjoy worthily the religious
blessings which it would not care to
secure for it's own Children
1t is announced that the Very Rev.
+. Katzer, Administrator of the Dio-
;ese Of Green Bay, Wis, has been ap-
pointed the successor of the late Bishop
Krautbauer. Father Katzer was born
n 1S44, at Ebensee, Upper Austria.
During his youth he studied in Jesuit
college at Linz, in his native land.
he came to this country at the age of
wenty years, entering st. Francis
Seminary, Milwaukee, in September.
our months after his arrival. In 1866