The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-16

church and school in Kansas City, Mo.
Late Irish papers report Right Rev.
Bishop Conaty, of .Cavan, improving.
Rev. J.. P. Fitzsimmons, of Santa Fe,
n. M, is visiting his parents at Fond du
Lac, Wis.
F Rev. f. y. Jones, formerly of St. Co.
lumkiil's church, st. Louis, is now pas
tor of Potosi, Mo.
Rev. William McGuirk, recently or
dained at Troy, sang high mass at st:
Patrick s Church, Hartford, Conn on the
2Stn ult.
Rev. G. L. Willard. Y. G.. of Yank-
ton, Oak, is spending short time in
Milwaukee before returning to his mis-!
sion.
During his recent visitation of the
northwestern portion of his see Arch
bishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, con-
firmed l ,678 persons.
The paulist fathers, under the direc-
ton of Rev. Walter Elliott, G. S. p,
began a mission last Sunday in St.
James Church, New York city.
Bishop Marty and Rev. Father
Stephen, of Dakota, were in Washing
ton this week on business connected
with the Indian Catholic bureau.
sa Very Rev. David Russell, chaplain at
Nazareth Academy, Louisville, Ky,
celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary
of,his inordination last month.
The death is announced, 25th ult.,
of Sister Vincent, Of the Order of
Mercy, Little Rock, Ark, a sister i
the first bishop Of that see, Right Rev.
Andrew Byrne.; s
Rev. j. n. Ryan, pastor Of st. Mary's
Church, Pecatoriica. ILL.,, died suddenly
there c,-.. uhe 9th ult. of malarial fever.
He was nativs Of ireland anu Ill his
35th year. j So tssE
Sister M. Flayin Byrne, of the Order
Of Mercy, died at the Mercy convent,
Lawrenceyille, Pa, last month, in the
5lst year Of her life and the 32d Of her
religious profession,
On the 9th alt. the lay members Of
the faculty of Notre Dame University,
South Bend, Ind, presented the Presi-
dent, Rev. Father Walsh, c.. S. c., with
a magnificent gold chalice.
The Pope has converted personal
presents of many years into money and
donated the proceeds, e20, 900, to the
Propaganda. He will hold a consistory
towards the end of the month, when
he will name some bishops, but no car
dinalS.
Among the notable ecclesiastics who
passed away last year were Cardinals
McCloskey, McCabe and Nina, Arch
bishop Bourget,; of Montreal, Dean
O'Brien, of Limerick, Bishops Kraut-
bauer, of Green Bay, and Manucy, Of
Mobile.
Archbishop Feehan, of Chicago, has
appointed Rev. NJ. O'Brien, recently
ordained, assistant pastor Of st. Johns
Church, that city, and Rev. Father
Bernard, hitherto curate at ST. Patrick's,
pastor of st. Anne's, Kankakee, I'll.
The death of Sister H. Dorothea
Mccormick, of the Sisters of Charity
at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Gin
cinati. occurred on the 10Th ult., and a
requiem mass for the Tepose Of her soul
was celebrated the following day at the
chapel of the hospital.
a council of the bishops of the Mil
waukee province will be held at Arch
bishop Heiss' residence the last week
Of this month, when the names of three
will be agreed upon and for
warded to Rome, one of which viii be
appointed bishop of the vacant see of
Green Bay.
The ecclesiastical summary of tho
Roman Catholic Church in the United
States for the year ending January l.,
1886, shows that the archbishops num-
Der II, bishops 50 and priests 1926.
There are 1921 ecclesiastical students,
and archdiocese of Milwaukee having
the largest number 1885, There are 1855
churches. OIL channels I T33 stations
SO diocesan Summaries or houses of
study for regulars. IS colleges, 31s
academies and 2,621 parochial schools,
attended by 49l "a $40 pupils. The chari-
liable institutions number 44a.
tits stated petition win be lodged