The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-07-07
G, ATHC n .E'VVS.
I RELIGIOUS NOTES.


Bishop Spalding confirmed some Of
tie prisoners at the prison ia Joliet,
July 1. .t' q
The Dominican sisters did a. noble
work when they opened a school for
;olored girls in Memphis.
The last graduating class at West
Point contained nine Catholics. The
whole number of cadets in the class
was forty-four.
Archbishop Croke has fixed Wednes-
lay, August 1st, for laying the founda-
5ion stone Of the O'Connell Memorial
Church at Caherciveen.
The Franciscans have bought the
ground in Rue HaxO, in Paris, in which
the massacre Of hostages took place
during the Commune. The historic
val. will. be destroyed to make room for
q memorial chapel.
The annual assembly Of the Catholics
Of Germany will be held from the End
TO the 9Th Of September, inclusive, at
Friburg, i'll the province of Brisgan,
where the assembly Of 1875 took place.
The Prince Of Lowenstein will preside
over the assembly. IN.
The, celebrated Pilgrimage of Tough
I)erg opened this year, as usual, On the
list Of June, and will close on the 18th
Of August. Owing to the yearly In
ccaasing number of pilgrims. a large
staff Of confessors has been designated
rcr the ministerial duties on the island.
Ample accommodation has been pro-
yiaed for an unlimited number of visi-
tors.
The new penal code Of Italy Furnishes
with imprisonment at hard labor for
life anyone ''who commits an act tend
ing to place part of the State beneath
the temporal power Of the Pope, or to
alter its unity" Agitation for the re-
storation Of the Temporal Power is now
The highest crime known to italian law,
and the punishment is more severe than
shat provided for wilfu} murder, in the
latter case the culprit being entitled to
a sliding scale Of mitigations.
Il very interesting celebration took
place last month in Quebec-t that Of
the second centenary of Notre Dame
DIES VICTORIES Flower Tower), one of the
historic churches of Canada. Cardinal
g,aschereau presided, and an appro-
pirate sermon was preached by the
Able Cote. The church has been re-
built several times, and was recently
repaired and decorated at great ex-
pen5e. On it's walls are inscriptions
conmemorating the principal events
il, it's history. The cornerstone was
aid in 1853, when the edifce was dedi-
Gated to the Infant Jesus.
AT the present time when the subject
of Irish Catholicity is uppermost, it may
be we'll to recall the fact that it was
pair OF '9S Criminals "a pair Of priests
sentenced to transportation as Irish reb-
els-who first preached the Catholic
fAith in Australia. 10 what q mighty
growth the seeding has already sprung
and what freshness and vitality it still
possesses, Mr.. Daley has told us. The
poor rebel priest who labored first has
his place taken now ''by one Cardinal
Prince Of the Church, by four Archbish-
ops and twenty-one Bishops. The pub
Tic worship of mis- Church is celebrated
In l,l41 Churches by 1000 priests, and
there are 225 Brothers Of Religious Ord
ers and 2,1o1 Sisters. There are 20 col
leges, $50 schools of all kinds, q lnsti-
buttons for the orphaned and the abanG-
onel, % other charitable institutions,
aomes for aged and consumptive per-
SONS, etc, and S servants homes. There
fsre 10000 children receiving Catholic
education il Catholic schools, and there
is a Catholic population of nearly 7O0,-
900. In the metrop olitan province alone,
comprising the whole of this colony,
there are 32,991 children receiving Cath
olic education, and there are close upon
$50, 900 persons belonging to the Cath
olic Church" That is all Irish founda-
ton. AS Cardinal Moran said some
time since, his subjects in Sydney are as
Irish as his former subjects in Ossory.
Aneodote Of Father Burke.