The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-25
THE CHURCHES.
Items of Interest to Members of
All Faiths.
Mrs. Stanford's Gift to the Sacramento Cathe
dral-California Missionary Work.
Religious Personals.

The anniversary of Cardinal McCloskey's
death was observed on the 10th inst. by a
solemn requiem mass at which Archbishop
Corrigan was ceebrant. Sixteen hundred
children from the parish schools attended
the services.
Bishop Loughlin of Brooklyn, n. Y, cele-
brated his golden jubilee on the 18th inst.
The anniversary was marked by religious
services in the morning and a banquet in
the evening, which was attended by all the
church dignitaries and civic authorities.
Tie Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia,
Most Rev. Dr. Dunno, is making a tour of
Ireland. He was recently the guest of the
Most Rev. DR.. Fitzgerald, Rishop of Ross.
The Archbishop of Alexandria has conse-
Grated at Port Said the first Catholic Cattle
dral built in Egypt for thirteen centuries. 1t
is dedicated to st. Eugenia.
The new Church of the Immaculate Con-
ception. en- Chestnut avenue, Trenton, was
dedicated on Sunday. the 18th inst. Bishop
Wigger celebrated pontifcal mass. previ-
Gus to which there was procession of the
parish societies. Bishop o. Farrell delivered
the dedicatory sermon.
Very Rev. William P. Salt. Vicar-General
of the diocese of Newark, died on Tuesday,
stricken with hemorrhage, on his way to
breakfast, and expired before his physician,
Dr. James Elliott of Newark, reached him.
Father Salt had been suffering from con-
sumption for three years.
Mrs. Stanford has ordered full-size copy
of the ''Sistine Madonna" for the Catholic
Cathedral of Sacramento. Permission had
first to be obtained from the Emperor OF
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on the condition that the Emperor might
name the artist who should be commissioned
to do the W ork. The picture is now so far
advanced that it will probably be placed in
the Cathedral before the close of the year.
There is an international movement in
progress on the Continent to promote the
recognition of the Holy See as permanent
Court of Appeal for the peaceful solution of
disputes between Christian nations. The
Governments of Belgium, Austria and Port
uga are said to have non-olliclally given
their appreciation to the proposal.
Pope Leo XIII, now in his eighty-first
year, is the senior sovereign of Europe.
The next in aye is William III, King Of the
Netherlands, who is Is. The King Of Den
mark comes next, Y, and then Queen Vic
toria, II. The youngest sovereigns are the
King of Servia, aged Is, aud the King of
Spain, aged T.
Bishop Levinhac, Vicar-Apostolic of the
Lake Victoria Nyanza country, mas arrived
at MarselleS from Zanzibar He says that
the missions are prosperous and the black
population industrious. The country be-
tween Uganda and Bagamoyo is peaceful,
and he thinks the slave trade will gradually
die cut for want of demand for slaves.
A movement is on foot to place a thorough
exhibit of Catholic educational work in
America before the Columbus Worlds Fair
of Chicago in 1898. At recent meeting III
Chicago, Archbishop Ireland of st. Paul de-
livered an earnest address in favor Of the
scheme, urging that it be made thoroughly
American as well as thoroughly Catholic.
Vice-President Ryan of the Worlds Fair
Directory, on behalf of the board, promised
every possible assistance and ample space.
Bishop Spalding Of Peoria has been chosen
to head the movement