The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-10-12
THE CATHOLIC WORLD


| a handsome and eloquent priest in
/ Kenslngton, who emigrated to Califor-
MIA.
Most persons will be surprised to hear
! that Dante had a daughter called Bea-
/ tlice, who lived and died in a convent
] at RtrTenna. The Roman correspond
/ ent of the Pail Mall Gazette announces
that documents proving this fact have
/ been found in the archives of that city.
The long continued controversy re-
| garding' the heroine of DiVina CONNIE
dia has a new light thrown upon it,
says the Ave Maria, by this interesting
| discovery.
The number of students at the no.
vitiate Of the Paulists in Washington
is greater now than at any former pc
riod since the institution was opened.
A year ago it was necessary to build an
addition to the house to accommodate
the increase, but even with the en-
larged accommodations the number of
students exceeded anticipations, SO
that a second addition has been made
this year.
Notre Dame leads again with the
number Of students attending its
classes. 1t is announced that at the
opening of the university this year the
enrolment of students exceeded 500
This is a larger attendance, we think,
than amy other Catholic college or uni
versity in this country can show, and
it indicates in what high esteem and
great popularity this famous Catholic
university of the middle west is de-
serVedly held.
The Rev. Aloysius p. BrUeker. S. j.,
left the military mission of st. George
at Fort Myer, Washington, D. c., for
Philadelphia, where he recently as
sumed the pastorate of a church and
will also be chaplain of the state peni-
tertiary. The Rev Rene l. Holland,
lecturer at the Georgetown University
Law School, viii undertake the mission
work at Fort Myer and continue his
labors at the university. Father Bruck-
er had been in charge of the work
among the soldiers at Fort Myer for
three years.
Fifteen years ago last July two
Franciscan Sisters went from Lafay-
cite, Ind, to Cleveland, on the invita-
ton of Bishop Gilmore. They rented a
frame house and on August IS their
first two patients We're admitted to
what is now st. AleXius' Hospital. In
1897 a large new hospital was erected
at an expense of $40, 600. Up to date
there have been 1921 patients cared
for in the institution. while the corps
of nurses has increased from two 90
thirty, with an assistance of fourteen
lay nurses.
The Sisters of Mercy open their new
establishment for respectable working
women at Lexington avenue and Sixty
ninth street. New York, this week a
fine house has been rented and fur
nished. and put in charge of Sister
Mary Ignatius. The intention is to
provide a real home for working-wo-
men, where for a reasonable sum they
can get the comforts and the care to
which they We're accustomed at home
and where they can be properly ac-
in times Of sickness or
enforced idleness. The Sisters of Mercy
look forward to this work as the be-
ginning Of a great and useful enter
prise in behalf of deserving women.
.
No ecclesiastical figure will stand
out more prominently in the history Of
the now closing century than Man
ning's. the late Cardinal Archbishop
Of Westminster, and immediate sue
cessCr of Cardinal Wiseman in that
See. He will grow with the ages. His
lovely traits Of character, his logical
his profound learning and
powerful intellect, made him a power
in the eorld and a great defender of
the Church. our friend. the authOreSs !
Miss Frances r. Howe of Bailly 1
Ind, met him at the bed
side Of Louise Lateau and wrote this !
charming estimate of his character: /
His is one of those wonderful coun-
tenances, where genueness and purity !
unite TO give that appearance of per- |
petual youth, which masks the evil |
lences Of study and learning from those |
who see strength Of character and (
traces of deep thought in the rayaees
made by worldly cares and the tur- !
moil of passion. There is the wisdom !
Of the serpent the harmlessness of |
The dove. in those bright blue eyes. 50 I
expressive Of keen penetration and of I
4 charity kindled by the flame of Di- /
vine Love, and the fairness of COM |
olexion more than Saxon in its perfec- |
ion. that sparkling countenance. rem
iering so easy belief in the luminous
'eatures of Moses. $
Since the end of the Dreyfus trial. |
md while it was pending. all kinds of I
'umors have been afiOat regarding the
attitude of His Holiness toward il.
There is no necessity to point out that
hey were all the mereSt conjecture.
IS Leo XIII is not in the habit of con
iding his sentiments on current top
cs in an off hand manner. The Jesuits
is usual, have been dragged in. and
positive statements made that the gem
raj of the Jesuits, Pere Martin. had
ONE to Rome to hold a consultation
N the subject with His Holiness. This
S absolutely false, as the latter has
lot visited Rome; he is at San Domen-
go. at Fiesole, where he has been for
on,,ci1p T.a hlp time & fbpmobf
ible that His Holiness, who has gra-
iously promised to receive the pill
-rirnage of French workiRgmen, who
re expected to arrive in Rome in the
curse of the next week, will address
hem on the subject of the state of |,