The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-10-19
THE CATHOLIC WORLD



at Norfolk, Va, was almost totally de.
stroyed by fire last week.
A monument has been erected ant
viii soon be unveiled at Woerishofer
I to commemorate Father Kneipp OF
water cure fame.
/ Sister Beatrice. superioress of Provi-
! dence hospital in Washington, d. c..
/ died on Sept. 25.
A monument to Father Marquette is
! to be the chief feature of a new park
/ on Mackinac Island, Mich.
A new Passionist monastery, to re-
/ place the cid one, will soon be erected
! at Mount Adams, Cincinnati.
The Holy Name Cathedral of Chicago
viii celebrate tomorrow the golden ami
versary of the founding of the parish
and the silver anniversary of the build
ing of the present beautiful edifice.
.
Monsignor Falconio, apostolic dele
gate to Canada arrived the other day
at Quebec, where he viii remain d few
days and th.n proceed II Ottawa, where
it is thought he Will make his per-
manent residence.
The Rev Arthur J. McAvoy. S. J..
died in Frederick, Md, on Thursday Of
last week. He was born in Boston in
1854, and after graduating from Boston
college, entered the novitiate at Fred
erick in 1879. He was ordained to thu
priesthood in 1887.
~
has been put at the head Of st. Thomas
college, Washington, the Paulist house
of studies.
Sister Mary Albina of the Sisters of
Notre Dame celebrated her golden
jubilee as a nun, in the convent of that
community, Chicopee, last week.
Sister Teresa Hickey. an Irish nun,
received recently from the Belgian gov
eminent the civil medal of the first
class, decoration instituted as rec
ognition Of conspicuous civic merit. 1t
was awarded to Sister Teresa for serv-
ices rendered during an epidemic in a
Flanders town.
At the annual meeting of the trustees
of the Catholic Summer school, in New
York last week. the financial condition
was reported prosperous The Rev. M.
]. Iavelle, Ii. D., was again elected
president The Rev William p Nc
quad pastor of St. James church.
Harrison avenue, this city, was elected
a member of the executive committee,
and the Hon. Thomas J. Gargan one
Of the vice presidents
Right Rev. Patrick Cannon of Lock-
port. N Y, has been made a domes-
tic prelate of the Holy Father.
Bishop Chatard Of indianapolis has
sailed for Rome on account of his
health and partly on business. Dur
ing his stay in the Eternal City he viii
pay his ad Hmina visit to the Pope.
Father McKinnon brought back
three Filipino boys, two sons of the
president of Negros and one of the
minister of war. They are to be edu-
Gated in Santa Clara college, Califor-
MIA.
The ecclesiastical court appointed by
Kahn to inquire into the
life and acts of Nine. Duchesne. with
a view to having her canonized ulti-
mately. has completed its labors, the
final sessions being held at ST.
Charles. Mo.
The unwilling of a monument erected
to the memory of the Rev. Charles
Mcguire, founder and
first pastor Of St. Paufs church, now
the cathedral edifice of Pittsburg, Pa,
has been assigned TO Sunday. Nov. "A,
at o'clock. The monument is now be-
ing placed in the priests lot, st. Mary's
cemetery.
The new cathedral of Westminster
will be worthy of the ages of faith
Ne church in England, ancient or mod
ern. will be able to vie with it in some
respects The dome, upon the con-
of which seventy workmen |
are employed. is the largest concrete |
dome in Europe. The total area Of the !
cathedral is $4,000 feet.
Mr.. John NJ. Higgins, who was
elected second vice president of the |
Catholic Young mems National union, /
All the convention of that society held !
recently in Newark, n. j., is one Of
the leading citizens and most success
full business men of Richmond, Va. /
EJe was a friend Of the Hon. Henry A. |
Wise. the anti Knownothing Governor |
# Virginia who killed KnownOthing- |
SIM in that state. and in fact all over
he south: and also of all the leading |
,Jirginians for the past fifty years.