The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-05-19
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Rev. James NJ. Seaman, first assist
ant at Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago
for the last twelve years, has been
appointed pastor of st. Johns Church
Clark and Eighteenth streets, and VIII
succeed Auxiliary Bishop McGavick.
His Holiness, Leo XIII, has sent &c
the little king of Spain, his godson
! as a present a fine mosaic, represent
ing the piazza of st. Peters and
with it an autograph letters expressive
of his good will for his youthful maj
esty.
The salesrooms for the charity ba-
gar erected by the Count and Countess
I de Castellane, in Paris, were inau-
gurated on April g. and blessed by
! Cardinal Richard, the Archbishop OF
Paris The building, which is very
fine structure, is situated in the Rue
/ Pierre Charron, an oftshoot OF Champs
Elysee.
At the great interstate conference
regarding the race problem in the
south. to be held at Montgomery. Ala,
May s, 9 and 10, Rev. Father Slattery
of Baltimore will discuss the necessity
of evangelizing the southern negro,
giving the Catholic point of view
Under section 20 of the "EmanciDa-
ton act" Jesuits going into the realm
of Great Britain are guilty of a m1sde-
meanor and liable to Punishment for
life. unless, being natural born, they
are registered with the clerk of the
peace or unless they obtain from
Protestant secretary of state license
to remain in the country.
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The great sensa ton of the past week
among the Fashionable world OF the
German capital is, it seems, the con-
version to the Catholic Church of the
leader in Austria and Germany of the
Women's Emancipation movement,
Frau Elizabeth Gnanek Kuhne. her
abjuration of the Protestant faith is,
after God. due TO the zeal of the Re
demptorist, Father Koesler.
The Most Rev. Angus Mcdonald.
Roman Catholic Archbishop of st. An
drews and Edinburgh, is dead, at the
age of Sc. He was a scion of the Mac
Donalds of Glenaladale, Scottish
Catholic family that was identified with
the fortunes of the Stuarts. One of the
ancestors was the Bishop of Argyll,
who consecrated the banner of Prince
Charles on his arrival in Scotland in
1649 The Archbishop was famous as a
Gaelic scholar, and for his sanity life
was reverred by Catholics and Protest
ants alike.
Another relic of st. Anthony has
been added to those in the New York
The Capuchin Fathers in
charge of the Church of st. John the
Baptist, West Thirtieth street. have re-
ceived from Padua a relic of the saint.
This is considered the largest relic of
the saint in the Archdiocese. The relic,
enclosed in a magnificent gold-plated
also from to 8 every Tues
day morning, but it will not be exposed
to the veneration Of the faithful except
on certain days, to be announced by
the provincial of the order on his COM
ing visit to the New York houses of the \
order.
According to the secular press, the
Pope the other day received the
Princess Stephanie and her husband, |
Count Lonyay, recognizing the former.
not as a royal parsonage, but as the
Countess Lonyay. He showed such
great kindness and tenderness in his
manner that the princess burst into |
tears. and confided in him her grief
at her eStrangement with her father. !!
The Pope, then laying his hand on the
princess head, assured her that he |
would use his influence to reconcile her
with her relatives and parents, and His |
presented the princess with |
mis- photograph, with dedicatory aut-
ograph.
Frederick P. Olcott, a prominent New !
York business man, president of the /
Central Trust company, has given /
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Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of |
Help in Bernardsville, n. j., /
where he has a country home and |
stock farm. and the new church was |
dedicated and consecrated one day last I
week Rev. Joseph a. Ryan won the |
confidence of Mr. Olcott and other
leighbors, and his efforts to establish !
he parish met their sympathy, so that
Mr.. Olcott offered to match every dol
ar contributed by the people. This
ook check for $4,000, and then he
bought for $4,000 a strip of land be-
ween the church and the main road,
which he gives to the parish.
Dispatches from Rome report that the
immense influx of the faithful to
Rome has compelled the Holy Father
O increase his domestic Aarmy~in the
interests of order. Already over 100000
,ilgrims have come and gone since the
'pening of the Holy Year and $4,000
more are expected to arrive during the
present month. These figures do not
,ear the statement of one of our Amer
can periodicals, few months since,
hat 1.-The waning Of the Catholic faith
vas illustrated by the unwillingness of
eople to accept the invitation to visit
Rome as pilgrims" By the way, there
eeems to be no good reason why some
,atholics of leisure from hereabouts
hould not join in an effort to follow
he example of their brethren who,
rom every quarter of the world, are
locking to the Eternal City.
The entertainment organized by Miss
Annie Leary and some of the members
f her Lenten Sewing circle for the