The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-02-17
THE CATHOLIC WORLD.


Forty-three converts are announced as
the result of a mission to nOn-CatholCs
given recently by the Paulist Fathers in
the Church of st. Thomas Aquinas,
Brooklyn.
The Catholics of France subscribe
60,0G0,000 francs a year to pay the ex-
penses of Catholic schools which are
unsupported by the state.
We note with pleasure that the Cath
Ollie University lately received from the
estate of Miss Moran of Baltimore the
sum of $4,000, left by her will for the
encouragement of the study Of Gaelic.
The Sisters of the congregation of
Metre Dame, which is the oldest order
of Nuns in Canada, will soon celebrate
the two hundredth anniversary of its
foundation by Marguerite Bourgeois,
whose life was so intimately connected
with the early history of Montreal.
The Paris Exposition, which will
open April IA, will begin with solemn
High Mass celebrated in the Basilica
of the Sacred Heart. at which the ven
cradle Cardinal Rich I'd will pc tificate.
The orchestra assisting will be COM
posed of the greatest artists of the
musical world.
Dean Francis Wayland of the Yale
law school announced last week that
w. Bourke Cochran Of New York city
would deliver the commencement adj
dress to the graduating class next
June. Mr.. Cochran has not yet selected
the subject of his address, which will
be delivered in the College street hall
on Monday afternoon, June %.
Archbishop Keane will be in ST. Louis
in March and will deliver three ad-
dresses on the Catholic university in
Washington. He will speak from the
pulpit of three churches: st. Xavier's,
St.'Alphonsus and the Cathedral chapel
If a Kenrick chair is endowed by the
contributions offered in response to
these addresses, Archbishop Kahn will
head the list with $4,000.
Sister Stanfslaus of the Sacred Heart
parish, St. Louis, proved herself he
roine trying to rescue pupil from a
blazing school building last Friday and
persisted with the child in the attempt
When their bodies were found in the
partially wrecked st. Lawrence O'Toole
parochial building the burned corpse of
little Mary Fogarty was clutched in
the cEarred arms of the nun.
The Catholic Missionary union con-
Quoted by the Paulist Fathers has been
productive of extraordinary results, es-
peCia1lv among non 90 thOlics At a re-
{ ent two weeks mission gwen IN Brook
Ign 397 converts were received into the
church and nearly 1000 adults con-
firmed. During the last three months
of 1899, as a result of these missions to
non-C Catholics, there were TAT converts,
with ninety more under instruction.
Maud Come the daughter of one
English army officer and sister of an
other. is in the United States to plead
the Boer cause and incidentally to
arouse Irish Americans to a realiza-
ton of the opportunity for Irish as
pirations which she conceives is pre-
scented by England's occupation in
Africa San Francisco is included in
the itinerary of the brilliant Irish
Joan of Arc"
The famous paintings of the life of
Christ by the French artist, j. James
Tissot. are to be brought 10 Brooklyn
and to become the property of all the
of Brooklyn under certain con-
ditions which seem almost certain of
fuIfillment 1t is through the enterprise
of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences that this mas been made pos
sible All Brooklynites are appealed
to for support of the endeavor to bring
to this borough what is undoubtedly
the most remarkable art work of the
century.
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Gable adviees announce the death in
Dublin recently of Professor. j. w. Clio
YER, the eminent musician. He was born
in Dublin eighty mine years ago, and
gained a worldwide reputation for the
edition of Moore's melodies which he
harmonized and edited. Among his nu-
nerous compositions We're an oratorio.
st. Patrick at Tara" The Deserted
an opera founded on oliver
poem, and an ode to Par
nell. He was for many years organist
Of the Cathedral in Dublin. Three chill
dren survive him, Mrs. D. Glover 'SuI-
Ivan, the organfst, of New York; Will
liam f. Glover, musical director, of