The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-02
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

1t is not generally known says the
New Orleans Picayune, that the Ursu-
line nuns have conducted with little in
terruption for the space of IFS years
the oldest public school in Louisiana
and. of course, in the South. They also
established the oldest orphanage in the
United States IN this ancient French
city, almost simultaneous with their
arrival in 1927.
The Duke of Norfolk has contributed
an additional $4,000. making $4,000 in
all, towards the fund for the erection
of the new Oratory church, Edgbaston,
in memory of the late Cardinal New
man.
Over in Canada the French Catholic
poet, Louis Frechete has just won
signal honors in competition in which
many poets of that country engaged.
A composition of his received the
prize awarded and will be printed and
distributed as a souvenir. Frechette is
frequently called the "Longfellow of
Canada"
Out of fifty-eight members in the
second chamber of the Holland parlia-
ment, twenty-five are Catholics, and
there are three Catholics in the Queens
cabinet.
Bishop Spalding of Peoria has been
invited by the Wisconsin State Teach
ers' association to deliver an address at
| its convention to be held at Milwaukee
in December.
The neice of the Turkish ambassador
to Rome has become Catholic and de-
sires to enter the religious life.
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A number of American preIates will
observe anniversaries during Novern
Der. Archbishop Chapelle of New Or
leans was consecrated on the first day
of the month in 1891: on the same day
in 1865, Archbishop Feehan of Chicago
was made bishop. Others whose con-
secration took place in November are
Bishop Foley of Detroit, Bishop Alsv-
ding of Fort Wayne, Bishop Bonacum
of Lincoln, Bishop Scannell of Omaha,
Bishop Dunno of Dallas, Bishop Hen
messy Of Wichita and Vicar Apostolic
Verdaguer of Brownsville.
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1t will surprise some to learn tfzt
the ambassadors of England at Vienna.
Constantinople and The Hague are
Catholics.
The. Rev. DR.. Henebry, professor of
the Celtic language and literature at
the Catholic University of America.
has written paper on Irish Music
that has attracted much attention.
Next year the Right Rev William
George McCloskey, bishop of Louis
vile, will celebrate the fiftieth ami
versary of his elevation to the pNiest-
hood.
IT. is reported in the secular press
that King Leopold of Belgium has de-
cided to visit America
1t is expected that the convention of
the American Federation of Catholic
societies, to be held in Cincinnati on |
Dec. 10, will be the largest in the his |
tory of lay activity in the United |
States.
Among the vice presidents of the So |
ciety formed to build a memorial arch !
in honor of the late President Mckinley
are Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop-ele/
Conaty, rector of the Catholic Univer- \
sity of America. /
The Rt. Rev. John Clancy, bishop of
Elphin and Sligo, ireland, is making a
brief visit to the United States.
Bishop SCalabrini, whose visit to the
United States in behalf of the Italian
emigrant attracted widespread atten-
ton, sailed for Italy this week He was
much encouraged by his survey of con-
ditions in this country.
The Catholics of Holme, in Hunting
donshire, England, live in a scattered /
parish extending over a wide raa To \
enable them to attend diFIne worship a
hoating church is towed along the ex-
teTsive canal system of the district.
stopping at a different station each
Sunday. 1t is fiat-bottomed lighter.
the interior being thirty feet long and
the height only seven feet, owing to the
oWness of the canal bridges.
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Bishop McCloskey of the Louisville
diocese will observe the golden Jubilee
IF his ordination as a priest on Oct, 6
IF next year. Beside the bishop and
Monsignor Bouchet, V. c., two other
priests of the diocese are also nearing
he half century mark.
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The Eucharist congress closed at ST
louis with solemn act of consecra-
ION to the Sacred Eeart, in which 900
priests and twenty prelates Joined. The {
asst session was addressed by theI
ishop of Luxembourg, now travelling +
this country. He spoke in German.
nd the thunderous applause he re-
elVed indicated the preponderance of
ne German element in the congress.