The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-23
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
Ii is now stated that London contains
over 100000 Catholics.
The holy father has conferred upon Mr..
j. +. Spencer Turner well known resi-
dent of Rome, the title of Marquis.
Bishop O'Hanlon, of Uganda. Africa, is
collecting funds for his diocese in Ire
land.
y considerable number OF nuns are ar
irving in England, Germany. Spain and
Belgium as Il result of the closing of the
religious schools and converts in France.
The Hon. Violet Gibson. daughter of
the lord chancellor OF ireland, has be-
come a Catholics following the example
of her eldest brother. William.
II is semi-offcially announced that the
holy father will celebrate the close of
his jubilee year by holding a consistory,
in the course of which he will create no
fewer than six new cardinals.
The holf father received in the Sistine
chapel with the usual ceremony the Pol
ish pilgrims and many from different
parts of Italy now in Rome. The pill
grims were arranged in groups all along
the passage to be traversed by the Pope
with their banners. Leo XIII was also
enthusiastically received by the Daugh
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white. After the litany and the bene-
diction, the Pope received the heads of
the pilgrimage.
The Roman correspondent of La CroiX
says he learns that the Pope, urged by
the countless appeals received from
France, has resolved upon adding pro-
test of his own concerning the campaign
of the Combes ministry against religious
associations.
/, The recent opening of the Ceylon North
ern railway is reputed a victory for an
Oblate missionary, Father Lytton of the
Tamils of Jaffna, who urged the con-
struction of the road until the govern
ment accepted his plans. The result will
be great aid to Jatfna, which is one of
India's Catholic centers.
An interesting group of Catholic notes
from Vienna are that ST. Peters church
is to have statue of Charlemagne; that
the st. Vincent de Paul society recently
paid 21,00O crowns for a site on which to
build large hospital, and that the "Old
Catholics have beeen obliged to abandon
the. church of the Savior (Catholic) in
which they were allowed to worship.
By the death of Monsignor Roveggio,
the Catholic church in central Africa has
lost one of her most able and devoted
missionaries. He was taken suddenly i'll
at Gondokoro and died during a journey
Wingate and Slatin Pasha, were repre-
sented at the bishops funeral
The beautiful church of Neusenstamm
near Frankfort on-the- Main, Germany
built in 1854 by the Countess Mary The,
resa Schoenborn, was recently destroyed
by lightning striking the spire. 1t was
a gem of art, and contained a marvellous
collection of art work, furnished at a cost
lately, of 10000 marl5s( all of which be-
came complete ruin.
The Catholic separate schools of Parth.
in the Province of Ontario. Canada, have
just come forward with a fine showing
They are taught by the Sisters of Char
itiy, and of the eighteen pupils who stood
for entrance examinations. sixteen were
successful. We should like to make a
similar record of every Catholic school
on the continent.
A Christian Hindu and noble, Hon.
Kumvar Harnum Singh. has beeen made
the first president of the newly founded
Society of Children in India. The pur-
pose of the society is to put stop to the
selling of girls for immoral purposes by
the Buddhists parents. Such traffic as
stated is general in all the large Indian
cities