The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-04-26

Roosevelt will attend the ceremonies Th
removal will take place about May L.
4 .
4 Governor Odell has signed the bill whicl
4 places the knights of Columbus amon
the organizations recognized by the in
Surance laws of the state of New York
The bill permits the order to loan par
OF its surplus and will also give ii bet.
] ter standing among the fraternal or.
I | ganiZatiOns.
Preliminary steps have been taken fol
the organization of Catholic Truth So
ciety in Philadelphia. There should be
one in every large city.
Holy Family church at Rochester n,
Y, recently purchased a new set of sta
lions of the cross. costing 5000. a col
lection taken up on Easter Sunday to
meet the expense netted the sum of 81 5O5
The balance will be devoted to repairing
the church organ.
Members of Holy Trinity and St Pat
rick's congregations in Pittsburg Pa.
had tea party recently The former
realized $500 and the latter $4,000.
\ new $4,000 church has been con-
tracted for by the Catholics of Sprague.
Wash. 1t will be a handsome structure
| OF Gothic design and artstically finished.
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:. Rev. Stephen Purcell of Skaneatcles. N
| y, celebrated the other day the forty.
| second anniversary of his ordination TO
the priesthood Thirty of these he has
served as pastor in the above place
The Catholics of Cataline island of Call
| ifornia. had the happiness of celebrating
for the first time the great festival of
Easter in their own church. 1t is mod
eied after the old Californian mission
church at San Diego, and has a striking
appearance from Avalon Bay, built, as
1t is, high above the town.
FOREIGN.
The London Daily News saws that "ey-
cry impartial traveller has come away
from Australia with the conviction that |
the religious future of the great continent |
is with the Catholic church."
Father Ramon Sarmiento, who some
years ago Joined the camps of the free
thinkers over in Spain and was especially
aggressive toward the church in speech
and writing, has returned to the Catholic
over 1000 converts have been gained to
the church in Siam within the past
Rev. Father Dreckmann. S. J.. of st.
Aavier,s college Bombay. India has been
reelected as one of the four syndcs In
arts OF the Bombay. university.
o.
Queen Maria of Portugal a few DAYS :
ago donated a sum equal to $3.50 of our ::
a
convent destroyed by the Portuguese Lib
erals during the Oporto riots last year. {
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The Able Pype head chaplain of the 1
Belgian navy, is one of Europes distin- ]
suished savants on the subject of deep
'ea fishing. He has just been chosen to
Belgium at the st. Petersburg
maritime congress. n
Already. during the present year. Eng p
and. Scotland and Wales have contribut- b
d $500 toward the work of maintaining a
he Holy Places in Palestine The c
mount is, in round NUMBERS. $3.50 more =
han was subscribed for the same pur- +
ose last year. is
BY the will of the late poet, Aubrey de D
ere, the copyright. of his published g
'orks. with all profits to arise from the fy
ale thereof, is bequeathed TO Cardinal -
aughan to be applied for the purpose te
the religious education of Catholics &c
nd especially Irish Catholics in Eng W
a few days before his death, the late Or
rchbishop Eyrie of Glasgow celebrated W.,
lie diamond jubilee of his ordination TO y"
lie priesthood. Owing to the Illness lo'
ere were no special services, save ap
ayers in his behalf offered up In ell Dill
e Glasgow churches. wi
The king. in sending the Earl of Dem
sh TO Rome as his envoy, charged to
nvey to the Pope congratulations on
@ silver jubilee of his papacy, was DO
ostly concerned to follow the precedent loc
t by Queen Victoria in 1857. when both q 1
e and the pontiff had golden jubilee, fas
Q of her reign and he of his episcopate IN
rhe Rt Rev Matthew Gaughran. O. pa pa
J.. d. D., was consecrated bishop of iiS
S. A. at Leith. Scotland. by ant
: Most Rev. James A. Smith. D. D. pri
,hbishop of ST. Andrews and Edin- ma
rgh assisted by Auxiliary Bishop Ma the
ire of Glasgow and Bishop Chisholm 60 !;
Aberdeen. san
tat
he Hon. and Rt. Rev. Monsgnor on
nor has obtained for the Catholic AS tha
iation Pilgrims who leave London on of
y 6, dispensation from the Holy the
-her from fasting and abstinence dur Aft
the time of the pilgrimage. Arrange 80
nts are also being made by Mrs " " ds
nor in regard to the audience fbe nil the
ms will have with His Holiness. con
. to 6
ather Lejune prefect apostolic of
yer Niger. writes that the missions T.
er his care are flourishing. Al ~ -
ugh work was begun only In 1885, al sun
1y there are three stations with resi- mat
t missionaries. five churches. two is Il
pels, nine priests and seven lay hea'
hers. belonging to the Congregation GOO,
n cate6bists WIN t"eiNe com
mast