The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-04-19

t new Trappist monastery. 1t is hoped to
have the work completed by next fall
4 new council of the Knights Of &c Co
lumbus will be instituted at Ell Paso, Tex,
; on Sunday, April 13. Great preparations
are being made for the event.
experiencing number of improvements.
A new side altar has been blesSed' SIN
additional new statues have peen en- Oh Oh
dersd and new sacristy to cost $5,eoo Will
also be added.
The Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland o.,
have just made a purchase OF ah0Iilel pune
piece Of property near their preSento6S no6 ioc
tion, for which the sum of Slo,Wo was
paid.
Already preparations are being made
in Germany for the holding OF tne mex mex
Catholic convention. This year II taxes
place at Mannheim. in Baden, under tle
auspices of Archbishop Roeber OF Frell-
burg, and will occupy four days, pegiso IN
ming Aug. 4. and continuing until the
18th. The attendance this year promises
to be something extraordinary.
His Holiness the Pope is, it is stated,
about to introduce a new decoration. 1t
is intended to add honor to the profession
cf letters, and writer's of all nations Will
be eligible for it. The decoration tsell
is composed of two palm leaves, sur
mounted by lamp.
The Right Rev Matthew Gaughren, the
new Bishop of Kimberley, was conSe-
Grated at Leith recently. .Blshop Ma.
guire delivered discourse in which ne
spoke of the extension of the British en-
pire, and said that empire would serve
the cause of faith whether willingly OF
| reluctantly.
The Franciscan Fathers in charge OF
the holy places in Palestine, maintain an
industrial school, type foundry. printing
San Salvador. Moreover, they attend to
| fifty-one settlements, belonging to tWen-
ty-two different nations and speak elev.
en- different languages. thousands OF
pilgrims receive their hospitality every
| year.
Most Rev. Charles Eyre, D. D, Ii. D..
Archbishop of Glasgow. is dead the De
John Eyre. and was born In 1911, at AS
| kan Bryan Hall, York. He was edu-
! Gated at Cshaw college, Durham; ana IN
Rome. He was appointed Archbishop OF
The young Queen of Holland was rep
| resented at the papal court on the coca
| sion of the Holy Fathers jubilee. From
Pays-Bas, she dispatched her chief OF
| personal staff, General Count Monceau,
as envoy extraordinary. The count, ac-
cording to Paris journals, Is himself a
Catholic. descendant of an old French
! family which has flourished in Holland
for nearly two centuries.
.
The Catholic Patriarch of Goa, India,
has lately reached a decision which is
exciting much comment in that country.
He has decided that hereafter the nup-
tial blessing shall not be given except at
a nuptial mass. The purpose of the de-
cision is to abolish the custom of after
nd
some inexplicable way, are asserted to
have become rather too common in India
A Belgian missionary who was wounded
last May in the Congo uprising died re-
Gently in the community house at Scheut
of wounds received last year. His name
was Father Xavier Jadoul. and he was a
son of M. Pierre Jadoul, formerly of the
provincial council of Liembourg. The
young priest was born to much wealth.
but he cast 1t asidt in order 10 become a
missionary in Africa,
The Allahabad correspondent of the
Morning Post of Delhi wires as follows |
to his paper, under date of the 18th inst: |
Plague is making terrible havoc in ALA !
habad city and district. Whole villages |
are reported to have been deserted. and |
the mortality is so great that the tanks |
are filled with corpses In Allahabad |
city itself the raVages of the plague have |
been fearful. Shops are closed, and busi- !
ness is at standstill. The officials at |
up-country stations should be on the |
alert against arrivals from this part of |
India. as there can be no doubt that many |
plague-stricken people manage to SNUG
gle themselves into trains.
A large colony devoted to agriculture
and distinctly Catholic is now being es-
tablished in Jamaica, of the Greater An
titles group, This island belongs to Great
Britain and is mostly Protestant, but
the energetic and Jealous vicar-apostolic, |
Mgr. Gordon, has purchased a vast tract
of land and placed it in care of the
Salesians Part of the land is allotted
to pupils and when they are capable.
each one will be allowed to retain it as
his own.
The Catholic Directory for 1902 Burns
& Oates shows that there are in Great
priests, 1926 churches, chapels and sta
tions Of the $500 priests, 1888 are of |
tine secular clergy and 1,lO7 of the regu-
lar clergy. OF the secular priests, III are
invalid, retired or unattached, and some
others are employed or resident abroad.
OF the 1,107 regulars (among whom are
included some of the French exiles).
many are not engaged in parochial or
Mother Paul, superior of the Francis
can Sisters in Norfolk, has left Norfolk,
Va. for New York, en- route TO Liberia,
perior of the order. Mother Paul. who
had been in Norfolk for long time, had
made a host of friends there, who re-
gret her departure.
a fire which caused some regrettable
damage occurred at the Priory church
at st. Joseph's, Somerset, Ohio, on Holy
Thursday. The candles on the repository
fore it could be extinguished the altar
and frescoing to the amount of $1,000
We're damaged.
st. JosephS Lyceum, in East Trenton,
will shortly begin the erection of their
new club house. It will be a two-story
brick building. On the first floor will be
located the gymnasium G parlor p1aH an and meet
voted to hall for large meetings,
dances. entertainments, etc. The total ,
cost of the new structure will be about I
50. 600
FOREIGN.
In the. City of Mexico business was
practically suspended during Holy Week,
and the city was filled with visitors from I
the surrounding country who came to
attend the church services.
Six young men were ordained sub
ieacons at Valladolid, Spain, a few days
ago, for work, later. in the archdiocese
Of Glasgow, Scotland.
Fifty Catholic pilgrims. representing
he leading Catholic families of Holland,
n company with the Archbishop of :
Utrecht, will visit Leo XIII next May.
Father Garello. a Franciscan mission
Try in Palestine, was recently murdered
n thinly populated section of that
country ninety miles from Jerusalem. :
1t is stated that the archbishop of Mi :
an has set aside a number of priests
rom all other work to give all their time