The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-12-13

school of higher education for boys
who have passed the grades of the
parochial school. The need of such a
high school has long been apparent
The Hirst library and reading room
at Georgetown university will shortly
be dedicated with impressive cere-
monies.
A movement is on foot in Detroit to
erect a new, general hospital that Will
be under the charge of the Sisters of
Charity.
Cardinal Gibbons visited ST. Mary's
church, Annapolis, last week. and con-
| firmed a class of seventy-eight per-
sons, of whom twenty-four were con-
verts. His eminence preached to a
! large congregation. After the services
he was entertained at dinner with a
mayor of Annapolis and officers of the
navy.
For fifty years Sister Theresa of the
Carney hospital, Boston, has been ac-
tive in caring for the afflicted, having
joined the order of the Sister of Char
ity on Nov o. 1852. On the anniver
sary her intimate friends gave recep
tion and banquet in her honor.
.
The graduates of Seton Hall college,
South Orange, n. j., are about to or
ganize an alumni association.
Bishop O'Connen of Portland, Me-.
mindful of the faithful labors of his
beloved predecessor, the Rt. Rev. James
Healty, D. D., has sent circular let
ter, to the pastors of the diocese set
ting forth the fitness of erecting
suitable memorial to the lamented pre-
late whose episcopate as Bishop of
Portland covered a period of quarter
of a century.
By the will or Miss Annabeda Me-
Gowan of Buffalo, N. Y, an estate of
$500 is left to charity. 1t is to be
held in trust by Bishop Quigley, half
going to st. Joseph's orphan home,
West Seneca, and the other half to
st. Vincents orphanage in Buffalo.
.
The cornerstone of The addition to
st. Josephs hospital, st. Joseph, Mo,
has been laid with imposing cere-
monies. The sum to be expended on
the work will be about $4,000
The Catholics of the west end, SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, are arranging for the erec-
ton of handsome club house.
Work on the new Good Shepherd
home at Pittsburg, Pa, will begin
shortly after Jan. 1. There are to be
eight buildings, all connected by cor
ridors and covering a plat S0OX500 feet.
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With impressive ceremonies the re-
mains of the late Right Rev. Louis De
Goesbriand, Bishop of Burlington,
VT, were transferred the other day
from their resting place in the lot in
front of the episcopal residence to the
newly made crypt under the altar in
the new mortuary chapel on the east
side of the cathedral of the Immacu-
late Conception.
The Catholic Settlement society of
st. Paul, Mimi, has filed q certificate
of incorporation. It's capital stock is
$50 900. The objects of the society as
set out in the certificate, are the direc-
ton of Catholics changing their abodes
to places near Catholic churches and
schools and the founding and mainte-
nance of settlements and colonies for
Catholics within the United States and
nent, and also to transact such busi-
ness as may promote the individual
and collective welfare of members of
the Catholic church"
In addition to the many libraries
which are being esta hIished all over
greater New York aCity another will
be opened soon which will be at the
disposal of the children of Brooklyn.
A new branch. of the international |
Truth society has been organized in |
Cincinnati by Rev. William F. Magin |
MS, D. D., of Brooklyn, president of |
the society.
There are 1,122 magistrates in Ire
and. OF these only twenty-eight are
Cardinal Gaetano Aloisi- -Masella died |
in Rome on Nov. %. He was
BORN in Italy in 1925 aud created a
cardinal in 1887.
AS the result of its recent election tri-
lmps the Catholic party in Austria
controls fifty-one out of the seventy
light seats in the diet of states, and
he burgomaster of Vienna, DR.. Lueger,
obtains full control over the diet of the
Neteher-Austrian states and the VII
ma city council.
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Mgr. Monti, bishop of Tivoli, has
'een appointed internuncio to the re-
public Of Chile.
His eminence, Cardinal Vaughan, is
progressing towards uonvalescence
lowly but satisfactorily.
1t is positively stated from entirely
eliable sources that the sovereign
'ontiff is highly pleased with the ac-
ion of the French episcopate in their
oint note to the French government.
f the mote" is disregarded. far-reach-
ng consequences are likely to follow
Monsignor Stanley, who has been
ppointed auxiliary bishop of West
linster, is to be consecrated in Rome
.
From 1877 to 1887 the Catholic mis-
ionaries in Corea had 5000 baptisms
f adults; last year they had 5,2O3 In
he last twenty-five years the native
'hristian population has risen from
LOCO to $4,000, and the priests from
wo to forty, besides eleven native