The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-03-07


ened or despairing, for the Lord knows
your sick and painful condition. StruS-
gle against your infirmity, pray as
much as you have strength to, and the
Lord will not despise the infirmity OF
your flesh and spirit.
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1t is better to say ones morning
prayers today than to resolve to be-
come a saint next week. Today Is
here, and next week is noWhereA rms
day is mine. [ know not If L shaH
have so much as one other. God mas
the past and the future. [ will thank
him for the past. L will beg him for
the future. AS to the present, with
Gods help L will set to work and do
my utmost.
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE
Madame Melba. the celebrated sing
er, who has been visiting her native
land, Australia. and who comes from
a strict Presbyterian family. is report
ed to have been received into. the Cath
olic church.
Brother John Dipple. S. J., for forty
seven years in the Jesuit order, and
for thirty years stationed in Milwau-
kee, Wis, first at ST. Calls church and
later at Marquette college, passed away
on Feb. Il at the college. He was born
in Germany and when quite young
came to America with his parents, who
settled in Evansville. Ind. At the a9e
of 20 the deceased entered the Jesuit
order. He was formerly stationed in
Chicago and Omaha.
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Archbishop Williams has appointed
the Rev. r. NJ, Smith of Brockton,
Mass, as pastor of st. Edwards church
at Medfield Mass. Father Smith was
appointed a curate at st. Patrick's
church. Brockton, Immediately after
completing his studies at Niagara uni
versity and st. Mary's college, Mary
land. in 1896. He was ordained by
Cardinal Gibbons June 19 of that year.
Five religious orders are recon-
mended by the French government for
authorization. They include the AL
gerian white fathers and the st. Jean
de Dieu brothers. The white fathers
are not, however. to be allowed to keep
their three seminaries in France. The
ST. Jean de Dieu brothers provide
asylums for the aged, the insane and
the incurable, also seaside sanitoria.
to be authorized, but not their night
refuge at Marseilles.
Besides the members of the Biblical
commission number of consultors
have been named by the Holy See to
assist in the work. They include Pro-
fessors Bardenheuer, Munich; L.
Schafer, Breslau; Hoberg, Freiburg-
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berlet, Fulda; B. Schafer, Vienna;
Hugo Weiss, Braunsberg; Dom Wei
kerb, Rome; Dom Schiel. Dom Lepidi
and Dom Lagrange, Jerusalem; Father
Cornely, S. j., Father Prat. S. J.,
Father Baiestri, Augustinian; Father
Creseto, Genoa, and Father Marcati
of the Vatican library.
The greatest organ in the worldI has
been installed in the cathedral at Sc
vile. 1t was built by Spaniard,
Senor Aguilino Amezua, and is of truly
gigantic dimensions. There are four
metal flute stops, each sixteen feet
long, such as no other organ in Eu-
rope possesses. 1t is also the only or
gan which has -bourdons which
give thirty-two vibrations second and
produce a deeper tone than the organ
in Murcia, which has hitherto been the
deepest-toned organ in the world.
There are altogether 200 independent
stops and five bellows worked by cleo
tricity. The cost was e6,400.
Four ancient Byzantine holy water
fonts from an old church in Treviso,
near Venice, have been purchased and
presented to the cathedral at West
minister. One of them is very large,
carved in rosso di Verona, with char
acteristic animals climbing down the
side of the basin; the others are equ-
ally curious for their Byzantine artistic
decorations. They seem to need some
repair and cleaning. which will bring
out their partially hidden beauties.
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The Very Rev. j. A. Zahm, provinc-
ial of the Holy Cross in America
whose headquarters is at Notre Dame.
Ind, has gone to Paris to look after
the interests of his order in France
which is label to confiscation at the
hands of the French government
.
The French chamber, after a sharp
discussion, has decided to continue the
embassy to the Holy See and the state
subvention in aid of the schools in the
east, far and near.
o.
A number of the Silesian fathers are
going to Constantinople in order to
develop the work of Don Bosco in the
east.
The Rev. Charles Walter Davey.
whose reception into the church by the
Redemptorist fathers at ST. Mary's,
Clapham, England, is announced, was
lately Anglican curate at MarnhulI,
Dorset.
The clergy of the diocese of Bayonne
have received an official notification
from the French government that
henceforth they are forbidden to use
the Basque language in cateehetical in
structions. little while ago a SINH
lar notice was sent to the Breton
clergy, OF whom fifty refused to obey
and have had their stipends stopped.
M. Combes is clearly determined to
wean children from the tenets of the
church by condemning them to ignor
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