The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-06-27
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

from their ancient monastery in tn
French Alps by French troops, ar
negotiating for the purchase of tn
famous island of Iona, in the Heb
rides off the coast of Scotland. Eng
land is astounded at the prospect o
the burial place of forty-eight king
of Scotland, eight kings of Norway
and four kings of Ireland, passing int
the hands of the makers of the famed
Chartreuse liqueur. No fear need be
entertained, for the monks will, i
they become the owners, preserve
with religious fervor the sacred relics
of St COLUMBIA and the ruins Of the
ancient abbey church. The island
would to them be sacred as the home
and scene of the great labors of the
famous Irish missionary, COLUMBIA. II
will, indeed, be fortunate for the
sacred associations of Iona, should
it pass into their hands. The place
would be an ideal one for the reserved
Carthusians, for it is one of the most
secluded spots in the world.
Calling him a Catholic through
courtesy, it is noteworthy that Presi-
dent Loubet is the first even nominal
Catholic ruler who will have visited
Rome officially since the virtual in
vasion of the temporal power. Nat
urally the vacation has little sympathy
for those who endorse the claims of
the spoiler over at the Quirinal.
And now the press agents are slat-
ing Cardinal Satolli for the bishopric
of Frascati.
There is talk of dividing the diocese
of Davenport, Iowa. Rumor, too, is
busy creating four new dioceses in the
west. If the proposition comes, the
list of bishoprics will swell up to 80.
The Secret Papal Consistory for the
creation of a fresh batch of Cardinals
is now definitely fixed for June 15, to
be followed by a public consistory on
the 18th.
Beginning with the first of May, the
Marian Simms-Beaumont Medical col
lege, st. Louis, became the medical de-
partment of the ST. Louis university,
which is conducted by the Jesuit Faith
ers.
Cardinals Agliardi and Casali del
Drago have been appointed members
of the Congregation of Sacred Indul- |
gences and Rites, and Mgr. Morecoui
has been named a consultor of the |
same congregation.
Archbishop Kain of st. Louis, who, |
on account Of his health, retired re-
Gently to st. Agnes sanitarium, Balti-
more, is already much improved. The
relief from official care, the change of
air, rest and the best of medical atten-
ton have proved very benfcial.
The rumor that Archbishop Ireland
IS soon to be made cardinal is again |
revived. About half of the world {
kinks that his grace should be adorn- /
I'd with the red hat This is fame of I
he most fattering kind. 1t is a case
wherein non-possession is nine points !
# the law. {
Not few French officers are hand t
ng in their commissions. They are
eady to defend their country against
be enemy, but stoutly refuse to L
larch out against body of harmless c
lonks, whose only offense is that they +
re leading lives of self-sacrifice be- d
ond the conception of irreligious n
tate deputies. d
It is not strange that remarkable n
lblic interest was manifested in A
aris recently in the confirmation of a.
le son of President Loubet a
the church of st. Phil Y
ppe du Roul. The spectacle of a fc
ms confirmation in a faith which
s father is doing his best to under
inc is one of the anomalies newt
lie to the situation in which France
Is placed herself. d
When London was a Catholic city it bl
as the custom for the clergy to go in M
ocession to the cathedral on the dt
,ast of Corpus Christi, chanting th
INNS and bearing the Blessed Sacra- 81
snt At the upper end of Chesapeake ve
oy DESdu Iut dIGI 1NOSICIs anu Tic
ly is known to this day as Paternos- nc
: Row; while the corner where they 10
ng the Amen has since borne the CT
me of amen Corner" ia
% ia
The old English college of Douai in Ri
ance, which is familiar to the Cath or
cs of all English-speaking lands as eli
? source of the Douai version Of the of
d Testament, has not been exempt fo
I'M the prosecuting policy Of the su
ench ministry Naturally, however,
: sympathies of English Catholics uu
We gone out with unusual generosity fat
the Benedictines of Douai, and the fla
shop of Portsmouth has turned over mt
! college of Woolhampton to them. nj;
len the French government sup be
sssed the religious establishments ne
France in 1889, Douai was left I'M SIX
Tested as English property; only to SUI
confscated four years later, how ay
sr, when England was at war with vic
ance. It would require volume to dis
all the vicissitudes through which ico
college passed during the last cen the
y; and the end, apparently, is not
At any rate it is a curious in dut
nee of the irony of history that an ow
titution founded in France on ac- tic,
mt of the intolerance of Protestant Lip,
gland, should now be driven back to