The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-17

| $4,000 parish house, which will be
erected on the land. The Iselins have
given so far to the Catholic church of
4 New Rochelle and its vicinity: st. Ga
| briefs church and rectory, valued at
| $500, coo; a gymnasium for parochial
| school purposes, valued at S150.0OO; a
sisters house and library. valued at
| S12,0 ,0C0; to the Ursuline nuns, castle
| for school purposes. valued at S10O,O00
! st. Eleanora's Home for Convalescents,
valued at $4,000, and st. Catharine's
| church at Pelham, costing about $20,-
| goo, making in all 1851, 900.
Father John Fraser, a young priest
who has made himself greatly es-
teemed by Toronto Catholics since his
return from Italy, few months since,
has been called to the Chinese mis-
sion by the Sacred Congregation for
the Propagation Of the Faith. Father
Fraser is the first Canadian priest to
enter the Chinese mission field. He
will reach his destination about Dec.
Sth. 1t means that his whole life will
be given to spreading the faith among
the Chinese for Catholic priests do not
enter that far-off mission for time
only. The best wishes of hundreds of
friends follow him.
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DR.. Mazzoni who recently performed
an operation on Pope Leo KITS phys
ician, in speaking of his holiness said:
Il am sure that the pope's encourag-
ing words did as much for the patient
as | did myself, backed by the teach
ings of science AS to the holy father,
he is and continues to be wonder.
There never was an old man so healthy
In body and mind If Leo had lived
200 years ago. his mental activity would
nave been regarded as nothing short
or miraculous. He is everywhere in
the vatican, watches everything, knows
everything, takes the responsibility for
everything. He does everything him
self. His ministers are but tools in
his hand. And nothing of any conse-
quence happens to the world that does
not interest him, nothing for which he
is not prepared. If Leo were great |
mundane monarch. with the power of !
Germany or Russia behind him, he |
would dictate laws to all the world, and |
the world would submit. Such a man |
as the holy father on the throne of |
Russia or France would solve the prob !
lens of the day. He would revolu-
tionize the world in a political and So
cial sense
Five thousand converts a year from
the protestant faith to Catholicism in
the archdiocese of New York was the
report made by Archbishop Farley, pre-
siding al large meeting of the Cath I
olic Converts league in the assembly
hall of the Catholic club, New York.
At the meeting short addresses were
made by Rev. Robert Eaton of Bir-
mingham, England; johnson Stewart,
formerly member of the Established
Church of Scotland (Presbyterian), and
Archbishop Farley.
The new Catholic orphanage in Phila-
1elphia, Pa, will soon be opened. The
property was purchased by Archbishop
Ryan at a cost of $150,000. It was for
nerly the asylum for the blind After
LII repairs have been completed, the
lew asylum will comfortably accom-
nodate 500 children. 1t will be under
he charge of the Sisters of Charity,
low connected with st. Vincent's home.
Hon. w. Burke Cochran will deliver
he principal address at the celebration {
# the Tooth anniversary of the founding
# the Hibernian society on next ST. {
'atrick's day in Baltimore. $
About 100 tons of soft coal, in half !
on lots, have been distributed among
90 persons and families in the past few I
weeks by the st. Vincent de Paul So
icy of Baltimore. The coal had been
onated by coaf merchants and others.
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Marseilles, France, Catholic journals
tate that a French missionary lately
las been massacred in his house in
hen-si, China. /
Andrew Carnegie lately donated $1,5OO
D st. Andrews Catholic church at Gal
shiels. Scotland, on condition that the
congregation contribute like amount.
he money is to be used to purchase
n organ.
A recent census shows that the old
atholics, who in 1897 had ninety par
she's in Switzerland, now have only
nirty- eight, and in several of these the
eople are becoming Protestant. =
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AS an instance of Apostolic poverty, Z
is now stated that the late Bishop
'aughan of Plymouth, England, left
n estate probated at only 1925.
Father Bernard Vaughan, S. J.,
rother of the cardinal, spent two Y
lights each week in the notorious
Ihitechapel district of London. BY I
nging a bell, he gathers the people to-
ether and then breaches an impas-
oned sermon to them.
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Bishop ROBERT of Hawaii is slowly
wing of cancer of the stomach at Hilo r
the island of Hawaii. He has been :
missionary in that country thirty