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tif1cal acts and forward them as gift
to the president of the United States
They will form a magnificent set and
will be very limited. Mgr. Volpini has
been charged with experimenting the
publishing of this important work.
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/ Sister Superior Mary Agatha Lud-
den has passed away at Leadville,
Colo, where for seventeen years she
was superior of st. Vincent's hospital.
She was a member of family noted
for the number of religious vocations
it has produced. The Right Rev.
Bishop Ludden, of Syracuse, N. Y, is
brother of the deceased, two of her
sisters are nuns, and three cousins are
priests. Sister Agatha was born in
Ireland forty-fve years ago.
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There is a monastery in the depths
of the Black Forest in Germany,
which is the most aristocratic in the
world. All the monks there are of
noble birth, and many of them bear
some of the noblest names in the AL
manach de Gotha. The two cooks of
the monastery are Prince Edward of
SchoOnburg-Ha -Harhenstein and Prince
Philip of Hohenlohe, who filed, not so
many years ago, two of the highest po-
sitions at the German court.
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The Benedictine nuns include Prin-
cess Schwarzenberg; Princess LEIGH
tenstein, the Princess of Salm, and
the Countess Hohenstein.
The religious in charge of the Grot- !
to of Lourdes have left their post and
been replaced by secular clergy. The
has been by NJ. Combes for |
fear of a revolution openly threatened
by the townsfolk and the people of
the neighborhood if the Grotto were
closed.
A new Catholic orphan asylum for
the archdiocese of New York erected
at cost of $1,2OO,OO0, was thrown
open to the public week before last.
The two buildings, one for boys and
he other for girls, are situated at
on a tract of twenty
eight acres.
According to a New York dispatch
o the Catholic Union and Times, of
Buffalo, it is expected that the pal
ium will be conferred upon Arch
bishop Farley on June 29, and that
father Calton, Bishop-elect of Buffalo.
will be consecrated on the feast of
1t. James, July 25.
Among the six hundred members
f the first section of the German ma
ional pilgrimage who were received
n audience by the Holy Father the
ther day, were fourteen members of
'arliament. Twenty-Five railway car {
iages full Of pilgrims en- route for {
.ome left Munich on one day.
A Rome correspondent writes that z
'aac Henderson, the playwright, has G
ntered the Church. The author of
le "Prelate" and the Mummy and t
lie Humming Bird" thus makes hon 4
able amends for the outrages Of I
red the Catholic world in his plays t
ow holding the boards. Prayer did o
A novena, of which he had no L
1oWledge brought him to a sense Z
the error of his ways. Some men s.
to Rome to scoff and then remain Il
pray.
The Osservatore Romano has pub
he'd some remarkable details con-
rning the significant attitude of sc
ng Edward VII at the diplomatic e7
nner in his honor given in Paris by ia
Delcasse. The king never ad- th
essed a word to M. Combes, while
) affability to the Papal Nuncio, ds
sgr. Lorinelli, was most marked. be
ter dinner the king took the Nuncio
de into an embrasure of a window Sc
d chatted with him for a long time. Ct
hen departing the king somehow m
got to salute NJ Combes!
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