The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-24
Religious Intelligence.

T TIllC6s W RUNE Will We OIA manu- dl'A
/ ing the canonization of Joan of Ar
about New Years.
. An electric cross has beep, erected OF
; St. Johns church, New York. Tht
was formerly the Knox Presbyterian
church.
During a recent pastoral journe,
Bishop Allen of Madras, India, con
firmed S5@ Christians, 500 of them be
ing converts from paganism-
BY the death of Miss Ann sculliol
of Trenton, n. j., the St Vincent d.
Paul society will derive the income o
an estate amounting to about $4,000. ~
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The colony of Syrians and Greeks il
Cincinnati will probably soon have thu
regular spiritual ministration of
priest of the Syrian rite, Rev. Father
Baccirola.
Two Benedictinc Fathers have ar
rived in Idaho for the purpose of es.
tablishing a monastery The proposed
structure will be built near the town Of
Cottonwood, in Idaho county.
The thirteenth biennial convention OF
the Indiana state council, catholic
Knights of America, win assemble il
New Albany, Indiana, on Tuesday
February IS, 1905 at 9 o'clock a. m.
The recent report from Rome con
corning the health of the pope was
grossly exaggerated. DR.. Lapponl
says his holiness will occupy the. chair
of st. Peter for many years to come.
Very Rev. Thomas F. Lillis will be
consecrated bishop of Leavenworth'
Kansas, on December q, in the Cathe-
dral at Kansas City, Archbishop
Glennon of St. Louis will be the con-
secrating prelate.
The Hon. Miguel O'Tero, governor of
New Mexico. who was the orator at the
recent New Mexico celebration at the
Worlds fair, is a graduate of Notre
Dame university He was student
there for three years in the '7Os.
An alumni association of Carlow
college, ireland, was formed at St.
Louis last week, by her priestly sons
in this country. The organization of
the alumnae was due to the energetic
efforts of Rev. Edmund A. Casey, pas
tor of st. James church, St Louis.
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1t is the intention of the national
board of the A. o. H. to secure the
services of eight or ten of the ablest
lecturers in the country to work under
the auspices of the Hibernian lecture
bureau, the idea being to conduct
campaign of education along Catholic
and patriotic lines
The quarantine of the Indian school
at Geona. Neb., has been raised and
the pupils and employees are once more
at their usual work. The Catholic
pupils number one hundred and sixty
and are in majority at the Indian
school. They hail from different states,
some are from Nebraska, others from
Montana, South and North Dakota and
Wisconsin.
A Portuguese priest was ordained
for the diocese of Sacramento last week
by Bishop Grace. He is the Rev. j.
eAzevedo and was born on the Azores
Island He has been studying for two
years in this country at st. Patrick's
seminary. Melo Park. The Portu
guese of the Sacramento diocese are re-
joiced to have priest of their own
blood.
In receiving Bishop Delaney of Man
chester, n. H, recently, the pope in
tquired about the diocese of Man
chester, asking the number of priests
and communicates in the diocese and
the proportion between Catholics and
other residents. Being told that it was
one third, the pope replied: you must
try to make the other two-thirds
Catholics"
Old st. Peters church in Barclay
street, New York, is being renovated
for the first time since it was built
seventy years ago There will be new
white marble affairs. p gift of the
Smith family, i'll memory of their
mother. and other expensive decora-
tions This church contains valuable
painting presented to it over 100 years
ago by the King of Spain. The first
church vas built in 17Sf and the pres
ent edifice in 1884.
Colonel William T. Taylor of Co.
lumbus, O., jourraIist,' historian and
literateur, lectured recently in the
city hall at New Lexington, O., under
the auspices of the MacGahan club.
This organization is formed for the
purpose of raising a fund to erect a
monument in the public square at New
Lexington. to the memory of Perry
county's distinguished son, ] A. Mac
Gahan. and this was the first lecture
given for the benefit of the fund.
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The crusade AGAINST bazaars euchres
ard similar money-rai5ing schemes
for the benefit Of churches, is on in
earnest, both Archbishop Moeller and
Bishop Macs having declared against
them. In the archdiocese his grace had
requested that they lie abandoned. and
last Sunday in Covington, Very Rev.
T. ~ Tony
occasion TO inveigh against them, as
ne has done ba:oIe. Several months
ago Bishop Hartley declared himself
opposed to such methods of raising
money.
There is a project on foot in Sioux
City, Ia, to honor the memory of the
famous missionary Father De Smet, by
e. Getting a monument, to him or the top
Of Prospect hill. The movement is
meeting with the encouragement of
Catholic and nonCathollc alike.
A new home for Catholic working
boys has just been opened in Montreal ]
Under the diircecteorship Of Rey. Daniel Daniel
Holland, C. SIS. r., rector of st. Anne's
church. 1t is called st. Josepn's home
and istalready a great success.
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Bishop. Cotton of Buffalo, with the
sixty pilgrims who accompanied him
: broad, last week paid a visit TO the |
famous Bsnedictine ABBEY at Monte
Casino. Of which the rector is the
Very Rev. BoRiface Krug, an American
and well known to many of the visit
ors.
There recently died in Chicago a
mother who hal given seven children
10 the church. She was Mrs. Cath |
crime Eennessy. Rev. William S. Hen /
messy. pastor of St Joachin's church. !