The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-11-05

.NTAIN AND COLORADO
ouez. the famous composer, who like
wise has charge of the national con-
servatory, having been appointed by
the president himself.
The next Eucharist league conference
il to be held at the University of No
tra Dame. Ind. in 1905, and the next
Eucharist congress is to meet in Pitts
burg, Pa, in 1907.
It is interesting to learn that a
grandson OF Charles Dickens. the ia
nous novelist, has just been married to
a Catholic lady. by, Of course. a Cath
olic priest, at the Brompton oratory,
London.
Within a few days there Will be
placed in the Vatican Basilica a co!os-
sal group in. marble representing st.
John Baptist de La Sale. with two
Youths. one at each side. The group is
the work of the sculptor Professor Au-
reli.
The Catholic Truth society calls at
tention to the fact that the Atlantic
Monthly Magazine for September con-
tains more than its usual invoice of ca
lumny and SANDER against our holy re-
ligion. The one way to abate this nui-
sance Ii. TO touch the pockets of those
responsible for such outrage. Catho-
lies are requested to discountenance
the circulation Of such bigoted pub
LEGATION.
After short but severe attack of
pleuro-pneumona, Sister Eulalie de la
Croix passed away at the Convent of
Notre Dame. San Jose. Cal. Saturday,
Oct. %. Sister Eulalia de la CroiX,
native of Central America. was born
at Guatemala OIL Sept. s, 1S49. She en-
tered the Order of Notre Dame in 1871,
at Belen. and was one of the nuns ex-
lied in 1875.
The Rev. Brothers Anselm Maurice
and Ambert of the Brothers of the
Christian Schools have arrived in Cal
ifornia in company with Brother The
odorus. the local superior. They are
from France. where their schools have
II
ment. AS our readers know. his hoG-
ness the pope has released the French
brothers from their religious vows, but
many of them have elected to affiliate
themselves with the order in countries
outside of France.
Preparations are under way to fit
tingIy celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
of the Sisters of Mercy in California.
The first band of missionary nuns ar
rived in San Francisco on Dec s, 1854
which was not only the feast of the I'm
maculate Conception, but the very day
on which Plus TX solemnly defined and
promulgated that dogma of our faith.
According to a press dispatch from
Rochester, preliminary steps were
talen last week toward the selection of
coadjutor to Bishop McQuaid. Bishop
! McQuaid is 81 years of age. He has
been the head of the Rochester diocese
| for thirty-six years. His capacity for
| the hardest kind of work is as great
as ever, but his priests think that he
| should not continue to labor as he HIS
done. and that it would be the part of
wisdom for him to have an assistant to
| relieve him of some of the details OF
| the great task of administering the &c
clesiastical and educational affairs OF
the diocese.
A new chapel seventy feet long and
thirty-five feet wide has been dedicated
at Pleasant Point Indian village. -four
miles from Eastport, Me. Hardly day
passes that some of the 3T5 Indians al
the point do not make a visit to the
chapel for the Passamaquoddy people
are very devout Catholics, and under
the guidance of the Sisters of Mercy
and their pastor from Eastport they
ere making great progress and are be
coming self-supporting. ~
J AT a recent. meeting of. the Guild o
Our Lady, of Pe#sstual Help of the
Mission ciqafch. Fsbyhury. Boston. the
president introduced TO the. members o
the guild "a most Interesting parsonage
| Miss Mary Martha Jackman,' who has
been recently elected. AN honorar!
member Althoughe33 Years OF age. the
guest of honor sayeTa talk reminiscent
of her childhood in Boston. Miss Jack
! man became a convert to- the Cathoii
! faith during the administration of the
first bishop of the diocese of Boston
Bishop Cheverus, and since that time
has met all the Catholic bishops o
New England.
On Aug. 81 last a law abolishint
Catholic converts was passed by the
congress of Ecuador, and this law i:
now being put in effect The nuns are
given the option of retiring to public
hospitals. where they will be cared fol-
at the expense of the cities and towns