The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-05
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
! Brother Maurelian, Of the Christian
Brothers of Memphis, has just cele-
brated his golden jubilee.
Archbishop Chapelle of New Orleans.
celebrated his fortieth sacerdotal ami
versary at Lafayette, La.
King Edward of England's oldest
| subject is James McNally, an Irish
Catholic, who has just celebrated his
10Sth anniversary.
! The late Mr.. Chapman, of oregon,
| left $1,000 to Cardinal Gibbons for
/ the negro missions, and $4,000 to St
Mary's Orphans Home at Beaverton,
Oregon.
Father Efrem Giesen, Franciscan
Father, who is Vicar-General of
Northern Shantong. has had the dig
nifty of a Mandarin conferred on him
by the Chinese authorities.
Great preparations were made
throughout Samoa for the dedication
of the Catholic cathedral in Apia, and
natives from all parts of the South
L
small craft and open boats. The festival
took place on July 20.
Cardinal Moran, archbishop of
| Sydney, Australia, who has been i'll, is
recovering, but his medical adviser is
of opinion that he should not at
present expose himself to the risk of
the fatigue entailed by routine work.
=
French Catholic missionaries have
| been entirely isolated behind the Rus
sian army since its retreat from Muk-
den. They continue to carry on all
their work without interruption, ex-
cept the medical department. which is
much hindered by a scarcity of cot
ton wool. all of which the army has
| bought UP.
Banished from France the Picpus
Fathers find an asylum at Molokai.
Father Damien shed imperishable
lustre on the congregation ministering
to the spiritual necessities of that far
famed leper colony. Brother Serapion
is going the way of the sanity Da-
mien. Others stand ready to take his
place. The church that trains up
missionaries of this type will never
be denied a place in this world
CathOllc transcript.
The young ladies received into the
Order of st. Joseph at St Joseph's con-
vent, Cleveland, recently, were Miss
Rose Kelly, of Milan. who will be
known in religion as Sister NJ. Agatha;
Miss Margaret Matthews, of Cleveland,
in religion as Sister NJ. Sebastian:
Miss Stella Bauman, of Cleveland in
religion, as Sister Hortense; Miss
Olivia Schauz, of Massillon, in religion.
as Sister Dominica. The following Sis
tiers made their profession: Sister
Clotilda, Sister NJ Anthony. Sister NJ
Isabel. Sister NJ. Paul, Sister NJ. Ir1na,
Sister NJ. PerDetua Sister NJ. Agnes.
The French order of the Grev Nuns
celebrated fifty years of their labor at
Toledo, o.. at the dedication of two
wings of st. Vincent's hospital last
week Bishop Horstman officiated.
Bishop SpaIding of Peoria is now at
his old home at Lebanon, KY, where
he will remain until autumn. His
health is greatly improved.
Mrs. Eloisa Ruster Rand of New Or
leans, who died at the age of 80 years,
left the sum of $4,000 for the benefit
of the orphans of that diocese. An
other bequest was $1,000 to the Sisters
of Notre Dame at St.Mary's institute
at Chatawa, Miss.
John D. Crimmins celebrated his
birthday anniversary recently by Civ
ing 1000 children sail on the bay
in the st. Johns Guild floating hospi-
tai ship the Helen c. Jullliard. Mr..
Crimmins did the same thing last year
Last week the Franciscan Fathers in
the Holy Land attended to eighty-one
churches and chapels, 100000 Cath
olics, and preached in twelve Ian
guages. They have also three orphan
asylums. with 269 orphans, and bap-
tized about 1900 children and adults.
The Bishop of Toxic says that
great many Catholics are prominent
in the government of Japan. and that
the Mikado and his ministers are
most favorable to Catholic missionary
work.
-
At the commencement of Harvard
university Judge Edward D. White
was given the degree of doctor of laws.
He is referred to as "a confederate
soldier, Catholic by education and
conviction, state senator and United
supreme court of Louisiana and of
the supreme court. of the nation;
jurist and publicist.'
The Sisters of Mercy of Davenport.
Ia, have opened a home for young
women who are employed in the city
and have no homes of their own. 1t
is commodious building, well vent1-
lated, heated by steam, supplied with
cpoC toll
pleasantly located in a desirable por-
ton of the city, and easy of access
from the street car lines.
>
Father S. ]. Collier, S. J.. for thir-
teen years connected with Gonzaga
college at Spokane, has been appoint
ed president of that institution by the
Jesuit authorities. Father F. c. Dill
lon, S. j., the former president. goes
to Seattle college to become rector of
that institution.
Following his encyclical letter re-
garding the teaching of Christian doc
trine, Plus X has decided THAI the text
books used in the Catholic Sunday
schools all over the world shall be the
same in every diocese. Accordingly. a
commission has selected the ofTic!al
catechism of the archdiocese Of Milan.
in three editions, one for little chill
dren and the others, larger, for more
advanced pupils. The work viii be
translated into all the modern Ian
guages and be adopted for use in teach
ing the Christian doctrine all over the
world
$<%<~<%%%%~><%%%%%%>%%%>~A