The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-11-05

; OF St Mary's of the Lake church
Chicago, VINO has been abroad fol-
two months, is now at Weisbaden
Germany, and has greatly improved
in health. The Rev T. NJ Burke, pas
tor of st. Veronica's church, who is
also at the German baths, will return
early in November, when Father Den
nison also expects to sail for home.
Brother Marianius McLarren, O. F.
NJ, who had been stationed at the
door of the Franciscan monastery at
Brookland, Washington. D. c., almost
from its establishment, died recently
in his SSth year. He was a native
of GLASGOW, Scotland, and joined the
Franciscan order in New York a little
more than ten years ago
Archbishop Quigley of Chicago adj
ministered confirmation Sunday after
noon at o'clock to a class of so
adults and children in st. Monica S
negro church, Dearborn and West
Thirty-siXth streets The St Monica 8
Court of Catholic Order of Foresters
met the archbishop's carriage at Mich
igan avenue and -Thirty-sixth street
and formed his escort to the church
The first church in the west for
negro Catholics was established in
| Kansas City last week, when a cross
was placed above a cottage, which
will be used temporarily. Later $30.-
900 will be used to fit up mission
The new church was made possible
by a gift of $4,000 by Katherine
Drexel of Philadelphia, mother su-
perior of the Sisters of the Blessed
Sacrament.
Tag Day" Melted $4,000 for the
| Children's Societies of Chicago last
Tuesday. The day of giving was the
greatest ever known in the history of
charitable events in that city Tag
! Day" is three years old. This is the
! financial history of Tag Day in Chi
cago: 1908. $4,000; 1909, $4,000;
| 1910, $4,000.
The Ecclesiastical Province of st.
Paul is to have a new paper to serve
| as complement to the Catholic jour
! mails of America. 1t will be a good
paper and take first rank from the
start. 1t Will be especially interesting
as rejecting the views and sentiments
of the great DR.. Ireland. It's editor
is to be Rev. James NJ. Riordan, who
Yields chaste and virile pen.
cation is expected to make good use
of it. 1t is disgusting to hear we'll
trained girls so far forget themselves
as to indulge in the silly slang of the
day. High-bred Catholic women can
do splendid work in the world. They
can overcome obstacles, and by their
example induce others to emulate
their examples.
Prominent among the assemblages
of scientific men from all nations who
made the ascent of Mount Wilson,
near Los Angeles, some weeks past,
for the purpose of solar observations,
were several Jesuit priests. While
there they celebrated mass each morn
ing. Hence for the first time in the
history of the mountain the Holy Sac
rament was offered on its heights.
Through the efforts of an American
woman, statue was recently erected
in the little cemetery at Pluzuncet, |
near Lannion. Brittany, to Margaret
Fullup, celebrated singer of the old
Breton songs. Her name is a house |
hold word in that part of France, not
only for her sweet singing of the old
Celtic ballads up and down the land, |
but also for her unique occupation of
tom to make pilgrimages for sick |
Britons Whoc could not undertake the |
journey themselves to their favorite !
ShrineS.
Continental Portugal, now in the
throes of revolution. has an. area
somewhat less than that of the state
of Indiana. Its length, north to south,
is approximately $50 miles: its width |
d little less than one hundred miles. |
Its population is, according to the last
census, 5.423.0S4 souls. Portuguese,
Africa. numbers S,24S,527 inhabitants
The capital city, Lisbon, had in 1900,
1850 souls. At one time in its his
tory it was the leading world power.
A special TO the daily press from
Hendaya, and dated October IA, says:
"Uncensored dispatches from Lisbon
say the desire of the negro govern
ment is TO create the opinion abroad
that absolute tranquility prevails
Such, however, is not the case as
attacks against religious orders con-
tinue. The latest act of the pOpulace.
who believe monks are still hidden in
cellars, was to use quantities of sui
phur and other chemicals in an en-
deavor to smoke them out.
The new St Patrick's church at
O'Neill. Neb., which has just been
dedicated, is one of the handsomest
Catholic churches in Nebraska 1t
cost over $4,000, and is a monument
to Very Rev. F. M. Cassidy, the pas
tor, by whose efforts the beautiful
place of worship was made possibil-
ity. In the year 1874 General O'Neil
with twenty-five families of Irish
Catholics, settled in O'NeilI thus
forming the nucleus of the colony
which is now known as St Patrick's
parish. In 1877 a small frame church,
Is by Sc feet, was built at O'Neill,
at cost of $1,000, the material being
hauled by OK team 125 miles from the
nearest railroad station. In October
1871 Rev. John 7. Smith was in
stalled as the first pastor of st. Pat
rick's parish In 1897 the first paro-
chial residence in the parish was built
by Rev. Father Smith. Temporary
official organization of the parish was
effected in 1877. In July, 1886, Rev
Father Smith was transferred to
Wyo., and Rev. Father Cas-
ocSiopad to tI1ic