The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-03

Vember ( at Louisville, Ky. Father
Linderfeld was 13 years of age and
had been pastor for many years at
Utica, y. Y.
The news has just reached this
country of the reception into the
Catholic Church of Mrs. r. st. John
| Gagney, wife of the American consul
at Dresden. Mrs. Gagney was pre-
viously an Episcopalian.
Father Valeran of Borgerhout
Antwerp. a Franciscan. has lately
taken his degree of doctor of political
| and social science at the University
Of Louvain and obtained the prize Of
fered by the Belgian government,
which has charged him with special
mission on the subject to various for
! egin countries
Recently the New York Times Of
fered prizes to the pupils of the
schools of Jersey City who would
write the best essays on the early
SETTLERS of Bergen village. Two pu-
pills of St Joseph Home for the Blind,
| Charlotte Rohr and Margaret Foley,
entered the contest and were among
! those who won medals for the excel
! lence of their compositions.
on Thursday. November 10, occurred
| the death of Father ]. DAste, S. j.,
at st. Ignatius mission, Montana.
Father D'Aste was born in Genoa,
Italy. eighty-five years ago, and came
TO Montana in the early sos of the
last century as a missionary among
the Indians and scattered whites. He
was for many years associated with
Father De Smet, the great Jesuit mis-
sionary.
Old St. Peters church at Barclay
and Church streets. New York. one of
the earliest cradles of Catholicism in
the United States, celebrated the one
hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary
of its founding last Sunday with a
POntifical Mass. at which Rev Father
Owen Hill of the Society of Jesus
preached sermon dealing with the
story Of the history of the old struc-
ture.
A ceremony in celebration of the
completion of the Vatican observatory,
under the direction of Father Hagan,
the Jesuit astronomer, was held in
the papal apartment last Thursday. 1t
had been planned to have the eX
ercises at the observatory, but al
though the pontiff is quite we'll the
ness feared to venture out. A speech
was made by Cardinal Maffi. president
of the observatory, TO which the Pope
replied. highly commencing the work
of Father Hagen.
Mrs Josefa L. De Ortega, probably
the oldest Spanish woman in southern
California, aged 80 years and s
months, died at Santa Barbara No
vember 10. Mrs. Ortega was born in
Santa Barbara in 1911. before the city
possessed a white resident. She is
survived by two sons and three
daughters.
Rev David ]. Hickey, rector of st.
Francis aXiers church, in Brooklyn, |
has been elected president for the
coming year of the Catholic summer
school. Father Hickey was acting |
president of the school last season, |
and his work was SO successful that
his election to the presidency this |
season was unanimous.
The golden jubilee of the establish |
ment of the Dominican Sisters in
Louisiana was celebrated in New Or |
leans from October 81 to November |
s. Eight Irish Dominicans came from
their celebrated convent at Cabra |
Dublin. in 1860, and under difficult cir
cumstances established a school and |
convent at New Orleans during the
civil war. They have multiplied their
foundations in the interval. devoting |
themselves chiefly to educational
work. and have been large factor in
the development of the parochial
school system of New Orleans.
The first annual convention of the
Priests Eucharistic League of the
Diocese of Scranton, Pa, was held at
Archibald in the newly decorated
Church of st. Thomas on Thursday,
November 10, Archibald being the most
Catholic town of the diocese. The af-
fair took on the nature of holiday, !
and not a mine or a mill was in ope
ration, and even the public schools
were closed that the people might
turn out Ell masse to do honor to our
Eucharictic Lord. This they did in
great multitudes, and the spacious
church could not contain all who
sought admission, many being com
PEELED to content themselves with a
place Of vantage on the entrance
steps.
The cornerstone of the new semi
nary of St Augustine was laid in To-
IOnIo. Cdlduo, Recently DN MOSl REV.
Archbishop McEvay. in the presence D
Of the hierarchy of Ontario. The
whole structure is the gift of Private
O'Keeefe. 1t will cost
in the neighborhood of
$500. 900.
The learned Dominican Friar Faith
er Enrique Vacas-Galindo, has collat-
ed 100 volumes of documents bearing
on the Ecuador-Peru boundary line
dispute and favoring Ecuadors claim
One hundred and four Salesian {
priests and twenty nuns left Turin the
Dther day for the foreign missions of
Peru, Bolivia, Terra del Fuego and
As a result of a temperance mis- 6
sion conducted by Caupchin Fathers I
n Limerick. one-fourth Of the popu- s
alton have taken the total abstinence I
pledge. /
TWISTED ENGLISH,
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