The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-17

neSia, as its first as-Apostollc.
Bishop Milan of Hartford, Conn.
has named a diocesan board consist
ing of nine priests and the Vicar
General, to look out for the welfare
of dependent children in the state.
Last Saturday the Holy Father is
reported as having said to Bishop
Kennedy, rector of the American
College, Rome, that Americans were
among the best Catholics in the
world
Rev. James P. McCloskey, former
ly of Philadelphia and now of the
diocese of Jaro, in the Philippine
Islands, has been made Monsignor.
Vicar General and Chancellor of that
diocese.
Dom j. r. Bilsborrow of the Eng
lish Congregation of St. Benedict has
been appointed Bishop of Port Louis,
Paul Perrin, s. j., Bishop of Manga
lore, in India.
Bishop Canevin of Pittsburg is
building a school for the deaf mutes
of his diocese. The building, which
is in Brookline, will accommodate
about 100 pupils. 1t will be in charge
of the Sisters of Mercy.
1t has been announced that the sup
posed tomb of King Henry VI (mur-
dered in the Tower of London, 1471)
has just been opened in st. Georges
chapel, Windsor, and portions of a
skeleton We're found.
!
The franciscan firar-priest, Fir. VAL
cerian, of Antwerp, has won the de-
gree of dictor in political and social
science at the University of Lourein.
thereby winning the prize offered by
| the government of Belgium.
The Jesuit Fathers, Iaboring in
Alaska, report the conversion of about
1900 adult Eskimos. One of the best
known of these missionaries is Father
Barnum, convert, who renounced a
fortune to become Jesuit.
On his return to Ireland, Cardinal
Logue characterized the dedication of
the cathedral of New York as cere-
mony more wonderful, brilliant and
impressive than even those witnessed
at the Montreal Eucharistic Congress.
One of the Oldest and best known of
the Sisters of Notre Dame departed
this life. November at the Cincin-
natl convent, when death claimed
Sister Lucy. For almost fifty-seven
years the venerable religious was
member of that community.
English papers chronicle the deaths
of Very Rev. John Canon Musseley,
rector of st. Joseph's, Blackburn. or
dained in 1867; of Father Mary DOM
mic of the Discalced Carmelites of
Kensington, ordained in 1862. and of
Rev. George Fitzsimmons, who was
ordained at st. Sulpice, Paris in 1904
At the golden jubilee celebration of
the Jesuit Church in Edinburg, Scot
heartfelt sympathy with the Jesuit
Fathers abroad, who were suffering
persecution at the hands of goddess
men, while the press throughout Eu-
rope was teeming with calumnies and
misrepresentation against them TO
justify the lawless attacks.
Archbishop Weber of Berlin. Ont,
confirmed 500 boys and girls at St
Hedwg's church and 800 at st. Josa-
phat's church, Detroit, on the 9Th
inst. Archbishop Weber is assisting
Bishop Foley with the confirmation in
the Polish churches of Detroit on ac-
count of the latterS i'll health. The
archbishop was himself assisted by
Bishop Ortynski of the Greek Catholic
diocese of Philadelphia.
Another priest, venerable Jesuit,
must be added to the list of victims of
the barbarity of the Portuguese revolu-
tionists Father Machado, aged 10,
who was well known throughout the
whole of Portugal as the Apostle
died after his arrival at Gibraltar. His
death was accelerated by the outrages
inflicted on him by mobs in Lisbon, |
and by the privations which he suf-
fered while incarcerated in the artil- |
lery barracks.
During his sojourn in Baden. last |
week, Emperor William visited the |
great Benedictine Abbey of Beuron. Its |
is the Rt. Rev. Schober The |
after congratulating him and |
the work the abbey is doing, conferred |
upon him the Order of the Crown of |
the Second Glass. The abbey of Beu-
ron was founded in the twelfth CEN
fury. 1t has undergone many suppress |
sions and vicisstudes. Today. besides
an Institute of Art it has also Philo- |
sophical and Theological seminary.
Owing to the success of the teach
ers courses in the Marquette univer
sity summer school session this year,
special efforts will be made in the |
coming years to provide several teach
ers' courses in different branches Ac-
is easily obtainable for
individual teachers, and next year ar
u do L,
merous converts in the city to provide |
accommodations for any |.