The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25
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LITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUME.
TON. s
CathoIicity in Holland.

We hear very little of the Cathol-
lefty of Holland, but, that the faith is
making progress there as everywhere
else, is shown by the results of the
recent Blumentag which was held all
over the country for the benefit of a
Catholic charity and which resulted in
the splendid sum of $4,000 gueldon.
In case you are not aware of the
nature of a Blumentag it may be we'll
to state that it is a means of raising
money for charitable object and is
very common in Germany. It is a
Flower Day." On the day selected
people go about with baskets full of
flowers Generally some simple flower,
as daisy, is selected), and their
| friends, relatives, and acquaintances
are solicited to buy one. The flowers
cost little or nothing, penny Or ten
pfennigs, and the money goes without
any expense to the designated charity.
The proceeds are to be divided
amongst the various Bishoprics, but
portion has been set aside to erect
a national Catholic sanitorium for ine-
briates, which is to be built at
| Nyneugen.
The "Free From Rome" Church.
Thirteen years ago in Turn, small
town in Bohemia, sect was started
called ''The Free From Rome" Church.
It's members set out with great enthus-
iasm and an enrolment of about one
thousand to build a church, and for
time they continued the work. But
the church today stands half COM
pleted in the center of the little town
and there is no one to worship there,
while one of the few Protestant papers
in Poland has been reciting the sins
of the Free From Rome" movement,
declaring it's fall was due to arrogance,
vanity, want of enthusiasm, hatred,
and intolerance which drove it on to
destruction. All this is an amusing
comment on the results which follow
when the human egotist frees himself
from the beneficient yoke of Rome, a
yoke and burden which have been
recommended in the words of the
Founder of Christianity Himself.
Lady Herbert OF Lea.
The death of Lady Herbert of Lea
in London means great loss to many
Catholic charities. Though she has
probably treated them in her will with
her usual generosity they owed much
also to her personal influence for she
was never ashamed to appeal to her
friends for any of her many good
works and was tenacious of her pur-
pose so that they were never free
from her charming letters till the re-
quest was granted. She was the
daughter of General A'Court Keeping
ton, and married, in her twenty-fourth
year, the Hon. Sydney Herbert who
rose to distinction in politics in Glad
stones Government, and who sent
Florence Nightingale out to the
Crimea. After his death in 1861, Lady
Herbert who was one of the noted
beauties of her time, was converted
to the Catholic Church and from that
; day she devoted the half century
remaining to her to works of mercy
and the furtherance of the Church's
, mission. She was the friend of Man
, ming and Vaughan and many more
great personages in our history and
i largely assisted in establishing the
: Foreign Missionary College at Mill
Hill which was then the dream OF
Dr., afterwards Cardinal, .vaughan's
life, and the Catholic Truth Society
, A Solemn Requiem was sung for her
/ at Westminster Cathedral on Friday
: at which the King was represented
and the Archbishop of Westminster
gave the Absolution. The funeral
afterwards took place at Mill Hill
where it was her wish to lie, and she
> rests not far from the grave of Cardi
-lnal Vaughan.