The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-10-21
EUROPEAN NEWS.

EUROPEAN NEWS.
A Descendant of kings.-Mother
Janet Erskine Stuart, the new Mother
General of the Religious of the Sacred
Heart, like her immediate predecessor,
the late Mother Digby, is convert
She was born in Ireland in 1857, and
is a daughter of the Rev. and Hon.
Andrew Stuart, and granddaughter of
the second Earl Castlestuart (male
Mother Stuart became a convert in
1879, and she has been at the head of
the great school of the Order at Roe
hampton for some time. She is a pro-
life writer and some of her works on
education have attracted wide atten-
Etion. Messrs. Longmans have just
published her last volume, entitled
Education of Catholic Girls" with an
introduction by the Archbishop of
Westminster, and it has been favor
ably received by the press. At His
Grace's request, the authors name
Janet Erskine Stuart on the
title page.
Death of Franciscan Bishop
Venerable Franciscan Bishop julius
Marsili, o. M. c., 20 years religious,
died recently at the Portiuncula Con-
vent Assist. He had been priest IS
years. Pope Plus TX. appointed him
Bishop in Albania
franciscan Missionary Sisters
The Institute of the Franciscan Mis-
sionary Sisters of Mary is quite new.
It already counts 1000 members They
devote themselves to the care of the
poor, the aged, the orphans, lepers,
and to teaching poor children. They
have numerous hospitals, day nurser-
les, sanatariums, work shops and dis
pensaries.
English Catholic Novelist.-Max
Pemberton, the popular novelist, is
an English Catholic. Not long ago
he moved from London to an old hall
down in Norfolk, where he now lives
nearly all the year, and where he does
practically all his writing.
cathoIicity in New Vicariates.- The
Vicariate Apostolic of Marshall
Islands under charge of the French
province of the Missionaries of the
| Sacred Heart, and the Prefecture
| Apostolic of Northern New Guinea,
erected. in 1896, are still too new to
show much progress. The latter pre-
lecture counts in so short a time
2,128 Catholics and last year alone
1000 catechumens were being in
structed for baptism. The Fathers
of the Society of the Divine Word are
in charge of this new and arduous
mission.
Catholic Woman Professor.-After
years of thoroughly conservative op-
| position first to the admission of
women as hearers, then as regular
students, and now finally as profess
sors, the German University authori-
ties have finally yielded and have
now made woman professor of
mathematics and experimental sci
ence at the University of Leipzig.
She is Fraulein Woker, a Catholic,
and is the daughter of Swiss Catho-
lie, the professor of history in the
University of Berne
The PortiuncuIa church.-St. Fran
els little church, the Portiuncula,
only 21x13 feet, of rough hewn stones
and remaining just as it was, in his
day seven hundred years ago. is
under the dome of the great Church
and remaining just as it was in his
valley twenty minutes ride from the
walls of Assist.
Chapter OF Franciscan Sisters
The Institute of the Franciscan Mis-
sionary Sisters of Mary held its sixth
Chapter in Rome This great insti-
tute is becoming worldwide. In the
course of the last six years it has
4 sent 335 Sisters to foreign countries.
The Holy Father received the
i Chapter in audience in the most pa
ternal manner, going to and speaking
with each member.
/. An Irish Hospitals Jubilee.-The
golden jubilee of the Mater Miseri-
cordiae Hospital, Dublin, which has
done 30 much to relieve human
Il en- fForfnrr s7,1riuOr fI,xn last J,c1e .--4