The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-18

an eminent scientist. He has re-
Gently published a treatise on the
eruption of the Taal Volcano, last
January. In it he shows the close or
immediate relation and connection be-
tween Seismology and Meteorology.
constance Clyde" Convert
Miss Constance McAdam, better
known under her pen-name of "Con-
stance Clyde" Australian Journalist,
was received into the Church by the
Farm Street Jesuits, London.
Levites from the Philippines. After
sixty-four day journey from Manila,
Philippine Islands, three young ma
tives have arrived in New York. One
will enter the Seminary at Dun
woodie, and the two others will study
at Brighton Seminary, Boston. Others
will follow next year, and it is pur-
posed to have about thirty young
Filipinos prepared for the priesthood
in American seminaries. Later when
the proposed foreign seminary is able
to send out it's regular quota of
men, the missions in the Philippines
will be supplied first.
Armenian Bishops Consecrated.-
Two Armenian Archbishops and seven
Armenian Bishops were consecrated
in Rome recently by the Armenian
Patriarch of Cilicia. Amongst the
new prelates are Mgr. Melkisedekian,
Bishop of Erzerum, and Mgr CUBAN,
Bishop of Alexandria, in Egypt
Named after Irish Saints.-In Bula-
wayo, Rhodesia, South Africa, a mis-
sion in charge of the Jesuits, new
church was blessed and dedicated to
st. Patrick. In the French Congo a
church is building to be placed under
the patronage of st. Bridget. At
Gambia, on the African west coast,
Father Mcguire is experimenting the
building of a chapel to be dedicated
| to ST. COLUMBIA and at Wei-hai-wei,
China, the new Chuch of st. Bridget
will soon be finished.
New Convictus at lnnsbruck.-A
splendid new Konvikt, or Seminary
building, with church, for the theolog-
| ical students of the University of
Innsbruck, was dedicated during Octo-
Der by the Prince-Bishop of Brixen.
In the conservation of the church, two
other Bishops assisted The building
accommodates 800 students and is
thoroughly modern equipped.
Cardinals TituIar Church Damaged.
I'm the Church of Santa Maria, in
Trastevere, Rome, which is the titu-
lar church of His Eminence James
Cardinal Gibbons, an all-night burn
ing fire did irreparable damage re-
Gently. The sacristy was entirely
destroyed. Many vestments and
silver chalices, and two ancient rel
ics-one of them, the head of Saint
Dorothea-were lost, together with
beautiful picture attributed to Clan
Bellini, which represented the Virgin
and Child.
Benediction for MuItitude.-At the
recent solemn translation of the
relics of ST. Francis de Sales and ST.
Jane Frances de Chantal to the new
convent on Mt Semnos, France, and
at the end of the Solemn Mass in the
open air, a remarkable event trans
pired. All the Cardinals and Bishops
present, by special permission of Pope
Plus X, gave to the 10000 people
present simultaneously the Apostolic
Benediction.
An Associate of Cardinal Newman
Very Rev. John Norris, superior Of
the Oratory at Egbaston, England
died October 10 in his sixty-eightt
year. Born in Liverpool in 1843, he
made his studies at Ushaw, and wen
to Birmingham in 1854 to teach il
the Oratory school under Carolina
Newman, of which he afterwards be
came headmaster. In the death O.
DIR. Dudley Ryder he was elected Su
perior of the Oratory.
Reopening of the Perugian Semin
ary.-After having been closed for thu
: space of fifteen months by orders O
the Holy See, the once famous Sem
mary of Perugia opened it's door
last month. None of the professors
or students who were at the Seminar.
prior to its closure have been per
mitted to return. The new studentI
have all come from earnest Catholi,
families, the choice being due to ;
great extent to the parish priests o
/. the Archdiocese of Perugia, who re
: ceived instructions some time ago t.
examine into the family antecedent
of applicants for admission. In tn.
Seminary of Perugia, in its reorgan
lied condition, the theological ant
philosophical sciences will not b,
! taught; it will be branch house o
the great inter-diocesan seminary 70
! Umbria which is being built at Assist
Perhaps in no single instance ha
Modernism been more effectively an,
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