The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-09-23
AMERICAN NEWS.

ed permission to the Missionary So.
ciety of st. Paul, better known as the
Paulist Fathers, to borrow $4,000
from the Seamen's Bank for Savings
for use in the erection of a new
headquarters for the Fathers. The
church is at Sixtieth Street and Co.
lumbus Avenue. Rev. John J. Hughes,
president of the society, in his petition
gave the value of the church property
as 100000 and said that the society
has $4,000 in cash. The society owed,
he said, 100000.
Dominicans Open Home for Work
ing GirIs.-A home for working girls
has been opened in New York by the
Albany branch of the Sisterhood of
st. Dominic. A house at 242 East
Sixty-ninth Street has been leased and
is now ready for occupancy. 1t is to
be known as the Convent of the Mys-
teal Rose. That the home may not
appear in the light of a charitable in
stitution, small fee will be charged
commensurate with each girls means.
An effort will be made to teach the
young women some occupation in
which they may become skillful and
increase their earning power.
Church Conservation on Historical
Anniversary.-The Church of st. Gen
evieve, in st. Louis, has been consid-
erably enlarged and beauti1ed, and
will be consecrated by the Archbishop.
The conservation will also be in con-
nection with the 150th anniversary of
the parish and the 175th of the found
ing of the first white settlement in
Missouri.
Diocese of Harrisburg.-The Do
cese of Harrisburg, Pa, numbering
over $1,000 Catholics, was erected
by the Holy See in 1868. It
has had three Bishops, says the Louis
vile Record. The first Bishop was
Mgr jeremiah F. Shanahan, consecra-
ted in 1868. It's third and present
Bishop is his brother, Mgr. John Wal
ter Shanahan, consecrated in 1899.
How rare, and how singularly beautl-
ful-two brothers succeeding each 9th
er in the same Diocese. DR.. Shanahan
has in his Diocese quite a number of
Poles, Austrians, Slavs, Lithuanians,
Greeks and Italians. He is now in
the evening of life. His age is about
IS years.
Cornerstone Laid by Father Sierra
Found.-The long-sought cornerstone
of the second mission church of Santa
Clara, Cal, laid by Father Junipero
Sierra himself in 1881, was recently
discovered by accident by laborer
who, in excavating for the municipal
gas works, found his progress blocked
by a wall of cobblestones. Following
it to the end, he came upon large
block of sandstone. He lifted it, and
in a hole hewn in the stone beneath
he saw silken purse and with it
gold and silver coins and a silver
cross. Joseph Worthington, superin-
tendent of the gas works, turned them
over to the Santa Clara County His
torical Society. In the bag had been
placed several religious medals, the
cross and silver coins of the reign of
Carlos III of Spain and a silver coin
of the reign of Felipe V of Spain. Two
years ago the historical society erected
a memorial tablet about fifty feet
from the spot where the cornerstone
has been discovered. This was as near
the location could be determined. The
monument is undoubtedly over a por-
tim nf the did mission
New Parishes in Chicago.--Two new
Catholic Churches will shortly be I'M
der way in Chicago. One will be
known as Our Lady of Mercy and will
be erected in Albany Park The new
church and school will cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000 and will be
increased in size later. There are
about $50 families in the parish and
Father Henry Coughlin has been at
work two months preparing for the
construction of the building.
The other is the st. Nicholas Ru-
thenian Catholic Church which pur-
chased from Edmund A. Cummings
twenty lots bounded by Leavitt Street,
OdhICy ANCAuC du0 n1CS 0IlS6L3 Luz
$4,000. The congregation will erect
a church at an estimated cost of $780,
900.
First American COMMUNICATIVE
Diocese of Louisville enjoys the bless
ing and the national distinction of
having given birth to the first founda-
ton of a religious Order, original too,
and in, the United States. This or
der, says the Louisville Record, is the
congregation or society of the Sisters
of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross y
founded April the 18th, 1912, in Marion
County, Kentucky, by the sanity
Nerinekx. On that date it's first mem
bers were vested in the religious
habit. It's Motherhouse, then and now,
is at Loretto, the most sacred and
historic religious spot in Kentucky