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

/ Westport Presbytery. The Arch
bishop in concluding dealt with de-
ceased's labors during the famine
The Church in Tripoli.-Tripoli, the
seat of the Turko-Italian war, has
about $500 Catholics with the Bene-
dictine Bishop Mgr. Corvaia at their
head. There are seven churches, a
Marist College for boys, and girls
school conducted by the Sisters of st.
Joseph.
Abolish Slavery in TripoIi.-One
good result has already come from
the Italian occupation of Tripoli. On
October s, the Italian authorities at
Tripoli issued proclamation suppress
sing slavery. Tripoh was the only re-
naming place on the coast of Africa
where slavery still prevailed.
Christianity In India.-The census
figures of nearly every Province in
India show that Christianity is speed
ing ahead of all other religions. The
Christian population of Eastern Ben
gal and Assam has increased, during
the past ten years, by 81 per cent.
while the increase of the Hindus has
been per cent, of the Mohammedans
13 per cent, and of the Buddhists Is
per cent only. Of the total Christian
population of 1O6,659, nearly one-third
belong to the Khasi and Jaintia Hills,
and about one-eighth to Dacca
"Ad Limina" Visits.-According to
the Consistorial decree of December
81, 1909, the obligation of making
the lad limina" visit falls during the
year 1912 upon the Bishops of Eng
land, Scotland, Ireland and the ada
cent islands, as well as for those of
Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium and
Holland The lad limina'' visit of the
Bishops of America is set down for
1914, and that of the Bishops of, Asia,
Africa and Australia for 1915.
Prominent Scotch Family.-Mr
McGhee, of Glasgow, Scotland, has
two sons who are prominent Francis
can priests, two more, who will soon
be ordained Franciscan priests, one
daughter who is a Poor Clare and one
who is a Sister of Notre Dame.
Catholics in Vienna.-The latest
official census of the Catholic popula-
ton of Vienna, Austria-Hungary has
now been published. It places the
total number of Roman Catholics at
1,742,87S. There are besides 2,494
Catholics and 121 Armenian Catholics
English Converts Numerous.-Fa-
Their Stradelli of Italy, in his Stats
teal work, places the number of con-
versions in England for the last sixty
years at 10000 annually
Request to Mission Church.-The
| Church in England has benefited to
the extent of $4,000 by the will of
Miss Dora Creagh, who left $4,000
of this amount to struggling mis-
sion at Hove, near Brighton, where a
new church just built had been labor.
ing under heavy debt
TripoIi cclesiastic
ally Tripoli is a Prefecture Apostolic
In 1880 the Congregation of Propa
ganda sent Franciscan missionaries to
Tunis and Tripoli, and three years
later appointed Father Pascal Giants
of the French province of st Denys
as first Project Apostolic. Towards
the close of the seventeenth century
the religious were able to erect 9
church and residence outside the city
The Prefecture embraces the en-
tire province of Tripolitania, but of &
total population of 100000 souls
there are anly about six Thousand
Catholics, of whom a hundred belong
to the Greek and Armenian rites. The
Prefecture now has seven stations, {
college directed by the Marianists
twenty-three Friars Minor, commun
ity of French nuns and another O
the Congregation of St. Joseph of tn.
Apparition. The Project Apostolic
Father Giuseppe Benefit, was il
Rome recently, but has since sailet
. for his mission.
Papaf Honor for English Woman
The Holy Father has bestowed upol
Miss Mary Thorpe, of Walsall, Eng
land, the cross and diploma "Pr,
Ecclesia ct Pontif1ce."
: Constantine Celebration in Rome.-
/ Next year there will take place Il
Rome a splendid celebration in com
, memoration of the conversion of Cor
: stantine. The people of Rome ar
looking forward to it with great ez
pectancy. It is hoped by the CONNER
: cial people of Rome that the Constar
! tine celebration will in a measur
. compensate for the farcical Unite
3 Italy Exposition of this year, no,
i drawing to close as failure.