The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-06-17
LETTER FROM OUR SPECIAL COR
RESPONDENT.
Preparation for the Kings Visit-Re.
vival Of Irish ndustry-Ancient
Irish Abbey Church Restored
May Procession at Inchi-
core-Pilgrimages
to Lourdes.
Dublin. June 2. 1911.

Dublin, June 2, 1911.
Catholic soldiers celebrated the
part they played in the stirring Ma
poleonic campaigns last week. There
was grand parade of the Royal Flu
siliers and other regiments on the oc-
casion of the centenary of the battle
of Albuera, when the troops were re-
viewed by the Lord Lieutenant They
carried their colors CALAMITY and
made fine show. Incidentally, it is
amusing, as we think of the part Irish
soldiers and Irish regiments have
played in the past, to listen to the
bread and butter politicians of today
talking about the danger of giving
Ireland Home Rule.
The Kings Visit.
The city is very gay just now with
preparations for the forthcoming visit
of King George and his Consort.
Workmen are busy doing up the apart
ments of the Residency, and the flag
and bunting makers are doing roar
ing trade. Many converts are busy
on lace for the court dresses of Irish
ladies, and the Presentation Convent
at Youghal is engaged in making the
magnificent court train of Irish lace
which the women of Belfast are Civ
ing to Queen Mary as their Coronation
gift. 1t is rather amusing that this
center of Professionalism should have
to send to Catholic nuns for the most
perfect gift it can offer to it's Protes-
| tant Sovereign. The design of the
train is a very delicate and intricate
one, being composed of trails of
fuschias and wild roses, which con-
trast very beautifully with each other
in the matter of shade and effect.
There has been great revival of
Irish industry of late, and it has been
assisted by the work of the inspector
of Irish goods now stationed in Lon
don, who has been successful in weed
ing out from the market many spuri-
GUS limitations of Irish manufacture,
both in dairy produce, and in knitted
goods, lace, linen and the like The
Queen has given extensive orders for
knitted goods, and takes great inter
est in the new branch of work recently
started for supplying the vogue of
woollen coats, jerseys, etc., in which
ladies delight to golf, cycle and play
tennis nowadays.
Ancient Abbey Restored.
In the old days it was the delight
of the Catholic monks whose names
have come down to us through the
centuries as the greatest painters OF
all time to spend themselves and their
art in beautifying the churches where
they passed their lives in prayer to
God. And we find a revival of this
double devotion in a beautiful and an
cient shrine which has just been re
stored permanently to the uses fol
which it was built, by the heroic eff
forts of a devoted priest, who has
by his own brush helped to adorn once
, more the old Abbey Church at Bally
, haunis, County Mayo. This beautiful
, Gothic structure, which was built in
the thirteenth century to serve the
Abbey of the Augustinian Friars, suf
fered the fate of most of the grand ole
shrines of Ireland in the hideous days
of Cromwell, and fell into decay. Fol
hundreds of years it was roofless anG
: ruin, but soon after the Emancipa
ton Act was passed, the Augustinians
returned to the neighborhood ant
rooted in portion of the ruin. L
! remained to Father Foran, however
! the present Prior, to bring to a sue
A. Fx7J Nf iN1
of the most perfect description. Las
: week the Abbey was solemnly re
/ opened for the worship of God in thu
l Holy Mass and the Divine Guest agail
Inhabited His ancient home in tn
: Tabernacle. Then it was seen wha
, the determined love of one man hat
G accomplished. All the unsightly rub
: bish and whitewash which had bidder
the real beauty of the ancient building
T had been removed and the stated.
0 arches were to be seen in all thei
S wonderful preservation of outline. Blu
t this was not all; not only had stron
9 and suitable roof been placed over tn
a entire fabric and Campanile erecte
6 from whence the Angelus again sing
: forth its holy message to the people
: but the whole nave of the Church
the Lady Chapel and the High Alta
/ are ornamented and beautified b
s paintings from the hand of Fathe
e Foran, representing scenes from tn
Ol life of the Founder of his Order O
! the roof of the Lady Chapel is nobl
, presentment of the Immaculate Cor
ception, and the altar piece itself
= solemn and reverent presentatio
Il of the descent from the Cross. Again
u all round the church new station
IS have been erected which are also fror
e the brush of this priest-artist, painte
on copper and suitably framed. Wit
all this grand ambition realized, an
all this holy labor fulfilled, Fathe
g Foran is still the same quiet, una
,r Stunning man devoted to the interest
d of his Lord No mention OF all thi
t. skill and beauty has been made