The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-08

to be travelled is much smaller than
in America. The motor chapel can
follow the ordinary road and stop
wherever necessary 1t will be a COM
plete little church in itself, provided
with all that is necessary for the cele-
bration of the Mass, and will have
the Catholic Truth Society pamphlets
and other literature for distribution.
To increase it's seating capacity de-
tachable canvas awning is being pro-
vided which will afford accommoda-
tons for about eighty people in addi-
ton to those in the chapel.
Catholic Priest Inventor.-A Catholic
priest, Able Daney, of the diocese of
Bordeaux, has invented a new kind
of fire extinguisher which, it is ex-
pected, will revolutionize the means
of defense against fire. The advan-
tage of the new invention consists in
the extreme rapidity with which the
worst fires are extinguished.
Death Of Distinguished Jesuit
Father Ferretti of the Society of Jesus,
died recently at the Pho Latino Ameri-
can College, Rome, in the sixty-sixth
year of his age. For twenty years,
prior to 1901, he was professor of
moral philosophy at the Gregorian
University, and for the last four years
of that time he was Rector of the in
stitution. In 1901, he was made Pro-
vincial of the Roman Province
New Parish in Rome.-Owing to the
growth of the city, the Vicariate of
Rome, Italy. put in hand few years
ago reorganization of parishes, one
result of which was the solemn inau-
guration last week of the new parish
of IS. Marcellino and Pietro The new
division is taken from ST. John Later.
an, which of late years has become
unwieldy owing to the growth of new
residential quarters, both inside and
outside the Porta S. Giovanni.
Russian Catholics Build Church,
A newly founded congregation of Rus
sian Catholics are proceeding to build
church in St. Petersburg in which
the beautiful liturgy of st. Chrysostom
will be said in the Slavonic of Saints
Cyril and Methodius, who composed il
for the Slavs before the separation OF
East and West
Notwithstanding Missionaries in De
mand.-There is certainly a demand
for English-speaking missioners in the
foreign field. Bishop Berlioz, of Japan
writes emphasizing this fact as re
CARDS his charge: ''Truly your won
derful language has a fascination in
Japan today, and as far as I can I an
bringing in a supply of English-speak
ing priests. and in this way show the
Japanese that the Catholic Church il
a worldwide organization. Heretofore
they felt that the Protestant mission
airy represented England and America
and hence progress, while the Catholic
priest represented France and France
i alone"
Former capuchin Provincial Dead
The Capuchin Father, Francis Xavier
Kapplmahr, who was five times Pro
vincial of the Bavarian Province O.
his Order, and from 1884 to 1890 Gen
eral Defnitor in Rome, died the othel
day at Altotting, aged eighty-six years
Expelled Tertiary Congregations Dc
Not Require New Erection to Re-
tain Privileges.-The Holy See has
graciously conceded to the Ter
tiary Congregations in France
the favor of retaining all theil
privileges and indulgences in whatever
locality their places of meeting ar
transferred to in consequence of the
suppression of the First Order, an6
the appropriation of it's churches; ant
for this the Congregations do not re
quire fresh or special erection.
The Worlds Greatest Soprano, {
Catholic Sembrich, the worlds great
est soprano, is a Catholic of the trues
type. She is the wife of Herr Stengel
who used to be piano teacher at the
; conservatory at Lemberg, Poland
Both can carry on conversation il
almost dozen languages. They have
often been pointed out as one of the
most devoted couples in public life.
Irish Rector in St. Petersburg Cath
Ollie church.-Father. Chettot, the
English-speaking priest at the Church
of ST. Stanislaus in st. Petersburg, ha:
left for Minsk, and the new Rector i:
an Irishman by descent, the Rev