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

Monument TO SANITY Princess
The inhabitants OF Montcalieri, Italy,
have already subscribed $500 lire for
monument to Princess Clothilda, who
died in the odour of sanctity.
Protector Of Catholic Mission In the
East.-The passage of the Carmelite
mission of Syria from French to Ital-
ian protection is now an accomplished
fact. On assuming this charge the
Italian government has burdened the
budget of cult with the annual sum of
$4,000 francs for the benefit of Italian
missions in foreign countries who
work for charitable aims. The above
incident is significant, for it may lead
ultimately to Italy replacing France
in the protectorate of Catholic mis-
sions in the East.
Divorces in Germany.-The divorce
evil is appalling in Germany. The av-
erage of 100000 divorces a year for
the five years preceding, rose in 1903
to 141,730.
Penny Edition of Gospel in Irish
Rev. J. J. O'Gorman, d. G. L., Ottawa,
in lecture in Irish at Spidal College,
Ireland, suggested that the Catholic
Truth Society of Ireland should ask
Canon O'Leary, Father Dineen, and
others to translate the four Gospels
into Irish, and publish them in penny
editions.
Bulgarian Archdiocese.-Nicop
in Bulgaria, is an Archbishopric, with
10000 Catholics, Is parishes, 20 Pas
sionist priests, three secular and sew
eral Augustinian priests. The Sisters
of St. Joseph have had a school there
since 1891.
May Honor Dead Cardinals Body
At last it seems likely that the dying
wish of Cardinal Count Ledowski, that
he be buried in the Cathedral at Po-
sen, is about to be granted by the
German Government on the one con-
dition that no Polish demonstration &C
company the interment. Cardinal
Count Ledowski was Archbishop of
Posen and Guesen and Primate of Po-
land, while Bismarck and the Prussian
Government were engaged in the sRe-
ligious War"-the Kulturkampf. The
Polish Cardinal took so manful stand
for the right of the Church that in
1874 the Man of Blood and Iron put
him in prison and, as far as the state
could do it, deprived him of his See
and all ecclesiastical rights. Pope Plus
| TX Immediately made the prelate
Cardinal. AS Cardinal he was two
years in prison. He died in 1902, leav-
ing directions that his heart should be
buried in the Cathedral at Guesen and
his body in the Cathedral at Posen
| Permission, however, was not obtained
from the German Government for the
burial at Posen, though no objection
was made to that of the heart at
Guesen.
Death of An Irish Bishop.-The
Right Rev. DIR. Conmy, Bishop of
Killala, died recently in his sixty
eighth year at Abbeytown, Cross
molina. He was Bishop eighteen
years He entered Maynooth in 1858,
where he had most distinguished
course, and was promoted to the Dun
boyne establishment He was or
dained priest in 1866. He succeeded
to the See in 1898, a year after he was
appointed coadjutor Bishop. He built,
a few years ago, a splendid new Do
cesar College at a cost of 100000
Centenary of Historic Irish Church.
The hundredth anniversary has been
celebrated of the founding of the
Church of SIS. Michael and John, on
| the site where stood the old theater
of Smock Alley, Dublin, opened in 1862
under John Ogilby, and closed on Jan.
IA, 1888. On July s, 1911, the formal
transfer of the premises was signed,
in consideration of the sum of e1,600,
to Rev Michael Blake, the newly ap-
pointed parish priest, who Immediate
ly set to work to build a suitable
house of worship to replace the make
shift chapel of Rosemary Lane. DR..
Blake lived in Winetavern street, and
he worked SO energetically that the
new church was dedicated on Dec %,
1913. Four years later DR.. Blake ven
/ tured to put up bell, being the first
set up in a Dublin Catholic place of
worship since the reformation" He
also procured magnificent organ and
4 founded the Society of St. John the
Evangelist in 1917. Ten years later
he reorganized the Irish College,
Rome, and in 1881, was made parish
priest of st. Andrews, whence, in 1888,
he was promoted to the Bishopric of
Dromore.