The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-12-30
Tile CATHOLIC BULLETIN. DEcEMBER 80, lell.

n Variety Ol EuDJ6CES Oh the DAY,
arranged by the author OF the Story
LOT the English Catholic Congress, will
]. be issued by Messrs. Burns and Oates.
1 The book will be profusely illustrated,
the portraits dating from boyhood
down to the last taken Of his Emin-
ence in Rome. ss
Il Gaelic Scholar Dead. Another Ger
man scholar who devoted himself for
years to the enthusiastic study Of
Gaelic died recently. This was Lud-
wig Christopher Stern, keeper OF man
uscripts in the Royal Library, Berlin.
He was noted Psychologist before
he took up Celtic studies
Popes Of One Century, During the
tenth century twenty-four Popes sat
in the Chair of st. Peter. Never be-
fore or since has such number gov
! erned the Church in the same space
of time.
J Basilian Sisters in America.-Five
Basilian Sisters from Galicia, Austria,
have arrived in Philadelphia to open
J an orphanage in that city. They will
: form the parent community In the
United States and will receive other
! ladies of the Ruthenian rite in this
country as Sisters, who will teach in
the parish schools to be hereafter
established. They speak German,
. Ruthenian and Polish and will imme-
diately take up the study of English.
} They come from the Motherhouse at
Javorow, in the Diocese of Peremysk
Rector of vaiIadolid College Dead.
The death of the Right Rev. Mgr.
Thomas Kennedy, Rector of st. Al
bans College, Valladolid, occurred at
Clifton, England, last week Mgr
, Kennedy was born at Clifton in 1858,
and was educated at the famous col
, lege over which he was destined to
preside. He was ordained in the year
1882, and appointed Rector of St. AL
ban IS. College in 1906 He was created
Domestic Prelate last year.
Catholics and the Chinese Revolu-
tlon.-So far the Catholics have not
suffered through the revolution in
China, but great alarm is felt in
Peking, where there are large num-
Der of Tartar Christians. The Bishop
has asked for guard of forty French
soldiers to protect the Cathedral and
backgrounds, where many Tartars
have sought refuge. The Inniskillings
andtheir chaplain, Father Grobel, are
t6pe kept Indefinitely in China till
qpieter times.
former Metropolitan Sees in Eng.
lAhd.-The London Tablet notes that
e although it was generally believed
e that up to the time of Henry VIII
0 there had been but two metropolitan
9 Sees in England, there was in the
l. eighth century a third Archbishoprit
9 in the kingdom of Mercia at Lich
J. field King Offa of Mercia took it il
r that his kingdom should be under the
8 Bishop of Kent and he sent Ambassa
It JSlors to Rome to petition for Mer
Aneian metropolitan. The exaltation O
il 1.-THE See of Lichfield, however, LASTED
more than fifteen years; for the worl
4 of King Offa was undone by his sue
e. cessor.
D. Little Sisters Of Poor to BE Expelled
r, The Little Sisters of the Poor o
r. Paris have been advised that the.
j. will have to leave their convent
lie within few days, in accordance witt
n the congregations law. There ar
ct three converts in Paris itself and tw,
lie just outside of it, at Levallois-P erre
d. and at Puteaux. The expulsion orde
in has been sent to the converts, AM
it the nuns have determined not to leav'
lie until they are forced to do so.
Scholarly Irish Priest Dead.-Th
I, Belfast, Ireland, on November ~ Q
IN the Very Rev. Daniel O'Loan, D. {
.r. The late DR. O'Loan was one of tn
4" most distinguished ecclesiastics il
" Ulster He was the author Of severa
of valuable works, including "The Cere
10 monies of Some Ecclesiastical Func
"a TONS and was frequent contribute
:, on Rubrical and Liturgical subjects I,
the Irish Ecclesiastical Record" III
IS. was for a long time Professor OF &c
at clesiastical History in Maynooth.
y rE
ly Church Request Attacked.-Th'
r. will of Miss Mary Lemmens Sherring
h ton, who was teacher of singing a
n the Royal Manchester College 0
m Music, provides that after the pay
ment Of all expenses and the annuit
the residue is to be vested in tn
a Bishop Of Stafford, and to be place
an on mortgages on churches, schools
'ly and other property belonging to Q
ar under the charge Of the Bishop. It
tn contended by relatives Of the tests
We trix that she was domiciled in Be
he GUM and that this disposition OF tn
ut residue is contrary to Belgian law.
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