The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-03-09

it's noble owner. Stonor Park has an
interest for all English-speaking Cath
olics, when we remember that 1t gave
one martyr to the faith, the Blessed
Adrian Fortescue, and shelter to a
still more illustrious martyr, Blessed
Edmund Campion, 8. J.
The Church in China.-The vast
Empire Of China is divided into five
ecclesiastical parts embracing Is civil
departments. There is but one Diocese,
the Diocese of Mocoa, 33 Vicariates
Apostolic, Procedures Apostolic and
l mission. All these have 1918 for
eign priests and $50 native priests,
under whose spiritual care are 951, 400
Catholics, and 402,242 catechumens.
The different religious orders are well
represented.
Catholic Paper for Modena.-A new
Catholic journal, the "Giornale di
Modena," has been established at Mo-
dena with the hearty approval and en-
couragement of the Holy Father, who
recognizes the immense power for
good which the press is. capable of
welding.
Priest Killed at Mass.-Abbe Pei
legrin was conducting service at Les
Cabannes, France, when at the mo-
ment of the elevation of the host a
vast boulder known as the Rock of
tho Viroin fo11 from Tho hillside obouo
and crashed through the roof of the
church. The priest was killed instant
ly. A torrent of hot, sulphurous water
followed the rock, which was apparent
ly displaced by the spring beneath it.
Pastoral on Eucharistic Congress-
The newly-created Cardinal Nagl,
Archbishop of Vienna, Austria, has is
sued pastoral on the approaching
twenty-third International Eucharistic
Congress, to be held in that imperial
city, and in it's monumental Gothic
Cathedral. The Eucharistic process
sion will probably be the most mag
nificent ever witnessed. The Cardinal
Prince-Archbishop asks his diocesans
and the Catholics of Austria to devote
this whole year to special alteration
of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.
Germany and the Church.-One of
the marvels of modern times is the
change in attitude of the German Gov
eminent to the Church. 1t was seem
ingly but yesterday, though now forty
years, that the Kulturkampf ragged in
that now most powerful State in Eu-
rope, and threatened to do away with
the Catholic Church. The present EN-
peror deserves the surname "The
Great"
Head of English Monastery.-Rev.
Father McKeown, C. P, a native of
Rockland, Mass, has been transferred
from the rectorship of st. Saviour's
Retreat in Broadway, England, to SUIT
ton, England, at the head of the Pas
sionist monastery.
To Assist Sick Pilgrims.-A society
of Our Lady of Lourdes has been
formed for the purpose Of propagating
devotion to Our Lady and to assist
sick persons who take part in pill
grimages to Lourdes. The Duchess of
Norfolk is to be the first president
of the society.
Church Bank EstabIished.-A Cath
Ollie bank has been founded in Buda-
pest, Austria-Hungary, under the name
of the Hungarian Bank Company, with
capital of $1,00O,O00, which will be
subsequently increased to $5,0O0,OO0.
Half of this is being subscribed by
Hungarian Bishops and mobiles, and
the other half by French religious Or
ders. The object of the foundation is
to finance the division of some of the
big church estates in Hungary into
small holdings, work which the
| church authorities wish to keep out of
the hands of the other banks. The
Hungarian Minister of Finance has
stated that the government is opposed
to this foundation, though it cannot
prevent it, as the new bank will COM
pete with the land credit banks re-
Gently created with the assistance of
| the State.
Superior General Dead.-The news
reached Rome some time ago of the
sudden death at Genoa from paralysis
of Sister Mary of the Assumption,
Superior General of the Franciscan
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. She
was known in the world as Mary Men.
ard. Under her direction several new
houses of the congregation were found.
ed in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago
Constantinople and other cities.
| Largest Church Bell In Cologne
The largest modern church bell, blessed
according to the ritual OF the Church,
is the Kaiser's bell of the Cathedral OF
Cologne, made out Of captured French
cannon, and weighing nearly $4,000